Mudface

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/sep/15/star-of-bethlehem-spaceship-tom-delonges-new-career-ufo-expert-blink-182 I suppose it stops him making any more shite music.

I'd still be writing out lines now if I'd written this gibberish in class- Slowly walking down the hall, Faster than a cannonball.

His initial comment that Diversity were just doing it for 'fame', aren't they quite a big act, doing arena tours and the like? Certainly more so than that raddled old prick.

I didn't realise he was still with them- 8 league games in 3 seasons for them, and none since January 2018. Stunning coup.

Imported US culture wars. It seems wearing a mask for a few minutes inside a shop is the first step to a totalitarian state interfering in every part of your life. Sending in border force guards without any identifying insignia to snatch protesters off the street into black vans is just defending freedom, of course.

Piercing insight that no one's considered before.

I'm not totally convinced Pablo_Escoblue_1878 and AntonioHibbert off GOT are real to be honest.

Lincoln it is- they beat Bradford 5-0 away, so it'll be a tough run out for our under-12s.

Yeah, I looked at one on there, the seller sends you a link to the ROMs, although they're easily available elsewhere anyway.

God yeah.

Is it legal? From what I can make out, it's a board with joysticks built in, probably running some fork of MAME and you have to download the ROMs yourself.

That headline would be better if they missed the last word off.

I never understood why it got slated on release. It's a really arch black comedy with some great action sequences, it lampoons right wing jingoistic dross like Rambo rather then celebrating it.

I'm sure Morrison's cheese and onion were green, but they've now changed to blue. So that's those cunts cancelled.

Just like PPE.

Western Wales, basically.

Really enjoyed Hush, and she's lovely.

We should declare war on Canada to get our national treasure back.

A good little summary of how the government's spin and mendacity has got it into this mess- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/sep/15/uk-coronavirus-live-covid-19-second-wave-testing-capacity-government-brexit-politics-boris-johnson?page=with:block-5f60ebb58f0891dfedfa9f22#block-5f60ebb58f0891dfedfa9f22 Here is a good question from below the line. phesketh0 15 September 2020 1:51pm Andrew, I wonder if you could help me understand something. The current number of tests per day is below capacity, and in fact that has always been the case. If system is operating within its capacity, why can people not get tests? And why does Matt Hancock claim the system is seeing excessive demand? As i understand it, either demand isn't the issue, or the figures for capacity aren't correct. It is true that the number of people being tested on any given day has always been lower than the figure given for capacity on that day. Partly that’s just a function of the maths; the system cannot carry out more tests than it is capable of carrying out. But at times the gap between the two numbers has been huge and, if people are unable to access tests, any notional surplus capacity is actually bogus. If the capacity cannot be used to provide tests where they are needed, it might as well not be there. The government has been a victim of its own spin. In early May Boris Johnson announced that, by the end of the month, the government would get testing up to 200,000 a day. Subsequently No 10 said this promise related to testing capacity, not tests actually carried out, and around this time the government started producing daily testing capacity figures that included antigen tests (that show whether you have got coronavirus) and antibody tests (that show whether you have had it). This was misleading; antibody tests are useful, but they don’t help the teacher with a cough who needs to know whether it is safe to go back to work. At the end of May the government claimed it had met its 200,000 per day target - even though only 127,722 antigen tests had been carried on the relevant day. To justify its claim, the government counted extra antigen testing capacity, plus the availability of 40,000 antibody tests. The previous month Matt Hancock set a target of getting testing up to 100,000 a day by the end of April. He failed to achieve that in any proper sense, but he claimed to have reached his goal by including in the count a large batch of home testing kits that had been sent out just before the deadline but not yet processed. Subsequent figures showed that almost half home testing kits were never returned, or were sent back void. In both cases spin trumped honesty. Ministers got a short presentational win. But they ended up undermining trust in the system because the positive headlines were based on a misuse of statistics. More recently the government has started to make its testing capacity figures more honest. It has not abandoned the total testing capacity figure (which rescued Johnson at the end of May). But it has started publishing a testing capacity figure for pillars 1 and 2 (ie, just for antigen tests, and excluding antibody tests) and capacity by this measure is only just ahead of tests carried out, which is what you would expect from a system working flat out.

Wouldn't surprise me.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/15/private-labs-unable-to-process-all-covid-tests-nhs-email-reveals Why on earth we contract out testing and processing to Serco and Deloitte, fuck only knows.

She'd need a whole battalion of inspectors, the fucking gonk.

In the app, you're asked to report each day whether you've had a test or not, and if you're feeling unwell. If you say you're unwell, you're then given a list of about 20 questions about your symptoms- fever, chills, your temperature, persistent cough, unusual fatigue, headache, nausea/ vomiting, dizziness, shortness of breath, sore throat, loss of smell or taste, unusual hoarseness, chest pains or tightness, diarrhoea, muscle aches or pains, skin welts or face/ lip swelling, sores or blisters, confusion/ disorientation/ drowsiness, photo sensitivity, loss of appetite, and a general 'other symptoms' box. You'd have to contact them for specifics, but I'd imagine symptoms reported for positive cases are given greater weighting than others when it comes to estimating the current number of cases- as indicated on their 'About' page- https://covid.joinzoe.com/about. It isn't a simplistic symptom sorter. You can certainly quibble about the exact number of figures, but all the way through this, the trend reported via the app has mirrored the trend reported through testing. There's no reason to suspect it to be any different now. In any case, the Tweets @Sugar Ape linked to yesterday show a significant rise in admissions, people aren't getting hospitalised due to colds.

i'm not sure the Tory backbenchers will let them. They were already up in arms about dangerous Socilaist schemes like furlough, mask-wearing etc.

Actually, they're polling towards the top end of what they usually do in national polls, I think they get a little more in the devolved elections. The Welsh mining towns were Labour though, Plaid's concentrated in the north and west of the country, particularly around Anglesey and Gwynedd.