Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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In passing, I note that roughly 3 million people were evacuated from city centres in WW2.
Unfortunately, when nothing happened for a while almost half of them trickled home just in time to get zapped in the Blitz.
Perhaps this is just one of the reasons HMG has not followed much of the advice of the man on the Clapham Omnibus (just yet) to do all the things which seem 'obvious'?
Nudge, nudge,
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,943
#Santé : Seront fermés les restaurants, cafés, cinémas, discothèques et commerces. Resteront en revanche ouverts les magasins et marchés alimentaires, les pharmacies, les stations essence, les banques, les bureaux de tabac et de presse (Édouard Philippe).
Typical France. Close down the country BUT tobacconists are essential services?
Bof!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,030
Not just the French - the Spanish similarly, although also open there are hairdressers and vets.
(Not my real name.)
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,807
That is a stupid and unenforceable plan, this whole virus fuss is now getting silly.
Besides kill us oldies off and all the hospital bed blocking and NHS problems will be over.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,003
FFS they're even panic buying hospital beds now! My mother Prudence warned me always to keep a few essentials in stock; you never know when you might need them.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/coronavirus-nhs-steps-up-fight-21694418
And the behavioural psychologists are flying off the shelves.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,934
[QUOTE="Jan Higgins"]That is a stupid and unenforceable plan, this whole virus fuss is now getting silly.
The next idea that they might come up with for hospitals Jan is to use the sardine packing method.......two in a bed, head to tail to double the bedding capacity.
They might even come up with the brainstorming idea of isolation hospitals like there were in the past.
Don't hold your breath yet though, as you would be jumping the gun for the next bright idea to prevent inhalation of the virus!
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
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Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,487
Think I just saw a tweet that there are 4000 people visiting HMS Kent today?
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,003
Ah, there's nothing like a good panic for rousing folks from their beds. Normally a quiet Sunday stroll for me from town to Aldi via the Barton Path for the best muesli in town. Thought something was up when Morrisons' car park was almost full just before 10. Then Aldi madness; rather than the dozen or so early-risers, the place was chocka, cars spilling on to Cherry Tree, full trollies everywhere and pasta disappearing faster than you can say '
volare' (but at least no fighting over the crumpets yet). Me and my virtuous basket have never before had to queue so long. And someone grabbed all the bloody muesli too.
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,807
Thinking back to the Captains earlier WW2 thoughts #98.
I am beginning to wonder if we would have survived never mind won with this present scaremongering and hysterical fuss from our much loved government and media.
Has this country now completely lost its common sense and even its backbone?
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
never had a backbone in the first instance jan, let alone common sense.
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Bob Whysman- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:
Muesli?
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Bob Whysman wrote:Muesli?
Correct! Tough to chew, but tougher to spell.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:Correct! Tough to chew, but tougher to spell.
Not being critical of your healthy breakfast choice WGS. Just responding to the question ‘What would make you happy?’ The banner wasn’t repeated in the quote for some reason so:
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,003
Bob Whysman wrote:Not being critical of your healthy breakfast choice WGS. Just responding to the question ‘What would make you happy?’ The banner wasn’t repeated in the quote for some reason so:
Indeed. But softened in non-allergenic COVID-19 vaccine.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,807
Government and authority logic? Football gatherings no longer allowed, they are in the breezy open air, but the London underground that well known germ breeding ground where people are squashed together like sardines continues.
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