Coronavirus - Overall
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - Overall:
So my Xbox One arrives today. I was humming and harring the other day as was looking to buy 2nd hand on ebay and thought they were a bit expensive. Then found argos selling brand new for 260, then found currys doing the same. Sat down to lunch and came back to buy from currys, they'd upped the price to 350, so tried to buy from Argos - no stock south of the thames it seems. Unlucky...then found someone on ebay who'd just thrown one up that he'd opened to use the Live code only and was selling for 260 so grabbed it.
Just checked the argos site - they now have them selling for 450.
Ouch! Price gouging.
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Here were go
Time for a whole tranche of incompetent jobsworths killing the NHS from the inside to be jettisoned.
Every member of staff should pull a Spartacus.
The fuckwits can't send them all home.
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Here were go
Time for a whole tranche of incompetent jobsworths killing the NHS from the inside to be jettisoned.
Every member of staff should pull a Spartacus.
The fuckwits can't send them all home.
Maybe I'm missing some local terminology / cliches, but could you please elaborate on your additional points?
What is your view on the article? I genuinely don't know! Am curious though, as I have one and wonder if we are on the same side of the ledger.
Hope not, as agreeing is boring ...
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@Bones said in Coronavirus - Overall:
So my Xbox One arrives today. I was humming and harring the other day as was looking to buy 2nd hand on ebay and thought they were a bit expensive. Then found argos selling brand new for 260, then found currys doing the same. Sat down to lunch and came back to buy from currys, they'd upped the price to 350, so tried to buy from Argos - no stock south of the thames it seems. Unlucky...then found someone on ebay who'd just thrown one up that he'd opened to use the Live code only and was selling for 260 so grabbed it.
Just checked the argos site - they now have them selling for 450.
The dilemmas of a Westerner.
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@Frank said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Bones said in Coronavirus - Overall:
So my Xbox One arrives today. I was humming and harring the other day as was looking to buy 2nd hand on ebay and thought they were a bit expensive. Then found argos selling brand new for 260, then found currys doing the same. Sat down to lunch and came back to buy from currys, they'd upped the price to 350, so tried to buy from Argos - no stock south of the thames it seems. Unlucky...then found someone on ebay who'd just thrown one up that he'd opened to use the Live code only and was selling for 260 so grabbed it.
Just checked the argos site - they now have them selling for 450.
The dilemmas of a Westerner.
How do we cope?I know right! How do I cope? Put it back on ebay for 400 of course.
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Here were go
Time for a whole tranche of incompetent jobsworths killing the NHS from the inside to be jettisoned.
Every member of staff should pull a Spartacus.
The fuckwits can't send them all home.
Maybe I'm missing some local terminology / cliches, but could you please elaborate on your additional points?
What is your view on the article? I genuinely don't know! Am curious though, as I have one and wonder if we are on the same side of the ledger.
Hope not, as agreeing is boring ...
Gag order.
Shut up or you're done.
Bollocks in my book.
If all NHS staff post that the PPE measures in place are inadequate or non-existent then it will nullify the bullying of middle management.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@canefan I think if someone said drinking bleach would kill the virus, some would drink it.
Didn't thst happen in the States?
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Here were go
Time for a whole tranche of incompetent jobsworths killing the NHS from the inside to be jettisoned.
Every member of staff should pull a Spartacus.
The fuckwits can't send them all home.
Maybe I'm missing some local terminology / cliches, but could you please elaborate on your additional points?
What is your view on the article? I genuinely don't know! Am curious though, as I have one and wonder if we are on the same side of the ledger.
Hope not, as agreeing is boring ...
Gag order.
Shut up or you're done.
Bollocks in my book.
If all NHS staff post that the PPE measures in place are inadequate or non-existent then it will nullify the bullying of middle management.
In normal times I would agree with that. But I do think there is a fine balance between publicising the short comings of the NHS and putting fear into the general population.
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Here were go
Time for a whole tranche of incompetent jobsworths killing the NHS from the inside to be jettisoned.
Every member of staff should pull a Spartacus.
The fuckwits can't send them all home.
Maybe I'm missing some local terminology / cliches, but could you please elaborate on your additional points?
What is your view on the article? I genuinely don't know! Am curious though, as I have one and wonder if we are on the same side of the ledger.
Hope not, as agreeing is boring ...
Gag order.
Shut up or you're done.
Bollocks in my book.
If all NHS staff post that the PPE measures in place are inadequate or non-existent then it will nullify the bullying of middle management.
In normal times I would agree with that. But I do think there is a fine balance between publicising the short comings of the NHS and putting fear into the general population.
Needed now more than ever.
Publicise the shit out of it.
Show the public that if they don't fucking wise up and listen to government directives then they will be admitted to a system which is understaffed, understocked, and unprepared.
That's providing factual information not fear mongering.
My mate who sent me the link is an ICU nurse.
He wrote 'Ironically I can guarantee you many of the doctors in the NHS voted Tory'
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@Kirwan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
World is getting creepier by the second. This is the president of Slovakia. Surprised Taxinda hasn’t rocked this look yet.
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Needed now more than ever.
Publicise the shit out of it.
Show the public that if they don't fucking wise up and listen to government directives then they will be admitted to a system which is understaffed, understocked, and unprepared.
That's providing factual information not fear mongering.
My mate who sent me the link is an ICU nurse.
He wrote 'Ironically I can guarantee you many of the doctors in the NHS voted Tory'
Yes, that is one angle. The other is balancing the power of fear. People must feel secure in the NHS, regardless of it's short comings. Having said that, I don't agree with gag orders either, so perhaps I contradict myself internally.
Nothing ironic in NHS doctors voting Tory. Anybody could see the opposite party's views on what they were going to do to the NHS was unachievable, would cause shocking disruption to society in general and would also see them significantly out of pocket themselves, in unnecessary additional taxation.
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@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Needed now more than ever.
Publicise the shit out of it.
Show the public that if they don't fucking wise up and listen to government directives then they will be admitted to a system which is understaffed, understocked, and unprepared.
That's providing factual information not fear mongering.
My mate who sent me the link is an ICU nurse.
He wrote 'Ironically I can guarantee you many of the doctors in the NHS voted Tory'
Yes, that is one angle. The other is balancing the power of fear. People must feel secure in the NHS, regardless of it's short comings. Having said that, I don't agree with gag orders either, so perhaps I contradict myself internally.
Nothing ironic in NHS doctors voting Tory. Anybody could see the opposite party's views on what they were going to do to the NHS was unachievable, would cause shocking disruption to society in general and would also see them significantly out of pocket themselves, in unnecessary additional taxation.
I suspect many would now choose out of pocket over out of breath
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@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MajorRage said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Needed now more than ever.
Publicise the shit out of it.
Show the public that if they don't fucking wise up and listen to government directives then they will be admitted to a system which is understaffed, understocked, and unprepared.
That's providing factual information not fear mongering.
My mate who sent me the link is an ICU nurse.
He wrote 'Ironically I can guarantee you many of the doctors in the NHS voted Tory'
Yes, that is one angle. The other is balancing the power of fear. People must feel secure in the NHS, regardless of it's short comings. Having said that, I don't agree with gag orders either, so perhaps I contradict myself internally.
Nothing ironic in NHS doctors voting Tory. Anybody could see the opposite party's views on what they were going to do to the NHS was unachievable, would cause shocking disruption to society in general and would also see them significantly out of pocket themselves, in unnecessary additional taxation.
I suspect many would now choose out of pocket over out of breath
Though I doubt many would choose both
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The NSW Education Minister has urged parents struggling to balance jobs and their children's lessons not to expect too much from themselves, saying younger students don't have to complete all the lessons every day.
Sarah Mitchell's comments come as education experts said trying to replicate a full school day at home could be counterproductive for younger students, and a few hours worth of maths and literacy was sufficient.
TBF, that's better than a number of teachers could manage anyway.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Coronavirus - Overall:
I think China and the WHO are lying through their teeth.
This Aylward palooka reminds me that, for public figures in this progressive epoch, the more evident their lie is in public the more they are afforded high office and sycophantic worship. The WHO and Aylward should be outed and ridiculed from one end of the world to the other for their dishonest partisan position on China.
Mrs Bill Clinton is an outstanding example of the phenomenon - when she was running for President each lie she told was reported by the media as a "misstep", not as a lie. I had never seen or heard the word prior to 2007, they invented it for her.
We had a few devotees of the faith here in Australia - that effete little turd Rudd, the lying skank Gillard and the small but perfectly formed Member for Goldman Sachs who fell short of his lifetime ambition to buy or bribe or deceive his way into the first president of the republic of Australia.
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Shit just got real
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