Bob The Badger

Finished Succession last night and that was an ending I wasn't expecting. Good stuff.

Much of the dialogue in the whole thing was really top-drawer as was the acting.

I just hope they don't milk it to death like (I think) they did with Billions and make the next series the last.

Nigel Callaghan/10

11 hours ago, Parsnip said:

Just watched the first 3 episodes of Afterlife series 3. Crap. Like proper crap. Don't reckon I'll get through 3 more of these.

EFL/10

Do you like the first two series?

I've one to go but tome it's pretty much the same as the first two seasons.

The first episode I thought was poor and it has felt like the character has gone back to square one again and that Gervais wrote it because he could, but I've enjoyed it tbh.

I think it's an E-2, but I know they clamped down on those about 7 or 8 years ago in terms of making them much harder to get and hold on to. Some Brits were even scared to go back to the UK on holiday for fear of not getting back in again.

You won't get a visa to start up a new business without depositing some serious cash (7 figures I think) an/or showing you have the resources to hire locals from the get go. Half of the planet is trying to move there and starting a business unless it's something no American can do is not going to help you.

You need to hire an immigration lawyer though to be fair though, not asking on a football forum! If you can't afford to hire an expensive attorney you probably can't afford to go.

On 10/01/2022 at 21:50, roboto said:

Elanga currently the best attacking threat Man U have got against Villa. If he wants to come to us, then I think we’d get a great return from him. Would have champ defenders pants down.

3 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

Aren't you funny, Bob? As well as totally deluded.

You've surely seen what's been enacted by a Labour government in Wales? Even now, Chester had to call their FA Cup game off because some of the ground is across the border and Labour doesn't allow such things.

And Starmer's clamour to be part of the EU Medicine's Agency makes his attitudes pretty clear. https://fullfact.org/health/keir-starmer-european-medicines-agency/

Labour constantly criticized Kate Bingham who headed up the UK vaccine procurement. Not a chance they would have done anything similar. 

 

I probably am totally deluded, but I'm not so totally delusional that I don't now the difference between an opinion and a fact.

Carl would have known the difference.

8 hours ago, Carl Sagan said:

The terrible thing is if we'd had Starmer we'd have been way slower to acquire and then distribute vaccines, and massively stricter on authoritarian lockdowns. Of course that's just in my opinion because there's obviously no way of knowing this for sure as a whole host of different factors come into play when a party comes to power, but that could have happened, just like it might not have.

FTFY

14 hours ago, uttoxram75 said:

The CEO of Pfizer has said in an interview yesterday that “I don’t believe there is a need for a fourth booster”.

His company are moving toward an antiviral drug seemingly.

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end - of  the genuinely scary attempts at forced vaccination that so many are keen to see. 

I loved that post until you had to tack that on to the end.

Did the Pfizer CEO also say the first two vaccines and booster were necessary?

If he did, and I would imagine that is highly likely, you have to ask yourself, do you trust the guy or not?

Or more to the point, do you only trust people who say what you want to hear?

1 hour ago, RoyMac5 said:

Oh come on, can't you just tell your kids not to stick their fingers in electrical sockets?

Where's the fun in that?

Just tell them to wash their hands first and no need to dry them. 

3 hours ago, ariotofmyown said:

Let's stop going over old ground.

In latest news, a Number 10 lockdown party for 100 people whilst the rest of us could meet no one, go to funerals etc etc.

I just can't believe that this administration have turned out this way. I'm shocked.

Obviously, I'm been sarcastic, but I'm actually a little shocked that they can be quite as stupid as sending a bring your own booze lockdown party invite out on email. Incredible. There have been a lot of potential final straws, but this one looks like the one.

I'm shocked that you're shocked about this government being stupid, it's what they do.

2 hours ago, Bald Eagle's Barmy Army said:

Erm, no. 401 pages tells you everything you need to know and a quick scan tells me your a big contributor. 

Talk about going over the same ground day after day. Booooooring 

401 pages tells you nothing about the content, and neither does a quick scan, so you either have been reading, or you're making poo up.

I tend to talk about new developments that may bring up the same arguments, such is life.

I tend to ignore stuff that bores me. You seem to like to tell people they are boring you and engage with them, when you could just move on to a thread that excites you and gets your juices flowing.

4 hours ago, PistoldPete said:

They did find one anaesthetist who decided he is a world expert on vaccinations and epidemiology. Who has made himself an internet star , and of course been proven wrong.

Was that the guy who talked to Sunak and it was all over Twitter?

I thought he said he wasn't an expert on that?

21 hours ago, Bald Eagle's Barmy Army said:

Honestly, have none of you got nothing better to do than keep going over the same ground every hour of every day. 

Surely your getting bored now. What will you do with the spare time you have when in the next 4 weeks COVID stops getting spoke about around the world. 

To know all that you would have to nbe reading this thread regulalry.

Have you got nothing better to do than follow a thread where people with nothing better to do post and then post yourself to ask them if they have nothing better to do?

18 hours ago, Mostyn6 said:

You’d be surprised how many nurses (and doctors) don’t believe in the vaccine and don’t actually want it. 
 

a lot have buckled under the pressure and blackmail tactics, but there’ll be a big decision to make halfway through March when the government has their bluff called by tens of thousands of nurses who blatantly refuse the vaccine. They automatically become bona fide whistle blowers, with many currently gathering evidence. 

My wife doesn't know a single one and she didn't know any before we moved back to the UK, seriously, not one.

There have been a ton on Twitter and TikTik speaking out about being sick of people not getting vaccinated, but I have never seen one saying anything to the contrary.

So yes, I would be surprised.

1 hour ago, Unlucky Alf said:

Or this

"There is a dark reason for Deadman’s Lane in Wilmorton; it almost certainly led to a mass burial site for victims of the 14th century Black Death"

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/nostalgia/how-romans-traitors-nurses-gave-5750368

Serves 'em right for refusing to wear masks.

1 hour ago, therealhantsram said:

The White Lotus on Sky on Demand.

I'd call it a black comedy, following the lives of guests and staff of an elite Hawaiian hotel over the course of a week:  The ridiculous behaviour of the rich, and the nonsense the staff have to put up with.

Very funny, but also a great social commentary on the inequality in our society.

The lead actor - Murray Bartlett - is someone I had never seen before. He is outstanding.

Well worth a watch.

Does it get better? I watched the first episode and was bored to tears and barely smirked never mind laughed, but I know it has had some good reviews so I'm wondering if it was just a slow start as is often the case these days.

12 hours ago, Andrew3000 said:

Don't like this kind of comment, full of contempt and condemnation. Lacks any empathy or imagination. When you are well and being heavily pressurised to do something you don't trust that you fear might compromise your health unnecessarily that's one thing; to be seriously ill and out of control is quite another.  Who else do they resent treating;  what other people who made a decision that didn't work out do they judge similarly? 

You don't become a nurse and lack empathy. It's hard work, crappy pay, often bad hours and you get a lot of grief.

I doubt there are many nurses who lack empathy, but maybe some are just ground down with hearing over and over and over again from sick patients who wished they'd had the vaccine.

My wife deals with oncology patients and they are frequently ill because of a combination of poor life choices, but she still frequently gets upset when they can't do anything ro save them, especially when they have young families.

This is different because cancer isn't contagious and nobody is refusing a vaccine that could stop them getting it.

I'd treat that tweet with the contempt it deserves, especially as you don't even know if it ever even happened.

2 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

he was sold into penury? 

I feel like I'm reading George Orwell all over again.

On 04/01/2022 at 15:22, TimRam said:

The Gentlemen (2019) Brit Crime thriller 8.5/10.

Agreed, and wasn't Hugh Grant just brilliant!?

I LOVED The Gentleman that has been mentioned in this thread and Lock, Stock is one of my favourite films of all time, so I was looking forward to watch the new Guy Ritchie, Wrath of Man last night.

I'm pretty sure Ritchie was on some of sponsored-cliche for charity during the first 20 minutes, as the script was just awful.

I'd have stopped right then and there if he hadn't made it and built up some trust equity.

It did get somewhat better, but I'm really not convinced that security guards saunter back to their armed vehicles chatting with $2m on a sack truck wearing no head or protection.

Statham is fairly charismatic, but he's nevertheless Jason Statham in every movie. The only real need I can think of to make him British is that he can't do accents. Sliding in one joke about him being a Limey and one-line about him going back to London doesn't really cover up the fact there was no benefit to the plot.

As I said, it got somewhat better, but the ending felt rushed and didn't make a fat lot of sense. I'll not say any more than that for fear of spoiling the plat.

Mark Pembridge/10
 

1 hour ago, Andicis said:

Is long covid not just the same thing as post viral fatigue, which is a known about thing and has been for years. 

A thing that is poorly understood and has had relatively little research, so it's irrelevant whether we know of it.

I was told I had that after getting glandular fever and being off work for about 6 weeks in 1980 but they had no clue what is was. 

The sheer amount of people getting it now is the concern. 
https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/long-covid-we-ve-been-here-before

1 hour ago, TexasRam said:

Yes I have decided on the contrary as I have seen a “long Covid” story on the BBC news app at least once a week.

Wow are they really reporting once per week on a potentially serious impact of the worst pandemic in a century?

I can see why you're outraged.

I was in the car for about 2 hours yesterday and I heard the Djokovic story several times on Radio 5, on radio 4 when I turned over and then on Radio 1 for ducks sake and I couldn't give a damn.

Is a tennis player being stopped at customs really so important? More important than something like long covid?

The Formula 1 finale was wall-to-wall for several days, and the European Super League breakaway was all I ever heard for 10 days or so when that was mooted and even made it to the Houses of Parliament.

I agree with you that I think the BBC have hot their priorities wrong. Only I think we should be hearing more about long covid and the research into it.

1 hour ago, maxjam said:

I am fully capable of looking at all sides of an argument and reaching my own conclusions thanks ?  

Whereas I could be wrong, especially as I haven't posted as much in this thread recently, I don't remember you posting anything from a source that contradicts Jamie Jenkins other than to ridicule it.

I've posted a bunch of stuff that I think questionable, just like saying I was highly suspicious of the father saying there were 117k kids suffering from long covid. I also was posted an article from The Conversation about the research suggesting omicron may not be that serious before it hit all the MSM sources at once and you guys jumped all over it.

I said at the time that I thought it was interesting nobody commented on it.

3 hours ago, TexasRam said:

Sad for the poor girl hope she gets back to normal soon. However I don’t believe the numbers at all, and what a surprise as the threat of Covid is receding the BBC pull out it’s fear trump card “long Covid” 

I was dubious of the number so I went to try and find out. Plus I wondered if I misunderstood and he was talking about people in general with long covid.

It seems like there are several thousands, but the picture is unclear at best.

Here is a report in the BMJ.

Long covid: One in seven children may still have symptoms 15 weeks after infection, data show

And for what it's worth, the story (on the radio) was about her trying to raise money for the NHS. It was her dad who mentioned long covid in terms of numbers.

Personally, long covid concerns me more than covid itself and, in comparison, it has had very little coverage on the BBC, at least on Radio 5Live.

But you've clearly decided to the contrary.

14 minutes ago, maxjam said:

The Joe Rogan comment was aimed at the forum in general, one of whom called him a right-wing bullshitter.

Boris actually said that 90% of people in ICU had not had their booster with 60% not having had any vaccine.

This has admittedly grown from the 48% it was before Christmas but still nowhere near the 90% everyone was reporting.

You don't have to be paranoid to think the BBC, Labour, the SNP and the Tories are all in cahoots.  They can all have their individual reasons for prolonging the fear.  

Omicron has clearly changed the rules of the game and whereas there was a solid reason to mandate the vaccination of health staff with delta, that's not as clear cut now and may need reassessing. But, I will let the experts assess it, not a lone wolf statistician

I'm happy to admit that, and that things look more hopefully once we have got over this hump.

We can have a conversation around that, but if you really think those 4 disparate groups all have their reasons to stoke fear that are purely selfish, then it makes sensible debate impossible.

Starmer could have brought Johnson down if he'd voted with the rebels. There is nothing he'd like more. But he will have seen all the data and know all the arguments and he clearly thought it was best for the country.

Your guy Jenkins won't have ALL the facts and he won't have been in aALL the conversations, he's not even a medical expert. All he can do is link to page 45 in a document so people can read some stats out of context. And even then his links don't even ducking work.

I have no ability to read data even if I could see it, but I do know stats can be made to say almost anything if you want them to.

If scientists all started changing their mind and saying we need to stop the vaccination programme, I'd be thinking, 'wow we need to stop the vaccination programme'.

I wouldn't be scrolling through Twitter trying to find some dude who didn't think that to then say the consensus is wrong as you're doing.

You entire argument is just the regurgitation of another person's argument. And one that you're so heavily invested in will never change no matter what you hear or what you see.

Too many people in this thread and just looking for *evidence* to support what they already believe rather than trying to get to to the truth.

2 hours ago, maxjam said:

So?  We're back to the equivalent of slagging off the host (Joe Rogan) because the guest is credible (Dr. Malone).

What has this even got to do with covid?  Maybe Jamie Jenkins can't get a gig on BBC cos they don't actually want to hear the facts.  All they seemed to want to do was push the 90% of people in ICU were unvaccinated before Christmas when it was around 40%.

I'm not sure if you're referring to me when it comes to Joe Rogan, but I don't really have much of a strong opinion and never commented on his interview with Dr. Malone, so there is no equivalence.

I liked his comedy way back and I've listened to a handful of his podcasts, but more so when he had comedians like Doug Stanhope on.

Rogan is clearly super smart and whereas I didn't like the way he danced around the issue of getting vaxxed I don't object to him. He certainly drills down on issues.

Mike Graham is a right-wing shock jock plank who cut that interview short after a minute making an utter fool of himself.

Boris Johnson said at his press conference this week that 91% of people in ICU with covid are unvaccinated and that over 60% of hospital admissions are unvaccinated.

But maybe the BBC and Boris and the Tory Party are colluding to mislead people?

And Starmer is supporting that by getting Labour to vote in favour of restrictions.

How paranoid do you have to be to think the BBC, Labour, the SNP and the Tories are all in cahoots?

And whilst we're at it lets throw every Government in the entire  world other than maybe N Korea.

25 minutes ago, maxjam said:

So lets have a new Jamie Jenkins stat, cos I know you all like those...

 

 

Without passing comment on covid and its toll, perhaps if the Govt had simply funnelled £37bn into the NHS rather than track and trace and whatever other failed schemes they dreamed up we'd be in a far better position already.

Defo worth listening to somebody who stoops to going on that jokers show.

Lest we forget.