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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    Went back to work
    Wasn't able to do anything
    Work PC infected with virus.

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,511
    Focus swing would suggest that it was made in China.
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  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    Pross said:

    tailwindhome said:

    Went back to work
    Wasn't able to do anything
    Work PC infected with virus.

    Coopster's advice would be to connect it to the server to try to get herd immunity for the other machines in the office.
    TWH should really practice safe Internet browsing as it is really hard to get a computer virus if you are in any way sensible
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,154
    edited July 2020
    pinno said:

    Focus swing would suggest that it was made in China.

    Lol. I can see it touched a nerve with a few hypocrites.

    Gawd, you will start banging on about Scotland in a minute:)
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,812
    edited July 2020
    Celebrity anti-woke campaigner Laurence Fox, who rails against virtue signalling, shows just how much he cares about HK by putting a little flag on his Twitter profile.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    rjsterry said:

    Celebrity anti-woke campaigner who rails against virtue signalling, showing just how much he cares about HK by putting a little flag on his Twitter profile.

    ??
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,812
    Oops. Edited.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,996
    The penny drops with some people how vacuous virtue signalling can be.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,820
    ballysmate said:

    The penny drops with some people how vacuous virtue signalling can be.

    Careful now Bally, if word gets around about that, Cake Stop will be like the Marie Celeste.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,812
    ballysmate said:

    The penny drops with some people how vacuous virtue signalling can be.

    Not really the point.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,820
    rjsterry said:

    ballysmate said:

    The penny drops with some people how vacuous virtue signalling can be.

    Not really the point.
    It's still a very good one though.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,812
    What, that public gestures can be vacuous? Blinding.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,820
    rjsterry said:

    What, that public gestures can be vacuous? Blinding.

    More specifically, that virtue signalling is vacuous - as Bally said above.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,996
    Thought about the Colston thread but perhaps this thread is more suited

    Transit authority to rename slavery-linked Mohrenstrasse after an antisemitic Russian composer

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/07/blm-inspired-name-change-for-berlin-metro-station-mohrenstrasse-fails-to-end-controversy
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited July 2020
    ballysmate said:

    Thought about the Colston thread but perhaps this thread is more suited

    Transit authority to rename slavery-linked Mohrenstrasse after an antisemitic Russian composer

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/07/blm-inspired-name-change-for-berlin-metro-station-mohrenstrasse-fails-to-end-controversy

    Not only because Berlin seems to have forgotten it's historical priorities.

    Could also be a good call for the irony thread, because the cornerstone of the BLM movement is slavery and given the "Moors" weren't exactly averse to white slavery.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    What are Berlin's historical priorities?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited July 2020
    rick_chasey said:

    What are Berlin's historical priorities?

    Really?
    And you have the audacity to bang on about other folks poor reading comprehension.
    Glad this is the irony thread.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Honestly mate, if you asked me what Berlin’s historical priorities were I wouldn’t be able to answer .
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    Some people who signed the anti-cancel culture letter asking for their name to be removed because of who else signed it.
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,996
    kingstongraham said:

    Some people who signed the anti-cancel culture letter asking for their name to be removed because of who else signed it.

    :D:D
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,996
    Never used Zoom, but my lad tells me there is a 'safe driving mode'.
    Wtf?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,511
    Flatten Berlin - make it into a wildlife park. That'll get rid of any history.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,812
    kingstongraham said:

    Some people who signed the anti-cancel culture letter asking for their name to be removed because of who else signed it.

    And in the process revealing that they had not really read it properly.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,820
    pinno said:

    Flatten Berlin - make it into a wildlife park. That'll get rid of any history.

    We had a good go in the 1940's. Was that not good enough for you?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,511
    Obviously it wasn't good enough for the conscientious.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,495
    Nor good enough to erase it from history.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    pblakeney said:

    Nor good enough to erase it from history.

    Must have missed all the statues in that case.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,820
    blazing_saddles said:

    pblakeney said:

    Nor good enough to erase it from history.

    Must have missed all the statues in that case.
    :)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    blazing_saddles said:



    Not only because Berlin seems to have forgotten it's historical priorities.

    I did mean it when I said I'd like to know what you mean by it, as I still have no idea.
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