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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,949
    john80 said:

    kingstongraham said:

    john80 said:

    kingstongraham said:

    Expert messaging: "Get your booster - remember, there's too many dickheads who won't even wear a mask while walking around a hospital at a time of high cases"


    On this very same visit on the news later that night he is on camera wearing a mask as he tours round other parts of the hospital. It the cuts to him giving an interview in front of an MRI scanner without a mask. So essentially he both wears a mask and doesn't. So it is fair to say that he does not never wear a mask but I could not tell you what his criteria is.
    Apparently he was not wearing a mask for broadcast interviews, then went out to meet these people, forgetting to put his mask back on. He was reminded that he was supposed to wear a mask everywhere in the hospital (except where he was doing interviews) and put it on. Which isn't too bad.

    But he couldn't say that, so then all his apologists had to come out to say that actually, the king was wearing the finest clothes they'd ever seen.
    It's more embarrassing that they don't just say they don't know as they were not there or actually get a definitive factual record. It's just very half arsed.

    They know Johnson well enough that they've got used to making stuff up to cover his lies and stupidity with more lies and stupidity, and they are now unable to admit they've got no idea. It's just a reflex reaction now.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Apparently in singers the locals who aren’t vaccinated have to pay for their treatment if they end up in hospital with rona (they have near enough universal healthcare apparently)
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,949
    Singer Paw?
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,624
    Do wish Rick would write something approaching the English language occassionally! B)
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Dorset_Boy said:

    Do wish Rick would write something approaching the English language occassionally! B)

    Or use capitals where appropriate
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    If you haven't heard Singapore be abbreviated to singers you need to get out more.

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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,486
    rick_chasey said:

    If you haven't heard Singapore be abbreviated to singers you need to get out more.

    I've never heard it either, even from people who file a lot of patent applications there, who lived there or who currently live there. I don't think it is quite as widespread as "UK", for example.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,610
    rick_chasey said:

    If you haven't heard Singapore be abbreviated to singers you need to get out in certain circles more.

    FTFY
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,486
    pblakeney said:

    rick_chasey said:

    If you haven't heard Singapore be abbreviated to singers you need to get out in certain circles more.

    FTFY
    I think RC watches Made in Chelsea. This would explain a lot.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Singers yah. For my gap yah.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,300
    rick_chasey said:

    If you haven't heard Singapore be abbreviated to singers you need to get out more.

    I admit to the personal failing that I do not have conversations where Singapore gets mentioned often enough to have a nickname.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    IF ya want to focus on the medium and not the message, go ahead.

    I guess they were right when whoeever said the medium is the message.
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    The medium was obscuring the message, Rick.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    I know a lot of people who live in Singapore and I've never heard it refered to as singers.

    The only colloquialism I know from Singapore is "four floors of whores"
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    I think Singers is more used by people from Hongkers
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,300
    edited November 2021
    I think anyone, and particularly anyone who does sport should think twice about limiting free universal healthcare when people can be seen to have contributed to their own injury/illness through action or inaction.
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,112
    rick_chasey said:

    If you haven't heard Singapore be abbreviated to singers you need to get out more.



    I was thinking sewing machine factory.
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,895
    DeVlaeminck said:

    rick_chasey said:

    If you haven't heard Singapore be abbreviated to singers you need to get out more.



    I was thinking sewing machine factory.
    I thought he was having a pop at the likes of Pross
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    Cotic Solaris
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,089
    Heard of Singlish, but not singers. Have been there. Suspect it is used by the same people who talk of Argies.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,300
    At least the abbreviation saved two keystrokes of effort.
  • skyblueamateur
    skyblueamateur Posts: 1,498
    DeVlaeminck said:

    rick_chasey said:

    If you haven't heard Singapore be abbreviated to singers you need to get out more.



    I was thinking sewing machine factory.
    I also thought he was on about the founding fathers of Coventry City FC.

    Never heard Singapore called Singers.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Either way, I thought it was an interesting development.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,486
    rick_chasey said:

    Either way, I thought it was an interesting development.

    Slippery slope. It was your own fault for not wearing a helmet, etc.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    First.Aspect said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Either way, I thought it was an interesting development.

    Slippery slope. It was your own fault for not wearing a helmet, etc.
    For sure. A feature of authoritarian regimes.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,687
    veronese68 said:

    DeVlaeminck said:

    rick_chasey said:

    If you haven't heard Singapore be abbreviated to singers you need to get out more.



    I was thinking sewing machine factory.
    I thought he was having a pop at the likes of Pross
    I read it and wondered why it was only being applied to people who sing.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,949
    I just thought it was predictive text gone wrong
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,089
    A friend of mine who grew up in Singapore in the expat community has never heard it called singers.

    In other news, cases are increasingly rapidly in Germany and other European countries.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    edited November 2021
    ...and in my office it would seem.

    Senior management who have been in the office getting it and being very coy about telling people (i.e. not telling people), so I have taken it upon myself to let everyone know who got it and when so they can make up their own mind.

    In the meantime I'll be self isolating until I do a PCR test in 5 days. FFS.

    Edit: might consider doing a lateral flow every time I wanna go out and do it that way.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,949
    rick_chasey said:

    ...and in my office it would seem.

    Senior management who have been in the office getting it and being very coy about telling people (i.e. not telling people), so I have taken it upon myself to let everyone know who got it and when so they can make up their own mind.


    The revenge of the Why-Are-We-Returning-To-The-Office-In-A-Pandemic? worker.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,687
    TheBigBean said:

    A friend of mine who grew up in Singapore in the expat community has never heard it called singers.

    In other news, cases are increasingly rapidly in Germany and other European countries.

    Surely you mean germers? Or maybe germs would be more appropriate.

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