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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,948
    Well, I think we've demonstrated that RC's effort at saving three letters has led to several hundred being expended on revealing that nicknames for places are only worth using if, er, other people know WTF you're on about.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,089
    Pross said:

    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.
    Deutschies surely?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,610
    TheBigBean said:

    Pross said:

    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.
    Deutschies surely?
    Pass the...
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,668
    briantrumpet said:

    Well, I think we've demonstrated that RC's effort at saving three letters has led to several hundred being expended on revealing that nicknames for places are only worth using if, er, other people know WTF you're on about.

    You're preaching to the choir Brian. Or rather, to the singers.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Definitely hits a nerve with the older crowd ;-)
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,300
    Am on a train and someone has got on coughing, sneezing and spluttering, not wearing a mask.

    What do you do? Other than move away, obviously.

    What is in people's brains??
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    kingstongraham said:

    Am on a train and someone has got on coughing, sneezing and spluttering, not wearing a mask.

    What do you do? Other than move away, obviously.

    What is in people's brains??

    I am 2 for 2 for asking people to mask up who sit next to me.

    I went for very softly softly "would you mind awfully if..." and seemed to work, even if one of them looked beyond incredulous, she still masked up.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,948
    kingstongraham said:

    Am on a train and someone has got on coughing, sneezing and spluttering, not wearing a mask.

    What do you do? Other than move away, obviously.

    What is in people's brains??


    Phlegm.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,300
    Why would he think his colleagues want him in the office?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,610
    kingstongraham said:

    Am on a train and someone has got on coughing, sneezing and spluttering, not wearing a mask.

    What do you do? Other than move away, obviously.

    What is in people's brains??

    Some people simply will not learn, or change.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,687
    kingstongraham said:

    Why would he think his colleagues want him in the office?

    Maybe he works for the same company as Rick?
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59252739

    It was always my understanding that methotrexate is stronger than the stuff that I take, but there are patients taking it, out there still awaiting their booster (I had mine 16th October), apparently.

    Excellent study though.
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  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,844
    rick_chasey said:

    kingstongraham said:

    Am on a train and someone has got on coughing, sneezing and spluttering, not wearing a mask.

    What do you do? Other than move away, obviously.

    What is in people's brains??

    I am 2 for 2 for asking people to mask up who sit next to me.

    I went for very softly softly "would you mind awfully if..." and seemed to work, even if one of them looked beyond incredulous, she still masked up.
    So essentially, ask in the style of Hugh Grant?
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Holland are about to announce a new 3 week lockdown. Case numbers are really high - adjusting for population sizes their current daily rates Would equate to roughly 64,000 a day here are slightly in the UK. I’m not massively surprised, as when I was there 3 weeks ago it was as if a pandemic had never happened - we stayed in a hotel for 3 nights and saw literally no one else wearing a mask during our stay.
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Germany at slightly under 50,000 positive cases a day too. Austria also seeing numbers rising and have said they are about to implement a lockdown for anyone unvaccinated.
  • Ncovidius
    Ncovidius Posts: 229
    kingstongraham said:

    Am on a train and someone has got on coughing, sneezing and spluttering, not wearing a mask.

    What do you do? Other than move away, obviously.

    What is in people's brains??

    There are other things about too. If they’re sneezing, it’s probably not Covid.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,948
    edited November 2021
    Bloke in Co-op tonight, telling the cashier how his wife has tested positive for covid, and that he's tested himself five times today, because he's going to his wife's sister's wedding tomorrow, as his upset wife obviously can't go now.

    I'll let you guess whether he was wearing a mask just in case he's contagious...

    It's no wonder we're screwed.
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  • Ncovidius
    Ncovidius Posts: 229
    briantrumpet said:

    Bloke in Co-op tonight, telling the cashier how his wife has tested positive for covid, and that he's tested himself five times today, because he's going to his wife's sister's wedding tomorrow, as his upset wife obviously can't go no.

    I'll let you guess whether he was wearing a mask just in case he's contagious...

    It's no wonder we're screwed.

    We have to learn to live with it. It’s not going anywhere, anytime soon. Get the vulnerable protected, then let it rip.

  • Ncovidius
    Ncovidius Posts: 229
    kingstonian said:

    Holland are about to announce a new 3 week lockdown. Case numbers are really high - adjusting for population sizes their current daily rates Would equate to roughly 64,000 a day here are slightly in the UK. I’m not massively surprised, as when I was there 3 weeks ago it was as if a pandemic had never happened - we stayed in a hotel for 3 nights and saw literally no one else wearing a mask during our stay.

    Coming to a high street near you soon.
  • Ncovidius
    Ncovidius Posts: 229
    kingstonian said:

    Germany at slightly under 50,000 positive cases a day too. Austria also seeing numbers rising and have said they are about to implement a lockdown for anyone unvaccinated.

    Coming to a high street near you soon.
  • Jezyboy
    Jezyboy Posts: 3,675
    Anyone worried about a lockdown will be feeling a lot more relaxed about it reading the last two posts.
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,668
    The desperation to generate a reaction is even more embarrassing than usual
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  • mully79
    mully79 Posts: 904
    kingstonian said:

    Holland are about to announce a new 3 week lockdown. Case numbers are really high - adjusting for population sizes their current daily rates Would equate to roughly 64,000 a day here are slightly in the UK. I’m not massively surprised, as when I was there 3 weeks ago it was as if a pandemic had never happened - we stayed in a hotel for 3 nights and saw literally no one else wearing a mask during our stay.

    ive stayed in a hotel all week every week for a month over here and not seen a mask.
    The only person I've seen with one on was walking through the industrial estate on his own.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,484
    Ncovidius said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Bloke in Co-op tonight, telling the cashier how his wife has tested positive for covid, and that he's tested himself five times today, because he's going to his wife's sister's wedding tomorrow, as his upset wife obviously can't go no.

    I'll let you guess whether he was wearing a mask just in case he's contagious...

    It's no wonder we're screwed.

    We have to learn to live with it. It’s not going anywhere, anytime soon. Get the vulnerable protected, then let it rip.

    God what a twatty post.

    Living with it shouldn't involve wilfully spreading it, any more so than wilfully spreading any other pote tially fatal disease.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,687
    Ncovidius said:

    kingstongraham said:

    Am on a train and someone has got on coughing, sneezing and spluttering, not wearing a mask.

    What do you do? Other than move away, obviously.

    What is in people's brains??

    There are other things about too. If they’re sneezing, it’s probably not Covid.
    Ah that's OK then.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,687
    I was due to sing in my first post-lockdon concert next weekend. The new rules here meant we would need to either have a Covid passport or upload a photo and details of a negative lateral flow. This resulted in quite a few choir members refusing to take part as it is a breech of their civil liberties etc. (even though I think they are all double jabbed and most have had a booster) to the extent we weren't sure if we'd have sufficient numbers. We have now had to call it off as several choir members have tested positive this week.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,948
    It's not even proper trolling, it's just a series of words, in a vaguely grammatical order. There's no meaning or thought behind them, as far as I can tell. Really not worth any responses. Still no idea why he hangs around here. Just bizarre.
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,193
    That's a nightmare for the singapores that.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,610
    The choir being cancelled is a nightmare for the singers.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,484
    pblakeney said:

    The choir being cancelled is a nightmare for the singers.

    Stop that.

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