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  • john80
    john80 Posts: 2,965
    rick_chasey said:

    Remember when everyone kicked off at Neil Ferguson for breaking the rules?

    Did everyone kick of about this or would a significant number of cake stoppers be more appropriate use of English.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,167
    john80 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Remember when everyone kicked off at Neil Ferguson for breaking the rules?

    Did everyone kick of about this or would a significant number of cake stoppers be more appropriate use of English.
    I be more appropriate use of English.

    What you?
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    john80 said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Remember when everyone kicked off at Neil Ferguson for breaking the rules?

    Did everyone kick of about this or would a significant number of cake stoppers be more appropriate use of English.
    do you really think he resigned because a significant number of cake stoppers kicked off

    amazingly it was only two weeks before Boris's booze up
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    France has relaxed its entry rules. Excellent news, my ski trip is gonna happen !!!!
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    john80 said:

    Did everyone kick of about this or would a significant number of cake stoppers be more appropriate use of English.


    I love this post, John.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited January 2022
    Candidate of mine has just got corona for the third time.

    Interestingly, her symptoms have got worse with each bout. Pretty bad this time around.
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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    rick_chasey said:

    Candidate of mine has just got corona for the third time.

    Interestingly, her symptoms have got worse with each bout. Pretty bad this time around.


    Do you know if she is vaccinated?

  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    yup
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    How!!??

    I haven't had corona once and I have been pretty lax about mask wearing.

    Mind you with 2 kids I don't spend a lot of time eating out or in the pub, and I don't take public transport to work
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Who knows. Not fat either.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    rick_chasey said:

    Who knows. Not fat either.

    Are you allowed to comment on the physical characteristics of candidates?

    As an aside, I can remember adverts for cabin crew that seemed to be not that long ago (would have been the 90s which I still think of as quite recent!) that would openly state as a requirement 'weight must be in relation to height' (I think they did, and possibly still do, have upper and lower height limits too).
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Pross said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Who knows. Not fat either.

    Are you allowed to comment on the physical characteristics of candidates?

    No but I figured it was relevant for corona, rather than her candidacy for a role.

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  • Jezyboy
    Jezyboy Posts: 3,605
    edited January 2022
    rick_chasey said:

    Remember when everyone kicked off at Neil Ferguson for breaking the rules?


  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Jezyboy said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Remember when everyone kicked off at Neil Ferguson for breaking the rules?


    Anyone would think that fuckwit is after the PM role!
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Pross said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Who knows. Not fat either.

    Are you allowed to comment on the physical characteristics of candidates?

    As an aside, I can remember adverts for cabin crew that seemed to be not that long ago (would have been the 90s which I still think of as quite recent!) that would openly state as a requirement 'weight must be in relation to height' (I think they did, and possibly still do, have upper and lower height limits too).

    I don't have an issue with this. I mean, you need to fit down the aisle without twatting everyone on the end seats.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Yes. The realities of geometry and physics don't have feelings.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Yet enormous people pay the same amount for a flight, yet average people get nailed for oversize baggage and still have to set next to them.
  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    shirley_basso said:

    Yet enormous people pay the same amount for a flight, yet average people get nailed for oversize baggage and still have to set next to them.


    I’ve been saying for years now that everyone should pay based upon total weight ie person plus all baggage. Get everyone on the scales at the airport, you could even sell tickets to “Guess the Weight”.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,915
    Can I have a charter flight then? If weight is only real factor, I should be able to have a lot of space.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,327
    Was on a flight where a lady complained that the seatbelts were made too small. No dear.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,915
    Nov 21 GDP above Feb 20 GDP.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,167
    TheBigBean said:

    Nov 21 GDP above Feb 20 GDP.

    Let's have a party. BYOB.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    TheBigBean said:

    Nov 21 GDP above Feb 20 GDP.

    So a full recovery is when it returns to where trend would be 👍🏻
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  • wallace_and_gromit
    wallace_and_gromit Posts: 3,616
    rick_chasey said:

    TheBigBean said:

    Nov 21 GDP above Feb 20 GDP.

    So a full recovery is when it returns to where trend would be 👍🏻
    Per the Torygraph, the U.K. economy has achieved its return to pre Pandemic gdp ahead of the eurozone and a whole and even Germany. So maybe not such a bad effort overall.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    That’s great but I wasn’t really discussing that.
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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    edited January 2022
    Case numbers are a fraction under 100K today. If that trend continues it will show Chris Whitty was right when he said he expected case numbers to look like a hairpin on a graph.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,167
    Stop press news: UK returns to previous levels of sluggish growth sooner than expected.
  • wallace_and_gromit
    wallace_and_gromit Posts: 3,616
    rick_chasey said:

    That’s great but I wasn’t really discussing that.

    Really? You criticised the UK’s economic performance. The facts don’t fit your “world view” so now you pretend you weren’t talking about the UK’s economic performance.

    You don’t have to be right all the time. Particularly when you’re wrong.

  • wallace_and_gromit
    wallace_and_gromit Posts: 3,616
    rick_chasey said:

    That’s great but I wasn’t really discussing that.

    Really? You criticised the UK’s economic performance. The facts don’t fit your “world view” so now you pretend you weren’t talking about the UK’s economic performance.

    You don’t have to be right all the time. Particularly when you’re wrong.

  • wallace_and_gromit
    wallace_and_gromit Posts: 3,616
    edited January 2022
    First.Aspect said:

    Stop press news: UK returns to previous levels of sluggish growth sooner than expected.

    Not quite (to be diplomatic).

    GDP is an absolute figure. The UK’s gdp in November was above the pre-pandemic gdp. So that is a comparison of absolute numbers.

    Growth is the rate of change of gdp. FWIW, November’s growth was 0.9%, which equates to an annual growth rate in excess of 10%, way in excess of the long term trend.

    Monthly gdp growth stats aren’t helpful at the moment though as there are all sorts of pandemic-specific one-offs affecting the economy.

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