I'm just imagining cops like that bad 80's comedy duo: You see these sausages I'm about to stand on with my size 14 doc martens? This is what I think of your human rights you bleedin' scrote!
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link
JRM: God bless the Prince of Wales, some waffle about how the Queen’s actual birthday is the 21st April
― consultant haste (gyac), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:09 (four years ago) link
Yeah let's not be taking cops at their word
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
The blame the public PR move looks to have been remarkably effective. https://t.co/SPuqa89iyh— Tom Mills (@ta_mills) March 25, 2020
― stet, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
Oh he’s paying tribute to Corbyn now. Not a single Labour MP apart from Valerie Vaz doing the same.
― consultant haste (gyac), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
as ppl have been saying on twitter, the british public does seem to have an unusually low opinion of the rest of the british public
― ogmor, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
The British Public: ‘how dare they tell me what to do! They should tell them over there what to do!’
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
belief in the wider community's feckless, selfish venality is a key part of british identity
― ogmor, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
This is how governments get away with murdering poor people tbf
― Two Gentlemen with the Rona (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:23 (four years ago) link
the groundskeepers have come to mow the communal lawns for the block of flats, which is very nice and lovely and completely unnecessary, I'd have thought
at least they're able to keep well apart from a) each other (well, until they both get back into their van) b) anyone else
a self-conscious middle-class person writes: do people with less bad and shameful accents pronounce medicine as 3 syllables, or is -sɪn vs -sən the aspect in dispute here?
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
Can hear council lawnmowers here too
― kraudive, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
I usually go three syllables
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:36 (four years ago) link
They're still mowing the fairways on the council golf course at the top of the hill behind us, even though golf has effectively been banned
― ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbbOw-UMqDE
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:41 (four years ago) link
so meddy-san is the MES-approved locution
surely there's an -ah on the end of that
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link
no
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:44 (four years ago) link
tbh I rarely say it out loud and am not entirely sure whether it has a short middle syllable or none at all when I do, but I can hear my mother saying mɛdsəns
trying to remember what my more w/c nan would have said, and I can imagine either the same or a very methodically pronounced 3 syllables, but nothing in between
I watched most of PMQs but missed the last 10 minutes and any farewell to Corbyn, alas - worth going back to later or not?
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
hmmmm
Scotland’s chief medical officer, Catherine Calderwood, has said she is satisfied that Prince Charles was tested for the coronavirus for “clinical reasons”, after questions were raised on social media whether he had jumped the queue.It emerged on Wednesday that Charles, known as the Duke of Rothesay in Scotland, was in self-isolation with his wife, Camilla, at their Scottish home, Birkhall, on the Balmoral estate in Deeside with mild coronavirus symptoms.He was tested by NHS Grampian staff, and Calderwood said she had contacted the team involved. “From the information I have been given it was clear he was tested for clinical reasons,” she said.
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
known as the Duke of Rothesay in Scotland
lol ok
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link
guy incognito
🚨🚨 Professor Sharon Peacock, Director of the National Infection Service, Public Health England, says antibody test could be ready for general public to be tested in Boots or at home within days "not weeks or months". Simple finger prick test....— Richard Vaughan (@RichardVaughan1) March 25, 2020
― stet, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
1) leave house for test2) test negative3) catch the ‘rona from a fellow shopper4) ???5) death
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
Prof Peacock said the tests themselves are being tested in Oxford this week. If they do work people will be able to order them via Amazon to test themselves.— Richard Vaughan (@RichardVaughan1) March 25, 2020
!!!!
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
do dey actually have a Clue do?
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
Intriguing that they've bought 3.5m of them and ordered millions more without apparently having tested them to see if they work properly? They'd have to be at least fairly confident.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
professor peacock in the boots with the finger-prick
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
Man it's gonna be crushing when loads of us do the tests and realise we haven't actually had invisible covid after all.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
I’m afraid this is going to be as chaotic as everything else in the uk response but it’s something
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
do people with less bad and shameful accents pronounce medicine as 3 syllables
Less than three is disgusting savagery.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
God, yes.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link
meanwhile, away from the sunny uplands of today’s government messaging, there’s this thread (assuming it’s true, obv)
UPDATE. My mother was tested 14 days ago for COVID. She’s a busy city vicar- 2 churches, 2 parishes. TENS OF CONTACTS. Many elderly. Today she got her result. 14 days later. POSITIVE. No contact tracing. No testing of contacts. No isolation. We. Are. Fucked.— Holly-Ann Perks (@HollyAnnPerks1) March 23, 2020
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
/do people with less bad and shameful accents pronounce medicine as 3 syllables/Less than three is disgusting savagery.
― consultant haste (gyac), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
Ah the tests must be the ones in the FT? Guessing they’ll be tested against the existing ones for accuracy?
― consultant haste (gyac), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
what goes on in Professor Peacock's Study stays in...
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:05 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/mar/25/how-can-we-get-home-brits-stranded-abroad-covid-19-coronavirus-outbreak
My advice is to stay where the fuck you are for a few weeks
― akb23 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
my wife's affluent and brexit-deranged aunt is staying in her holiday home in st lucia at the moment, posting on facebook both about how glad she is to be there where there are only two cases and the local hospitals have plenty of drugs and also about how angry she is that people are flooding to cornwall (where she usually lives) and putting the local nhs at risk
she's 74 and recovering from pleurisy so best of luck to her out there, i guess
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
They were told to come home tbf but yeah it won’t kill em to be “stranded” temporarily xpSomeone I know was in the Philippines and managed to get the last flight out but is now stuck in an airport in Dubai which is close to my idea of hell
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
i'm not paying for a fucking test
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
my eldest was apparently on his way back from New Zealand last night, dare say he'll update me at some point
― Let's kill the Queen and be legends (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
seems there is more and more limits to Rishi's spending the further we go into this crisis, we'll have buy our own body bags from a*a*zon next.
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
Just appalling.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/london-woman-36-dies-of-suspected-covid-19-after-being-told-she-is-not-priority?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
the real face of Herd Immunity
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
Fucking hell
― stet, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
Someone I know was in the Philippines and managed to get the last flight out but is now stuck in an airport in Dubai which is close to my idea of hell
mk1 and his g/f were in cambodia last week.last tuesday they decided to book a flight for saturday to gatwick via dubai - they got back on sunday.i don't think he had any idea as to just how lucky they were.pointed out that article to him just now, and the penny has dropped.to say my stress levels were through the roof leading up to their take off in dubai was an understatement as i was all to aware of borders being closed around them.also, hours after they landed, their carrier, Emirates announced that they were stopping all long haul flights as of today (Wednesday).they really did have a lucky escape.
― mark e, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
xpost : they did not want to get stuck in cambodia - limited £££ funds etc.
― mark e, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link
This from Morrisons (£35 for a box of random food, next day delivery) sounds like a good idea.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/morrisons-shopping-delivery-food-boxes-3978471
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
xps fucking horrendous case, no questions asked about it at the briefing and probably won’t be either
― consultant haste (gyac), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
We have just received communication from @SussexUni that all temporary contracts should now be terminated where possible. Accompanied by, "I am confident that if we pull together we can get through this and come out stronger the other side." If by "we" you mean permanent staff.— Kathryn Telling (@KathrynTelling) March 25, 2020
― ogmor, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link