how long has wuhan been out of lockdown now and how are things going
― ||||||||, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
I can't see UK going back into lockdown in July regardless of numbers
Possibly September but I think they'd rather tough it out
― anvil, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
If the news stops covering it we can just carry on with a steady stream of quiet deaths and get back to making money for rich people
― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 May 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
on the day they had to close a hospital because of a spike, too. Now we really are in "they don't care if you die" territory
― stet, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
They might do a second lockdown if they can fit it around a second wave narrative as the weather worsens in autumn but otherwise nah
― anvil, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
For reference, my 60-something, married-to-an-older-pilot, Brexit-y-and-mates-with-loads-of-old-racist-cunts, probably-a-racist-herself, shares-lots-of-racist-memes-and-stories-about-Sadiq-on-Facebook-even-though-she-doesn't-live-in=London Aunt is today sharing a Cummings-must-leave petition on Facebook
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Monday, 25 May 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
Its classic, let any bad feeling stored up all funnel its way into this Cummings story. Then either toss him aside if its too high or ride it out if not
― anvil, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
i've seen friends/friends of friends on social media drawing the distinction between the Bad Cummings and the Virgin Boris
― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 May 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
Those petitions are like trying to vote cockroaches out of your flat but good to hear the tides are turning on these turds
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Monday, 25 May 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
all we need now is for those people to hold onto that anger for another four and a half years or so
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 25 May 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
otm, we are all morons for paying attention, rich irony in all the ppl wetting themselves over crerar's rope-a-dope genius
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Monday, 25 May 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
good luck, lads
― anvil, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
Plenty of other opportunities for them to make people angry, the biggest recession in 90 years included.
― Matt DC, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
nothing mobs love more than forensic analysis in a funny voice
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Monday, 25 May 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
The same old shite about the morality and character of an individual that proves the system is just fine, it's just the one bad guy. Liberals really are some dumb motherfuckers
― anvil, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
Lets roll our eyes and tut like clapping seals at Laurence Fox again
― anvil, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
The coming year has a second spike, an endless supply of “worst in the world” stats, economic catastrophe and fucking Brexit still to come. Tossing Cummings is not enough to draw the venom from all that - and they genuinely want to keep Cummings.
― stet, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
Following on from the tweet about the use of Barnard Castle in slang...
https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/4wyllxa
barney n.1[? the holding of dubious sporting events, e.g. bare-knuckle boxing, in or behind the barn, and thus a fig. use of barney n.2 . However, Partridge, quoting Apperson, refers to the phr. come, come, that’s Barney Castle, a response to anyone making a particularly specious excuse. This in turn, it is claimed, refers to the Catholic earls’ Northern Rising of 1569, when Barnard Castle was held by Sir George Bowes who refused, despite many challenges, to leave his fortifications and engage in battle. The ‘Rising in the North’ certainly created the Durham dial. Barnard Castle, a coward, taken from the jibe ‘A coward, a coward, o’ Barney castle/Dare na come out to fight a battle’]
[? the holding of dubious sporting events, e.g. bare-knuckle boxing, in or behind the barn, and thus a fig. use of barney n.2 . However, Partridge, quoting Apperson, refers to the phr. come, come, that’s Barney Castle, a response to anyone making a particularly specious excuse. This in turn, it is claimed, refers to the Catholic earls’ Northern Rising of 1569, when Barnard Castle was held by Sir George Bowes who refused, despite many challenges, to leave his fortifications and engage in battle. The ‘Rising in the North’ certainly created the Durham dial. Barnard Castle, a coward, taken from the jibe ‘A coward, a coward, o’ Barney castle/Dare na come out to fight a battle’]
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 25 May 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
Johnson for some reason is desperate to keep Cummings, lord knows why. The rest I suspect would be happy to throw him in a dumpster to the bottoms of the Tees, though none of them will do anything to rock the boat at the moment.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
The coming year has a second spike, an endless supply of “worst in the world” stats, economic catastrophe and fucking Brexit still to come. Tossing Cummings is not enough to draw the venom from all that
It depends on whether enough of the country takes a "well, what you can you expect, there's been a global pandemic" line. TBH I think this entire episode has been profoundly unhelpful to that, killing off a lot of the performative Blitz spirit goodwill that the govt had been coasting on, but these things can be pretty difficult to wash away.
― Matt DC, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:52 (three years ago) link
Also Boris Johnson could literally turn up and machine gun a socially-distanced supermarket queue and there would still be a good 30% of the country that would still turn up and faithfully put a cross in the Conservative box.
― Matt DC, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
This is absolute fanfic, but I wonder if anyone in the cabinet is figuring that the backbenches would be the best place to be for a spell, and "Well, this is absolutely intolerable" would be a decent reason to try this - they'd be betting that even if nothing happens now, there will be a bad by-election in the next few years, and people will be casting around for someone to replace Boris.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
No one in the Cabinet has that kind of backbone.
― Matt DC, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
xp (no-one else is Boris, and the position described is already occupied by Jeremy Hunt, but this idea doesn't require accurate self-reflection on the part of the cabinet member)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
For reference, my 60-something, married-to-an-older-pilot, Brexit-y-and-mates-with-loads-of-old-racist-cunts, probably-a-racist-herself, shares-lots-of-racist-memes-and-stories-about-Sadiq-on-Facebook-even-though-she-doesn't-live-in=London Aunt is today sharing a Cummings-must-leave petition on Facebook― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Monday, 25 May 2020 19:10 (forty-eight minutes ago) link
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Monday, 25 May 2020 19:10 (forty-eight minutes ago) link
lol, this makes me hope the cum dog rides this out. Whole buncha dumb animals getting mad at the farmer imo
― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
I think “what do you expect” is going to founder hard on the rocks of “to not be either the absolute or relative worst in the world on nearly all fronts tbh”. Johnson as captain of the Concordia yet again there.
― stet, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link
I hear those other countries count things wrong, don't even have the right calipers, it's in fucking metric.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
there will be a bad by-election in the next few years, and people will be casting around for someone to replace Boris.
They're not ditching Boris anytime soon and even if they do, for what? Gove?
They'll ditch him before the next election, guaranteed, but any time soon? Come on now
― anvil, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
its so weird watching boris johnson who is so desperate to be liked and terrified of scrutiny be prepared to stand there and eat dog shit on live tv two nights in a row for this man, like honestly why are they so scared of him, he looked like such a concerned family man
― plax (ico), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
just watched in now and his response to beth rigby made me scream at the screen. robert peston is literally beyond a joke. does he have to use cummings wife's first name in a pally way in every question what an absolute
― plax (ico), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
omg was fascism this infuriating last time around?
― plax (ico), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
This isn't fascism its aristocracy.
― anvil, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
had hoped by now i'd be making my money singing kurt weill songs somewhere v seedy not shouting at my laptop in islington this is making me reappraise my choices
― plax (ico), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
These balloons aren't fascists this is ludicrous
― anvil, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
does he have to use cummings wife's first name in a pally way in every question what an absolute
In different hands and with a different subject this could be an effective interview technique, trying to get the interviewee's guard down, but obviously wasn't going to work in this context.
― Matt DC, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
It's effective in putting the interviewee at ease... because they're right to be at ease
― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
Peston is not effective at anything.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
seems to effectively get a rise out of lots of people who aren't politicians
― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
Eh? Looks pretty effective to me
― anvil, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
Johnson claimed tonight that he now needs to wear glasses more often due to CV-19.
2014: "I’m now so short-sighted, I’m blind!"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2799562/amp/i-m-blind-bat-says-boris-johnson-london-mayor-admits-needing-glasses-house.html
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
These gotchas are pure garbage
― anvil, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
Tuesday’s Daily Mail: NO APOLOGY NO REGRETS #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/lOhK2i8HS2— Helena Wilkinson (@BBCHelena) May 25, 2020
― stet, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
NO SURRENDER
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
Could you be any more predictable?
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
You are well aware that he can and he will.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 25 May 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
Anvil working on overdrive to argue with absolutely anybody tonight is it.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 May 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
Pesto was one step too far.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 25 May 2020 21:26 (three years ago) link
It's almost as if there was a script! Imagine all the Labour MPs coming up with the same idea at the same time. pic.twitter.com/FQ2AkW9PDT— Daniel Sandford (@BBCDanielS) May 25, 2020
Why do they keep doing this?
― Matt DC, Monday, 25 May 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
Tories basically doing another version of the same thing. I suppose there are enough people paying little enough attention for these messages to cut through but it only takes one of these to go viral and you've clowned yourself.
― Matt DC, Monday, 25 May 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link