JohnL

Any black horses seen running across Peckham Rye ?

EatSleepShoot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Inside 72 was fun and had great music. > > The Drum had the feeling of a 6th form common room > 🙂 > > Does anyone remember where about it was situated > in Northcross? Was is it on the site of Monkatsu? Nothing wrong with a sixth form common room atmosphere - reminds me of the deputy head confiscating our cards when we played bridge :)

Certified by congress just now - A republican congressman still challenged Wisconsin but the Senator who backed it had retracted so did not proceed. Dignified at the end - by Pence too.

It's like some Charles I or James II attempt on parliament actually. Trump thinks he's King of America, he needs to go into exile (not to Scotland). A woman has been reported shot.

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Link to the storming of the Bastille > > https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-5555507 > 4 > > John L you can't just brand these people idiots. > Perhaps have some appreciation of the bigger > picture, Trump toxicity, polarisation of the > country, media bias etc. > > It would be like branding leavers as idiots. Oh > wait a second....... LOL.

It's Pence who appears to be in danger because he followed the law not Trump.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yep. > I?m really underlining that the furore over ?who > wins? Georgia is therefore a bit moot, in terms of > meaningful control. > > Trump needs to come out and make a statement now > to those idiots who?ve stormed the Capitol > building. > They?ll only listen to him. OK CNN are outraged ... but I assume so is everybody else.

Trump supporters have stormed the Capitol building Idiots

If you are at risk of hurting yourself or others you are sectioned in this country - lots of anorexic teenagers are every year (Someone related to me was so I saw inside the unit). Whats the difference between that and wanting to spread a virus (and I believe some actually want to spread it due to the herd immunity conversation back in March)

The Current CNN headline is "Trump to speak to supporters in desperate coup attempt"

Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I actually think it's spreading fast due to how > people behave, no matter what government rule is > put in, by any government, people won't follow it > and the virus goes "that'll do nicely thanks" > That's Government responsibility to persuade and cajole and threaten and the rest. They aren't really doing that.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Let?s not forget how lucky we are that the > universe actually started and the planets aligned > with the sun the way they did and that Earth had > oxygen and a mild gravitational field and that > water was delivered by asteroids and that we are > lucky enough to exist even though 98.8% of species > that ever existed are extinct etc.. If the universe hadn't worked out as it did we wouldn't be here to discuss it (or we'd be something completely different ) :)

Looks like the Senate is going to the Democrats - still in the balance but one Georgia seat has been called (by NBC and CNN) and the other is waiting on more Democrat areas to come in with a small Democratic lead. Winning both seats gives Biden the Senate (with the VP vote) and thus a majority in both houses.

I gave up on Christmas Trees a few years back - there are other decorations and I was fed up with dumping of trees on 5th January. Also no children (I know children love trees) When I was young we had an artificial one in the attic all year - sounds ancient (and filthy) now.

Who's in charge though. I notice Nigel Farage said perhaps putting Tiny Blair in charge maybe a good ides - Farage has the right idea that we need someone who is responsible for the whole thing, a big name maybe who will get this rollout done.

Boris's new catchphrase seems to be "Alas"

Didn't it become Adventure Bar after that

A news conference tonight with Boris, Vallance and Whitty - I don't think there's anything new just updates similar to last Spring. Boris trip to India cancelled.

Twitters bad for rumours (and fights) - but we should expect someone like Peston to be telling the truth. The Independent has named his source but there's an additional paragraph :) "John Bell, regius professor of medicine at University of Oxford, who sits on the government?s vaccine taskforce, said on Sunday there was a ?big question mark? as to whether the vaccines currently being rolled out would work on the South African variant." "However, Professor Bell also said it was "unlikely? the mutation would make vaccines entirely ineffective, and it should be possible to tweak existing vaccines in around four to six weeks. ?Everybody should stay calm ? it?s going to be fine,?" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/covid-variant-south-africa-matt-hancock-b1781903.html

Back to this thread for some really bad thoughts from Peston - hope he's wrong

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Why be so obsessed with the EU" > > > Despite veering into pandemic > discussion/government bashing (justified or > not).....this is the EU Trade Talks thread to be > fair:) LOL I did forget that to be honest

Trinnydad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you are talking 'good' pandemic, then check out > today's headline in The Times" > > EU?s coronavirus vaccination strategy in chaos as > supplies run short > > https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/eus-coronavirus > -vaccination-strategy-in-chaos-as-supplies-run-sho > rt-9kfd593w0 Why be so obsessed with the EU The AstraZeneca vaccine can be produced locally in countries like Thailand and India - a big advantage. India has a huge production plan. I'm not sure where ours are sourced from. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-55520658

Jeremy Hunt has just said all schools should close and we should go into basically a (tight) lockdown It seems to be a matter of days to me.

My Aygo is 14 years old and still passes the tests :) I'll keep it for now even though I hardly use it - but every year I'm closer to some kind of rental/pick up scheme. Maybe I should try it out whilst the car is still here. I'll never sell it except to "we but any car" types (and that's scrap)

Hancock certainly puts the hours in and keeps going - can't argue with that.