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#1
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
March 25, 2020, 08:33:55 PM
Quote from: bennydorano on March 25, 2020, 07:47:59 PM
Quote from: seafoid on March 25, 2020, 06:16:35 PM
With most people stuck at home and sport suit down there is SFA happening anywhere. There is very little news in the newspapers either.
I still buy 2 papers a day but it is so obvious how far old media is behind social media in such a fast moving situation, wasting my money tbh. Irish News is on thin ice atm!

Good time for one of them ould 'MLA expenses scandal' stories that they regularly trot out, when there's no news to report on. FOI legislation was specifically enacted to enable journalists to put in 100s of stupid questions to organisations, for free.
#2
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
March 23, 2020, 07:27:56 PM
Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on March 23, 2020, 07:11:26 PM
That would include a big chunk of those suppossedly running the country

Current Executive strategy for today....cry & it will all go away.
#3
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
March 23, 2020, 07:07:02 PM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 23, 2020, 05:44:46 PM
Quote from: RedHand88 on March 23, 2020, 04:43:30 PM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 23, 2020, 03:56:08 PM
Quote from: five points on March 23, 2020, 03:19:29 PM
Quote from: imtommygunn on March 23, 2020, 02:59:10 PM
I think they, the shops, should be employing security guards and if you don't adhere to social distancing you should be turfed out of the shop.

Agree 100%.
A chap about 23 or so stood in the queue in Sainsbury's on Saturday breathing down my neck. When I asked him to step back a bit from my space he started laughing and asked was I serious.

Should have grabbed him by the throat and forced him back.
I did lose my temper a bit, which is unlike me, and told him he'd get a dig in the jaw if he didn't get out of my space. Which probably wasn't the ideal response  :-\

I think, in the circumstances, that was mild.  This whole situation is certainly showing us that a large section of society is currently populated by completely brain dead wankers.
#4
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
March 17, 2020, 03:35:34 PM
Well, the Orange Order aren't for marching, so they're out of step with the DUP.
It's funny listening to Snarlene saying she will be guided by science, when Pootsy says the Earth was created around 4,000 BC.
#5
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
March 16, 2020, 10:12:59 PM
Agency workers being told this evening that if the organisation you are currently placed with decides to shut down, then your assignment is at an end. Thanks a feckin lot, Grafton.
#6
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
March 16, 2020, 08:30:33 PM
There was a case mentioned on the ITV News earlier of a man who was hospitalised on 3 March & only died last Friday, on the 13th. What exactly is, or has been, going on? Plus, if it started in China in December, when precisely did the powers that be cop on that it was going to spiral out of control rapidly & why haven't adequate preventitive measures been put in place, long before now? It looks like all these steps that  are now coming in are being put in place way too late.
#7
General discussion / Re: TV Show recommendations
March 15, 2020, 02:41:25 PM
Quote from: macdanger2 on March 15, 2020, 01:44:26 AM
Quote from: STREET FIGHTER on March 13, 2020, 04:40:42 PM
Right Folks

Any recommendations for shows to watch on Netflix/other....old or new.....

I have seen absolutely nothing in recent years and that includes breaking bad, game of thrones, any BBC1 drama's etc etc..

What should I watch??

SF

If you haven't already watched it, start with Sopranos

Good call. Was absolutely brilliant nearly every week it was on.
#8
General discussion / Re: Holidays
March 14, 2020, 05:19:08 PM
Quote from: lurganblue on March 14, 2020, 12:51:42 PM
Wife was due to fly to the canarys with her friends today but decided it was best not to. Not all the friends agreed and some have went on ahead. Jet2 cancelled all their flights but they had a package that included easyJet flights. They go ahead. Has to take the financial hit

Flew back from Salzburg with Jet2.com this morning.  Got a text from them yesterday, saying everything would be going on time. All trains from Austria into Italy were suspended earlier in the week but, other than that, no real difficulties in travelling round Austria all week & into Munich yesterday.
#9
General discussion / Re: Flybe
March 07, 2020, 06:54:29 PM
Quote from: Franko on January 14, 2020, 04:24:54 PM
Quote from: johnnycool on January 14, 2020, 12:11:50 PM
Quote from: trailer on January 13, 2020, 07:07:35 PM
Quote from: Sportacus on January 13, 2020, 06:29:13 PM
Love them or loathe them, the implications are pretty severe if Flybe disappear.  2 out of 3 flights out of Belfast City and mostly people doing business.  Is there a Plan B?

Dublin

Easyjet out of the not so easy Aldergrove.

With their DUP connections it pains me to say this, but they seem to have got their act together recently.  Been through it weekly since beginning of December and max wait at security has been about 10 minutes.

Was through right the way through Aldergrove in around 5 minutes flat this morning, although it was at 6 am! Stayed in the Maldron overnight for first time, which made the very early start slightly easier.
#10
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
March 04, 2020, 05:12:52 PM
Quote from: armaghniac on March 04, 2020, 04:53:51 PM
Quote from: Harold Disgracey on March 04, 2020, 04:46:50 PM
Two more cases in the wee six.

There are not particularly threatening though, one was in Italy and the other was from contact tracing of someone in England. The system is still working.

Which will be more than my payroll system will be doing, if you are to get SSP on day one, for coronavirus or self-isolation & on day 4, for all other complaints. Boris doesn't realise that the payroll software developers will have to do a bit of work on that particular one & then roll it out, all at the end of the tax year too.
#11
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
March 02, 2020, 10:12:39 PM
Quote from: AFM on March 02, 2020, 09:53:59 PM
Quote from: playwiththewind1st on March 02, 2020, 09:09:38 PM
"Another bore-feast whose attitude would quickly change if God Forbid it came home to roast in their world.   No one know the full effect of this of how it will mutate why is it is so wrong to take precautions in an era when the world is now a much smaller place and we are all in effect in it together!"

Forgive me, but I simply can't understand any of that.

It's ok, ask an adult.

Preferably one who can construct a semi intelligent sentence or 2, perhaps?
#12
General discussion / Re: What TV to Buy
March 02, 2020, 10:08:30 PM
"Will TV be placed beside a widow and watched during day"

Sounds like an ideal afternoon, in the nursing home.
#13
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
March 02, 2020, 09:09:38 PM
"Another bore-feast whose attitude would quickly change if God Forbid it came home to roast in their world.   No one know the full effect of this of how it will mutate why is it is so wrong to take precautions in an era when the world is now a much smaller place and we are all in effect in it together!"

Forgive me, but I simply can't understand any of that.
#14
Quote from: Rossfan on March 02, 2020, 01:04:06 PM
Talk now that there will be votes for Taoiseach on Thursday.
Presumably only Martin and McDonald will be proposed (and defeated) ?

Arlene Foster - compromise candidate!!
#15
It's got the virus AND it's made by the Mexicans. POTUS will issue a decree banning it shortly.