Chinese "Devil Virus" - anyone worried?

[doctor_mac]

I’d bet their online versions are up on hits/subscriptions. There seems to be this constant thirst for the latest news during the pandemic.

I tune in a couple of times a day, and otherwise I have music on in the background. My wife, on the other hand, who gets obsessive about shit, is all over it, all of the time. I have to tell her constantly I don't want to talk about it in minute detail.

 

[Judge Jules]

I listen to music a lot as well, and have been playing a lot more myself since going back to piano lessons about 18 months ago, which are paying off and are therefore keeping me at it. My teacher is nice but has a fierce side which also helps with the discipline of practising!

My radio listening, such as it is, has changed though. I used to turn TalkSport on more than other stations as I can get general news elsewhere. Now I'm much more on Radio 4 or 5 as you never know when something might crop up which would be useful to know.

 

[MomoWASright]

I tune in a couple of times a day, and otherwise I have music on in the background. My wife, on the other hand, who gets obsessive about shit, is all over it, all of the time. I have to tell her constantly I don't want to talk about it in minute detail.

When it really kicked off here the boss would watch the daily briefing show from 4 right through the news up till 7. She usually can’t stand the news or anything like that.

Over the last week she’s stopped and decided to read books. Which is good as I’ve managed to watch the 3 hobbit movies and fellowship of the ring (extended editions) since the weekend.

 

[Athens]

This'll be @Portly after the quarantine.

 

[Portly]

This'll be @Portly after the quarantine.

I haven't been out of the house for two weeks and am beginning to do creative meals with out-of-date things from my cupboards.

However, when I rang the pharmacy about my monthly repeat prescription (I have to hire a small van to take it away) they said that they had stopped deliveries and I would have to come and pick it up myself.

I will thus be starting up my car and dodging police drones later this morning. Quite exciting really.

 

[Rosco]

 

[Portly]

On "Masterchef" the bats have to be pink.

 

[Woland]

The govt are really ramping up their efforts to do fuck all today.

 

[Frogfish]

Settled into a daily routine of computer, working on my website/blog, edit a few photos (so happy I brought a 10TB HD of my photos with me to Austria) walk 7-10k per day and watching a couple of films or a series (just finished The Watcher) with my wife, cooking together (no, no bat or pangolin soup Brendan - stocks are low), and reading for a few hours. The highlight of any day though are our exciting supermarket trips twice a week. Weekly high will be the impending delivery of a new espresso machine and 32" screen to attach to the laptop.

 

[Judge Jules]

I haven't been out of the house for two weeks and am beginning to do creative meals with out-of-date things from my cupboards.

However, when I rang the pharmacy about my monthly repeat prescription (I have to hire a small van to take it away) they said that they had stopped deliveries and I would have to come and pick it up myself.

I will thus be starting up my car and dodging police drones later this morning. Quite exciting really.

All the best with that Ports. I'm on a similar arrangement (though I do habitually collect mine) but it's every eight weeks and I got one in just before the Govt.lowered the boom on us all. I therefore don't have another one due till 7th May and I'm hoping things may just have begun to ease by then, though I can go beyond that date if need be - occasionally forgetting to take one does have its payoff at a time like this!

 

[Athens]

I haven't been out of the house for two weeks and am beginning to do creative meals with out-of-date things from my cupboards.

However, when I rang the pharmacy about my monthly repeat prescription (I have to hire a small van to take it away) they said that they had stopped deliveries and I would have to come and pick it up myself.

I will thus be starting up my car and dodging police drones later this morning. Quite exciting really.

I can imagine you, driving along while staring up at the sky imagining that every helicopter is following you. Like Tony Montana* when he thinks he's being followed.

*Is it Tony Montana or is that scene from another movie?

 

[peterhague]

It's from Goodfellas.

 

[Woland]

Yeah Henry Hill

 

[manwithnoname]

I’d bet their online versions are up on hits/subscriptions. There seems to be this constant thirst for the latest news during the pandemic.

Of course they are, but the ad market has collapsed and the online blacklisting of the word "coronavirus" hasn't helped, as half the content is about it, but no ads are being served against that content.

So anyone who hasn't got a paywall is serving news for free, but can't monetise that audience, because the marketing budgets have been pulled and/or the ciontent is blacklisted on ad exchanges anyway.

So everyone is fucked.

 

[Athens]

It's from Goodfellas.

Cheers.

I looked Tony Montana helicopter and it the search brought up Omar the Rat getting hanged from a helicopter.

I don't remember that scene, which is weird as I would normally remember a scene like that...

 

[Judge Jules]

My windowcleaner's name is Omar (he's Kurdish). I'd better not tell him about all that.

 

[Woland]

Omar the porn star drinks in our local. He bangs bored housewives for a hundred quid and lives in the windmill on Moor Lane. Apparently his nob is so big it's got its own heart

 

[MomoWASright]

I thought he sold that place a few years ago. He did try to stick it on air bnb but the Crosby heads round there moaned about the parties taking place all the time.

 

[Woland]

Oh he might have done. I haven't seen him for a while come to think of it.

 

[Y1]

Settled into a daily routine of computer, working on my website/blog, edit a few photos (so happy I brought a 10TB HD of my photos with me to Austria) walk 7-10k per day and watching a couple of films or a series (just finished The Watcher) with my wife, cooking together (no, no bat or pangolin soup Brendan - stocks are low), and reading for a few hours. The highlight of any day though are our exciting supermarket trips twice a week. Weekly high will be the impending delivery of a new espresso machine and 32" screen to attach to the laptop.

Keep safe mate. Oldies have to be extra vigilant.

 

[Mors]

The government really needs to start giving more detailed breakdowns of exactly where they are with the testing and protective equipment provision every day in these briefings every day instead of 'errrr yeah we're having some issues getting some stuff for some errr bits for testing errrr'.
And now they've put into motion the fines people will be getting hit with for breaching curfews, they need to also outline the fines they're going to be hitting the banks with if they don't start helping people and businesses with all the cash they've been given access to.

 

[Athens]

My windowcleaner's name is Omar (he's Kurdish). I'd better not tell him about all that.

I've been informed that the Kurds are a lovely people.

Although they seem to be as hard as nails so perhaps you're better off not calling him that. Plus, if he's a window cleaner he might have access to ladders coupled with knowledge of your house...

 

[Judge Jules]

I happen to know a number of Kurdish folk in my area as I've had a fair bit to do, albeit informally, with Christian-Muslim interfaith contacts around here, but LTW can tell you more about them than I can and I'm sure he'd confirm they are indeed hard as nails. Basically they make very loyal and generous friends (as I've found) but implacable enemies (as ISIS have found - it was largely the Kurds who fought them to a standstill).

 

[manwithnoname]

I always find this "implacable enemies" stuff risible.

It's meant to be a sort of compliment, but always seems to be a way to describe violent, unorganised atavistic simpletons, who are fine if you leave them alone and then react like enraged chimps when provoked.

It's a bit like those fucking halfwitted cunts on social media who describe themselves as "slow to anger" and "the best friend you could ever have, but also the worst enemy you will ever make", like their vaguely autistic, social awkwardness is in any way impressive, laudable or even vaguely interesting, and making an enemy out of someone who works part-time at Timpsons would be a genuine ongoing problem.

 

[FoxForceFive]

The government really needs to start giving more detailed breakdowns of exactly where they are with the testing and protective equipment provision every day in these briefings every day instead of 'errrr yeah we're having some issues getting some stuff for some errr bits for testing errrr'.
And now they've put into motion the fines people will be getting hit with for breaching curfews, they need to also outline the fines they're going to be hitting the banks with if they don't start helping people and businesses with all the cash they've been given access to.

As well as telling the banks to stop adding time or interest to the mortgages that they've 'allowed' to be frozen, & announcing a rent freeze for any tenant in any council or local authority owned building or any owned by anyone with a mortgage who is entitled to the mortgage holiday.

 

[Judge Jules]

I always find this "implacable enemies" stuff risible.

It's meant to be a sort of compliment, but always seems to be a way to describe violent, unorganised atavistic simpletons, who are fine if you leave them alone and then react like enraged chimps when provoked.

It's a bit like those fucking halfwitted cunts on social media who describe themselves as "slow to anger" and "the best friend you could ever have, but also the worst enemy you will ever make", like their vaguely autistic, social awkwardness is in any way impressive, laudable or even vaguely interesting, and making an enemy out of someone who works part-time at Timpsons would be a genuine ongoing problem.

This is hardly the stuff of social media though. In the case of the Kurds it refers to a culture in which, for example, when they go to war the wives of fallen soldiers join the front line in their place, such that they have a whole battalion of female fighters, some of whom accounted for so many ISIS gunmen that they had prices put on their heads. Without it the Kurds could never have withstood, let alone reversed, ISIS' progress as the latter heavily outgunned them. There won't (hopefully) be occasion in this country for anyone to see that side to them, but you can bet it's there.

 

[dantes]

Speak for yourself. The government is casually sat around shrugging its shoulders as one retarded decision after another adds to the body count. At some point, the government needs to be added to the body count too, and that is hopefully where the Kurds come in.

 

[manwithnoname]

I'm so bored of this Chinese Devil Virus now.

I've even stopped being amused at 'Kung Flu' and stuff like that.

 

[FoxForceFive]

Speak for yourself. The government is casually sat around shrugging its shoulders as one retarded decision after another adds to the body count. At some point, the government needs to be added to the body count too, and that is hopefully where the Kurds come in.

Nope.

You underestimate how much British people enjoy being trodden on by the upper class.

 

[hmmmmm1]

21 dead now in Liverpool. 23 days after the AM match