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Roger Parsons
12 April 2020 12:30:25



An icon from my childhood, and great regular on the excellent I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.


Really sad news.


 


Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 


For me too, SS. I am very sad to hear that.


Roger

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speckledjim
12 April 2020 12:30:54
Boris has left hospital and gone to Chequers
Thorner, West Yorkshire


Journalism is organised gossip
Brian Gaze
12 April 2020 12:32:11
From the Tele:

Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, University of Cambridge, said:

"Although reporting delays make it difficult to track the epidemic with confidence, we appear to be following a slightly worse trajectory than Italy and it is plausible that we might end up with the most in-hospital Covid deaths in Europe."
Brian Gaze
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Gandalf The White
12 April 2020 12:33:18


Went on another 11K perambulation this morning.


As I started at 7 AM hardly anyone around.  


As I retuned near the village later though I encountered various individuals and parties.  Most  were fine, however I got annoyed by one (older) woman.  It was a narrow path, so I reversed up and found a small alcove in the hedge to let her pass at 2M.  Firstly her out-of-control dogs  bounded up to me.  Now I don't mind dogs, but some people are terrified by them -  extremely poor form IMHO.  Then she whipped out her mobile and took a call  while standing still, while I was still  in the hedge with trigs poking into me waiting for her to come pass !


She eventually "sailed by" in the middle of the path  reducing my carefully calculated 2M to a 1M and a bit  with no thanks you or even an acknowledgement of my existence - I  was p*ssed off after the 'phone incident so purposely waited silently !


 


Originally Posted by: Bugglesgate 


That's amazingly tolerant of you. I'd have made a pointed remark.


Perhaps you should have asked for her name and told her you were putting her forward to the Guinness Book of Records for the 'most inconsiderate person on the planet' category.


 

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roadrunnerajn
12 April 2020 12:35:10


Tim Brooke-Taylor dead after contracting coronavirus.


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2020/apr/12/coronavirus-live-news-nhs-staff-deaths-boris-johnson-latest-updates


 


 


Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

Always remember the Goodies in the 70s  and that 100ft moggy playing with the BT tower... 

Germoe, part of the breakaway Celtic Republic.
Saint Snow
12 April 2020 12:35:51


Went on another 11K perambulation this morning.


As I started at 7 AM hardly anyone around.  


As I retuned near the village later though I encountered various individuals and parties.  Most  were fine, however I got annoyed by one (older) woman.  It was a narrow path, so I reversed up and found a small alcove in the hedge to let her pass at 2M.  Firstly her out-of-control dogs  bounded up to me.  Now I don't mind dogs, but some people are terrified by them -  extremely poor form IMHO.  Then she whipped out her mobile and took a call  while standing still, while I was still  in the hedge with trigs poking into me waiting for her to come pass !


She eventually "sailed by" in the middle of the path  reducing my carefully calculated 2M to a 1M and a bit  with no thanks you or even an acknowledgement of my existence - I  was p*ssed off after the 'phone incident so purposely waited silently !


 


Originally Posted by: Bugglesgate 


 


I was in the supermarket yesterday and needed a couple of bottles of orange squash. A middle-aged women had got there just before me, gazed at the selection, then grabbed two bottles and out them in her trolley. I'd waited 6+ feet away for a few seconds and expected her to now move on and so took a step forward. She didn't move, just kept staring at the bottles. I stopped mid-stride and waited again at the recommended distance. She half turned, so knew I was there and waiting, but she went back to just staring at the selection of squashes. I'd been there about 20-30 seconds now but it felt like an age.


I ran out of patience, stepped forward to right next to her, grabbed my two bottles, and retreated back to my trolley. She gave a gasp and a tut, so I snapped "well you could see I was ****ing waiting"


I really should control my temper, but the selfishness of the women annoyed me. 


Any anger was soon gone, though, when I got two 15-packs of Budweiser for £9 each as Morrisons had bizarrely marked them as 'Reduced to clear'.


Martin
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John p
12 April 2020 12:39:35

Boris has left hospital and gone to Chequers

Originally Posted by: speckledjim 


From death’s door on Monday to chilling at Chequers on Sunday is quite the recovery.  Good for him.
Have there been any photos of him leaving / thanking medics etc?

Camberley, Surrey
Chichesterweatherfan2
12 April 2020 12:39:57
so so sad to hear the news about TIm Brooke Taylor... the BBC piece implied that his friends thought that he was recovering... even when you appear to have turned the corner the virus appears to have the ability in some circumstances to come back again with even greater force and overwhelm... This is so concerning at every level. Back to TBT... a real comedy genius..from the Goodies but best of all imho was I'm sorry I haven't a clue! - brilliant...
Caz
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12 April 2020 12:41:52


I wonder if they are doing exit questionnaires of Corona patients when they are discharged. A question I would like asked is "How do you think you contracted the virus?" "Where, from who or what and when"


This could prove very useful information in prevention and control of wave 2 if there is one or any subsequent outbreak.


It would also be quite comforting if a lot of the answers was whilst I was jostling in the supermarket whilst getting my stockpile!


Originally Posted by: fairweather 

  I genuinely believe that caused a lot of the spread!  I know we’re blaming festivals and gigs but supermarkets must have had a very large throughput of shoppers as well.  All breathing the same air, touching the same trolley handles, doors, conveyor belts and keypads, all jostling for the last loo rolls and pasta etc. 

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Brian Gaze
12 April 2020 12:47:12


  I genuinely believe that caused a lot of the spread!  I know we’re blaming festivals and gigs but supermarkets must have had a very large throughput of shoppers as well.  All breathing the same air, touching the same trolley handles, doors, conveyor belts and keypads, all jostling for the last loo rolls and pasta etc. 


Originally Posted by: Caz 


True but we all need to eat. What we didn't need was the ludicrous spectacle of the Jockey Club dishing out medical advice.

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Rob K
12 April 2020 12:48:22


Tim Brooke-Taylor dead after contracting coronavirus.


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2020/apr/12/coronavirus-live-news-nhs-staff-deaths-boris-johnson-latest-updates


 


 


Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 


Very sad news. I’m currently re-reading Michael Palin’s diaries from the 1970s and the Goodies feature quite a bit. 


(incidentally London in the 70s sounds pretty grim, bombings, sieges etc scattered frequently through the pages!)

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westv
12 April 2020 12:50:38


 


Very sad news. I’m currently re-reading Michael Palin’s diaries from the 1970s and the Goodies feature quite a bit. 


(incidentally London in the 70s sounds pretty grim, bombings, sieges etc scattered frequently through the pages!)


Originally Posted by: Rob K 


As a child in the 70s I was pretty happy living there.

At least it will be mild!
Saint Snow
12 April 2020 12:51:03


  I genuinely believe that caused a lot of the spread!  I know we’re blaming festivals and gigs but supermarkets must have had a very large throughput of shoppers as well.  All breathing the same air, touching the same trolley handles, doors, conveyor belts and keypads, all jostling for the last loo rolls and pasta etc. 


Originally Posted by: Caz 


 


And the supermarkets, with their voracious appetite for profit, just let the panic-buying rip and watched their checkouts spin.


Martin
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Rob K
12 April 2020 12:52:28


 


As a child in the 70s I was pretty happy living there.


Originally Posted by: westv 


Children generally are, as long as their home life is happy. Wider social problems tend to pass you by.

Yateley, NE Hampshire, 73m asl
"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand." — Jerome K. Jerome
Gandalf The White
12 April 2020 12:52:59

From the Tele:

Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, University of Cambridge, said:

"Although reporting delays make it difficult to track the epidemic with confidence, we appear to be following a slightly worse trajectory than Italy and it is plausible that we might end up with the most in-hospital Covid deaths in Europe."

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 


As this pandemic is likely to run for a year or more and have several waves I don't think anyone can make any predictions with any confidence at this stage. There's a plausible argument that having the public more exposed in this first wave might just work in our favour later.  Any death is regrettable but the sad reality is that this virus will claim a lot more before it's brought under control.


The Covid-19 app suggests in some places around 5% have had it already and a blog linked to the app suggests over 2 million people had symptoms almost two weeks ago and that is now down to 1.4 million.

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Gandalf The White
12 April 2020 12:54:18


 


 


And the supermarkets, with their voracious appetite for profit, just let the panic-buying rip and watched their checkouts spin.


Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 


I think even you must know that's a completely unfair and inaccurate portrayal of what happened.

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Gooner
12 April 2020 12:57:00


 


 



An icon from my childhood, and great regular on the excellent I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.


Really sad news.


 


 


Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 


Yep totally agree 


Sad News 

Remember anything after T120 is really Just For Fun



Marcus
Banbury
North Oxfordshire
378 feet A S L


Gandalf The White
12 April 2020 12:57:18


 


Very sad news. I’m currently re-reading Michael Palin’s diaries from the 1970s and the Goodies feature quite a bit. 


(incidentally London in the 70s sounds pretty grim, bombings, sieges etc scattered frequently through the pages!)


Originally Posted by: Rob K 


Yes, very sad. So many of the people we grew up with are passing away now.


As for London, I was working there through much of the 1970s and yes, there were difficult moments.  You can add the 3-day week and endless strikes affecting railways, refuse collection and much else.

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Caz
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12 April 2020 12:59:47


 


True but we all need to eat. What we didn't need was the ludicrous spectacle of the Jockey Club dishing out medical advice.


Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 

Yes, you’re quite right and I’m certainly not disputing that, it was indeed ludicrous!  


I’m saying in addition to that, there was the debacle of the supermarket frenzy to consider as a means of spreading.  Yes we all need to eat, although we don’t all need stacks of loo roll and cupboards full of pasta, the likes of which we saw pre lockdown. 

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Gooner
12 April 2020 13:00:01


 


Children generally are, as long as their home life is happy. Wider social problems tend to pass you by.


Originally Posted by: Rob K 


How true is that 

Remember anything after T120 is really Just For Fun



Marcus
Banbury
North Oxfordshire
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Caz
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12 April 2020 13:02:04


And the supermarkets, with their voracious appetite for profit, just let the panic-buying rip and watched their checkouts spin.


Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

Yes, they did!  They took no measures to stop the spread until lockdown!

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Saint Snow
12 April 2020 13:03:41


 


I think even you must know that's a completely unfair and inaccurate portrayal of what happened.


Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 


 


I must have missed the bit where, as soon as the early stages of panic-buying became evident, they put in place strict controls on buying quantities of certain product, and introduced limits on the number of shoppers allowed in at a time.


They're also taking advantage of the business rates holiday - supermarkets will collectively benefit to the tune of £3bn (from the taxpayer). Tesco alone won't be paying £700m. Wonder if it was just a quirk of timing that, just a couple of weeks after the government's announcement, they declared that dividends to shareholders would rise by 60% to £637m....?


 


Martin
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Gavin D
12 April 2020 13:03:47
Wales has reported 367 new cases and 18 new deaths

Gavin D
12 April 2020 13:05:16
Scotland has reported 322 new cases and 24 new deaths.
Bugglesgate
12 April 2020 13:06:15


 


Yes, very sad. So many of the people we grew up with are passing away now.


As for London, I was working there through much of the 1970s and yes, there were difficult moments.  You can add the 3-day week and endless strikes affecting railways, refuse collection and much else.


Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 


I'm a bit younger, so I didn't have any responsibilities in the 70s - IMF, 3-day week, winter of discontent, severe drought (etc) were just part of the backdrop to a carefree childhood - good times

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