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1 hour ago, villa4europe said:

saw something from one of the big journos yesterday but cant remember which

3.6 million millionaires in the UK, 512 of them are footballers, guess who is grabbing the headlines for not giving all their wealth away?

there is no possible way that only 512 footballers in the uk are millionaires. Sure they might not have a million quid in the bank but there will be very few/no premier league players getting paid less than a million a year and plenty down the lower leagues getting more than that too. What qualifies you as a millionaire? A player on 10 grand per week on a 4 year contract is earning over 2 million in that time

Also i would strongly question there being 3.6 million millionaires in the UK, That surely can't be anywhere near right. That's pretty much 1 in every 16 people.

Not really into speedrunning but this is rather fascinating & a good way to pass an hour of "working from home"

Tales from the loop out on amazon

10 hours ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

I'm tempted to get this for easter. Was looking at the switch and it's £ 450 or £ 570 with two games. 

The Lite is half the price. 

Considering it's only ever for handheld couch gaming, and it won't ever be hooked up on my TV, should I get the lite or not? Pros cons? 

Unless you are in an immediate rush it is probably just better waiting for restocks of the standard version if you want that rather than the lite. Prices are crazy because all the big stores are sold out but the rrp is £279.99 in the uk for the new version with improved battery. Smyths are advertising stock due in sometime in the next week or so and imagine others will also have them. Game & a couple of other places have had some stocks of PS4 consoles that were sold out over the past 24 hours

Sure there will be plenty of others added to the delayed list but this is one of the bigger ones (again..)

8 minutes ago, sidcow said:

I've been wondering about the people the press find who work for the likes of Amazon and Argos who are complaining about being forced to work in unsafe conditions.  Is that the general feeling in the workforce or are those just a tiny minority and the rest of the people just wish they would shut up so they can keep in full employment? 

there are also maybe a few that have seen others in the same company furloughed on 80% & have realised that they are affectively now working a full month for about £1 an hour

14 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

You're a corona wars veteran with a purple heart. You're excused. 

Heh, cheers. Not sure about purple heart, Feels more like a knackered heart at the mo

I wouldn't actually have gone out to a shop specifically to buy any of this stuff i guess but if i was in a shop to buy food that also happened to sell some of the other stuff i wanted i would grab it while i was there although the chances of any supermarket/shop stocking any of the random crap i buy would be rather slim.

I think some of this is maybe similar to what is considered a key/essential worker, 3 months ago not many people would have given a secind thought about any sort of delivery driver/supermarket checkout person/shelf stacker/insurance worker but now most people would be pretty buggered without them

I would imagine a lot of this is worse if you have kids that are suddenly stuck at home for maybe 5/6 months. They will grow out of clothes, need stuff for education/entertainment etc so stuff like games consoles/tablets/books/exercise equipment/summer clothing & maybe stuff like furniture/decorating stuff/gardening stuff all fall into the bracket of maybe being at least somewhat essential. Plenty of people are still going to work every day too and again many will need new clothes/bags/shoes/sunglasses/stuff for cars and with most non-essential shops closed the only real option is online for some things.

People have to do something to pass the time if they are sticking to the advice of staying home.

1 hour ago, wazzap24 said:

What’s the VT moral stance on ordering ‘non-essential’ items online for home delivery? 

Twitter seems split 50/50 between - it’s helping keep some people in work and parts of the economy going, or anybody who orders anything that isn’t food/medicine is a mass murdering scumbag? 
 

I’ve ordered quite a bit of stuff recently, majority essential, but a fair amount that isn’t. 
 

 

Bought stuff, sold stuff. Generally carrying on as normal although some things are taking a bit longer to be delivered. Have had records, books, bits of arcade machines, assorted pop vinyl figures, a new jacket, some shoes & other crap along with some craft stuff & a few sheeps worth of wool for my wife delivered in the past couple of days alone. If the post office & couriers are open as usual then i can't see a reason not to use them. I haven't actually used the post office (and doubt i will until things get back to normal) as i have accounts with a couple of couriers anyway who just pick stuff up as & when required.

33 minutes ago, Chindie said:

A podcast I listen to has an ad they do as a conversation between 2 of the presenters which goes something like this

'I'm keeping stocked up on anti-bac hand gel and stuff'

'Yeah? You got any canned food there?'

'Why, who's asking?'

'Me and this shotgu - *laughter*'

It's probably closer to the truth than you'd want to think.

All the people without guns are just unknowingly panic buying & hoarding supplies for those that have decided to just take a trip to the gun store instead

9 minutes ago, Xann said:

A very inefficient language.

the words next to it are maybe more efficient?

15 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

The argument that most people dying must have had an undiagnosed condition has a fatal flaw. If there are so many undiagnosed conditions about, what makes you think that YOU haven't got one? 

That's the issue isn't it, which is why the behave like you have it & stay home as much as possible advice is sensible. My wife's mom came on a trip away with us last year, completely unaware that she had cancer at the time, didn't find out until weeks/months later. Just because you look/feel ok doesn't mean there isn't something bad going on inside & it seems that this take advantage  of that & will make whatever you may have an awful lot more of an urgent problem than it would otherwise be

Ok so after leaving my house for the first time in 2 weeks this definitely isn't a lockdown that is going to stop people getting it. It may slow it down a bit but my local high st looked pretty much business as usual other than the smaller shops being closed. Loads of (mostly old) people out and about with bog roll & paracetamol in plentiful supply

1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said:

This post doesn't - at all - prove the prior argument that 'It does seem primarily to be clearing out people who would have likely died this year/soon anyway', though.

I didn't say it did but when nearly 50% of the deaths are over 85 years old and that the average age in a country like Italy that is swamped is 82 I would say that there is a pretty good chance that a good portion of the 20-30000 or so 80+ year olds would have died anyway given that 100000 old people die every single day and this has been going on for 2+ months. 6/7 million people have died of old age since the beginning of feb. Corona accounts for about 0.5% of that and of that 0.5% I would suggest that half of them may have died anyway

7 minutes ago, snowychap said:

Really? Really?

Blimey.

150,000+ people die every single day that is well over 100 people every single minute, The vast majority of them (2/3) will be age related.

40,000 mostly old people dying as a result of this over 3 months is about the same amount of people that that will have died of "old age" by the time you wake up in the morning after going to bed tonight

1 hour ago, DCJonah said:

I know this sounds **** up but I hope he did have some underlying issues that just hadn't come out yet. 

Because if not, that absolutely terrifies me. 

Horrific story and my heart goes out to that family. 

complete guesswork but i imagine many of these young ones dying would have been the usual "19 year old footballer has heart attack" "completely healthy 24 year old dies of unknown hole in heart" type stories you see a few times a year.

It does seem primarily to be clearing out people who would have likely died this year/soon anyway, guess the death rates come the end of the year will be interesting to see if this has just wiped out the majority in a few months that would have usually been much more spread out. No offence to anyone who has died/lost family/friends etc but there have been an awful lot of photos of shall we say "quite round" people in the papers that are apparently perfectly healthy/no underlying health condions.

1 hour ago, Stevo985 said:

Story from my company now is Furlough plan is first 2 weeks full pay (80% claimed back from the government)

3rd and 4th week is full pay but only for 3 days and the other 2 will be taken as holiday.

After some googling there's nothing I can see in the guidelines that means they can't do that. There's all sorts of FAQs online and they nearly all seem to suggest that they can do that

Anything to do with the bank holidays for easter?

1 hour ago, HanoiVillan said:

 

Could be worse i guess, Jennifer is the woman on the left side of the screen...

47 minutes ago, Villarocker said:

Has anyone else gone more than the advised 7 days of isolation whilst having the virus? Today is my 8th day. I was hoping to get out of here but still have the nightly sweats and a cough. 

Breathing still not right after 2 weeks. Last time i left my property was the 17th

1 hour ago, Zatman said:

Its the 8th article down on BBC behind Carra and Neville 90s photo session. This is not going to be important to the mainstream media as some people think it will be. Only Villa and obsessed blues fans really have an interest in this 

does anyone actually look at the bbc website? front page of tabloids & he is pretty much the entire sports section on the mails website with 7/8 articles out of the top 20 or so, actually looked even worse earlier when you had to scroll through about 3 screens worth to get anything other than grealish. Even the top sport story on the guardian and still links to articles from earlier in the day on the main football page there

4 hours ago, Wainy316 said:

Another upvote for Tiger King.  Batshit crazy.

I found Joe kind of endearing at first but that had gone by the end.  All the other big players were just clearings in the woods rights off the bat.

mad isn't it. You kinda sit there watching thinking this is some of the stupidest shit i have ever seen and then the next episode starts and it's even more bonkers

this seems to be doing the rounds. Think the no big jump in death rates thing is pretty obvious given that there have only been 1200 or so deaths  associated with this in a month or more, a good chunk of which may well have died anyway given the ages/existing health conditions.

In other news Kate Mcann is trending on twitter after telling people to stay indoors to protect our weaker ones. As you can imagine the reactions to that are rather amusing if a little on the dark side.

another 260 deaths in the uk. Takes the total over 1000 (1019) Just under 7000 tests done yesterday, 35% of them positivie. Seems that these are still pretty much only people being hospitalised (& celebs/politicians i guess) so who knows how many are not in the numbers that have just died at home & are not being included in the deaths. May aswell just use random number generators for everything really.

Spain keeps going up.

832 deaths & 8000 new cases in past 24 hours,

46 minutes ago, Xann said:

Could have at least put the music before it