Fair play to the bloke from the scum 

Asking CW/PV if they’d recommend driving a 60 mile round trip to test eyesight! 
 

edit: they blanked it! 

Total shutdown. Won’t be long now....

Blimey, LK has gone in with a Cummings question and Johnson has stopped Vallance/Whitty from answering! 
 

Peston having a go now....

Getting the feeling that Vallance isn’t too sure about the easing of the lockdown restrictions.....

3 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Mooney'd it.

Beach Boys. Meh. It rings a bell now I've googled it. 

They're about the blandest band of all time so not surprised I'd forgotten about it.

 @rjw63 right now 

11 minutes ago, Amsterdam_Neil_D said:

My dog is 100% the same,  looks down on small dogs like they are small heaths,  shows no interest whatsoever.

 

It makes me feel sad for little Woody, he’s out there trying his best, but it’s like watching an annoying little brother trying to play with his older one! 

Apple News Notifications. 
 

They never open the actual article you swipe?!?! Feckin pointless. 
 

22 hours ago, Paddywhack said:

I thought I'd just spotted a scotch egg in my fridge, but it was a kiwi. 

I think it would take me days to get over a monumental disappointment like that. Closest I’ve come was spying a pack of juicy sossidges in the fridge, only to realise that on closer inspection, they were low fat Turkey ones. 
 

You’re in my thoughts #PrayForPaddywhack 

3 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

I've never met a dog I didn't love.

 

 

I'm actually hating it at the moment because the park is full of hem but I don't feel I can pet them when they come up to me  

I love you really guys!

Since I got my pup, I’ve been trying to get him out there as much as possible and socialising as best we can.

There are some great dogs about, but there is one in particular called ‘Jasper’, who is just amazing. Not sure what he is, he looks like a springer spaniel, but is really thick set and chunky. 
 

Anyway, whenever we see him in the park he bounds over, thuds his body into my leg and demands a fuss. Within seconds he’s on his back for a tummy rub, it’s proper ace.

The funny thing is, watching my little pup try and play with him - Jasper has no interest in him at all, he just wants fusses from humans. 
 

Dogs are amazing. 
 

20 hours ago, Kuwabatake Sanjuro said:

Is The Stranger worth watching on Netflix? I'm half afraid to look at any reviews for fear of spoilers.

It boiled my piss to be honest, but my Mrs thought it was good. 

It’s a 3rd rate ITV drama IMO.

5 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Treated pine lap is the new black.

Fashion related. As I’ve confessed before, I am a full on brand w***er when it comes to clobber, so imagine how pathetically excited I was about these bad boys yesterday....

Yes, I ordered 2 packs and yes I am a complete word removed 

cheered me up though 

2 hours ago, lapal_fan said:

I'm working whilst at home, and unfortunately my works never been busier.  This message is making me feel bad.  Needless to say, I've easily put a stone on, I'm scared of the scales!

I've had to take my pedometer off my wrist because it was depressing going to bed with 1500-3000 steps every weekday and then seeing it jump to 15,000+ on the weekends. 

I've been a part-time grounds worker too, digging out for my drive extension and digging out for my patio extension, plus all the sub-base going from my front drive to patio which was 2x850kg bags, filling skips etc.

Tonight (If my slabs ever turn up), I'll be moving 2 850kg bags of sand round the back, mixing it up in a cement mixer, moving my slabs to the back and laying the things! 

HURRY UP AND COME SLABS!  

That's gotta count as some exercise innit? 

Manual labour will get you fit, ripped and it’s good for the soul. 
 

I feel for your hamstrings though, they are gonna be f****d! 

I lost around 2st from May-Sept and kept it all off through the winter. 
 

loads of new clobber, including a shed load brought at the start of the lockdown. 
 

I’ve put over 1st back on in the past few weeks and now I’m struggling as I got rid of all my fat man clothes. 

Back to running and no carbs again for me. Two runs down so far and they have nearly killed me. 

25 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said:

He was good. He was a really good PM.  The Iraq War was a mess, but people have discarded everything else he achieved.

While we're on it, though, more NHS workers have died in the last 6 weeks than British service personnel during 8 years of war in Iraq.

Yep, take out the war mongering (difficult to do, I know) and he was an excellent PM and Labour from 97-08 were an excellent government IMO. 
 

I can only speak from personal experience,  but prior to Labour coming to power in ‘97, I remember my Dad having a really tough few years at work. Redundancies and lack of opportunity mainly. 
 

A year after Labour came to power, I was just entering the working world and from there both me and my dad had a decade of consistent work and opportunities to advance. I personally went from a salary of £11k in ‘98 to earning over £80k in ‘08 
 

When the blue team managed to convince the country that Labour had somehow managed to crash the housing market in the US and cause a global recession, I knew things were gong to go Pete Tong. Dad was out of work again by 2012, never got back to where he was and ended up being pensioned off with a crappy private payout and he’s struggled ever since. I myself earn less now than I did over a decade ago, despite being promoted during that time.

As time has gone by that decade has been completely re-written and all you ever hear about is Iraq and Brown selling the gold off. 
 

My personal opinions is, the time people started believing Cameron and his laminated ‘there’s no money left’ note, was the start of people ignoring facts/evidence and believing more in slogans and bullshit 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52805828
 

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Coronavirus: UK authorises anti-viral drug remdesivir

A drug treatment that appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus is being made available on the NHS. 

Remdesivir is an anti-viral medicine that was originally developed to fight Ebola. 

UK regulators say there is enough evidence to approve its use in selected hospital patients. 

For the time being and due to limited supplies, it will go to those most likely to benefit.

 

1 minute ago, mjmooney said:

I must admit, it had occurred to me that not admitting you to hospital until you were in big trouble, rather than trying to treat you early was maybe a bad approach. 

I agree. The ‘Game Changer’ is always going to be a drug that prevents the need for hospitalisation. 
 

Obviously, having a drug that can stop seriously ill people from dying is important too, but it’s far better if we can find something that stops it getting to that stage in the first place. 
 

If they can find a combo that works by the end of the summer, then it’s pretty much a clear route out and we can be less concerned about the 2nd wave. 
 

Fingers crossed. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52801858
 

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Coronavirus doctor's diary: The drug combination that may help us beat Covid-19

Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary (BRI) describes some of the trials under way to find a cure for Covid-19, and suggests that a combination of three different types of drug may hold the key.

At BRI we are now participating in eight different clinical trials to try and find a cure for Covid-19.....

 

 

This bit sounds quite hopeful.....

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BRI Respiratory consultant Dinesh Saralaya feels optimistic that a combination treatment will be available before the end of the summer.

"I think we'll find at least two or three drugs which will prevent these patients ever needing to come into hospital," he says.

"You will go to the test centre and then be given the drugs once you're diagnosed. Under the current strategies, you get the Covid virus, so you're isolating, then you get worse, you get a temperature, you start getting breathless, then you come in. But people need to be given the drugs very early."

6 minutes ago, snowychap said:

Members of the same household, I hope?

You can only book a 2 ball, but 2 other friends just happened to miraculously book the tee-time right after ours 

All very socially distanced I might add and the beauty of my golf game is, I’m rarely near anybody else on the course! 


 

Played 9 holes of golf with some pals earlier. 

For a couple of blissful hours everything felt almost normal, it was like being in a bubble away from it all. Had great laugh and it’s hard to explain, but for the first time since lockdown I felt alive again. Finished off with a cold beer in the car park too. It was ace. 

56 minutes ago, PussEKatt said:

First of all,I apoligise for posting this but it has been stuck in mt head for the past 2 months and hopefully this will help to get rid of it.

Some friends of my daughter have recently retired and they have a cat ( Smokey ) that is 21 years old.They waited for 6 months for their cat to die and when it didnt they decided that they cant wait any longer to go on their tour all around Australia.They spoke to my daughter who said that I am cat mad and would probably look after it for them.Which I agreed to do without  having to think about it one bit.

Now,Smokey is a lovely cat.You can do anything with him and he dosent mind at all.As for eating ,he eats like any other cat except that he absouletely loves vegetables,especially mashed potatoes.He has to take 1 tablet every day and the wife made up a bowl of mashed potatoes just for Smokey and every evening we just put a big spoonfull of mashed potatoes on top of his regular food,with his tablet on top and he would eat his tablet then his mashed potatoes.

Now for the hard bit.Read on at your owne risk.

One night about 2 months ago.It was 11pm and the wife was asleep,I was having a game of Civilization on my PC and Smokey was asleep in the family room.I heard a really terrible sound.It sounded like Smokey was terrified of something.If a cat can scream out in terror, this is what it would sound like.I ran in to the family room and Smokey was lying there on the floor ( half in and half out of his bed )I sat on the floor beside him and patted him and said "Its allright daddys here" It only took a few seconds for me to realise that he was not going to make it to the morning,so I woke the wife and told her that if she wants to say goodbye to Smokey she has to come now because he wont be here in the morning.The wife got up streight away,she patted Smokey also and said that we were here for him.She then went and made a cup of tea and we both sat on the floor with Smokey .We patted him and rubbed under his chin and talked to him and tried to comfort him as much as we could till he passed away at 1:20am

I dont think I will ever forget the sound of the scream that Smokey made that night.The wife was asleep and didnt hear it and I am not going to tell her.I worked out that what it was is that Smokey was paralised from the neck down and I think he woke up and tried to turn over or get his food or something and when he realised he could not move,thats when he cried out in terror, not understanding what was the matter with him.It must have been really terrifying for him,not bieng able to move and not understanding why.

Well, hopefully by writing this post I have got it out of my system,I hope so.  

I apoligise again for posting this,not the sort of thing people really want to read about.Sorry.

I’m not really a cat guy, but man that just got me and I’ve had to go and give the dog a cuddle.

Hope you’re ok mate. 
 

Heartbreaking 

Bullseye BBQ sauce is good. 
 

Original, New York and Brown sugar varieties are all very nice. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52754280
 

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Coronavirus: Immune clue sparks treatment hope
 

UK scientists are to begin testing a treatment that it is hoped could counter the effects of Covid-19 in the most seriously ill patients.

It has been found those with the most severe form of the disease have extremely low numbers of an immune cell called a T-cell. 

T-cells clear infection from the body.

The clinical trial will evaluate if a drug called interleukin 7, known to boost T-cell numbers, can aid patients' recovery.

It involves scientists from the Francis Crick Institute, King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital.

They have looked at immune cells in the blood of 60 Covid-19 patients and found an apparent crash in the numbers of T-cells. 

Prof Adrian Hayday from the Crick Institute said it was a "great surprise" to see what was happening with the immune cells.

"They're trying to protect us, but the virus seems to be doing something that's pulling the rug from under them, because their numbers have declined dramatically.

In a microlitre (0.001ml) drop of blood, normal healthy adults have between 2,000 and 4,000 T-cells, also called T lymphocytes. 

The Covid patients the team tested had between 200-1,200. 

'Extremely encouraging'

The researchers say these findings pave the way for them to develop a "fingerprint test" to check the levels of T-cells in the blood which could provide early indications of who might go on to develop more severe disease. 

But it also provides the possibility for a specific treatment to reverse that immune cell decline.

2 hours ago, Seat68 said:

This might cop some heat due to men getting angry over a series that was aimed at kids. I liked that last film. Enjoyable, as I did like this last trilogy.