Genie Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 26 minutes ago, Awol said: Both wrong. Milk chocolate hob nobs are God’s own biscuit. Ask Peter Kay. VT has never heard of Peter Kay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 19, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, Awol said: Someone in the White House is reading VT.. I thought it was me but it seems unbeknowingly to me, @Mic09got in with that one first on Jan 26th (I was 28th) Sue for copyright! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Just now, Genie said: VT has never heard of Peter Kay Remember when we did though ? Dog poos were white back then and you could win a meat raffle every week. Remember that ? Remember ? Bread. With garlic ? Remember ? How funny are nans eh ? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 12 minutes ago, Xela said: I think we are seeing the very worst and the very best of the human race during this event. Indeed, it feels like there has also been a wonderfully British reaction based on either dark gallows humour or sheer and utter panic with not much in between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post blandy Posted March 19, 2020 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted March 19, 2020 2 hours ago, bannedfromHandV said: Money is like a game of monopoly, it's not infinite, so what happens when one person has all the money in a game of monopoly - everyone else suffers. The first part isn't true, for governments. For the UK, there is no kind of legal or physical "limit" to the amount of money there is. The government (and banks) is able to create money from essentially nothing, if it so wishes. There are implications if they do it too much, but it's completely possible. Implications might include inflation, currency devaluation, all sorts, but it's not possible for one person or group to have "all the money". If they so wished, the Gov't could put 500 quid into every personal bank account in the UK, in an instant. They may yet do something like that.It would have consequences - for example if I'm a seller of I dunno, bog-roll and I now know everyone has got the cash, I could put my prices up, knowing people would pay it. Then bog roll becomes more expensive, most stuff does, and the 500 quid everyone got is soon gone, but stuff now costs more... Another issue is that much of the wealth of the super rich isn't resting in the Birmingham Midshires or TSB, it's in assets, in the Caymans or Bermuda or other tax havens. It's hidden away. Governments can't get at (in part due to their failure to act together, in concert). The notion of the UK Gov't grabbing all the wealth, or a large chunk of it, held by the super rich is fantasy. It's true that they could conceivably "grab" assets held in the Uk - property, cars, whatever, but even then issues of identifying ownership from opaque arrangements are beyond difficult. All of the above is massively simplistic on my part, but the essential point is that there isn't a limit on how much money the government "has". Some folk (usually very left wing) form whole models for alternative ways of running the world based around this fact. They're all flawed, but there are parts of them which appeal at least at some level to many, and perhaps rightly so. Trouble is, they're as flawed as the current western raw capitalism that started with Reagan and Thatcher. I'd hope there will be significant re-calibration of the current model or situation as a positive consequence of a horrible pandemic. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 I should go to a store and buy a lot of something random just to make people wonder what I know that they themselves do not know. Type bay leaf, spatulas or detergent. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leighavfc Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 14 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: The government have just announced they are going to spend £2.9 billion to help sort out a long-running problem in the NHS of bed blocking that is now going to become critical caused by elderly and vulnerable people who are fit to go home but have no safe home to go to. FFS this is something that has needed to be sorted for years, a problem they created by decimating social care. I agree with others you can't point the finger at the Tories for what has happened, and it is obviously unrealistic to run a country to be capable of instantly dealing with something like this, but if they had just taken better care of the public services we are now going to be so reliant on then we could have been better prepared. I agree mostly but tbh mate the NHS as a whole as bled money unnecessarily for absolute years. My missus and several family members have some absolute shocking tales of money literally been poured down the drain by total mismanagement from within. Far too many levels of management on massive wages who do the square root of F all for it either. Throwing money at it all the time is not necessarily always the answer to it, it needs to be managed correctly too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 2 minutes ago, blandy said: resting in the Birmingham Midshires 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Due to lack of choice I've unwittingly bought an enchilada ready meal that's got sweetcorn in it. **** this virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 13 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: In Tesco we were allowed one bottle or one carton. But my missus is lactose intolerant and only only drinks goats milk. She’ll have to go without. Pay for your regular milk, put it in the car and then go back in wearing this. Perfect crime. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said: Due to lack of choice I've unwittingly bought an enchilada ready meal that's got sweetcorn in it. **** this virus. Scoop the corn into some cling film. I'll give you 25g of Sudocreme for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 minute ago, Brumerican said: Scoop the corn into some cling film. I'll give you 25g of Sudocreme for it. I might be able to send you some for free with bog roll this time tomorrow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 minute ago, sharkyvilla said: I might be able to send you some for free with bog roll this time tomorrow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 hour ago, bannedfromHandV said: Is it? Always thought it referenced our natural inclinations to be both good and evil, dependent on the context and parameters. In philosophical terms it's about the mind and body being seperate things. It's a long time since I did my first (only) year of a philosophy degree but I've recently been listening to the History of Philosophy without any gaps podcast so the dualism bit in there is quite fresh. *Obligatory quote: Quote Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King’s College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, “without any gaps”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 26 minutes ago, bickster said: I thought it was me but it seems unbeknowingly to me, @Mic09got in with that one first on Jan 26th (I was 28th) Sue for copyright! Why are there men in black suits outside my door? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 On 18/03/2020 at 15:54, bickster said: Has there been any discussion of this on here? This looks like it’s starting to gain some serious traction. French clinical trial reporting 100% treatment success rate (I haven’t seen the detail - numbers/demographics etc). FDA have approved it for use in the States to treat Coronavirus patients. Agent Orange says it’s showing ‘tremendous promise’ UK clinical trial started/starting and we’ve banned all exports of this drug and a couple of others they think might work. Both Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine potentially work apparently. It sounds promising. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) 12 minutes ago, wazzap24 said: FDA have approved it for use in the States to treat Coronavirus patients. Have they? It didn't sound like that during their daily update but perhaps I heard it wrong. Edit: 12 minutes ago, wazzap24 said: UK clinical trial started/starting and we’ve banned all exports of this drug and a couple of others they think might work. Why? It's a global issue. Edited March 19, 2020 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) NB: purely selfish post... supposed to be completing on a house purchase either tomorrow or early next week. Kinda don’t want to now! Dreading what’s gonna happen a bit further down the line, especially if one or both of my wife or I lose our jobs. Weve already ‘completed’ on our house sale, we exchange next week. Living with the in-laws currently. **** knows what I want to do right now. Edited March 19, 2020 by Tayls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 13 minutes ago, wazzap24 said: This looks like it’s starting to gain some serious traction. French clinical trial reporting 100% treatment success rate (I haven’t seen the detail - numbers/demographics etc). FDA have approved it for use in the States to treat Coronavirus patients. Agent Orange says it’s showing ‘tremendous promise’ UK clinical trial started/starting and we’ve banned all exports of this drug and a couple of others they think might work. Both Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine potentially work apparently. It sounds promising. It was already FDA approved but they have accelerated matters so it can be approved for this new use , but I don’t think it’s officially been approved yet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 hour ago, tonyh29 said: have you noticed how supermarkets seem to run out of milk chocolate McVities but dark chocolate is available in abundance This is basically you working from home here isn’t it? We’re not your average gullible punters here matey. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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