comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 14 minutes ago
Would you ever serenade a girl with your digital piano tbab?
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Tried it wi ma pink digital obbo once and got the jail.

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posted 7 minutes ago
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posted 6 minutes ago
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comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 6 hours, 45 minutes ago
The Femi Vs Owen Jones twitter beef is hilarious and pathetic 🫖
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Fight or fook, guys.

What are they squabbling about?

Best Rocky movie?

Fav darts player?

Who has bestest footie firm?

Peas or beans?
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Finally someone asked

Femi made some awful post about how while Boris was having cheese and wine he was trying to date this girl by going on walks in parks and "serenaded her with my digital piano"... He blamed Bojo and lockdown for her not being impressed

OJ then decided that Femi just wants to be famous and was lately responsible for Corbyn led labour failing at the last election
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Cheers for update, lad.

Social media has much to answer for, lol
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Social media is a tool/toy. Holding social media responsible is like holding a baseball bat responsible for an assault and not the guy swinging it. I think.
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Agree. Social media has plenty of positive uses but it does enable dangerous idiots to be dangerously idiotic more easily. Just like said baseball bat.

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Seconded.

And on baseball bats, they sell thousands across Ulster, and still we have no baseball team????

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comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 7 minutes ago
Media Studies was seen as a joke when I was at school but I think, with social media and the post truth era, kids would benefit from it much more than 20 years ago
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When I was at school, (this was all fields) there was one computer in the building...in a far off strange place known as a libery, that's door i never darkened.

How do we fact check nowadays, as those checking facts could be left or right leaning, with an agenda personal, bias, business interest or funded by lobbyists?

comment by Michael, this isn't right. 😭 (U10408)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 47 seconds ago
Media Studies was seen as a joke when I was at school but I think, with social media and the post truth era, kids would benefit from it much more than 20 years ago
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LOL

Post truth era? It's been rancid since they realised how powerful it is. Reagon election and subliminal messaging, reporting on miners strikes, etc.

People are just waking up to the fact they can be duped.
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Most people. Reagan election? Go back to the Gulf of Tonkin, or the USS Liberty. FS go back to WWII how did Roosevelt manage to bail out Britain with all the isolationists in congress.

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comment by Michael, this isn't right. 😭 (U10408)
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posted 50 seconds ago
comment by Michael, this isn't right. 😭 (U10408)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 47 seconds ago
Media Studies was seen as a joke when I was at school but I think, with social media and the post truth era, kids would benefit from it much more than 20 years ago
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LOL

Post truth era? It's been rancid since they realised how powerful it is. Reagon election and subliminal messaging, reporting on miners strikes, etc.

People are just waking up to the fact they can be duped.
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Most people. Reagan election? Go back to the Gulf of Tonkin, or the USS Liberty. FS go back to WWII how did Roosevelt manage to bail out Britain with all the isolationists in congress.
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Sorry. Not as old as you. 😘
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Neither was Charlemagne. Not the god. The other one.

comment by Michael, this isn't right. 😭 (U10408)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 47 seconds ago
Media Studies was seen as a joke when I was at school but I think, with social media and the post truth era, kids would benefit from it much more than 20 years ago
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LOL

Post truth era? It's been rancid since they realised how powerful it is. Reagon election and subliminal messaging, reporting on miners strikes, etc.

People are just waking up to the fact they can be duped.
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😮

Yeah media manipulation has always happened but I don't think we're the first generation to understand it happens

With everyone having smartphones now and some sort of social media, it exposes people to media unless they avoid it whereas in the past they would have to seek it out.

So having media studies in the curriculum makes even more sense now

Government with a pre-emptive strike here:

- Bars and nightclubs shut from 25 Dec
- Reduced capacity in supermarkets (one person per 5m2)
- Obligatory neg test to check in at tourist establishments and attend events
- Obligatory neg test to visit restaurant 24, 25, 30, 31 Dec and 1 Jan
- New financial package to compensate restaurants, bars and nightclubs
- Mask mandate remains in place
- Recommended limits on private gatherings (to ten across as few households as possible)

Follows concerns about influx of tourists for the end of year festivities and foreseen potential impact of healthcare staff shortages if case numbers increase as a result of holiday gatherings.

Sorry, Rosso looks like I will have to cancel our Christmas meet up in the Algarve

Self isolation cut to 7 days. I wonder what data is driving that?

comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted about 2 hours ago
Self isolation cut to 7 days. I wonder what data is driving that?
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https://inews.co.uk/news/covid-incubation-period-when-omicron-symptoms-appear-after-exposure-how-long-contagious-1354783

I believe it's only with a negative test

I read the other day theincubation period is shorter? 5/6 days but potentially as long as 14.

comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 2 hours, 4 minutes ago
Self isolation cut to 7 days. I wonder what data is driving that?
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Seems risky.

comment by Insert random username (U10647)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 2 hours, 4 minutes ago
Self isolation cut to 7 days. I wonder what data is driving that?
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Seems risky.
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Maybe this data has something to do with it:

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/covid-19-warning-of-nhs-staffing-catastrophe-as-one-in-three-london-workers-could-be-off-by-january-12500069

https://twitter.com/stefanroberts/status/1473289441951244289

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posted 43 minutes ago
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comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 2 hours, 4 minutes ago
Self isolation cut to 7 days. I wonder what data is driving that?
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Seems risky.
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Maybe this data has something to do with it:

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/covid-19-warning-of-nhs-staffing-catastrophe-as-one-in-three-london-workers-could-be-off-by-january-12500069
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My assumption was that it will cut the number isolating also...

It does create another issue though, there's no way my mum was fit for work on day 8 after her recent covid bout. She went back in on day 11 because she doesn't get sick pay, but was still so ill and struggling that a week ago they sent her home fully paid until the new year.

If the data backs it, then great, but to me it seems risky, and pushes the onus for covering the cost of this sick leave back on to companies/workers.

comment by Samus (Isle of) Arran (U22669)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted about 2 hours ago
Self isolation cut to 7 days. I wonder what data is driving that?
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https://inews.co.uk/news/covid-incubation-period-when-omicron-symptoms-appear-after-exposure-how-long-contagious-1354783

I believe it's only with a negative test

I read the other day theincubation period is shorter? 5/6 days but potentially as long as 14.


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Yes it is with a negative test.

I hadn’t read that but I’ve known a few people who were negative within 7 days which I had not heard previously during the last 21 months

SCOOP: Omicron is causing a milder disease than Delta in most Britons, UKHSA severity data shows

— and a booster offers strong protection
— BUT high transmissibility means large numbers may still end up in hospital
— mixed findings overall

https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1473556411946717184?s=21

comment by Amado Carrillo Fuentes (U11781)
posted 10 minutes ago
SCOOP: Omicron is causing a milder disease than Delta in most Britons, UKHSA severity data shows

— and a booster offers strong protection
— BUT high transmissibility means large numbers may still end up in hospital
— mixed findings overall

https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1473556411946717184?s=21
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More or less as expected I think.

The biggest risk I see is:

- Infected up significantly (+++)
- Proportion of infected hospitalised down significantly (---) but
- Number hospitalised net up, if even slightly (+) and
- Number of healthcare workers available down (-) due to isolation

Net result is the health service unable to meet peak winter demand.

That’s what the DGS (DoH equivalent) has warned about Jan here and why the govt has said it’s acting now to mitigate the risk.

Hospitalisations will have to increase by a factor of 5 to match last year when the NHS broke.

With vaccines, boosters and what looks like a milder variant, I cannot see that happening.

Westminster Voting Intention:

LAB: 36% (-1)
CON: 30% (-2)
LDM: 12% (+2)
GRN: 8% (+1)
SNP: 6% (+1)
RFM: 5% (-1)

Via
@YouGov, 19-20 Dec.
Changes w/ 14-15 Dec.

One year of Brexit has led to:

-- Reduced trade and economic growth
-- Higher cost of living Shopping
-- A weaker City of London

Here's what Brexit did to Britain in 2021:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-22/how-a-year-of-brexit-thumped-britain-s-economy-and-businesses?sref=yMmXm5Iy

Diminishing Brexit Britain

Here's an international comparison from the@bankofengland. Britain's trade as a % of GDP is now lower than it was before the 2016 referendum, whereas it is higher in an average of the main EU countries

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHMyOhQX0AYras1?format=jpg&name=small

Sunlit uplands boys

comment by Amado Carrillo Fuentes (U11781)
posted 4 minutes ago
One year of Brexit has led to:

-- Reduced trade and economic growth
-- Higher cost of living Shopping
-- A weaker City of London

Here's what Brexit did to Britain in 2021:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-22/how-a-year-of-brexit-thumped-britain-s-economy-and-businesses?sref=yMmXm5Iy

Diminishing Brexit Britain
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No great insight really: "Remainers" expected it, "Brexiters" probably still call it Project Fear and don't care.

Saw Express, Mail and Telegraph celebrating that only 100k jobs have left the City and not the complete exodus some predicted... I mean there's plenty of time and quite clearly jobs are leaving the financial services industry as well less jobs now being created.

But whatevs remoaners and project fear