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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Rob C on February 21, 2020, 11:33:07 am
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A neologism a day keeps the cobwebs away.
Anyway, never, ever imagined that one day I'd get pissed off enough to fly a flag - any flag, but Boris dunnit.
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Rob, you might enjoy this one:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=865897480515740
Two Indians making fun of the Brits :)
BBC comedy, btw.
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Rob, you might enjoy this one:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=865897480515740
Two Indians making fun of the Brits :)
BBC comedy, btw.
He almost got it right, but he forgot the bit about the aud¡ence not only munching the popcorn, but also drinking that dreaded kool aid.
Therein lay the fatal dose.
It really is amazing to me how anybody in their right mind could vote to cut off their own head. But today I understand: last night I watched a show on great myths (the last I watched was about "the British are coming", which I mentioned here), and this time, it was all about the British defeat of the Spanish Armada. If anyone thinks Boris and Tump invented fake news, think again. Queen Betty 1 was a master (mistress?) of it. I'm not sure when the show was filmed, but it made a brief, passing reference to the then current fever surrounding Brexit... All so sad to see a good thing thrown away.
Audiences aren't what they used to be.
;-)
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Boris does it again: after telling the world he may pull out of Brexit talks with Europe by mid-summer unless he gets his way, the pound has fallen again: to 1.15 euros this morning.
Before all the crap started, I was calculating my apartment sale at 1.32 euros to the pound. That made it kinda attractive to the UK market, but once Brexit began, all change.
And now corona; who wants to fly anywhere to look at property? Having said which, I did get a couple of viewers today: an American lady with an Irish guy. Unfortunately, it's raining, so I couldn't doll up the terrace which, for me, is the best feature, it's so large. One gets to the stage where viewers become a pain in the ass - even if they are the ones holding the key to another life.
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As dreamers dream on stage, and reality smiles waiting in the wings:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/18302463.ian-mcconnell-johnson-not-listening-business-immigration/?ref=ebln
Rob
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I am seeing strange things going down with the currency values: whilst much of Europe has - at the moment - a worse scenario than does Britain regarding Coronavirus, with far more things locked down, the pound is falling again against the euro (worth only 1.10 euros this morning). But it, the pound, is rising against the dollar.
Does that signify, perhaps, that the money guys see the US as headed towards a greater apocalypse than Europe?
I tend to see it partly in terms of yet another initial spin-off of Brexit: we are slowly slipping away from a possibly more unified western European approach to health standards, sharing of knowledge and even of expectations. I think this is reflected in the reluctance to close down sports and other crowd events by governmental order, but rather rely on the sports interests themselves to take such actions. It reeks of fear of alienating public love. Thinking such love exists is but another sign of political delusion.
Plastic bags. Only women know how to open those things in supermarkets without licking their fingertips in order to get a grip on the thin material and separate it (as with kitchen cling film). The supermarket trolleys' handles go through heaven knows how many pairs of dangerous hands every day. Dirty trolleys, licked fingertips... heysoos, maybe better to starve!
In Britain, they are now speaking in terms of perhaps locking down the aged for four months. This is dangerous talk: the intention behind such action is the protection of the more vulnerable old people, but how long before that becomes reversed, and folks begin to believe that the old are more likely to infect the rest of the population?
A good thing here might be that with empty streets, folks will find themselves unable to buy their drugs. Could be a blessing in disguise there.
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In the Netherlands they locked all bars and restaurants yesterday till the 6th of april.
They did it in a smart way; at 17:30 they said all bars had to close at 18:00.
In Belgium they made the mistake to say that the next day all bars would have to be closed; The obvious result: everybody went to the bar to get their last drink!
For liquor you can still go to the supermarket and liquor store, but the 'coffeeshop' clients have a problem where to get the hashies and paddo's.
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We've had all these Brexiters/Quitters telling us how we survived the Blitz in WW2, so we can survive Brexit (there was a very quick move from "It'll be a Land of Milk & Honey" to "We'll survive"). The messages was 'Keep calm and carry on'. Where are we after a couple of weeks of this Covid-19? People are stockpiling, fighting over hand sanitiser and toilet paper and mugging people for a tin of baked beans.
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We've had all these Brexiters/Quitters telling us how we survived the Blitz in WW2, so we can survive Brexit (there was a very quick move from "It'll be a Land of Milk & Honey" to "We'll survive"). The messages was 'Keep calm and carry on'. Where are we after a couple of weeks of this Covid-19? People are stockpiling, fighting over hand sanitiser and toilet paper and mugging people for a tin of baked beans.
Same here, people show so quickly what they are made of... it is frightening.
There is absolutely no need for stockpiling here... still they do it. Supermarkets were empty but will be filled this week to the normal level.
As happened in Italy.
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Same here, people show so quickly what they are made of... it is frightening.
There is absolutely no need for stockpiling here... still they do it. Supermarkets were empty but will be filled this week to the normal level.
As happened in Italy.
A full market is useless if you can’t go.
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We've had all these Brexiters/Quitters telling us how we survived the Blitz in WW2, so we can survive Brexit (there was a very quick move from "It'll be a Land of Milk & Honey" to "We'll survive"). The messages was 'Keep calm and carry on'. Where are we after a couple of weeks of this Covid-19? People are stockpiling, fighting over hand sanitiser and toilet paper and mugging people for a tin of baked beans.
Yes, and the consequences of the final Brexit separation from Europe have not even kicked in yet!
Perhaps this virus will put the entire exercise on hold or, better yet, quietly forgotten. That's called clutching at massive straws!
Rob