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Different era different rules back then. Police firearms regulations are much tighter these days.

I’ve noticed that after I had my AZ vaccine on Friday, Mrs Harrison’s cat, which lives next door but one, was sick on my lawn! Should the EU now suspended all AZ vaccination until the link between the two events is proven to be broken?

I don’t know if flecc’s post references a U.K. incident or if it took place elsewhere. I can’t find what it relates to. I think in the U.K. a police firearm can only be discharged for one reason, lethal force. Discharging a police firearm for anything else, like disabling a vehicle, would be...

The Clown Prince of London has spoken.

I can’t see the problem.

Murray Walker. RIP. “I imagine the conditions inside the cockpit are unimaginable.” “There is nothing wrong with the car except that it’s on fire.” “There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.” “Mansell can see him in...

It’ll calm down by mid-week. Monday is washing day and that will all be dry by Wednesday. That big pile of dry washing won’t iron itself. The women’s husbands will be expecting crisp clean shirts. Plus there’s all the hoovering and dusting to do too. There won’t be any time for these silly vigils.

But that’s all speculation. The vaccine is currently a not for profit product and AZ have not used their option to declare the pandemic over. As I’ve said, if anyone is put off or unwilling to use the AZ vaccine, they should give it to a nation that will use it

The company isn’t making any profit from the vaccine. If the vaccine was a highly lucrative product, it would be reasonable to expect them to carry the financial liability risks. I can see a case for the government underwriting the risk in this not for profit arrangement. Any country that...

Personally, I think it’s bollicks. This is a global emergency, we need to get our sleeves rolled up. Dilly-dallying around will create a situation like the one we are seeing in the EU.

Just had a chat with my Italian relatives, both mid 60s. They have absolutely no idea when they are likely to receive their Coronavirus vaccination. The vaccination situation with the EU is a total clusterfuck. They are months behind the U.K.

I’m sure we’d have got along like a house on fire as undergraduates.

As an undergraduate, I was a dab-hand at covertly filling people’s bags with acetylene and then dropping a lit splint in. Sometimes it was quite spectacular and I learned many new insulting phrases.

I sometimes forget this when we have a punch-up on here. It’s easy to forget that people have all sorts of personal issues to deal with away from a forum they occasionally drop into to vent their feelings. You‘re an irritating bastard at times, but your wife is lucky to have a seemingly strong...

This also poses a danger for everyone of course. The higher the infection rate, the greater the probability of another dangerous variant emerging. Our newspapers are already trotting out headlines like, “Standby for a Summer of Fun” We are well placed at the moment. The country has been hit...

It‘s contagious grief. These idiots “catch” grief for a person they’d never heard of a week ago. The same thing happened when Saint Diana of Children’s Hearts was killed. Silly men stood in the streets blubbering over a person they didn’t even know. It’s quite astonishing.

Just watching Michael Foot on a 1980s documentary. That didn’t work out well did it? :D:D:D

I suspect the increase in transmission is in the younger unvaccinated population. They are behaving like twats. Early indications are that the vaccine is good at reducing transmission.

A gamble is a punt on a random event such as a roulette wheel turning up a particular number. There is no way to predict the likely outcome. A risk is something which has been considered based on past and relevant evidence. For example, a modified surgical procedure normally known to yield a...

If risks aren’t taken, nothing gets done. It was a commercial risk to develop a vaccine, it may have failed. It was a health risk to carry out vaccine trials. There is an element of risk investigation in being vaccinated. How long do you propose the U.K. should have waited? It was magnetic...