Brexit, for once some facts.

oyster

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Patel - there are too many people coming in and going out of the country every day. So we will leave it to next week to make any changes.

In the epitaph being prepared for Johnson:

Quoque paulo nimium sero.
 
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vfr400

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Did you read about the Redditors that have taken down a multi-billion dollar predatory hedge fund? The hedge fund had shorted Game Stop. The idea was to force the price down, make a profit and probably buy the stock at its artificially low price and maybe do a hostile takeover or profit again when the price went up.

The Reddit guys heard about it, so hatched a plan to buy Game Stop Shares, which forced the price up by a factor of ten, which will bankrupt the hedge fund.

Shares are now trading at $377 compared with $20 when they started, and more people are joining in, so the price is still rising rapidly.

The financial institutions are trying to say what they're doing is manipulating the market, but what they're doing is basically the same as what the hedge fund was doing but in the other direction, and the same as what the big fund managers do.

This story has serious implications. It's brought to light how the crooked financial institutions make their money. How's it going to turn out?

 
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Woosh

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This story has serious implications. It's brought to light how the crooked financial institutions make their money.
I think the word 'institutions' is not applicable here.
Anyway, good on the small guys.
 
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Jesus H Christ

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There was a time when a Global community of experts agreed the Earth was the centre of the Universe
You keep wanting to regress hundreds of years to find a reason to be disgruntled. That was then, this is now. Get your vaccine and get out and about when the time is right. You’ll probably need a shot every year or two, but it will be ok.
 
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Jesus H Christ

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I don't think we should punish the Covid deniers though, best reward their courage in standing up for their beliefs.

Say a month long holiday in a large Brazilian city, getting them there by hedge hopping in Boeing 737 Max 8s with lots of take offs and landings. ;)
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Yes, let’s get one of them to manoeuvre it at just a few knots above stall speed and see what happens.
 

Zlatan

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Over 1700 dead today and over 25000 new cases, that we know about. So Party Boy / Good News Guy starts talking about relaxing the measures intended to keep us alive.
Not defending cutting restrictions, think we should stay locked down until absolute minimum of cases but 25k is 13k less than a week ago... Going in right direction...
 
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Jesus H Christ

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Not defending cutting restrictions, think we should stay locked down until absolute minimum of cases but 25k is 13k less than a week ago... Going in right direction...
I think we should stay locked down until at least mid April. If we can batter the cases down, get more people vaccinated, have the climate in our favour (more sunlight/ UV) and with people generally being outdoors more, we would be starting from a good position. I fear Johnson is going to **** it up yet again by repeating the mistake of coming out of lockdown too early for the third time.
 

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You keep wanting to regress hundreds of years to find a reason to be disgruntled. That was then, this is now. Get your vaccine and get out and about when the time is right. You’ll probably need a shot every year or two, but it will be ok.
Doing as Zlatan now?
"You keep wanting to regress hundreds of years to find a reason to be disgruntled. "
With over 100,000 dead this year?
Silly boy! :D
 

PhilMK42

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I’m watching BBC Click (Hate this programme). They have just shown a Fire Train. Yes that’s right, a fire engine on rails. Apparently, the Swiss are the only country to have such a facility. Could this be because it’s the most idiotic idea ever conceived by mankind and no other country is stupid enough to build / buy one?
We have one here. Severn tunnel
 

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oyster

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oyster

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That’s a good warning. The vaccine plant will be a terrorist target. Security should be beefed up now.
Perhaps, for a change, an actual military role for our military in this pandemic? Make a change from delivering, testing, etc.

When someone makes a move
Of which we don't approve,
Who is it that always intervenes?
U.N. and O.A.S.,
They have their place, I guess,
But first - send the Marines!
 
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