Brexit, for once some facts.

[oldgroaner]

Nothing to worry about
UK government not sure where billions of pounds' worth of PPE is Outside consultants brought in to find equipment, National Audit Office chief tells MPs

I shouldn't do that, just take the money back from Johnson's pals, I'm sure that will jog their memory where the PPE is
(or never was)

 

[oldgroaner]

Here's an inspiring tale of the sort of prototype that Trump and Boris must have drawn inspiration from

Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, the 10th Earl of Dundonald,

Before anyone asks, yes they were friends of Clan Bell with a similar bright and breezy outlook on life
"it's an insane life well lived "

 

[oyster]

My little bit of the world has a few impressive figures. Especially Health and Social Care workers. I think the P3 & P4 initially look a touch disappointing but they are very much still in progress.

Priority Group	Vaccine numbers	Percentage Uptake
P1.1 – Older adult resident in a care home	2,409	93.3%
P1.2 - Care home worker	3,036	86.9%
P2.1 - All those 80 years of age and over	21,490	94.6%
P2.2 & 2.3 - Health and social care workers	20,902	99.5%
P3 - All those 75 years of age and over	12,471	63.9%
P4.1 - All those 70 years of age	14,558	55.4%
P4.2 - Clinically extremely vulnerable individuals	4,250	42.9%
Other priority groups or unallocated	*1,464	1.2%
Total:	81,562	21.1%

Total vaccinations per county:

• Carmarthenshire 39,485 (20.9%)
• Ceredigion 14,621 (20.1%)
• Pembrokeshire 24,447 (19.4%)
• Other 2,538 - unallocated to county or staff working in but living outside of the three counties

 

[Jesus H Christ]

In my time working in Glasgow, it felt safer and nicer than many parts of London. That was mostly central and Pollokshields, Mount Florida, not the worst areas.

Safer than London isn’t really an endorsement.

 

[Jesus H Christ]

My little bit of the world has a few impressive figures. Especially Health and Social Care workers. I think the P3 & P4 initially look a touch disappointing but they are very much still in progress.

Priority Group	Vaccine numbers	Percentage Uptake
P1.1 – Older adult resident in a care home	2,409	93.3%
P1.2 - Care home worker	3,036	86.9%
P2.1 - All those 80 years of age and over	21,490	94.6%
P2.2 & 2.3 - Health and social care workers	20,902	99.5%
P3 - All those 75 years of age and over	12,471	63.9%
P4.1 - All those 70 years of age	14,558	55.4%
P4.2 - Clinically extremely vulnerable individuals	4,250	42.9%
Other priority groups or unallocated	*1,464	1.2%
Total:	81,562	21.1%

Total vaccinations per county:

• Carmarthenshire 39,485 (20.9%)
• Ceredigion 14,621 (20.1%)
• Pembrokeshire 24,447 (19.4%)
• Other 2,538 - unallocated to county or staff working in but living outside of the three counties

A good uptake.

 

[flecc]

Safer than London isn’t really an endorsement.

Something like 95% of all Londoners live in one of the world's safest cities.

But like all large cities we have a small minority who don't seem to want to be safe. But since they mainly confine themselves to attacking each other it's of no concern to the rest of us.
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[Jesus H Christ]

Something like 95% of all Londoners live in one of the world's safest cities.

But like all large cities we have a small minority who don't seem to want to be safe. But since they mainly confine themselves to attacking each other it's of no concern to the rest of us.
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I couldn’t resist. Oyster sets them up .......

 

[oyster]

Something like 95% of all Londoners live in one of the world's safest cities.

But like all large cities we have a small minority who don't seem to want to be safe. But since they mainly confine themselves to attacking each other it's of no concern to the rest of us.
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The only time I ever saw someone walk up to another chap and damn near kill him with a single devastating upper-cut was in a pretty ordinary pub in London. Over a "game" of pool. Afterwards, he chose to stand around and make sure no-one was in a position to help the chap out cold on the floor.

He was well aware that he was going to amble out in his own good time, ahead of any police or ambulance attending.

 

[flecc]

The only time I ever saw someone walk up to another chap and damn near kill him with a single devastating upper-cut was in a pretty ordinary pub in London. Over a "game" of pool. Afterwards, he chose to stand around and make sure no-one was in a position to help the chap out cold on the floor.

He was well aware that he was going to amble out in his own good time, ahead of any police or ambulance attending.

Meanwhile at least 8 million other Londoners were totally unaware of this incident and living a safe and peaceful life.

One can repeat your story in many other areas of the country and the West Midlands with less population often out competes London for violent crime, but somehow it's always London that gets picked upon.
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[jonathan.agnew]

In my time working in Glasgow, it felt safer and nicer than many parts of London. That was mostly central and Pollokshields, Mount Florida, not the worst areas.

I like glasgow, it's got a kind of in yer face honesty. The first thing I saw there was a burly blonde tip a full pint over a bloke on a freezing winter evening. It's a place I always felt one could see things coming, knew how to sidestep violence. I like london too, but it's a city, with the very occasional disoriented dislocated soul that could in a moment of madness push one in front of a tube.

 

[wheeler]

Should I avoid Glasgow & Dundee?

Probably.

 

[oldgroaner]

I recall was when young that in the pubs where the Trawlermen used to refresh themselves in a dignified manner on Hessle Road there were two things that terrified them
When the little old ladies used to come in selling copies of "The War cry" they would all rush to hide in the toilets.
And when Big Lil Billocca came in looking for her husband it went very quiet.
One lady I only knew as Doris, was famously known to get a bit frisky after thirteen pints of bitter and tended throw quite large men at the furniture.
Bean street was noted for family squabbles on a Saturday night and if contacted the police adopted the sensible policy of arriving half an hour too late.
Here's an amusingly poignant story of a "Dead Bod" example of graffiti, now in a cafe and previously shown in a local gallery

http://www.humberstreetgallery.co.uk/exhibition/deadbod_/
A moral tale indeed

 

[oyster]

Dramatic discovery links Stonehenge to its original site – in Wales
Find backs theory that monument was dismantled and dragged over 140 miles to Wiltshire

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/dramatic-discovery-links-stonehenge-to-its-original-site-in-wales?CMP=share_btn_link

Mister os gwelwch yn dda, a allwn ni gael ein pêl cerrig yn ôl?

Please mister, can we have our ball stones back?

 

[oldgroaner]

Dramatic discovery links Stonehenge to its original site – in Wales
Find backs theory that monument was dismantled and dragged over 140 miles to Wiltshire

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/12/dramatic-discovery-links-stonehenge-to-its-original-site-in-wales?CMP=share_btn_link

Mister os gwelwch yn dda, a allwn ni gael ein pêl cerrig yn ôl?

Please mister, can we have our ball stones back?

Same answer as for the Elgin Marbles

 

[oyster]

Same answer as for the Elgin Marbles

Finders keepers. Losers greeters.

 

[Nev]

Please mister, can we have our ball stones back?

I was thinking more along the lines that if they like Welsh stone so much I've got loads here in my garden in North Wales that I could sell them

 

[oyster]

Local papers do get wound up - but this is obviously yet more brexit fallout. Entirely predictable - and was predicted. Though some of the worst suggested both closing.

From a personal point of view, it would be nice if we could get a morning ferry across, spend a few hours, and come back over in the evening. So long as ticketing allowed. (Using one port would enable this to be done as a foot passenger.)

Closure of either Pembroke or Fishguard port 'a catastrophe'
CALLS to merge Pembrokeshire's ports from both sides of the Irish Sea have been branded as a potential 'catastrophe' while a local politician has said he will 'fight tooth and nail' for the port of Fishguard.

Last Thursday the Welsh Affairs Committee heard that it would make logistic and economic sense for Pembrokeshire to operate one ferry port, possibly being served by two companies, with back-to-back sailings to Rosslare.

"A lot of the ferry company customers would like to see a one port solution where you get two ferry operators but operating a back-to-back timetable," he said. "That would be the utopia because you'd have a six-hour frequency," Stena Line's head of UK port authorities, Ian Davies, told the committee.

"Logic yes would say it would make more sense from a logistics point of view and an economic point of view to have one strong ferry port with frequency of service. Obviously at Fishguard Port we would say that should be Fishguard because it's the shorter ferry crossing."
https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/19075825.closure-either-pembroke-fishguard-port-a-catastrophe/

 

[flecc]

I like london too, but it's a city, with the very occasional disoriented dislocated soul that could in a moment of madness push one in front of a tube.

But that would happen anywhere, but for the fact they don't have the tube.

Nut cases are not confined to London, they are everywhere, in cities, towns and villages.
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[oyster]

But that would happen anywhere, but for the fact they don't have the tube.

Nut cases are not confined to London, they are everywhere, in cities, towns and villages.
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Glasgow does have an underground railway!

 

[flecc]

Glasgow does have an underground railway!

And no shortage of nut cases. Many might say they have more than their fair share.
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