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Discussion in 'Horse Racing' started by OddDog, Jun 23, 2013.

  1. Cyclonic

    Cyclonic Well Hung Member

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    Been looking at the pics of Uruguay. Montevideo looks brilliant. If you run across and German holiday makers there though, please don't mention the Graf Spee. <whistle>
     
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  2. OddDog

    OddDog Mild mannered janitor
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    marijuana is legal there as well , climate be nice atm , but you did ask for europe , so guess that would have to be another time .
     
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  4. OddDog

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    The new infection rate in the area where I work has risen above 35 so we now have to wear masks at work (except when sat at your desk). I also get the feeling that Germans are slowly starting to get more worried, rather than thinking “oh we did fine in the first wave so we’ll be fine again.”
     
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  5. Cyclonic

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    Yep, the "bug" is still out there and not going anywhere until a vaccine hits the streets. We can beat down the number of infections by strangulation, but once we ease up, the nasty stuff resurfaces.
     
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  6. QuarterMoonII

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    The Daily Mail and the other right-wing tabloids have followed their readership further to the right, just as the Daily Mirror has followed its readership further to the left. Both have become polarised in recent times because of the failure of the centre-right and centre-left.

    You appear to be of the view that the right-wing media are all supporters of Trump but you probably never read the Telegraph or the Times and just form your view on your left-wing prejudice. As somebody with a right-wing prejudice, I do read the Guardian to find out the views of the allegedly educated left-wing (and to have a good laugh at that lunatic Owen Jones). Some of Biden’s policy agenda is viewed positively in our better right-wing media output. I think they just gloss over his BLM populism as there is an election to win.
     
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  7. mallafets123

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  9. Steveo

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    35! <laugh>

    they only start looking at taking action here when the number gets to about 500 :biggrin:
     
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  10. Toby

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    Who has said that?
     
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    Fairly simple to answer. I have no time for Rupert Murdoch and his right-wing politics, and therefore am not interested in the rags he owns. The Daily Telegraph wants you to subscribe before you can actually read one of their articles. I would read a few otherwise, but as for a subscription, no way! The 'Daily Wail'? That's just too much for me! <yikes>
     
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  13. QuarterMoonII

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    Lockdown is not proving to be the panacea that its advocates claimed. We will just have to keep doing it for years because our myopic experts say it must work sooner or later.
     
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    Obviously in the world of the Left, all media should be free and should only give the view from the moralising Left. How dare the Daily Telegraph expect people to pay to read the work of their journalists. The Times and the Financial Times are just as bad. In the Left’s Utopia, it should be possible to simply walk into the corner shop and pick up a free copy of the Guardian or the Mirror. Capitalism has only provided every innovation in the modern history of mankind: we do not need that anymore.

    If the Americans end up with another four years of the egotist Trump running reality show America from a Twitter account, it will be because the Democrat voters tell the pollsters that they support Biden but then do not bother to show up and cast their votes. Hillary Clinton lost several swing states in 2016, such as Pennsylvania, because Democrat voters in cities like Philadelphia stayed home.
     
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  15. QuarterMoonII

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    I was talking to a bunch of elder statesmen last Sunday afternoon. They were winding one of their number up after his Spurs team brought on Gareth Bale and blew a 3-0 lead but they also got onto the subject of the NHS.

    It seems they share my view that we pay for the NHS and it is supposed to be there to save us; not there to be saved by us being locked up at home for weeks on end. All the posters and hoardings that you see encourage you to do things for the sake of the NHS, a strategy dreamed up by some overpaid psychoanalyst.

    The original lockdown back in March was not done to save us but to stop the NHS from totally collapsing. This was entirely politically motivated: the government did not want the annual ‘winter crisis’ in March and April. As we head into winter this year’s ‘winter crisis’ may actually be a real crisis as coronavirus can be added to the list of seasonal issues. They emptied the hospitals of anything other than coronavirus months back, sending thousands of them indirectly to the graveyard, so there should be space.

    Some may then question whether the NHS is fit for purpose. It has not been for years but the cure has always been (allegedly) to throw more money into the bottomless pit. That is certainly the only cure known to the brain dead Left; and what Labour has offered at every election in my lifetime (most of them, thankfully, lost).

    The covid cave dwellers should be alright as they continue to believe in the discredited experts and that vaccine they have been promised should be here soon having avoided those unnecessary years of tests and trials. They can have it – and any undiscovered side effects – and then the rest of us can get back to our normal lives.
     
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    correction: lockdown does work.

    the problem is that the UK has never had a proper lockdown and the current tier 1 2 3 rubbish is no lockdown whatsoever!!

    SAGE suggested a full lockdown last month.
    The incompetent, corrupt UK government ignored this advice, which will mean a tough winter for us all.
    it will be interesting to see what number of daily deaths everyone will be comfortable with.
    200 daily at the moment - barely noticeable for many I think.
    500 a day within weeks might concentrate more minds.
     
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    Not this time! <whistle>

    Get my annual 'flu shot next week! <laugh>
     
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  18. Steveo

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    Italy was nearly as bad as the UK during the first wave because they got hit with the virus before anyone else in Europe and had no time to prepare, unlike other countries like the UK.....

    As the 2nd wave starts their current daily cases and deaths are roughly half of that of the UK.
    They have learnt, we have not.
     
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    I live at the end of the UK which has been pretty much been unaffected by Covid. Today my daughter's school was closed as 3 teachers tested positive. Yesterday a few other people I know tested positive, the first people I have known personally to test positive since this whole virus started. I've been waiting for this to drip down to us and it seems that it finally has. People who are supposed to know about these things tell me it will be with us in spades until June next year and to buckle up (or hunker down).
     
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  20. mallafets123

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    There has been 4.7m votes cast in Fl to date, Trump got 4.6m in the last election.
     
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