I shake-a da hands to 'elp wit da' erd immunitio! pic.twitter.com/Hk3hCF5jbB— RobertoPesto (@PestoRoberto) March 22, 2020
i'm probably too easily impressed but a parody Pesto account talking in a Gennaro Contaldo voice is funny to me!
― calzino, Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
I lolled
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
Isn’t this referencing the late Italian Elon Musk? Still funny though.
― some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-foreign-secretary-appointed-designated-survivor-if-boris-johnson-catches-covid-19
Now we're really fucked.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:01 (four years ago) link
how do infect a disease with a disease?
― calzino, Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
4. We urge the government to make immediate preparations for the next stage and learn lessons from other European nations. If voluntary social distancing measures are not adhered to, the government must bring forward their plans for stronger action.— Jonathan Ashworth (@JonAshworth) March 22, 2020
This isn't good. The government are using people as scapegoats, just what does stronger action mean here?
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
Raab isn’t going to work, given how easily he sweats under pressure.
― some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
Believe me, I hate tbf to Boris, but his girlfriend is expecting his nth child, I expect he might be a little frazzled.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
Pregnant women are a vulnerable group I believe?
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
he’s had more practice at dealing with impending fatherhood than most, so no sympathy from me on that front
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
Not in the middle of a pandemic though - I think? You never know with Boris.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link
Lotta people out there with a hard-on for martial law and dobbing in yer neighbours
― ymo sumac (NickB), Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
Boris is unnecessarily risking several of my family members with the approach, so all I will say is I hope Carrie stays well. He doesn’t deserve extra, or any, sympathy from me.
― some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link
I'm not really showing sympathy to the cunt, just setting things up for when he goes the down whole Eden/Suez doolally route.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:24 (four years ago) link
I couldn't gaf about any of em' tbh .. I've got Turd Immunity!
― calzino, Sunday, 22 March 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
Owen Jones at his best here. Workers are getting fucked left, right and centre.
Coronavirus is not just a public health crisis: it is a social crisis.This thread will share the stories of workers who are being failed by government and business. Where appropriate, please use social media to pressure the businesses in question.Keeping DMing me your stories— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) March 22, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 March 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
Good on OJ. Guessing none of the sneering cunts in his industry are doing this. Are they still making Richard Burgon jokes?
― some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Sunday, 22 March 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
Lately, Richard Burgon seems a political giant compared to a lot of other Labour wasters. I don't feel bad about 2nd preffing him to Dawn Butler at all. Even though it an inevitably futile and symbolic vote.
― calzino, Sunday, 22 March 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
I expected the Times story on the Cummings Cull to blow up but I don't see it gaining uch traction anywhere online other than the James O'Briensphere.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Sunday, 22 March 2020 22:41 (four years ago) link
Youngest uk fatality so far (18) and a 36yo nhs worker in critical condition in intensive care, really want ppl to start fucking taking this seriously and trying to remind myself that by “ppl” I only really mean one person
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Sunday, 22 March 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
My 70 odd year old mum thinks "this will all be over in a month" there is no getting through to some people what a scandal of 1000% negligent, incompetent govt has already unfolded here.
― calzino, Sunday, 22 March 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
I wish Thatcher was still alive so she could die of coronavirus
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 22 March 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
Mark and Carol are both still with us, in body if not in the actual country
― akb23 (Matt #2), Sunday, 22 March 2020 23:30 (four years ago) link
All jury trials are being put on hold indefinitely until safer arrangements can be made re: distancing issues etc
― calzino, Monday, 23 March 2020 07:13 (four years ago) link
scientific advice from the government's experts still dictated that now was not the right time to implement a full-scale lockdown.
Is this advice still based on the idea of "behavioural fatigue"? What is the model that says letting it spread now is better than stronger measures to slow it immediately?
― I've got my bidet and my pills (Noel Emits), Monday, 23 March 2020 08:19 (four years ago) link
vital, unflinching journalism from the telegraph pic.twitter.com/Ot9QJeHqw4— stupot (@sjooietwoey) March 23, 2020
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 23 March 2020 08:37 (four years ago) link
Ugh, stupid fucking country.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Monday, 23 March 2020 08:39 (four years ago) link
Rail franchises basically temporarily nationalised - all revenue and cost risk now on Government, and franchises will run service, after passenger numbers fell 70% - significant action to keep the wheels turning on the system for at least six months. https://t.co/rEfVZxyKv6— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 23, 2020
― ymo sumac (NickB), Monday, 23 March 2020 08:59 (four years ago) link
sorry that question mark was an artefact of my poor cut and pasting but the question still stands: ?
― ymo sumac (NickB), Monday, 23 March 2020 09:00 (four years ago) link
meanwhile london hospitals are starting to hit capacity. this was the point where johnson's measures were going to keep patient numbers at that exact threshold iirc
― ymo sumac (NickB), Monday, 23 March 2020 09:06 (four years ago) link
Rail operators must be hemorrhaging money atm. 2.9m commuters getting 75% refunds on their season tickets / not using trains before the end of the year is going to set them back about £7bn, by my back-of-napkin calculations.
Obvs mustn't be allowed to socialise that risk and then go back to paying dividends to shareholders when things normalise, though.
― ShariVari, Monday, 23 March 2020 09:09 (four years ago) link
It's telling that there was already preparations for giving cops the right to arrest ppl w/ the virus who won't self-isolate at a time when the official line was still "herd immunity, hope everyone gets it!".
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 23 March 2020 10:14 (four years ago) link
i remembered i had a facemask, as handed to me by a nice #tweedefiance type at the traf sq anti-trump rally of 10398510928374 years i think 18 months ago:
https://i.imgur.com/d1cjf30.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 23 March 2020 10:31 (four years ago) link
also good mourning lol
― mark s, Monday, 23 March 2020 10:32 (four years ago) link
I wonder if the rail nationalisation isn't there to reverse the reduced service, which has meant that people commuting into London are on trains as packed as they always were.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 23 March 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link
Don't give them too much credit this is a hotel chain bail-out as much as a relief measure and looks extremely temporary. https://t.co/bSetO1uqT1— RENT STRIKE NOW (@libcomorg) March 23, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 23 March 2020 11:17 (four years ago) link
The discourse seems to be split between "The government communications on this have been terrible, why aren't there ads between every program on the BBC", and "People are largely dim cunts, bring in the army" - hard to argue against either.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 23 March 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
Trying to make myself push back against the latter anyway just because it’s clearly being prepared as a counter to the former, which is way more to the point
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Monday, 23 March 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
They really could have hired the Scarfolk guy to do some eldritch PSAs.
― I've got my bidet and my pills (Noel Emits), Monday, 23 March 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
Young man on building site has just given me his assessment of the current crisis: “It’s weird. It’s like something really weird’s happening”.— Kevin Boniface (@_KevinBoniface_) March 23, 2020
someone's finally nailed it
― calzino, Monday, 23 March 2020 12:26 (four years ago) link
The only good pundit
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Monday, 23 March 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
young man on building site otm, can we replace dominic cummings with this guy
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 23 March 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
I know I know it's serious but fuck martial law ever
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Monday, 23 March 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
its appeal might start to wear thin when you see someone getting shot for calling a copper a wanker after a few shandies.
― calzino, Monday, 23 March 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
Weird how "people must be physically compelled to act in the interest of the community" doesn't go down well as a leftist argument usually
― I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Monday, 23 March 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 23 March 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Unlike this split will hold with the public as the bodies pile up.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 23 March 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
From the virus, or the soliders?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 23 March 2020 12:40 (four years ago) link
maybe they can get public face of the army ant middleton to encourage people to just get out there and live your life and also stay indoors or you'll be shot
― ymo sumac (NickB), Monday, 23 March 2020 12:56 (four years ago) link
There have been PSAs between programmes, I saw one yesterday. The problem was that it featured the talking head of Whitty and he has almost no charisma or authority
― koogs, Monday, 23 March 2020 13:26 (four years ago) link
can't find the gov website with daily updates of numbers of cases anymore...
― plax (ico), Monday, 23 March 2020 14:25 (four years ago) link