Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

I drive a diesel and always say 'stop for petrol'.

Bad boy 4 life.

Cry for help?

Gove just said Cummings did nothing wrong. So it’s all ok, make up your mind as instructed and move along.

Gove just said Cummings did nothing wrong. So it’s all ok, make up your mind as instructed and move along.

If I'll take anyone's word for what a 'normal' person would do, it's Gove. So that's all right then.

Oh dear. One has but exposed oneself as a commoner hasn´t one.

It's what we call people without proper usernames, yes. :)

I do hope this stuff works as advertised:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/london-trains-disinfectant-viruscide-lasts-for-a-month-a4450506.html

Meanwhile, the taoiseach has a shirtless picnic in Phoenix Park:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/26/irish-taoiseach-leo-varadkar-denies-picnic-with-friends-was-covid-19-rule-breach

Verily in urban driving and also true for extraurban but only if you drive like a cock on the motorway or drive in the mountains. If, however, you cruise at a constant 65ish mph even big lumps can achieve those claimed mpgs because there´s no stopping and starting or pointless accelerating and braking cycles. We have a VW Caddy Maxi CNG (very heavy because of those gas bottles strapped underneath) and I regularly exceed the manufacturer´s extraurban mpg claim with shitloads of people and bikes and luggage inside. Ditto for a Focus diesel. Obviously results will improve drastically if you reduce cruise speed.

Also, I had no idea the Disco was so low nowadays. The boot in the news footage looked so tiny that I assumed it was an Evoque. What a pointless thing then. Where do one´s hunting hounds go?

Parklife!

So what's the tl;Dr of this whole Cummings thing then?

Everyone's salty because they can't drop their kids of at the grandparent's estate?

Everyone's salty because they can't drop their kids of at the grandparent's estate?

Shots fired

It's what we call people without proper usernames, yes. :)

Wait a minute - you are Oliver Schick.

No, everyone's salty because the Prime Minister, Attorney General and most Tory MPs are perfectly prepared to defend and justify a demonstrably false account.

This government defending obvious lies? I, for one, am shocked. And appalled.

Its the fact that this is a direct affront to tens of thousands of people who stuck to the guidelines in much more extraordinary circumstances than the ones that Cummings is claiming, and the fact that MPs are happy to retrofit the guidance to support Cummings that is most significant imo.

Gove is killing it today
https://twitter.com/MattGarrahan/status/1265238952904142853

Sorry Mr Schick. I used to go by Cycloslalomeur but somehow managed to bugger up my account after forgetting my password and had to create another account. Is there a way a moderator could just merge my new(ish) account and the now dormant one?

Edit: that´s my real name. The old username was shite anyway. It was a tired pun on a new commuting sport I invented many moons ago before it saw me ram a Focus estate at 30 kph.

Post in the moderator thread and @ Velocio. He will be able to help!

Kay Burley was on fire today

YouGov poll, support for him resigning and thinking what he did was wrong has gone up following his statement, oops
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1265249305163714568

A clergy friend pointed out why the CofE bishops in particular have been so salty about this; it's because their last two months have been a constant grind of 'sorry, you can't come to granny's funeral' (and indeed having to take back-to-back funerals).

Jaysus, some Irish Brexit fan living in Cyprus on a mates Facebook wall is copy / pasting a text saying this doesn't matter much and we should be mad with doctors saying they'll resign if Cummings won't resign.

New whataboutery low if you ask me. And I doubt he came up with it himself.

talk on r.4 just now of 60,000 excess deaths this year
only caught it out of the corner of my ear so not 100% sure how accurate i heard

Ha, no worries. Perhaps at least some of the recent spate of userXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXs is because of problems with signing in. As mashton says, contact Velocio. PM is best so you can give him the e-mail address(es) you used for the accounts and he'll be able to merge them.

To attend to a genuine threat to life emergency involving a family member.

Hope everything is alright

Wasn't 60,000 the 'best case' scenario in Ferguson's model?