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Post by lilpinny on Apr 8, 2020 22:07:06 GMT -5
I just got a ton of those shop towels. A neighbor is making masks and those have a little pocket where I'll out the shop towel.
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Post by aeroxbud on Apr 9, 2020 7:40:37 GMT -5
Here in the UK our gov has brought in a furlough system for the next 3 months,basically my employer can send me home and pay me 80% of my salary and claim it back from the gov.it,s all new stuff but my wife is on the at risk register so last week I phoned in and put myself on paid holiday leave while this sh""t sorts its self out.I phoned HR today to extend my leave and asked to be furloughed,it is a large company listed on the stock exchange etc.,seems I am the first to ask??our NHS sent wifey a letter to self isolate ,seems HR arn,t sure and have asked for a copy of the letter,so I will take it in, in the morning I am hopeful ,but these gobs""ts in ivory towers working from home need a reality check,10years continuous employ never missed a day ect.rant over Geoff I Did you get any result from your employer Geoff? You are entitled according to the government web site. "You can claim for furloughed employees who are shielding in line with public health guidance (or need to stay home with someone who is shielding) if they are unable to work from home and you would otherwise have to make them redundant" |
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Post by geoffh on Apr 9, 2020 14:21:27 GMT -5
No result yet Paul phoned and emailed HR today no responce so come Tuesday I will phone an extend my holiday.I know what they should do but getting anything done takes an age in a big PLC,my line manager is in his bunker (sorry I mean working from home) nice and safe,wild horses won,t get me back till I see infection control taken seriously.Much sadder my neighbour directly opposite me,I can watch his telly kinda close ,passed away with the covid19 he was 47 and fit.it has shocked our little suburban street.
Geoff
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Post by geoffh on Apr 9, 2020 14:49:59 GMT -5
Oops nearly forgot,my daughter works at the ambulance control room ,part of the NHS here in the UK,a large super market chain MORRISONS dropped off 300 chocolate eggs for the staff'just in case'no press no cameras just did it.
Guess where I shop when I get the chance,brings a man to tears.
Geoff
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Post by aeroxbud on Apr 9, 2020 14:52:50 GMT -5
That's a real shame Geoffh. I don't think a lot of people will take this seriously, till someone they know dies.
Every day I see people being stupid. Outside here last night there were a couple of people talking. Who had been to the shop.
An hour later there were 6 of them stood there talking. About a foot apart. Even sharing drinks. đŹ
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Post by geoffh on Apr 9, 2020 15:04:37 GMT -5
My daughters are desperate to hug their mum, daughter1 bringing the weekly shop daughter2 bringing the tray of eggs she has "found" I am staying as middleman to keep them all apart.gobshi!!s out there pushing limits I would deploy martial law to get their attention a bit sharpish.
Geoff
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Post by milly on Apr 9, 2020 17:29:08 GMT -5
My daughters are desperate to hug their mum, daughter1 bringing the weekly shop daughter2 bringing the tray of eggs she has "found" I am staying as middleman to keep them all apart.gobshi!!s out there pushing limits I would deploy martial law to get their attention a bit sharpish. Geoff Same here with my daughter's and my sons and mum Geoff. I even spied two camper vans crossing the main road, looks like they were trying to get to the coast via the country lanes and a group of youngster's standing on the pavement all together, well I say youngsters prob 18 to mid 20's. But if you say anything Billy big bollocks will start kicking off and I am to old for that crap anymore. My daughter in law has to have a letter from her boss in Aberystwyth to get to work as the police are stopping people there. Luckily she only has to walk 200yds from home. |
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Post by FrankenMech on Apr 9, 2020 17:55:40 GMT -5
47 is too young to go  I think a truncheon should be used liberally to get some people's attention. For all too many physical pain and injury is the only thing the dumb assholes understand. They should accidentally ignite the camper vans...
Having to only go 200 yards to work has advantages. The UK and all of the old countries were built up before cars. Most of the US was developed after the car so stores, jobs, and houses are miles apart. Having a car is imperative in most of the US.
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Post by Happypancake! on Apr 10, 2020 13:43:57 GMT -5
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Post by geoffh on Apr 10, 2020 15:25:03 GMT -5
Happy pancake,if that,s a joke it,s in poor taste,sad If you think it will save you,the virus is transmitted via droplets of fluid coughed or spat out by by a host,stay away from folks be safe.
Geoff
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Post by Happypancake! on Apr 10, 2020 15:38:48 GMT -5
Happy pancake,if that,s a joke it,s in poor taste,sad If you think it will save you,the virus is transmitted via droplets of fluid coughed or spat out by by a host,stay away from folks be safe. Geoff Nope. Itâs what I wear to GET my 75 year old neighbor groceries. Pic deleted for you |
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Post by FrankenMech on Apr 10, 2020 22:22:20 GMT -5
Thank you for deleting that picture of you in that bottomless tutu and wedding veil! Talk about needing eye bleach  BTW- for you brave people that are not afraid of a virus, EBOLA IS BACK! |
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Post by milly on Apr 11, 2020 5:35:57 GMT -5
For our esteemed pm
When Johnson is eventually discharged from hospital I hope he is taken aside by one of the senior staff and given one absolute bollocking, the sort youâd give to a teenager who drank bleach for a laugh and a dare and ended up in A&E diverting valuable staff. Something like;
âOkay, âBorisâ? Feeling better, are we? Weâre so glad, truly we are. In very good spirits are we? Thatâs nice. Youâre quite the hero surviving this thing, arenât you? Like St George smiting the dragon, eh? Boris the Battler, bursting with the can-do Blitz spirit, right? Nearly took one for the team, didnât you?
âWell listen here, you grinning lump of fuck. You didnât battle for a second. You lay there while the team, a brilliant, underfunded team, the sort of people who donât scuttle and hide in a fridge battled for you, to save your sorry life. A team led by an Italian doctor and immigrant nurses who risked their own lives, as they do day in, day out because you and your clown car of a cabinet are too incompetent to provide them with the most basic protections. A team featuring the sort of foreigners you and your cynical, far right band of ministers subject to a drip-feed of cheap, nasty xenophobic hostility even though you know full well how essential we are, because you know how well that sort of rhetoric plays to the tabloids and your core of elderly white voters, who incidentally had better be taking this fucking crisis seriously if they know whatâs good for them, something you could have impressed on them a few weeks ago rather than turning up at the rugger or barging into hospitals and shaking every sweaty paw you could lay your fucking ham fists on.
âYou survived. Hundreds, thousands didnât, including friends of ours, the lowest paid of whom is worth ten thousand of the likes of you and your smirking, complacent pals, some of whom are creaming profits off this tragedy as we fucking speak.
âYou canât undo the damage youâve done already with your manifest unfitness for office, but maybe after this, that memory of when you nearly went under and experienced the first moment of terror of your pampered, charmed, super-entitled existence, that moment when you gasped for oxygen and instead of oxygen your lungs were filled with a black, crushing fucking void; maybe thatâll stick. âOperation Last Gaspâ, eh? Youâre a fucking card, arenât you? Youâre not a card, are you. Youâre a twat, what are you? Yeah, thatâs right. A twat. Youâre not Winston Churchill. Youâre not even Captain Mainwaring. Youâre Captain twat. But maybe now youâll realise how serious this shit is and youâll cut out the boyâs own, bully beef bullshit and take the fucking job you were so bafflingly elected to do by a nation of Sun-addled serfs seriously. Or better, step down. Let someone else do it. Let the Downing Street cat do it. And then retire. In disgrace. Which is what you fucking are.â
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Post by ThaiGyro on Apr 11, 2020 7:30:18 GMT -5
Milly...I love your passion and your words. I do not believe that my opinion nor knowledge matters with anyone in the UK regarding Boris Johnsonov.
However, knowing that he likely never owned a pre-'60's Piaggio or a newer GY6 or even a Norton 850...it is likely he won't see this.
It does give me pause. I have many friends in the UK, so will ask their thoughts, like I did when Scotland was trying to jump the Queen's ship. (GBP vs. Euro referendum) Good stuff!
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Post by FrankenMech on Apr 11, 2020 16:50:43 GMT -5
The blonde buffoon is rightly taking heat. The orange buffoon over here will be shown to be a scorched clown but his supporters will never believe he is responsible for the huge death toll in the US. History will remember. He had adequate warning and plans laid before him to properly isolate etc. He does not believe in science though. The $$$ in his conman hands are dripping with blood. His supporters don't even believe in climate change even with the four horsemen now galloping across the face of the Earth at full speed  |
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