Coronavirus & stuff

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Moggy** » Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:17 am

Cuttooth wrote:
captain red dog wrote:I can't blame people in the North for voting Tory in light of the press onslaught against Labour.

People less well off simply do not have the time to invest in researching who to vote for. They will be led by slogans and characters. So it's not entirely surprising to see Boris get elected. James O'brien, as much as I sometimes lament his rhetoric, has a lot to say on that and I entirely agree with what he says about how we are being governed during a pandemic (to bring this back to topic).

How isn't this patronising to a large swathe of voters though? Regardless, even with the argument that voters who don't have the time to vet candidates and party policies have a diminished responsibility in voting, people are still able to understand their actions have consequences.

"Those simple minded Northerners, you can't judge them because they are incapable of understanding anything more complex than a three word slogan"

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **captain red dog** » Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:30 am

You called the majority of voters "utter morons".

I was defending them and saying most people do not have the time to actually research all the political misinformation to be blamed for politicians letting them down. That's not patronising.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Moggy** » Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:38 am

captain red dog wrote:You called the majority of voters "utter morons".

I was defending them and saying most people do not have the time to actually research all the political misinformation to be blamed for politicians letting them down. That's not patronising.

I called them utter morons and you said you found it hard to counter that.

I'm happy to call working class/lower middle class people morons for voting Tory. Because they are. How much evidence do these people need? 10 years of Tory rule and they still get their heads turned by a three word slogan and a Sun article about how bad Labour would be.

Utter morons.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Jenuall** » Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:45 am

Chocolate-Milk wrote:
Jenuall wrote:I have received two "Possible COVID-19 exposure" notifications this evening. The net is closing in

Count your blessings- I received that notification at 3am last night as I was lying in bed.

Not only is there an axe murderer hiding in my wardrobe, but he's got the strawberry floating 'rona as well.

I've had a few of these notifications now, two of them have popped up at almost exactly the same point on my commute - when I've basically been in the middle of the Severn Bridge so either it's a massive coincidence that I happened to be passing a car with someone who had tested positive at the same exact same point twice, or there is someone with the 'rona camping out on the middle of the bridge!

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Tomous** » Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:46 am

Corona Troll living under Severn Bridge confirmed :dread:

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Cuttooth** » Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:53 am

Tomous wrote:Corona Troll living under Severn Bridge confirmed

"*hiss* Go back to Exeter *hiss*"

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Tomous** » Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:54 am

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PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Moggy** » Fri Oct 23, 2020 7:41 am

twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1319342959062622210

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Moggy** » Fri Oct 23, 2020 7:45 am

Drink driving laws do not work

Because some selfish twats still drink and drive

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Tomous** » Fri Oct 23, 2020 7:46 am

She didn't go back to work given she was 2 years old when WW2 started and 8 when it ended.

Moggy wrote:

twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1319342959062622210

I remember during the blitz when the Luftwaffe would fly over London coughing on the city. If we sat in our bunkers till morning we were lucky to survive but I still got up in the morning and cycled 18 miles to work in the factory even with a sore throat and temperature. That virus couldn’t stop me then and this one won’t stop me now.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Errkal** » Fri Oct 23, 2020 7:51 am

Moggy wrote:

twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1319342959062622210

Do you remember then bombs were falling and we protected ourselves from them, well that’s why I’m not going to protect myself or others now.

The parallel would be “we protected ourselves then, we should do it now” but it doesn’t matter because all the readers will stop reading and just start shouting ENGERKAND! ! and beating their chests when they see the word war.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Moggy** » Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:19 am

What I want to know is why isn't she wearing a Poppy in that photo?

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Dowbocop** » Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:35 am

Errkal wrote:
Moggy wrote:

twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1319342959062622210

Do you remember then bombs were falling and we protected ourselves from them, well that’s why I’m not going to protect myself or others now.

The parallel would be “we protected ourselves then, we should do it now” but it doesn’t matter because all the readers will stop reading and just start shouting ENGERKAND! ! and beating their chests when they see the word war.

Halfway through the Battle of Britain we just went "ah strawberry float it" and strapped the vulnerable to the roofs of major landmark and infrastructure targets. Well lit, of course, because you can't let a few kilotons of high explosive rule your life can you?

The Poppy Appeal advert annoys me as well. "ONCE MORE, IN A FORM OF WAR..." - strawberry float off, it's not a war, it's a pandemic.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Oblomov Boblomov** » Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:49 am

Why is it that very old white people garner such immediate respect and even reverence from the typical gammon twat brigade? Just because they're old as strawberry float, doesn't mean they aren't stupid banana splits like the rest of us!

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Errkal** » Fri Oct 23, 2020 9:14 am

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Why is it that very old white people garner such immediate respect and even reverence from the typical gammon twat brigade? Just because they're old as strawberry float, doesn't mean they aren't stupid banana splits like the rest of us!

They have been brought up with “respect your betters” “respect your elders” etc. So older people are just better than they are in their heads.

Also the old tend to have more money and these people having more money means you are better and more successful and so your opinion is worth more.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Tomous** » Fri Oct 23, 2020 9:14 am

Yep, was just going to make the same point Errkal.

Subsequent generations tend to respect the individual for how they conduct themselves rather than their characteristics

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Squinty** » Fri Oct 23, 2020 9:35 am

- Random old woman says stupid gooseberry fool.
- Gammon approves.

What a time to be alive.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Jenuall** » Fri Oct 23, 2020 9:55 am

WW2 was 80 years ago and fighting a war is an entirely different scenario to fighting a pandemic you old moron! :fp:

You've got to hope that sooner or later people will get over their strawberry floating obsession with the war but I'm beginning to doubt it will ever happen. Anyone know if when the first and second world wars were going on the old gammons at the time were banging on about the Crimean war or some other 19th century conflicts?

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