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[Matt Armstrong's Dog]

26 minutes ago, manboobs109 said:

The East Germans had more freedom than us.

??. Erich Mielke wasn't a bad bastard after all (unless you were Lutz Eigendorf). 

[CraigHill]

23 hours ago, Ten Caat said:

10% effective according to the BMJ...

So not effective

 

Covid-19: Where are we on vaccines and variants? | The BMJ

https://www.bmj.com › content › bmj

 

 

10% effective is not effective????????

 

[JakieBastard]

4 hours ago, manboobs109 said:

The East Germans had more freedom than us.

Fucking man up, what a drama queen. You wanted passenger planes stopped a few posts ago

[manboobs109]

18 minutes ago, JakieBastard said:

Fucking man up, what a drama queen. You wanted passenger planes stopped a few posts ago

A simple statement of fact JB. It was never illegal to visit your mum in East Germany.

[maryhilldon]

1 hour ago, manboobs109 said:

A simple statement of fact JB. It was never illegal to visit your mum in East Germany.

It was if she lived a few yards away in West Germany. 

[manboobs109]

1 minute ago, maryhilldon said:

It was if she lived a few yards away in West Germany. 

You could move between East and West Germany relatively freely. Lots of East Berliners worked in West Berlin and headed home.

[maryhilldon]

19 minutes ago, manboobs109 said:

You could move between East and West Germany relatively freely. Lots of East Berliners worked in West Berlin and headed home.

Why were people getting shot by snipers at checkpoint Charlie trying to defect to the west then? 

[BrianFaePerth]

42 minutes ago, maryhilldon said:

Why were people getting shot by snipers at checkpoint Charlie trying to defect to the west then? 

They committed the heinous crime of stopping while out on their one household one hour daily allotted exercise.

 

Ah no

[maryhilldon]

17 minutes ago, BrianFaePerth said:

They committed the heinous crime of stopping while out on their one household one hour daily allotted exercise.

 

Ah no

Waved from across the road to people outside their state sanctioned bubble. 

[Ten Caat]

11 hours ago, CraigHill said:

10% effective is not effective????????

 

Any new medicine that is only 10% effective wouldn't even get a licence. Not that their manufacturer would be stupid enough to even try.

As I already stated....if AZ was effective against the SA variant, they wouldn't  be spending tens of millions on updating it's formula to make it so.

[manboobs109]

9 hours ago, maryhilldon said:

Why were people getting shot by snipers at checkpoint Charlie trying to defect to the west then? 

I just looked it up. West Germans were allowed into the East relatively freely but not the other way around.

I was havering

[manboobs109]

2 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

You should read up on the history Moobzo. The Berlin story is fucking incredible. There was a great podcast detailing an escape plan on the BBC site last year .

eh shall try to find it for you . 

I'd give that a listen. Wee podcast on while in the bath, can't beat it.

[Parklife]

 

1 minute ago, manboobs109 said:

I'd give that a listen. Wee podcast on while in the bath, can't beat it.

If you're in to history, the BBC's "In our time" series is great. 

[Redforever86]

Watched a documentary about the Berlin airdrop or whatever they called it. Maybe still on iplayer also an interesting watch.

[Ten Caat]

Brilliant film about a couple of East German families who escaped to West Germany by balloon in 1978. It's in German but subtitled in English. There was a Disney movie about the same escape made in the early 80s but this one is better I think.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000pyt7/balloon

[Ten Caat]

2 minutes ago, Dad said:

It's pish

But nowhere near as pish as your football predictions

[aberdeen1970]

DWT the movie. 

Tragedy or comedy? ? 

[Ten Caat]

12 minutes ago, Dad said:

An epic in the mould of Shawshank redemption

You best hope no one gets round to making a movie about your swing park escapades

"Predator V.........Roundabouts and Chutes"

[Poodler]

@Zeus

 

aye there may well have been a back of ambulances, hospital is full and typically they’re waiting about 3 hours (source ambo worker I know) 

and aye, no malingerers, proper thrombocytopenia 

[Zeus]

Ah no. The way it was worded though was like it was covid causing the backlog of Ambulances. 

 

[daytripping]

24 in hospital with covids, 2 in ITU, that's the numbers I was told from a mental health nurse I know.

[Henry]

She really shouldn't be divulging that type of information to her patients. 

[aberdeen1970]

67 in hospital across the entire country with positive covid test within last 28 days. 

9 of those in icu 

[daytripping]

Was reading the hospitality industry is planning going to court to challenge the 10pm curfew, I think it's a good move. The SNP seem to pull these laws out of thin air with no scientific justification behind the rules, it's actually scary how authoritarian they are, they who must be obeyed. England no longer follow the 10pm rule, seems they came to their senses and are actually trying to help business rather than cripple it. If it wasn't for so many people wanting independence I doubt they would have much support, nanny state party. 

[daytripping]

2 minutes ago, Henry said:

She really shouldn't be divulging that type of information to her patients. 

Hahaha, nae bad. 

[Henry]

1 minute ago, daytripping said:

Was reading the hospitality industry is planning going to court to challenge the 10pm curfew, I think it's a good move. The SNP seem to pull these laws out of thin air with no scientific justification behind the rules, it's actually scary how authoritarian they are, they who must be obeyed. England no longer follow the 10pm rule, seems they came to their senses and are actually trying to help business rather than cripple it. If it wasn't for so many people wanting independence I doubt they would have much support, nanny state party. 

I voted yes and will do so again.

Won't vote SNP again though, did well with covid initially but their 'cautious' approach is killing businesses. 

[manboobs109]

24 minutes ago, daytripping said:

Was reading the hospitality industry is planning going to court to challenge the 10pm curfew, I think it's a good move. The SNP seem to pull these laws out of thin air with no scientific justification behind the rules, it's actually scary how authoritarian they are, they who must be obeyed. England no longer follow the 10pm rule, seems they came to their senses and are actually trying to help business rather than cripple it. If it wasn't for so many people wanting independence I doubt they would have much support, nanny state party. 

They can't enforce the 10pm thing. They fucked up the wording of the legislation. The councils are admitting it privately.

[The Buzzard]

29 minutes ago, daytripping said:

Was reading the hospitality industry is planning going to court to challenge the 10pm curfew, I think it's a good move. The SNP seem to pull these laws out of thin air with no scientific justification behind the rules, it's actually scary how authoritarian they are, they who must be obeyed. England no longer follow the 10pm rule, seems they came to their senses and are actually trying to help business rather than cripple it. If it wasn't for so many people wanting independence I doubt they would have much support, nanny state party. 

Read an article yesterday that The Pear Tree pub in Edinburgh (has a large outdoor area for anybody unfamiliar) is keeping its outdoor area open until midnight for drinking.

Apparently there was a tweak to the regulations which said that pubs could open as per their local licensing regulations. I think most boozers were still operating to the 10pm shirting time. 

The owners of the pub checked with licensing department and they seemed to okay it. Will see if I can find the article.

edit: here it is https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/edinburgh-pub-serve-drinks-past-20484553.amp

 

 

[manboobs109]

2 minutes ago, The Buzzard said:

Read an article yesterday that The Pear Tree pub in Edinburgh (has a large outdoor area for anybody unfamiliar) is keeping its outdoor area open until midnight for drinking.

Apparently there was a tweak to the regulations which said that pubs could open as per their local licensing regulations. I think most boozers were still operating to the 10pm shirting time. 

The owners of the pub checked with licensing department and they seemed to okay it. Will see if I can find the article  

 

 

Aye the outdoor area has to be their own space, can't be on pavements or anything. A lot of pubs won't do it though, not worth pissing off the licencing departments.

[Ten Caat]

3 hours ago, daytripping said:

24 in hospital with covids, 2 in ITU, that's the numbers I was told from a mental health nurse I know.

When I was a Charge Nurse, I didn't have access to the bed state of any other hospital other than the one I worked in. 

Unless he/she is actually employed as a bed manager (although why a psychiatric nurse would have a need for access to acute bed statistics I still don't really understand.....the 2 services rarely overlap to any degree)