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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by - Doing The Lambert Walk, Mar 12, 2020.

  1. St. Luigi Scrosoppi

    St. Luigi Scrosoppi Well-Known Member

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    As we are asking ridiculous questions should we send food and support to a country experiencing famine?

    If we didn't send food people would die until there was population equilibrium with enough food to feed everyone who had survived.

    That would have be seen as a "good outcome" by some because a great deal of money would have been saved, which some consider to be very important, and there probably wouldn't be a famine in again.

    A shame about the poor sods that died but that is the consequence of living in a world that is driven by the greed of the very rich few.
     
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    Sweden PM Stefan Lofven has tightened restrictions in recent days - limiting gatherings to 50 - but insists there is still no need to follow the herd. Hmmm bad choice of words........
     
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  3. StJabbo1

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    Now there's a thought, a vaccine to prevent and eradicate the disease. Whilst that's being done how about finding an effective treatment (cure) using an existing or combination of existing drugs to alleviate suffering and prevent deaths in infected patients? Those used for malaria and HIV for example.
     
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  4. Le Tissier's Laces

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  5. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    More effective than a million messages from the government!
     
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  6. Kaito

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    Some Very Good News

    I have just heard from my old friend Sheila who had been away planting trees in Caledonia with a group of youngsters. She then worked with some of the same kids planting more trees on wasteland in and around London and set up a tree seed germinating collective which a large number of families are getting involved with. She has also been helping out as a ‘shopper’ for quite a few old folk with another group of young people and a few cab and van drivers, again in London.

    Unfortunately she caught the Coronavirus 3 weeks ago and was hospitalised for 10 days and ended up being sedated while on a ventilator but she is now ok. Because of the things she has been doing and the people she has mixed with on a close contact basis she is naturally very concerned about others, and realises the virus has spread far and wide around London.

    From a place where she was, according to her own description, of being a “hopeless cancer ridden alcoholic”, she has done some amazing things. She has encouraged so many others to get involved with important community based environmental projects, including growing food at home and in unused spaces. She is definitely a hero to me and I can’t wait to see her again.

    The world needs more people like Sheila.
     
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  7. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    By the way I haven't forgotten about the OWTSGMI on the ruler.

    Just practising a bit more and finding a correctly tuned ruler. Luckily the red ruler I have is better tuned than the black.

    Need to convince Mrs No7 now to film it as I need both hands to play the precision instrument.

    #IsolationMusic
     
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  8. Saints_Alive

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    I'm guessing that an old fashioned wooden ruler would sound the best No7, used to get some real twang with them when I were a lad.

    But I never used it as a rule...:emoticon-0120-doh:
     
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  9. Saints_Alive

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    I can play a mean paper comb, hey maybe we could collaborate like Macca and Stevie, record our bits separately and then send to each other...
     
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  10. thereisonlyoneno7

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    I can see a collaboration on the horizon...
     
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  11. San Tejón

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    A big increase in deaths being announced.
    Puts it at a smidgeon under 8% death rate against the number tested positive.

     
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  12. ChilcoSaint

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    I can make a pleasantly random percussion noise by firing my staple gun into my saucepan cupboard.

    I don’t think isolation is affecting me at all!
     
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    That's a big jump in deaths :(
    Our death rate percentage is meaningless though.
     
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  14. thereisonlyoneno7

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    So I have the melody on the ruler, you have percussion and @Saints_Alive can do the comb. I can see us as the isolation answer to the Saints Marching Jazz Band.

    The Not606 Saints Isolation Jazz Band. Quite catchy.
     
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    Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy said "people need to wake up to the enormity" of the coronavirus pandemic as the club announced 550 non-playing staff will take a 20% pay cut.
    Spurs are owned by billionaire Joe Lewis, the 83-year-old has a net worth of £4.358bn.
    Levy added: "The crushing devastation on industries in many countries, the interdependence of international trade and travel in every aspect of our daily life is only now beginning to be felt.
    We may be the eighth largest club in the world by revenue, according to the Deloitte survey, but all that historical data is totally irrelevant as this virus has no boundaries. I've cancelled my recent Ivory back scratcher order."

    These millionaires are right at the back of the sympathy queue for me.
     
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  16. sotonsaint

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    For the first time today I could definitely feel how this lockdown has affected me mentally , really stabby today over petty minor things I wouldn't normally even think twice about.
     
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  17. thereisonlyoneno7

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    I have said loads of times as a homeworker anyway, my life hasn't really changed. However, I do feel a bit claustrophobic that MrsNo7 is here 24/7 too - she normally only works 2-3 days a week, but I do notice it, and even though we normally spend 4-5 days 24/7 together anyway, we are getting more irritable with each other. I definitely there will be divorces and babies out of this.
     
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  18. sotonsaint

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    Yea completely agree, I dont really get mad at things, I'm as laid back as they come , always like a joke etc. But today the tv went on the wrong channel and something in my brain just blew up ,launched the controls and went outside for some fresh air. Felt very irritable all day tbh. So out of character for me.
     
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    Your not alone. I'm struggling. Feel like a caged animal.
     
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  20. sotonsaint

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    Not sure I can cope with another month of this tbh
     
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