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

  1. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    You can have a whole carriage to yourselves too, as hardly anyone is using the tube <ok>
     
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  2. SaintsForTheWin

    SaintsForTheWin Any holes a goal

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    Sounds like heaven, I may do a museum trip before the 2nd lockdown begins
     
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  3. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Check the museum is open first (I think most of them are now), and try to avoid travelling when the kids are on their way to school.

    But if you want to get away from crowds for a day, go to central London. And if you have time for a bit of shopping, the shopkeepers will be really pleased to see you and you should get some bargains.
     
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  4. SaintsForTheWin

    SaintsForTheWin Any holes a goal

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    Shopping it is then haha

    Do you think they do some drop prices on Gucci? Haha
     
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  5. San Tejón

    San Tejón Well-Known Member

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    You could always haggle. If the trade isn’t there, they might give a discount.
     
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  6. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    Sorry, can’t help you there, I wouldn’t know Gucci from Lamborghini. Got a good discount on Darjeeling in the Covent Garden Tea House though, if that helps.
     
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  7. Saintmagic

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    Might get them down to about 300 quid a t shirt
     
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  8. SaintsForTheWin

    SaintsForTheWin Any holes a goal

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    Bargain
     
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  9. San Tejón

    San Tejón Well-Known Member

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    Apparently our test and trace system has a backlog of 185,000, and we are sending tests abroad because the privatised (not the NHS as Johnson keeps claiming) system isn’t as efficient as the government would have us believe.
    But then, we already knew that.
     
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  10. San Tejón

    San Tejón Well-Known Member

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    A government adviser in behaviour asking valid questions.
    Are the rise in infections because people aren’t following government advice, or because they are.

     
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  11. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    I’ve been saying this all along; we are being encouraged, often by a hysterical media and certainly by the government, to point the finger of blame at each other. If there is a second spike, it will be down to people on the beach, people in parks, protesters, people not wearing masks, your neighbours having a barbecue etc. It’s a phony narrative imo., designed to apportion blame away from a government that hasn’t got a clue what it’s doing (our government is far from being alone in that regard btw.)
     
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  12. Saints_Alive

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    Divide and rule has been a common political tactic since time immemorial.
     
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  13. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Had young Fable round the other night, and she made a very pertinent point regarding the proliferation of opinions and social media etc.

    She said: "the problem is that our sense of community used to be based around geography, but now, through social media, our community is ideologically based".

    She's absolutely right, and hence everyone being incredibly binary, and terrified of learning or being 'wrong'.
     
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  14. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    It’s a very good point. She’s a clever young woman, and she’ll go far.
     
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  15. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Left school at 16, no qualifications, daughter of a forklift truck driver. The sort of person Rees-Mogg would hate!

    (Sorry, strayed towards politics there. Back to Covid!)
     
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  16. fatletiss

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    According to my wife, I never learn and I’m always wrong.
     
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  17. StJabbo1

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    That's the default status for most of us.
     
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  18. San Tejón

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    To be honest, I was closely following what was happening in Spain, who are about 3 weeks ahead of us in the first and second spikes of the virus, and we started to loosen the lockdown at an earlier stage of control, than they did.
    I have made comments about this before and have always believed that we were slow to lockdown and too early to unlock.
    Have we actually had a day on which no covid death has been recorded, yet?
    I am sure that all the other countries did get down to zero, for several days/weeks in some cases, before the resurgence in infections.
     
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  19. fran-MLs little camera

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    Keir Starmer isolating whilst awaiting test on member of his household.
     
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  20. St. Luigi Scrosoppi

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    Johnson will be reived as Starmer wont be there on Wednesday for PMQ to make him look a fool, never a difficult task.
     
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