Off Topic The "Discuss Anything Else" Thread

The scientists are calling for a National Lockdown
The leader of the opposition is calling for a National Lockdown

remember back to 16 March this year...we are in the same situation and the government are making THE SAME MISTAKES.
back then their dithering was thought to have cost about 20,000 extra deaths. we will see the same again, because they refuse to learn from their mistakes.

 

Well Captain Flops before you go slinging mud maybe you should reflect on the December you had. I can tell you it was abysmal. Then you go and bang in another four losers with your first effort in January.

I never called myself the Bumper King that was the people that run this site, I didn’t ask for it and it obviously vexes you. Would you like me to have it removed if it offends you so much?

Maybe you will earn your own title some day other than the one you have already, well known MEMBER.

 

Brilliant....well I look forward to the next wheelbarrow job whenever that may be..

The well known member is of course the default title and is fine with me.

To be honest save for the wheelbarrow job post which made me laugh a lot, I struggle to remember any of your posts. The fact you remember so many of mine, keep track of my losers and winners, cite posts going back to March and can't stop responding to my posts feels like you are my stalker.

Hopefully you are not that weird...It is obvious to me though that you are full of your own self importance so I put your behaviour down to more of a jealousy thing..

 

Funny as I was only responding to your totally unsolicited post. Seems that you are the stalker and the jealous one. Adios

 

In one post you have pretty much summarised your own inconsistencies and hypocrisy.

You criticise the government for mixed messaging but not the so-called scientists.
FACT: the government originally stated that it would “follow the science”.
FACT: SAGE (the “science”) originally said do not lockdown as it will cause a second wave.
FACT: SAGE then changed their view to lockdown. This led to a second wave as they had originally predicted.

Just remind us when you have ever criticised SAGE. I have done it very, very frequently. I would have sacked SAGE a long time ago. If they were working in the private sector they would have been sacked months ago but instead they are on the public sector gravy train. If you want to see lies and deception on TV, just watch any performance by various so-called experts from SAGE with their sensational charts predicting imminent Armageddon.

Any fool like you is hopelessly behind with their thinking. The ‘new’ variant of the plague has already spread all over the country but in your world of pure stupidity closing the stable door now the horse has galloped away makes perfect sense.

In your sad deluded Remainer world you seem to think that this has something to do with Brexit. What a clever plague it is singling us out because we left the floundering EU ship. Heavens forbid that anybody suggest any form of rational reasoning taking into account such things as population density or demographics. Is that Israel a different one to the one with a population of 9 million, less than a million over 60? Next you will be comparing London to St David’s.

The Nightingale hospitals are still there but strangely they have not been needed as only purely stupid people like you listen to the hysteria whipped up by the mass media. The NHS has had nine months to get its act together but has learned nothing from its mistakes in that time because the management is totally incompetent; and hopefully after the plague has gone the public will insist on massive structural reform of an organisation that has not been fit for purpose for decades.

No word yet on when you are moving to a Covid Cave in Scotland. You can stalk Wee Jimmy McKrankie, your idea of a good leader; a woman desperate to get independent of oversight from London so that she can have oversight from Brussels. Look at the fantastic record of the Scottish Nationalists in power: worsening NHS record and worsening education. She could not organise a p*ss up in a distillery. King Sean is dead so who is next in line?

When you refer to a ‘white elephant’, should that not be a ‘pale, male and stale elephant’?

 

Why on earth would I seek election in a post-Industrial wasteland where the Council consists of 31 lunatic Labour, 24 centre-left Lib Dem and just 2 centre-right Conservatives? With local election turnouts of barely 30 per cent, local democracy is a sham just as it would appear to be in dead-end backwater Bangor where you are one of six Independents on a Council run by the nine Welsh Nationalists of Plaid Cymru.

If I had any desire to stand for public office, I would move to somewhere where the political thinking was more to the right as it is generally easier to get votes when you share the views of those around you. I wonder why more and more people move away from Hull every year. It cannot possibly be that young people see better prospects anywhere but here with the dinosaurs of old Labour still in charge forty years after the Big Beasts died out. Perhaps Boris will make it a free port, so more and more traffic will pass through and create jobs on the docks.

There are nearly a thousand misfits and weirdos in Bangor as they voted for an Independent Communist to represent them. Power to the people.

 

I’ll get some popcorn in

 

I think it's well known that I'm not BJ's biggest fan but credit where credit is due. Just saw his speech to the nation and was impressed by the content and clarity of the speech. Sure some advisors wrote the script but it still had to be delivered and deliver it well he did

 

Oddy said no WUMming

 

. I wasn't, honest

 

I’ve reported you. Not having that at all.

thought it was the usual diatribe, schools closed but nurseries open. Go to work but stay at home.

no clarity, too little and too late.

 

Ah; OK, I'd better delete it then. Let me have my cuppa first

 

You are entitled to your opinion, just jesting you, but I don’t see how it was anything but the same old too little too late from Boris.

 

I thought that he delivered it well but I was a bit disappointed by the content - think the lockdown could have been stricter.
I predicted on here a couple of days ago that schools would be closed by the end of the week and they are now closed already so maybe he is slowly learning to get a bit quicker with his decision making.

 

Had to try and get my phone fixed today. Socially distanced, the shop owner told me he was on the vulnerable list and had been given a jab date. He then told me that he had had the covid app on his phone but had to remove it. The reason was it was giving him positives (one day 15) despite him not being within 15 feet of anyone else. When contacted he was told the reason was people who should have been isolating were walking past his shop.
I talked about population density being a factor the other day, the fact is that that factor is swamped by the denseness of a lot of people.

 

I watched Boris's speech earlier and I thought it was a rousing speech with a clear message delivered with real professionalism.

Made me feel proud to have voted for Boris in the last election and I really wanted to give him a well deserved pat on the back. .

First he delivers Brexit then delivers this rousing speech with such aplomb. Bravo I say Bravo!!

 

surely that’s sarcasm , or are you serious ?

 

What seems like an age ago, I originated the Politics thread because I saw the EU as a hot topic. But for this we would not have had such debate on a Horse Racing Forum. I was right, it was a hot topic and generated thousands of posts. In that respect it was one of my smarter moves on the forum. But, as has been seen, it had its downside. Having witnessed politically laced debates between my older brother and my dad, I learned from an early age never to discuss politics in the family where there are underlying conflicting views. The debates seemed endless and pointless and, as a young lad, they seemed to me to be arguments. As a result I went through life never getting involved in any political discussions. However, The Referendum aroused my interest and the thread was born. Now, as an old man myself, I have learned through that thread (and more recently this thread) that debating politics amongst friends with underlying conflicting views is just as harmful

I feel that much of the unrest on this forum is due to the introduction, by me, of politically oriented threads and therefore, with Brexit officially achieved now, and with the development of Covid vaccinations well underway, I suggest that there is no longer any need to pursue political topics on this Horse Racing Forum and will be looking to discuss with Oddy an additional change to the Forum Rules to refrain from politically motivated posts

Although this would reduce the amount of posts on the forum, I believe it will help to bring us back to the one big happy family we once were, predominantly a horse racing forum with the facility to discuss other topics amongst ourselves; just not politically motivated ones

Thank you for your attention