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by dantedelew
Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:51 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3357398

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

It shows the scale in the rise of admissions from care homes. I’m sorry his presentation isn’t optimal for you. So not Covid related? Nah, the excess deaths of the people are unlikely to be Covid related right ? You've lost me. You're now saying the chart is excess deaths? I’m sorry you don’t under...
by dantedelew
Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3357398

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Lockdown here failing the most vulnerable. https://twitter.com/Stat_O_Guy/status/1349303693632483328 Just had a quick look at the graph and honestly, I'm not sure what it's trying to tell me. It doesn't even say whether it's covid admissions or general admissions. What does normal look like for thi...
by dantedelew
Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:41 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3357398

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Lockdown here failing the most vulnerable. https://twitter.com/Stat_O_Guy/status/1349303693632483328 Just had a quick look at the graph and honestly, I'm not sure what it's trying to tell me. It doesn't even say whether it's covid admissions or general admissions. What does normal look like for thi...
by dantedelew
Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:33 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3357398

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Lockdown here failing the most vulnerable. https://twitter.com/Stat_O_Guy/status/1349303693632483328 Just had a quick look at the graph and honestly, I'm not sure what it's trying to tell me. It doesn't even say whether it's covid admissions or general admissions. What does normal look like for thi...
by dantedelew
Mon Jan 04, 2021 1:26 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3357398

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

message #2527204 wrote: Mon Jan 04, 2021 1:10 pm Not sure why we spend all this money on scientists and data.
There's a guy from the NUT on the radio who knows much more about epidemiology than any of them.
Which poster is he?
by dantedelew
Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:10 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans
Replies: 61014
Views: 3357398

Re: Coronavirus Thread. Virus v humans

Huge day in the battle against this vaccine. The Oxford vaccine now being given to first patients in UK. This vaccine is cheap, easy to make at scale and easy to distribute. Incredible effort by the scientists involved. This will help on a global scale. 👍 Terry mate, I don't think it's the vaccine ...
by dantedelew
Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:40 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Replies: 40892
Views: 2092385

Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread

In further good news, this is from Liz Truss (the most popular Conservative MP at the moment according to Conservative Home) has signed 3 more FTAs. We've secured trade continuity deals with 3 more countries: Moldova, Samoa & Solomon Islands. Now we have deals covering 61 countries & trade worth £1...
by dantedelew
Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:38 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Replies: 40892
Views: 2092385

Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread

Happy days, total exclusive use of our waters!
by dantedelew
Mon Dec 14, 2020 11:05 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Replies: 40892
Views: 2092385

Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread

So what you're saying is that you rather being called "emotional" than stupid. Doesn't matter what EU citizens call us. Only matter's what UK politicians and the woke celebrities call us. I don't think Brexiteers care or notice what the world outside the UK think. But why such fragility? Why allow ...
by dantedelew
Mon Dec 14, 2020 8:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Replies: 40892
Views: 2092385

Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread

mdaclarke wrote: Mon Dec 14, 2020 7:55 pm...comments by remainers that we are weak (and or racist/thick), just gets the Brexiteers backs up and makes them even more determined to leave deal or no deal.
Do you think that's an intelligent response?
by dantedelew
Sun Dec 13, 2020 2:07 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Replies: 40892
Views: 2092385

Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread

Morality isn't the point. The point is we have a single market. You are a 3rd country. We dont want you to have free access. Want is the key word here unless you're willing to concede on something important to you like freedom of movement . Its like looking to join a club. You can't just demand to ...
by dantedelew
Fri Dec 11, 2020 2:01 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Overrated cities?
Replies: 343
Views: 23066

Re: Overrated cities?

It's a great city. I lived there for a few years and yes the rugby's expat-heavy but it's good and it's social. (Powerhouse is an awesome club!) And the beaches thing.... it just ain't that place. The beaches are better than any city in the UK but agreed, they're not as good as Sydney, but if you w...
by dantedelew
Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:58 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Overrated cities?
Replies: 343
Views: 23066

Re: Overrated cities?

If only Melbourne was a rugby town , its light years ahead of Sydney as a place to live I reckon . I found it a bit underwhelming, tbh. I've not had nearly the amount of time in Melb as Sydney, but there's nothing about my experiences of Melbourne that screams at me to come back. Maybe it was becau...
by dantedelew
Thu Dec 10, 2020 4:05 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Replies: 40892
Views: 2092385

Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread

Listening to LBC UK radio. The airwaves on that station are totally consumed by Brexit. Often entertaining and boring in equal measure. Some prize idiots call in to the shows. Presenter Sheila Fogarty said earlier travel from Britain to Ireland might not even be allowed after a non deal. She descri...
by dantedelew
Thu Dec 10, 2020 3:54 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Replies: 40892
Views: 2092385

Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread

Listening to LBC UK radio. The airwaves on that station are totally consumed by Brexit. Often entertaining and boring in equal measure. Some prize idiots call in to the shows. Presenter Sheila Fogarty said earlier travel from Britain to Ireland might not even be allowed after a non deal. She descri...
by dantedelew
Mon Dec 07, 2020 11:17 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Player of the decade
Replies: 162
Views: 9733

Re: Player of the decade

Jerome Manning wrote: Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:56 pm George North in the team of the decade? Errr wot :?
I don't know what the selection criteria are but he's the highest try-scoring current international, has scored at least a couple of tries every year since 2010. And looks to be in the top 3 try scorers in the decade.
NB: Stats not verified.
by dantedelew
Fri Nov 20, 2020 1:45 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 838099

Re: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.

Also if you want crazy have a look at the gas boilers goooooone by 2023, to be replaced with a technology that isn’t even available and regulated right now. It seems like the 2023 date might have been in there originally but it has been removed from the plan now. So you can relax. https://www.gov.u...
by dantedelew
Sun Nov 15, 2020 10:19 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
Replies: 126890
Views: 9021028

Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all

And here's a view on the march and associated violence from the AP. In terms of sequencing it describedms what I had picked up. -Mainly peaceful march during the day. -Violence came during the night when the counter protesting kicked in after the march. -Packs hunting MAGA stragglers. https://www.s...
by dantedelew
Sun Nov 15, 2020 9:55 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Jeff's All New and Sad Wales Ratings v Ireland
Replies: 29
Views: 2465

Re: Jeff's All New and Sad Wales Ratings v Ireland

I bet Carre doesn't start against Georgia or England. He will de damaged for along time by Pivac's stupidity. What's your view here? That Carre shouldn't have been picked to start against a 6-nations team or that he shouldn't have been subbed? He has some criticisms, but Eddie Jones tactic of getti...
by dantedelew
Sun Nov 15, 2020 8:56 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Jeff's All New and Sad Wales Ratings v Ireland
Replies: 29
Views: 2465

Re: Jeff's All New and Sad Wales Ratings v Ireland

C69 wrote: Sun Nov 15, 2020 11:42 am I bet Carre doesn't start against Georgia or England.
He will de damaged for along time by Pivac's stupidity.
What's your view here? That Carre shouldn't have been picked to start against a 6-nations team or that he shouldn't have been subbed?
by dantedelew
Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:18 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Mutiny in the Welsh camp?
Replies: 40
Views: 3210

Re: Mutiny in the Welsh camp?

Rumours of player power. All very reminiscent of Gareth Thomas and his cohort of bitches in 06 in taking down Ruddock. Why did that happen again? You’s had a Grand Slam in 2005 and we’re playing well from memory. The assistant coach Scott Johnson managed to turn the players heads against 6 Nations ...
by dantedelew
Fri Nov 06, 2020 9:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Palmer goooooooooone
Replies: 3
Views: 660

Re: Palmer goooooooooone

RIP. He's slammed his last lamb.
by dantedelew
Fri Nov 06, 2020 11:23 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: ex-POTUS DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all
Replies: 126890
Views: 9021028

Re: POTUS-DONALD TRUMP-and U.S. Politics catch-all

mightyreds wrote: Fri Nov 06, 2020 11:17 am I just pray that integrity can prevail, leaving the Republicans to win
Oh, hi Paula.
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by dantedelew
Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:27 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 838099

Re: Boris goooooone or just Cummings?

See the hard left Education Union and twitter (which is also hard left leaning) are calling for the schools be closed. This would be amazingly unpopular in the normal non-twitter world, especially given the harm caused to children (who generally don't suffer severe symptoms. I note that the NAHT wa...
by dantedelew
Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:35 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: SNP waste yet more millions of taxpayers money
Replies: 34
Views: 2028

Re: SNP waste yet more millions of taxpayers money

Well that bit is just horseshit - plenty of taxpayers money was wasted, including on consultants directly in the Seaborne case and in settling law suits as a result of awarding the contract to them (total ferry-gate costs in the region of £85m I believe). Of course how much more would have been squ...
by dantedelew
Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: SNP waste yet more millions of taxpayers money
Replies: 34
Views: 2028

Re: SNP waste yet more millions of taxpayers money

Well that bit is just horseshit - plenty of taxpayers money was wasted, including on consultants directly in the Seaborne case and in settling law suits as a result of awarding the contract to them (total ferry-gate costs in the region of £85m I believe). Of course how much more would have been squ...
by dantedelew
Fri Oct 30, 2020 4:08 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: French terror attacks.
Replies: 381
Views: 17511

Re: French terror attacks.

It kind of feels like that what he said doesn't it? Given his determination to not pay lip service, I'm struggling to see how he'd have enough of an amiable waffle of a conversation with a colleague to determine that they're a conservative religious loon.
by dantedelew
Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:40 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: French terror attacks.
Replies: 381
Views: 17511

Re: French terror attacks.

You can congratulate yourself for having amiable conversations about waffle with conservative religious loons around the water cooler of whatever persuasion you like if it makes you feel high and mighty but all you're doing in paying lip service to oppressive iron-aged nonsense. How would you know ...
by dantedelew
Mon Oct 26, 2020 2:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NASA Moon Discovery
Replies: 5
Views: 793

Re: NASA Moon Discovery

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by dantedelew
Wed Oct 07, 2020 12:37 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Boris' New Jerusalem
Replies: 24
Views: 1242

Re: Boris' New Jerusalem

22 As a result of credit and fraud risks, the Department and the Bank’s preliminary central estimate is that 35% to 60% of borrowers may default on the loans but the estimate is highly uncertain. Government’s default estimates at Scheme launch ranged between 30% and 75%. The latest estimates, inclu...
by dantedelew
Wed Oct 07, 2020 10:31 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Boris' New Jerusalem
Replies: 24
Views: 1242

Re: Boris' New Jerusalem

22 As a result of credit and fraud risks, the Department and the Bank’s preliminary central estimate is that 35% to 60% of borrowers may default on the loans but the estimate is highly uncertain. Government’s default estimates at Scheme launch ranged between 30% and 75%. The latest estimates, inclu...
by dantedelew
Wed Oct 07, 2020 10:12 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Greta Thunberg
Replies: 4042
Views: 236842

Re: Greta Thunberg

Nah, the Republican party were speaking shite about Global Warming before the internet became such a vehicle for disinformation. I'd call the politicalisation of the environmental cause 50% of the disinformation problem. I think Al Gore meant well but when he released an 'Inconvenient Truth' which ...
by dantedelew
Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:56 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Replies: 40892
Views: 2092385

Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread

OK I will take you at your word. Do you believe people voting to leave did so thinking that if we left we would still be subject the the ECJ I believe most people have no idea what the ECJ is or does, beyond that I don't know. But probably not, I think they voted to take back the £350 million, to s...
by dantedelew
Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:36 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Replies: 40892
Views: 2092385

Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread

bimboman wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:16 am Trade deal agreed with Japan. :o
Sounds positive. Let's hope HMG sticks to it.
by dantedelew
Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:03 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 838099

Re: Boris goooooone or just Cummings?

Apparently Covid death figures wrong. England counting anyone tested positive for CV that dies, even if they die months later. Scotland, Wales, NI and probably everyone else only counting deaths within a few days of the positive test. There are already different ways of counting the deaths; positiv...
by dantedelew
Thu Jul 16, 2020 8:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 838099

Re: Boris goooooone or just Cummings?

redderneck wrote:It is indeed probably a Typo. Although it would have been easier to inadvertently type typo than to Type Typo.
Nah, the typo “jews” autocorrects to “Jews”.

Very harsh ban tbf.
by dantedelew
Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:00 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Replies: 40892
Views: 2092385

Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread

Its easy to find this stuff: Arguments supporting the existence of a democratic deficit Critics of the democratic legitimacy of the E.U. tend to point to three areas of democratic accountability representative democracy – European and national parliamentary involvement participatory involvement – p...
by dantedelew
Thu Jul 16, 2020 2:52 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Scummings going by Xmas..... Boris next year.
Replies: 9918
Views: 838099

Re: Boris goooooone or just Cummings?

Ah, soooooo an article published yesterday is superseded by an article that's over 2 months old and from the .... Guardian :lol: :lol: :lol: Well, every one claimed cleared ..... I’ll have a wager that the guardian is talking shite. How’s that. You quote the canary , Guardian and worse , they’re an...
by dantedelew
Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:08 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Great GIFS Thread (Not all NSFW have been spoilered...)
Replies: 22269
Views: 3776295

Re: Great GIFS Thread (Not all NSFW have been spoilered...)

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Williams v Read?