Not in Australia, no.Quote:
Originally Posted by woodPixel
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Not in Australia, no.Quote:
Originally Posted by woodPixel
I present to you The Plague Stick!Quote:
Originally Posted by BobL
Works wonderfully.
Opens doors, presses buttons, picks up bags, moves parcels, the lot!
Clever chimp :)
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I use a walking =stick because of my disability resulting from my military service (Yes, BobL, I'm discussing disability again, sorry if that "says it all" for you but to me it's a fact of life)Quote:
Originally Posted by woodPixel
I have found myself using the various parts of the walking stick to be useful for many things like opening doors and pushing lift buttons etc.
Oh, internet, I hate thee.
Now, up pops a comic, almost tailored to the very conversations we are having here. I have every anti-spyware non-tracking anonymised browser and plugin ever devised and The They still throw up these things (so, says The Internet, "I heard you were talking about...")
Worth a bit of a giggle. We are all guilty of being "Dick" :)
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Lol, nailed it! It's the internet's fault!Quote:
Originally Posted by woodPixel
Before the internet, what did we call trolls?
My wife also uses one, due to the wild and whacky ever-changing vagaries of a big brain tumour.... but it has been very useful.Quote:
Originally Posted by doug3030
I can wave it at pesky teenagers who are loitering to get off my lawn!
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Maybe if they stopped social distancing and open up the States with people protesting , in a few months the problem would be buried?
Narcissistic sociopathsQuote:
Originally Posted by Kuffy
Grotesque misfits, full of anger, well-balanced ( chips on both shoulders :wink:), resorted to living under bridges, greedy and unable to know when they are out of their depth until a really big Gruff Billygoat comes along and gives them a huge helping of GBH.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kuffy
Regards
Paul
Is it all part of a Cunning Plan by The Grand Cheeto?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lappa
Drive all the nutters into the streets, in vast mobs, repeatedly, to cross pollinate and therefore be the perpetrators of their own doom?
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edit - I was catching up with the days news with a very decent latte and saw this rather profound article - Conservatives Fuel Protests Against Coronavirus Lockdowns - The New York Times
It makes me wonder. It really does. Imagine this being in your city. Wow.
A companion pic for you, from The Guardian.Quote:
Originally Posted by woodPixel
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You can see state by state break down here. United States Coronavirus: 738,913 Cases and 39,015 Deaths - WorldometerQuote:
Originally Posted by Bushmiller
Andrew Cuomo, the brother of CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is actually a democrat. Trump can't successfully attack Cuomo because Trump is not popular in New York at all and not many people listen to him there.
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Originally Posted by RossM
It does seem rather odd that these spontaneous (ahem!) displays of discontent should be taking place in those states with Democratic senators given that there are also Republican led states who also have lock-down regimes at the moment.
The two photos showing angry demonstrators protesting outside their state's Capitol (?) buildings (maybe Courthouse?) put me in mind of the angry, flaming-torch wielding mob storming Frankenstein's castle in the old movies.
Pete
I hope they are watching the one world together concert on ABC and NBC after a hard day protestingQuote:
Originally Posted by FenceFurniture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSOYLyJ7KYw
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Originally Posted by doug3030
Hi Doug
Maybe jargon has changed in the last 50 years.
I worked in a civy job at Defence in the sixties at the height of the Vietnam War and then Sigs was commonly referred to as "the other switchboard". All we knew was a building that we did not go into.
Yes terminology changes with time. When I was working there I was like WoodPixel said earlier - we were all cleaners, gardeners or worked in the canteen.Quote:
Originally Posted by GraemeCook
I have been out of that field now for a quarter of a century and I feel it is safe now to tell people what my job title was but not necessarily what it entailed. I have no information from that time that would currently be of use to anyone any more.
One thing that remains with me from those days is the ability to be able to work out what is really happening in the world from the lies and half-truths put out by the media.
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Originally Posted by Justonething
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Originally Posted by FenceFurniture
I did not know who Stuart Roberts was, so I googled, and top of the list was a this headline from the Guardian.
Stuart Robert's incompetence on MyGov should accelerate his ...
Little point in reading further or doing more research!
[Just repeat my "research" if you think I am making this up.
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Originally Posted by Bushmiller
Quiet, now, Paul
Gerry Harvey will want ScoMo to make it compulsory for everyone to own a "coronavirus monitoring" mobile. Purely for the purpose of saving mankind, and nothing to do with the profit line.
FF; you omitted to caption your photo.Quote:
Originally Posted by FenceFurniture
Is it a meeting of Mensa ?
Sorry Graeme, sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by GraemeCook
(speaks sotto voce) I am not actually opposed to mobile phones per se as I can see where they are very useful. I do despair a little at how often they appear in people's hands, but look at me on the computer contributing to Nothing About Woodwork so who am I to cast judgement there. My beef is with the absurd amount of money I have to part with for the pleasure of such communication.
So the question is "who will pay for my phone?" At work they have on record our mobile phones so they can text us at a single stroke if they are short of people or have some other emergency. "Paul. Do you have a mobile number?"
"No."
End of conversation. Clearly not important enough for them to supply me with a device and pay for a plan. An impasse.
Regards
Paul
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https://www.woodworkforums.com/image...quote_icon.png Originally Posted by RossMhttps://www.woodworkforums.com/image...post-right.png
I find it astonishing and sad that there was so much opposition to the Australia Card - triggering a double dissolution - and yet a majority of people are paying thousands of dollars (via their smart phone) for the privilege of being tracked to a level that George Orwell would find hard to imagine.
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Yes...Quote:
Originally Posted by GraemeCook
It's "corporate" Mensa. Add up the IQ of any twenty persons and you have one member. In this case the combined score probably easily exceeds 148, although on reflection that may also include the cameraman on the right at the back, who I don't believe is part of the protesting group (no goatee and only prepared to shoot with a camera) :(.
A further thought has just occurred. Could this be the "trigger" the US was looking for to ramp back the lock down restrictions?
Regards
Paul
There seems to be a lot of nationally known celebrities dying in the States (with a few internationally known ones too). So much so that the newspapers are sometimes saying "So and So did NOT die from Coronavirus related illness.
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Originally Posted by Bushmiller
Sorry Paul,
This article does sound credible, but it was sourced from the Daily Mail, a British tabloid with a very creative reputation for news reporting.
Let us hope that something on the same issues is published in a medical journal.
Very droll Paul, very droll.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bushmiller
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Originally Posted by woodPixel
Whacking recalcitrant Forumites?
It may have been sourced from the Daily Mail but unlikely that one of their journos wrote it. The Australian arm of the Daily Mail features exceptionally regularly on Media Watch - at least twice per month. They are a pack of plagiarists who write nothing original, and cherry pick their plagiarised stories to the limit of "must be sensational BS click bait".Quote:
Originally Posted by GraemeCook
Yes, I guess they do have to stand up for themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by doug3030
- Obviously the disabled can't do it. Some of them don't even have legs to stand up on, even for themselves, and others can't see where to stand because they are blind, like my mate. While the mentally ill just aren't sufficiently aware of others to see the desperate plight of those able-bodied white heterosexual males.
- And, as usual, those women are holding down a job and trying to get ahead in their careers to help pay for the mortgage, as well as multitasking the bulk of the domestic labour and childcare. That is when they are not trying to avoid domestic violence (1 woman a week dies at hands of partner) and pretending they are not too exhausted for you know what. Anyway, women just don't understand how tough life is for an able-bodied white heterosexual male.
- Likewise, forget about those gender/sexual preference lot. What would they know about very masculine heterosexuals? They are worse than the hetrosexual women. Anyway, no self respecting able-bodied white heterosexual male would want anything to do with them. Like, it could be catching or if the alphabets started lobbying for them it might be thought that able-bodied white heterosexual male are not as hetrosexual as they would like everyone else to think they are!
- That comes to the minority ethnic groups. Where to start? Take for example the aborigines. They reckon they are so hard done dying 8-9 years younger, having much poorer health and housing despite all living off our welfare and drinking less alcohol than the rest of us, that they don't seem to think able-bodied white heterosexual males are one of their priorities to go in to bat for. While the other ethnics are too busy filling the top places in our universities with their second generation kids. Somehow they think that life is OK here and don't seem to get the plight of the able-bodied white heterosexual male at all.
So, yes, the able-bodied white heterosexual males are just going to have to stand up for themselves. Nobody else seems to be doing it for them the way they feel it should be done for them.
I feel for all those downtrodden able-bodied white heterosexual males that they feel the need to have to stand up for themselves. Those that are lobbying for the other groups that are being discriminated against have a lot to answer for and are probably the reason why the downtrodden able-bodied white heterosexual males are having such a bad time of it.
Media Watch still has an audience ? Of at least one!Quote:
Originally Posted by FenceFurniture
>=2
Having grown up: Nope, I'll rephrase that: Having spent my formative years in the UK, I am aware of the Daily Mail's ranking in the integrity stakes and I did hesitate to link them. However, I felt it was as Graeme said "credible," but this is just a gut feeling and only time will tell. If patients being treated with the ventilator are dying there may well be some truth. I may pursue the story some more to assess the validity ( or maybe one of the sleuths would like to have a go too as I am certainly not precious about it).
Just as a point of interest, the "blog" I linked to early in this thread (about a thousand years ago roughly) from Craig Dalton may be regarded as bona fide. He is one of a panel of eight who have been advising the federal government. The irony here is that just because the panel gives advice, it does not mean this is automatically adopted! Read into that what you will.
Regards
Paul
Thanks JOTQuote:
Originally Posted by justonething
Michigan is number six on the worst affected. Over 30,000 cases. Ironic?
Trump is nevertheless still having a go at Cuomo. Even if NY is a lost cause for him, he probably thinks it makes him look good in his heartland. Oh, hold on, there is no evidence he has one of those organs.
Regards
Paul
Hi,
I had the impression they only went onto the ventilator after the oxygen mask was not working.
Could be wrong but that was what i gathered.
Regards
I like the NZ solution to tracing. Keep a diary and every night note down you who met up with and spoke to that day for 15 minutes. I guess they must all know each other? "Err . . . the lady with the yellow and white checked pillbox I sat behind on the bus, . . . . . . "
Dear Diary: Ardern'''s new COVID-19 stopper
And all the sheep have names.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobL
Gee NeilS the Bowelturner, you must have had a REALLY bad day...Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilS
Not strictly true (though I think the sentiment is correct). I sold a boat today for $14,000 but I doubt it was an "essential" purchase...Quote:
Originally Posted by woodPixel
A written diary shows the level of literacy skills here in NZ. No need to consider an app for our citizens. :UQuote:
Originally Posted by doug3030
And of course our sheep have names. How else would we call them in at night? :roll:
Pete