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Simple late night tummy filler...
Steak mince burger, brioche bun.

Fresh (home grown chilli) infused salad...red and green (love green chilli)
And some basic oven chips (chunky)
Will smother in bbq sauce and enjoy with a ribena (fully sugared) with ice...

best regards folks and smiles!
ben
 

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Well this'll be interesting, especially as others start to follow suit, and a modicum of common sense prevailing.

Viva la revolución!

Also given how the Government essentially can't lambast every business it deems rule-breach-worthy, as it's trying to build the economy up, not send it back into the shadows. Nor can they enforce these guidelines really, given the lack of law-keepers around. They'll be run off their feet just fining people as it is!

Not wholly dissimilar to advertizers' 'stand' & 'show of solidarity' against Facebook, whereby it's them that ultimately hold all the cards

Still, whether shops enforce these rules or not, you can bet Karens will be having a bloody field day!

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Well this'll be interesting, especially as others start to follow suit, and a modicum of common sense prevailing.

Viva la revolución!

Also given how the Government essentially can't lambast every business it deems rule-breach-worthy, as it's trying to build the economy up, not send it back into the shadows. Nor can they enforce these guidelines really, given the lack of law-keepers around. They'll be run off their feet just fining people as it is!

Not wholly dissimilar to advertizers' 'stand' & 'show of solidarity' against Facebook, whereby it's them that ultimately hold all the cards

Still, whether shops enforce these rules or not, you can bet Karens will be having a bloody field day!

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Just another one of the governments ridiculous unenforceable laws, right up there with "you are only allowed to go for one walk a day" when it comes to the sanity test.

Supermarket staff on minimum wage contracts cannot be held responsible for enforcing the governments rulings and neither should they be. Yes I will wear a facemask, but if anyone else chooses not to that's entirely up to them - although no doubt we will have the self appointed "Mask Neighbour Watch" prowling the aisles - normally consisting of old ladies with nothing else to do, attempting to take people to task, safe in the knowledge they won't get a punch on the nose (unfortunately).
 
Going to be some very pissed off holidaymakers,UK has announced anyone returning from Spain has to quarantine for 2 weeks.not many would have gone there if they had known there was a chance of that.
Infection rates are rising in quite a few european countries, maybe it was a little too soon to allow
travel abroad.
 
Going to be some very pissed off holidaymakers,UK has announced anyone returning from Spain has to quarantine for 2 weeks.not many would have gone there if they had known there was a chance of that.
Infection rates are rising in quite a few european countries, maybe it was a little too soon to allow
travel abroad.
Bit silly planning a holiday at the moment with all this nonsense going on, my mams cruise was put back till aug 2021, much more safe a option than a cheap and nasty deal in Benidorm or maga for a week this year.
 
Going to be some very pissed off holidaymakers,UK has announced anyone returning from Spain has to quarantine for 2 weeks.not many would have gone there if they had known there was a chance of that.
Infection rates are rising in quite a few european countries, maybe it was a little too soon to allow
travel abroad.
You'd be surprised how many of these TOWIE-wannabe boneheads would have still gone, the threat of a 2-week quarantine wouldn't have stood in the way of a good foreign holiday piss-up
 
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Going to be some very pissed off holidaymakers,UK has announced anyone returning from Spain has to quarantine for 2 weeks.not many would have gone there if they had known there was a chance of that.
Infection rates are rising in quite a few european countries, maybe it was a little too soon to allow
travel abroad.

The actual rules

From 26 July, the FCO advises against all non-essential travel to mainland Spain based on the current assessment of COVID-19 risks. Only the Canary Islands (Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro and La Graciosa) and Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera) are exempt from the FCO advice against all non-essential international travel.

This advice is based on evidence of increases in cases of COVID-19 in several regions, but particularly in Aragon, Navarra and Catalonia (which include the cities of Zaragoza, Pamplona and Barcelona).

The FCO is not advising those already travelling in Spain to leave at this time. Travellers should follow the advice of the local authorities on how best to protect themselves and others, including any measures that they bring in to control the virus. If you are returning from Spain (including from the Balearics and Canaries) on or after 26 July you will be required to quarantine on your return to the UK, but the FCO is not advising you to cut short your visit. You should contact your tour operator or airline if you have any questions about your return journey.
 
Roll up Roll up our furloughed friends!

As TSB will only recognize a furloughed worker's income as £1, yes ONE POUND, they will graciously risk lending you up to four times your salary, so in this case, £4.50! Ready to get mortgaged-up baby?

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Fear not though, get 3 mates to do the same and you could have yourself a very nice house-share!!

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Already had one, this is just bun ready fayre.
slightly overdone, I’m blue usually.
Amongst my friends and peers my eating of steak divides opinion.... thoughts from you lot?..

Eating steak and meat in general? Yes.

Although I'm kind of a heathen, I still hold many Buddhist values dear to my soul. Perhaps I should be a vegan then. But I'm not. I also don't shy away from alcohol.

So you could say I fail at that one too. Life's hard. But fun :)
 
Eating steak and meat in general? Yes.

Although I'm kind of a heathen, I still hold many Buddhist values dear to my soul. Perhaps I should be a vegan then. But I'm not. I also don't shy away from alcohol.

So you could say I fail at that one too. Life's hard. But fun :)
Christ mate! How more cryptic do you want to be lol!.
just the opinion on my steak would of been good mate!..
haha hope your well dude!.
 
Already had one, this is just bun ready fayre.
slightly overdone, I’m blue usually.
Amongst my friends and peers my eating of steak divides opinion.... thoughts from you lot?..

Most look good. I'd eat them. The top row are perfect. A couple could have had another minute or two under the heat but I'd eat those to.

People here who have visited France tell me the restaurant meat is really under cooked almost raw and you have to asked for it medium or well done. Is this true?
 
And I wonder exactly how many will actually quarantine themselves for 2 weeks after coming back

Whilst I understand the spirit of the intent It's another unenforceable rule from our government , we barely have enough police to deal with regular crime and actually believing that public health officials who are probably maxed out with confirmed cases,are going to visit peoples homes to check they are in is just ludicrous, not to mention the flaws in the plan

New arrivals will be told they may be contacted at any time during their quarantine and, in England, may be visited by public health authorities conducting spot checks.

They will be told to avoid public transport and travel to their accommodation by car "where possible", and not to go out to buy food or other essentials "where they can rely on others".


So I go on holiday to Spain, they come back and then quarantine myself for 14 days. Home Office visit (yeah right), I'm not in because I am out buying food and other essentials because I have no one else to rely on and cannot get a home delivery slot. As my daughter would say "Epic Fail Boris"
 
Coronavirus: GPs to prescribe cycling in new obesity strategy

I wonder if they will prescribe a bike as well, I could do with a decent triathlon bike, although as it takes me 30 minutes in a queue to get a regular prescription I don't want to know how long I would have to wait before my bike appeared from behind the Pharmacy counter. It appears that based on the BMI figure 2/3's of the country are clinically obese - based on my BMI this would include myself who works out 2 hours day I assume.

Boris has admitted that his obesity caused him problems during his Coronavirus infection - so this beggars the question

1. Why didn't his cycling help him lose weight

2. Would you rather be obese or walk around the streets looking like this :)

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The first sprinklings of the inevitable fallout from non-maskers!

Given how no one can realistically enforce these rules, further example of how ill-conceived the whole thing was in regards to shopkeepers mandating them in any meaningful way.

It's a flip of a coin if customers are pulled up on it, and probably next to improbable many will get fined, never mind be asked to leave the premises.

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I'd imagine the Government's response would be to increase 'fines' from £100 to £200 and call it 'job done'
 
The first sprinklings of the inevitable fallout from non-maskers!

Given how no one can realistically enforce these rules, further example of how ill-conceived the whole thing was in regards to shopkeepers mandating them in any meaningful way.

It's a flip of a coin if customers are pulled up on it, and probably next to improbable many will get fined, never mind be asked to leave the premises.

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I'd imagine the Government's response would be to increase 'fines' from £100 to £200 and call it 'job done'
Girl walked past me with aplomb the other day no one said a word - most people are just sanguine about it. Do I want to get a punch in the face for trying to enforce the governments ridiculous unenforceable laws on their behalf - hell no. I just gave the girl a wide berth.

As for the police enforcing it, I am convinced that someone plays a jolly jape on them every morning and sticks superglue on their car seats - they seem incapable of getting out of them :-). The only time the police are going to enforce the "masks policy in shops" is when supermarkets make the doors and aisles wide enough to drive a BMW 5 series through and down them.
 
Not heard of anybody being fined yet and i think thats the problem. Until people hear that their mate John got fined £100 for not wearing one in Tescos they will continue to flout.

Without consequences people will do what they want.

Its another sham ruling where the government need to be seen to be doing something.

Enforcing it is something they dont seem to be concerned about. It would have taken a few days of harsh civil enforcement to make people sit up and think twice.

They know this and that makes me wonder why they are not bothered about enforcing it.
 
And here we have the threat of more fines looming large

Fines fines f***ing fines....seemingly the Government's answer to everything! However much they can't even dream to enforce half of it. Probably why they're intent on encouraging an environment of 'grass your fellow man up', or scare people enough to become social vigilantes

Another rush-job, blind panic 'solution' to appear to be doing something. When really outbound travel should have been kept on a tight leash from the outset, nor should travel have been permitted post- 'Super Saturday', certainly not to Covid-riddled hotspots

Gotta get the big industries like Aviation up and running again though eh! Good job!

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It's about time people take some responsability rather than waiting for the government to tell them what to do just so they can go and complain about it on (anti)social media.

Some basic principles like wash your hands and don't cough or sneeze in someone else's face are things which we learn in kindergarten yet when we're adults we want to do whatever the fuck we want because: "damn the government and their 1984 tactics!"

Anyway, atleast people had their holiday. Now we can go back to locking down everything but atleast the tourism sector had their financial injection :thumbsup:
 
It's about time people take some responsability rather than waiting for the government to tell them what to do just so they can go and complain about it on (anti)social media.

Some basic principles like wash your hands and don't cough or sneeze in someone else's face are things which we learn in kindergarten yet when we're adults we want to do whatever the fuck we want because: "damn the government and their 1984 tactics!"

Anyway, atleast people had their holiday. Now we can go back to locking down everything but atleast the tourism sector had their financial injection :thumbsup:
Don't spout your hateful Common Sense on this thread please, thankyou
 
I dread to think what would happen to us if an actual deadly virus arrives, one that actually kills say 15% of those that catch it.

I think we have fired all our economic bullets for the next 10 years at this half arsed one
Only way to draw comparisons to other pandemics is if we had solid data to fall back on. Problem with that being that they botched that by recording quite a few deaths as 'Covid', when they weren't. They've openly admitted to it, and so we end up none the wiser.

So if we're to assume 50%+ were lies, and that despite all the hoo-ha it predominantly ravaged care homes and the elderly, it's fair to say the handling of it was based on, yep, panic and overreaction. Clearly in the cold light of day the numbers would be comparative to the Flu, sorry to say.

And yet I don't recall anyone ever having been needed to be told NOT to cough, sneeze and barf around the vulnerable in society, it was assumed people already extended that courtesy to not endanger them

Common sense by our leaders, the media & 'normal' people would have ensured our economy and all-round way of life needn't have got tanked. But why let that get in the way of a good story
 
re 1984 tactics: Article 21 of the United Nations' 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government".

In this the uk govt have failed, as they've not convinced many of the public of their logic regarding masks, somebody going to a large supermarket, where they are still restricting the number of shoppers in at any one time, must wear a mask but anyone going to socialise in a pub or restaurant doesn't. [or exercise in a gym where there will be a lot of exhaling, prob in an airtight windowless room] children aged under 11, presumably living with adults, don't need a mask but over 11's do, is the science proven for any of this?

Doesn't the difference in rules seem a bit off-kilter, if you're only interest is preventing the spread of this 'deadly' and highly contagious virus? Not only that but have the constant threat of a £100 fine looming in the background for any dissenters.

I think handing out free masks and recommending people use them would have been better, why only use the stick approach when the carrot hasn't been tried and could also work just as well?

The govt and media establishment seem desperate to keep us in this bubble of fear they've created even though the fatality rates are now minimal and linked to the existence of other health conditions, so why not socially restrict these vulnerable citizens, and assist them with guaranteed shopping deliveries etc... instead of imposing restrictions on the whole population? [we could do it for a month and see what happens]

I'd love to hear a politician advocating for continued lockdowns answer that.
 
Just seen this on peter hitchens twitter feed, [ he is very anti what he calls 'face nappies', I will reluctantly obey the mask rule but have my doubts regarding the full motivation ]

this video below is apparently from belgium and because the young man wasn't wearing a mask, do we really want to go this way too? [ obviously my french skills don't extend to understanding what the man said :oops: ]

 
Wow that's a bit heavy isn't it? Is that how the police are allowed to conduct themselves over there?

No doubt they're as confused as anyone else by their leaders' instructions, and have no idea how to enforce them. But that was definitely 'not it'

I shan't imagine anyone getting too het up over this police assault, which it basically is, so don't go expecting outrage or protests anytime soon. And what the hell is it with the pepper spray?
 
Been out in the U.K. loads (Middlesbrough) yeah I think the virus is a load of wank, massively overhyped and a storm in a tea cup...
Nope don’t think the measures imposed we need, nor do I think it’s the plague many seem to think...
But...
many folks are worried, some won’t leave the house, and some are so sensitive they don’t or won’t have contact with anyone at all..
The media blitz is and has been a a disgrace, it’s shameful the fear they instilled in people..

but I’ll happily wear a mask if it makes someone else feel better, ffs it’s not hard nor a issue.. those resisting masks are just selfish cunts, many old folks worry, loads of people have health issues...
if your that concerned wearing a mask then just fuck off, goes to show how easy and pathetic your life was before Covid...

Sorry, shit mood mods so go easy.
but a argument over a fucking face mask...
that’s 2020... clown world
 
Just seen this on peter hitchens twitter feed, [ he is very anti what he calls 'face nappies', I will reluctantly obey the mask rule but have my doubts regarding the full motivation ]

this video below is apparently from belgium and because the young man wasn't wearing a mask, do we really want to go this way too? [ obviously my french skills don't extend to understanding what the man said :oops: ]



That's because it's in Dutch, actually it's a local dialect from Aalst, Oost-Vlaanderen (city between Ghent and Brussels) :p

Anyway, the copper obviously overreacted but the guy (who is 39 btw and acting cool amongst his fellow skaters :D ) called him a fascist and nazi along with firing some other friendly banter at him.

 

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