A very pleasant change from being attacked by psycho seagulls..!!! The editorial crew must have great craic coming up with their headlines..
GiggidyGoo
Id say the people at ALDI have a far more fulfilling job thinking up names for products that are imitations of well-known items.
Cú Chulainn
Never been in an Aldi, but I’m sure you’re right.. they might need to get even more creative next year..
Janet, dreams of big guns
they actually sell the best frozen butter croissants I have found in Ireland, a few minutes in the oven and it’s the closest to the real thing I have had here, I go just for that
millie madonna
Big fans of the super valu frozen pain au chocolat. Delicious weekend treat with real coffee.
Janet, dreams of big guns
I shall check them out so
Clampers Outside
ALDI’s French Roast filter coffee is as good as any branded coffee and only €1.69!!
Janet, dreams of big guns
oh cheers still hunting down a decent coffee, I tried some rank Kenyan Bewleys jobbie I think it was last week,
Cú Chulainn
If I can repay your recommendation: Silverskin coffee is well worth a test.. 3FE have different blends, all good, Bell Lane moondust espresso is quite delicious..
Janet, dreams of big guns
Ta :)
CE
So we’re all just waiting for the “psycho seagulls stole my frozen butter croissants” Star headline and then the universe will get it’s coat and cease to exist
Janet, dreams of big guns
it would be the last thing that seagull did ….
Cú Chulainn
I’m particularly partial to a butter croissant, so thank you Janet, I shall be visiting very soon..
Janet, dreams of big guns
” woman feeds thief to her cat while all the other seagulls watch on in horror”
that’s the headline
Lilly
Thanks for the croissants tip, Janet. At the moment Lidl are selling fresh croissants in bags of four. They tend to be dry & I mostly end up binning two, so frozen-to-oven could be a good alternative. Not sure about the pain au chocolat, Millie. Defrosted chocolate hmm… Will give it a try though. On the coffee front, am really enjoying a bag of Badger & Dodo’s Blackwater Blend at the moment.
Charger Salmons
If we’re recommending coffee I would offer the Mocha Parfait available online from the Algerian Coffee store in Soho’s Old Compton Street.
Marvellous altogether. https://algeriancoffeestores.com/
Brother Barnabas
fantastic
they do a cherry blend, which sounds a bit gay but works
Daisy Chainsaw
Tesco Italian & French blends are nice. Lidl have a great range of own brand coffees, better than Aldi’s to be honest. I brought back decaf from Aldi in Spain last year because it had a strength level of 9 and most decafs are a three, which is just wee wee. Alway have a robust blend on hand cos strong coffee can always be watered down, but a mild/medium blend can’t be made stronger, no matter how much you put in the plunger pot.
Larry lamb
Great choice for tax refund staycation
Hardly a buisness that is willing to partisipate
Dermot Lehane
And just like that the man was gone
Formerly known as @ireland.com
Ah, the good ole days are back, when Brexit dominates the news. A man-made, totally unnecessary, disaster!
f_lawless
First it was an unrelenting focus was on the death count. By June, the death rate was in rapid decline so the goalposts suddenly switched over to a focus on “new cases”. But even our own tainiste has recently drawn attention to the fact there hasn’t been a corresponding rise in deaths or hospitalisations.
Now there’s a headline story about ‘Hidden Wave of Corona’ and you have to wonder why now? Of course the story won’t make it clear that Covid-19 isn’t unique in regards to long-term issues – many other viral illnesses including the flu are known to cause the same (see this well-referenced thread: https://twitter.com/HeckofaLiberal/status/1287549725567197184 ). These kinds of articles never seem to provide any solid statistics indicating how many are having this type of experience with Covid so that the reader could put the risk in proper proportion. It appears to be that the underlying aim is to perpetuate fear.
It’s been reported in the past that pharmaceutical companies made millions worth of undisclosed payments to Irish doctors and medical institutions in order to buy influence. I think it’s reasonable to suspect that they’ve also been paying for influence in Irish media and abroad. Is it why the likes of Prof Luke O’Neill gets so much air time on RTE and yet it’s never made clear to the viewer that his own pharmaceutical company stands to make a huge financial profit from developing a vaccine? How likely is he to give a balanced opinion on the level of public risk?
Yesterday there was a front page article in the Irish Times: “Mask key to miniising Covid deaths in Ireland” and yet not a single mention of the Government’s recent Oireachtas Covid Committee Hearing where an expert witness they called gave evidence that the current clinical evidence for the efficacy of masks in pandemics stands at next to none.
Or what about those front page stories you’d see from time to time: ‘Company X may have vaccine ready within months” which of course would cause the company in question’s share price to skyrocket making those in the know huge amounts of money only for the story to disappear shortly after.
Shayna
Sure, conspiracy theories are rife, however, the virus can affect everyone on the planet. Boris Johnson, our nearest neighouring Leader of a … got it. Company X clearly didn’t offer it to The UK?
Formerly known as @ireland.com
I am happy to follow whatever Taiwan does. They wear masks.
That Irish Times piece is based on modelling and we seen how wrong they all got it last time. There is zero evidence of the efficacy of masks, if anything infection rates appear to go up after their introduction. Slowly but surely people are copping on that there is an agenda at play and that the end game is mandatory vaccinations.
Except holes are appearing, like that in real terms so far, there is no major second wave of illness and that the first wave isn’t happening in Africa at all. The most likely explanation being that Africans have previously been exposed to something similar- and are naturally immune.
Scientists can’t explain puzzling lack of coronavirus outbreaks in Africa
Just because you choose to ignore the studies that show masks work, and ignore the countries that wore masks that had lower outbreaks doesn’t mean that masks don’t work.
Perhaps there hasn’t been a second wave because of all the precautions we are all taking? “Masks and lockdown doesn’t work” also “there is no second wave”. Perhaps one of these is stopping the other?
SOQ
What models were wrong the first time?
I assume that is a joke?
Perhaps there hasn’t been a second wave because of all the precautions we are all taking?
By precautions you mean lock downs and muzzles? If so then why is Sweden not going mad?
Professor of immunology & U.K. GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR Mark Woolhouse- LOCKDOWN will come to be seen as a “monumental mistake on a global scale” and must never happen again.
If they’re using quotes in context, it shouldn’t matter the media doing the reporting…. just read the source, ie quoted, material.
Cian
Right. Would I be right if I suggested that you pick and choose which experts you agree with?
I.e. if they are saying stiff that validates your ideas you agree with them. Bit if they are at odds with your ideas then they are either wrong, corporate shills, or government shills?
Cian
Ireland 14 deaths in the last month.
Sweden 65 deaths in the last month.
Norway 8 deaths in the last month.
Yeah. Sweden is a model for us all.
SOQ
@ formely- if you prefer another source then just google ‘”monumental mistake on a global scale” Mark Woolhouse’- the story is reported all over the place.
@ Cian- Mark Woolhouse is not any old expert- he advises the UK Government- that statement is the clearest indication yet that UK will not lockdown again.
Germany has already stated they will not either of course.
Cian
SOQ
You jumped from masks and second wave (original post) to lockdown.
Are your arguments so weak that you can’t defend them but move to something else?
SOQ
Ha- my argument has never been so strong and you know it.
SOQ
Another doctor speaks out- Dr. Malcolm Kendrick is a GP living in Macclesfield, England- who does not mince his words- I really had a smile on my face reading this.
In this blog post of 4th September he addresses why in relation to CoVid-19 the use of the word ‘Case’ is wrong, how and why Ferguson’s modelling was wrong and why the current fatality rate is wrong- he predicts 0.1%.
COVID – why terminology really, really matters
“I know it is going to be virtually impossible to walk the world back from having made such a ridiculous, stupid, mistake. There are so many reputations at stake. The entire egg production of the world will be required to supply enough yolk to cover appropriate faces.”
“The truth is that this particular Emperor has no clothes on and is, currently, standing bollock naked, right in front of you. Hard to believe, but true.”
Is this your hobby now, soq? I prefer baking, myself.
Clampers Outside
Good link SOQ
SOQ
Yeah I know Millie but a number of people have said the same thing- that once you get into the data and the real science behind this thing, it becomes very difficult to switch off.
It is just so bloody serious, and so wrong. I have a friend who’s lung cancer treatment was delayed by over 3 months- and for what? A virus with the same fatality rate as the flu.
Janet, dreams of big guns
coming from a country who loves an excuse to go to the doctor, who’s home medicine cupboards resemble a small pharmacy and who have as many pharmacies as boulanger, tbe French are not on board for a vaccine
any reason I can’t post my comment about a vaccine here ?
Bodger
Janet, posted now. Not sure what was going on there.
Janet, dreams of big guns
cheers My dear
Clampers Outside
Quarantined? :)
Bodger
Possibly!!
millie madonna
That’s fair enough. It’s immensely frustrating when dealing with a situation like that. I think for a lot of people, the scare-mongering in the media and the ineptitude of the government – particularly of our new government – is beginning to wear on nerves. That’s not even mentioning golfgate.
Nobody wants to put people at risk of getting a bad dose of this thing
Well the vast majority
I’m one and am going with the flow
In terms of personal beheavior etc
But I was in the O’Neill’s shop there earlier in my N95
And I can honestly say it’s doing me more harm that good
The sweating, the intensity of normal skin grease trapped
The slobbery moisture
Horrible
It won’t be long before Covid Face Yeast Rashes are the new Covid Hair
But if that’s what it takes
Then fair enough
But nothing adds up anymore
Nothing makes sense or is consistent
Only the inept management, the ongoing incompetence, and the increasingly incohesive messaging
There is a very strong sense of ah but shur’ what’ll we do with all the PPE we’ve bought, what’ll we tell all the lads who have gone and filled point depots of the stuff, and how are we going to explain to Leaving Certs they’ll all have to repeat
Larry’ll have murder and Denis won’t talk to us anymore
with it all
And I think you know it too
Lilly
I keep forgetting the goddamned mask. I got petrol earlier and went in to pay sans mask. I didn’t even twig when I saw the guy behind the counter wearing one. He didn’t say anything. It was only when I was back in the car that I remembered and I felt bad.
Later I was getting a takeaway coffee. I went into the place, no mask, guy came up and said mask please. I retreated, put it on and went back in. Decided to go to the loo before ordering coffee. The loos were in a bad state, tiny with pee all over the floor (unisex, ugh). Dropped the mask on the floor and thought, I’m not picking that up! Had to do walk of shame out of the shop without the coffee. Grrr….
Charger Salmons
” The sweating, the intensity of normal skin grease trapped
The slobbery moisture
Horrible
It won’t be long before Covid Face Yeast Rashes are the new Covid Hair ”
My god, I love it when you talk dirty.
Yabbadabbadoooooo.
SOQ
It’s a face saving exercise at this point.
Government- RTÉ- Irish Times etc all on the same ‘keep the fear going” page but for how long- and what happens then?
I wear a muzzle, under the nose- the Irish way.
GiggidyGoo
No sign of Cian’s update on patients with Covid in hospital. 0 new admissions?
Colm Henry has said that the HSE and the government was working to develop a “more nuanced deal” with individual private hospitals this winter to create a “surge capacity” to cope with any increase in Covid-19 cases.
Odd that such a deal wasn’t developed for the last decade to cope with the increased in flu cases, the increase in waiting lists, the trolly crises.
Nice photo of Coveney, practicing his statesman/leader look with a backdrop of the Irish and EU flags. Varadkar beware.
Jdawgs
Indeed. You can see the glint in his eye :)
Charger Salmons
He’s from Cork.He’s probably casting an admiring glance at his first cousin just out of camera shot.
Andyourpointiswhatexactly?
Second.
GiggidyGoo
Well, his Cork FF colleague made Taoiseach (or sorts), so he can’t be having that now. Maybe a heave against Varadkar (who managed to further reduce FGs TD numbers by a lot after Kenny’s big failure) will be on the cards before FG is meant to have the Taoiseach role. ( though I don’t think this government will last long enough for that to happen )
Its a lickle tickle for “their” boy
Who has been a very good boy over the whole Commissioner hoohaa
They got Pig Fill out, and put an end to his notions of a gig even further up the food chain
How well they knew Pig would make it so easy
Funny how everything Pig did
Here and there
Even how he marked his golf cards
Was unearthed
Yet nobody’ll say a word about the plus ones twos
And threes
Suckers!
Nothing at all to do with the soon to be Brexitted Brit PRA and FCA coming out to endorse & partner with the UK Credit Unions in the fight against sub primes, vultures and payday loan shops sharks and scabs
Charger Salmons
Irish statesman look ?
Is he on his knees holding a begging bowl ?
Or perhaps in the pose adopted by Irish politicians arriving into Brussels – shuffling backwards, bent over and with bare buttocks presented for ritual humiliation.
Is there are Commissioner for Paper Clips role going vacant ?
#theyhaveourbacks.
GiggidyGoo
You’re touching 9 out of 10 on the inferiority scale there Charger. Didn’t think I’d see the day a bean savage would take the time to post on an Irish site how inferior he felt. Maybe you should have a particular scale named in your honour.
Charger Salmons
Lesson One in the Irish diplomatic training school programme.
How to make the BEEP BEEP BEEP noise of a reversing truck.
Lesson Two ? How to act like a door mat.
On graduation day they get issued with a big Please Wipe Your Feet lanyard to be worn at all times.
GiggidyGoo
Still at 9 on the yet to be named scale.
Brother Barnabas
hehe × 17.4 million
brexit-fanboy talks about “ritual humiliation” at the hands of the EU
Charger Salmons
It’s moved on fast from ‘ Hogan resigns so we must have another Irish trade commisioner to look after our Brexit interests ‘ to ‘ Lads, have we got another failed 2nd-rate politician for whatever crumbs Ursula chucks our way ‘ .
Heh x #BEEPBEEPBEEP
Brother Barnabas
itll be the easiest trade deal in human history, they assured us
the ruling toffs are patting the plebs’ heads again, charger
who’s side on you on?
heheheh
Charger Salmons
I’m on the side of democracy Brother.
Hard won but easily surrendered.
Cú Chulainn
Absolutely.. like when a group of selfish toffs sell you a line, wrapped in a flag, that you are better because you’re British .. and because you’re British you’re too stubborn to use democracy to change course and avoid a disaster on a life and generational changing scale. Britain is about to lose the war. Maybe it will be better for that in 50 years.
Brother Barnabas
question then, I suppose, is whether the manipulation and distortion of democracy is still democracy – or is it anti democracy?
…there are few types of democracy more pure than referendum…try as they might though, the English only had the Welsh vote with them, Scotland and NI voted remain…the overall result was reinforced in the UK national elections…now is the time to acknowledge that and work towards independence…
Janet, dreams of big guns
+ even traditional royalist in Scotland want shot of England
GiggidyGoo
You have it bad. Gone up to 9.5 on the soon-to-be-named-inferiority-ometer..
Charger Salmons
Soon to be named by who ?
You’ve posted this three times so far but you’re obviously too gormless to come with one yourself.
I don’t waste my time with unoriginal amateurs.
GiggidyGoo
9.7
You’re feeling very very inferior this morning. ROFL X heh heh x 9.7
GiggidyGoo
how about
Sure Have Inferiority Troubles?
Charger Salmons
Poor attempt in fairness.
The secret is to put some thought and humour into your effort.
I think you’d be better off sticking to your soon-to-be-named line until someone cleverer comes along.
Cú Chulainn
Maybe we’ll try the APLID scale.. that might work..
GiggidyGoo
I thought the abbreviation would be quite humourous.
The thought behind it obviously hit home.
Still, you’re reading very high on it.
Burgess, snip, snip...
How about the whimsical ‘Poppy Puff Paranoia Scale’?! Mrs Poppy Puff, being a paranoid puffer fish in a sailor suit and stars in Spongebob Squarepants.
The scale of course is measured in flakes….. because of course is should….
Joe F
Hey clown man, why aren’t you on about your hero Bozo, he’s doing a mighty job altogether.
SOQ
Really interesting piece by a guy called James Altucher about how the pandemic has changed NYC.
Of course it is not just in NYC this is happening, it is all over- including Dublin. Working from home can increase productivity and cut employer costs while at the same time, employees are also saving both time and money- a win win.
I expect people are going to ask themselves some serious questions as to if they really want to back to ‘the old normal’. The sitting in a car or standing on a crowded stuffy train for two hours a day for example- so much of our lives were taken up commuting- and it was downright miserable.
Charger Salmons
On the plus side in Ireland it’s going to sort out the wheat from the chaff in the hospitality sector.
People won’t forget the restaurant jobsworths who made eating out feel like you were committing a crime.
Or the rip-off merchants who hiked their prices.
Hopefully the places that have always been bad will simply go to the wall.
Passing through Blighty a few weeks ago it was noticeable how many services have upped their game knowing that an economic hurricane is heading their way.
And although it’s not the sort of place I’d normally be seen dead in it appears Tim Martin’s Wetherspoon’s got out of traps fast and early.
SOQ
Speaking of rip off merchants- quite a trend in the UK of restaurants upping their Mon – Weds prices to take advantage of the half price government offer I believe. And a few establishments doing a roaring trade without ever serving a single meal?
As for the service industries- those which catered for office workers are going to be worse hit. They already had big overheads and even if some do manage to reopen, if the work from home trend continues, then they will see a dramatic decrease in footfall.
Janet, dreams of big guns
I saw ONE bar of Dettol soap for sale at almost a fiver in Dunnes yesterday
Just the job, and that beautiful, delicate fragrance comes free!
Janet, dreams of big guns
my mum washed my mouth out once with that, I can’t be smelling it now,
bit like cognac and white chocolate, sickened myself on both of them, now even the smell burke
GiggidyGoo
The wire brush is at half price when you buy a bar :-)
Brother Barnabas
sad thing is that itll be the smaller, independent pubs, cafes, restaurants that go to the wall; bland, insipid chains will be better able to weather it
towns, cities will be a lot less interesting once this is all over and done with
GiggidyGoo
Weatherspoons do a breakfast much in the same vein as Little Chef. Plenty of beans but scrimp on the hash browns, sausage and bacon. Sure no wonder you brought them into the conversation.
Charger Salmons
The fact that you know the difference between what’s in a Wetherspoons’ and Little Chef breakfast is a bit of an own goal you chump.
Which is why I’m introducing a new award after the runaway success of the WINKY WOO-ometer.
It’s for those Irish people on here with an unhealthy obsession with the mainland.
And you are its first recipient.
This one is called Anglophobes R Sad Eejits.
Or BOTTY-ometer.
GiggidyGoo
I had little choice back in the day when money was short but to eat sometimes in Little Chef as I drove the motorways in the UK. I always told the server to give me a 1/4 portion of beans, as I didn’t want to leave the bean savages short. Weatherspoons – I had a pint in one, and sure enough their breakfast was still on the table – very cheap and cheerful. I didn’t have one mind, but beans was a staple there.
But as regards unhealthy obsessions – judging by today’s posts so far, it sure looks like you have one big time for Ireland (EU).
You Sure Have Inferiority Troubles
Charger Salmons
There are several pubs I know that we’re selling off four month old kegs whose doorsteps I will never darken again.
GiggidyGoo
Several Pubs / Four month old kegs? Heresay, or have you that much time on your hands?
By the way – the cost of unused kegs falls on the brewery, not the publican, as they promised to take back the beer and issue credit notes, so I call bullology on your post.
Unused beer goes into the manufacture of fertilizer.
SOQ
One dead and seven injured in mass Birmingham stabbing as police declare ‘major incident’
West Midlands Police say there were then a number of other stabbings in the Gay Village and Snow Hill areas.
Apparently, and I swear this is true,Chief Superintendent Steve Graham of West Midlands Police says there is no suggestion that the stabbings in Birmingham where one man was killed and seven others injured by a random attacker were “motivated by hate”
This is what happens when police become neutered by fear of offending someone.
From that 2018 newspaper article “The scheme, which is central to Budget negotiations, will see local authorities buy houses from developers before offering them at significantly subsidised rates to first-time buyers. Local authorities will retain a stake in the properties until the home is sold or bought out by the property owner.”
Central to Budget negotiations? Confidence and Supply? That’s two years ago, and…..nothing. Apart from announcing it again.
Um.
‘In upcoming book, Michael Cohen writes Donald Trump’s disdain for Obama was so extreme he hired a “Faux-Bama” to participate in a video in which he “ritualistically belittled the first black president and then fired him.” He includes this photo:’ https://twitter.com/Pervaizistan/status/1302427987929899008
Formerly known as @ireland.com
What amazes me is that 40% or more of the American population think he is worth voting for.
Charger Salmons
Your ignorance of political matters has long been apparent on here.
I can only assume that having spent so long in Australia you’ve assumed some of the bovine stupdity that the country’s Ockers are renowned for.
Certainly on trade matters you’ve got the political nous of a koala bear.
Oh dear, now they have you defending Tony effing Abbot, I can only assume simultaneously calling Abbot bovinely stupid is some last shred of supressed dignity subconsciously kicking out.
@Charage, Abbott got voted out of his seat by his own constituency. That takes a lot to achieve. You are welcome to him. He is a wrecker, the mad monk. Your juvenile Aussie references are very poor. Any chance of something less obvious, ya drongo.
Nigel
If their aim is primarily to punish the country for electing a black ‘socialist’ president, they’re getting exactly what they want.
…who was Obama punishing when he bombed Libya back to the stone-age and restored open slave markets…I fear you are mixing up ‘socialism’ with ‘national socialism’…
Nigel
Nothing to do with my point, but go off.
Nigel
‘The eastern Arctic Ocean’s winter ice grew less than half as much as normal during the past decade, due to the growing influence of heat from the ocean’s interior, researchers have found. The finding came from an international study led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Finnish Meteorological Institute. The study, published in the Journal of Climate, used data collected by ocean moorings in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean from 2003-2018.’
Speaking of wheat from chaff was in the city earlier and interesting to see so many British high-street retail stores and concessions in the midst of their respective fire sales. Chaff indeed.
Charger Salmons
Well you don’t say which city but if it’s in Ireland and you’re celebrating difficult retail conditons which will likely lead to job losses amongst the many Irish people employed with those companies then your priorities are a bit skewed.
When a major retailer like Debenhams or Marks and Spencer pulls out of any high street anywhere the knock-on effects are palpable.
Ireland is going to need as much inward investment as it can get in the coming years.
Be careful what you wish for.
GiggidyGoo
9.9
Charger Salmons
You’re trying just that bit too hard bro.
Keep it up if you want but without originality you’re just a rubbish U2 tribute band.
Cú Chulainn
Ohhh.. I’d say you really got him all right.. heading for a 10..?
The Star wins Sunday with “Mystic Nag”
A very pleasant change from being attacked by psycho seagulls..!!! The editorial crew must have great craic coming up with their headlines..
Id say the people at ALDI have a far more fulfilling job thinking up names for products that are imitations of well-known items.
Never been in an Aldi, but I’m sure you’re right.. they might need to get even more creative next year..
they actually sell the best frozen butter croissants I have found in Ireland, a few minutes in the oven and it’s the closest to the real thing I have had here, I go just for that
Big fans of the super valu frozen pain au chocolat. Delicious weekend treat with real coffee.
I shall check them out so
ALDI’s French Roast filter coffee is as good as any branded coffee and only €1.69!!
oh cheers still hunting down a decent coffee, I tried some rank Kenyan Bewleys jobbie I think it was last week,
If I can repay your recommendation: Silverskin coffee is well worth a test.. 3FE have different blends, all good, Bell Lane moondust espresso is quite delicious..
Ta :)
So we’re all just waiting for the “psycho seagulls stole my frozen butter croissants” Star headline and then the universe will get it’s coat and cease to exist
it would be the last thing that seagull did ….
I’m particularly partial to a butter croissant, so thank you Janet, I shall be visiting very soon..
” woman feeds thief to her cat while all the other seagulls watch on in horror”
that’s the headline
Thanks for the croissants tip, Janet. At the moment Lidl are selling fresh croissants in bags of four. They tend to be dry & I mostly end up binning two, so frozen-to-oven could be a good alternative. Not sure about the pain au chocolat, Millie. Defrosted chocolate hmm… Will give it a try though. On the coffee front, am really enjoying a bag of Badger & Dodo’s Blackwater Blend at the moment.
If we’re recommending coffee I would offer the Mocha Parfait available online from the Algerian Coffee store in Soho’s Old Compton Street.
Marvellous altogether.
https://algeriancoffeestores.com/
fantastic
they do a cherry blend, which sounds a bit gay but works
Tesco Italian & French blends are nice. Lidl have a great range of own brand coffees, better than Aldi’s to be honest. I brought back decaf from Aldi in Spain last year because it had a strength level of 9 and most decafs are a three, which is just wee wee. Alway have a robust blend on hand cos strong coffee can always be watered down, but a mild/medium blend can’t be made stronger, no matter how much you put in the plunger pot.
Great choice for tax refund staycation
Hardly a buisness that is willing to partisipate
And just like that the man was gone
Ah, the good ole days are back, when Brexit dominates the news. A man-made, totally unnecessary, disaster!
First it was an unrelenting focus was on the death count. By June, the death rate was in rapid decline so the goalposts suddenly switched over to a focus on “new cases”. But even our own tainiste has recently drawn attention to the fact there hasn’t been a corresponding rise in deaths or hospitalisations.
Now there’s a headline story about ‘Hidden Wave of Corona’ and you have to wonder why now? Of course the story won’t make it clear that Covid-19 isn’t unique in regards to long-term issues – many other viral illnesses including the flu are known to cause the same (see this well-referenced thread: https://twitter.com/HeckofaLiberal/status/1287549725567197184 ). These kinds of articles never seem to provide any solid statistics indicating how many are having this type of experience with Covid so that the reader could put the risk in proper proportion. It appears to be that the underlying aim is to perpetuate fear.
It’s been reported in the past that pharmaceutical companies made millions worth of undisclosed payments to Irish doctors and medical institutions in order to buy influence. I think it’s reasonable to suspect that they’ve also been paying for influence in Irish media and abroad. Is it why the likes of Prof Luke O’Neill gets so much air time on RTE and yet it’s never made clear to the viewer that his own pharmaceutical company stands to make a huge financial profit from developing a vaccine? How likely is he to give a balanced opinion on the level of public risk?
Yesterday there was a front page article in the Irish Times: “Mask key to miniising Covid deaths in Ireland” and yet not a single mention of the Government’s recent Oireachtas Covid Committee Hearing where an expert witness they called gave evidence that the current clinical evidence for the efficacy of masks in pandemics stands at next to none.
Or what about those front page stories you’d see from time to time: ‘Company X may have vaccine ready within months” which of course would cause the company in question’s share price to skyrocket making those in the know huge amounts of money only for the story to disappear shortly after.
Sure, conspiracy theories are rife, however, the virus can affect everyone on the planet. Boris Johnson, our nearest neighouring Leader of a … got it. Company X clearly didn’t offer it to The UK?
I am happy to follow whatever Taiwan does. They wear masks.
…hoorah…just saw someone on twitter use a positive term I’ve been searching for…the pro-sickness people…
Exactly
So did Richard Turpin
Didn’t know Luke O’Neill had a vested interest. https://www.imt.ie/news/healthcare-news/top-immunologists-company-50m-collaboration-07-05-2020/
€50m received from Eli Lilly?
We are being played.
That Irish Times piece is based on modelling and we seen how wrong they all got it last time. There is zero evidence of the efficacy of masks, if anything infection rates appear to go up after their introduction. Slowly but surely people are copping on that there is an agenda at play and that the end game is mandatory vaccinations.
Except holes are appearing, like that in real terms so far, there is no major second wave of illness and that the first wave isn’t happening in Africa at all. The most likely explanation being that Africans have previously been exposed to something similar- and are naturally immune.
Scientists can’t explain puzzling lack of coronavirus outbreaks in Africa
https://nypost.com/2020/09/04/scientists-cant-explain-puzzling-lack-of-coronavirus-outbreaks-in-africa/
What models were wrong the first time?
Just because you choose to ignore the studies that show masks work, and ignore the countries that wore masks that had lower outbreaks doesn’t mean that masks don’t work.
Perhaps there hasn’t been a second wave because of all the precautions we are all taking? “Masks and lockdown doesn’t work” also “there is no second wave”. Perhaps one of these is stopping the other?
What models were wrong the first time?
I assume that is a joke?
Perhaps there hasn’t been a second wave because of all the precautions we are all taking?
By precautions you mean lock downs and muzzles? If so then why is Sweden not going mad?
Professor of immunology & U.K. GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR Mark Woolhouse- LOCKDOWN will come to be seen as a “monumental mistake on a global scale” and must never happen again.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1320428/Coronavirus-news-lockdown-mistake-second-wave-Boris-Johnson
The Express – please.
If they’re using quotes in context, it shouldn’t matter the media doing the reporting…. just read the source, ie quoted, material.
Right. Would I be right if I suggested that you pick and choose which experts you agree with?
I.e. if they are saying stiff that validates your ideas you agree with them. Bit if they are at odds with your ideas then they are either wrong, corporate shills, or government shills?
Ireland 14 deaths in the last month.
Sweden 65 deaths in the last month.
Norway 8 deaths in the last month.
Yeah. Sweden is a model for us all.
@ formely- if you prefer another source then just google ‘”monumental mistake on a global scale” Mark Woolhouse’- the story is reported all over the place.
@ Cian- Mark Woolhouse is not any old expert- he advises the UK Government- that statement is the clearest indication yet that UK will not lockdown again.
Germany has already stated they will not either of course.
SOQ
You jumped from masks and second wave (original post) to lockdown.
Are your arguments so weak that you can’t defend them but move to something else?
Ha- my argument has never been so strong and you know it.
Another doctor speaks out- Dr. Malcolm Kendrick is a GP living in Macclesfield, England- who does not mince his words- I really had a smile on my face reading this.
In this blog post of 4th September he addresses why in relation to CoVid-19 the use of the word ‘Case’ is wrong, how and why Ferguson’s modelling was wrong and why the current fatality rate is wrong- he predicts 0.1%.
COVID – why terminology really, really matters
“I know it is going to be virtually impossible to walk the world back from having made such a ridiculous, stupid, mistake. There are so many reputations at stake. The entire egg production of the world will be required to supply enough yolk to cover appropriate faces.”
“The truth is that this particular Emperor has no clothes on and is, currently, standing bollock naked, right in front of you. Hard to believe, but true.”
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/author/drmalcolmkendrick/
Is this your hobby now, soq? I prefer baking, myself.
Good link SOQ
Yeah I know Millie but a number of people have said the same thing- that once you get into the data and the real science behind this thing, it becomes very difficult to switch off.
It is just so bloody serious, and so wrong. I have a friend who’s lung cancer treatment was delayed by over 3 months- and for what? A virus with the same fatality rate as the flu.
coming from a country who loves an excuse to go to the doctor, who’s home medicine cupboards resemble a small pharmacy and who have as many pharmacies as boulanger, tbe French are not on board for a vaccine
https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/A-quarter-of-people-in-France-against-Covid-vaccine
any reason I can’t post my comment about a vaccine here ?
Janet, posted now. Not sure what was going on there.
cheers My dear
Quarantined? :)
Possibly!!
That’s fair enough. It’s immensely frustrating when dealing with a situation like that. I think for a lot of people, the scare-mongering in the media and the ineptitude of the government – particularly of our new government – is beginning to wear on nerves. That’s not even mentioning golfgate.
That’s exactly it Mill
Nobody wants to put people at risk of getting a bad dose of this thing
Well the vast majority
I’m one and am going with the flow
In terms of personal beheavior etc
But I was in the O’Neill’s shop there earlier in my N95
And I can honestly say it’s doing me more harm that good
The sweating, the intensity of normal skin grease trapped
The slobbery moisture
Horrible
It won’t be long before Covid Face Yeast Rashes are the new Covid Hair
But if that’s what it takes
Then fair enough
But nothing adds up anymore
Nothing makes sense or is consistent
Only the inept management, the ongoing incompetence, and the increasingly incohesive messaging
There is a very strong sense of
ah but shur’ what’ll we do with all the PPE we’ve bought, what’ll we tell all the lads who have gone and filled point depots of the stuff, and how are we going to explain to Leaving Certs they’ll all have to repeat
Larry’ll have murder and Denis won’t talk to us anymore
with it all
And I think you know it too
I keep forgetting the goddamned mask. I got petrol earlier and went in to pay sans mask. I didn’t even twig when I saw the guy behind the counter wearing one. He didn’t say anything. It was only when I was back in the car that I remembered and I felt bad.
Later I was getting a takeaway coffee. I went into the place, no mask, guy came up and said mask please. I retreated, put it on and went back in. Decided to go to the loo before ordering coffee. The loos were in a bad state, tiny with pee all over the floor (unisex, ugh). Dropped the mask on the floor and thought, I’m not picking that up! Had to do walk of shame out of the shop without the coffee. Grrr….
” The sweating, the intensity of normal skin grease trapped
The slobbery moisture
Horrible
It won’t be long before Covid Face Yeast Rashes are the new Covid Hair ”
My god, I love it when you talk dirty.
Yabbadabbadoooooo.
It’s a face saving exercise at this point.
Government- RTÉ- Irish Times etc all on the same ‘keep the fear going” page but for how long- and what happens then?
I wear a muzzle, under the nose- the Irish way.
No sign of Cian’s update on patients with Covid in hospital. 0 new admissions?
Just updated. 1 new admission.
And how many patients were admitted with Gastro stuff, food poisoning, stomach flu compliants
Betcha there’s been more than COVID-19 anyway
You’d have an eye for databases Frilly. You can download this one in Excel.
https://data.gov.ie/dataset/covidstatisticsprofilehpscirelandopendata/resource/7b2f557c-1f08-4c3d-bb04-79d2f4aed949
Colm Henry has said that the HSE and the government was working to develop a “more nuanced deal” with individual private hospitals this winter to create a “surge capacity” to cope with any increase in Covid-19 cases.
Odd that such a deal wasn’t developed for the last decade to cope with the increased in flu cases, the increase in waiting lists, the trolly crises.
Not odd at all Goo
Nice photo of Coveney, practicing his statesman/leader look with a backdrop of the Irish and EU flags. Varadkar beware.
Indeed. You can see the glint in his eye :)
He’s from Cork.He’s probably casting an admiring glance at his first cousin just out of camera shot.
Second.
Well, his Cork FF colleague made Taoiseach (or sorts), so he can’t be having that now. Maybe a heave against Varadkar (who managed to further reduce FGs TD numbers by a lot after Kenny’s big failure) will be on the cards before FG is meant to have the Taoiseach role. ( though I don’t think this government will last long enough for that to happen )
Ah would ye all stop
Its a lickle tickle for “their” boy
Who has been a very good boy over the whole Commissioner hoohaa
They got Pig Fill out, and put an end to his notions of a gig even further up the food chain
How well they knew Pig would make it so easy
Funny how everything Pig did
Here and there
Even how he marked his golf cards
Was unearthed
Yet nobody’ll say a word about the plus ones twos
And threes
Suckers!
Nothing at all to do with the soon to be Brexitted Brit PRA and FCA coming out to endorse & partner with the UK Credit Unions in the fight against sub primes, vultures and payday loan shops sharks and scabs
Irish statesman look ?
Is he on his knees holding a begging bowl ?
Or perhaps in the pose adopted by Irish politicians arriving into Brussels – shuffling backwards, bent over and with bare buttocks presented for ritual humiliation.
Is there are Commissioner for Paper Clips role going vacant ?
#theyhaveourbacks.
You’re touching 9 out of 10 on the inferiority scale there Charger. Didn’t think I’d see the day a bean savage would take the time to post on an Irish site how inferior he felt. Maybe you should have a particular scale named in your honour.
Lesson One in the Irish diplomatic training school programme.
How to make the BEEP BEEP BEEP noise of a reversing truck.
Lesson Two ? How to act like a door mat.
On graduation day they get issued with a big Please Wipe Your Feet lanyard to be worn at all times.
Still at 9 on the yet to be named scale.
hehe × 17.4 million
brexit-fanboy talks about “ritual humiliation” at the hands of the EU
It’s moved on fast from ‘ Hogan resigns so we must have another Irish trade commisioner to look after our Brexit interests ‘ to ‘ Lads, have we got another failed 2nd-rate politician for whatever crumbs Ursula chucks our way ‘ .
Heh x #BEEPBEEPBEEP
itll be the easiest trade deal in human history, they assured us
the ruling toffs are patting the plebs’ heads again, charger
who’s side on you on?
heheheh
I’m on the side of democracy Brother.
Hard won but easily surrendered.
Absolutely.. like when a group of selfish toffs sell you a line, wrapped in a flag, that you are better because you’re British .. and because you’re British you’re too stubborn to use democracy to change course and avoid a disaster on a life and generational changing scale. Britain is about to lose the war. Maybe it will be better for that in 50 years.
question then, I suppose, is whether the manipulation and distortion of democracy is still democracy – or is it anti democracy?
…there are few types of democracy more pure than referendum…try as they might though, the English only had the Welsh vote with them, Scotland and NI voted remain…the overall result was reinforced in the UK national elections…now is the time to acknowledge that and work towards independence…
+ even traditional royalist in Scotland want shot of England
You have it bad. Gone up to 9.5 on the soon-to-be-named-inferiority-ometer..
Soon to be named by who ?
You’ve posted this three times so far but you’re obviously too gormless to come with one yourself.
I don’t waste my time with unoriginal amateurs.
9.7
You’re feeling very very inferior this morning. ROFL X heh heh x 9.7
how about
Sure Have Inferiority Troubles?
Poor attempt in fairness.
The secret is to put some thought and humour into your effort.
I think you’d be better off sticking to your soon-to-be-named line until someone cleverer comes along.
Maybe we’ll try the APLID scale.. that might work..
I thought the abbreviation would be quite humourous.
The thought behind it obviously hit home.
Still, you’re reading very high on it.
How about the whimsical ‘Poppy Puff Paranoia Scale’?! Mrs Poppy Puff, being a paranoid puffer fish in a sailor suit and stars in Spongebob Squarepants.
The scale of course is measured in flakes….. because of course is should….
Hey clown man, why aren’t you on about your hero Bozo, he’s doing a mighty job altogether.
Really interesting piece by a guy called James Altucher about how the pandemic has changed NYC.
New York City is dead forever
https://nypost.com/2020/08/17/nyc-is-dead-forever-heres-why-james-altucher/
Of course it is not just in NYC this is happening, it is all over- including Dublin. Working from home can increase productivity and cut employer costs while at the same time, employees are also saving both time and money- a win win.
I expect people are going to ask themselves some serious questions as to if they really want to back to ‘the old normal’. The sitting in a car or standing on a crowded stuffy train for two hours a day for example- so much of our lives were taken up commuting- and it was downright miserable.
On the plus side in Ireland it’s going to sort out the wheat from the chaff in the hospitality sector.
People won’t forget the restaurant jobsworths who made eating out feel like you were committing a crime.
Or the rip-off merchants who hiked their prices.
Hopefully the places that have always been bad will simply go to the wall.
Passing through Blighty a few weeks ago it was noticeable how many services have upped their game knowing that an economic hurricane is heading their way.
And although it’s not the sort of place I’d normally be seen dead in it appears Tim Martin’s Wetherspoon’s got out of traps fast and early.
Speaking of rip off merchants- quite a trend in the UK of restaurants upping their Mon – Weds prices to take advantage of the half price government offer I believe. And a few establishments doing a roaring trade without ever serving a single meal?
As for the service industries- those which catered for office workers are going to be worse hit. They already had big overheads and even if some do manage to reopen, if the work from home trend continues, then they will see a dramatic decrease in footfall.
I saw ONE bar of Dettol soap for sale at almost a fiver in Dunnes yesterday
https://guineys.ie/fitzroy-carbolic-soap-3-pack.html
Just the job, and that beautiful, delicate fragrance comes free!
my mum washed my mouth out once with that, I can’t be smelling it now,
bit like cognac and white chocolate, sickened myself on both of them, now even the smell burke
The wire brush is at half price when you buy a bar :-)
sad thing is that itll be the smaller, independent pubs, cafes, restaurants that go to the wall; bland, insipid chains will be better able to weather it
towns, cities will be a lot less interesting once this is all over and done with
Weatherspoons do a breakfast much in the same vein as Little Chef. Plenty of beans but scrimp on the hash browns, sausage and bacon. Sure no wonder you brought them into the conversation.
The fact that you know the difference between what’s in a Wetherspoons’ and Little Chef breakfast is a bit of an own goal you chump.
Which is why I’m introducing a new award after the runaway success of the WINKY WOO-ometer.
It’s for those Irish people on here with an unhealthy obsession with the mainland.
And you are its first recipient.
This one is called Anglophobes R Sad Eejits.
Or BOTTY-ometer.
I had little choice back in the day when money was short but to eat sometimes in Little Chef as I drove the motorways in the UK. I always told the server to give me a 1/4 portion of beans, as I didn’t want to leave the bean savages short. Weatherspoons – I had a pint in one, and sure enough their breakfast was still on the table – very cheap and cheerful. I didn’t have one mind, but beans was a staple there.
But as regards unhealthy obsessions – judging by today’s posts so far, it sure looks like you have one big time for Ireland (EU).
You Sure Have Inferiority Troubles
There are several pubs I know that we’re selling off four month old kegs whose doorsteps I will never darken again.
Several Pubs / Four month old kegs? Heresay, or have you that much time on your hands?
By the way – the cost of unused kegs falls on the brewery, not the publican, as they promised to take back the beer and issue credit notes, so I call bullology on your post.
Unused beer goes into the manufacture of fertilizer.
One dead and seven injured in mass Birmingham stabbing as police declare ‘major incident’
West Midlands Police say there were then a number of other stabbings in the Gay Village and Snow Hill areas.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8702609/Multiple-stabbings-Birmingham-city-centre.html
Apparently, and I swear this is true,Chief Superintendent Steve Graham of West Midlands Police says there is no suggestion that the stabbings in Birmingham where one man was killed and seven others injured by a random attacker were “motivated by hate”
This is what happens when police become neutered by fear of offending someone.
https://twitter.com/PA/status/1302554143039672320
Police release footage of the suspect.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/06/multiple-stabbings-birmingham-city-centre/
The Times reporting that Darragh O Brien is proposing an affordable scheme for people earning up to €90,000.
As in his 2018 proposal https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/property-mortgages/couples-earning-up-to-90000-may-avail-of-new-affordable-housing-scheme-after-budget-37335667.html
From that 2018 newspaper article “The scheme, which is central to Budget negotiations, will see local authorities buy houses from developers before offering them at significantly subsidised rates to first-time buyers. Local authorities will retain a stake in the properties until the home is sold or bought out by the property owner.”
Central to Budget negotiations? Confidence and Supply? That’s two years ago, and…..nothing. Apart from announcing it again.
Kinda the Shared Ownership scheme
In reverse
DON’T TOUCH THEM
Um.
‘In upcoming book, Michael Cohen writes Donald Trump’s disdain for Obama was so extreme he hired a “Faux-Bama” to participate in a video in which he “ritualistically belittled the first black president and then fired him.” He includes this photo:’
https://twitter.com/Pervaizistan/status/1302427987929899008
What amazes me is that 40% or more of the American population think he is worth voting for.
Your ignorance of political matters has long been apparent on here.
I can only assume that having spent so long in Australia you’ve assumed some of the bovine stupdity that the country’s Ockers are renowned for.
Certainly on trade matters you’ve got the political nous of a koala bear.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-smearing-of-tony-abbott
Oh dear, now they have you defending Tony effing Abbot, I can only assume simultaneously calling Abbot bovinely stupid is some last shred of supressed dignity subconsciously kicking out.
@Charage, Abbott got voted out of his seat by his own constituency. That takes a lot to achieve. You are welcome to him. He is a wrecker, the mad monk. Your juvenile Aussie references are very poor. Any chance of something less obvious, ya drongo.
If their aim is primarily to punish the country for electing a black ‘socialist’ president, they’re getting exactly what they want.
…who was Obama punishing when he bombed Libya back to the stone-age and restored open slave markets…I fear you are mixing up ‘socialism’ with ‘national socialism’…
Nothing to do with my point, but go off.
‘The eastern Arctic Ocean’s winter ice grew less than half as much as normal during the past decade, due to the growing influence of heat from the ocean’s interior, researchers have found. The finding came from an international study led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Finnish Meteorological Institute. The study, published in the Journal of Climate, used data collected by ocean moorings in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean from 2003-2018.’
https://phys.org/news/2020-08-arctic-ocean-winter-sea-ice.amp?__twitter_impression=true
Speaking of wheat from chaff was in the city earlier and interesting to see so many British high-street retail stores and concessions in the midst of their respective fire sales. Chaff indeed.
Well you don’t say which city but if it’s in Ireland and you’re celebrating difficult retail conditons which will likely lead to job losses amongst the many Irish people employed with those companies then your priorities are a bit skewed.
When a major retailer like Debenhams or Marks and Spencer pulls out of any high street anywhere the knock-on effects are palpable.
Ireland is going to need as much inward investment as it can get in the coming years.
Be careful what you wish for.
9.9
You’re trying just that bit too hard bro.
Keep it up if you want but without originality you’re just a rubbish U2 tribute band.
Ohhh.. I’d say you really got him all right.. heading for a 10..?