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Met my nephew today!

Nephew - “uhhh, I need an adult.” Brian - “I am an adult.”

Italy has the highest number of Chinese tourists in Europe they got unlucky and had a lot from wuhan visiting before it became international news, they were fucked weeks ago they just didn’t know it until now.

Yes, it's the strangest stupidity I have seen online. And then Carra made that view mainstream by needlessly talking about it on MNF. The whole talk revolves around the idea of us getting Mbappe (not happening) or Werner. But even then, why give away such a consistent goalscorer. Boggles my head.

Wacky races.

China imposed loads of restrictions relatively quickly. It was on the 31st of January when I got that notice from my work about the 5 restrictions the Chinese government put in place to prevent the spread of the virus: (restriction of "free travel" in big cities and certain regions; extending the Lunar New Year Holiday; forbidding more than 40 people at offices, factories, and warehouses; employees facing health inspection upon arrival to work; public transportation restrictions). That's just 8 days after this thread was started. Granted, Wuhan's a massive city compared to many cities in Europe so it's understandable China would take a drastic response - imagine if this disease had started in London (I think Wuhan's got more people than London); we'd expect a drastic response as well. I've heard from a someone who works at a company that's a client of ours that I met last year on my trip to Beijing, Harbin, Tianjin... he works in a regional office in Zhengzhou (in central China) that reports to the Beijing office I went to. Someone in his community (which I think when he says that, he means the tower he lives in - but I'm not sure) tested positive for coronavirus. In Zhengzhou they've imposed pretty severe restrictions on buildings where someone has tested positive for coronavirus. Since early February, his community (which again, I think means his building - but I'm not 100%, I'm not sure if there's just a mistranslation or not... but it sounds like he's talking about his building). Each family living in the building gets 1 pass for leaving their home between the hours of 11AM-3PM. So they can buy things, like food and shite like that. So his wife and his daughter, for over a month, haven't left the house in over a month. He told me he's lucky, because he lives on the first floor so he has a fairly large patio/balcony and that's how his wife and his kid get to experience going outdoors. He says there's other people in his building that other than the people with the pass to leave the house haven't left their homes or experienced fresh air for over a month. He's not been to his office since he's been put in this lockdown, but it seems like most people in China right now are working from home (granted, I know there's about 5 people in Beijing that still work from the office). But I know Beijing isn't undergoing the same sorts of restrictions that we're seeing in other parts of China. China's an authoritarian country, so it can easily impose restrictions like this without getting too much push back from the general public. Whereas in Europe, I think it's harder to tell people not to do certain things without expecting them to just completely ignore what they've been asked. But really really harsh restrictions like that are probably fairly effective at stopping the spread of the virus. I've seen Italy's done that now, but I do question whether or not us Europeans can stomach the same kind of restrictions China would impose.

I see Tommy is your new obsession. Cute.

How many more wins?

Great stuff from Ronaldo

Night out with the best man and his wife. From left to right the cunt, best man, his wife, my wife.

Yeah unless you looked at the total number of confirmed cases and then saw that China's number blows Italy well the fuck out of the water

I think he was referring to my nephew

What do you mean?, he's like 21 and looks like fucking 30.

One thing I find interesting is that asians seem to take restriction measures a lot more serious than westerners. Granted, there was that korean lady that went to the church but for the most part, the impression I have is that westerners seem to have a much harder in following rules that curb their individual autonomy. I´ve just read about two italians trying to go to Spain for vacation and also about a rave that took place in Milan recently. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170118-how-east-and-west-think-in-profoundly-different-ways

I did not. How fucking dare you.

A Schumacher fan! Just when you thought he can't get any more likable than he already is.

Difficult whether to blame Alex or DW. His head is not in the right place at the moment and playing him when there are other things testing his confidence - in his decisions and his actions - is not the correct thing to do. This has been obvious since he was dropped and then had to come back after the injury to young Schubert. If he was watching the Manchester Derby he would have been lifted when he sees other, more experienced guys having similar problems. Bayern still have the confidence to continue with his contract so whilst I have problems with guys like Burgstaller, I would never 'diss' him whilst he is on the field - he doesn't pick himself and when he is going through a bad patch he needs help to sort it - maybe at a different level for a game or two, but real fans will still get behind the team even though things are not good at the moment - that has been obvious even during recent games. Recent Norwich and Watford games show where the genuine fans are and although it can hurt, Viva guy is correct - just shut up!

I was just messing about I currently drive an old diesel myself.

YABBA DABBA DOO

The ladies will be running away from you

"Get to know your driver" with Alex Albon: https://redbullracing.redbull.com/article/get-know-your-driver-alex-albon

Oh lovely TFS references

I've got toothache and it's so annoying. That is all. Thanks for reading.

Sergio Sette-Camara is the new Alpha Tauri reserve driver.

Right now I'm resisting the urge to quote every picture of stan with 'ugly cunt'

Think it's in your head mate @Cicero they were good!

Not a lot of material to use

i much prefer the pie brand

Worst case scenario is games behind closed doors. Which would be shit for players and fans if we were confirmed champions in an empty stadium but the season isn't getting cancelled. I hope

I think we will settle around 60 million. We will push for north of that as Manchester United have a sell on fee of around 20%, hes a very influential player and the money is needed for rebuilding an ageing squad. The player quite clearly wants out. You dont acquire the services of Pini Zahavi for any other reason. What works in his favour is a lot of the top teams will want an offensive wide player. They just wont want to pay our asking price. I can see bids coming in around 40 million, wanting around 80 million, transfer requests coming in and it all getting very messy. The whole "look at his attacking returns!1!" arguement is pretty redundant. He plays for one of the least offensive teams in Europe, the strikers he supplies are poor at this level, and the amount of times hes fouled in the last third is there for all to see.

In general, the family of Coronaviruses mutate/evolve slower than influenza. That said SARS-CoV-2 is new, we don't fully know it and we can only assume it is going to behave following that pattern. It seems to be somewhat better at propagating than common influenza (2x?), which is no slouch in that regard. There is no immunity. Vaccines and antivirals do not work with SARS-CoV-2 (if laboratories had kept onto researching on the 2003 SARS virus and produced a vaccine the latter MAY have worked to some extent, but as it was the epidemic was contained investigation stopped, sad). So we've got to wait for a vaccine for quite a bit of time. The death rate is reportedly between 4 and 50 times higher, but we need to take this with a grain of salt as the amount of unreported cases (many of them asymptomatic) may be huge (thus considerably lowering the death rate, possibly one order of magnitude). Hopefully after one, two or three infections, immunity can be acquired passively, and although becoming endemic, the virus may turn to only affect children in a very mild way until they acquire immunity to the virus (and hopefully to similar viruses from the same family).

I will add this to my list cheers

Nice when you bump into your daughter and youngest grandson Kaiden when shopping in Tesco's, he gives his granddad a hug and then says "You got pennies for me granddad to buy a Roblox?" daughter "NO" granddad "YES" give him his pennies then he gets his Roblox and is a happy wee chappies, so am I, my wallet got hit but I could not give a shite just to see his smiling face.

The Day after the Night before, lesson learnt, DONT mix wine & Bacardi the night before!!!!

He must need glasses

Since fat Philly had a field day, i except the same treatment. Me and the wife on our first anniversary dinner.

He slapped John Cena's hand but you just couldn't see him.