Leaderboard

It's one thing having had a traumatic personal experience with a vaccine in the past. It's quite another spreading deranged and baseless conspiracy theories on the internet. You might think you're having a laugh, I genuinely don't know, but when we're back up to 100-200 people dying a day in the country, many of them that would be surviving if they'd taken the vaccine and haven't, often because people like you are peddling nonsense like this on much bigger platforms than this one. Bad information is literally killing people and it isn't a laughing matter. You don't want to get vaccinated, that's fine, but what I don't understand is how anti-vaxxers are obsessed with the "I won't be told what to put in my body" line yet can't shut the fuck up trying to scare other people about what to put in their bodies. It's irresponsible and dangerous. The science speaks for itself. If you have good personal reasons to ignore the science and not get vaccinated then keep it personal, chance it yourself and let everyone else make the personal choice you claim to be such an advocate of. We've all heard you say your piece now. Why are you still going? What do you have to prove here? People on this forum have lost loved ones to this virus and your patter about the vaccine is so ill-informed that it's hard to take seriously and comes across as a wind-up. At some point you're going to seriously offend someone. Having a different opinion is fine but none of us need to be reminded of it every 5 minutes when it comes to sensitive topics like people's health.

I genuinely believe that there's frogspawn with a higher IQ than Happy Blue.

You are totally gone beyond saving.

What an absolute wrong'un Also had no idea @MUFC is Paul Scholes.

That's a very fast mile time, but I haven't timed my mile in a couple of decades.

Big swarms of cranes flying over my city today as they're headed to the south for the winter. Always impressive to see.

Aye, to many times they ruin a good film with the follow ups, when they were trying to find the 'Voice' this sprung to mind

That video with the music gave me goose bumps, brilliant, some of the clips were stunning

The link does not work Edit: It does now

With needing the economy to recover after the last 2 years, what would the incentive be to destroy businesses?

Viruses mutate faster than new vaccines can be created and delivered. They mutate even faster here due to us having such a cosmopolitan population with comings and goings. Most people taking the vaccine probably don't need it yet just follow govt guidelines to be PC. I went to London in the week, train and tube most not wearing masks. I didn't for a spell on the overground as just about the only one in the carriage. Kind of surprised no adverts for mask wearing on the overland.

Nah, we have kilometers here.

Movie binge night for me as the wife is around our daughters for a ladies night drink and staying the night, so for me, so far, I have watched... Man on Fire (2004) - Denzil Washington - top marks for me but I fucking hated the ending bit, a pity they never made a part 2 where he survived. Eraser (1996) - Arnold Schwarzenegger - 8/10, can't say how many times I have watched this film but I love old Arnie films. Now ready to watch Independence Day - (1996) - Will Smith - 7/10. Hic

They’ve uturned and said it’s alright if Newcastle fans want to dress up like Arabs if they want

I was reading Marc Morris's book about the Normans which I found interesting as it gave a lot of history around 1066 that is not necessarily public knowledge. Like the Norwegian invasion of 220+ boats. After the battle just 20 were allowed to return with promises not to invade again. Harold returned to London to learn of the Norman invasion and against the advice of his family decided to march straight against William even though he would need to raise a new army as most of his first army was still marching back from York. Part of his motivation was his home county had been invaded and Williams forces were ravaging the land and torturing his men on the South Coast. William was goading him. Now although Harold was itching to fight he was wise to the tactics of the Normans which included their cavalry and so chose the battle site carefully. Now this is where it gets interesting (not Morris here) an independent group has gone back to the source documents of the tapestry and Bishop Odo's account and claim to have found the battle site, several miles from battle at a place called Crowhurst. They claim the walls, yew tree and other features match up with the first hand accounts. Furthermore the small chapel there from the early Norman period ties up with William's promise to build a church immediately following the victory to commemorate the site. The building at Battle was built over a century later in the later Norman style. The group paid for magnetic imaging and found what looks like a mass of buried bodies. English Heritage did not want to comment and the local council were itching to build a by-pass - 2017. As for the battle a 9 hour slug-fest with Norman cavalry unable to flank the Anglo Saxons due to Harold's choice of site with ditches and woods and so had to do a direct attack. William lost three horses in trying to break the Anglo-Saxon shield wall. At one point the Normans panicked thinking William was dead, he even had to remove his helmet to reassure his man. The decisive moment came when the shield wall decide to charge, now it seems Harold was in this charge yet not all the wall followed him. This is when fighting then became mixed with bands of Anglo-Saxons fighting Norman Knights with their huge axes. Now the Bayeaux tapestry knitted by English seamstresses shows two deaths one by arrow and another by being hacked to death. The one with the arrow shows signs of a repair. Morris says William could have been excommunicated if it was believed he sent a specific team out to hunt and kill Harold on the battlefield as in those times you were not meant to murder a king. Yet darkness was descending. The battle went on into the early evening as Normans hunted the retreating Anglo-Saxons yet losing more cavalry in the ditches. The Normans went straight to London only to find Harold's men holding the bridges. They had to go 40 miles West to cross at Reading. Morris says Harold's Mum later offered gold for the weight of her son's body. This was refused. She came back with a force to take Exeter in 1068. Yet unlike Alfred the Great was unable to raise the country. It is believed her force went to Dublin and interestingly later the Normans went to Ireland.

Just added another race to my 2022 Calendar, and thinking of pulling the trigger on another one. The one I just signed up for in in the desert in Las Vegas, and it's just a marathon. The race is in January so the heat won't be terrible but I've heard that this is a beautiful and small race so I'm looking forward to it. Now, onto the race that I'm on the fence about. It's a famous Ultra called the QMT (Québec Mega Trail), and it's a 100m race in July outside of Montreal. Here is a couple of videos of this race, and it looks absolutely stunning.

NASA released a cool video called "Visions of the Future" ... and some retro style planetary travel posters. Good stuff. More here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/visions-of-the-future

Just a lot of noise. The UK is in a debt trap. UK finances are awful, Scotland's finances are awful, the current lifestyle of the entire island is being subsidised by unborn generations productivity via the Bank of England and private bondholders. The affordability of free prescriptions is absolutely nothing in comparison to the pensions crisis coming. The arguments about being able to afford free tuition and other perks or not are just noise. Totally irrelevant to the question of independence which is solely a matter of where power lies.