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Citrus-garlic-turmeric shrimp.

Definite sarcasm, sorry came across poorly I agree with you 100%

The daughter just sent this via text message, "Puddin is freaking out as Buddy the Gecko keeps poking her head out of her hutch in the glass enclosure and keeps looking at him."

Lockdowns have been used as a last resort to buy time while science catches up. We were so determined to believe that the vaccines would fix everything that we mostly just fell for it. Now the UK is reporting about 200 deaths a day again which has been lockdown territory in the past but at least you know it's hit something of a ceiling. Talk of restrictions barely creeps into the public space now because people are so fed up by it. That pill Pfizer had approved the other week was another step in the right direction though, supposedly preventing 90% of cases of Covid becoming serious enough for hospitalisation. It's going to continue to be a case of mitigating against overwhelming hospitals and cases and deaths spiralling out of control again, and keep hoping that science and medicine does its job with these tools like that Pfizer pill adding to our toolkit to quash the virus. The much-maligned herd immunity will come into it as well, with cases of people catching Covid for a second time remaining low, which is a good sign this far into the pandemic as to how effective natural immunity has proved to be.

It's always so hard to tell when someone's sarcastic on the internet

Is it though? Even in states with strict gun laws, it's not that hard to get a gun as long as you've never been convicted of anything. And that's just if you want to purchase it legally, which tbh a lot of criminals won't give a fuck about as they're already going to use the gun to commit crimes. Stolen guns or guns that were originally purchased legally and registered to a legal owner are then sold illegally all the time. There's no shortage of guns in the US and an absolute shortage of reasonable regulations to stop gun crimes. And then there's the people who think it's their god given right to walk around carrying an AR15 so they can pretend they're soldiers who only really care about one thing: guns and getting more guns. Just look at this link: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/last-72-hours a list of all incidents of gun violence in the US in just the last 72 hours. It's easy to imagine the US having gun issues, because the US has gun issues - no imagination required . It's just not easy to understand why the US doesn't do anything about the obvious gun issues they have. I don't understand why an outdated rule from a time where America had no standing army and relied on local militias to protect itself from foreign threats is seemingly completely untouchable. "It's part of the constitution" is what pro-gun people say. But so was slavery & they nixed that eventually. Seems like America could do something about it's gun violence issues... just so few people have the appetite for it.

I hate the guy like I've said previously and yeah 100% agree he's been a joke of a signing and he's massively overrated. Having said that I think he'd be a Rolls Royce in the PSG midfield alongside Verrati, Neymar, Messi and Co. United will be far better with him gone though, just can't wait until he's gone.

Can they do that with the streaming service? I suspect that'd probably violate the terms of the respective league agreements that probably have sold off the streaming rights to various markets. Like with FSG and Liverpool, Peacock have the streaming rights to those matches in North America - I think an FSG service that only shows Liverpool for football would be in breach of that agreement.

Howe has Covid. Misses the game on Saturday

The lockdown, at least in Austria, is because they are running out of ICU beds. I'm wondering what's the long-term strategy, in general, too. The virus isn't likely to go away. There are no sterilising vaccines and efficacy of the current ones wanes sharply in months, requiring boosters and then likely boosters of boosters for a foreseeable future. The virus will also keep on mutating, and since it can still infect vaccinated people, there's the danger of vaccine-resisting and immune system evading strain emerging due to selective pressure. So what's the plan here? Vaccine mandates, "green passes" allowing only fully vaccinated individuals to take part in society, and winter lockdowns forever? How is it all going to be implemented? QR codes and ID checks for entering any public space and transportation? How many shots will a person need to be considered fully vaccinated, and when will that status expire, requiring another booster? Will it even be possible to maintain vaccination levels of 90%+ of the population constantly for years?

Okay sir, sorry sir

Preliminary investigation against Markus Anfang for allegedly using a fake vaccination certificate? He said he was double jabbed, got his certificate and then had it digitalized in a phamarcy. So maybe just a technical issue?

I've read people are using invermectin and it is helping. Also Pfizer is developing a tablet for the virus too as concerns grow the vaccines are not effective enough. Trump got criticised for taking a chlorine medicine and the MSN crowd criticised him yet we put this in drinking water and swimming pools so I would hesitate before rubbishing any of this. Let each person make their own decisions, just read Ireland is 93% vaccinated yet still implementing strong mask and lockdown protocols. You can bet over Christmas and New Year many more will react within the next couple of weeks again as they drink at this time of the year. Alcohol feeds infections.

The power of such documentaries and even Youtube videos is that they allow for people to present a case without being checked along the way by people with knowledge on the subject. They're free to cherry-pick information, omit inconvenient details, twist truths and even outright lie, and you wouldn't know about it unless you researched the topic yourself. With such documentaries it's often fun to completely buy into the idea as you are watching them and then dismissing it all once the credits roll. I don't think the 'Hitler to South America' story is completely implausible (just highly unlikely), but even with bonkers shit like Flat Earth, the people who push that idea will typically present their ideas with such confidence and inject it with pseudo-scientific 'facts' that they seem coherent at surface level. It's only when you more closely inspect some of the claims they make (I heard one of them say that moonlight makes things colder) that you realize how full of shit they are.

It's almost as if they're related or something.

I don't go about checking out kids to know what shirts they are wearing so I will have to take your word on that one I'm afraid mate.