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Vim Fuego 
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 Posted: 14 Jan 2021 at 10:36pm |
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I had to have a COVID test today. Not the most pleasant experience!
I went to the doctor for a six monthly check out, where he usually takes my blood pressure and says it's too high, tells me to exercise more, and lose weight. Not this time. I got a cold before Christmas from a workmate. The damn cough just won't go away, and air conditioning at the office sets it off. So I had to own up to this when I went to the doctor. The nurse made me put on a mask and go back out to my car. The doc called me and I told him what the story was, and he reckoned it was just a cold, but since I had respiratory symptoms, a test was compulsory. A few minutes later, out he comes in a full gown, face mask and all. And then I got a great big long cotton bud stuck up my nose until it felt like it was coming out the back of my head. There hasn't been a case of COVID in the community in the South Island where I live since April last year, so I'm really lucky. No need to self-isolate because I'm a low risk for having had COVID. But yeah, not nice.
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adg211288
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Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 7:48am |
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Everyone's fucked off with it now but by stopping they're just throwing away all the sacrifice already made. I can't believe so few people (especially around here) seem to realise that.
And when tougher restrictions come (which they will at this rate), they'll do what they usually do and blame Boris. My thoughts on the PM have gone all over the place since this started but I mostly feel support for him currently. Yes he's made a ton of mistakes managing this from day one but it's not his fault that the vast majority seem to have no respect for the government (and apparently their own well-being). They wouldn't be behaving any different with May or Cameron still in power.
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Nightfly
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Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 7:33am |
Yes, same around here. If only people did stick to the rules we'd get out of this quicker. I think people have had enough of following rules with the result that more people are breaking them. They don't seem to realise that the Government will tighten restrictions even more if they don't comply.
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Psydye
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Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 1:19am |
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The world is a really depressing place. Too much fucking hatred....the problem is, you can't combat hate w/ hate..it just doesn't work!
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: 10 Jan 2021 at 9:35am |
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as far as I can tell, closing all the bars and gyms just made everybody hang out all day at the grocery stores
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adg211288
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Posted: 10 Jan 2021 at 9:33am |
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People aren't sticking to the rules even without the holidays. But they have certainly made the problem worse. We are still feeling the fallout from this and won't see any improvement in figures for a while.
Drove down my local high street today for the first time in a while and I was surprised by how many people were just stood about despite being in lockdown, Sunday and fucking freezing to top it all off. Social distancing going on: 0%. We have fairly wide pavements but people just don't even try to make space for each other. Several family's also all out together just letting their kids run all over the place. The local Lidl was absolutely heaving with people with no limits on who can go in and out. In the first wave all kinds of limits and safety measures were put in place by the supermarkets. The only one in Halstead still doing that is Sainsburys.
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Nightfly
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Posted: 10 Jan 2021 at 9:23am |
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I know we have the new covid variant, but I wonder how much the increase in numbers in the UK is due to the relaxation of the rules at Christmas and people breaking the rules at New Year? I'm sure plenty of people didn't stick to the 3 household mixing rules at Christmas as well.
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Nightfly
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Posted: 10 Jan 2021 at 8:57am |
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^^ Very good.
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Posted: 10 Jan 2021 at 4:45am |
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Brilliant
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adg211288
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Posted: 09 Jan 2021 at 1:42pm |
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Just seen this on Facebook. Not great quality but too good not to re-post:
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Vim Fuego
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Posted: 08 Jan 2021 at 9:41pm |
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I don't usually have a lot of time for Lucy Lawless, but this is class.
She's what passes for an A-list celebrity here
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adg211288
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Posted: 08 Jan 2021 at 2:27pm |
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Apparently some known neo-Nazi also stormed the capitol building.
He'd just recently tested positive for Covid-19. Possible karma incoming.
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TheHeavyMetalCat
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Posted: 08 Jan 2021 at 1:09pm |
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Can't imagine his record labels are too happy with him right now. No business is going to want to be seen by even passively endorsing this. Not in 2021. Same for his bandmates (not of of whom are American). Fact is I think he'd be extremely lucky at this point to avoid a jail sentence.
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UMUR
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Posted: 08 Jan 2021 at 9:07am |
Yeah I saw that too, and I´m not impressed by Schaffer. Luckily I´ve never been a huge Iced Earth fan, so my enjoyment of their music won´t be much affected by his stupidity. I hope he is incarcerated with the rest of the idiot coup makers who invaded the US congress. That´s inexcusable behaviour in a democracy. There are absolutely zero evidence to support Trump and his idiot supporters in their claim of election fraud...come on you imbeciles!!! give up and awknowledge defeat like real men/women would. Their behaviour is incredibly embarressing for the US, and hopefully they´ll be charged with trying a coup. That should give them plenty of years in prison to think about what they´ve done. My respect for him as a person just flushed down the toilet. Have you read the article that Adam links to? He is completely paranoid and talks about all kinds of conspiracy theories. That´s nutcase talk. Lock him up...if not in a prison, then in a mental institution. With this move he has proven a danger to society...
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: 08 Jan 2021 at 8:12am |
Not really. Roughly half of America will like him more for it
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Posted: 08 Jan 2021 at 5:27am |
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What a way to put a stain on your band's legacy.
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MorniumGoatahl
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Posted: 08 Jan 2021 at 2:11am |
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Career suicide: metal edition.
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adg211288
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Posted: 08 Jan 2021 at 1:10am |
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Can't help but lose some respect for the bandleader of one of my all time favourites today:
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Nightfly
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Posted: 07 Jan 2021 at 3:35pm |
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Trump? He needs to be held responsible for what's happening. The man has no shame, totally shown what an entitled spoilt nutjob he is over this. His ego is so big he can't comprehend that he could have lost. He's the kind of guy who when he was a kid would have taken his ball home if his team were losing. The sooner he's gone the quicker things can settle down over there.
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adg211288
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Posted: 07 Jan 2021 at 3:13pm |
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News on that has been overshadowed here by Covid surging ('only' 52k new cases today compared to 62k yesterday, but over 1100 more dead), but I have seen a bit about it.
I knew Trump wasn't going to go quietly, but it was always his supporters who were the danger. A fucking disgrace.
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