Coronavirus Lockdown Chat

[trog]

You are supposed to ask 'How many letters?...

Answer: A sack full.

Damn you beat me to the punch line

 

[Wallace]

I’m always a bit premature.

 

[Black Hole]

 

[Black Hole]

Spot the mistake:

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I've just realised the Mail hasn't published the chart this week.

If they had, it would show the death rate levelling off at around 1000 per week. Maybe that doesn't align with their editorial message.

 

[Trev]

Just what are you accusing the DM of BH? That they are behaving like the Guardian?

 

[Black Hole]

I'm not accusing Danger Mouse of anything — he's the greatest.

 

[EEPhil]

But which one? The one that sounds like Del Boy or the pointless one.

 

[MikeSh]

Latest local news from the BBC:
A hospital has become the first in England to trial booked A&E appointments.

I'm so glad it wasn't a Lidl or library

 

[Wallace]

Yeah. I am thinking of having a accident a week on Friday. Can you book me in for 13:00 please?

 

[Trev]

That'll probably work quite a bit less effectively as 111 (or do you have to book your appointment through them anyway.
With any luck and a following wind it will stop at least some of the shirkers who block up A&E rather than going to see their doctor (next month).

 

[EEPhil]

A hospital has become the first in England to trial booked A&E appointments.

I must be losing it. I cannot work out how you can book A&E appointments. The clue is in the name Accident and Emergency. How do you pre-book an accident? (Insurance fiddles aside). It sounds more like a bookable walk-in centre.

 

[EEPhil]

Drinkers won't adhere to social distancing rules says top cop.
Is the Pope Catholic? Do bears in the woods?

 

[Trev]

Yes, the clue A&E is in the name. Both you and I seem to understand that, but shedloads of peeps don't and (correctly) think it's a quick way of seeing a doctor. The problem is, that A&E staff seem to let them in instead of sending them packing to see their doctor or wait until 'it's' gone tomorrow morning.

Top Cop??? even Top Cat would have realised that.
If they are not behaving in a pub, then shut it down as the staff obviously can't cope.

 

[Black Hole]

 

[RobH1]

I don't think geography is taught in school these days.

 

[EEPhil]

I must improve my observation skills. I looked at post #154 and thought, "what's wrong?". I'd never heard of Falkland Palace - even thought it might be somewhere near (Port) Stanley. Quick search on the web sorted that one.

I don't think geography is taught in school these days.

Not even sure it was taught to a sufficient level to know where Falkland Palace is in my time at school.
And then I spotted the map. Doh! Not the first time broadcasters have made such a mess.

 

[MikeSh]

I don't think geography is taught in school these days.

You're assuming that was a mistake

 

[Black Hole]

You're assuming that was a mistake

Oh it definitely was! The "beer gardens open from today" text was scrolling all the measures relevant to Scotland at the time, and I was so fixated by it I didn't notice anything equivalent for Wales.

 

[MikeSh]

Oh it definitely was!

You are sure it wasn't a deliberate action for a joke, or a dig at Scotland (or Wales even)?

 

[Black Hole]

What, in the main morning news bulletin? 'Course not Malcolm!