Mercury summed it up in “death on two legs”
[QUOTE=Graham Breeze;663117]Originally Posted by Flem
Mercury summed it up in “death on two legs”
[QUOTE=Graham Breeze;663117]
Well obviously not. Obviously.
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".
Ian Anderson, that's the man. I saw Jethro Tull in Frogner Park in Oslo in the early 1990s (a really laid-back affair and, for me at least, a very drunken one) and, even though I was (still) a lot fitter then than I am now, I remember being really impressed at how he bounced about the stage and just seemed to have enormous stamina. (He did disappear off stage every now and again, though, to leave the rest of them to perform a number without him. Perhaps he was getting an oxygen hit.)
Did Roger Daltrey have a canny business brain or a cannery one? (That joke would work better if he'd had a sardine farm.)
Go on, tell some tales. (Go on, go on, go on, go on, have a cup of tea.) "What goes on on tour" isn't the same as "what goes on in the fishery management office", so I'm sure you must have some leeway.
Well now. Let me see if I've got this right. We have a person who seems not to believe that the moon landings took place, another person who seems not to know the difference between the words 'could' and 'would' and who, furthermore, seems to think that anyone who does is a pedant, and a third person who seems to believe that there exists conclusive scientific proof that the Turin Shroud is genuine, or at least is not a fraud. These three people seem to be united in thinking that I'm a moronic pr*ck only interested in pedantry and with no cognisance of the scientific method and with no understanding of scientific evidence. Mmmh. I think, on reflection, I'm rather pleased to have that Holy Trinity ranged against me! I'd be very worried if they were singing my praises. And, on that note, I think I'll retire to bed.
it was anonymous actually, but that shroud has now been lifted
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
Well that made me smile.
And what's the Forum for but to amuse, to inform, to intrigue and to display la bête humaine.
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".
Nay nay sir. At no point did I add the word “moronic” to your considered description!
I merely pointed out that yours ( and perhaps your alter egos grasp) of the less travelled parts of the oxford dictionary made you a suitable candidate to explain to Mr Mole that “posting to say he does not post” might attract the word oxymoron, in HIS case give or take the first three letters.
I would also care to point out that “ flem” has yet to take part in discussions on scientific evidence so perhaps select the right mask for the message! So says the forums bête noir!
Last edited by Oracle; 03-07-2020 at 10:45 AM.
I didn't really pick up on it when you posted this at the time. But I have to agree with you, it is pretty ridiculous that the Pillar 2 testing, (which is done in the community as opposed to clinical settings) has not been published at local level until now. The question has to be why ever not? People who have been looking at the small numbers of new infections in their locality have been living in a fool's paradise.
What's interesting however in the case of Leicester is that there may not be that much of a spike in actual new cases, but rather a large increase in Pillar 2 testing that has picked up cases, that weren't being picked up before. Looking at the graph in the FT article you linked to, the Pillar 1 cases have remained quite static. Apparently there has been no spike in hospital admissions in Leicester so far.
My wife is a brain surgeon, but I don't come on here telling people the best way to carry out a posterior fossa decompression.
....it's all downhill from here.
Brevity is indeed the soul of wit.
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".
