When will this shit end?

[squirrelarmy]

5 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

I wish they did Star Trek Lego 😞 

 

9 minutes ago, SheffJeff said:

I've bought a few Lepin sets recently (Chinese copy lego) and I've been relatively impressed. Contemplating getting the millenium falcon for this lockdown. They just don't number the bags so its more time consuming but time is something I have alot of now it seems.

 

9 minutes ago, Toilet Duck said:

The Lego app is bloody marvellous...has the instructions for all the sets! Extra builds for the classic sets too. Doesn’t have spare wands though!

 

17 minutes ago, RobertProsineckisLighter said:

He has classic for being creative with and he has the sets that my other half inspects on a regular basis. We have all the manuals in freezer bags, and I've just ordered a shit load of spare wands for the Harry Potter sets and dinosaur eggs as that is the number 1 cause if arguments in our house. Child plays with Lego, child loses wand or egg, partner and child hunt for it and fall out. I'm stuck in middle. So I've ordered a secret stash so I can always 'find' the missing part and get back to peace and tranquility. Big fan of invest to save!

Looks like there’s a lot of fans of the old building blocks. Might be worth setting up a thread over in the none Glasto section of forum. I could quite easily fill pages with pictures. 

[steviewevie]

slightly confused by the love for lego.

[Tranquility of Solitude]

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

13 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

 

 

 

Looks like there’s a lot of fans of the old building blocks. Might be worth setting up a thread over in the none Glasto section of forum. I could quite easily fill pages with pictures. 

Good idea - can't say I've ever ventured over there! 

It is claimed that Lego helps build spatial awareness and the ability to problem solve - given that myself and most of the other Geospatial Consultants I work with are all fans of Lego there might well be something in that! 

On a block related tangent, Ordnance Survey's most downloaded product at one time was the minecraft map of GB. Another piece of software I use at work can actually wrote out Minecraft blocks meaning in theory with the right amount of data and work you could create a geographical and topographically correct  Minecraft Glastonbury festival site.

[grumpyhack]

I read recently that Lego are the biggest manufacturer of tyres in the world.

[Homer]

Well, I reckon blue Monday is overrated; today is always the crappest day of the year. At least we had some laughs in here (and my cricket ‘joke’ is getting some traction on a test match special group on Facebook).

 

Tomorrow will definitely be much better. I promise.

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

31 minutes ago, MEGABOWL said:

Back to where I was in March, working shifts, 3-year-old and 6-year-old at home, and with my Wife now at College via Remote Learning, staring in confusion at all these people  how they’ll fill their time. 

I'm dreading it, I end up working very long days because productivity goes through the floor - the lads not bad and doesn't need constant supervision die to his age but he is still a child he needs feeding, he doesn't always appreciate that your not in a meeting but your still working and listening to his latest joke or philosophical question about what wild animal you want as a pet or something isnt the most pressing issue in the world. 

Fortunately we both have understanding employers and can make things work.  

[squirrelarmy]

Set one up. @Ozanne @grumpyhack @RobertProsineckisLighter @SheffJeff @Tranquility of Solitude @Toilet Duck and I know he hasn’t commented but @crazyfool1 also has an interest.

 

Edited January 4, 2021 by squirrelarmy

[waltere]

1 hour ago, ModernMan said:

Can’t because of the sporting calendar. I know it sounds easy, but it just isn’t. 

Expanding off this point, it's managable for individual sports to rearrange their calendars "on the fly" because they're only really worried about their own events - look at what sports like road cycling and tennis managed to do last summer. The Olympics on the other hand is such a cornerstone, for so, so many sports that trying to reschedule it would basically involve having to rejig the entire sporting calendar, coordinated across 30 odd sports, with 6 months notice, at a time of unprecedented global fluidity and uncertainty. It's all but impossible.

 

I'm gonna guess that the Olympics goes ahead, but with major crowd restrictions, be that limitation of numbers, Japanese only crowds, or some mix of the two.

[DeanoL]

 

4 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Well, that's because Marcon insisted a big proportion of the vaccination efforts should be put into the Sanofi (French) vaccine plan...which has failed abysmally. That bad, politically motivated decision will probably cause many thousands of unnecessary deaths in France and the EU.

To be fair, didn’t we (the UK) do pretty much the same thing, putting most of our money in the Oxford basket? Had Oxford failed and Sanofi come off, we would be in the opposite positions? 

[stuartbert two hats]

8 minutes ago, DeanoL said:

 

To be fair, didn’t we (the UK) do pretty much the same thing, putting most of our money in the Oxford basket? Had Oxford failed and Sanofi come off, we would be in the opposite positions? 

Not really, we've invested in a broad portfolio, with AZ admittedly the cornerstone, but we'd have enough to vaccinate the whole country without them.

[found home in 2009]

16 hours ago, st dan said:

My mum is a phlebotomist and they haven’t been asked to help out at all (yet). I can’t believe they aren’t being asked to give vaccines at the same time they are taking blood either at clinics or doing home visits. Especially as most of the people she deals with are in the vulnerable category, and it would only take minutes added on to their usual job. They are literally the experts with needles! 

Not sure if there is a difference between Scotland & England, but I have a friend who is a mental health/addictions nurse that is helping out with the vaccine. Seems strange they wouldn't be enlisting help of people with what seems a more relevant specialism. 

[Toilet Duck]

4 minutes ago, DeanoL said:

 

To be fair, didn’t we (the UK) do pretty much the same thing, putting most of our money in the Oxford basket? Had Oxford failed and Sanofi come off, we would be in the opposite positions? 

To be fair also, the Sanofi (French) vaccine is also the GSK (British) vaccine. Since it was based on existing technology, we all had high hopes for it and it seemed like a safe bet to fall back on if the newer technologies failed (the UK has a big order for this one too, 60m doses I think). But if Oxford and J&J get approved by the EMA, the EU has excess doses ordered for delivery this year (if they don’t approve the Oxford one soon, you may see some national regulators issuing their own EUA and taking delivery of their orders...Spain have even paid full whack for more Pfizer vaccine, not sure if they paid as much as Israel though!). 

[StuMalinas]

Got a close friend whose mom is a director at Cheltenham racecourse and has told me that yearly contracts are on pause for 2021  and the event will be behind closed doors

[xxialac]

1 minute ago, Bdva said:

Got a close friend whose mom is a director at Cheltenham racecourse and has told me that yearly contracts are on pause for 2021  and the event will be behind closed doors

After the debacle of last year, there would have been civil unrest if it had gone ahead.

[StuMalinas]

7 minutes ago, xxialac said:

After the debacle of last year, there would have been civil unrest if it had gone ahead.

I live next door to the racecourse and was worried that there was even a small chance if it going ahead. It’s bad enough on a normal year, drunk Irish people sleeping in your garden! Loss economically for the town but needed to happen 

[zahidf]

 

[Matt86]

3 hours ago, DeanoL said:

 

To be fair, didn’t we (the UK) do pretty much the same thing, putting most of our money in the Oxford basket? Had Oxford failed and Sanofi come off, we would be in the opposite positions? 

Hi everyone ^^ Well, there's 2 reasons why we have only vaccinated something like 500 people so far in France..

First of all, you are right, the government will NEVER admit it, but they want to sell the Sanofi vaccin ... thats a big shame...

But the main reason is that they didn't plan anything.  I know it sounds unbelievable, but it is true. It's like they got the Pfizer vaccines delivered and then " ok, we have it ! now ... what do we do exactly ...?"

We are very angry about their incapacity of anticipating the situation, they lie by telling us "no thats normal, we have a different approach blablabla...". That's BS. They just fucked up, once again, very bad work from our government. Now I'm sure we won't have any festivals in France this Summer .. and I was hoping that England will find a way to make festivals live again this Summer ! , until I saw the possible Glastonbury cancellation + total lockdown until February ... 😞

[MrBarry465]

2 hours ago, Matt86 said:

Hi everyone ^^ Well, there's 2 reasons why we have only vaccinated something like 500 people so far in France..

First of all, you are right, the government will NEVER admit it, but they want to sell the Sanofi vaccin ... thats a big shame...

But the main reason is that they didn't plan anything.  I know it sounds unbelievable, but it is true. It's like they got the Pfizer vaccines delivered and then " ok, we have it ! now ... what do we do exactly ...?"

We are very angry about their incapacity of anticipating the situation, they lie by telling us "no thats normal, we have a different approach blablabla...". That's BS. They just fucked up, once again, very bad work from our government. Now I'm sure we won't have any festivals in France this Summer .. and I was hoping that England will find a way to make festivals live again this Summer ! , until I saw the possible Glastonbury cancellation + total lockdown until February ... 😞

Sadly I think festivals are realistically off the cards until 2022 summer.

[JoeyT]

I saw this posted on Facebook and thought it worth posting on here:

Following the national lockdown announced by Boris,  please let’s be mindful that ‘’we are all going through this but not all are going through the same thing’’

Working parents want kids to go back to school because school closures directly impacts them.

Teachers don’t want schools to open because covid spreading round their school directly impacts them.

NHS staff want a full lockdown because sick covid patients directly impacts them.

Business owners want to carry on as normal because lockdown directly impacts them.

People with physical health problems want everyone to stay socially distant because catching covid could kill them.

People with mental health problems want people to spend time with because isolation could kill them.

Some can’t wait for a vaccine because they believe it will bring back some normality.

Some are terrified of a vaccine because they believe it could harm them.

We are all going through this but none of us are going through the same thing. Some face crippling financial challenges, others face heart break. We don’t all have to agree with what is best because what’s best for us won’t be best for everyone. We don’t have to understand what others are going through. But we do need to stick together and keep loving each other no matter our differences. We need to be mindful when some things go the way we want it to, it could be terrible news to another person. We need to be kind.

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[oneeye]

For anyone contemplating taking up colouring as a hobby, week 1 day 1 intro...

[JoeyT]

Let’s be having you then COVID... got the result within 24 hours.

 

[Fuzzy Afro]

7 hours ago, xxialac said:

After the debacle of last year, there would have been civil unrest if it had gone ahead.

😂

 

No there wouldn’t. 

[st dan]

[danbailey80]

There is this false assumption that teacher's didn't want to go back to school and in my experience this is utter bollocks.

I can only give you my experience. 

I am a teacher in a primary school and also have friends in other schools and none of us know anyone that wanted the schools to close. In fact, we all wanted the massive lockdown but keep primary schools open. 

Unions DO NOT speak for the majority of teachers. The rarely do.