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Post by banjo on Dec 11, 2020 16:02:57 GMT
Nothing new in vaccinations albeit they've put in a superhuman effort this time (and to some extent with a little uncustomary altruism too?) I read that they've used a new type of carrier engine for the vaccine delivery this time, so it seems biology has usurped physics and chemistry as the crucible of invention in the modern era?
What it does show however is what can be done when the various regulatory authorities exert a little urgency. I guess they were sat down and instructed to get their fingers out by "Someone"?
Bloody well done to everyone involved. We are grateful.
e&oe ...
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Post by nob on Dec 11, 2020 16:46:36 GMT
The only thing the nurse wanted was smaller syringes so they could get a more accurate measurement. Apart from that and more space because of the 15 minute wait afterwards its all go.
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Post by nob on Jan 13, 2021 16:52:38 GMT
Anyone hear the sonic boom from one of our Typhoon jets the other day?
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Post by nob on Jan 19, 2021 17:09:00 GMT
Lots of dog thefts round my way, white transit van on false plates the latest one seen looking in gardens.
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Post by banjo on Jan 19, 2021 20:42:13 GMT
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Post by nob on Feb 2, 2021 16:11:17 GMT
Captain Tom died, RIP.
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Post by duyuthinkysaurus on Feb 2, 2021 16:35:04 GMT
A sad day Cpt Tom you have shown us what it is to be British. RIP.
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Post by banjo on Feb 3, 2021 11:02:06 GMT
My neice (who is now thirty one) works as an assistant in a care home. I think she is tested every day (or maybe it's every three days- I forget.) Due to her employment she was considered a priority and she had the first jab over the weekend. Today she has just tested positive.
This should serve as a salutary reminder to folks that have been lucky enough to receive a jab. Not only can you still become infected, you can also clearly carry it and pass it on to others.
I should say that for personal family reasons she is a stay at home girl, still living with my sister and brother-in-law, and she has frankly next to zero social life. Go figure.
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Post by nob on Feb 4, 2021 8:07:06 GMT
I thought it takes around three weeks to build the immunity up in the body? Ive a test coming today, I was picked randomly to see where it is in the country. Got a letter off the council asking if people would be interested in getting FTTP 1000mbps (1Gbps), speed. Just signed my interest, see what happens.
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Post by banjo on Feb 4, 2021 9:29:29 GMT
No idea about how long it takes to build immunity nob.
I'm still waiting on BT to install fibre here since last August. Two appointments I stayed in all day and no one showed up. The third and most recent appointment the guy turned up but refused to install it in my loft where the 'phone line currently enters. They've made another appointment to install with a smash through inro my sitting room and a free move to the loft later, despite that I told them it's not going to happen. Effin' eejits. Every time it costs me 30-45 minutes in a queue to speak to someone. I'm fed up with all these providers I think I'll go 4G which is way less than half the price, as fast as VDSL, and no more phishing calls on a line we have to pay for and never use. In any other arena we'd call it a scam. BT / YackYack / Virgin- they're all sh1te.
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Post by nob on Feb 4, 2021 11:20:44 GMT
It was Kelly communications that connected me to Fibre Steve, they work for openreach Ill see what happens if they can and will put fibre to the house.
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Post by banjo on Feb 4, 2021 14:17:37 GMT
Yes it was Kelly Comms here too nob, (when they finally showed up that is.) He was a really amenable guy, but definitely not an engineer. I have found that the only time I've ever got remotely close to the sort of speeds my vdsl connection would suggest is with (eg) Microsoft servers. I fail to see the attraction of ever faster pipelines to my chosen provider's server. Most of the time, a connection is only ever as good as the weakest link in the chain, and with all the hops along the way, often in various countries (which also provides scammers with a disguise), there are far too many opportunities for the stream/download to stop for a beer and a sandwich. It's like you are being sold a round the world cruise in a rowing boat.
I now have to sit and listen to Greensleeves for half an hour (yet again) to remind someone with no knowledge of my order that it will be futile to send an "engineer" again, only to have another go at persuading me that smashing a hole through my 9" solid London Stocks brick wall with horse hair and pebbles plaster and emulsioned blown vinyl wallpaper hanging on for dear life is a good idea. Ironically it's like talking to that brick wall.
Raining hard here. The nearside Nissan windscreen wiper blade fell off and the airbag light went on. I wonder what the third is? Oh I know- despite lockdown, my sister is going to rock up with her two unruly Hungarian wire-haired Vishlas because her house is about to be inundated with Maidenhead's unwanted floodwater. Stop the world, I want to get off!
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Post by nob on Feb 4, 2021 15:15:22 GMT
There was a young lad on the park Steve a few months ago and he had a dog, I asked what it was and he said a Vizsla it was a smashing looking dog. Just been for a walk around the fields, the puddles are drying up and the suns lovely. Get the vitamin D built up just in case the virus hits.
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Post by banjo on Feb 5, 2021 10:19:34 GMT
This is Otis, but we call him "Horse" and he responds. It's no understatement to say that he's a big old dog- he's actually very large for a Vizla, and being a wire haired Vizla he's shaggy too. He's actually a stunning beast, and it slows us down when walking around the Great Park at Windsor because everyone wants to stop, enquire, discuss, and admire him. He's no trouble since he had the unkindest cut, but his younger half sister is a little sod putting it mildly. Put them together and you can imagine. My sister has a laissez faire attitude to them occupying the furniture and beds, and that could cause a problem given she'll be here with them due to the flooding (you can't take the dogs out for a Watford Gap when it's three feet deep outside your doorstep.) Poor Cloud just does her best to ignore them and stays totally aloof. e&oe ...
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Post by nob on Feb 5, 2021 11:40:21 GMT
Hes a cracker Steve.
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