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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 21, 2020 17:25:07 GMT
Very unlike Boris, it all looks very camp!!
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 15, 2020 19:33:50 GMT
The Government announced yesterday that fines are going to increase for non compliance of mask wearing, which All sounds very good and well, but like everything else with this dreadful Government it isn’t policed, the only time things are policed now, if you commit a crime against the great and good of this country. Speaking to my neighbour who is Moroccan told me if you are caught not wearing a mask in public, in his country, no ifs and buts, it is a 3 months prison sentence and they enforce it.
I still cannot fathom how they allow to reopen theatre, but have no contact tracing in place.
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 12, 2020 23:36:04 GMT
Your move, Pasek and Paul! Just hope the person administrating the vaccine is nothing like Count Fosco in A Woman in White.
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 11, 2020 17:36:32 GMT
What a great job Putin has done, to already have a vaccine available this quickly and to give it to his daughter. Also amazing they have had 3 times the cases that the UK, have had and only a 1/3 of the amount of deaths, bravo, what a brilliant job, standing ovation from me.
I am just about to do my evening tea, which I need a pinch of salt.
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 6, 2020 19:19:50 GMT
I don't think anyone is advocating going into complete lock-down again. But it is finding the point where we can have a economy and controlling the Covid infection rate, the dangers of opening too quick has been laid bare in some states in the US, such as Florida, Texas, California and Georgia. Where states that have proceeded with caution and listened to the science such as New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New Jersey have fared a whole lot better.
If we all wore masks, washed our hands, sanitised and social distanced for 3 weeks, we could get rid of this damn thing. Ultimately it is short term pain for long term gain.
It is clear that a strong economy and Covid will not live together.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 31, 2020 22:05:41 GMT
A Taste of Honey
A terrific play by Shelagh Delaney the National Theatre’s production was only in the West End last year. However you wouldn’t write a play today which featured a black sailor knocking up a white girl. However it was written in the 1950s when the country was very pious and conservative, it is a play that spoke for its time. As long as the audience is aware of this and it is a play that that is 65 yers old then fine.
Again The Merchant of Venice one of Shakespeare’s finest play, but it is also totally anti-Semitic, when you see a Jew getting stiched up and loses his wealth, but he can be rescued if he converts to Christianity, and all this was written in the name of comedy if you please, Again it spoke for its day, you wouldn’t write that today, but you wouldn’t change the piece also, as it is important to understand great historic literature. The play also has some of Shakespeare’s greatest lines.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 30, 2020 17:07:47 GMT
If Cameron Mackintosh dares tamper with the original and brilliant production, then a disaster beyond his imagination will occur.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 28, 2020 21:02:39 GMT
Don’t believe a word of it, they said with Cats “Now and Forever.”
That is plainly untrue.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 26, 2020 1:19:14 GMT
The BBC reported yesterday that this is expected by the travel industry cause job losses in the UK not only Spain.
I imagine it will cause a steep drop in people travelling anywhere on the safe list due to fear of their destination getting re added.
That photo is more likely to put me off going to Spain, than Covid though.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 26, 2020 1:17:19 GMT
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 24, 2020 23:40:32 GMT
The majority of people will wear them, a few won't - including people who have legitimate reasons to not wear them. Majority uptake should be enough to keep what is now a low transmission rate under control. I don't see any benefit to obsessive mask monitoring when you're out and about. I don’t believe in the argument that certain people have physical conditions and therefore exempt from wearing a mask. If you have a limiting physical condition which means you cannot wear a mask, then Covid is definitely not for you and will be dreadful for you in a nutshell if you catch it. So even more reason that people with physical conditions who are exempt from wearing a mask, need to definitely wear a mask. The only exceptions I can see are children under 4, the government says 11 though and people with psychotic mental illnesses. As they say if you don’t like wearing a mask then you won’t like wearing a ventilator.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 22, 2020 23:52:51 GMT
It is better to control the low infection rate now and keep it that way than let it blow up again, which it will and trying to control it, when; it is out of control, as it was 2 months ago. Get the armed forces in to hand out fines, if necessary and that includes public transport as well. And if Sainsbury’s aren’t going to help enforce the law, I won’t be shopping there. With something as virulent as this the answer is to take measures long before you think they are necessary. We’ve seen this already and savvy countries are clamping down hard on the slightest outbreak (we aren’t, we have sustained low level transmission). If you think it’s too soon to react, it’s the right time to react. As for vaccine, the question is at what point the viral risk outweighs the side effect risk. We are on the same song sheet for your first paragraph. With regards to vaccine, there are people who will not take a vaccine, which is fine, if they want to catch Covid and risk the complications that goes with it, then I have absolutely no problem with that. What people don’t have a right to do is transmit it to other people, who are going about their own law abiding way of life. It is better to control the low infection rate now and keep it that way than let it blow up again, which it will and trying to control it, when; it is out of control, as it was 2 months ago. Get the armed forces in to hand out fines, if necessary and that includes public transport as well. And if Sainsbury’s aren’t going to help enforce the law, I won’t be shopping there. You sure about the army? Absolutely, they are there for national emergencies, if the supermarket and the police don’t enforce it, the armed forces can and should. No point in making laws, if they’re not going to be enforced.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 22, 2020 20:08:03 GMT
It is better to control the low infection rate now and keep it that way than let it blow up again, which it will and trying to control it, when; it is out of control, as it was 2 months ago. Get the armed forces in to hand out fines, if necessary and that includes public transport as well.
And if Sainsbury’s aren’t going to help enforce the law, I won’t be shopping there.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 13, 2020 18:48:18 GMT
Every card in your wallet/purse I guess it would be possible to put in you Apple Wallet, from your library card to your ATG card, membership cards and maybe your Nectar Card? So do you really need to carry a bulky wallet/purse now? Your card can't have a flat battery. Or pick up malware. Or crash at inconvenient moments. Or break when you drop it. It doesn't have any resale value so it's less attractive as a target for theft. If one of your cards gets lost or stolen you don't lose all of them at once. Stealing your card doesn't give someone access to all your social media accounts, personal photographs or anything else. If your card gets stolen it's up to the bank to pay for its replacement; if your phone gets stolen it's up to you. Bulky wallet? I can carry half a dozen cards and some just-in-case £20 notes in a wallet that's 80g. My phone is 180g. My phone is also 50% longer than my wallet, which means that when it's in my pocket it's visible. All in all, for me cards are safer, lighter, more convenient and more reliable. I think cash will stick around but not as a regular form of payment. If we rely completely on electronic payment with no fallback then we're at risk of a breakdown in the system caused by something like terrorism or another Carrington Event, so we'd need to have a cash system in place to go back to if all else fails. But I can't see many shops accepting it routinely: they'd have the ability to handle it if they had nothing else but once they've stopped the regular process of counting up and taking the money to the bank they're not going to reinstate it as needed just for one or two sales a day. So I wonder if the newspapers/television did a swab test on money, like they’ve done with pub bar peanuts and see how shocked we would be with the results I think they do that sort of thing quite often, because when there's space to fill and it's a slow news day a nicely alarmist "Revealed: the deadly bacteria on your [insert common item here]" story always fits the bill. Okay Matthew Find me a article please. Seriously? You can't search for something like "bacteria on money" and find anything? No you don’t Matthew. You can do better than that. Yet you can search for September 1859 Geometric Storm (Carrington Event) for a reason for not using cash and you go round weighing your wallet and phone to make out a argument against me, so if you are able to do that, surely you can find a article where cash has been swabbed and tested germs etc. Come on there must be plenty of articles out there in the public domain for those “slow news days,” as you eloquently put it, you choose to make the argument against me, now back it up please?
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 13, 2020 1:16:45 GMT
Scaremongering but the articles you posted and you must have done a bit of digging to prove me wrong about media swab testing on cash - all your articles are either nail bars, gyms, pet and dishwasher but are not actually linked to cash. Speak again.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 12, 2020 21:25:13 GMT
Okay Matthew
Find me a article please.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 12, 2020 18:26:37 GMT
The cashless society will arrive without Government action. Many small retailers are finding it is becoming cost effective to become cashless and especially in London where we routinely use contactless to move around people appreciate the convenience. The banking costs are not that different when processing cash or cards through the banking system and the hours spent cashing up, reconciling and generating accounts are significantly reduced when electronic and the risk of being robbed even though small is removed. Again we are moving to where the % who cannot join the cashless society due to access to the banking system will become second class citizens but believe now you have to have a bank account to access the benefits system and the banks have to provide basic current accounts. May be slower outside the M25 but it is coming. I kind of agree. The newspapers support cash and have never lobbied to get rid of cash, as they support tax avoidance as a lot of people in the media are self employed, albeit not paid in cash. So I wonder if the newspapers/television did a swab test on money, like they’ve done with pub bar peanuts and see how shocked we would be with the results, if this would change habits, but they won’t.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 10, 2020 19:54:51 GMT
I am surprised that the government hasn’t made businesses that handle food cashless, you have the argument I made before with hygiene, Also with pubs and restaurants, it makes contact tracing a lot easier, especially as the system of people leaving their details have been abused, with people not taking the current situation seriously.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 7, 2020 14:09:10 GMT
Are the care centre managers at fault for hospitals releasing patients with Covid into care homes?
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 6, 2020 18:51:16 GMT
Okay
Today we hear the terrible news, that someone from our community has lost their life, the appalling news that Nick Cordero has died from Covid, he was in Bullets Over Broadway and A Bronx Tale, he was only 41 and goes to show that Covid doesn’t just take old or weak people.
Also today we learned a tad better news that Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper has regained consciousness and he is in a minimum state of consciousness, where Covid has caused absolute havoc with his body.
Both Nick and Derek are absolutely terrible and shows how this virus shouldn’t be taken for granted.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 5, 2020 23:21:00 GMT
Can’t this government announce anything, without leaking it first.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 4, 2020 23:50:00 GMT
The above is complete contrast to when Covid first struck, the week before the Prime Minister announcement to shut the country down that was already virtually shut down anyway. I cycled from Baker Street to Charing Cross on the Santander Bike as I do and went via Old Compton Street and I swear I saw tumbleweed blow down it, there was not a soul out, except for the same two black cabs going round and round with its yellow light on.
Two things I have learned about Covid is that how surprised I am how quick the daily cases tailed off to just a few cases we get each day over here now, the second thing I learned and surprised by is how quick Covid explodes again, when you look at Florida, Texas, Georgia and California.
Oh well the government have been sensible not to close the Florence Nightingale hospitals down.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 4, 2020 19:40:08 GMT
And with non compliance of the law and very weak enforcement, in a month or two time we will be just like Florida.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 2, 2020 21:32:45 GMT
As far as government and individual responsibility goes there has to be some of both. I was talking to someone today and they said they had been on a bus and a lot had got on not wearing face coverings. Someone complained to the bus driver who said I am here to drive the bus, not challenge people. Government can make rules but sometimes they are difficult to police. Unfortunately we live in a society where people will not challenge others for fear of reprisal. You only have to look at the news to see why. I certainly would not challenge anyone for not wearing a mask. It is individuals who choose to ignore social distancing , not wear face coverings etc. I can understand these poll results to some extent as the government cannot police every individuals behaviour. Bus drivers have been told not to challenge non-compliant passengers. No point in making laws, if you aren’t going to police them. It needs the police to go and fine the perpetrators. Same with cycling and electric scooters on pavements, which is very topical at the moment - people ride these on the pavement, so they can listen to music via their headphones and in some cases on their phones. It is illegal to ride on the pavement. Both masks and scooters/cycles should be hit with fines, as both are dangerous and a threat to other people.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jul 2, 2020 1:52:20 GMT
Chess joins musicals such as Mack and Mabel and Aida - where the score is the exact opposite to the book.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 30, 2020 19:36:29 GMT
Looking at the US who have done a similar opening to ours, which we are doing this coming Saturday. The consequences of opening too soon is laid bare in the southern states, with Covid infection rates gone through the roof. The opening was supported by Donald Trump and his state governors, is there a general election looming anytime soon? They put wealth before health and didn’t listen to the science (Dr Anthony Fauci.) We will go the same way, where the “R” rate will go through the roof and we have to lockdown again. Do you have a crystal ball? Otherwise what is the need for the doom and gloom? No wonder so many people are getting fed up and ignoring lockdown if people are telling them that effectively we're going to be in some form of lockdown until there is a vaccine. We are not the US, many places in the US opened up much more rapidly and social distancing is basically non-existent in large swathes of the population, much more than it is here. Life is depressing enough without pervasive paranoia and insistence that we stay locked down to avoid a few more people getting the disease. That was never the point, the point was only to ensure the disease remained at a level where the NHS could cope. And it did and it has. So open up we must, because the negative impacts on the economy and people's lives from the lockdown and things other than coronavirus are quickly going to overtake the virus itself, if they haven't already. If you don't want to go outside until there is a cure then that's your prerogative, but on so many levels that just isn't realistic or an option for the vast majority of people. Life is more than coronavirus and it has to move on, with appropriate precautions such as masks and hand cleanliness. We locked down too late, this is agreed on by some right wing commentators now. We are also dealing with a virus that is very infectious, deadly and spreaders do not show any signs when they are spreading the virus, a perfect storm. I did say earlier in this thread that masks enhance out economic freedom, they don’t curtail it and sustain our economic freedom, however with freedom comes responsibility and the public have generally been irresponsible by not wearing masks. I have never advocated staying locked down either, but merely observing what I see in the environment around me. So therefore the public being irresponsible will lead to another shutdown, the NHS getting overwhelmed and theatre taking longer to open. I don’t have a crystal ball, you are correct. I see when I am out, that people are not social distancing, (look at Bournemouth Beach, BLM protests and Liverpool Anfield celebrations etc.) With restaurants, hairdressers and pubs set to open on Saturday the “R” will go up again, this will be exasperated when people start to stay inside when the weather becomes cooler and the new flu season happens in 3-6 months or so. So looking at the US where the “R” rate has gone through the roof and we are following a similar orientation with our re-openings, in some cases the US has been more responsible than us and have insisted that masks are worn in all public areas, including shops. So I am not being neither pervasive and paranoid. Do I recall earlier in this thread or a similar thread, you were very wax lyrical about theatres shutting down? I want to go back to the theatre, albeit one that is Covid secure for the audience and performers.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 29, 2020 21:00:24 GMT
Looking at the US who have done a similar opening to ours, which we are doing this coming Saturday. The consequences of opening too soon is laid bare in the southern states, with Covid infection rates gone through the roof. The opening was supported by Donald Trump and his state governors, is there a general election looming anytime soon? They put wealth before health and didn’t listen to the science (Dr Anthony Fauci.)
We will go the same way, where the “R” rate will go through the roof and we have to lockdown again.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 28, 2020 22:52:19 GMT
I am not advocating that we should use phones and I am merely curious whether everything in your wallet/purse can be put on you phone in the apple wallet? I still have a debit/credit card, as pointed out I don’t carry my wallet when I go for a ride. But when out I do.
But still worthy of making a great point that your phone payment is more secure than a plastic debit/credit card.
However I don’t feel the same with cash, which is very dirty and dangerous especially in these difficult dark days of Covid.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 28, 2020 18:43:40 GMT
Ashley Day would be better suited to playing Freddy. Michael Sheen is a good shout for Higgins. I agree, Higgins you do need a name and luckily it’s one of the very few roles in musical theatre which only requires minimal singing ability. He’s way too busy due to Pointless and his Classic FM show but would Alexander Armstrong work as Higgins or Pickering? I had a flash of inspiration for who could play Alfred Doolittle who can sing and is a name although again has a hugely busy schedule, Bradley Walsh. Ha True what you say about Higgins and requires minimal singing. Wasn’t Rex Harrison in the original who couldn’t sing for toffee, the creators had to develop s sort of speech-sing, a kind of hybrid to suit his lack of ability, sk he could play the role. Anyway he still won the Tony. Bradley Walsh would be good.
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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 28, 2020 17:15:55 GMT
When I am on my bike, I listen to music through my phone, so carry that anyway - so pointless carrying a wallet as well and risk losing my wallet, when I don’t have to.
To access my phone is done by fingerprint, to get to my debit card is done again via fingerprint, which is a lot more secure than a open wallet, where if someone steals your wallet, you also lose everything, they can go on and use you contactless card to make purchases, they cannot with your phone.. I never Have had my phone crash, as apple software is very stable. Your phone cannot be skimmed like a physical debit card.
It is up to you to get good protective casing for your phone, so it doesn’t break. When you drop it. Battery are a lot more efficient and last longer these days, but then again there are a lot more places now where you can charge your devices.
As you say your phone is heavier than your wallet, But then you then discounted if your put change in your wallet, that would make it heavier. But then again I don’t know who goes round weighing their phone and wallet. But never less you are going to carry your phone around with you anyway, so wallet is a additional extra weigh that you don’t have to carry. Then going back to the first point you don’t have to carry money, which is dirty, as you don’t know how clean the people were that handled your money.
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