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aggi

You can't beat Ringo crowing over the fact that the thing that only he predicted would happen hasn't happened.

He's defeated some great straw mans in the past.

aggi

Probably due to this: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/killing-jeremy-corbyn Oborne is a respected journalist and not a member of Momentum. I don't disagree with any of this. However, regardless of that, Corbyn wasn't a savvy political operator. He was certainly screwed by the media but I susp...

aggi

This seems to be what is showing the North West R above 1. Not entirely clear what the source is https://i2-prod.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article18370021.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_RJPG.jpg https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/coronavirus-r-number-north-west-1...

aggi

19 Premier League 1 FA Cup 3 EFL Cup 7 Europa League = 30 games at home and an average of £3.2m a game - though I suspect you are right about Premier League games being closer to £4m Concur that Arsenal are hard hit by the "ghost games" though I suspect Spurs were looking to generate £120m + from M...

aggi

Damo wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 05, 2020 1:03 am
Not happy to turn up for work, but quite able to congregate on masse at protests in packed out parks

I din't realise there were loads of MPs protesting, I only saw one in the news. Who else was doing it?

aggi

There's no reason why reopening the schools will stoke the infection rate, IF they follow the guidelines. It's always down to following the guidelines and when they aren't then trouble follows. I understand we are in a pandemic, and we have to show common sense, but the panic some people display is...

aggi

It is looking like the schools were correct to have doubts about the "world beating" track and trace system that was due to be fully operational by 1 June and being touted as one of the reasons why it would be safe to start the schools up again. A lot of stories suggesting that it is performing poor...

aggi

Chester Perry wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:48 pm
It is more £3m-£4m a game aggi - they make £800k a match from drink and food alone

Yes, I suspected it would be more. I was basing that figure on Arsenal.

aggi

My boss at work and his family (six of them in total, all locked down in the same house) had the anitbody test. Five were negative, one was positive. Who knows what that means.

aggi

Please can someone explain to me where the huge losses come from due to the virus? We’re playing the rest of the season and the only loss will be fans ticket sales which will be a few million, not 100’s of millions of pounds worth of debt. Spurs were probably expecting to make about £2-3m per game ...

aggi

Sorry Chester but cannot agree. £178m is a massive amount of debt to take on, not to mention £650m of stadium debt. Even if they are only repaying that (low) interest rate, £800m+ debt will cripple them in time because it won’t reduce, especially if their stadium remains empty for any prolonged per...

aggi

Because of the rhetoric of the teachers' trade unions. They appear to be determined that teachers won't go back to work until life is as safe as it was before coronavirus existed. Teachers are key workers. Or they ought to be . But the efforts of the unions on one side and the education authorities...

aggi

android wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:07 pm
I don't see a huge scandal I see a difficult dilemma - see above to Andrew.

I mean it's a huge scandal if a significant number of those excess deaths are "lockdown deaths" rather than covid deaths.

aggi

Fair point. Perhaps we'll do something about the Spanish antibiotic-stuffed meat once we have taken back the power. Though I presume you would be opposed to that as well? As I said to you last time you mentioned this, the EU has already done something about that and it will be coming into force in ...

aggi

That's true as a stand alone point but it ignores the lockdown impact, which seems to be the elephant in the room. We now have something of the order of 60,000 excess deaths this year (there are different ways of calculating it so no point trying to be too precise) and of the order of 40,000 covid ...

aggi

It would be great to do a feature on the site along the lines of 'where are they now'. Trying to find info about ex pros, especially ones not local to Burnley is hard so it would be good to see what they are up to nowadays. The Athletic has a decent number of articles catching up with former players.

aggi

I heard on the grapevine that at my local school quite a few of the kids who went back in are saying they don't want to carry on going. It seems that they're not enjoying the socially distanced schooling.

aggi

dsr wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 04, 2020 2:41 pm
I think it's four opportunities, as long as one of them is half time. You're only allowed to stop play while the clock is running three times for substitutions; but at half time the clock isn't running.

Is that three times per team?

aggi

Tall Paul wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 04, 2020 2:29 pm
So is Chris Wood.

True.

Maybe the price tag wasn't big enough.

aggi

Tall Paul wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 04, 2020 2:16 pm
Josh King is a foreign sounding name?

Well I guess he is foreign so, by definition, it must be.

aggi

I think we'll see the differences in how this is applied when we play Man City.

aggi

We've currently got more Covid deaths in the last 24 hours than the rest of the EU countries put together. That's 27 other countries. Repeat that's 27 other countries. We have around 66 million in our population. Those 27 countries have around 450 million. Let that sink in. Please please please, EU...

aggi

Question - how do you get a flock of resentment fuelled sore losers to obsess about the word "could" ? Answer - by letting them convince themselves that if they do , the Project Fear lies , about the closure of a car plant , that the gullible schmucks fell for, never actually happened !! :lol: :lol...

aggi

Here you go Ringo, a chance for you to learn something:

Could and would are related, but they mean different things. Could expresses possibility, while would expresses certainty and intent.

https://writingexplained.org/could-vs-would-difference

aggi

Jesus, can someone please give Ringo a dictionary.

aggi

Old habits die hard. Once again you're wilfully misrepresenting what I said in relation to leaving the EU on the 31st of Jan. I didnt predict that. I just voted in a way that helped to bring it about. I haven't mentioned anything about leaving the EU on 31st Jan, that was just one of your irrelevan...

aggi

Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 03, 2020 5:20 pm
Im lost as to what you think was childish?

I'm assuming he's referring to Burnley's MP commenting how well the system was working whilst in a picture showing how badly it was working. Not sure whether childish would be how I'd describe it though.

aggi

I don't think I do, I think others have a biased point of view, subconsciously. You see a White Policeman using excess force on a Black victim. I just see a Policeman using excess force on a criminal, who's the racist. I don't see the colours because everyone should be treated the same. If it trans...

aggi

33 out of 92 free to air

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52904364

aggi

As a paid up member of the Brexit party , late in the day , even I switched my vote to the tories. Practicalities and ensuring brexit got done were far more important than flaunting my ability to be ahead of the curve. It worked! Read and weap- The United Kingdom left the European Union at 11 p.m. ...

aggi

FactualFrank wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 03, 2020 11:50 am
When I check, Twitter says that status has been deleted?

It works for me. Threadreader version here https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1267 ... 23010.html

aggi

I couldn't agree more, black lives do matter, but rather than throwing alleged racist slogans at the Police, which may or may not be true, it would serve the black community better to improve social housing, and properly fund the education systems in these areas. Gang cultures thrive in areas where...

aggi

An interesting thread on testing statistics.

https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/ ... 8449323010

aggi

Those stats are worrying, but it could be misleading. In America the gang culture, drug culture, gangsta boys tend to come from the ghettos, or projects. These places are predominantly black or ethnic areas. In this country its the housing estates that provide the gang cultures. In London they are ...

aggi

I guess if it really is the case that the life expectancy of those who died is a few months then we should start to see significant negative excess deaths when the country starts to get the virus under control.

aggi

To be honest Andrew, and to others. A white Police Officer killed a black person during the course of an arrest. I haven't seen one iota of evidence that this was pre-meditated, not one iota of evidence that this was racially motivated. There are far too many black people assaulted during arrests i...

aggi

How can they know that? The virus is only a few months old. They first estimated YLL from COVID-19 using standard WHO life tables, based on published age/sex data from COVID-19 deaths in Italy. They then used aggregate data on number/type of LTCs to model likely combinations of LTCs among people dy...

aggi

That study implies that people who died of coronavirus had a life expectancy the same as the average. Either people with severe health conditions are no more vulnerable than the healthy to coronavirus, or else people with severe health conditions are more vulnerable but they would have lived as lon...

aggi

I think the death rate will slow I read an article somewhare that the virus cuts the average life span by 5 months as most are very ill with other life shortening conditions. Only time will tell. The study I saw suggested that the average number of years of life lost was about 12 years. https://wel...

aggi

It will likely become easier for Johnson when the House of Commons is full again. The normal school playground atmosphere will probably benefit Johnson more than Starmer. Looks like Ress Mogg has managed to get the MPs back into Parliament with a somewhat bizarre option for voting https://pbs.twimg...

aggi

I think someone else on here has mentioned it but the likely result of antifa being declared a terrorist organisation will be that it will leave a nice grey area to convict or strip away the rights of those protesting. It will be interesting to see what the burden of proof will be to convict someone...

aggi

Mystic McCartney- having the uncanny habit of calling it right , early doors, on all manner of things. Referendum, general elections, John Bercow (where is he now!) :lol: The labour party's electoral fortunes, car plants future, Since 2016 And boy! Boy oh boy! Does it get to some!? Does it! :lol: :...

aggi

Really? You don't realise that the sentence which includes..... By locating himself at his father's premises....... Covers how he located to that address? Time travel? Magic?...... Or, the evidence they had in front of them, that he drove there!!! How ridiculous- you have Martin-p DA and Zlatan arg...

aggi

https://www.durham.police.uk/news-and-events/Pages/News%20Articles/Durham-Constabulary-press-statement--.aspx Is it covered in paragraph 2? You must be reading something different than others Here's the official version https://www.durham.police.uk/news-and-events/Pages/News Articles/Durham-Constab...

aggi

Grumps wrote: ↑
Fri May 29, 2020 12:00 pm
Durham Police said it was lawful

Have they released another statement? The one yesterday very carefully didn't mention the London to Durham trip. I assume as it wasn't in their jurisdiction.

aggi

Did any of the guidelines actually get enshrined in law? I was under the impression the police were very soft with everyone as they had no extra powers? I tried to follow everything at first but I lost the will to live. Yes. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/pdfs/uksi_20200350_en.pdf

aggi

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Fri May 29, 2020 10:54 am
A total of five red cards in his career - two with Rangers, one with Sunderland and two with Stoke

More than I thought. Maybe I was just looking at Premier League.

aggi

About 2:29 in here https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000jhn5

aggi

duncandisorderly wrote: ↑
Thu May 28, 2020 10:15 pm
I may be wrong, but I don't think Phil Bardsley has ever been sent off.

One red card (for two yellows) and that's somehow it.

aggi

I've always maintained the original trip from London was lawful, which has proved to be correct. I don't for one minute think the trip to BC was within the guidelines, remembering that at the time, you couldn't drive for excercise. I said after the press conference I didn't believe the eyesight tes...

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