BS2 Red

1 minute ago, CyderInACan said:

It did flog it for a bit didn't it. Still, when it was good it was bloody good. 

Yeah when it was good it was amazing, when it was bad it was really stinky.

45 minutes ago, CyderInACan said:

Not sure if it's even available on paid-for streaming sites but if you can get Dexter to watch from the beginning you won;t regret it as long as you stop watching after season 4. 

Fixed that for you.

9 minutes ago, wood_red said:

16 rolls of Andrex toilet roll that is £7 in Asda (granted they do not have any on the shelves) are going for £25-£30. All those sellers should hang their heads in shame imo.

Some people are just unbelievably scummy.

1 hour ago, J-mat said:

I'm genuinely worried about the financial implications for me and my wife. She's self employed and we rely heavily on her wages to feed our family. We are expecting so she is currently expected to self isolate and we will not be able to pay our bills on the £75 a week ESA. 

I'm watching with horror as every other nation suspends mortgage payments and utility bills, whilst this government is actively contributing to the destruction of lives. 

Any *** who didn't use their vote to get these bastards out should be ashamed. 

You won’t be able to afford food, but he won’t be able to afford his Bentley and will have to make do with his Range Rover and Aston Martin.

Swings and roundabouts.

There are also loads of sport documentaries on Amazon. Netflix is a bit light on sport, but Sunderland ‘till I Die is worth a watch. Just skip the part where we play them....

4 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Narcos sounds like it might be up my street. 

It’s a great show. I was watching it thinking “this is a bit far fetched” but the most ridiculous stuff was actually true. Escobar‘s antics and the money he was making was utterly crazy.

Netflix:

Breaking Bad

Better Call Saul

Sex Education 

Stranger Things

Black Mirror

Russian Doll

Narcos/Narcos Mexico

Amazon:

The Expanse

Good Omens

The Boys

Man in the High Castle

55 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Who is working from home by now then?

Clearly some jobs, perhaps even a decent number of jobs if you can't you can't but interested to see how many employers have sent staff to work from home etc, for those jobs that can obviously.

2 weeks ago I had a stomach bug, I offered to work from home so as not to infect anybody else, but was told no as I’d have to give a weeks notice. I therefore went in and a few people had the shits a couple of days later.

Now they want me to work from home this week. Half of us WFH this week, the other half next week.

Just out of spite and pettiness I’m tempted to go in this week and tell them they need to give me more notice.  

They have removed the paywall now. That’s good but it’s crazy that the Telegraph/Hancock didn’t realise that in the first place.

The Health Secretary setting out the government plans, but they’ve put it behind a paywall.

9 minutes ago, redsince1994 said:

Football on a nice summer evening followed by a few on north street sounds like perfection to me!

It obviously isn’t good for the players, but summer football sounds great to me.  Just wearing a t-shirt to Tuesday night games?  Beers/ciders in a beer garden before/after the game?  Not having to walk home in the dark freezing to death?

The players always say they want a winter break…..  

50 minutes ago, Steve Watts said:

You do realise football existed in this country before 1992, right.....?

You do realise some people were born after 1990, right.... ?

At least we'll make it through March unbeaten.

1 hour ago, Gimme Shelton said:

How can I put this,three years ago some people were wishing elderly brexit voters dead,that was monstrous as well.

It was.

Although a general “I wish you were dead!” is a lot different to “there’s a disease that will kill the elderly and that’ll help my investment portfolio”.

6 minutes ago, Nibor said:

If we're going to be fussy about terminology, COVID-19 refers to the disease (symptoms) in the present epidemic caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2 which is a member of the group of coronaviruses.  The chap referred to here has the disease COVID-19 according to the statement from Arsenal.

This.

COVID-19 means COronaVIrus Disease 2019.  Coronavirus itself isn't a single disease, it's a name for a collection of diseases - kind of like how we say we have a cold, but there are lots of different viruses that cause colds.

What a monstrous paper the Telegraph is. 

57 minutes ago, City oz said:

  I do take the virus seriously but please roger head hat your story is better than a story on play school 50 years ago. What credible info is there that 70 flights from a quarantined area of Italy landed in the uk and the passengers were not screened. If you have this info please share it for clarification. 

Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8090403/Travelers-flying-Italy-face-NO-screenings-land.html

Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/08/coronavirus-foreign-office-advice-over-italy-confuses-british-holidaymakers

Clever little shits.

They also have no idea how to make parody songs.

They base their opinions to the philosophy of Craig David’s 7 days. 

They all want him sacked on Monday 
He’s taking them to Europe on Tuesday 
they’ve hung the Johnson out bedsheets on Wednesday 
And on Thursday Friday and Saturday 
But he’s a legend again on Sunday.

Embarrassing. 

10 minutes ago, Super said:

First person in Bristol confirmed. Just back from Northern Italy.

I know somebody who was on the same flight.  A bloke my wife works with received a phone call yesterday to say there was somebody with coronavirus on the plane.

My wife is now terrified, but I have been trying to tell her that it’s unlikely her workmate has caught it and unlikely again that she has caught it from him. 

31 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

Points West earlier had a list of events that could be cancelled, Bath half-marathon, Cheltenham, Badminton etc. but no mention al all of 26,000 people gathering in one place in BS3 on Saturday!

What about the 500,000 people in BS7 the week after?

14 minutes ago, MarcusX said:

I think i'm the same. I was in the "meh, this is overblown" category and I still think it will be all forgotten in a few weeks (or at least wont be dominating the media)

That said, we've had two people turn up to work who have recently been to North Italy just before it hit the news and another come back from Helsinki on Monday. We also work in an environment with lots of products shipped in and out from around the world, and lots of eastern european workers coming and going from across the continent so that chances of it coming in are probably higher than a typical office job. I've got a couple of relatives who are generally unwell already so I wouldn't want to potentially catch something and passing it on before I even realise I've got it.

I'm certainly not in panic mode, I'll be gutted if Glastonbury and the Euro's get cancelled

The risk to the elderly and people with underlying conditions is what has made me stop thinking it is overhyped nonsense.  I was talking with my uncle and my grandmother on Monday and he was joking with her that she’d be the first one to go.  It was all lighthearted but made me realise that although I will probably be fine, my older relatives may not be.  I don’t have many elderly relatives left, so this disease is worrying.

38 minutes ago, Nibor said:

I used to work in a large plc where there were some people who were expected to be in the office and others who had a lot more freedom.  What tended to happen was that every Friday you'd get a flurry of emails from the people in the latter group who were "working from home" at 9am, they'd be uncontactable all day and then you'd see another email or two at sort of 4:30 just to bookend the day nicely so that nobody thought they were skiving.  Then you'd notice on their facebook they were somehow on a weekend away at 5pm having miraculously travelled six hours in a few short minutes...  In hindsight that company had a really shitty culture which was the real problem but that sort of thing really turned me off letting people work from home. 

It took me a while to come around to letting people work more flexibly where I'm at now, but when it goes hand in hand with a decent culture it really does work.  People have coughs and colds they just work from home and I don't lose half the team to man flu over the next week.  People need to go to an appointment, want some quiet desk time to do something or want to skive off early on a Friday that's fine, but if we need someone to fix something in the evening that's also fine.  It's all co-ordinated in a messenger app, people write stuff down and use teleconf and desktop sharing software if they need to and it seems to work.  I actually find myself telling people to work from home fairly often and when we have things like coronavirus and our clients ask what the disaster recovery / business continuity plans are our answer is "we can operate fully remotely on zero notice".  Saves a lot of ball ache.

Yeah a lot of it will come down to individual attitudes.  People just assume that WFH means a person is dossing around, but the few times that I have done it I have found I have done far more work as there are less people distracting me.  Plus I am more paranoid that people will be thinking I am on a jolly.

What gets me with my workplace is that they keep talking about their flexible working and the benefits of working from home.  And then when it comes down to it, they place restrictions on who can and can’t do it.  It’s crazy that it is ok to work from home because of a fear of bad traffic, but it is not ok to work from home if somebody has an illness they don’t want to pass on.