One Team In Keynsham

47 minutes ago, Dr Balls said:

Sorry but I think you can expect this to continue into next year. Hence my pessimism about any of us seeing a live football game before 2021.

I am just waiting for the IOC to bow to the inevitable that the Tokyo olympics will need to be postponed by at least a year.

It seems incredulous that the IOC would think a summer games in Tokyo is viable.

2 hours ago, Super said:

In the NHS region of South West , there are a total of 117 confirmed cases.

This includes:

 

• Bristol - 12 (up from eight yesterday)
• North Somerset - four (up from three)
• South Gloucestershire - nine (up from six)
• Bath and North East Somerset - three

Do you have the web link to this source? Interested to see/keep eyes on the numbers for South Somerset.

2 hours ago, RedorDead BCFC said:

You need Facebook to see this 

 

 

Looks more tragic than the fight scene in Bridget Jones' Diary

12 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

I'm happy to see that.

If it has to be later in the summer, so be it. If it has to be behind closed doors, so be it.

The aim should be, even if in 2021, to get this season finished.

Not that I am overly arsed about football at present, if I was forced to take a stance, my view would be it is better to finish 2019/20 at some future point, and if needs be sacrifice 2020/21 fully, as opposed to simply make the current season null and void.

Carry On Cremating:

"Alex Haley was adopted, that’s what’s called a disappointment"

The Man In The High Castle

The Americans

9 minutes ago, RumRed said:

Walk into a hail of machine gun fire holding a stick and a Browning whilst keeping a stiff upper lip, gotcha.

11 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

These are pretty selective photos. I just spent a week in London for work. Tubes were busy as usual, Paddington was busy. Heathrow T5 yesterday wasn't packed to the rafters but was pretty busy. Plane was full. 

Could have taken half a dozen photos myself that showed a totally different outlook than what you've put here from the papers.

Guessing you were on the BA through Nassau: any word or speculation as to what BA might be doing with that route?

3 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

This has been recommended by many as a pretty rational and accurate site for updates: 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

I've had this tab left open on my phone for several weeks:

https://infographics.channelnewsasia.com/covid-19/map.html

1 minute ago, Ska Junkie said:

Same here. 

I lead a team of engineers supporting robotic pharmacy systems for the NHS and private hospitals.

We've downgraded all proactive work for now and are purely reactive for the foreseeable. Once movement is restricted, someone much higher than me will have some tough decisions to take re if we attend at all. The problem is, if our systems are down, all pharmaceuticals will have to be hand picked which, if staff aren't in work at the hospitals, is totally unworkable.

Tough times coming methinks. 

A good friend of mine works as a pharmacist overseeing a robotic pharmacy warehouse. Just last week he was telling me that the robots had started to screw up, mis-dispensing packages, but then not flagging said package for human 4-eyes check. He was unsure whether a system glitch or they had started to become self-aware, and Judgement Day was upon us.

27 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.

I have predominantly been working from home (or pretty much wherever I chose to travel) for the past 12 years or so, luckily my job affords such flexibility. I realise that many, many people are not so fortunate, whether due to corporate rules or the nature of their role.

6 minutes ago, Redinthehead said:

 

Embarrassing.

8 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

Would the players be made to play under Force Majeure? 

Would make most sense but no idea if it can apply in this sense or if it needs to be actually stated in contracts when signed

 

Is this French chap a better manager than Johnson?

3 minutes ago, myol'man said:

Like when parents hold "Chicken Pox Parties" so all the kids catch it at once.

 

Mine just used car keys and a glass bowl like normal folk.

43 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Was chatting to two Liverpool fans in the pub last night and managed to convince them that if they cancel the remaining fixtures this season, Man City will be awarded the title as 'existing holders'.

Evidently, my argument was convincing enough to ruin their night out.

29 minutes ago, BS2 Red said:

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

I was listening to Radio 5 late last night, and there was a call with a couple from Scotland who had that night flown from Milan to Edinburgh, and claimed they had faced no checks on the drive from Lombardy to Milan-Malpensa or on arrival into the UK. It was established that the advice on Public Health England contradicted that on the Scottish equivalent: the former advised all passengers arriving from the region self-isolate, the latter advised only if coming from a level-1 risk area (which they had not). Not a good sign of overall management if even those bodies can't get on the same page.

18 minutes ago, mozo said:

Yeah that's got the slight surf rock lilt to it.

As well as favourite tracks, what are our favourite lyrics, place references and random D list celebrity references?

"Dracula comes from Transylvania, Stevie Nicks books about kleptomania."

36 minutes ago, mozo said:

Favourite songs?

Could list a load, but Mathematically Safe is a good'un.

1 hour ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

Nigel - the lead singer - threw some shapes to that one.

What surprised our group was what a good voice he has.

3 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

I'm currently on Gloucester Road having coffee and breakfast. So far I have seen 6 people wearing face masks.

Which is far from normal. So clearly people are taking this seriously, or at least trying to protect themselves.

The misconception of facemasks:

https://www.livescience.com/face-mask-new-coronavirus.html?fwa

3 minutes ago, Ronnie Sinclair said:

A bloke I work with is going to Italy this weekend skiing for a week - he told HR and they told him not to come in the office when he returns until he's certain he hasn't contracted it.  I would have cancelled the trip myself.  I'm not worried about getting it myself as I am reasonably healthy but I am scared my dad will get it as he has lung disease, diabetes and lung cancer (these are the people we should really be trying to protect)

I was supposed to be flying to Milan next weekend to visit my niece and take in AC v Roma. That has all been scratched. She is presently at home in Nice not knowing when she can get back to Uni in Milan.

11 minutes ago, 1960maaan said:

Anyone know if there is a set list anywhere? They played a couple I didn't recognise . 

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/half-man-half-biscuit/2020/swx-bristol-england-1b99e9d0.html

@Mad Cyril and me were there. First time I had seen them since the 1980s. I thought they were on superb form. 2 oddball covers thrown in for good measure.

2 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

I'm all for listening to experts and taking their advice seriously.

But I have seen nothing to suggest Roger Daltrey us remotely qualified to be leading this.

The WHO?

Given he hoped to die before he got old, I don't recommend looking to him for advice on survival.