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41 minutes ago, Odysseus said:

I’m in London and the shops are rammed pack with long queuing. People have gone from treating it as a joke to realising they could be in lock down with no food. The media and government are probably equally culpable for the hysteria and lack of control. If they don’t both get a grip I’m fearing civil disobedience. 

There’s been no civil disobedience anywhere else with those stringent measures already in place. Why would there be here?  There won’t be, it’s just more scaremongering.  

22 minutes ago, hodge said:

C4 news, after the news of exams being cancelled someone claiming its likely to be decided by teacher assessments, if true then welcome to a shit tonne of lawsuits if students don't get the grades they need to attend the university they want. Personally at GCSE level I was predicted a D in Maths by my teacher but studied and revised hard and got a B, deciding by teacher assessments will set a lot of kids back majorly.

Yep was saying exactly this to my missus earlier.  I got 3 grades higher than I was predicted at A level due to busting my balls big time in the 3 months leading up to the exams so would’ve been screwed by this.  She would’ve benefited though as she actually did slightly worse than predicted.  I’d imagine they’ll be very lenient though in this situation.  

2 minutes ago, TRL said:

I wouldn't take anything off the table the way thing s are going, and at a quick rate.  There have already been 3 or 4 actions which a month ago wouldn'tever in a month of Sundays thought would ever happen!

 

 

If people stop acting like dicks then there’s a better chance it won’t happen. Pubs packed yesterday for Paddy’s day apparently in a lot of cities.    

5 minutes ago, TRL said:

Good luck to people  Working fro......   staying at home looking after kids and trying to keep them in the house!  I don't envy any parents out there trying to to  entertain a kid who is getting bored in the house, especially if we end up in lockdown

Think even our one will get bored of her screens eventually!  Going to be interesting times but we will see how it all pans out. Feel very sorry for those kids with exams due, must be a very stressful time for them and their parents especially. 

All schools now closing from Friday afternoon until further notice except for key workers kids and vulnerable kids 

There are no words for some of the scum that we share this earth with  (well there are but I’ll probably get banned) 

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/coronavirus-death-north-somerset-fundraiser-3961485

We’re doing this in Aldi yesterday tbf. 

12 minutes ago, italian dave said:

In Italy the supermarkets are still open, but access is limited, you have to keep a distance from other shoppers, and trolleys, tills etc are cleaned after every use.

3 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Here's a football related story!

The top 6 in the Championship, apparently are looking at legal action against the Football League, the Premier League or perhaps both, if promotion denied/season cancelled.

@bcfc01 Yemen's a warzone, god knows what he's playing at- unless reporting from there?

Heard that last night but that it was just toward the Prem only if they we’re to declare the season null and void.  Got to be bull at this stage I’d imagine but no doubt whatever happens it’ll get messy! 

10 minutes ago, Super said:

Mods can we ditch all the political stuff to the other thread and just keep it to football related?

This left the football arena pages back. Let it go I reckon. F all else to talk about!

Against my better judgment I have had some sympathy with Alex dP and his running of the crisis so far. However apparently on a call with leaders of industry regards manufacturing more ventilators this morning  he suggested they should call the project ‘operation last gasp’. The man is a ***t of the highest order.  

30 minutes ago, pillred said:

There are always some people who are r soles, the vast majority of people in this country do fall into the keep calm and carry on category, it's a national stereotype for a reason.

Calmness in adversity is not solely a British National trait.  It’s a saying from WW2 (where it had true meaning and purpose) that some clever marketing people have subsequently made lots of money from, but to suggest it’s an actual national stereotype is simply not true I’m afraid and the evidence is clearly being seen by the actions of many of our selfish compatriots unfortunately.  

11 minutes ago, pillred said:

Just generally, the keep calm and carry on slogan I think has summed up the British character and is particularly apt at this moment in time. And as for being the sick man of Europe I think considering our population we are relatively low down the numbers per head of population many more deaths in other EU countries with a lot less people so we must be doing something right, of course I can't predict what will happen in the future. 

Really? Is that why all the panic buying has taken place then? Why supermarkets are having to put out messages on mass on social media asking people to be considerate of others and are restricting purchases of certain items? 
I think it’s a bullshit slogan theta easy to say during the good times but that has already been shown to be not true during the worrying times - as is being demonstrated currently by many of our fellow citizens unfortunately.  Luckily there are plenty of very decent minded people also, but to say that’s our national character is I’m afraid complete tosh!  

2 minutes ago, One Team In Keynsham said:

Wibble

10 minutes ago, CotswoldRed said:

Indeed. 

Due to my son's health issues he will leave school this week and myself and my daughter will be moving out this weekend, leaving my wife and son in total isolation. 

For how long, who knows. Genuinely, I may not see them for months. 

I'm very upset about it and still can't understand the flippant, laissez-faire attitude that, ultimately will come back to bite.

Disabled people, who can't generally isolate are in the firing line and depend on us all to avoid both contraction on transmission. It's a shame most people are just looking after themselves and considering themselves and not others. 

Awful situation for you CR. The attitude of some people on this absolutely stinks and some of the stuff going around regards peoples views on ‘natural selection’ is truly unbelievable although in this day and age not too surprising unfortunately.  I wish you and yours well and let’s hope this is over or at least calms down sooner rather than later. 

16 minutes ago, RedM said:

Referee Brett Huxtable gets slated on social media every single game by one side if not both, and guess where he is today

Can’t believe their games still on tbf. Although I suppose if you play on a vegetable patch anyway a bit of rain won’t make any difference! 

20 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

Would make a great mural on the Gloucester Road! 

5 hours ago, Bristol Rob said:

You say 'linked with them' but he clearly doesn't want to be linked with them.

They could ask Klopp and get a similar reaction. 

It doesn’t say anything about Heckingbottom not wanting to be linked with them unless I’ve missed something?  He would be an impressive coup for them imho - certainly a step up from Coughlan and the dog fondler ( Jones is complete pie in the sky).   Won’t happen though.  

45 minutes ago, BCFC11 said:

Been turnt down already by what must be their no.1 target

Barge Pole springs to mind.

 

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/bristol-rovers-knocked-back-ex-3654550

Pretty decent names for them to be linked with tbf. But no doubt it’s all a smoke screen from their Board and the actual manager they appoint will be some unknown from the lower reaches again. 

Q’uelle surprise. Spawny as. 

Surely that was in. The scabby ***ts!

16 minutes ago, gl1 said:

Fair enough. I just found it to be very humbling and it changed my outlook on life from that moment to this. As they say, lest we forget 

Yep, how it changes your outlook on life is incredible, it really is.  It’s  not outlandish to say that it changes your very being.  I said to my partner after we visited that I think it should be made part of the curriculum for all 15/16 year olds to visit there - funded by the government.  As harrowing as it may be, it may make for a better future for all of us. Although seeing the picture of this **** maybe I was wrong. 

20 minutes ago, TomF said:

Shall be hoping Glos can make finals day anyway. 

Yep. Rather see a SW team do it than anyone else if it can’t be us. *this does not apply to football! Shame our bowling was so bloody toothless 

49 minutes ago, BobBobSuperBob said:

WTF is that !!

Looks like a feeding station in a refugee camp 

Good work BBSB. That made me laugh out loud. What an absolute dump that place really is!  

6 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Anyone see that idiot at Bolton on Sky Sports news . How embarrassing 

Very very odd. Maybe ‘supports’  another team (if braincells of said individual allows them to carry out cognitive actions) but still very strange / sad / embarrassing regardless.  Reporter handled it very well though. 

4 minutes ago, RedLionLad said:

I've seen it. It's not young lads dishing out the abuse either.

 

Nope it’s mainly sad old ***ts who should know better. The vitriol is pretty funny really. Sad and desperate. Just like their pathetic excuse of a club. 

Video doing the rounds of Matty walking through the back of their family stand and getting proper dogs abuse. Not sure what he was doing walking through there in the first place but still. The loyal and few showing their ‘family club’ at its very best yet again. (Can’t work out how to copy it to here but it’s on the ‘City til I die’ FB page for anyone interested.).