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3 minutes ago, bdenner said:

I'm thinking I would do the same thing! Can I just ask your general age bracket?

Just entering late puberty at 61.  Heavy smoker and drinker, perfect blood pressure and cholesterol, take no medication for anything whatsoever and never have done.

Umm.....so if the official word is that all current kits can't detect OmiwanKinobee, why are all the numptees running around testing everyone when a negative result could be Omiwan positive?

And by implication, if one tests positive on a test does that mean that one must have Alpha or Delta?

This is as bad as a pre-pubescent girl shopping for tampons and her first eye liner - spoilt for choice, too many brands, too many colors, too little or too much absorbency., and what's the piece of string for Mum?

Oh the dilemma of it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The OP is better off buying a bridge. 

Bridges invariably have a greater ROI than property and have a better depreciation rate for tax deductibility purposes.

Planting a feather will not grow a chicken.

14 minutes ago, robblok said:

n 2019, the share of those employed in the government sector varied among the Member States, with the highest proportions observed in Sweden (29 % of total employment), Denmark (28 %), Finland (24 %), Croatia and Estonia (both 23 %) and the lowest in Germany (11 %), the Netherlands and Luxembourg (both 12 %), Italy (13 %) and Portugal (14 %).

 

Do pull some more numbers out of your ass, like most blue collar guys do talk without real numbers. And look at the standard of living on Sweden and Denmark and Finland. Seems high goverment employment does not do the harm your talking about. 

A bureaucrat in your former existence by any chance?

3 minutes ago, robblok said:

It would take some time to notice but you would. Rules and regulation taxes and stuff are needed. Its why civilization progressed, the uninformed always make remarks like yours. Usually people who are technical. Point is we all need each other while i certainly agree that some bureaucrats do useless work that is mainly in countries like this with high levels of corruption. 

 

People seem to forget (again cant blame the technical guys they dont know any better) that people controlling stock of stuff are also bureaucrats and without it you can forget buying stuff at all international trade would stop. Just too much too mention atually.

 

 

Mankind has not yet invented a successful practice, process, or procedure that a government official cannot quickly ruin through incessant and unnecessary regulation and taxation.

Government ideology is now on a par with the worst of any religious orthodoxy.  The Spanish Inquisition comes to mind.

But (in the west) when circa 35% of the working population are employed directly by government and another 35% are beholden to government for welfare and foodstamps, us remaining half dozen net taxpayers get a bit peeved.

There's a reason why governments are kept well away from the production of beer.

I tend to avoid knuckle-draggers wearing Chang t-shirts, covered in tasteless tattoos, often dribbling from the mouth who order a beer for themselves and their equally fashionably dressed mate in Thai by saying "send (the) elephant".

However I welcome a discussion with any reasonably presented individual. If they reveal their sole source of worldly knowledge is about football, or the only book they ever read started with "A is for Aardvark" and they still don't know what an aardvark is, I wish them a polite good-evening and move on.

5 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

And if somebody sneezed on you, what would you say?

Chock-Dee.

5 minutes ago, smedly said:

pratical - are you kidding, who is qualified to do the test - barcode linked to what exactly, most people don't spend all night in one venue - there is nothing remotely workable about this - it is pure nonsense

I'm only guessing, but I suspect that it may be linked to the mor-chana app.  So you'll do the test and then upload the QR code to the app, which will link to your passport and vaccination info etc.

Otherwise I see no way in which anybody can legitimately prove they have a valid get out of jail free card.

Let's hope somebody is brave enough to do it and report back accordingly.

If aliens arrived and kidnapped all the bureaucrats in the world, who would notice?

Check out this thread.

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

You sound like a

Only if he/she is cute/pretty/hot

Nuh - only of the "she" category, and cute/pretty/hot just doesn't cut the mustard in literary imaginary  descriptiveness. 

Dogs are cute, babies can be pretty.  Hot is just a lazy modern word that Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, or even Dickens would never use or even comprehend as an adjective to describe a woman's sensuality or even her sexuality.

But that's post-modernism for you.  Third rate architecture, unintelligible art, and a language that we use less and less of each year.

I have a few rhetorical questions.

Is the imaginary Grab or Panda rider a drop dead gorgeous girl of 22 with piercing eyes and a sultry smile,  wearing a spaghetti top and no bra beneath her jacket that she casually unzips as she makes the polite request to use the commode and commences to unbutton her ever so tight and brief jean shorts?

Or is the driver a smelly and dirty Somchai wearing a grubby jacket and gloves that haven't seen a washing machine for three years?

Either way, I'm sure I'd do the decent thing.  

After allowing for adjustment to the numbers for inflationary effects, plus the margin of error in their um......robust data collection process, the truth is probably closer to a 20% decline in the economy from 2019.