polpott

On 5/24/2023 at 7:02 PM, Mac Mickmanus said:

You should send a message to Rishi Sunak :

Dear Rishi, if you would like to win the next election , you should sack all the current M.P's and re-join the E.U and you might get voted in next time  .

   Yours sincerely , a non voter living abroad .

Yep that certainly give him the vote, Its what the British people want',

1 minute ago, youreavinalaff said:

Has it stopped? Are UK back in EU?

 

I didn't think so.

Did I say that we were back in the EU?

You're rambling now. Goodnight.

2 minutes ago, youreavinalaff said:

It is my understanding that UK life out of EU is ongoing. Until, unlikely, the UK rejoin EU it is ongoing.

 

Therefore, it is impossible, also grammatically incorrect, to say it has "failed". "Failing", "not going well", "could be better", maybe. However, "failed". Incorrect.

Listen to Nigel, it isn't failing. it has failed. Which part of Brexit do you want to discuss? The economy? international trade? Immigration? 

All not failing, failed.

3 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

In other words, the XBB variant is likely to be even more effective than Omicron is defeating the protections of current COVID vaccines, meaning potentially greater likelihoods of more people getting infected and more people getting sick.

Probably untrue. As viruses evolve they tend to become more infectious but less harmful. Many will be infected but very few will die.

51 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Where did you get that info from ?

How do you know that the people booing were Conservatives ?

 

My eyes and ears. Virtually everyone outside St Pauls were fervent Royalists, typical tory voters. They cheered and clapped virtually everyone except Boris. 

judging by the reaction of a number of Tory MPs, they saw the same optic as me.

Just now, Mac Mickmanus said:

Just think that its rather hypocritical and the Left Wing are just trying to use that episode to get Boris removed .

Its not the left wing who are going to vote no confidence tonight, its his own MPs. Boris is bulletproof to attacks from the left. He can only be removed from within.

Just now, Mac Mickmanus said:

Did the Left wing support the BLM street protests in 2020  and the toppling of statues and the illegal gatherings ?

   Or were they telling everyone to stay at home and adhere to the Covid restrictions ?

I'm sorry to repeat myself but the collapse of support for Boris has little or nothing to do with what the Left wing did or didn't support. This is an internal tory party matter.

As such your questions are irrelevant and can only be construed at a deliberate distraction.

This thread is about Boris being booed. He was booed by, primarily, tory supporters, not looney lefties.

1 minute ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

That's what confuses me .

The Left wing , who ignored all the lock down rules and went en masse onto the streets to protest about statues and things on a regular basis  and also had parties and raves  , have now changed their stance and now get infuriated when a Man goes to an office party and call for him to resign .

   What caused the Left to change their stance on illegal gatherings ?

 

Not the Lefties, the great British public. Its caused his support to collapse from those who voted Tory for the first time, in 2019.

Wakefield will be an eye opener for you. Labour seat since 1932. Ahmed Kahn won the seat for the Tories in 2019. Forced to resign after being convicted of a sexual assault on a young boy, The resultant by election is on June 29th. If Boris is still with us then it will be another nail in his coffin.

8 hours ago, Neeranam said:

No, I was replying to someone saying farang was for foreigners. I am not foreign, my nationality is Thai. 

Ferang doesn't refer to your nationality, it indicates that you are a white westerner, which you appear to be.

1 hour ago, CharlieH said:

I would suggest walking in to a local Wat and seek out an English speaker.

He/they should have all the answers you need I would have thought.

 

I am not that deeply curious and the wife answers the superficial stuff, but mostly I have no interest in knowing but respect her beliefs and leave her to it.

Doubt that you would get your answers there. Its pre Buddhist and not really related. I've always found Thais reluctant/embarrassed to talk about it. Mainly involves Jao Thi, inhabitant of the little spirit houses at the entrance to many people's drives. Basically, the spirits of those who have previously inhabited that land.

Often used to see girls scattering whiskey round the perimeter of the bar at opening. Girls always claimed it was "for Buddha" and would say no more, it was actually for Jao Thi.

Easy test to indicate whether a tribute is for Jao Thi or Buddah, Buddah never drinks alcohol, Jao Thi loves a drop!

Just now, Bkk Brian said:

85.1% second dose

66.2% booster

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations

Correct. Only 66% have booster which is considered being fully vaccinated. The number of people coming forward for boosters is now minimal, don't expect that figure of 66% to increase much in the near future.

On the subject of boosters, its now recognised that your immunity starts to fall off a cliff 10 weeks after your booster. Plans are being put into place to give a second booster 6 months after the previous booster for health care workers, over 75s and those with a seriously compromised immune system.

3 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Yes, its been talked about alot, fantastic news for the UK after all that joint effort from the majority of the population to get vaccinated and get their freedom back.

 

Responsibility is now back with the people................

 

Only 66% of eligible people in the UK fully vaccinated. 40k new cases today, similar figures to when we went into lockdown before Christmas. Way too soon to remove all covid measures.

Why is the UK the first in the world to remove all restrictions? To feed red meat to the masses and to try to save Boris's bacon.

First to remove restrictions, last to close its borders and highest number of deaths in Europe. well done UK government.

2 minutes ago, polpott said:

Double post.

9 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Nothing in the Bible that relates to what you wrote.

Who is the 70 year old guy, and who is his virgin bride?

Can't be Joseph and Mary as she was already pregnant before they got married- the Bible is pretty clear about that.

In Mary's case, she was both a virgin and pregnant on her wedding day as God impregnated her via "immaculate conception".

My mother claimed the same throughout her life, even swearing on her deathbed, in Lourdes, that it was the truth. Her name was Mary.

1 minute ago, spidermike007 said:

Likely acceptable by whites only. 

In the US, yes, the rest of the world not. I have a South African friend who refers to herself as "Cape Coloured" and is proud of her heritage.

2 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

Why mention color at all? Where I live we have hundreds of different nationalities we have yellow black white no news ever mentioned the color they just say names

it's relevant because Omicron is spreading around the world from its base in Africa. Governments everywhere are nervous about letting Africans into the country. Probably should have referred to them as "Africans" but the author of the OP probably thought it sounded even more racist. 

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Using the term colored people in 2021 is ignorant, dumb, tone deaf, and reeks of a feeling of a totally undeserved sense of superiority. It is very ugly. And I am NOT PC. 

Maybe so in the US who have their own unique racial problems. "Coloured" is still acceptable in the UK and probably most western countries.

7 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

Covid vaccines help the human immune system to be prepared for an eventual infection by producing antibodies before an infection occurs , that the immune system can attack the actual virus faster as if the body has to produce antibodies after being infected . That is why vaccination protects against serious life threatening disease , not so against the infection by the virus itself .

Healthy people with a functional immune system do not need to be hospitalized very often .

Right conclusion, wrong reason. Antibodies prevent the cells from becoming infected in the first place, thus preventing infection. Each subsequent dominant variant seems to be less affected by the antibodies created by previous infections/vaccines. Hence "breakthrough" infections with later variants.

However, the body also produces "T" cells as a result of infection/vaccination. These cells seek and destroy cells already infected by the virus. Thus they prevent the infection raging throughout the body and lead to the early demise of your infection.

Luckily, "T" cells generated by previous infections/vaccines appear to be equally successful against the various variants, thus preventing most people from becoming seriously ill/dying.

Get your vaccine now, you know it makes sense.

11 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Tell that to the fully vaccinated 'hero doctor' that recently died of COVID.

If the vaccines prevent infection ........ how did he die from COVID?

 

Currently, relative to the Delta variant, Phizer claims that 40% of those fully vaccinated will achieve immunity. The "hero doctor" was obviously one of the 60% who didn't achieve immunity.

30 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I would imagine that no one here has ever used a telex machine.

I used to repair them as an engineer with Post Office Telephones (pre BT). Glad to see the back of them, they can't hold a candle to WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger.