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  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    By the way, I keep finding with your posts that they are just blank - at least, no images just a few words. Have to go to another computer to be able to see them!
  2. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Surely "Me-trollop-itan elite"?
  3. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Unless you have slaughtered many of the vaccinated, or trained them as HGV drivers and deported them to the UK, that is wrong. You might have reduced the percentage of people fully vaccinated, but not the number.
  4. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Do they have exceedingly good hearing? It is as much as I can do to listen to somebody.
  5. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Reported responses: Starmer said the prime minister had “shown his true colours yet again” and called for him to apologise. He said: “For Boris Johnson to laugh when talking about the closure of the coalmines is a slap in the face for communities still suffering from the devastating effects of...
  6. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Even at times that I disagree with Drakeford, his maturity is a blessed contrast to England/UK. Welsh leader rules out ‘threatening’ young people to get Covid jab Mark Drakeford contrasts approach with Boris Johnson as Wales prepares to scrap most restrictions He told BBC’s Today programme...
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I see Johnson is as tactful as ever. Margaret Thatcher gave the UK "a big early start" in the move away from coal-fired power by closing "so many coal mines", Boris Johnson has said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58107009 He really is the pits.
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That is how you are supposed to take the ****...
  9. oyster

    Manuelectric Post Office Electric Vehicle

    I lived round the corner to the local milk depot. They didn't have any of the pedestrian ones - just the then-standard battery floats. But I have a feeling I have seen one - but possibly on television. Obviously depends on the area.
  10. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I thought Lambda was prevalent in Peru? And there have been cases of individuals infected with two different strains simultaneously. What is the newly found COVID-19 'Epsilon variant' in Pakistan? - Details inside And what happened to zeta, eta, theta, iota and kappa? :)
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Add a leg that goes to a country which doesn't put Mexico into their red list equivalent. And stay there for an extra ten days. Might be worth checking rules for Belarus... Or come back on a cruise ship.
  12. oyster

    Manuelectric Post Office Electric Vehicle

    Just looking for something today and fell across this thread on another forum. Do you remember these pedestrian-operated electric vehicles? Certainly meant the posties could carry a lot more than in an over-shoulder bag or the "shopping trolley" style devices I have seen. Also was reminded of...
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Could look at this many ways: Robin and Viv Silverthorne, from Worthing in Sussex, were flying to Cancun, Mexico, yesterday when they found out mid-air that the country was being placed on the red list. Robin says the couple spent hours on the phone trying to speak to their airline "without...
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    How can I forget when I am approximately a quarter to a half a pocket of that genetic material?
  15. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Looks to me like the megapacks need better fire suppression capabilities. Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration Only one Megapack went up, adjacent containers mostly kept their cool https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/03/tesla_megapack_fire_australia/
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I can't say the most I've ever seen, but certainly can't remember so many in such a neat line. Took me back many, many years to watching swans and cygnets from the bridge over the estuarial River Ayr, in Ayr itself.
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Ikea launching a meatball-scented candle inspired by the chain's signature dish Gwynneth Paltrow
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And, and if it is calculated as number vaccinated over number eligible, extending to 16 year olds will drop our percentage.
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The corollary being that we also have the opportunity for England to lose on penalties three times per World Cup.
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    If people are that dead set on watching, they can take their holidays to do so! (I've known some who did that for Wimbledon.)