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In fairness he can act since they were ISIS, and no doubt his intelligence people have informed him of the following. The Taliban hate the Afghani ISIS and fight them in Afghanistan, so their national ISIS are confined to living in a small Afghani province on the edge of Pakistan. That makes...

Never had any intention of marrying but have had some live in partners in earlier years. Still good friends with the last girl friend who's been married twice since and had three children with her first husband who died at only 60. I was friends with him too. But overall I much prefer to be...

I didn't describe myself, I simply described my carefree approach to life. Many don't agree with some of my beliefs but I don't give a damn about that since they are entitled to be wrong. For example I don't believe in funerals since when someone dies the body left is just redundant...

A very strange description of someone who did 28 years of voluntary work for others during and in addition to his working years, and 15 years of mixed voluntary work so far in retirement. Plus 10 years of carrying out bike based recycling for 53 neighbours since we don't have a council...

I'm a very happy person, as I posted earlier about life's ills, I accept by ignoring. I don't mourn anyone and avoid attending either type of funeral, death or the other kind, marriage. Translation: It means I don't worry about any of it. .

As said, life is largely a rubbish experience. That goes for almost all of us and our histories. That's why I've always argued that life for us is nature's dirtiest trick. .

I should have included you in my list of misery members. ;) Twice! Really? Over 90% recover from catching Covid, most scarcely affected by it. Would that cancer survival was as good. 1 in 2 men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, infinitely higher than...

I said the range was unbalanced, not the people, and it clearly is due to working in the NHS. As you say, a microcosm. The majority are definitely largely unaffected, my own case illustrating that very clearly: For the first two months of the pandemic London was the worst hit with an...

The 97% and 3% are a litle date now. However, using your figures: 90% have not had Covid-19. 99.8% haven't died from it. Both very big majorities as I posted. .

It's clear you have a terribly unbalanced range of contacts from how you ended your last post: "majority of people I meet are not unaffected " The vast majority of this county's people are unaffected by Covid: 97% haven't caught it. Of the 3% who have, most have suffered few symptoms, some...

It's precisely my realism that causes me to disagree with you so often, your eternal pessimism being very detached from reality. I'm customarily neither pessimistic nor optimistic, just accepting the reality. .

This is just gibberish, UK road deaths at 25K per annum! It's 1700 to 1800 per annum. There's nothing illogical in my post since I always take into account how most people think, and that's not like you. I should have included you in the names in this post since you fit so well. .

Perhap you need to do some complaining. Just completed my shop for the next few days and absolutely nothing seen out of stock in my large Sainburys superstore. Over recent weeks I've only seen two hiccups. One day with the mainstream milk run out for a few hours due to a late delivery...

Only possible if he's over 80. A cockney is one born within the sound of the original Bow Bells, destroyed by bombing in 1941. .

But you are one of this threads worriers and pessimists, like Jonathan. And to some extent OG. Thinking about road deaths every day when there's only one death per 39,000! That prompts me to suggest therapy since that's far from healthy. The vast majority are like me, getting on with life...

The latter, in the back box/helmet box/under seat. Until you got used to the range with a new battery, it would be an insurance against running out and pushing. Or you could use it as a range extender, allowing occasional longer runs using both batteries. I've ridden pedelecs with up to three...

I've already given the answer but the Nanny State doesn't like it. We didn't use to have these safety certificates and they are of doubtful unproven value. Covid has prevented drivers keeping up to date with them so they can be suspended short term: See this link .

It's the way that people's thought processes work. Your statistic is a Hillsborough Football Stadium disaster every day. That incident led to hysteria over 32 years that's still barely subsided, but nobody thinks that way. Your 100 a day is just part of life, as said above, something that...

Very, very few, perhaps mainly medics. Most people only think about it when they suffer a rare threatening incident when driving. For most road deaths are just a statistic, like most of the ills of this world, something that only happens to other people. .

Not as strange as it might seem. The road deaths are ongoing, likely largely for ever. Covid is not, it's a temporary situation last year and this, and by the time it well over doubles the deaths to match those road deaths, we'll have improved vaccines and/or boosters getting better control...