Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

chrisd said:
Add almost every "celebrity" especially Lilly Allen and Gary Lineker
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Well, I don't know what Lily Allen or Gary Lineker had to say on the subject, but some celebrities are more intelligent than others and appear to apply critical reasoning better. Ian Brown has never been accused of letting his intellect get the better of him.

I like Lineker, who seems like an intelligent man and shows some wit in some of the tweets I have seen, and he doesn't like Piers Morgan, so he has that going for him. But I haven't followed his Covid opinions, although I expect he encourages people to be careful.

As a Lineker golf aside, I won a magazine comp and a place in The Sportsman's Challenge, a sort of celeb-am with sports stars (Botham, Lineker, Dennis Taylor, John Conteh etc) at Stoke Park a few years back. There was a longest drive on one of the holes, nobody in my group got near and as we walked past the wooden marker post with a board with the names on it, noted the name of the then winning drive. A few yards up the fairway, we heard a tee shot crack and a ball came flying up the fairway, bounced about 2 yards short of the marker post, hit it flush on the board and fell back a foot short. It would have comfortably beaten the then winning drive if it hadn't hit the marker.

Later at the presentation, the name of the winner was called out and it was the bloke whose name we had seen. Then we heard a voice from the next table saying "Damn, I was just a foot behind him". It was Gary Lineker. "Shall we tell him?", I asked my playing partner. "I am a Liverpool fan, yes, lets" he said, so we did. Gary was not pleased. Strong language was used.
 
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Ethan said:
Well, I don't know what Lily Allen or Gary Lineker had to say on the subject, but some celebrities are more intelligent than others and appear to apply critical reasoning better. Ian Brown has never been accused of letting his intellect get the better of him.

I like Lineker, who seems like an intelligent man and shows some wit in some of the tweets I have seen, and he doesn't like Piers Morgan, so he has that going for him. But I haven't followed his Covid opinions, although I expect he encourages people to be careful.

As a Lineker golf aside, I won a magazine comp and a place in The Sportsman's Challenge, a sort of celeb-am with sports stars (Botham, Lineker, Dennis Taylor, John Conteh etc) at Stoke Park a few years back. There was a longest drive on one of the holes, nobody in my group got near and as we walked past the wooden marker post with a board with the names on it, noted the name of the then winning drive. A few yards up the fairway, we heard a tee shot crack and a ball came flying up the fairway, bounced about 2 yards short of the marker post, hit it flush on the board and fell back a foot short. It would have comfortably beaten the then winning drive if it hadn't hit the marker.

Later at the presentation, the name of the winner was called out and it was the bloke whose name we had seen. Then we heard a voice from the next table saying "Damn, I was just a foot behind him". It was Gary Lineker. "Shall we tell him?", I asked my playing partner. "I am a Liverpool fan, yes, lets" he said, so we did. Gary was not pleased. Strong language was used.
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The same Lineker that tweeted about people being snowflakes if theyre not able to wear a mask in a shop........

then a few days later goes into a shop and doesnt wear a mask......

and then claims its because hes getting old

do me a favour, another mouthpiece who thinks he can constantly preach what other people should be doing but doesnt think it actually applies to him. Also see Lily Allen!!!!
 
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fundy said:
The same Lineker that tweeted about people being snowflakes if theyre not able to where a mask in a shop........

then a few days later goes into a shop and doesnt wear a mask......

and then claims its because hes getting old

do me a favour, another mouthpiece who thinks he can constantly preach what other people should be doing but doesnt think it actually applies to him. Also see Lily Allen!!!!
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He forgot to put it on, then put it on when he realized. Non story made out to a big deal by some in the media and jumped upon by others.
 
robinthehood said:
He forgot to put it on, then put it on when he realized. Non story made out to a big deal by some in the media and jumped upon by others.
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If hes going to sit so high up in his ivory tower then he needs to be whiter than white, hardly his first time of forgetting to practise what he preaches is it
 
looks like we are having an outbreak at work , 5 confirmed so far , strangely management have been told to keep quiet and not inform the rest of the facility ,,,,,,
bit pissed as surely if we tell people we can enhance our protocols and increase peoples awareness and adherence to procedures
 
fundy said:
The same Lineker that tweeted about people being snowflakes if theyre not able to wear a mask in a shop........

then a few days later goes into a shop and doesnt wear a mask......

and then claims its because hes getting old

do me a favour, another mouthpiece who thinks he can constantly preach what other people should be doing but doesnt think it actually applies to him. Also see Lily Allen!!!!
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Yeah, well I am not his official spokesman and don't follow his every activity, but most of what I see seems reasonable. I am sure he has erred, most of us have. I don't think what you have described constitutes a pattern of behaviour.
 
oxymoron said:
looks like we are having an outbreak at work , 5 confirmed so far , strangely management have been told to keep quiet and not inform the rest of the facility ,,,,,,
bit pissed as surely if we tell people we can enhance our protocols and increase peoples awareness and adherence to procedures
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I'd be on the phone to local paper/radio....
 
Tashyboy said:
Be nice to know the thoughts of some fellow Mancs on the situation re what’s happening in Manchester.
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Was interesting. I was hoping would open a debate about decentralising power and put a spotlight on a quick circuitbreak.

Instead descended into political posturing, character undermining, misinformation and twitter nonsense. In short a microcosm of all the rubbish in society, news, politics etc...

Think Burnham was right to do everything he could for people, but its a delicate balancing act. If Tier 3 actually is a viable solution then delaying implementation couldn't have gone on for too long.

I'm hoping those who are less 'socially conscious' don't use the debate and outcome as an excuse to disobey the new rules.
 
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