You could just as easily argue that because some people don't have a garden, the lucky ones that do have one shouldn't be allowed to sit out in theirs.
you couldn't just as easily argue that.
You could just as easily argue that because some people don't have a garden, the lucky ones that do have one shouldn't be allowed to sit out in theirs.
If that's the impression my posts have given, then I'm clearly not expressing myself very well. The point I was trying to make was nothing to do with me having fun and suffering less than anyone else. But I've obviously failed to explain what I did mean, so I'll leave it at that.
Malcolm
You could just as easily argue that because some people don't have a garden, the lucky ones that do have one shouldn't be allowed to sit out in theirs.
Or use one of those touchpad styluses that you can get - I used one this morning when I had to enter my PIN :t:I'd advise wearing gloves if you pay for goods by putting in a pin code at the checkout.
I do the bulk of my grocery shopping on line and top up elsewhere when I have to.
Yes, a big problem - up until a couple of weeks ago, only about 7% of UK population bought their day-to-day food online, now nearly everyone wants to. The supermarkets just don't have the capacity. Getting registered for priority is (according to my parents) a nightmare too, they've not been able to get through to the hotline.Unfortunately I'm not sure there is the capacity for everyone to do that for food. Quite rightly they are giving priority to the people who most need it. I may qualify as I'm asthmatic but there's people who are a lot more in the need than me.
Or use one of those touchpad styluses that you can get - I used one this morning when I had to enter my PIN :t:
Presume you mean year listing ... yes and general twitching. And get those moth and other invertebrate books out too
Exactly right, even in peacetime. Life is full of risks we can't afford to eliminate; when we establish regulations on pollution or radiation for example, we have to put a dollar value on lives to calculate how much to spend on reducing exposure. The same has to be done here.'New York Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared to suggest the president was putting the country's economic well-being ahead of its public health, tweeting: "You cannot put a value on human life."
It's far too early to do it now but this is exactly what has to happen at some point, politicians have been putting a price on human lives for centuries, every time they start a war and send their men to fight.
The really infuriating thing about Trump is that he's occasionally right, but manages to make the right answer look bad! Also his "views" change too much, being incapable of consistency or strategy. Still, at times he's intuitively channeling something valid that others are unwilling to acknowledge.Good news but I'll bet that Trump, prematurely re-opens business in the US.
And only 2 other shoppers. I can only guess that all those people waiting patiently to get into Waitrose really couldn't survive without humus.
Yes year listing (being confined for the interim) might even evolve into longer stints (no pun intended) within their respective gardens and for those without... sky watching from the window. The upshot might well be that more people will find more interesting stuff (with patience) and it could be a win win all round. :t:
Cheers
Exactly right, even in peacetime. Life is full of risks we can't afford to eliminate; when we establish regulations on pollution or radiation for example, we have to put a dollar value on lives to calculate how much to spend on reducing exposure. The same has to be done here.
The really infuriating thing about Trump is that he's occasionally right, but manages to make the right answer look bad! Also his "views" change too much, being incapable of consistency or strategy. Still, at times he's intuitively channeling something valid that others are unwilling to acknowledge.
I do hope he doesn't completely blow this idea, having failed even to pay attention before. I have to say I wish that more countries were taking somewhat different approaches to the crisis (as S.Korea and Singapore have) so we could learn more about what works best, there being so many unknowns and uncertainties here.
The Dutch value is set at € 60,000 per year.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo [...] tweeting: "You cannot put a value on human life."
Fair trade humus Duncan! 3
Chris
This is fanciful nonsense. There's so much less traffic (and pollution) now that getting out into nature away from others is safer than it ever was. It's absurd that anyone shouldn't be allowed to do that. Fortunately we still are here. The only place we can't go birding (or exercise etc) is Rocky Mountain National Park, which has sadly been closed to the public because seniors in the town of Estes don't want strangers touching their gas pumps. (The same strangers the entire livelihood of their town depends on, and they'll want back in the future.) There seems to be some sort of denial of the whole concept of mortality at work here.Given that many people gave up/made a decision not to have a car so the next generation of children might have a better chance at a healthy future, it’s a little like rubbing their noses in it now if every off-work person/families got their car out and took to the road - causing increased pollution and increased incidents of RTAs due to the excess of traffic - all because of people using their cars to ‘self-isolate’ so they can circumvent restrictions.
Is this supposed to be some kind of bad joke: why should anyone have fun that you can't? You might as well argue that no one should be allowed to have a car at all, if you've chosen not to. I'm not even sure I want to understand what's passing for logic here.Why should you have more freedoms and suffer less than anyone else just because you have a car and want to go out and have fun?
If you want to upload images of any longer stints you find in your garden Ken, I promise we’ll look at them with renewed respect for the rarity potential of your London abode (any one for a temminck’s?)