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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    As the biggest county, they've probably got the numbers on their side.
    Scotland always seemed to punch above its weight churning out remarkable engineers of many disciplines.
    Glasgow, murder capital of Europe
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    Quote Originally Posted by bob10 View Post
    Let's hope tomorrow is indeed a good day for Tom. Reality suggests otherwise. A Yorkshireman, I've just finished watching a video about another great Yorkshireman , son of a Yorkshire farmer , none other than Captain James Cook. The soldier, the sailor, the cricket umpire, Yorkshire has produced some memorable people.


    Buy Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day 9780241486108 by Captain Tom Moor (guardianbookshop.com)
    Parky & "Dicky" Bird.


    But hey, lets not lose sight of the fact that Tom is 100 so he could go at anytime apart from C-19. Tying his shoelaces ZAAAAAPPP he's gone, for instance.

    Then again, he could be here for another 100 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob10 View Post
    The Scots have refined their cognitive skills [ the part of mental functions that deal with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions] over the years by getting the most out of their last farthing.
    Maybe you have been beaten either physically or mentally in the past by one , which has coloured your view of them , but I would doubt if you had actually spent a bit of time there you would come away with that outlook.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    Parky & "Dicky" Bird.


    But hey, lets not lose sight of the fact that Tom is 100 so he could go at anytime apart from C-19. Tying his shoelaces ZAAAAAPPP he's gone, for instance.

    Then again, he could be here for another 100 years.




    EDIT. He's bloody gone!!!!! Capt Sir Tom Moore dies at 100 after testing positive for Covid | Coronavirus | The Guardian

    Sorry Thomas old mate, this wasn't an instruction, just a passing comment. RIP cobber. A hundred wasn't a bad score in anyone's book.

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    Quote Originally Posted by discorevy View Post
    Maybe you have been beaten either physically or mentally in the past by one , which has coloured your view of them , but I would doubt if you had actually spent a bit of time there you would come away with that outlook.
    Lighten up, you lot. I happen to have Scottish blood. My old ancestor was a sailor on a Yankee whaler, who jumped ship in Newcastle to go to the Qld gold field at Mt Morgan. He wasn't a canny Scot when it came to gold mining, and took up a career in cattle. When I went to England for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977, I made my way to the border country, for old uncle was a Border Scot. If you mob like, I'll tell you where you can purchase a sense of humour, I'll sell it to you cheap.
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    EDIT. He's bloody gone!!!!! Capt Sir Tom Moore dies at 100 after testing positive for Covid | Coronavirus | The Guardian

    Sorry Thomas old mate, this wasn't an instruction, just a passing comment. RIP cobber. A hundred wasn't a bad score in anyone's book.
    Old Tom died in the company of family, after remininiscing over the good times in his life , his daughter says the last year was one of the happiest for him .

    Capt Sir Tom Moore dies at 100 after testing positive for Covid (msn.com)
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob10 View Post
    Lighten up, you lot. I happen to have Scottish blood. My old ancestor was a sailor on a Yankee whaler, who jumped ship in Newcastle to go to the Qld gold field at Mt Morgan. He wasn't a canny Scot when it came to gold mining, and took up a career in cattle. When I went to England for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977, I made my way to the border country, for old uncle was a Border Scot. If you mob like, I'll tell you where you can purchase a sense of humour, I'll sell it to you cheap.


    Even cheap would not be affordable or appreciated by some.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    Even cheap would not be affordable or appreciated by some.
    Aint that the truth. Some would prefer to drown in their own misery, and take us with them. Not this black duck, 4bee, old mate.
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob10 View Post
    Aint that the truth. Some would prefer to drown in their own misery, and take us with them. Not this black duck, 4bee, old mate.

    You're Blick!!!


    Senses of humour are a personal thing, it is either understood or not understood, if not understood placing one's head in a bucket of water will fix that. Permanently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    With the big Bucks that this involves bob, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it already has. Of course we will never be told that this is the case.
    Check this out in America.From the NY Times.

    Vaccine inequality

    The pandemic has disproportionately harmed low-income communities of color, yet people from wealthier, largely white neighborhoods are taking an outsize share of vaccines.

    In Washington D.C., a clinic that serves a largely Black population noticed an influx of white people when it began giving out vaccines. A sign-up link brought a stampede of people from wealthy Dallas suburbs to a site in a predominately African-American and Latino neighborhood. And in a Los Angeles neighborhood where 97 percent of residents are people of color, young white “vaccine chasers” from other neighborhoods have been camping out at clinics, hoping for soon-to-expire shots.

    These anecdotes are backed up by early vaccination data. In Philadelphia, Black people make up 44 percent of the population, but only 12 percent of those who have been inoculated. In New York City, 24 percent of residents are Black, compared with only 11 percent of vaccine recipients. In Miami-Dade County, Black residents make up nearly 17 percent of the population, but they make up just 7 percent of vaccine recipients.

    This pattern has complicated and deep-seated causes, but two of the biggest factors are access and trust.

    The ramshackle vaccine distribution system favors people with resources — especially time, transportation and access to technology. And many Black and Latino people are hesitant to be vaccinated. They also have higher levels of distrust in the government and medical establishment than white people. In a recent poll, 43 percent of Black adults and 37 percent of Hispanic adults said they wanted to “wait and see” how the vaccine was working before taking it, compared with 26 percent of white adults.

    Attempts have been made to rectify the vaccination gap with limited success.

    Some cities have created door-to-door campaigns looking for eligible residents, while others have tried to restrict inoculations to people in their surrounding communities. But when Dallas County tried to limit vaccines to people from certain disadvantaged ZIP codes, Texas officials threatened to withhold the county’s vaccine supply.

    Fighting vaccine skepticism among Black people may prove to be an even trickier problem. It will require a full-court press, argued Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in an opinion article in The Times. His suggestion? Start by allowing basketball stars to move to the front of the line if they are willing to get their vaccines on camera.
    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

    A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking

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