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Thread continued from here https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057835955&page=250

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dregin

swiwi_ wrote: »

My cousin passed today aged only 55 (heart attack). After a couple of hard years he had found happiness learning Maori. His brothers in Brisbane and Brazil and quite possibly his sister in Queenstown can’t make the funeral because of the current situation. I hate that kind of shît but I suppose that’s life. He was a walking encyclopaedia, in particular he lived in London a while and knew a whole array of arcane but fascinating historical details about the city. He also came visited us in Ireland (Cork from memory). May he RIP.

Sorry to hear that mate.

Panda Killa

Sorry to hear that swiwi... horrible times for all of the family

sydthebeat

sorry to hear that swiwi.... while theres no good time, this is a bitch of a time to lose anyone

Clegg

Very sorry for your loss, Swiwi.

Yeah_Right

swiwi_ wrote: »

My cousin passed today aged only 55 (heart attack). After a couple of hard years he had found happiness learning Maori. His brothers in Brisbane and Brazil and quite possibly his sister in Queenstown can’t make the funeral because of the current situation. I hate that kind of shît but I suppose that’s life. He was a walking encyclopaedia, in particular he lived in London a while and knew a whole array of arcane but fascinating historical details about the city. He also came visited us in Ireland (Cork from memory). May he RIP.

Kia kaha mate.

swiwi_

My cousin passed today aged only 55 (heart attack). After a couple of hard years he had found happiness learning Maori. His brothers in Brisbane and Brazil and quite possibly his sister in Queenstown can’t make the funeral because of the current situation. I hate that kind of shît but I suppose that’s life. He was a walking encyclopaedia, in particular he lived in London a while and knew a whole array of arcane but fascinating historical details about the city. He also came visited us in Ireland (Cork from memory). May he RIP.

Squidgy Black

prawnsambo wrote: »

Anybody else finding boards incredibly slow at the moment? Click a link and wait, and wait, and wait...

Yep it's been like that on the touch site for me for the last few days.

prawnsambo

Bazzo wrote: »

It's basically unusable on mobile but fine on my laptop.

I'm accessing it on a PC and it's mad slow.

Edit: Taking 15 seconds to load a page. Also inline editing doesn't work; sends you to the advanced edit page and the editor mode switch doesn't seem to work either. Rubber bands seem to be at full stretch.

Bazzo

prawnsambo wrote: »

Anybody else finding boards incredibly slow at the moment? Click a link and wait, and wait, and wait...

It's basically unusable on mobile but fine on my laptop.

prawnsambo

Anybody else finding boards incredibly slow at the moment? Click a link and wait, and wait, and wait...

[Deleted User]

sydthebeat wrote: »

The Pope is a great auld fella altogether!

Is there anything to said for another crusade

[Deleted User]

In the midst of a massive tragedy and hurtling towards being one of the true failures of governance of this pandemic, and this is the top of the Dailymail.

Bazzo

Think of your average Brit, currently in lockdown with their family, waiting to get back to work, doesn't pay much attention to the news, doesn't know anybody who died of Covid. They'll be back working soon, maintaining their social distancing, wearing a mask, etc., and in a few months to a year, the vaccine or herd immunity will bring everything back to normal.

How are they going to learn of the reality of their weak government? What specific experiences will awaken this person to Boris et al's failure and incompetence in the early stages of the pandemic?

At least Trump made it easy by telling people to drink bleach, and rage-quitting the briefings.

The thing is, everybody in England knows people who work for the NHS, and often at least one is a close relative. The NHS is the 5th largest employer on the planet, it's huge. So they will have heard stories about how badly the country has been affected, but there's a total cognitive dissonance. Despite how closely linked the entire population is with the NHS, and despite the fact that the Tories have spent the last ten years totally trashing the NHS, they'll still happily go out and vote for them in their droves.

Panda Killa

sydthebeat wrote: »

The Pope is a great auld fella altogether!

He's no Augustin Pichot..

sydthebeat

The Pope is a great auld fella altogether!