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Korean? I shared a rented house with a Korean couple a while back. The wife was forced to get up at the crack of dawn every morning to start cooking with fish sauce. Stank the whole house out - though she was very pretty in a kimono at that time of the morning, so i could forgive her most...

Yes agreed. From Macau if memory serves. The posh bird in the middle was ok till she opened her gob!

Damn you! Glad someone else is pleased to see this thread back at the top of page 1 where it belongs! No-one taking your fancy on Masterchef this year, Otis?

I can't be doing with all these named storms! But honestly never heard of her!

My issue is this - i am generally optimistic by nature, and tend to think that there is a lot of scaremongering being put out by the media (and ESPECIALLY social media) based on ignorance, or at the very best a very small amount of factual scientific knowledge about this novel disease. So i...

Reminds me of this old joke:- A man goes to the doctor and says "Doctor I've got an orange penis please help!" The doctor says "OK lets have a look.. oh my yes you do have an orange penis.. OK well whats been happening? What's new?" The man replies "Well, not much" The doctor continues "Well you...

That's atrocious. i saw that, and took it at face value. It's the way it's reported in the MEDIA not the message coming out from government.

I think it is helpful that he has asked the question - many people have been asking the same in recent months, particularly in regard to rumours about a Ricoh Return "Oh, it must mean that the EC have chucked it out", etc. I am certainly not his biggest fan, but i don't think he's necessarily...

Nope - Anna Soubry and Nicky Campbell were just as obnoxious back then as they are today!

Mmmmm - a young Samantha Janus!

It was on BBC4, three episodes a night a few weeks ago to mark the death of (i think) the writer. But only series 1. Definitely of its time, but Daniella Nardini was just gorge! Great theme tune too!

Apparently sales of Corona beer fell in China (but that was due to the closing of all the bars, so is understandable). But their sales in USA fell by a vast amount too, as people chose not to buy it! Goes to show how thick some people are! I was skiing in France the week before last, and Corona...

Are you fucking kidding me???

The role of the immune system is to prevent future infections by the same pathogen, and it works in the HUGE majority of cases, but there will always be the exceptions - like the HANDFUL of people who have repeated chickenpox infection into adulthood. Of course, that doesn't take account of when...

People ask "why is the UK so different from everywhere employing more drastic measures?". The answer to that may be "Why has the UK suffered MUCH less from the impacts of SARS, MERS-CoV, swine flu and avian flu than many other comparable countries?" - beacuse of the expert epidemiological...

The evidence from SARS is that viable virus is not detectable after drying onto an absorbent surface such as paper. There is no reason to suppose that this coronavirus will behave any differently.

Chief Medical Officer (Whitty) and Chief Scientific Adviser (Vallance), but a whole bunch of experts in epidemiological modelling also involved - as well as behavioural psychologists. I believe they are providing the right collective evidence to enable the government to act as best as the data...

You are utterly incorrect on this point, RoS. PHE, the Chief Medical Officers, Chief Scientific Advisers and the like have been observing and monitoring the situation on an hourly basis. They have planned for this type of eventuality for a decade, and the algorithms and mathematical modelling of...

Takes after his Uncle Andrew?

I mentioned it in passing yesterday. It's really interesting to see the distribution by local authority - generally well-to-do areas have higher incidence rates, which will probably decline when they have all come home from their skiing holidays in northern Italy. But it's probably also an...