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  1. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I wouldn't mind them calling it now and making us champions. If we were playing at the Ricoh and looking forward to a huge crowd and party on the last day of the season I might feel differently.
  2. chiefdave

    Good to see it’s a silent news day

    This is going back a fair while now but I had a message on Facebook, from a fake account, basically saying they knew I was chiefdave on here. Didn't think anything of it as I don't go out of my wide to hide my identity, wouldn't take anyone who wanted to find me long, but then found out a few...
  3. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    The Independent hasn't been printed for 4 years!
  4. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    If I was a PL footballer I'd feel pretty guilty seeing out quarantine in my huge mansion while the club staff are worrying about how they're going to pay the bills. The amount of money we're talking about would be peanuts to first team players.
  5. chiefdave

    Good to see it’s a silent news day

    Same here. God knows what I've posted on here and twitter over the years but I'm sure it wouldn't take long to find something that didn't look great. But then most normal people don't go digging. Didn't Gilbert once go years back through someones twitter history when they had a go at him and...
  6. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    The NHS is swamped but we've got staff sat at home because they haven't been tested.
  7. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    First it was Andrew Neil and the Daily Mail but now even Dom is criticising them you know there is a problem!
  8. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Wouldn't it make sense for them to also issue adjusted figures as they go along. So you have something like figures for how many tests were submitted each day and what the results were rather than just the date they were completed. I know we are told its 7 days a week but there's a jump after...
  9. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Its crap isn't it. I know there's loads in the same situation as we are but that doesn't really ease any worries. I got notified about an hour after a team meeting where we were given last months stats which showed it to be by far the busiest month in the companies history so you can't help...
  10. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Bet he's put the prices up as well!
  11. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    It is, if not been done already, going to be suspended along with with things like the need for planes to fly to avoid losing landing slots. Not exactly environmentally friendly to have loads of empty planes flying around just to ensure they keep the slots but that's exactly what was starting to...
  12. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Spoke too soon. Despite being busier than ever, did an extra 4 hours unpaid yesterday to try and keep up with the workload, and classed as keyworkers as we support medical facilites and food producers among others just been told that Friday will be my last day before being furloughed.
  13. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Is that for furlough or the loan scheme? The loan scheme does seem a bit of a shambles as its being left to the banks to asses if companies are eligible and it will come as no surprise they are trying to divert people on to loans they will make money from. Starting to see some of our clients...
  14. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Trump last week: "We lose thousands of people a year to the flu," he said then. "We never turn the country off." Trump this week: "A lot of people were saying think of it as the flu, but it's not the flu," he said. "It's vicious." Has the penny finally dropped?
  15. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Rather than looking at what's in the air, which could be private or cargo, better to look at the passenger airport arrivals. Heathrow has several cancelled flights from NY showing but also shows 5 have already landed today which possibly suggests cancelled flights are more to do with demand than...
  16. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Would like to think you're right but fear you're giving people too much credit. Unless Johnson gets up and literally says we're shutting down the NHS and replacing it with a US style system nobody will say a word as services continue to be sold off to their mates.
  17. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I work in IT. We've just had our busiest month ever by a long way, roughly 30% up on our previous busiest month.
  18. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Was going to say the same! 91 one beds on there, only 5 £1K plus, even two bed of the 149 listed only 81 are £1K plus. We get it, JLR pay everyone way over average and you're all taking early retirement and living in mansions while the rest of us make do with scraps.
  19. chiefdave

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    What a surprise, Ashley's Newcastle the first PL club to make out they can't afford to pay non-playing staff's wages. Newcastle United put non-playing staff on leave because of coronavirus pandemic
  20. chiefdave

    All purpose cricket thread

    Good way to pass Easter Sunday.
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