Coronavirus

[Tredman]

I’m quite lucky, wife can have them Monday to Wednesday and as long as I can get 7.5 hours in work have said they’re fine for me to look after them on the other two days. Yay to working till 1am!

 

[leedswolf]

What are the symptoms of that?

Rapid.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Hi guys, you're unemployed with immediate effect, oh and by the way you're also homeless.

That is a disgrace. I hope it gets all over the internet and that establishment is so shunned that it goes bust.

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

Even American employers are (usually) not that heartless.

 

[Keef]

I'd be throwing the company property at the hotel controller tbh,but then they'd be finding a reason to dock more money from you,what a shitty way to treat your staff

 

[Jabbawolf]

Rapid.

That was like watching Mutch set up Bully.

 

[Trips]

Hi guys, you're unemployed with immediate effect, oh and by the way you're also homeless.

That is truly shocking.

I work in hospitality, and the company have really stepped up to support all our guys this evening. Guaranteed pay for them for until 5th April in the short term, whether we are open or closed. Their pay will be the average they've earned over the last 12 weeks, so they at least know they will be getting full wages next month, regardless of us being open or closed. They are also working on plans going forward

Some of our competitors have been laying people off left, right and centre.

 

[Jabbawolf]

Villatalk is a pathetic place - grasping at any argument that gets this season written off, and saves them from relegation.

 

[playtheace]

Few thoughts:
-The WHO decided on the name COVID-19 so it wouldn't be associated with any particular country.
-People who say 'I don't believe in conspiracy theories but' believe in conspiracy theories.
-The only evidence the so called Spanish Flu didn't originate with a chicken farmer in the US is the kind of evidence that anti-vaxxers would jump on.

Did a tour of Margate today. Fairly quite. Not many people wearing masks, a few but 1% at most I'd guess. Morrisons, Aldi and Iceland were pretty empty of stock (no canned goods and no loo roll), I'm okay food wise I was just looking really.

Down to my last two cans of chopped tomatoes. None in the supermarkets. Went to a small Afro-Caribbean shop, they had plenty at 50p a tin so I bought 2. Went to an Asian shop and although I have 4 rolls of loo roll they had loads so I bought another 4 pack for £1.50.

There's loads out there if you look. All this was within 10 mins walk of my flat, albeit in different directions.

Hope you popped into Transmission records on your travels!!
Top banana on going into small shops, why are people moaning about sainsburys etc being empty...
Fuck those big stores anyway, people have become so engrained and downright lazy in getting it all at one shop and thats whats killed the highstreet.
The pies big enough for everyone.

Perhaps this might change peoples habits because for all the recent words from Asda, has soon as eggs is eggs they will be back to fucking the last pennies out of farmers and other suppliers.

 

[playtheace]

Today was Mini's last day of school full stop. End. Over.

No idea whether he will get decent grades as no advice is being given on that either. No big final day party as they leave. The year that never finished.

Cheers Gav, I'll take a shit on your doorstep next time I need to walk up to meet Dan for a pint at the Bull.

Same here.
Seems gcse's are going to be decided on mocks, course work and teacher assessment's with maybe some exams taken if there is an appeal (from parents i assume)
Of course, i assume some kids wouldn't bother revising for mocks and it's come back to bite them now.
Our lad is setup online for lessons starting from next week but when all theyve been doing is getting ready for exams it seems a pointless exercise now.
Teachers are well and truly gutted.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It may have got missed earlier but I'm offering free help for any kids studying French/German up to and including A-Level. Not a penny asked for (you can chuck some money at a Wolverhampton/Codsall food bank if you like I suppose), I think it's important that people share skills at a time like this. We need society.

Just ask and I'll do what I can.

 

[Andre]

Hope you popped into Transmission records on your travels!!

Walked past it twice today, twas shut.

Oh I used to haunt record shops all the time. I made sure that I bought at least one album a week since I was about 17 (and I'm 46 now). I was a regular in a place in Derby for years, so much so that the owners just started giving me discount! Can't remember the name.

Sadly, although I still have a record deck and a large collection of vinyl I don't use it any more. I've replaced most of the vinyl with CD's that I then rip to my required quality (it's cheaper than buying them digitally).

I still buy a lot of music, both old and new, but my days of going to shops for it have long gone. Sad. Yes I used to love finding something I hadn't thought of buying in a shop and it was great getting it home and playing it but it's too convenient to use the net.

For example I stumbled across Pretty Like Drugs by QueenAdreena on YouTube. I remembered them but never got anything by them at the time. A quick search revealed that a lot of the lead singers stuff was deleted. A week or two later and I had everything KatieJane Garside has ever released. You just can't do that in a shop.

 

[Del Woppio]

https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441

Mortality rate line graph there makes for horrible viewing

 

[playtheace]

Walked past it twice today, twas shut.

Oh I used to haunt record shops all the time. I made sure that I bought at least one album a week since I was about 17 (and I'm 46 now). I was a regular in a place in Derby for years, so much so that the owners just started giving me discount! Can't remember the name.

Sadly, although I still have a record deck and a large collection of vinyl I don't use it any more. I've replaced most of the vinyl with CD's that I then rip to my required quality (it's cheaper than buying them digitally).

I still buy a lot of music, both old and new, but my days of going to shops for it have long gone. Sad. Yes I used to love finding something I hadn't thought of buying in a shop and it was great getting it home and playing it but it's too convenient to use the net.

For example I stumbled across Pretty Like Drugs by QueenAdreena on YouTube. I remembered them but never got anything by them at the time. A quick search revealed that a lot of the lead singers stuff was deleted. A week or two later and I had everything KatieJane Garside has ever released. You just can't do that in a shop.

Thats one of the reasons Transmission (spencer) puts the most limited versions of their mondo records in the shop only.
If you dont go to Margate you aint getting it (unless you pay ££ off someone who went to Margate)

Record shop junkie here im afraid, just reading online "if you like this you'll love this" makes my piss boil...
Dont need an algorithm to get me too buy stuff.

Different now of course, but i cant tell ya how many record's i picked up on cover art alone over the years.

 

[Andre]

Thats one of the reasons Transmission (spencer) puts the most limited versions of their mondo records in the shop only.
If you dont go to Margate you aint getting it (unless you pay ££ off someone who went to Margate)

Record shop junkie here im afraid, just reading online "if you like this you'll love this" makes my piss boil...
Dont need an algorithm to get me too buy stuff.

Different now of course, but i cant tell ya how many record's i picked up on cover art alone over the years.

Yeah I agree with what your saying. I promise I will take a look in Transmission! It's about time I became a regular in a record shop again. I do miss it. But there is something to be said for using the web to find stuff. Unless Spencer happens to be a fan of Garside he wouldn't have been able to tell me what was deleted, what albums she sung on or maybe even about her current band Ruby Throat. It's pretty obscure stuff. All of that I found on wikipedia for a start and then checked out some other sites. I also got well lucky with one of the deleted albums, music magpie had underpriced it massively, it was selling for £15 or so on Amazon/Ebay and magpie had it on their site for like £3/4! Not the first time I've managed a steel like that either.

As for recommendations by algorithm, yeah I get you. I don't like it either but sometimes it works. It brought QueenAdreena back to my attention after over 15 years of forgetting their existence and then I went back to Daisy Chainsaw and then Ruby Throat. All because YouTube decided to play me Pretty Like Drugs after I was listening to Cross My Heart And Hope To Die (love them).

 

[machin05]

It may have got missed earlier but I'm offering free help for any kids studying French/German up to and including A-Level. Not a penny asked for (you can chuck some money at a Wolverhampton/Codsall food bank if you like I suppose), I think it's important that people share skills at a time like this. We need society.

Just ask and I'll do what I can.

Good man [emoji106]

 

[Tony Towner]

Same here.
Seems gcse's are going to be decided on mocks, course work and teacher assessment's with maybe some exams taken if there is an appeal (from parents i assume)
Of course, i assume some kids wouldn't bother revising for mocks and it's come back to bite them now.
Our lad is setup online for lessons starting from next week but when all theyve been doing is getting ready for exams it seems a pointless exercise now.
Teachers are well and truly gutted.

Problem with that is in the new GCSE's there is very little coursework. Nothing in English, Maths, History, Spanish, Science all of which my daughter is taking. Mocks are just past papers so could have been found online beforehand if someone wanted to, so essentially it's going to come down to teacher's predicted grades and then trying to find some sort of evidence to stand that up.

 

[Boozad]

It may have got missed earlier but I'm offering free help for any kids studying French/German up to and including A-Level. Not a penny asked for (you can chuck some money at a Wolverhampton/Codsall food bank if you like I suppose), I think it's important that people share skills at a time like this. We need society.

Just ask and I'll do what I can.

I’ll ask Cass mate. If it does happen you know I’ll sort you out.

 

[arklowolf]

http://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...e-inside-italys-hardest-hit-hospital-11960597

 

[PuntsWolf]

Problem with that is in the new GCSE's there is very little coursework. Nothing in English, Maths, History, Spanish, Science all of which my daughter is taking. Mocks are just past papers so could have been found online beforehand if someone wanted to, so essentially it's going to come down to teacher's predicted grades and then trying to find some sort of evidence to stand that up.

And predicted grades are a loss of bollocks as well.

It’s probably more of an issue for A levels (are they scrapped too?) because of people getting into uni. I couldn’t imagine not having a “results day” and getting into uni. It was easier when I did them though as our exams were modular, so we’d already done 80% of the course by this point, so at least they’d have something to go off. Now it’s all lumped at the end of the year, like GCSEs are so teachers are literally guessing and this will have a massive impact on their lives. Some of my friends declined uni after performing better than expected so they could apply again next year to the more competitive courses and also had people who flopped who didn’t get it, giving someone else a chance.