Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (179 Viewers)

[Grendel]

Back G up as he is having a go at me. I understand.

I am retiring at 55 in 3 years 2 weeks. Do you think I don't have a pension I haven't been paying into?

The wife has had many years out of the workplace over the years. Always spent tume out with the kids. We could do this because we save and not waste money. We could rent cars like millions of people do. My car cost 3k. The wife's car cost 1.8k. I could afford to buy a new car. But being sensible makes a big difference.

If everyone had your attitude there wouldn’t even be a motor industry

 

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[Johhny Blue]

Think that's already happened in Glasgow

It's always happened in Glasgow

 

[Johhny Blue]

The probably we have in the U.K. is the term engineer isn’t legally defined like in many countries so the term gets banded about too freely and means there’s nothing to stop managers promoting their “yes men” to engineer so they can give them a raise and keep them on side.


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The same as a McDonalds "Manager"

 

[djr8369]

Logarithmic scale. Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear. We are going to have either some angry or embarrassed little fellows this evening, aren't we?

 

[Grendel]

Reduced 50k to 25k to make a point?

No but oddly some people aspire to better themselves in terms of status when they go up the ladder - either amount is hardly huge

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

No but oddly some people aspire to better themselves in terms of status when they go up the ladder - either amount is hardly huge

Never liked the term 'better' themselves in terms of spending money to keep up with the Jones or trying to make other people as vacuous as themselves envious.

For me 'bettering' yourself is via learning, reading etc or contributing back more to society. Not buying a new car or kitchen to show off

 

[CCFCSteve]

Look, despite our arguments about your rampant Toryism, i think you're alright. Don't say the above again though please.

I prefer balanced viewpoint but noted about the presser request

 

[Sick Boy]

More from the brexit crew, apparently the Chinese will sell us ‘contaminated ventilators’ or ‘used’ ones (who cares long as they work properly?)

Vacuous nonsense.

 

[Grendel]

Never liked the term 'better' themselves in terms of spending money to keep up with the Jones or trying to make other people as vacuous as themselves envious.

For me 'bettering' yourself is via learning, reading etc or contributing back more to society. Not buying a new car or kitchen to show off

So you’ve never upgraded your house?

 

[David O'Day]

So you’ve never upgraded your house?

Getting a new kitchen isn't bettering yourself

 

[Flying Fokker]

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

So you’ve never upgraded your house?

Only when the thing I'm replacing is shagged out.

 

[skybluetony176]

Never liked the term 'better' themselves in terms of spending money to keep up with the Jones or trying to make other people as vacuous as themselves envious.

For me 'bettering' yourself is via learning, reading etc or contributing back more to society. Not buying a new car or kitchen to show off

Yep. Knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing is not bettering yourself, it just makes you a c**t.

 

[Grendel]

Getting a new kitchen isn't bettering yourself

The point is people earn more they take bigger mortgages which oddly need paying

 

[Grendel]

Only when the thing I'm replacing is shagged out.

houses don’t get shagged out. Have you ever bought a house of a higher value in your life?

 

[David O'Day]

The point is people earn more they take bigger mortgages which oddly need paying

Bettering yourself is still a strange term for it.

Also there us a direct correlation between more expensive property and bigger knobheads as neighbours

 

[David O'Day]

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Wouldn't that also include st cross and George eliot?

 

[The coventrian]

houses don’t get shagged out. Have you ever bought a house of a higher value in your life?

I bought my 1st house in eastcotes,tile hill. No way would I want to live there now. If you can afford to move up the ladder then its generally what happens.

 

[David O'Day]

I bought my 1st house in eastcotes,tile hill. No way would I want to live there now. If you can afford to move up the ladder then its generally what happens.

Only if you think yourself worth is related to your house

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

houses don’t get shagged out. Have you ever bought a house of a higher value in your life?

Nope. Still in the first one. Never needed anything bigger and I like where I live and the neighbours.

Had I needed to get a bigger one for a family I would, but I wouldn't consider this 'bettering' myself but making necessary changes for the consideration of my loved ones.

I'll freely admit in a money-no-object world I'd love to design my own house, but again I wouldn't consider it 'bettering' myself. I'd be indulging myself.

 

[Grendel]

I bought my 1st house in eastcotes,tile hill. No way would I want to live there now. If you can afford to move up the ladder then its generally what happens.

Of course it does for most people

 

[MalcSB]

Would also explain a lull at the weekends wouldn’t it as lab staff etc go home? I wonder if that’s in the data...

Lab staff don’t “go home” at the weekend . Testing being done 7 days a week, will soon be 24 hrs a day.

 

[Grendel]

Nope. Still in the first one. Never needed anything bigger and I like where I live and the neighbours.

Had I needed to get a bigger one for a family I would, but I wouldn't consider this 'bettering' myself but making necessary changes for the consideration of my loved ones.

I'll freely admit in a money-no-object world I'd love to design my own house, but again I wouldn't consider it 'bettering' myself. I'd be indulging myself.

You should send this to Coventry council - according to them there’s a huge appetite for green belt living hence the proposed countryside destruction

 

[CCFCSteve]

Logarithmic scale. Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear. We are going to have either some angry or embarrassed little fellows this evening, aren't we?

This is the problem with graphs though....saw the attached earlier in a guardian article and thought WTF (just didn’t look right)....think it’s exactly the same as Vallences though ! but because of the scale/squashed horizontal (days) axis the gradients look/are different so the reader could view them very differently

 

[The coventrian]

Only if you think yourself worth is related to your house

We bought this as an investment. Bought it cheap as it needed a lot of work. We will be downsizing next year probably. We've got a considerable amount of equity in this as the house we had before we bought as a repo,done it up and sold it for a big profit. Fingers crossed when we sell we'll be mortgage free. Dont wanna sound like a snob as I really am not but having a detached place at the moment theres no way I'd go back to a semi. With what's going on at the moment is a wake up call as well. I wanna be mortgage free and lose that big expense each month.

 

[David O'Day]

Of course it does for most people

It's still not bettering yourself though is it.

 

[Warwickhunt]

The time lag in reporting deaths 2/3 days is because the UK are doing post mortems to ensure the people recorded of dying from the virus is correct. They dont want the normal deaths i.e Flu etc expected to effect the figures. Apparently some figures across Europe may be!

 

[David O'Day]

You should send this to Coventry council - according to them there’s a huge appetite for green belt living hence the proposed countryside destruction

No there's a huge need for new housing, no more brownfield to build on

 

[Grendel]

It's still not bettering yourself though is it.

Well yes - my first property was a tiny flat - my current one is about 5 times bigger and my next one (when this crises ends) well is planned to have average to support livery rentals- of course it is or why does anyone do it and not just save up for the next pandemic?

 

[Grendel]

No there's a huge need for new housing, no more brownfield to build on

There’s lots of brownfield and the current forecasts for the council are using for growth is based of old ONC data which says Coventry will grow at 2-4 times the rate of every other West Midlands City yet actual growth is the same or lower than most

 

[shmmeee]

Lab staff don’t “go home” at the weekend . Testing being done 7 days a week, will soon be 24 hrs a day.

Good news if there’s no lull in data collection then, makes the stalls more likely to be genuine rather than noise. Seems rather inefficient cost wise to run everything including back office at 100% 24/7 though, I assume that’s new for the pandemic? Testing dead bodies is pretty low priority compared to testing alive people I’d imagine as well so if we need more testing capacity why not prioritise them?

 

[David O'Day]

Well yes - my first property was a tiny flat - my current one is about 5 times bigger and my next one (when this crises ends) well is planned to have average to support livery rentals- of course it is or why does anyone do it and not just save up for the next pandemic?

Are you a better person for having a bigger house

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Well yes - my first property was a tiny flat - my current one is about 5 times bigger and my next one (when this crises ends) well is planned to have average to support livery rentals- of course it is or why does anyone do it and not just save up for the next pandemic?

But are you confusing 'bettering' with 'indulging'. I understand people will want to move for various reasons, or need to move as life circumstances change. But that move does not 'better' them as people.

 

[MalcSB]

Good news if there’s no lull in data collection then, makes the stalls more likely to be genuine rather than noise. Seems rather inefficient cost wise to run everything including back office at 100% 24/7 though, I assume that’s new for the pandemic? Testing dead bodies is pretty low priority compared to testing alive people I’d imagine as well so if we need more testing capacity why not prioritise them?

Back office don’t work 24/7, staff directly involved in receiving, preparing and testing specimens do.

 

[Grendel]

But are you confusing 'bettering' with 'indulging'. I understand people will want to move for various reasons, or need to move as life circumstances change. But that move does not 'better' them as people.

If everyone had your view on life we may as well live in North Korea.