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Re: Covid - 19: How is it affecting you?

#1281 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:05 pm

No sex please, because we are British, or just the stupid English government, useless feckers that they are, making this stuff up on the fly! Careless and incompetent!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 42171.html
New coronavirus laws in England have made it illegal for couples who live in different homes to have sex indoors and stay overnight.

The Health Protection Regulations previously banned people leaving home without “reasonable excuse”, but the provision has been replaced by stringent curbs on where people can sleep and gather together.

The law, which will be laid in parliament on Monday, says: “There is a gathering when two or more people are present together in the same place in order to engage in any form of social interaction with each other, or to undertake any other activity with each other.”
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#1283 Post by Ex-Ascot » Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:46 pm

New delay in schools opening; they have to have hand driers by the washbasins (without water) in every classroom.

The safari business here is a disaster. Bookings are normally taken one year in advance. All are cancelled. Most companies will go with at least a six month loss, some more. We have had the double whammy of no water in the Delta and closed borders. Anyone here into derivatives? There are going to be some great deals going here for those who played the game correctly. Own your own private concession.

The safari camp employees up river have just been put onto 30% pay. For the workers that is £27 a month.
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#1284 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Jun 01, 2020 2:24 pm

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Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:05 pm
No sex please, because we are British, or just the stupid English government, useless feckers that they are, making this stuff up on the fly! Careless and incompetent!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 42171.html
New coronavirus laws in England have made it illegal for couples who live in different homes to have sex indoors and stay overnight.

The Health Protection Regulations previously banned people leaving home without “reasonable excuse”, but the provision has been replaced by stringent curbs on where people can sleep and gather together.

The law, which will be laid in parliament on Monday, says: “There is a gathering when two or more people are present together in the same place in order to engage in any form of social interaction with each other, or to undertake any other activity with each other.”
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As I read this, unless you live together, it’s now unlawful to have sex with your lover indoors, but fine outdoors (subject to public decency offences); but you can have sex with an escort indoors, as that is reasonably necessary for their work purposes

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#1285 Post by Boac » Mon Jun 01, 2020 2:50 pm

What if you just met up to check each other's eyesight........?

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#1286 Post by tango15 » Mon Jun 01, 2020 2:54 pm

TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Mon Jun 01, 2020 2:24 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote:
Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:05 pm
No sex please, because we are British, or just the stupid English government, useless feckers that they are, making this stuff up on the fly! Careless and incompetent!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 42171.html
New coronavirus laws in England have made it illegal for couples who live in different homes to have sex indoors and stay overnight.

The Health Protection Regulations previously banned people leaving home without “reasonable excuse”, but the provision has been replaced by stringent curbs on where people can sleep and gather together.

The law, which will be laid in parliament on Monday, says: “There is a gathering when two or more people are present together in the same place in order to engage in any form of social interaction with each other, or to undertake any other activity with each other.”
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As I read this, unless you live together, it’s now unlawful to have sex with your lover indoors, but fine outdoors (subject to public decency offences); but you can have sex with an escort indoors, as that is reasonably necessary for their work purposes

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#1287 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Mon Jun 01, 2020 2:59 pm

All this talk of sex in the garden, coupled with heat of the day got me to thinking about the things I have never done "bare" as it were and this thought was reinforced by an unsolicited photograph of my business colleague playing her harp bare footed! :-?

I did notice that one of the esteemed posters here flies his helicopters while bare footed! Whatever next?

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#1288 Post by CharlieOneSix » Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:04 pm

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#1289 Post by Bob » Mon Jun 01, 2020 8:49 pm

I think I am still not allowed to Fly since lockdown....I have buckled and flown 3 short ones when nobody was looking as I consider it is becoming a safety issue due lack of currency after not flying for 10 weeks and having changed to an unfamiliar layout and type just before lockdown.....I don't think anyone noticed

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#1290 Post by Undried Plum » Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:49 am

Here in the Sheeple's Republic of Jockistan we do have a slight relaxation of the lockdown rules, permitting one household to visit another.

A recently announced new sub-rule is that the distance traveled between households must be no more than 5 miles. I just don't understand why a car journey of 10 or 20 miles (or 40 or 80 or more) is more of an infection risk than a journey of 5 miles. I just don't see "the science".

Is it something to do with a fuel refill requirement? In which case, what about us who don't need to refuel our cars and can drive a 350 mile round-trip with bothering to think about recharging.

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#1291 Post by Ex-Ascot » Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:50 am

Incinhol sales, after 8 weeks, start in 22 hrs, 4 mins and 31 secs. The lying b@astards told us it was only going to be for 4 weeks.
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#1292 Post by Capetonian » Tue Jun 02, 2020 10:04 am

In which case, what about us who don't need to refuel our cars and can drive a 350 mile round-trip with bothering to think about recharging.
Quite frankly, electric cars are not special, but the owners are often rather smug. Most diesel, petrol, or hybrid cars will do the same distance without refuelling, and with the further benefit that they don't have to hang around for an hour or so while the car recharges, with the attendant risks which that hanging around entails.

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#1293 Post by Ex-Ascot » Tue Jun 02, 2020 12:01 pm

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In which case, what about us who don't need to refuel our cars and can drive a 350 mile round-trip with bothering to think about recharging.
Quite frankly, electric cars are not special, but the owners are often rather smug. Most diesel, petrol, or hybrid cars will do the same distance without refuelling, and with the further benefit that they don't have to hang around for an hour or so while the car recharges, with the attendant risks which that hanging around entails.
I must have been only about 7 years old when I drove my first electric car. Great fun. In those days they would put rubber bumpers all around them to cater for female drivers.

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#1294 Post by Undried Plum » Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:15 pm

Capetonian wrote:
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Quite frankly, electric cars are not special
You may have missed the point.

Petrol pumps are recognised centres of the spread of the disease. Home recharging units are not.

An electric car can do a 380 mile round trip without having to attend a temple of Big Oil either before or after the journey(s). That does make them a bit special.

I still don't understand the 5 mile limit for household visits in Scotland. I don't see "the science".

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#1295 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:26 pm

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I still don't understand the 5 mile limit for household visits in Scotland. I don't see "the science".
Drivel made up on the spot, like a lot of governments do!
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#1296 Post by Undried Plum » Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:34 pm

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I must have been only about 7 years old when I drove my first electric car. Great fun. In those days they would put rubber bumpers all around them to cater for female drivers.
I was over 60 when I first drove my own one. I still get that same silly grin that you (and I) had when driving those fairground cars all those years ago.

The all round bumpers are nowadays on the inside, in the form of airbags.

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#1297 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:40 pm

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. Great fun. In those days they would put rubber bumpers all around them to cater for female drivers.
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#1298 Post by Capetonian » Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:46 pm

You may have missed the point.
Petrol pumps are recognised centres of the spread of the disease. Home recharging units are not.
An electric car can do a 380 mile round trip without having to attend a temple of Big Oil either before or after the journey(s). That does make them a bit special.
I haven't missed the point at all. You won't only be using the home recharging unit, unless your round trip journeys are less than 140 miles each leg.

Most fossil fuel cars can also do 380 miles on a full tank (I did just over 500 miles in an Audi A3 TdI on a single tank). That was from A->B, not home->B->home, so you are not comparing like with like.

What do you do when you are waiting the hour or so for your 'special' electric car to recharge? Sit in it admiring the view and enjoying what you'd like to think are the jealous glances of people who drive 'ordinary' cars'?

Apart from having to touch the charger power unit and cable when you connect, (possibly) pay, and disconnect, you will probably go to the cafe/toilet/bookshop or whatever else. Are you trying to tell me that those aren't possible sources of contamination/spread of disease? Do you expect me to believe that the components of the electric charger that you touch are cleaner than the petrol pump nozzle, grip, and pay point?

The risk of spread of disease is more or less proportional to the time you spend at the charging point, so 1 hour or so compared to 5 minutes or less for a conventional car. Unless of course you are going to spend that hour sitting in your electric chariot and not touching anything, anywhere, that someone else might have touched.

I accept the benefits of electric cars, but I am tired of, and bored with, the illogical arguments pursued by the likes of Tesla owners to justify their purchase. They are not the magic bullet that the owners pretend they are, they have plenty of drawbacks, range and recharge time being the main ones.

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#1299 Post by Seenenough » Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:52 pm

"An electric car can do a 380 mile round trip without having to attend a temple of Big Oil either before or after the journey(s). That does make them a bit special"

How long does it take to re-charge using only solar charging without plugging into the grid?

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#1300 Post by Undried Plum » Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:58 pm

Capetonian wrote:
Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:46 pm
You may have missed the point.
Petrol pumps are recognised centres of the spread of the disease. Home recharging units are not.
An electric car can do a 380 mile round trip without having to attend a temple of Big Oil either before or after the journey(s). That does make them a bit special.
I haven't missed the point at all. You won't only be using the home recharging unit, unless your round trip journeys are less than 140 miles each leg.
That's the point, right there.

If the reason for the 5 mile limit is to reduce fuel consumption so as to reduce the public exposure to those damned infected pump levers which obedient servants of Big Oil are obliged to clutch for minutes at a time, then my electric car ought to be exempt.

The household visits I've got lined up are all way way less than a hundred miles, so the 5 mile limit, unless rationally explained, does not make sense to me.

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