sumo73

Going forward I guess you mean from January 2021 onwards when Joe Biden officially takes over. I agree the news won't be the same but nor will most late night comedy/political shows across the US. The media's job is to report the news without fear or favour. Perhaps a bit idealistic but that's the way it should be.

That's true for European politics too and this flows down to discussions about video games and films now. Nuance and rational debate is dying. I don't see Trump or Biden fixing this really although Biden has the edge in improving things.

Disagree. I believe Trump asked Mike Pence to be his VP partly as a way to keep the evangelical Christians on side. I've seen interviews from Trump, Pence and Biden and they have all spoken about their faith. I get the impression that it means a more to Pence and Biden. For me Trump represents the businessman turned politician, the business protectionist, anti globalist, isolationist and American first idealist warts and all. A blunt instrument. "Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upwards surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA". - Gordon Gekko (Wall Street - 1987)

Imagine being the UK government back in March, one set of scientists saying the government is doing too much and another set of scientists saying we aren't doing enough. So what scientists/experts do you listen to? Pressure from the airlines and big businesses to keep everything open as normal and pressure from others to close/reduce air travel. Pressure to just drop everything and act like Sweden with less limited restrictions.The government acted at times like a rabbit stuck in the headlights unable to fully appease anyone. Also as we got to understand more about the virus the advice changed. At the start of this, I looked at what was happening in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and to a lesser extent Japan and followed the advice there about wearing masks (this is just one example). Very few people wore one back then in the UK and I certainly got a few stares but I didn't care. Had the government started giving the advice about masks earlier things would have changed in my view. People have too much faith in governments, just look at President Trump in the USA he thought wearing masks was a bad idea (and influenced others) and he got COVID-19 recently. Biden who wears masks is fine. We have to ask ourselves how much faith can we put in governments and what we must do ourselves? I don't really know the end goal of the UK government here and when all of this is finally going to end.

Easier to control COVID-19 in smaller places like Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Also I'm guessing the anti mask, anti vaccine group of people in those places are a lot smaller than in the UK and the USA.

Most governments can be quite inept at times regardless of the party. No one should ever put complete faith in whatever government even if you voted for them or in my case I didn't. As for listening to the experts, what scientists should people and the government listen to? The ones who told the UK government at the beginning that wearing face masks were ineffective or the ones that said we should wear them? I checked it up myself and have been wearing a face mask when going shopping since March while Boris and co couldn't make up their minds. The situation across Europe isn't really any better. France went into a second lockdown a few days ago and the situation in Spain and Poland isn't great either. I also have an appointment with the NHS (minor compared to you) and this probably means it will be pushed back and countless others will suffer as the system is stretched and no one seems prepared yet again. As for government leaks, again another ineptitude which will cause panic. A friend of mine went shopping this evening and sent me a photo of the shelves already been cleaned out just like what happened in March. And so it has begun again...

I watched some of the debate live when it happened and was not that impressed. I would have loved to have seen Biden more in his prime debate against Trump but I didn't see much of that here. Trump can be measured when he wants to be but clearly wasn't here. The bull in the china shop show isn't impressive all the time. This is a side issue but there is a saying that when America has a cold Canada has the sniffles but that saying applies to Europe now. We are influenced perhaps too much by what happens in America as a kind of one size fits all mentally that boils down to issues about most things including the mentally and debate about race (which is clearly an issue in America) and I think we all need to think for ourselves. I like America and American culture but I am not an American. The US TV style debates are now part of UK political life. It's a circus show at the end of the day and we often forget the other player in this circus show which is the media whose job isn't just to report the news but to hype everything up and ultimately divide people in the process. In that respect the UK and I guess other parts of Europe (and elsewhere) are no different.

I've never tried licking anything with a mask on. Don't suggest anyone does either!

I travelled down to London on Sunday and there were less people on the train than normal for a Sunday. Have travelled about a month ago back from London on a week day and the tubes/trains were less busy than normal. There is still a percentage of people who are working from home or now work part time at home and then the office once or twice a week so the numbers on the trains should be a bit less than normal. Avoid peak times if possible, wear a mask and use the hand sanitisers around the stations and you should be fine.

Three lions goes back to the 12 century. The First lion came from King Henry I who was known as the lion king of England and he had this on his standard after taking power in 1100 AD/CE. The king married Adeliza of Louvain whose father had a lion on his shield so Henry added a second lion. In 1154, King Henry II married Eleanor of Aquitaine who also had a lion on her family crest so the king added the third lion. Lastly, evidence was dug up possibly when building Trafalgar Square in London of the bones of lions, hippos, elephants and bears.

Just got one of the very last official Wii games (came out last month) from America today.

Prospects DVD and Hako boy Hakozume Box (Box Boy trilogy minus the amiibo) for the 3DS. I have no plans on buying the amiibo unless I take out a bank loan.

This discussion needs to continue and a good discussion welcomes all but not at the expense of silencing or labelling others because of wrongthink. Nothing can be achieved by this.

Finding Teddy 2 for the Wii U. One of the last official physical Wii U releases.

The new logo is yellow. I don't drive but I know that for some green = go, yellow/amber = green and red = don't go yet and this has already filtered down to the general public about this virus and social distancing seems to have been lost on some already and the new rules don't come into effect until Wednesday. Regarding quaranting travellers to the UK that currently isn't the case from what I've read. The government said that new measures regarding people coming into the UK will not come into force on Wednesday 13th May and that the government will set out new measures in due course. 'The scientific advice shows that when domestic transmission is high, cases from abroad represent a small amount of the overall total and make no significant difference to the epidemic'.(https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-outbreak-faqs-what-you-can-and-cant-do/coronavirus-outbreak-faqs-what-you-can-and-cant-do) If that is the case that travellers to the UK represent no significant difference to the epidemic why are you introducing new measures then? The government however does go into why they are introducing new measures but they should have been stricker to begin with. I just hope that once we have reached the next stage in all of this the PM fully consults with other parts of the UK and goes through the new measures so that there is zero ambiguity including the next slogan. Fingers crossed!

When you know that everyone in the UK apart from England won't be using the new slogan you have to ask yourself why. The old slogan was simple, clear and effective but this will confuse people regardless of whatever 'R' is right now.

At the beginning, the UK government might have been thinking about creating a herd immunity idea and then moved towards a lockdown instead which delayed things.

They live in the Offenbach district about 20 km from Frankfurt.

I spoke to a friend of mine in Germany last night and they said a similar thing about the situation lifting again. I agree that there is nothing we can do until a vaccine has been developed. Personally I believe that using face masks more (even home made ones) in addition to hand washing, social distancing... will help slow things down until some kind of vaccine can be found despite some 'experts' who say they are a waste of time or that people are not intelligent enough to properly wear one.

The bottom line is business is business and politics comes second. According to the WHO (don't mention ROC) Italy has a higher number of COVID-19 cases than China. Something doesn't seem right here. Something has to change through all of this but I wonder if it will. The UK still imports about half of it's food from overseas and yet about 1/3 of all food bought at supermarkets is thrown away. The UK depends too much on importing food and other things from various parts of the world. If you want to buy a face mask it's probably better to make one yourself than wait a month to get one from half way around the world. Being more self reliant as a country isn't about resurrecting nationalism but successive governments have allowed us to be far too reliant on others because it was cheaper and more expedient to do so. I know quite a few East Asian people and a few of them have had some issues from other people because of all this mess. It's not their fault (look higher up) and the blame must not be put on them. I won't get on the China bashing train.

When I think of Adam and Joe I always remember Adam's Baaddad or the Star Wars stuff they did plus this sketch for some reason - I've got a backlog of DVD's and games to go through but when this does blow over I will be getting a Switch (finances allowing). Also I'm trying to resurrect my Japanese skills and go on Wii Fit/U again.

From what I've heard from in Japan the situation seems to be a little bit behind the UK but I'm still amazed that the Tokyo Olympics could still go ahead in July despite Canada and a few other nations withdrawing from the events altogether.

Things like bread and milk can be frozen for a while so that might explain why some people are going nuts on things like milk but the 100 cans of baby milk I don't get. I'm glad that the situation in Denmark in terms of food shopping has improved but I don't see this so far in the UK especially in terms of 'locusts'. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/coronavirus/coronavirus-paramedic-stares-at-shelves-cleared-by-locusts-after-shift-saving-lives/ar-BB11qWWI?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout

It amazing to see how things have changed over a short period of time and you get to see the value of some people in all of this. The toilet roll thing is crazy and took me several days to track down a small pack of which I gave some away. I have some old newspapers regardless. Since I don't have a car, I have to like others here go back and forth with smaller amounts of shopping but have had to buy stuff that others didn't want and 'kindly' left on the shelves. Good luck everyone! We will get through this!

I bought both of them on the PSP a few years ago and they didn't cost much then. Just wondered if anyone else played them that's all. PSP is region free so no problems playing them but the language barrier might put a few people off.