Current Affairs

[Kendhni]

Things change and as Onelife points out art directors are paid to provide new experiences and slants on old stories.

I suspect you are playing devil's advocate Ken and actually fully understand my point. I'm sure you fully appreciate that a director providing a new slant or experience by casting a white Othello will be hounded to hell and back.

Some, not saying you because I know the point you are making, will be using it for ulterior motives, and if they hound a director for that decision then they need to examine themselves first. I don't care that the ugly sisters are usually men, that the lead boy is a girl, that Jon Wayne played an Indian, that Cleopatra was played by Elizabeth Taylor (or Angelina Jolie), that Roddy McDowall played a monkey, that Worf is not a Klingon (tlhIngan wo' 'oHbe'chugh). it is a play, a film, a series - it is not and never will be reality. I am a huge fan of the abstract.

[Onelife]

I woke up this morning thinking about racism and came across this article.....


https://www.tekedia.com/are-racism-and- ... ehaviours/

[Kendhni]

From what I have been told I thought I was the only one.

Make that four. Mrs S and I looked in amazement when they were advertising the Anne Boleyn program the other night. What next, the Christmas nativity with a Chinese Jesus.

You are thinking of Jesus' brother Hong Xiuquan.

[Gill W]

From what I have been told I thought I was the only one.

Make that four. Mrs S and I looked in amazement when they were advertising the Anne Boleyn program the other night. What next, the Christmas nativity with a Chinese Jesus.


The worlds gone mad

Jesus is often portrayed by a white European rather than an actor with Near East origins.

If that’s ok, then a Chinese actor should be ok too

[oldbluefox]

In a Chinese Christian nativity I should feel he is. I can't think of many Mandarin speaking Europeans who would or could fill that role.

[screwy]

Let’s have Gary Oldman as Martin Luther King, should have some authenticity.

[david63]

Here we go again. One group of "experts" saying that the next stage in the roadmap should be delayed and another group saying that it would be wrong to delay the unlocking any longer. The Government, quite rightly, saying that they will make the decision based on the data on the 14th June.

Why do these "experts" that are members of the committees keep going public - if they have something to say then it should be through their official channels - or is this yet another case of the media trying to run the country and forcing the Government down a particular path?

[oldbluefox]

.... and whatever decision the government make will be the wrong one giving the Boris bashers a chance to leap up and down.

[screwy]

I woke up this morning thinking about racism and came across this article.....


https://www.tekedia.com/are-racism-and- ... ehaviours/

Last thing I wake up to, usually Holly Willoughby or someone.!

[Mervyn and Trish]

Here we go again. One group of "experts" saying that the next stage in the roadmap should be delayed and another group saying that it would be wrong to delay the unlocking any longer. The Government, quite rightly, saying that they will make the decision based on the data on the 14th June.

Why do these "experts" that are members of the committees keep going public - if they have something to say then it should be through their official channels - or is this yet another case of the media trying to run the country and forcing the Government down a particular path?

What would be really good would be the opposition to come out now and say either:

"We fully support the government in extending the deadline for further freedom. Lives must come before the economy and jobs"

or:

"We fully support the government in pressing ahead with re-opening society. Jobs and the economy must now come before the risks to health."

But of course they won't. They will instead be preparing two statements to condemn the decision, whichever way the government jumps.

For me I'd leave it a bit longer. But then it's not my business or job at risk.

[Onelife]

I woke up this morning thinking about racism and came across this article.....


https://www.tekedia.com/are-racism-and- ... ehaviours/

Last thing I wake up to, usually Holly Willoughby or someone.!

Thought provoking as was the article me thinks.

[Manoverboard]

I was told yesterday, albeit at a suitable social distance, that getting into Australia is virtually impossible and that they are not following a ' vaccination ' program. If true that should sort out the wheat from the chaff.

[david63]

Australia apparently are not planning to open their borders for at least another year

[screwy]

I was told yesterday, albeit at a suitable social distance, that getting into Australia is virtually impossible and that they are not following a ' vaccination ' program. If true that should sort out the wheat from the chaff.

My cousin and her husband have both just had their first jab. Both are in their 70s.

They do have freedom to move around Oz and are currently up in Port Maquarie, about 5 hrs from Sydney.

[CaroleF]

What annoys me is that the moment any seemingly good news occurs then there's some Professor or other who says we must remain closed down for another week, two weeks, a month, whatever and the TV News programmes jump on their bandwagon. I've just been reading that the UK has recorded zero new Covid deaths within the past 24 hours for the first time in months in a sign of hope for the easing of lockdown restrictions on June 21. I'm sure this evening there will be various scientists saying we must do no such thing. At some point we are going to have to accept that Covid is there, as flu is there and people must ensure they are vaccinated and take personal responsibility for what they do.

Carole

[Kendhni]

Here we go again. One group of "experts" saying that the next stage in the roadmap should be delayed and another group saying that it would be wrong to delay the unlocking any longer. The Government, quite rightly, saying that they will make the decision based on the data on the 14th June.

One group is looking at it from a medical point-of-view and the other is looking at it from a sociological point-of-view. Neither is actually wrong, they just have a different focus.

[Kendhni]

What annoys me is that the moment any seemingly good news occurs then there's some Professor or other who says we must remain closed down for another week, two weeks, a month, whatever and the TV News programmes jump on their bandwagon. I've just been reading that the UK has recorded zero new Covid deaths within the past 24 hours for the first time in months in a sign of hope for the easing of lockdown restrictions on June 21. I'm sure this evening there will be various scientists saying we must do no such thing. At some point we are going to have to accept that Covid is there, as flu is there and people must ensure they are vaccinated and take personal responsibility for what they do.

Carole

It is good news, I wonder though if yesterday being a bank holiday had anything to do with the zero figure.

I believe Johnson has already said there will be no more (national?) lockdowns. We have pretty much thrown everything we have at this and, fortunately, the vaccines seem to be working. There will be (hopefully) better vaccines coming along in the future that may help even more. The point that remains though is that we have done what we can and now is the time to start returning to normality - there is currently nothing left in our arsenal to fight this. People will probably continue to die from this across the world and, unfortunately, that is likely to be a fact of life.

What I would suggest is that once everyone has been offered a vaccine then, unless there is a very very good medical reason, anyone who can not provide their vaccination record while presenting themselves at any hospital with a respiratory infection (that is determined to be COVID related), should be made to pay, IN FULL, the costs of all treatment they receive. The NHS should not carry the burden of those who have refused to get vaccinated.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Here we go again. One group of "experts" saying that the next stage in the roadmap should be delayed and another group saying that it would be wrong to delay the unlocking any longer. The Government, quite rightly, saying that they will make the decision based on the data on the 14th June.

One group is looking at it from a medical point-of-view and the other is looking at it from a sociological point-of-view. Neither is actually wrong, they just have a different focus.

I know that. My point is that the government has to choose one of those priorities. And cynical opponents will attack whichever choice they make.

[david63]

What I would suggest is that once everyone has been offered a vaccine then, unless there is a very very good medical reason, anyone who can not provide their vaccination record while presenting themselves at any hospital with a respiratory infection (that is determined to be COVID related), should be made to pay, IN FULL, the costs of all treatment they receive. The NHS should not carry the burden of those who have refused to get vaccinated.

I agree 110% - not only that but they should also be made to pay the costs of anyone that they infect, although I doubt that would be neigh on impossible.

[Kendhni]

Interesting looking program on at 9PM on channel 4 tonight - about the anti vaxers

[david63]

Interesting looking program on at 9PM on channel 4 tonight - about the anti vaxers

Thanks for that Ken - that's an hour of my life I will not get back listening to a load of American fruitcakes

[Kendhni]

Interesting looking program on at 9PM on channel 4 tonight - about the anti vaxers

Thanks for that Ken - that's an hour of my life I will not get back listening to a load of American fruitcakes

To be fair the primary fruitcake using people gullibility to line his own pockets is actually English.

[barney]

Is there any man alive who is more odious than Michael O’Leary?
He was interviewed live on Sky News this morning
It appears that his knowledge of the virus exceeds any professional virologist.
They are all wrong ...... apparently.

[Stephen]

Is there any man alive who is more odious than Michael O’Leary?
He was interviewed live on Sky News this morning
It appears that his knowledge of the virus exceeds any professional virologist.
They are all wrong ...... apparently.

He’s not someone I’d have round for dinner, not unless he’s prepared to pay for the chair, knife and fork, plate, food, use of bathroom facilities etc etc.

[Kendhni]

He’s not someone I’d have round for dinner, not unless he’s prepared to pay for the chair, knife and fork, plate, food, use of bathroom facilities etc etc.

And he would have to stand the whole time (so he wouldn't need a chair) but you could charge him for excess clothing