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  1. On 7/29/2020 at 7:03 PM, AndyK said:

    Managed to get to see my dad for the first time since March.

     

    He was 101 last month, still going strong and I still learn something new from his past each time I see him.

     

    Nobody could even imagine what he has seen, some it of it beyond awful.

    Forgot to mention what I learned....

     

    My sister is dads carer and like many she likes to diet.

     

    Dad always said to her "Never starve yourself, starving is horrible", she usually shrugs that off but this time his guard came down and the reason why came out.

     

    You see, dad was born in a village near Lvov in Ukraine, he had 4 sisters and 3 brothers.

     

    The family had a farm and lived a quit decent life.

     

    One day the soviets came and they took the food... all of it, from all the farms.

     

    Many people in the village and surrounding areas starved to death.

     

     

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  2. 18 minutes ago, Hatebox said:

    Just announce it for next year, FFS. I'm getting embarrassed on their behalf.

     

    (And yes, everywhere. Lockdown is technically over in the UK but I guarantee it wouldn't make a quarter of what it would have in normal times if comes out here this summer. The appetite for cinemas has not returned yet.)

     

     

    Bummer but true.

  3. On 6/29/2020 at 12:36 PM, 35MM-18 said:

    That's a backhanded compliment if I ever saw one, but still accurate: the UK currently has 311,000 cases of COVID-19 and a death toll of 43,550. 

     

    Compared to a lot of countries though, the UK isn't exactly doing great in handling the spread of COVID-19 (hence why saying it's handling the pandemic better than the US is a backhanded compliment).

    The UK doesn't have 311,000 active cases.

     

    There have been a total of 288K cases since the start of the epidemic.

     

    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

  4. 7 hours ago, dudalb said:

    You know, this whole making a deal just because somebody else made a deal and we wanted to get up on the scoreboard is pretty stupid.

    Sky are being pummelled by Netflix and Amazon Prime, it's quite an expensive package, especially if movies and sports are in the bundle.

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