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like that you mean.

Feck, nearly 1€60 in most places here now

on the news here this morning, a number of french youtube "influencers" have been approached or cantacted by an organisation proposing to pay them significant sums of money in order to put out videos suggesting that more people have died from the Pfizer vaccine than from Astra Zeneca. The youtubers in question ( or at least a couple of them) reported this to the police when the contact insisted that they must not mention the fact that the video was sponsored and the sponsor wished to remain anonymous... the contacts have been traced to a russian ad agency. I have absolutely no way, of course, of knowing wether any of this is any more true than the continual stream of mindless unfounded and unsubstantiated drivel that is available on social media. The only difference being that this was reported on France Info which is usually fairly reliable ( ie it's not BFM TV or Fox News for example)

I think it was the alleged risk of it causing fatal blood clots that put people off, rather than it making you feel ill. something like 1 in 120,000 I think was reported here or something like that.

Not anti vaxxers as such, I mean not anti all vaccination, but there's plenty here who don't want the Astra Zeneca vaccine specifically. most of the people I've spoken to here about it would have "poohpooed" the rumeurs and allegations about the AZ vaccine, up until the point that it was announced that they were changing the name of Astra Zeneca to "Vaxzevria" that badly timed decision and announcement simply persuaded everybody that they were trying to hide something and that the rumours were therefore probably true.

you really think Tym is stoopid enough to have given me his number?

oh puhlease... crying and throwing a tantrum?... really? not at all in fact, just trying to understand that's all. I'd like to know what it's about, ( especially if it involves Pete being abused, albeit only verbally) but no one will even tell me what the "other" forum is so I might possibly go as far as a pout, due to feeling left out, but not crying or a tantrum... not my style at all.

Oh, sorry, I thought this was on an open and public forum... which was my initial point, in fact. If you don't want all and sundry to be able to get involved, keep it private, simples innit.

my point exactly why pollute the board with it, If it's not for everyone to play with then you use PM's.

I f he thinks there's spies he might not know who they are, I'm just struggling understand ( nothing new there!) why post about it, repeatedly, without substantiation. Without allowing everyone access, the subjedt remains a private conversation. No?

Yo Timmeh! Local gunshop is looking for a sales person... I gave 'em your number

unless you're gong to put some links up so that we can all benefit from these aparently hilairious shenanegans, it remains a sort of private joke between you and @XTreme so I can't see the point of posting on the open forum cos nobody but you has a clue what you're on about... I don't even know what forum you're on about though it's possible I've missed something, I usually have .

or for throwing at Bruce if he had been in the offing

naah. I know from experience that most don't bother to tell you if it's negative. I had another company looking for a bilingual sales technicien ring me for an interview but they were offering 25% less than I'm on now and short of being at the point of suicidal tendancies I just can't justify that.

working all weekend.

I can't help you, but I feel for you @Slowlycatchymonkey, i'm fairly handy and can usually figure things out but not elecmatrickery, totally useless at it. apart from making sparks, I can do that!

the jocks are all out of KILTer...

nope. it was a bank holiday weekend here though with ascencion thursday being holiday, so everyone shuts the friday as well so they get a 4 day weekend so nothing was going to happen very fast anyway. I also know through experience that 90% of applications dont even get a response and about 75% of interviews dont get a response either unless you chase them. No reponse is basically a "No". but I haven't given up hope yet. I'm also applying for loads of other jobs as well but so far no results.

weathers gone all to shit here for the moment, but I'm working all weekend anyway. On my own at work all day tomorrow so probably actually get stuff done.

I' ve been told thay their eyes dont reflect light like deer or rabits do, so you don't see them at night either

I saw that one too! didn't know wether to laugh or cry

I was 5!

bloody right! pure evil on legs they are!

No1 decided she'd teach No's 2a & 2b to make banana pancakes but they needed to go shopping first. I profited from their absence to bugger off out of it whilst they weren't looking! Weather still very unstable with some big storm cells moving north and east. I rode out east through Chablis but before getting far got a text from Madame Moon saying that Vermenton ( south and west of me) had just been hit by a big thunder and lightening storm and some really heavy rain. I looked over that way, behind me, to this " Oh Poo" said Tigger, and turned and fled north, in an attempt to outrun the front and turn round the north end of it's leading edge thus avoiding the worst of the rain. I had to run a fair way north and east before turning back west and nipping under the very northern edge of the front. this is looking at it from the other side, so looking east once I'd passed under it's northern edge and come out the other side. plenty of lightening ( which I obviously wasn't capable of getting a pic of) and once stopped I could clearly hear the thunder, despite idling engine, helmet and earplugs. Once out the other side, it turned out quite pleasant again and whilst wending our merry way homewards Tigger got to meet Piglets, though I think he found him a bit of a boar...