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969 deaths in Italy in the last 24 hours. I imagine the UK and US will see similar figures in the coming week or two.

And there are still people saying he has changed his position and attacking him rather than reading what he really said (if we keep up this social isolating then we could reduce the death toll to only around 20,000 (!!!)). And now Boris the Clown has the virus. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52060791

Books Gardening Home maintenance (While other people were panic buying bog rolls I bought paint...) Netflix Boardgames (solo if no kids - and never Monopoly!) Early morning walk before anyone else is around

Still counts as he can no longer add to the gene pool. Really a stupid way to go. Sad. But really, really dumb.

Prime Darwin Award candidate.

Should have sung some Alice Cooper rather than Don McLean...

Stoked

Point 6. Lawson and Hill... ?

Bally Marvelous

carp

dammit

Cricket nothing. He supports Arsenal...

The current Wembley stadium was built for football (soccer), with the ability to host NFL games and Rugby League. The former Wembley stadium was the Olympic site but was demolished 16/17 years ago. The new Wembley is an excellent, modern stadium. It is more likely games will be played at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium instead, though. Also - plenty of NFL fans in the UK.

Wow. Some performance against New Zealand! If anything the score was closer than it should have been, and it is rare that you can say that with New Zealand on the losing side. It was always going to take a good team playing incredibly well to beat the All Blacks and England delivered. Time to cheer on Wales (for the sake of Northern Hemisphere solidarity...) Swing low, sweet chariot...

As a Roman said A dead fish always smells good Or something like that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_catch_kick

squish squish squish the fish squish squish squish squish squish the fish SQUISH SQUISH SQUISH THE FISH!

Untrue. Ever since heroin was banned in the US the mafia has been supplying it. During prohibition they made more money from drugs than they did alcohol. It is an enduring myth that the mafia were against drugs - one largely put forward by the mafia themselves (as opposed to law enforcement who have always recognised the mafia's involvement in the drug trade). Lucky Luciano was arrested in 1923 having sold heroin to undercover police officers. The brothels he later ran used the prostitutes (themselves mostly users) to sell heroin to their customers. Vito Genovese was a big time drug dealer and died in gaol after a conviction for involvement in a heroin trade. There were few exceptions. Frank Costello being the most notable one - one of the reasons he got shot was because of his opposition to drug dealing. On the whole when a mob boss said he was against drugs it was pretty much for show - in reality they were (And are) making huge profits from the trade.

Peaky Blinders is a BBC show. Netflix only bought the rights for US distribution (although it does now show it elsewhere) a year after the original series was shown on the Beeb.

London is one of the best cities in the world to eat. It is just that we don't tell American visitors where the good places are, because we would not want to harm their preconceptions. We're friendly like that.

Awesomesauce

No. The idea of eternal life is a truly appalling one. Infinity would be awful, no human could possibly cope. A longer lifespan? Sure, I think I could hack a few hundred extra years, and possibly a few thousand. As long as my loved ones lived a similar lifespan and aging stopped early in that span (ie: not much older than I am now)..

You have my sincere sympathies. Looking to catch them at some point next year - bound to have a gig near me at some point (ie: in England - it is all pretty near...) 50 years since the Rockiest Rock Gods of Rock first performed live.

gah...

A couple of tunes from new bands I like... GvF The Struts (from their new album to be released next month):