The Covid thread

[YamFazFan]

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[Grahamm]

It's hardly surprising that people are going to wonder when he acts so secretive about it.

Incredibly enough, even politicians are allow to say that private medical matters are None of Your Business!

[Grahamm]

And the Health Secretary says that the 'vast majority' of those patients in hospital with the Indian strain in Bolton were eligible for the jab, but had refused it...

Did you stop to consider *why* they had refused it?

Watch this documentary on BBC iPlayer: "Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer" and you may begin to understand why people from different cultures may simply not trust the motivations of people who have, so often, despised them and treated them as unwelcome pariahs because of their religion/ origins/ colour of their skin...

[Grahamm]

I've been looking at UK hotel prices. Gone through the roof now everyone is doing a staycation

A "Staycation" is where you STAY at home and use that as a base for your VACATION!

It doesn't (despite what many news readers appear to think) mean that you're going on holiday in the UK instead of going abroad, unless my regular holidays surfing and biking in North Devon have suddenly become "Staycations"!

Holidays in the UK are still "proper" holidays!

[YamFazFan]

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[YamFazFan]

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[Dudeofrude]

I've been looking at UK hotel prices. Gone through the roof now everyone is doing a staycation

A "Staycation" is where you STAY at home and use that as a base for your VACATION!

It doesn't (despite what many news readers appear to think) mean that you're going on holiday in the UK instead of going abroad, unless my regular holidays surfing and biking in North Devon have suddenly become "Staycations"!

Holidays in the UK are still "proper" holidays!

Actually your both right (you and the papers), here's the official definition of staycation....

"a holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions"

If anything I've found it great to discover new parts of the country that I would have never thought to see if I'd had the option to travel abroad

[fazersharp]

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Agreed. @grahamm we have moved on from the overty political point scoring, time you did also.

[Grahamm]

here's the official definition of staycation....

"Official" according to whom? Remember that dictionaries only report *usage*, so if people consistently misuse a word, that misuse will enter the dictionary, whether it's the correct usage of the word or not.

[Grahamm]

we have moved on from the overty political point scoring

Thank you for admitting that you were just engaged in political point scoring.  I'll make a note of it.
 

[mtread]

Watch this documentary on BBC iPlayer: "Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer" a

I've just watched that. Fascinating. David Olusoga is a superb presenter.


Had my second AZ vaccination today. Hopefully like the first dose, no side effects. Brilliantly organised by NHS staff and an army of volunteers. No politicians involved


Interesting to hear Jeremy Hunt lambasting national Test and Trace today, and insisting it would be much better run at a local level.

[fazersharp]

Had my second AZ vaccination today. Hopefully like the first dose, no side effects. Brilliantly organised by NHS staff and an army of volunteers. No politicians involved

my mate who was ill for the best part of 2 weeks for the first was virtually unaffected by the second. From what I can tell from listening to others, the second has far less after effects

[YamFazFan]

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[BBROWN1664]

I've been looking at UK hotel prices. Gone through the roof now everyone is doing a staycation

A "Staycation" is where you STAY at home and use that as a base for your VACATION!

It doesn't (despite what many news readers appear to think) mean that you're going on holiday in the UK instead of going abroad, unless my regular holidays surfing and biking in North Devon have suddenly become "Staycations"!

Holidays in the UK are still "proper" holidays!

[Grahamm]

Does it really matter??

It matters to the whole UK Holiday Industry when the national media are implying that only going abroad is a "proper holiday".

Everyone knew

Of course they did... 

[YamFazFan]

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[fazersharp]

Does it really matter??

It matters to the whole UK Holiday Industry when the national media are implying that only going abroad is a "proper holiday".

Everyone knew

Of course they did... 

I don't see why you are getting so upset about it - its a general term generally taken by most normal people to mean that you are not travelling abroad for a holiday nothing more to read into it than than that. I have not picked up on any media implying that staying in this country is "not a proper holiday" - of course it is. You seem overly touchy about it for some reason, perhaps you should go and have a little vent in the "Todays what gets my goat section"

[vinnyb]

Regardless of what it means, I hate the word and so does pretty much everyone I speak to about it.

[mtread]

Best to ignore what 'popular' media says.
A 'jab' is a boxer's punch. I've had a vaccination.

[YamFazFan]

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[YamFazFan]

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[fazersharp]

I don't care for it either, but I wouldn't let it ruin my whole day.

Well its ruined mine 

[YamFazFan]

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[mtread]

Anyway. It's a play on 'vacation' which is another bloody Americanism.
Here we go on holiday.
So the correct term is 'stoliday'.

[Grahamm]

I don't see why you are getting so upset about it

Don't see? Or just "don't want to see"?

its a general term generally taken by most normal people to mean that you are not travelling abroad for a holiday

Oh dear, fazersharp, is that the best you can do? "generally taken"? "by most normal people"?!

So anyone who disagrees with you isn't "normal"? 
 

nothing more to read into it than than that. I have not picked up on any media implying that staying in this country is "not a proper holiday" - of course it is.

Ah, and because *you* haven't seen it, it does not exist. Well, that clearly settles the argument...!   

You seem overly touchy about it for some reason, perhaps you should go and have a little vent in the "Todays what gets my goat section"

And now you resort to trying to patronise me in the hope that, somehow, this will give your argument more validity.

Whatever, you seem to be arguing just for the sake of it, so please enjoy getting the last word in on this subject.