1. Different and distanced lifestyles

2. Charles to become King, with Camila as his Queen

3. Covid19 beaten by multiple vaccines

4. Higher unemployment and taxation

5. General Election - caused by austerity

6. 3 more applications to leave EU

7. Everton to win Premiership

9. Streaming - to finally kill Cinema

10. New concepts for British pubs

11. Constant strife with EU - for business

12. Travel chaos

13. Andrew to become Australian ambassador

14. Vacant shops - everywhere

15. Harry and Meghan to return

Mal Even wrote:
1. Different and distanced lifestyles

2. Charles to become King, with Camila as his Queen

3. Covid19 beaten by multiple vaccines

4. Higher unemployment and taxation

5. General Election - caused by austerity

6. 3 more applications to leave EU

7. Everton to win Premiership

9. Streaming - to finally kill Cinema

10. New concepts for British pubs

11. Constant strife with EU - for business

12. Travel chaos

13. Andrew to become Australian ambassador

14. Vacant shops - everywhere

15. Harry and Meghan to return






Pop up shops is the key to save the high street and I love charity shops and junk shops - if the government just let the pubs and restaurant's open jobs will be saved. Open up the theatre's/venues and hotels will survive.

If Everton do win the Premiership it wouldn't mean a thing to me - I can't even name a Premiership player.

The cinema has been declined for ages but it's very costly - I still won't give a penny to woke Hollyweird.

Travel chaos is nothing new.

If there was a GE - Tories will win because they delivered Brexit and got a deal.

Higher taxation - how fucking original happens all the time.

Harry and Meghan will come back to the UK if it's for publicity purposes only.

Royal Family - I don't care about them - they don't pay my bills.

Mal Even wrote:
1. Different and distanced lifestyles

9. Streaming - to finally kill Cinema




I think that Cinema will survive, although it may be smaller. There are a hard core of people that prefer to watch films in the cinema. Streaming has been around for several years, but cinema still prevails. I watched Wonder Woman in the cinema on christmas eve (actually a theatre showing films (horsham capitol). There was a very good turnout compared to recent experiences. Its not the sort of film that I would normally favour, but there was little choice. You can't recreate the cinema experience at home. You have the large screen, surround sound and the community spirit of watching it with others. As we have seen with the resurgance of vinyl, due to mindfulness and living in the moment, I think the same will happen with cinema. When you watch films in the cinema you are not constantly looking at your phone, been disturbed by traffic noises, or popping out to the fridge. Its not good for our well-being to be stuck in the house all the time.

You think the Queen will die this year? Why?
I thought she was looking tired, but not to the point of dropping dead.

Honey wrote:
the Queen will die this year


Not one of my predictions.

Mal Even wrote:
Honey wrote:
the Queen will die this year


Not one of my predictions.

How else would Charles become king, Considering the Queen promised to serve her whole life and appears to be doing so quite nicely?

Here's a prediction: the British public will continue to ignore guidelines and spread infections, and then moan about the fact that infections have spread. It's normal life on Planet Moron.

Rick wrote:
Here's a prediction: the British public will continue to ignore guidelines and spread infections, and then moan about the fact that infections have spread. It's normal life on Planet Moron.

Here's my prediction: remarkably a majority of the British public will continue to follow pointless guidelines that have no evidential base. As infection rates spread because that's what infectious air-borne viruses do in cold weather, and also happens when you test more people, morons will continue to let the Gov get away with it by blaming their fellow citizens as they have been programmed to do. When they have no jobs or businesses and thousands more have died because of lockdown than the virus itself, they will continue to believe it was all inevitable and caused by strands of RNA rather than over-reaction by people in power. It's normal life on Planet Idiots...

Rick wrote:
Here's a prediction: the British public will continue to ignore guidelines and spread infections, and then moan about the fact that infections have spread. It's normal life on Planet Moron.

Completely agree. If everyone complied with the rules the virus would have died out after about 2 months, like it has in Taiwan. Labour will press for harder and tougher lockdowns then wonder why there is no money to pay more money for furlough.

My prediction for 2021, is that we will continue to be in lockdown for most of the year. When most people have been vaccinated, there will be a new mutation and then we will have to change the vaccine to deal with the new variant. Because we are factoring the fact that most people will break the rules, the suppression of the virus is much slower than other countries. We will be chasing new variants of the virus, momentarily having some easing until a new variant comes along.

I agree with Rick and Robbie about infection control. People are just plain stupid about it, but encouraged to be that way by the ludicrous pretendey safety rules provided by presumably sozzled "experts".

For instance, today I watched someone serving in a bar. Everything was perfectly within "the rules", but..

She leaned over three tables, wearing a mask, as instructed, but it was a crappy bit of polyester, so pointless.

She collected glasses and plates from each table, handling the glasses round the rim where the virus would be.

Then she gathered up all the menus with her spit covered hands and arranged them in their display box, ready for all the evening customers to contaminate themselves with, and fiddled with her mask as a finale.

None of the palaver was needed. Just serving everyone from the bar at a distance, and cleaning hands every time something is touched is all that is needed and far more effective than limiting hours and making people have food on the table.

You cant rely on someone else to stop you being infected, and no amount of regulations, rules, pub and shop closures and all the other crap will change that.
"Covid safe" My arse!

Just step back, wash your bloody hands and carry on as normal otherwise! No need for fuss and drama.

But everything being discussed had to happen in March, not now.

Taiwan didn't lockdown it used groundbreaking IT - already in place on the back of SARs - to identify who needed to quarantine and then ensured they did through triangulation of their phone signals to ensure they stayed indoors and paid them to do so.

They did this immediately they were aware of C19. It is all far too late here. It is all over the UK and has been for months and months. Our only choice is to lockdown hard now for many more months (with all the deaths this will cause) or deal with it's diminishing lethality as best we can. Like we do other respiratory illnesses.

That your local barmaid inadvertently broke a guideline, or the guy in the vaping shop didn't wear a mask is totally beside the point now. Has been for most of 2020.

If anyone thinks that everyone suddenly obeying the social rules perfectly will mean the virus is eliminated in the UK is living in Wonderland....

Honey wrote:
I agree with Rick and Robbie about infection control. People are just plain stupid about it, but encouraged to be that way by the ludicrous pretendey safety rules provided by presumably sozzled "experts".

For instance, today I watched someone serving in a bar. Everything was perfectly within "the rules", but..

She leaned over three tables, wearing a mask, as instructed, but it was a crappy bit of polyester, so pointless.

She collected glasses and plates from each table, handling the glasses round the rim where the virus would be.

Then she gathered up all the menus with her spit covered hands and arranged them in their display box, ready for all the evening customers to contaminate themselves with, and fiddled with her mask as a finale.

None of the palaver was needed. Just serving everyone from the bar at a distance, and cleaning hands every time something is touched is all that is needed and far more effective than limiting hours and making people have food on the table.

You cant rely on someone else to stop you being infected, and no amount of regulations, rules, pub and shop closures and all the other crap will change that.
"Covid safe" My arse!

Just step back, wash your bloody hands and carry on as normal otherwise! No need for fuss and drama.

I'm pretty sure that most of the spread is caused by face to face contact, not touching things that others have touched. My major worry is that tier 2 only allows people from the same household going to pubs and cafes, this is being completely ignored. What are the chances that 4 middle aged men live together. Most millenials seem to be continuing their life, the same as before covid, enjoying playing xbox at home on furlough money with their mates.

Wyot wrote:
But everything being discussed had to happen in March, not now.

Taiwan didn't lockdown it used groundbreaking IT - already in place on the back of SARs - to identify who needed to quarantine and then ensured they did through triangulation of their phone signals to ensure they stayed indoors and paid them to do so.

They did this immediately they were aware of C19. It is all far too late here. It is all over the UK and has been for months and months. Our only choice is to lockdown hard now for many more months (with all the deaths this will cause) or deal with it's diminishing lethality as best we can. Like we do other respiratory illnesses.

That your local barmaid inadvertently broke a guideline, or the guy in the vaping shop didn't wear a mask is totally beside the point now. Has been for most of 2020.

If anyone thinks that everyone suddenly obeying the social rules perfectly will mean the virus is eliminated in the UK is living in Wonderland....

My point was that the barmaid did NOT break the guidelines, and that the guidelines are a pile of horseshit.

Honey wrote:
[quote]Wyot wrote:


My point was that the barmaid did NOT break the guidelines, and that the guidelines are a pile of horseshit.

I know you remain anchored firmly to sense Honey. My post was not aimed at your post and I realised my error by making a point using "your barmaid" almost immediately. Please see this as a formal correction and clarification

robbiex wrote:
Mal Even wrote:
1. Different and distanced lifestyles

9. Streaming - to finally kill Cinema




I think that Cinema will survive, although it may be smaller. There are a hard core of people that prefer to watch films in the cinema. Streaming has been around for several years, but cinema still prevails. I watched Wonder Woman in the cinema on christmas eve (actually a theatre showing films (horsham capitol). There was a very good turnout compared to recent experiences. Its not the sort of film that I would normally favour, but there was little choice. You can't recreate the cinema experience at home. You have the large screen, surround sound and the community spirit of watching it with others. As we have seen with the resurgance of vinyl, due to mindfulness and living in the moment, I think the same will happen with cinema. When you watch films in the cinema you are not constantly looking at your phone, been disturbed by traffic noises, or popping out to the fridge. Its not good for our well-being to be stuck in the house all the time.

I agree. Smaller more plush cinemas charging more because the experience- concentrated viewing- is still more compelling than getting up every now and then to make a cup of tea. Like that gorgeous little cinema in the Curzon Hotel (if it's till there- used to show all the Mae West films)

My prediction : not one single other EU country will even contemplate leaving. This a Brexiters Fantasy which they promote because of their own twisted belief in what is to come but
1. they will see the calamities soon to engulf the UK and tread carefully

2. the election of Trump and the hostility he showed to the EU (IE : every member state) shows the US to be fair weather "friend" not to be trusted. United we Stand Divided we Fall

3. Once reality sets in with the UK battling to trade in the world and the enormous added costs they will think again..United we Stand and Divided we Fall

4. they can drive or travel from France to Spain and Spain is still Spain and France is still France unlike all the Little Englanders with their fantasied version of a past (where they all hovered on the sands at Dunkirk or shuddered during the bombs in the Blitz).. all spoiled by Johnny Foreigner and dark skinned immigrants.. and

5. there's nothing in it for them.

America sinks into systematic homelessness, violent crime, landlords not receiving rent..
Closure of hundreds of thousands of retail shops.
The US government is uncovered as a crooked mafia like cartel.

Britain is still seen as a safe haven once the c h ina vir us is put under control with mass vaccinations.

The English countryside is still beautiful and lovely.

The recorded music business is now in the hands of giant tech companies and only the big major players make any real money from Pop.

On a side note, British pop songwriter Geoff Stephens passed away on December 24, 2020 age 86.

Geoff had loads of hits and co-wrote with Les Reed,
Tony Macaulay (Anthony Instone), John Carter (John Shakespeare), Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway and others during the golden era of UK pop.

Everything should become crystal clear and return to ‘normal’ once the big deal bill goes through today. 10 million people will soon be privileged recipients of the brand new Brexit 50p coin. A huge advertising promotion will help them to sell out in minutes or cause the system to crash. For the many who miss out, there are probably already other special treats waiting in the pipeline such as a brand new series of 'Ford Global Anthem' style ads. These will be shown incessantly on tv screens and streaming channels throughout 2021. They will feature old-time favourite tunes such as “This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius”, “Don’t worry, be happy” and “Always look on the bright side of death”.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Global_Anthem

by the way Mal..I gave out a snippet around 10 years ago that Prince Andrew would become Governor General of Australia and it swept the world..especially in Asia as eager newspapers picked it up.

It was of course an April Fool's Joke.

I was most offended when the Daily Mail decided to actually check with the Palace first instead of just running the tale. Most unsporting of them.