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Reply | Are Grimes and Piroe becoming ‘dead wood’
at 12:21 23 May 2023
Two seasons 20+ goals mean a PL move would be in Piroe's sights. Brentford may be a good fit-missing their main goalscorer for over half the season. Likes of West Ham, whoever stays up and the play off winners will all need to strengthen. Let's hope we get a good price.
Would not mind Grimes going for a good fee either. |
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Reply | Wrexham
at 18:14 26 Mar 2023
Same
They are far from keen on Cardiff and had a big rivalry in the 90s. whilst Chester and Tranmere are their 'enemy' traditionally, always found visits to the Racecourse among the more welcoming of away trips. |
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Reply | Covid Still Here
at 09:41 14 Mar 2023
It's not any 'weaker' than the original Wuhan strain. Causes fewer respiratory issues but more problematic systemic and vascular problems. We are as a population immune due to vaccination, infection and a combination thereof. As vaccines only reduce and cannot prevent transmission of later strains, the need to boost has become restricted to high risk groups.
Will be like flu vaccines in that is you are 50+ or have another condition you will be offered boosters. |
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Reply | Temple Bar Dublin
at 18:22 26 Feb 2023
Keith is right. Was there in October and paid 6.50 in a pub by Trinity. It's not cheap but 18 euros is nonsense |
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Reply | Favourite Alcoholic Drink
at 09:33 10 Feb 2023
A good Burgundy either red (Pinot Noir) like a Nuits St George or a white (Chardonnay) like Mersault.
A once a year thing. Champagne and good quality whisky (Malt or a good American Bourbon or Rye) would be behind that. |
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Reply | Ospreys
at 22:54 14 Jan 2023
Excellent and exciting game. Brave decision to go for the corner. |
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Reply | statins
at 11:36 13 Jan 2023
No. They reduce LDL cholesterol. |
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Reply | Wizz Air Pull Out of Cardiff Airport
at 14:27 12 Jan 2023
Location is not great unless you drive. But management is the bigger issue. If you create a good market then you can do OK-Pre=pandemic Bristol handled over 8 million passengers per year. Cardiff 1.6. Yet Liverpool handled over 5 million despite having Manchester Airport 45 mins away. Leeds similar and again more or less an hour to Manchester. Leeds has Jet2 of course, EasyJet and Ryanair have increased using Liverpool for shorter hops like Dublin, Amsterdam, Belfast and Berlin as easier for passengers and the airport is selling itself on this. Cardiff (my wife tells me as last time I flew from there was 1980) has poor facilities. Liverpool has about 5 sit down eateries plus Starbucks, Burger King, Upper Crust along with Boors. WH Smith, JD Sports, Duty Free, Souvenir Shop etc.
I'm sure it could be managed far more effectively |
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Reply | Wizz Air Pull Out of Cardiff Airport
at 10:57 11 Jan 2023
It's too difficult to get to. Not that Bristol is that simple either. The big boys (LHR,LGW, MAN, BHI etc) have rail links or are 5 mins from a motorway. Other airports are expanding (like Liverpool) to offer an easier alternative to the big boys for EasyJet, Ryanair, Wizz, Play etc or have good hub links (Amsterdam, Frankfurt etc) via KLM or Lufthansa. Perhaps it should be given to one of the more successful airports to make a go of it. |
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Reply | Swansea RFC
at 12:30 9 Jan 2023
I think you are correct. And I agree fully-the regions were mismanaged. The media 'love in' allowed Cardiff and Llanelli to carry on and eventually Newport shafted Ebbw Vale. The original 4 region plan was West (Swansea, Llanelli), West Central (Bridgend, Neath, Aberavon), East Central (Cardiff, Pontypridd) and East/Gwent. Neath and Bridgend even had a name (Black Ravens). So four became five, then four again (when WRU xxxx on the actually popular Celtic Warriors). The Ospreys initially picked up the disenfranchised fans, but it's not been sustained, kick off times are random and the product not good enough. Ospreys have been by far the most successful of the regions too. It can't go back to towns, but still needs a re-think. |
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Reply | Swansea RFC
at 16:30 8 Jan 2023
Indeed. They were not prepared for 'little' clubs like Dunvant, Caerphilly and Treorchy to rise up the leagues and be competitive. |
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Reply | Cottage hospitals
at 09:50 4 Jan 2023
Only so much can be done on a finite resource and this needs to include better social care and public health which will reduce the burden of some, but not all disease through lifestyle. Ageing we can't control and with ageing comes wear and tear as the body's repair and control processes become less efficient. There is enough complaint when a cancer chemotherapy drug is refused (at perhaps a 20K per week cost).
But ultimately the NHS needs to be removed from political decisions. I hold the view that an independent body such as Royal Commission looks at funding, structure and management. Maintain the principle of free care at point of need but nothing else off the table. I suspect a compulsory public insurance model (employer and employee) such as used in Germany which has a degree of local control (and shaped to local need) at the level of the Landen (regional states) may the answer. Hospitals etc. are basically private entities in a public system. I also expect this comes at a higher cost to the individual. Either way it's not 1948 and healthcare is going to cost a lot more. We need a dose of pragmatism and reality. [Post edited 4 Jan 2023 11:30]
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Reply | Bucha massacre
at 13:20 23 Dec 2022
I've met and worked with a few Russians and Ukrainians. I have also visited Kyiv with work. By and large people are the same, though the attitude to life and death is markedly different in Russians and Ukrainians than to us in Western Europe. Attitudes are prevalent that we may find distasteful but are part of their societies. In general well-educated people from wither country are more like us, the 'working class' (who provide Putin with popular support) less so. Subhuman? no. Different? Yes.
Exploitation of these views have allowed dictatorial 'strongmen' to gain power in the east. What Putin is doing is abhorrent and supporters in the West are being duped. Equally Ukrainians are no angels, but defending their homeland is a right. |
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Reply | Antibiotics
at 10:27 20 Dec 2022
The paediatric formulation of Penicillins are as suspensions (liquid). Independent pharmacists (like my late step father) are completely reliant on a handful of wholesalers for supply (not just in Wales) and it's clear there are shortages relating to increased demand due to higher than usual levels of Streptococcus pyogenes and increased awareness (it's always there and carried by 10-20% of kids normally). It's another government failure and likely exacerbated by Brexit-related supply chain problems. |
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Reply | US Deep State.
at 16:33 19 Dec 2022
Musk may not be in charge. The House of Saud are the financial muscle.
It's complete load of nothing. Democrats used Twitter and GOP used Facebook using the Cambridge Analytica data in 2016. Russian interference in both 16 and 20. No requirement for any US media to have balance thanks to good old Ronnnie.
And no AFD, it's not a hoax, that is what the GOP-led senate committee found before you start yelping. The heavily redacted report does not find evidence of direct collusion between Mr Trump and Russia (nor rule it out), but found clear interference. |
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Reply | Sir Johnalot
at 12:05 1 Dec 2022
The immunity from Covid is incorrect. Plenty of people with multiple infections of Omicron variant show that's not the case. |
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Reply | England in Pakistan
at 12:01 1 Dec 2022
Shame the light went-could have got to 600 today! |
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Reply | The latest G20 meeting.
at 00:51 20 Nov 2022
No point telling him anything. Only listens to what he wants to hear.
I’ve had a nice day at a Christmas market. I have a life. |
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Reply | The latest G20 meeting.
at 23:56 18 Nov 2022
Not looked then? Just propaganda?
It’s just links to the evidence base of publications some via UKHSA but mostly independent data. And you quote the Mail. A step up from ‘ We love Trump’ I guess. He is quite a nice bloke the Mail’s
Science and Heath editor too.
Yet you cite any old tripe. |
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Reply | Punctuation?
at 23:50 18 Nov 2022
After falling out of fashion in the 80s,
Spelling and Grammar, or SPaG, is a big feature of primary education in England. I hear plenty about it. |
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