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They persist through mutation, they don't mutate to survive. A common enough mistake. Agreed, regarding long term. Eventually it will be the vulnerable and elderly getting a jab every year at the same time as their flu jab, everyone else will be left to take their chance. However, before long there will be a low level broad resistance within the population gained from exposure or from vaccines. So, eventually it will be treated just like flu, the difference with flu being that a year ago no one in the world had been exposed to this virus meaning practically zero immunity. There is plenty of value to be a had from a mass vaccination program even for the healthy right now, but reapeating it year on year, less so. It would produce a diminishing return, unless of course a seriously virulent and lethal strain affecting the healthy (think Spanish flu) appears.

I'm having my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine tomorrow. I'll let you know if I grow another head. Viruses don't mutate to survive. Mutations are random occurrences. Survival of certain strains is, therefore, a happy accident, for the mutated virus that is. Whilst the healthy very, very rarely get severely ill their having the vaccine, much like the lockdowns, is about protecting the vulnerable and is for the greater good. It should also relieve the strain on the NHS. Viruses can't spread without available hosts. Vaccinate enough people and, in an ideal world, the epidemic is halted through herd immunity and even those that are not vaccinated or have weak immune systems become protected. Unfortunately, its possible, perhaps likely, that virus strains already exist that have some resistance to some or all of the current vaccines. Expect these to come to the fore in the coming years. The vaccines may well help lessen the severity of these strains though. Expect waves of new strains to keep appearing for many years. Like flu, some years will be worse than others. It will be a vaccine-virus arms race for years to come, so buy shares in pharmaceutical companies. Eventually though, when this is no longer a 'new' virus, we'll all learn to live with it.

No. None in Brighton either it seems.

By any definition chestmilk is just plain fucking stupid and the idiots that came up with this need stoning to death. Even if a deranged woman decides to identify as a man, they are still a 'man' with breasts (and presumably all the associated bits downstairs if they've kicked out a sprog). You can't produce milk without mammary glands regardless of how you identify. Derek and Clive had it right: it's busty substances. I'll have three flats, a round and a bag of gravel please.

Because a dead octopus would just be warped.

If his cock mirrors the movement of Norwich this season then he's got a severe priapism. Going up, up, up!

Fair point. I'll take a Norfolk mardle over that noise any day, bor.

Not yet. It's on my list of things to watch. I might be tempted have a dig in the garden after. I'm not entirely sad the Norfolk dialect is dying out. Listening to Canary call after a match is enough to make your ears bleed.

Never seen one, but I've heard tales from the old timers, although their tales should always be taken with a huge pinch of salt. It's still legal to use punt guns up to a certain size here, but a pound of steel shot would be about £10 every time the trigger was pulled. If you get a chance, go to a game show and have a go on an old black powder muzzle loader. They're rather fun.

I've never seen a 4" 12g cartridge. I know wildfowlers that regularly use 3 1/2" though. Eley used to sell 12g tracer cartridges that produced a good flame.

I've got some weird and wonderful cartridges in my ammunition chest, ranging from 12G magnum AAA swan shot down to 2 1/2" 9 shot. 410. Haven't seen paper cartridges for years, I do remember them getting lodged in the chamber if they got even the slightest bit damp l though. I recall using some old Baikal Russian jobs that kicked like a mule about 30 years ago.

The cartridge will be a bigger factor than the gun. I reckon a face shot using full choke (if it's a multichoke) and some 50g magnum AAA shot cartridges and you'd get that to 40 yards.

It's a very stupid way get absolutely fucked up.

We wouldn't stoop to such activities around here (no pun intended). Even dwile flonking has been cancelled. It's a tragedy.

It was a tragedy when the dualing of the A11 was finished. It amounted to an open invitation to undesirables to relocate to our little corner of peace and tranquility.

An imaginary breakfast?

Bonnet de douche, Decs.

Here I was thinking his inability to post a picture to a website was due to him being denser than iridium, but I've no doubt that won't prevent him spoofing an IP address.

The fucking idiot is sitting at home reading every comment, but unable to post because he's painted himself into a corner. With so much time on his hands his attempt to wriggle out of this better be fucking good.

I suspect there are many people with their fingers crossed. The theory is sound, but we'll have to see how that plays out in the real world. Either way though, they could cop flak. If the current program works, great. If not, they'll get shit and be asked why we didn't stick to the 2 week period between, but who's to say that wouldn't have been worse? They're buggered if they do and buggered if they don't.

Sounds a whole lot better than my fucking day.

Well, yes, kind of. It's only in the last couple of weeks that vaccination rates have risen dramatically and most people have only had one dose so far. I'd expect to see death rates in care home residents starting to fall in about a month, but they'll still be high then. In 3 months they should have fallen way down. If they haven't then the vaccine definitely isn't all it's cracked up to be. Patience is a virtue.

True dat. Most vaccines also take a while before they're fully effective. If the death rate amongst care home residents doesn't fall significantly in the next couple of months then you've got a point, or the Government has seriously fucked up by increasing the time between doses. It's a case of wait and see now.

It's just after 10am in New Zealand. I wonder what time people on imaginary boat holidays get up? Shouldn't have too long to wait.

Furbys (or is it Furbies?) went out of fashion about 20 years ago. Should have put your money on Hollywoods or Brazilians.