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cm27874's avatar

Omicron rings so nostalgic to me. Thirty years ago, I did some great stuff with Omikron Basic on the Atari ST.

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Kiwimudcrab (aka Steve Murray)'s avatar

While you’re on the topic of “taking the p*ss”, this just in from New Zealand, the context being the recent 100+ day lockdown of Auckland. Very, very funny. And razor-sharp in it’s mockery… https://youtu.be/7azd_PtJNlM

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Rudolph Rigger's avatar

OMG - that's brilliant - crying with laughter. Thank you SO much for that - will pop it in a new post

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Bandit's avatar

Hysterical! --- Although I'd like to know what was really said.

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cm27874's avatar

No, no, you're doing it all wrong... first you scare American readers by the red/blue takeover example, and then the Germans with the Durex. In the recent 150-company vaccination campaign, Durex proposed the slogan "Geimpft fühlt es sich besser an", which translates as "It feels better when you are vaccinated".

Did you create the graph yourself? I am also tracking the same data.

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Rudolph Rigger's avatar

No, the graph was lifted - there's just too much out there now to do enough of the data analysis myself

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Norman Pilon's avatar

Liked the analogy of the gas molecules inside a container. Will certainly use it . . .

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David Shane's avatar

So the UK has the same remarkable inconsistency we have in the US, where the Democratic Party here spent years telling us that photo ID was too difficult to get to make it a requirement to vote (and that, indeed, fighting to require it was racist)... and now that same party is pushing a digital vaccine passport. This is why people invent conspiracy theories. The contradictions are too obvious.

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