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[TheBoy]

The Chinese Virus.

Been feeling a bit fluey the last couple of days, nose streaming and coughing enough to wretch.

Rang work yesterday and the lady I spoke to suggested getting tested "as there's a lot of it about".

Woke up this morning, temperature, brain fog and no sense of smell, so figured a test was probably justified... Positive. Obviously.

Evidence sent into to work, so quietly optimistic that is gets discounted although apparently that was stopped a couple of years ago after the great reset failed...

I thought the chinky sniffle was long gone.

Not when you're travelling around in a stuffy steel tube most of the time.

Technically, I think most are aluminium or composite....

[Doctor Gollum]

Even the aluminium ones are technically composites as they're multi layered panels, just not carbon fibre or recycled food packaging. Although the construction methods of the 787 and flying iPad are very different...

The flying iPad being carbon fibre sheets bonded to a frame, where as the 787 is a spun carbon fibre tube with a carbon fibre frame structure bonded to the inside. And actually pretty cool to see. The only cool thing about the flying iPad is the fridge.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

The fact that Mauritius have just stolen 145000 square Kilometres of Sovereign British territory and our Govr hasnt said a word about it.
All we get is our Political Titan of a PM going on TV asking folk not to use disposable BBQ,s 

https://order-order.com/2026/08/14/mauritius-unilaterally-extends-its-territorial-waters-to-cover-chagos/

[Sir Tigger KC]

The fact that Mauritius have just stolen 145000 square Kilometres of Sovereign British territory and our Govr hasnt said a word about it.
All we get is our Political Titan of a PM going on TV asking folk not to use disposable BBQ,s 

https://order-order.com/2026/08/14/mauritius-unilaterally-extends-its-territorial-waters-to-cover-chagos/

They don't care because they hate seeing flags with little Union Jacks in the top right corner, and they'd get rid of the lot if they could. 

The irony is that they say that they have to 'decolonise', but they want to hand the Chagos Islands to a new colonial master, rather than let the Chagossian people decide.  Idiots!