Posts by ThomasCovenant

actors' acceptance speeches have often been a little dodgy - viewers don't care what political or social views actors may have, we typically appreciate actors acting well.. this year's oscars awards ceremony seems to be going above and beyond, however.. here's frances mcdormand's acceptance speech, in which she dedicates her victory to 'our wolf' and then howls like a bitch, lol.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_be0awgwk.

ThomasCovenant

kramer,

Are people in this forum really ok with this sort of tone ? 2021 and calling people ‘blacks’ and complaining about people of colour being on screen?

Yes, lots are.

Otherwise the poster currently known as 'mickbobcat' would be banned again. He used to go by the name of 'Phoenix Rising' and before that 'TobyJones262'. Both times he was banned .

It's easy to spot his reincarnations as he uses similar phrases and versions of spelling that gives him away, such as 'Hollyweird', 'Kahn' instead of 'Khan', and odd capitals , besides the barely concealed subject manner of course.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I think he likes guns and doesn't like black people.

I think you have to put in a formal 'observation' to the 'moderators' or site owner.

Just do a search on the posting history of the three names I gave and you'll see the similarities.

To be fair to the moderators/owner it's a bit like 'whack a mole'.

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Covid / India

by stan livedeath in

its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.

the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..

ThomasCovenant

Stan Livedeath

202,000 deaths out of a population of 1.366 billion

is approximately 15 deaths for every 100,000 people

And looking again,

the deaths from tuberculosis at 220,000 out of a population of 1.366 billion

is approximately 16 deaths for every 100,000 people. Nearly on a par.

Hence my confusion with Anony Mous's figures.

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Covid / India

by stan livedeath in

its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.

the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..

ThomasCovenant

Anony Mous,

You said that Covid in India kills less than 7 out of 100,000. Do you have a link/source for that?

Looking at https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

gives a figure of approx 202,000 deaths from Covid in India which according to my calculations is nearly 15 out of 100,000, which is getting close to the TB figure of 19 per 100,000.

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Covid / India

by stan livedeath in

its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.

the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..

ThomasCovenant

Anony Mous

You said that Tuberculosis kills 190 out of every 100,000 in India. Have you got a link/source for that? Did you mean 19 out of 100,000? Or did you mean 190 out of 100,000 have TB?

I'm not that good at maths but I think it would mean that out of a population of 1.366 billion Indians that nearly 2.6 million would die from TB. According to Wikipedia it's 220,000 per year.

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Covid / India

by stan livedeath in

its been strangely quiet on here lately about covid..or isnt it news any more.

the " not a pandemic" brigade have been noticably absent about the situation in india..

ThomasCovenant

Anony Mous,

Very interesting fiqures quoted.

Once again you've confused me though.

You said,

''200 children under 5 die daily from lack of proper sanitation in India.'' Have you got a link /source for that? Did you mean 2,000?

200 children times 365 days is 73,000.

''Sure they may be seeing a bit of a surge but twice the number of kids died yesterday from sanitation problems than any age group died of COVID.''

DW.com article says, ''India has been logging global daily records of over 300,000 cases for the last five days. The country saw 352,991 daily new infections and 2,812 COVID-related deaths in the past 24 hours.

Altogether, 195,123 people have died while 17.3 million people have been infected with the virus in India.

These numbers are staggering, but experts and epidemiological modelers believe that the real number of COVID fatalities could be much higher than the deaths recorded by health departments nationwide. ''

https://www.dw.com/en/india-coronavirus-death-toll/a-57338733

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Woke Oscars cringe

by LoveUniHateExams in

actors' acceptance speeches have often been a little dodgy - viewers don't care what political or social views actors may have, we typically appreciate actors acting well.. this year's oscars awards ceremony seems to be going above and beyond, however.. here's frances mcdormand's acceptance speech, in which she dedicates her victory to 'our wolf' and then howls like a bitch, lol.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_be0awgwk.

ThomasCovenant

Yeah, Charlton Heston was a bugger for that wasn't he.

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What Will Happen If You Do NOT Get The Covid Vaccinations?

by minimus in

jw
friends

we are encouraged to all, if possible, get the vaccinations.

if you don’t, we are told that we definitely could get the virus.

fair enough.. but what happens if you decide you aren’t going to get the shots?

ThomasCovenant

'' If you don’t, [get the vaccination] we are told that we definitely could get the virus.''

Yes maybe, but also, we are told that if you do get the vaccination we still definitely could get the virus as I haven't seen any claims for 100% immunity from getting the virus after being vaccinated.

I thought the purpose of getting vaccinated was to reduce the odds on catching the virus in the first place and also lessen the odds of being seriously ill with it if you do catch it and thus reducing any burden on the hospital system.

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What’s Your View On Self Defense?

by minimus in

jw
friends

if someone comes to you with a knife or a gun, would you defend yourself if you could?

if someone tried to beat you up , would you physically engage, run away or just try to talk the person out of beating you up or robbing you?

if you did have a gun to defend yourself would you shoot to kill or would you simply aim for the ankle to incapacitate the person?

ThomasCovenant

I may be mistaken but I sure do get the impression that some posters are just itching to get an opportunity to shoot and kill someone.

'Dear Jehovah, please let someone cross me in some way that I get an opportunity to blast a hole in their body. This I ask in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.''