True, but it’s an easy reference point that most can google. It’s also anchored to a very muscular image. Better to pick Boxers than runners for example.
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True, but it’s an easy reference point that most can google. It’s also anchored to a very muscular image. Better to pick Boxers than runners for example.
Bunch of fecking heiffers in here, gorging on corn syrup.
Well he does have personal experience of encouraging one of his mates to beat up a journalist. Is that what he means?
Peston asking questions like he's been living in a cave.
Could i have reduced weight? Yes. But 75kg would have been counter productive and 64kg would be out of the question.
You can look at footballers if you want to see a good idea of a peak weight for a given height. Our senior 6 footers range between 72kg and 88kg (excluding Maguire, who cannot really be 98kg as per his FIFA stats).
His massive head probably counts for about 20kg of that 98kg.
Speaking of which, is there any way to effectively weigh one's head or does it have to be removed from the body?
It's politics, it's just the way politicians behave. The idea Cameron isn't grateful is absurd.
Not much discussion here about the current briefing (I understand people are bored of them now)
The government announced this morning that one question a day would come from a member of the public, 1500 questions have been put forward and the one that got through the "independent poll" was 'can we hug our grandchildren' ?
Seriously that was the best question ?
The government announced this morning that one question a day would come from a member of the public, 1500 questions have been put forward and the one that got through the "independent poll" was 'can we hug our grandchildren' ?
Seriously that was the best question ?
The government announced this morning that one question a day would come from a member of the public, 1500 questions have been put forward and the one that got through the "independent poll" was 'can we hug our grandchildren' ?
Seriously that was the best question ?
This is the great british public, it's a very low bar.
IIRC, here in Indonesia there've been at least two instances where discharged, given-the-all-clear corona patients went on to die from heart failure/attack a few days after as they were recuperating from home. I'd say it's too much of a coincidence for it not to be related from the initial infection.
PM beats virus by giving it the Hogan Leg Drop
18 deaths in Ireland recorded today. The downward trend continues
This has popped up a few times on my twitter feed today
From seemingly fine to passing away within 10 days
Is this for real?
also on a different note has anyone verified the tweet about the alerts relating to kids?
Didn't seem to be one question about it at the press briefing, I requested a question on this subject today and as I posted above 'can I hug my grandchildren?' got picked instead.
Perhaps if you stick your head in a bucket full to the brim with water, and then do something (weight I I guess?) with the water that flows over the edge of the bucket?
Edit: Although that won't work as water doesn't weight as much as your head I reckon. It's a start though
No, it won't work. A bucket of feathers isn't equal to a bucket of earth. Equal volume does not mean equal weight.Something that really took me aback this morning was on BBC news at 9, Victoria Derbyshire and Norman Smith casually musing over Boris Johnson’s “near death experience“ and whether it would result in a “change in him” and ”softening of his views“ and “his designs for the NHS”.
It was a pretty innocuous discussion on the surface but what really struck me after I’d digested it was the fact that two seasoned journalists were basically saying the quiet bit out loud and rather than talking about Johnson in the way he likes to project himself, they were talking about Johnson in the terms that most people know deep down that he is but is rarely discussed on TV, least of all by impartial journalists.
I think the reason it resonated so much is because you know that Derbyshire and Smith will have a good insight into the real Johnson so to hear them talk about him like that carried a bit of weight. They could just as easily have been musing over Trump, Kim Jong Un or Putin.
It was a pretty innocuous discussion on the surface but what really struck me after I’d digested it was the fact that two seasoned journalists were basically saying the quiet bit out loud and rather than talking about Johnson in the way he likes to project himself, they were talking about Johnson in the terms that most people know deep down that he is but is rarely discussed on TV, least of all by impartial journalists.
I think the reason it resonated so much is because you know that Derbyshire and Smith will have a good insight into the real Johnson so to hear them talk about him like that carried a bit of weight. They could just as easily have been musing over Trump, Kim Jong Un or Putin.
DEXA scan will tell you how much your head weighs (well how much mass you have above your chin)
Hmm.
What if you checked how much water your whole body (including head) displaces, and then how much your head displaces. Then if say your head displaced 1/5 of the volume of water that your whole body displaced, then you can say that your head weights 1/5 of your body? If we assume that your head is similar in density to the rest of your body, which probably isn't true either.
What the feck are you smoking ?!
This has popped up a few times on my twitter feed today
From seemingly fine to passing away within 10 days
yeah, truly heartbreaking.I see Greggs are looking to open some outlets again.
You could work out the volume of your head by immersing yourself in water, first to your chin, then completely. Then you could have a guess at the density of your head based on data from corpses. Tricky one though. Why do you ask? Worried your head has put on a few pounds?
Possibly my favourite comedy sketch of all time.
Oh, no. I know my head is massive, it seems to have its own gravitational pull seeing as birds have flown into it on two separate occasions. Just something I've been curious about for years.
No idea to be honest. Haven't heard about any paediatric cases of Covid-19 in my area.
Good news for the pork markets.
Might have to close some roads near each shop though so people can queue.
I reckon you could also work it out by lying on a see-saw, straddling the mid-point, trying to reach an equilibrium. Work out the point at which your body has an equal weight either side of the fulcrum then... do a load of maths...
Good to see the NHS workers families getting 60k compensation
Paeds ITU is very specialised and miles over my head. So take this with a pinch of salt.
It looks as though they’ve see some cases of very sick kids admitted to ITU with vasculitic (inflamed blood vessels) disease. Some (but not all) test covid positive for current disease. Some (but not all) have antibody levels which imply past exposure. So they’re worried this might be covid related.
There’s examples of people getting vasculitic rashes (a bit like chilblains) after recovering from covid in other countries. If it can cause a vasculitic rash, then it might cause damage to other organs in the same way.
https://www.ejpd.com/images/nuova-vasculite-covid-ENG.pdf
Some big caveats here:
-Numbers seem to be small.
-We don’t know if they have pre-existing illnesses
-The fact that some kids get very sick from covid is not news.
-There are vasculitic auto-immune diseases that make small numbers of kids very sick every year.
Ooh that's clever.
Any distance in a suggestion that because all Hospitals have clear lines of sight nationally, and a narrow focus; that that which would ordinarily pass by, is now being looked at through a different lens?
EDIT : I know NOTHING. Assume the numbers are above National averages. But asking a silly question regardless.
I think it's a load of bollocks they don't get life assurance as it is, I work for a manufacturing firm and if I die in service my family would get double that.
I have no idea if the numbers are above national averages for conditions that cause similar illnesses. It’s also possible that these are a unique clinical picture, unlike anything seen before. In that scenario, you’d take a cluster as small as half a dozen cases extremely seriously. I’m sure people way smarter than me are keeping an eye on things and we’ll find out soon if we’ve anything to worry about.
Plus, your general point is correct. Everything out of the ordinary is being looked at with a different lens right now. There’s so much unknown about this virus that any even slightly strange or unusual ITU admissions would more concern than it might usually do.
Yeah quite a few places are on a downward trend now, great to see. It'll be interesting to see what effect lifting the restrictions has on things
Thats an optional benefit on most cases though. Anyone can pay for life assurance whether privately or through salary sacrifice if offered through work.
Frankly anyone that works and has a family and doesn’t have a life assurance policy is a fecking dumbass.
only if it was your firms fault I'd imagine?