Thread: A Little Hope in the World

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

if you look hard enough, goodnight.

8am where you are so ya go to bed.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

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So what, it is true as I said my friend has been telling me what has been going on there and they are eating in restaurants.
So it is a positive step for Korea and China where their numbers are down and a place where I still have friends working as well.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

goodnight.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

So what, it is true as I said my friend has been telling me what has been going on there and they are eating in restaurants.
So it is a positive step for Korea and China where their numbers are down and a place where I still have friends working as well.

LULZ... You can't even get a mini-flounce right.

Why does MM/PB/TB/V4R et al get special treatment? I really would like to know... Just sayin...

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Oh, I almost forgot

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

That is so fantabulous!!

Not really. The world would be a better place if Ft. Detrick was closed permanently. I'm counting its reopening as a negative.

Originally Posted by SKkin

Not really. The world would be a better place if Ft. Detrick was closed permanently. I'm counting its reopening as a negative.

Well called, Skkin.
Their nasty, covert and suspicious history should be recognized by all - yet it isn't.

Originally Posted by SKkin

Not really. The world would be a better place if Ft. Detrick was closed permanently. I'm counting its reopening as a negative.

Wasn't Saddam invaded because of his mobile biological laboratory? (or was it another reason?)

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Wasn't Saddam invaded because of his mobile biological laboratory? (or was it another reason?)

FOK . . . one-trick pony and his cause celebre

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...fe-in-lockdown

...you appear to have stayed mostly within the lines...good work!...

'Everything will be all right': message of hope spreads in Italy



Slogan ‘andrà tutto bene’ goes viral as the country deals with Europe’s worst Covid-19 outbreak


'Everything will be all right': message of hope spreads in Italy | World news | The Guardian

[QUOTE=tomcat;4084651]...you appear to have stayed mostly within the lines...good work!...[/QUOTE
I think it is amazing actually that these rainbows of hope are popping up all over the world.. and they are beautiful. Kids have something to do and hope for.

https://globalnews.ca/video/rd/6527e...4/?jwsource=cl

Coronavirus: rainbow messages of hope posted in windows across N.B.

I posted a vid above, if it doesn't show it is in the article.
Coronavirus: rainbow messages of hope posted in windows across N.B. | Globalnews.ca

...of course, no kids are reading this thread...

^lol..well it is a news thread with a msg, like other people post news articles even in the pub.


This rainbow thing has gone viral, not just for gay people anymore.

Jacques Cartier Bridge to display hopeful rainbow lights for all of April during COVID-19

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Published Friday, April 3, 2020 6:33AM EDTLast Updated Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:41PM EDT

Jacques Cartier Bridge to display hopeful rainbow lights for all of April during COVID-19 | CTV News

Montreal is the epicenter in Canada of Covid-19.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

well it is a news thread with a msg, like other people post news articles even in the pub.

It's actually a Lounge thread: "the place for fun, a laugh and a joke and a bit of light hearted banter"

But perhaps Speakers Corner is better for the thread if it's all about a message.


Anyway, has anybody seen any rainbows being painted in Thailand? Or is this current rainbow painting thing just (or mainly) a western invented and followed thing?
I haven't seen any in Thailand myself.

^ go on Nev, you know you want to

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

^ go on Nev, you know you want to

I don't want to paint a rainbow, NPT. People mught feel it's a hopeless situation in Canada, or Italy or the UK, but for me here in Thailand, I don't feel that at all.

How is it for you in the UK, NPT? Do you feel a sense of hopelessness and does seeing pitures of rainbows make you feel better about yourself or the threat of Covid-19?

I wouldn't say i feel hopelessness, worrying times yes and who knows for how long. Two weeks into this isolation thingy and i relish the days i am asked to go into work. I am getting a bit bored of wrapping my extinguished cider bottles in toilet paper to stop them clinking when i pop them in the recycling bin however.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

I am getting a bit bored of wrapping my extinguished cider bottles in toilet paper to stop them clinking when i pop them in the recycling bin however.

Here's a thought: maybe curtail the drinking (and subsequent posting of belligerent bollocks on the forum) then?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

oh dear

...or not.

Enjoy the hangovers!