Anyone remember that guy right back in the day in the early stages of the game that was insane and kept going between broke and having a few hundred grand at his disposal more times that most of us can count? He was the first guy I remember that was blogging about it almost on a daily basis on his blog and we were all wtff and aghast with wide eyes?  

His blogspot was 99% something and maybe screen name of Blue scouse?

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=18649.0

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=14382.0

Anyone remember that guy right back in the day in the early stages of the game that was insane and kept going between broke and having a few hundred grand at his disposal more times that most of us can count? He was the first guy I remember that was blogging about it almost on a daily basis on his blog and we were all wtff and aghast with wide eyes? 

His blogspot was 99% something and maybe screen name of Blue scouse?

https://twitter.com/Daleroxxu?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://www.youtube.com/Daleroxxu

http://www.daleroxxu.co.uk/

Remember the name, vaguely. Wasn't he an updater for a bit, too?

One thing I wish I'd done in my 20s, that.

Can't remember him updating, but he was a stars online pro, used to be in Thailand with/near Amatay for a bit.  He got removed from stars online after something whilst watching the World Cup at a Stars tournament.   I can't remember all the detail, but it was one of those football related things you see a lot, but wasn't great whilst an ambassador for stars.   His travel blog round Asia was pretty good for a while and I assumed he'd stopped.

Found this https://www.pokernews.com/news/2014/06/pokerstars-terminates-contract-of-team-online-pro-18580.htm.   The detail has gone but think it could be summarised as he got in someones face celebrating, they took exception, compained to Stars and he was gone.  Pretty sure there weren't even handbags.  Think it would have been beter dealt with by an eyeroll from Stars followed by Woodsey ranting about snowflakes.  Might have some of the detail wrong as my memory is bad.

I remember comments about him only being a break even player that pretty much relied on his stars deal for income/rakeback or whatever and he would probably have to go home after that happened. No idea if that was true or not though......

 

Labour still clowning around I see.....

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/apr/19/labour-party-financial-peril-keir-starmer-members-leaked-report

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Any ideas on the 2,500 extra deaths? Other than those attributable to people not seeking medical help because of Covid, you’d surely expect them to go down while we’re mostly locked down safely at home.

Something like this, is the only thing that really makes sense:
(It’s a bit tenuous at this stage but there aren’t many other explanations, are there?)

https://twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1250731649152811008?s=21
(another quite divisive figure)

I'm a bit confused by that report/claim.

The tweet and topic is, "Leaked guidance from an NHS hospital trust reveals doctors are being told they are not required to put COVID-19 on death certificates.".

What a doctor puts on a death certificate is their professional opinion as to the most likely cause of death.

They quote the guidance as saying, ‘Doctors are asked to use the standard MCCD (Medical Certificate of Cause of Death) form to certify death. ‘Pneumonia ‘or ‘community acquired pneumonia’ are acceptable at 1(a) on the MCCD. There is no requirement to write COVID 19 as part of the MCCD. It may be mentioned at 1(b) on the form, should the doctor wish.’

Part a is what do you think is the direct cause of death
Part b is what else do you think might have contributed to the death.

I would read that as the trust making it clear that just because there is a pandemic doctors don't have to put COVID19 down for every respiratory/pneumonia death.

It is a bit 'wrong' as it is a slightly different emphasis to the government's central advice which is more like - if you think it's COVID19 you can put down COVID19.

What confuses me is that this so clearly leaves COVID19 on the death certificate that I don't understand why the "Good Law Project" that started the petition would go ahead with this complaint.

Also, as mentioned before, if doctors weren't putting COVID19 down they would be putting pneumonia down and those figures are only slightly higher than average - well within what you might expect the normal variance to be.

To clarify: if COVID19 is mentioned on any part of the death certificate then it is counted in the ONS figures, so putting it in part 1b wouldn't make a difference to putting it in 1a.

Thanks Jon.

This is a useful explanation.  

I have sifted through death certificates in the distant past as Insurers monitor trends in mortality and causes of death.  It was a very manual process back then and we never had to do it quite so quickly.  There were always grey areas back then with causes of death, so this isn't a new thing. I am never really surprised about people overeact to.   Not everything you see is a Government cover-up, here it is clearly different people interpreting the same words in a slightly different way.  

I'll just add that up until very recently, I'd have been impressed by any insurer who was doing this a couple of months in arrears.   Speed and accuracy aren't going to be comfortable bedfellows.

I thought this was interesting:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040287v1

What did you find interesting in that?
Serious question.

Cutting edge stuff......think most of us were 

No sign of the FT backing down from its editorial stance that it was a bad time to have dishonest, incompetent clowns in charge:

https://www.ft.com/content/5f393d77-8e5b-4a85-b647-416efbc575ec

https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1251434219139665920?s=21

Just imagine if Corbo and Abbott were at the helm  

We don’t have to reduce everything to the old, tired and childish (incredibly dumb) squabble, Corbyn’s part in us currently being governed by a clown show is in the past now. It’s not irrelevant though, other than short term stupidity (see the table below), the issue in the UK is at least in part a lack of public investment. Corbyn proposed a similar level of public investment to Germany, the Conservative flagship policy for years has been to run all public service in to the ground.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52103747

You started it mate, I only respond to your blinkered nonsense, keep doing it and so will I.....

It’s not ‘my’ blinkered nonsense. It’s pretty much the most respected newspaper in the world (I don’t think anyone doubts this, I can’t even think of realistic English language contenders), reporting day in and day out, that this is a bad time to be governed by incompetent and dishonest clowns.

I didn’t look at the link, just talking about the blinkered nonsense that comes out of your trap most days  on here......

Maybe look at the FT link?

No need.......

No sign of the FT backing down from its editorial stance that it was a bad time to have dishonest, incompetent clowns in charge:

https://www.ft.com/content/5f393d77-8e5b-4a85-b647-416efbc575ec

https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1251434219139665920?s=21

Just imagine if Corbo and Abbott were at the helm  

We don’t have to reduce everything to the old, tired and childish (incredibly dumb) squabble, Corbyn’s part in us currently being governed by a clown show is in the past now. It’s not irrelevant though, other than short term stupidity (see the table below), the issue in the UK is at least in part a lack of public investment. Corbyn proposed a similar level of public investment to Germany, the Conservative flagship policy for years has been to run all public service in to the ground.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52103747

You started it mate, I only respond to your blinkered nonsense, keep doing it and so will I.....

It’s not ‘my’ blinkered nonsense. It’s pretty much the most respected newspaper in the world (I don’t think anyone doubts this, I can’t even think of realistic English language contenders), reporting day in and day out, that this is a bad time to be governed by incompetent and dishonest clowns.

I didn’t look at the link, just talking about the blinkered nonsense that comes out of your trap most days  on here......

No sign of the FT backing down from its editorial stance that it was a bad time to have dishonest, incompetent clowns in charge:

https://www.ft.com/content/5f393d77-8e5b-4a85-b647-416efbc575ec

https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1251434219139665920?s=21

Just imagine if Corbo and Abbott were at the helm 

We don’t have to reduce everything to the old, tired and childish (incredibly dumb) squabble, Corbyn’s part in us currently being governed by a clown show is in the past now. It’s not irrelevant though, other than short term stupidity (see the table below), the issue in the UK is at least in part a lack of public investment. Corbyn proposed a similar level of public investment to Germany, the Conservative flagship policy for years has been to run all public service in to the ground.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52103747

You started it mate, I only respond to your blinkered nonsense, keep doing it and so will I.....

No sign of the FT backing down from its editorial stance that it was a bad time to have dishonest, incompetent clowns in charge:

https://www.ft.com/content/5f393d77-8e5b-4a85-b647-416efbc575ec

https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1251434219139665920?s=21

Just imagine if Corbo and Abbott were at the helm 

Covid-19 lockdown update - just watched 'The Test' on Prime.

A year and a half following the Aussie cricket team, felt a bit contrived in parts to show good blokeism above all but very enjoyable series.

Little known fact, I played against Justin Langer when he played at Old Millhillians so could have easily been a documentary featuring me rather than JL but tbf, he pushed on a bit better in his cricket career.

Thanks for that, watched over the last week and it was fantastic even though I knew the outcome. As you say good to see more about the real personalities in the Aussie team that we never see much about.

If anyone likes this also please watch ‘the edge’ which is a similar albeit one off film about the England team...

I'm going to have to stop watching TV coverage, too frustrating.

Only a few weeks ago many people attacked the Government for giving mixed messages and pleading for a hard lockdown and a simple message.

If anything the lockdown has been more softly softly than people were calling for but the message has become very simple - stay home etc.

Watching Newsnight you have the Govt now being attacked for not publishing an exit strategy NOW and for insulting the public's intelligence by not trusting them with a mixed message of 1) stay home and 2) here's the exit strategy

How does this help, it's more than just challenging and asking exploratory questions - it's deliberately sensationalist, pointless and stupid. I need to find the off button.

It’s just the same bellends that are whining about death rates etc, it honestly doesn’t matter what the govt do they would still be whining about it. The government shut down everything early wahhhhhh........your damaging the economy too much and killing people by locking them up at home, the government waits a couple of weeks longer wahhhh........your killing people as too many are infected, it’s a no win situation. As I’ve said many times on here nobody will really know what the right move was until its largely done and dusted and they have a chance to reflect on everything.

 

https://news.sky.com/story/man-64-accidentally-ejects-himself-from-fighter-jet-at-2-500ft-during-surprise-flight-11973070

Clearly we’re missing a lot as well. The ‘excess deaths’ is huge compared to the ‘deaths with Covid 19’, about 2,500 different.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending3april2020

It seems clear we are over 20,000 fatalities at this moment. Another bad day for that being described as the modelled ‘worst case’ outcome only 9 days ago.

Where’s the good news?

There’s very little good news but things are definitely looking up for the countries that went hard and early on the lockdown and persisted with contact tracing. They now have options for phased release and some respite to put vital measures in place (PPE/testing regime/huge contact tracing operations etc). They are likely to be able to return to some level of normality relatively soon, not to mention that they’ve suffered far fewer deaths.

That’s all assumptions, you don’t really know any of that, they might get a few rebounds and have to keep tightening it back up again, for all we know they might end up with similar numbers of deaths but just over a more prolonged period? By shutting down earlier and hard they might fk their economies way worse than ours and those economic costs may not have been worth it.......nobody really knows, it’ll all come out in the wash in a couple of years most likley.

Kuku you missed this bit of doom and gloom, slacking?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52279871