"The woman who Carol Vorderman could've been"! @JazzFunk, you made my day with that!
Anyway, two days after Pfizer announce a vaccine with (alleged) 90% effectiveness, the Russians announce that theirs - the one old Vlad injected into his daughter as a publicity stunt and which they then went quiet about - is 92% effective: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54905330
Come on America, don't stand for that from the Ruskies! Come back and say the Pfizer one is actually 94% effective!
Was involved in a very strange little incident at work today, involving birds.
Yeah, I like to have a fag after each bin run but they've now entirely banned smoking on the grounds of the hosp. As I'm based very near the George St. entrance, I go for my snout just outside the hedge n' fence outside the old entrance, next to the postbox. It's a great place to stand and chill and people-watch.
Anyway, there's all these sparrows living in the hedge and I always talk to 'em when I'm having a smoke and they aren't scared of me and come proper close and tweet to me (begging for food, I know but they're one of my Top 2 fave birds and I adore them). I always think when I go back in "damn, I should've brought them some bread!" but I always forget.
Today, the loaf was done, toasted-out, there was a crust and a dry slice left in the bag so I took the crust out to give to my sparrows. I felt elated I'd finally remembered and I was full of joy.
I crushed up the crust, tossed it beside the hedge and a ****ing seagull swoops down, medium-sized so not scary but it keeps circling around for the bread (I'm waving it away saying "**** off!") and it won't stop trying, it even tried to crap on me but it landed three feet away.
There was a stalemate situation where the gull was perched upon a lamppost, giving off a very arsey vibe. I was happy to see some of the sparrows had managed to get their beaks into the bread but as I looked down, this bastard-of-a-bird zoomed down towards the bread...but at that very moment...
...that VERY moment...
A raven shot across the sky, coming into battle like Han Solo at the end of STAR WARS, heading straight at the gull like some twisted, black sky-dagger.
It literally chased it down the entire street, like a Maserati racing a Corsa. And as it reached the seagull, it pecked its arse. The gull shot upward, the raven decelerated to a soar. Finally, it landed on a chimney, looking all badass and cool. It was amazing, a beautiful coalition of man and bird defending the weak and vulnerable.
I never mentioned what my other Top 2 bird was. The raven. They are incredible creatures. And that album by The Stranglers really is the ****ing best. Serious, buy it. Incredible.
An incredible afternoon, and if I hadn't have been a dirty smoker then I would never have witnessed it!!!
Anyway, two days after Pfizer announce a vaccine with (alleged) 90% effectiveness, the Russians announce that theirs - the one old Vlad injected into his daughter as a publicity stunt and which they then went quiet about - is 92% effective: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54905330
Come on America, don't stand for that from the Ruskies! Come back and say the Pfizer one is actually 94% effective!
It's ON!!! Are you just going to roll over and take that, Russia? Fight back strong like bear with 96% effectiveness!!!
It's like Alan Partridge vs the farmer.
AP: "I've probably got more friends than you've got cows. How many cows have you got?"
PBT: "I've got a... hundred cows."
AP: "Yeah, well I've got a hundred and four friends!"
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