One of my cats puked a hairball over the exhaust of the RT. This is chromed stainless steel. The stomach acid took off some of the chrome layer, so I took it to a plater to see if we could restore it.
So when I arrived, I got the inquisition:
“Have you been vaccinated?”
I could at this point have told him to mind his own business and walked away, but decided to play along:
“No.”
“Not at all?”
“No.”
“Do you want to die?” (Stop laughing at the back).
“No.”
“Are you an anti-vaxxer?”
“No.”
“Oh.”
After a pause while that all sank in, we got down to whether or not he can fix my silencer…
I guess this is the new normal. If you want my business, you have to accept that I might not be playing by government rules. Take it or leave it. On this occasion, he decided to take it. As it turns out, it’s a bit of a maybe depending on how thick the nickel layer is. If it works, it will cost less than a couple of hundred quid. If it doesn’t, I’ll have to think again. Maybe an Akrapovic. The ones on the Indian sound nice after all.
“Do you want to die?”
“No. That’s why I havent been vaxxed.
I’ve never been asked whether I’ve been vaccinated. I’ve stopped wearing a mask and have not been challenged apart from at the doctor’s surgery. There they are still behaving as if Covid is the black death. One of the things that I find I interesting is that Covid doesn’t seem to be particularly contagious. Certainly not in comparison to regular colds and flu. I can recall cold and flu bugs that went through everyone at work. When hardly anyone escaped and the place would be at half strength for several weeks until the thing burned itself out.
“Do you want to die?”
I wasn’t aware I had a choice…
Haven’t you heard, now that the god of NHS is in place, we are immortal. No one gets to die.
It is certainly true that, in modern times, dying before your time has become less likely. People dying young is now seen as much more of a tragedy than when it was just an inevitable part of life. Trying to stay reasonably active and having a healthy diet is an obvious way to extend your life. But if you are going to eliminate everything that makes life worth living in order to extend your existence for a few more years then what is the point? You can bet that the puritanical zealots at PHE don’t live the lifestyle that they reccomend for the rest of us.
“No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home.” – Kingsley Amis(John Mortimer said something similar but I can’t find who said it first…).
Given the festering environment of any chrome-plating operation, it shows a tad of imbalance when the operator is so concerned about a low-risk virus when he’s working in such a very high risk activity – indeed, I’d be surprised if any feeble Covid bug could survive in that environment at all. The evil air-quality alone will get it long before any mask or jab would.
You should have said yes. He wasn’t specific as to the miasma.
Or maybe you should have asked if that was what made the playing deteriorate.
“Do you want to die?”
“No – I want this re-chromed, please”.
“Do you want to die?”
“Is that a threat? Asking for a friend.”
Mask watch.
I walked around the shopping area in Beverley this morning, not many masks but some people walking in the open, nowhere near anyone else, wearing a mask. Asda on Saturday afternoon, for the first time masks are in a clear minority, maybe about 25%. I think that masks might be a reasonable way of judging public opinion.