Let’s do the jab

Posted on 17 December 2020 by pws

According to some reports, there is a large minority of people in the UK who have said that, given the chance for a vaccination, they would decline. Just how selfish can you get?

I know people who have said they will not have it. Why?

The “it’s only like bad flu/it’s a hoax” opinion is still very common, despite the number of cases and deaths. As, indeed, is the “Bill Gates wants to tag us all so he can control us” idea.

One person I know is not having it because a friend of hers knows someone who has seen a website that says it could be dangerous.

A neighbour says she has heard that it has been tested on people and that they could have become ill, so that’s a reason for not having it.

I’m still trying to understand this.

At least the Pope says it is ok to have the vaccine.

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Tongue split

Posted on 13 December 2020 by pws

If you want something very unusual, then why not a tongue split?

I’d love to have it myself, but couldn’t as I can’t bear metal in my mouth. That’s why I have problems at the dentist.

I gather that the procedure is relatively simple in the hands of an expert. But it’s painful and the healing takes a while and can be a nightmare.

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No number

Posted on 9 December 2020 by pws

I get very annoyed by some very simple things.

One is when people cannot read simple numbers, especially examples like this:

25.69

How do you say this number?

Twenty five point six nine

You may want to put a hyphen in, but that’s got nothing to do with saying it.

It is not:

Twenty five point sixty nine

How would you say this: 38.1234? Thirty eight point twelve thirty four? This is nonsense.

Adding “..ty” to something refers to the tens column in a number, so eighty means eight sets of tens. After the decimal point, we have tenths, not tens.

It also annoys me that people cannot write simple numbers. On a game show a couple of days ago, some big celebrity I had never heard of wrote, in answer to a question:

100,00

If you can’t read it, there’s a comma in there. This is not a real number, unless you live on the continent and then it is one hundred point zero zero. The number intended was one hundred thousand. You would imagine that grown up adult human beings could write down a simple number, wouldn’t you?

I also find it sad that we use a full stop (.) to substitute for a decimal point (ยท). This is just laziness on the part of computer programmers, and is just plain wrong.

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