Personally, I think that the coronavirus is the Earth's (or Gaia's, if you prefer) way of re-balancing the earth's ecology, by removing the super-spreaders (or Frequent Fliers). Nice to see a disease which affects the rich more than the poor.

Which explains why politicians and merchant bankers (may be taken as Cockney rhyming slang) are in such a flap about it

I like lower interest rates, as I have a mortgage, others have credit cards. Not sure why so many people think a low interest rate is a bad thing. Who has savings? A very rich few I would imagine.

Not complaining about the interest rate coming down. Well not for another three years anyway.

On top of that, to battle the other crisis we have, from the 16th onwards we can't drive faster than 100 kilometers per hour anymore on the motorway (is now 130 kph).

In the UK we're halfway between those and have been for a long time, but it's to do with "safety" rather than "pollution". Of course most people simply ignore it and drive any speed they want. I tend to go 160kph. The pigs are easy enough to spot.

When I was there in March and September/October last year everyone drove around 60 mph because of all the road works. Most M-ways had miles and miles and miles of road works. With a traffic camera every 500 yards. And if no road works, then the variable speed limits were fun. Didn't see many people ignore those either.

What I did see was a person drive around with part of the body work of his car hanging loose, it flapping in the wind, and not even the police being bothered about it. Other priorities.

That's to stop polluting our nature with NOX.

So presumably if you buy an electric car, you would be allowed to drive as fast as you like?

No, same slow pace as everyone else. Besides, your electric car pollutes as hard as your non-electric car, because it still needs to juice up from the wall-socket and here most electricity coming out the wall is still made by biomass electric plants, gas plants and here and there a coal plant.

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be?

The religion of the Bard, Polonius, in Hamlet.

There is the story of a homeless person in the city of London, asking a smartly dressed gent to lend him a fiver being told,

"Neither a borrower or lender be." Shakespeare.

The homeless person replied,

"C***." D.H. Lawrence.

And if no road works, then the variable speed limits were fun. Didn't see many people ignore those either.

They net thousands of pounds a month from the ones on the A14 around Cambridge.

No, there is moderation on this forum.

But you got your ass/arse kicked :-P

Says who? Besides, there's still Bernie and Les. But you don't think I give up so easily because someone complains about me having an opinion? I've been playing this game since 2005, I know how to play catch.

Enough with the language, whatever you want to call it.

Babbling incessantly about PCI express risers is one thing, but this thread appears to have become a personal blog.
Cool it.

I think the owl was giving a warning about the language (swearing). I think we can have any discussion in this thread, as long as it's done clean. So far all the pages before no one was swearing. Until one guy dropped the F-bomb and you and I went with a unwanted A-word. No need to walk off or take your computers elsewhere.

Well, we do have those rules on the left when you make a post. I don't enforce them so strictly, as I think we're all adults here and we know when we go too far with our language. I also give everyone one swear word per day, but even if you post ten you won't get banished over it. Not by me. I'll discuss it with you, will ask you why there's the need to use those words when there are so many others that say the same thing without the loaded meaning. I'm sometimes glad we're not a birds forum...

What D-word is so bad?