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Hugo:
This from a man who doesn't believe in the climate change
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50762373
SteveH:
I do find some strange things searching on Google................ &shake&
"The first Saudi citizen who tested positive for COVID-19 must receive "severe punishment" for "using his body" to carry coronavirus to the kingdom after visiting Iran, a prominent Saudi journalist said on Monday.
It comes hours after the kingdom announced its first case of the novel coronavirus, a potentially deadly disease which is thought to have originated from China.
The man, who the health ministry said has been "isolated in a hospital", must receive the same punishment as an Islamic State group militant, according to Mohamed alShaikh, who writes for the Saudi-based Al-Jazirah."
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/3/3/saudis-call-for-severe-punishment-of-first-coronavirus-patient
Ian:
Yep; that's religion for you.
Ian:
For any followers of the US President:
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
trumpery /ˈtrʌmp(ə)ri/ ♫ archaic
▶ noun (plural trumperies) [mass noun] attractive articles of little value or use: None of your woollen drapery, nor linen drapery, nor any of your frippery or trumpery. I hate ostentation.
• practices or beliefs that are superficially or visually appealing but have little real value or worth: he exposed their ideals as trumpery | theatrical trumpery | [as modifier] that trumpery hope which lets us dupe ourselves.
▶ adjective sshowy but worthless: trumpery jewellery.
• delusive or shallow: that trumpery hope which lets us dupe ourselves.
– origin late Middle English (denoting trickery): from Old French tromperie, from tromper ‘deceive’
Who knew?
Ian:
This is very much worth watching. Superbly done and incredibly funny.
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