The HfP chat thread – Monday 21st December

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Clive says:

21 Dec21 December 14:48

I know some people outside the London area have been looking for Covid Test facilities. Just stumbled over this one which may be of interest https://biograddiagnostics.squarespace.com/
Lady London says:

21 Dec21 December 15:11

PS If you deleted it make sure you delete my comment about Kent as well.
Aston100 says:

21 Dec21 December 15:11

I believe there was an Islamaphobic comment in the replies. Perhaps it was the removal of that that led to the whole trail being deleted.
- Lady London says:
  
  21 Dec21 December 15:49
  
  was it islamophobic? I couldnt catch the meaning of it, but I let it rest.
  
  I’m just waiting for Rhys or someone to confirm.
  Especially as when I realised tongue in cheek humour not being understood on a UK forum any more is a risk, I put an explanatory reply. So will be nice to know what happened
Andrew says:

21 Dec21 December 15:12

Your post became inappropriate when you started making jokes about migrants. Learn where to draw the line.
- Andrew says:
  
  21 Dec21 December 15:27
  
  Still not an appropriate discussion for a travel points website
- Jake says:
  
  21 Dec21 December 15:42
  
  Pretending to have multiple cats to defraud Tesco is inappropriate, but apparently that was fair game oh here. Funny how what is inappropriate goes out the window provided there’s a few points up for grabs.
  - TGLoyalty says:
    
    21 Dec21 December 15:56
    
    Unless someone made a claim against their nonexistent cat it’s not fraud.
    
    The terms were clear take out new policy pay your premium for x months and get points. However, crucially it was on topic for a points blog.
    
    Calling migrant illegals on the other hand isn’t.
    - Jake says:
      
      21 Dec21 December 16:05
      
      Ok, false representation if you prefer. ‘However crucially it was on topic for a points blog’, oh that’s ok then. There’s a million posts here that aren’t deleted which have absolutely nothing to do with points or travel, so let’s not pretend that’s the reason.
    - Jake says:
      
      21 Dec21 December 16:09
      
      As for being on topic it does say at the top of the page ‘The comments under this article are where you should post questions about travel and, indeed, anything else on your mind’.
    - TGLoyalty says:
      
      21 Dec21 December 16:19
      
      @Jake i have only a couple thing to say on the subject “If you have nothing nice to say say nothing at all.” And “Don’t be a dick”
      
      I think it’s pretty clear this site is about maximising value related to travel not for bigoted views on migrants take it to the DM website.
      
      @Anna was referring to other replies
    - Jake says:
      
      21 Dec21 December 16:26
      
      “Dont be a dick”, wasn’t that basically the Government’s advice about travelling. The interesting thing is it’s apparently not ok to insult others, but fine to risk giving them a nasty virus because we feel like a holiday. Interesting times.
    - Mike says:
      
      21 Dec21 December 17:11
      
      Migrants? Refugees? Asylum seekers?
      
      Illegal immigrants applies in one of these cases
    - RussellH says:
      
      21 Dec21 December 17:16
      
      > Migrants? Refugees? Asylum seekers?
      > Illegal immigrants applies in one of these cases.
      
      Eh? None of these are necessarily illegal immigrants, though some of them /may/ be.
      Only a court can decide on legality or illegality. Not you, not me.
    - Mike says:
      
      21 Dec21 December 17:40
      
      A Court? Really? That’s who decides who is lawful in the UK. For every case it goes to Court?
      
      Why not replace UKBA with Judges sat at Heathrow then? Priti can just get the judiciary busy.
  - Rebecca says:
    
    21 Dec21 December 15:56
    
    +1
- Lady London says:
  
  21 Dec21 December 19:20
  
  I actually said people fleeing persecution and the comment was more about decisions apparently being made by the French. I did not use the word migrants as several countries have turned that into a pejorative word.
Reney says:

21 Dec21 December 15:47

Three fraud transaction just went through my curve card within minutes whilst I was on a conference call. I have blocked my curve card, messaged them, called Teaco who was the backing card to tell them about it. Anything else I should do, l? And does anyone have experience with how fast Curve acts? I note quite a lot of recent complaints about slow CS. The last time I used my curve card in a shop was at Oxfam, if case anyone wondered.
- Genghis says:
  
  21 Dec21 December 15:53
  
  There’s a tel no on back of card for times like these.
  - Reney says:
    
    21 Dec21 December 16:28
    
    Thanks, was on hold for ages, fraud team was busy and about to be done for the day.
- Anna says:
  
  21 Dec21 December 16:03
  
  I keep my Curve & Revolut cards locked unless I’m actually making a transaction.
  - Reney says:
    
    21 Dec21 December 16:31
    
    Good call, will freeze / lock cards that I am not using.
Anna says:

21 Dec21 December 16:00

Huh? I was talking about the recent debate about the rights to fishing in EU and UK waters, nothing to do with human migration!
- Anna says:
  
  21 Dec21 December 16:06
  
  I hadn’t even seen any of the replies. But for what it’s worth I’ve never taken out a Tesco insurance policy!
  - Anna says:
    
    21 Dec21 December 16:08
    
    I stand corrected, I did see a reply, from Rob about freight being allowed across the channel.
Anna says:

21 Dec21 December 16:01

Boris giving another press conference at 5 pm apparently, what did he forget to mention on Saturday?!!
- TGLoyalty says:
  
  21 Dec21 December 16:21
  
  Its either. It’s not so bad after all. Everyone relax. Or a new national lockdown starts December 26th.
  - Anna says:
    
    21 Dec21 December 16:26
    
    I’m going with, “Sorry peeps, I forgot that now I’ve created Tier 4 for the south, we’ll need a new Tier 5 for Lancashire and Greater Manchester.”
    - RussellH says:
      
      21 Dec21 December 17:21
      
      Just as long as we to the north of Lancashire stay in Tier 2…
      🙂
      - Anna says:
        
        21 Dec21 December 17:23
        
        Depends how many of those northern-bound Londoners are heading your way!
- Andrew says:
  
  21 Dec21 December 16:34
  
  Remember they used to do these conferences daily for the first few months of the pandemic – there won’t be any big announcements, it will just be a current state of play update on the Dover situation, tell people not to panic buy at the supermarkets and to take a grilling from the press.
  - Nick says:
    
    21 Dec21 December 17:33
    
    Watching now… Bozo said it’s already clear that other regions will need stricter restrictions. So why don’t they just introduce them now, before it all goes wrong again?!
Rhys says:

21 Dec21 December 16:18

The whole chain was getting messy and derailed. As usual, not all comments were a problem but the way Wordpress nests comments means we can’t always remove just one.

‘Tongue in cheek’ also doesn’t always translate very well online.