Personal, local, national, international, serious, funny...please let's hear from SLoopers.

The Predictions Committee will be awarding points out of ten for entries, and can predict with 100% accuracy that points do not mean prizes!

Clive - please explain why my post was removed as 'spam' just because I shared it from another group - that's what the share option is for.

Is this fake or real?
Email received - PayPal’s preparation to manage some necessary changes arising from the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.

Please click here to view an updated copy of the intended changes.

Did anyone see this ? - I looked out in 3 directions but couldn't see the moon - must have been directly overhead.

Happy New Year !


https://youtu.be/vS2lWkn4g9g

I've just received a message via ScoopLoop
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Happy new week my dear and with the compliment of the season i wish you all the very best,i like your profile and i will like us to have something in common,contact me direct at my private address at variantchappelz@hotmail.com for our mutual communication, thanks.

Variant
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Obviously another scam

Hi
I've just received another scam email, this one from support@headscrests.org.uk.
The email is titled ___Your-Subscription is due for_Renewal !!!
It says that my McAfee antivirus protection has expired with buttons to download the latest version of McAfee (presumably full of trojans, viruses and who knows what else ) and renew your subscription.
The renew button has the link
http://review-checking.creaselay.com/1769647eh3194641sk482318129NB14413TG36lkr103833JW.
It's very obviously a scam.
I don't even have McAfee installed on my computer.
Beware and stay safe.
Cheers
Tony

Woke up this morning, sat having a cuppa and suddenly could not leave the decorations up any longer, so I took them all down and had a cleaning spree. Usually I get sad taking down the tree but this year I just had enough. Plus I love how tidy everything looks!
Is it just me feeling this way or do more of you guys just want Christmas season done?

A drug to improve brain function for over 85s is available now in supermarkets and elsewhere: http://bit.ly/2WRJbvd

Now that Scooploop has gone international, members are receiving scam private messages from overseas. I see/hear that these are being reported by members in various groups, but if you are not a member of a group where it is being reported, you will be unaware of what is happening, until, perhaps you receive one. I am sending this to the groups I belong to, and have made a sticky post (one that stays at the top) in the Scams group: http://bit.ly/3rAX5Qc, in which you can post anything that you have received. You should, of course, report the personal message to Scooploop.

I have just received a message on Scooploop from someone called Vid asking for money. Has anyone else received the same one, and is it possible to reproduce it as a post to be used as a warning to other site users.

Did you make a resolution last year?
Did you keep that resolution?

Unbelievably I received this pm xmas afternoon, How do these people get in?

Bit long but fun for today !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZLP74uiiwE&ab_channel=SuperTorio

or
https://youtu.be/ZZLP74uiiwE

Enjoy !

Who cares that they finally seem to have sorted out Brexit .......what I want to know is where is Santa ?!! and how is he going to be able to deliver all those presents wearing that red with white fur trimmings NBC suit ?!!!!!!

https://www.noradsanta.org/

Edward, Pip and me wish you all a peaceful and healthy Christmas and that the new year will show us a way back from what has been an unbelievably horrid time for us all.
Stay safe my friends. x

Areas moving to tier four are: Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, with the exception of the New Forest, and the parts of Essex and Surrey not already in the toughest restrictions.

hi

https://youtu.be/-bYfXHWldGU



Enjoy !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9do5DWA_hnI

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With only a couple of days to go, HMG are considering changing the rules again.
Is everyone fed up with all the chopping and changing and will anyone take any notice?
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-government-wont-hesitate-to-change-christmas-rules-if-needed-says-minister-12170923

If you believe this tosh that if you are attracted to a particular type of person it means you are racist against everyone else.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/22/what-is-racial-fetishisation-and-why-is-it-a-form-of-racism-13762955/

Anyone buying flour, dried pasta, baby wipes and anti-bacterial wipes can only buy up to three at a time.

These limits have actually been in place for several months so you might already know about them.

This week, the supermarket giant has also limited customers to one toilet roll packet, and up to three packs of eggs, rice, soap or handwash.

In the UK we are the very lucky ones.
Whatever our views we can express them on SL and anywhere else.

Tonight, over Christmas and unknown time to come, millions of people are imprisoned and tortured, or live under that daily threat.

Prayer and protest helps, and the Amnesty International website is worth a visit - as is the democratic country listing
http://statisticstimes.com/ranking/democracy-index.php

Counting blessings.

Very best wishes to all SLs for Xmas, and a much Happier New Year.

Hello, I've started a new cooking group and everyone is invited to join. I won't be posting anything too fancy, so don't be scared to join and post whatever you like to cook or bake (or fry or roast...). I wrote my first post about pizza so there you go ;)

https://www.scooploop.com/groups/whats-cooking

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I finally know someone who has Covid. Neighbours about 10 doors down. Husband is in hospital with Covid, his wife came out of the house today as I was walking by to tell me. She is waiting for her test result.
I was going to get my flu vaccine.

Judging by the traffic and people out and about, very few people are bothered that we're supposed to be in Tier 4. Cars are going through our road more often than jets land at Heathrow (normally!).

https://youtu.be/5JAW_7BAs-g

i always spend Christmas alone, which is okay but now Asda has let me down with my delivery ..
No turkey
No trifle and no Tia Maria

How worried should we be? Lots of if's, but's and maybe's
Interesting article from the BBC heath page
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55388846

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Today’s update

Italy, Belgium and The Netherland banning flights from the UK because of Covid. I don't blame them in the slightest, they've got their own sick people and they don't need us spreading it.

One day, three men were hiking and unexpectedly came upon a large raging, violent river. They needed to get to the other side, but had no idea of how to do so.

The first man prayed to God, saying, "Please God, give me the strength to cross this river." *Poof!* God gave him big arms and strong legs, and he was able to swim across the river in about two hours, after almost drowning a couple of times.

Seeing this, the second man prayed to God, saying, "Please God, give me the strength ..and the tools to cross this river." *Poof!*

God gave him a rowboat and he was able to row across the river in about an hour, after almost capsizing the boat a couple of times.

The third man had seen how this worked out for the other two, so he also prayed to God saying, "Please God, give me the strength and the tools...And the intelligence... To cross this river." And *Poof!* God turned him into a woman. She looked at the map, hiked upstream a couple of hundred yards, then walked across the bridge.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/london-covid-live-updates-biggest-19488299?utm_source=mylondon_newsletter&utm_campaign=myeastlondon_newsletter2&utm_medium=email

I've received several calls from mobile numbers starting in 07. The caller is a computer generated female voice telling me that there's been a purchase on my Amazon account for just over a thousand pounds which has been flagged up as suspicious and to press keys to confirm or otherwise the order.
I've even had a call on my work mobile number which isn't associated with my Amazon account.
It's obviously a scam

The tale of the traditional fairy on top of a Christmas tree:- Many years ago there was a glut of Christmas trees in Lapland. There were so many taking up precious space, it was becoming a big problem. So, Santa called all the fairies and elves to a meeting to discuss the problem. After a heated discussion it was agreed the Christmas trees were to be distributed all around the World on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve off they all went laden with toys and trees eager to get rid/distribute those darned trees. Early Christmas morning an exhausted Santa was enjoying a well earned 'tipple' when there was a knock on the door. Muttering to himself he opened the door and there stood a very bedraggled fairy holding a Christmas tree! 'Santa', she wailed 'there’s one Christmas tree left, what shall I do with it'? He told the bedraggled little fairy........ and that’s why there is a fairy on top of a Christmas tree!!

During the past couple of days I've had several emails from notifications@dpdparcel.co.uk
They all say that they tried to deliver a parcel but I wasn't in or there was no safe place to leave it.
To schedule a new delivery a fee must be paid.
There's a link to reschedule delivery but if you receive one of these messages don't click on it.
The messages are a scam. I've received five almost identical messages, four of which are with email accounts that I never use for online purchases.
Stay safe
Tony

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https://www.doorstepcarols.co.uk/

Are you taking part?

I received this email today - beware
Fund Beneficiary

It was Resolved and Agreed that your Inheritance/Contract Fund would be released to you on a special method of payment which tag"HOME DELIVERY AT YOUR DOOR STEP" you are Advised to Reconfirm YOUR NAME,ADDRESS,NEXT OF KIN, MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION AND PHONE NUMBER TO CLAIM YOUR FUND (USD50 MILLIONS).

In God we trust.

Dr. Jerome Powell

CALL +234-8167491021

Looking up the phone number produced:

Dr David Nwaorgu - fcicourier@rocketmail.com ...stopscamfraud.com › ... › ATM And Credit Card Scams

1 May 2020 — Tel: +234-8167491021. WARNING: Do not contact the sender of the above email nor provide them with any of your personal information or ...

from our local paper
Travel

People should still be limiting their travel as much as possible - but you can continue to travel to visit places that are still open.

Not much bloody point travelling to them if they are shut.

Heard it mention on TV that some people are waiting for the Oxford injections.
What is the difference between Pfizer and Oxford?

Pick a decade, genre and channel: https://bit.ly/2WbbAfc

I am really suprised, and I've got impression that in 2020 we can literally order anything online ;)
Via this website - https://doorstepproductions.com/ you can order socially-distanced musical theatre performance on your doorstep.

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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/12/country-superstar-charley-pride-dies-aged-86