# I Pit Mr\_Hoogly **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 20, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900 "2021-07-20T15:58:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/122 "2021-12-09T16:47:41Z")
> [@Tfletch1](#): > > The Hoogs just had to tell us all about the “pockdown”. Wasn’t that a Clash song? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/123 "2021-12-09T17:10:18Z")
What are we gonna do now? Taking off his hoogly, they said “is this man a jabbed?” Workin’ for the pockdown ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/124 "2021-12-10T11:55:13Z")
They put up a poster said we believe in Q Workin’ for the pockdown. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/125 "2021-12-10T14:24:51Z")
This is proof that Dopers are capable of great things. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/126 "2021-12-10T15:33:22Z")
The rest of the chorus doesn’t even need to be modified. We will teach our twisted speech To the young believers We will train our blue-eyed men To be young believers Pockdown indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/127 "2021-12-10T15:36:31Z")
But maybe the Hoogs prefers hip-hop… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0NWsNZBI2JI/maxresdefault.jpg "Pocked Down Flow .1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NWsNZBI2JI) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/128 "2021-12-10T17:53:47Z")
> [@Daithi\_Lacha](#): > > This is proof that Dopers are capable of great things. I think we must expect great things from our Dopers … terrible, yes, but great.\* \*Apologies to Garrick Ollivander ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Hoogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Mr\_Hoogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Hoogly)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/129 "2021-12-15T20:42:21Z")
No but lockdown or more restrictions are coming. The ‘vaccine passport’ is on its way seemingly as well. British media is going nuts over this bullshit. Do we need a lockdown and ‘booster’ for every variant. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Hoogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Mr\_Hoogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Hoogly)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/130 "2021-12-15T20:46:23Z")
We already had a second booster. Or was it a second vaccine? The government are sure now that three jabs is enough, until they say it isn’t. See through the bullshit yet? How many more ‘boosters’ will it take? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/131 "2021-12-15T20:57:06Z")
> [@Mr\_Hoogly](#): > > Do we need a lockdown and ‘booster’ for every variant. We probably will need boosters/modified vaccines for subsequent COVID variants, just as we already have annually modified flu shots for constantly mutating flu variants. Whether we will need lockdowns for subsequent variants will depend to a large extent on how many pigheaded anti-science vaccine-denying idiots with their heads up their asses keep refusing to get the recommended vaccines, thus encouraging additional infection and mutation producing yet more variants. > [@Mr\_Hoogly](#): > > See through the bullshit yet? Unfortunately, pigheaded anti-science vaccine-denying idiots with their heads up their asses seem constitutionally incapable of seeing through bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Hoogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Mr\_Hoogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Hoogly)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/132 "2021-12-15T21:00:44Z")
But ‘we’ as in ‘most of us’ don’t have flu jabs, do we? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/133 "2021-12-15T21:01:54Z")
Or you could just be a man and get the fucking shot and stop whining like a goddamned baby ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/134 "2021-12-15T21:02:08Z")
> [@Mr\_Hoogly](#): > > The government are sure now that three jabs is enough, until they say it isn’t. Are you suggesting that “the government” is creating and controlling the virus?! ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Hoogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Mr\_Hoogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Hoogly)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/135 "2021-12-15T21:03:24Z")
I’m not the one whining, I’m great, cheers though. Enjoy your ‘vaccines’. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/136 "2021-12-15T21:04:01Z")
… he whines. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/137 "2021-12-15T21:04:24Z")
The government is saying that a third dose now is beneficial. Who in the govt is saying that it will never be more than 3? No fucking body. Get a grip. Hyperbolic hyperventilating is no way to go through life, son. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Hoogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Mr\_Hoogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Hoogly)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/138 "2021-12-15T21:10:08Z")
It’s being used as an excuse and convenient scapegoat or a lot of things, which is just as bad. Borises government had their christmas party while everyone was in lockdown not allowed to see their families. Doesnt seem like they were too concerned about the virus ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/139 "2021-12-15T21:10:57Z")
> [@Mr\_Hoogly](#): > > But ‘we’ as in ‘most of us’ don’t have flu jabs, do we? [A bare majority of us Americans do](https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-americans-get-flu-shots-vaccine-cdc/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ND-Healthcare&gclid=Cj0KCQiAweaNBhDEARIsAJ5hwbcVix8Ln8wDMNxNqtAt58F3PShAT4RY2rGH7ghuZoVjmvpLkMdh7z4aAsNEEALw_wcB), and that percentage may be continuing to rise in the increased awareness of infection danger during the ongoing pandemic, although I doubt it’s going to get to the Dept. of Health and Human Services-recommended level of 70% any time soon. You, if I recall correctly, are a UK resident. [Nearly 80% of those of you 65 and older get flu shots](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/05/health-agency-urges-millions-in-uk-to-get-flu-jab-by-10-december), so that’s 80% of about 20% of your population, or 16% of your total population. I haven’t yet found figures on how many of your under-65s get the flu shot. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Hoogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Mr\_Hoogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Hoogly)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/140 "2021-12-15T21:11:39Z")
So you trust your govenment wholeheartedly do you. Nothing else going on? No one getting rich? Not even worth considering or questioning these people in charge? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900/141 "2021-12-15T21:12:22Z")
> [@Mr\_Hoogly](#): > > Borises government had their christmas party while everyone was in lockdown not allowed to see their families. Doesnt seem like they were too concerned about the virus Do you think that that means that the virus is not something to be concerned about, or simply that “Borises government” is a bunch of fucking stupid and self-centered jagoffs? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mr-hoogly/946900.md?page=8)