Coronavirus Death Thread

[John]

The army don't get free doughnuts here and noone cares. They probably give them the shop if they want it in America, but including us in your little dig is just daft.

[Giggles]

The army don't get free doughnuts here and noone cares. They probably give them the shop if they want it in America, but including us in your little dig is just daft.

Hardly. You’ve become increasingly more American with it all in the past number of years.

[John]

Apparently not as much as your lot. It's carers who get to wail about not being included in freebies here.

[Giggles]

Apparently not as much as your lot. It's carers who get to wail about not being included in freebies here.

Like I said, mild enough. If the same situation happened there then the poppy fascists would be in meltdown. Good to see you back on form thought, been far too quiet lately.

[niko_cee]

All that Wooton Basset shit was years ago now, we're well past the deification of the armed forces, thankfully. Although their mantle has now been taken by 'front line workers' or people who 'run towards danger' so it's swings and roundabouts. Teachers probably fancy trying to seethe their way into the equation somehow.

[John]

The same situation does happen here. The army don't get free coffee or doughnuts in Krispy Kreme, and noone cares.

[Giggles]

The same situation does happen here. The army don't get free coffee or doughnuts in Krispy Kreme, and noone cares.

If you didn’t read what actually happened then I’m not going to do it for you.

[phonics]

There’s been some wild propaganda from companies here. Our local supermarket chain provided bags for the food banks to distribute food to those laid off. They’ve since seen the uptick in good publicity from having their logo on food bank goers and are advertising as if the supermarket are giving away the food to those people. Meanwhile they’re Not giving away any food and offering the equivalent Of 8p off a coffee for any hospital worker.

[Giggles]

All that Wooton Basset shit was years ago now, we're well past the deification of the armed forces, thankfully. Although their mantle has now been taken by 'front line workers' or people who 'run towards danger' so it's swings and roundabouts. Teachers probably fancy trying to seethe their way into the equation somehow.

I’ve seen a few bits lately from teachers I know who definitely seem to be feeling it a bit that nobody thinks they’re amazingly important.

[Jimmy Floyd]

All that Wooton Basset shit was years ago now, we're well past the deification of the armed forces, thankfully. Although their mantle has now been taken by 'front line workers' or people who 'run towards danger' so it's swings and roundabouts. Teachers probably fancy trying to seethe their way into the equation somehow.

It's so strange whenever you see an old PMQs from the late Blair, Brown, or early Cameron eras (maybe it's only me that ever comes across such footage, but meh) and the respective leaders start by wasting two minutes each reeling off their sympathies for whoever had been blown up that week.

Even then, 'Our Boys' didn't have kids chalking murals on the pavements like 'Our NHS Heroes' now do. When are the brave and noble spare parts salesmen going to get their dues, I ask you.

Also, I saw it pointed out somewhere that within the NHS, the legends doing back office admin always get slated. No point having nurses unless someone's ordered the medicine.

[Spoonsky]

I feel like NHS 'front-line' workers are being treated as heroes because for a few weeks there they were dealing with horrifying and traumatic shit on a daily basis. Of course the guy who orders meds is also necessary but he's not going home to have nightmares about it afterwards.

(with all respect to Our Lee)

[niko_cee]

The pubs being shut and nobody driving anywhere (eye testing legends excluded, natch) probably means they are facing a lot less horror and trauma than usual.

Facilitating death in the elderly is their bread and butter, no? Or was that just Shipman?

[Shindig]

I can't imagine a situation where dumping an extra 30,000 deaths on the NHS isn't horror.

[niko_cee]

Good job they're all dying in 'the community' then, I guess.

[Magic]

The Itis got it hard though, they actually did have to make survival of the fittest decisions, though most were fucked anyway. We've been clapping people doing their jobs.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I feel like NHS 'front-line' workers are being treated as heroes because for a few weeks there they were dealing with horrifying and traumatic shit on a daily basis. Of course the guy who orders meds is also necessary but he's not going home to have nightmares about it afterwards.

(with all respect to Our Lee)

Nah it's always like this over here (to a greater or lesser extent, with this being the greatest of all extents).

NHS as represented by doctors and nurses is a national religion. Lee and his evil scumbag administrators trying to penny pinch on stethoscopes and introduce car parking charges are reviled.

[Magic]

I’ve seen a few bits lately from teachers I know who definitely seem to be feeling it a bit that nobody thinks they’re amazingly important.

They are insane.

[Don]

Q for any Londoners but possibly just a public PM to Kiko, are there pubs serving takeaway pints till late? If so, is a piss-up basically fair game or are they being policed by SWAT teams nearby? If not, send mans some names, obviously wanting some outdoor sunning spots nearby.

[Kikó]

None of the pubs in the immediate area to me is open. Clissold Park Tavern was open the other night at 8ish but not sure what time they're closing.

[Don]

Ah yes, know it, top spot by the green too. Cheers.

[Giggles]

Mans?

[Don]

I'm only after using slang. Your man named Kiko understood.

[Manc]

Giggles has got a real hard on for Taz recently.

[Boydy]

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:lol:

[Jimmy Floyd]

It will be interesting to see how long they keep going at him. I can't remember the British tabloids being denied a kill. Do they just carry on for months and we find out the virus has gone in the mean time?

[Shindig]

That'll sell papers.

[Don]

If I see that in the shop tomorrow I'm buying it.

[Queenslander]

Went to the pub tonight. Have been back at work for two weeks now. Gatherings of 100 people allowed now.
Heading for a road-trip down the country this weekend.

Basically back to normal now. At least people have learned how to wash their hands and practice a bit better personal hygiene.

Super Rugby should break records for crowds surely?

[phonics]

Got a taxi home from the pub, I was his second fare in 8 hours because no-one's out/going to the airport/catching the train. I paid him double his fare and he gave me his number saying he'll give me my next 5 trips for free. Society :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's going to want a blowie at some point during those 5.

[phonics]

He's going to want a blowie at some point during those 5.

Some people can exchange money with strangers without the implication that they get to moderate their chat channel.

[Queenslander]

Uh oh...

A 30-year-old man from Blackwater in Central Queensland, tested positive for coronavirus, after he died in his home yesterday

The fatality brings the state's coronavirus death toll to seven.

Chief health officer Jeannette Young said the man is believed to have been sick with symptoms for several weeks.

Dr Young said the man had a "complicated" medical history and had not travelled outside of the town since February.

"He was at home for most of that time," she said.

His partner also has symptoms and has been taken to the Rockhampton hospital, however an initial test for COVID-19 was negative.

More to come.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-27/coronavirus-testing-queensland-death-dies/12287058

[Lewis]

It will be interesting to see how long they keep going at him. I can't remember the British tabloids being denied a kill. Do they just carry on for months and we find out the virus has gone in the mean time?

Death rattle. If they can time nobbling the licence fee with the transition period ending we might get ritual suicides.

[phonics]

It's so strange whenever you see an old PMQs from the late Blair, Brown, or early Cameron eras (maybe it's only me that ever comes across such footage, but meh) and the respective leaders start by wasting two minutes each reeling off their sympathies for whoever had been blown up that week.

I know you say it's Blair but the Iraq War broke the country. Absolutely lost any sense of vision and just started copying the Americans to cover their own arses.

The post 2003 Poppy being the perfect illustration of a country ashamed of it's actions but also unwilling to accept defeat.

Britain has been ill for a long time but this was the day it died:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EI-FzgLW4AANWpy.jpg

[Giggles]

Giggles has got a real hard on for Taz recently.

It goes both ways.

[Don]

Yeah, like your dad.

[Shindig]

He's going to want a blowie at some point during those 5.

"Hello, John. What's the camera for?"

[Magic]

Guaranteed the public will be behind Boris even more now.

[phonics]

His approval has dropped something like 20 Points in the last 4-6 days.

https://www.newsweek.com/covid-19-boris-johnson-dominic-cummings-conservatives-popularity-labour-trump-u-s-1506461

[Magic]

His approval has dropped something like 20 Points in the last 4-6 days.

https://www.newsweek.com/covid-19-boris-johnson-dominic-cummings-conservatives-popularity-labour-trump-u-s-1506461

Fake news. Tory landslide next time round. All the morons think he's been given so much shit by the media, they relate to his struggle.

[phonics]

You’ve literally just made up an opinion and implied it’s the majority opinion of 4 countries.

[Magic]

You’ve literally just made up an opinion and implied it’s the majority opinion of 4 countries.

Only 1 matters.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If at the point where the PM is quite evidently lying on the grandest possible scale in full public view at a time of national crisis his party still has a 10 point poll lead, I would be on Magic's side of the argument.

Their success or otherwise at the next election will be determined by the economic response to this rather than where Dominic Cummings drove 4 years earlier.

[phonics]

We seem to be conflating Boris with the Tory party here. I never mentioned an election.

[Magic]

We seem to be conflating Boris with the Tory party here. I never mentioned an election.

Populism m8.

[Ian]

People voted in the Tories either knowing and not caring what Johnson is or being too stupid to have realised (doesn't matter which), this being proven for the umpteenth time seems unlikely to make a difference when it comes down to it.

[Revolution]

Only 1 matters.

Damn right it does

[Jimmy Floyd]

People voted in the Tories either knowing and not caring what Johnson is or being too stupid to have realised (doesn't matter which), this being proven for the umpteenth time seems unlikely to make a difference when it comes down to it.

It'll change when there is an opposition which is definitely better and more appealing. Starmer may well achieve this but it's early days.

[Lewis]

Keir Starmer is going to spend the three years leading up to the election whining about Brexit and wanting more immigration. The people who think this is all relevant are the same people who went round saying things like 'game changer' about One Nation Labour.

[Waffdon]

13 dead in Scotland. Half in the whole total being dead beats in a care home.

Get the border shut and pubs open.

[Don]

If Smiffy was still with us, that Nandos tweet by Rishi has probs ended him. RIP

[Disco]

I reckon you can get bang average chicken in hospital too so he should be fine.

[Magic]

Lol Scotrail say they are making it mandatory for a mask to be worn on their trains.

[Magic]

13 dead in Scotland. Half in the whole total being dead beats in a care home.

Get the border shut and pubs open.

More than three quarters of those who have died were over the age of 75.
:happycry:

[Yevrah]

If there's one thing that Brexit and this have taught us is that there's a significant minority of young people who have an appalling attitude towards the elderly.

[Spikey M]

Caused by the attitude of the elderly towards young people.

[Boydy]

If there's one thing that Brexit and this have taught us is that there's a significant minority of young people who have an appalling attitude towards the elderly.

I don't disagree (look at the state of Magic and Waff in here) but Brexit (and how they vote otherwise) also kind of show us that the older generation have a pretty appalling attitude towards young people.

See also: all the constant articles about millennials are killing this or that industry and how they could afford a house if they weren't spending all their money on lattes and avocados and are just generally workshy.

[mugbull]

I don't disagree (look at the state of Magic and Waff in here) but Brexit (and how they vote otherwise) also kind of show us that the older generation have a pretty appalling attitude towards young people.

See also: all the constant articles about millennials are killing this or that industry and how they could afford a house if they weren't spending all their money on lattes and avocados and are just generally workshy.

Giggles has done more harm to my general outlook on the elderly than any other single person or thing

[Kikó]

60 year olds hate millenials. The over 75 are fine.

Except for the racism.

[mugbull]

60 year olds hate millenials. The over 75 are fine.

Except for the racism.

Yeah, that's valid. The proper old people have gotten past the "i'm slowly going decrepit and i can't mentally deal with it" phase and into the "i hope my grandkids are doing well" phase, which is always a lot more pleasant

[phonics]

Keir Starmer is going to spend the three years leading up to the election whining about Brexit and wanting more immigration. The people who think this is all relevant are the same people who went round saying things like 'game changer' about One Nation Labour.

You've become an absolute loon lately.

[Waffdon]

The best are always usually a bit fucked or weird in the head. It makes sense.

[Revolution]

The best are always usually a bit fucked or weird in the head. It makes sense.

Cringe

[Waffdon]

You look like you fondle kids as a hobby. Less of that.

[Lewis]

We've got the rest of this, a recession, and then Brexit to get through before the next election. If after all that there is nothing newer and bigger to attack Boris Johnson with then he will be laughing.

[Revolution]

You look like you fondle kids as a hobby. Less of that.

Never knew I looked like your dad

[Spikey M]

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[Giggles]

I don't disagree (look at the state of Magic and Waff in here) but Brexit (and how they vote otherwise) also kind of show us that the older generation have a pretty appalling attitude towards young people.

See also: all the constant articles about millennials are killing this or that industry and how they could afford a house if they weren't spending all their money on lattes and avocados and are just generally workshy.

Waff is just trying to shock because he’s a bit of a twat and still about 15 in his head. Magic has no redeeming features as a human though.

[Waffdon]

I don’t have a problem with old people. I just don’t think a full blown lockdown, stopping people from contacting each other who aren’t at risk, should be going on much longer. 14 deaths were recorded in Scotland and will only get lower. Keep the vulnerable in isolation if need be and start opening things up over the next month.

And if my experience so far is anything to go by, it’s the older generation that haven’t adhered to the rules more than the younger generation.

[Magic]

How are those millions of VE day deaths looking lads? :harold:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sarah Wollaston screeching about an 'expected second wave' earlier confirms her as a fraud windbag tosser.

Where is the second wave in China? Korea had one that amounted to about 30 people. There's not going to be a second wave, at least not for many months.

[Boydy]

Sarah Wollaston screeching about an 'expected second wave' earlier confirms her as a fraud windbag tosser.

Where is the second wave in China? Korea had one that amounted to about 30 people. There's not going to be a second wave, at least not for many months.
I know her son. Lovely fella.

[Yevrah]

Sarah Wollaston screeching about an 'expected second wave' earlier confirms her as a fraud windbag tosser.

Where is the second wave in China? Korea had one that amounted to about 30 people. There's not going to be a second wave, at least not for many months.

In fairness to her, and I don't necessarily disagree with you, but comparing our situation to that of China and Korea's probably isn't a good idea.

[Don]

I didn't think much of her moment of glory last night but fuck me this is surreal. Proper jew lizard workings.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/may/27/bbc-switches-emily-maitlis-in-newsnight-episode-over-cummings-remarks

[Spoonsky]

Sarah Wollaston screeching about an 'expected second wave' earlier confirms her as a fraud windbag tosser.

Where is the second wave in China? Korea had one that amounted to about 30 people. There's not going to be a second wave, at least not for many months.

There's not going to be a second wave in the US - because we're still in the first one. And yet we're reopening the country faster than Europe.

100,000 people dead. Because we're morons.

[Queenslander]

Sarah Wollaston screeching about an 'expected second wave' earlier confirms her as a fraud windbag tosser.

Where is the second wave in China? Korea had one that amounted to about 30 people. There's not going to be a second wave, at least not for many months.

When you open up with Europe?

[Lewis]

Aren't half/most of the states doing alright and in a position to open back up? Obviously the full country doing it all together would be daft.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/may/15/coronavirus-map-us-latest-cases-state-by-state

A lot of them are alright but Trump just wants FREEDOM and money.

[Revolution]

Tbh opening up is fine if you do it sensibly. It's pretty clear the virus isn't quite as contagious as first thought. Clusters are mainly formed from super spreader events. The problem is America wont do it sensibly.

[Spikey M]

If everyone closes their borders to them they will.

Or they'll invade someone.

[John Arne]

America seems to be getting more criticism than the figures indicate.

Ignoring the social media videos, the number are relatively similar to Spain, Italy, UK and France.

In terms deaths per population, they are behind most of Western Europe. They have a high number cases (still less per pop than Spain) but that's expected given they have tested 4.5x as many people.

[John Arne]

Deaths per 1m pop

https://gyazo.com/2555fd5da33634be0b04a0b540935ea8.jpeg

[Shindig]

Even if you just go for raw death rate, 5% is better than Italy, Spain, the UK, etc. Outside of New York and New Jersey, the numbers aren't awful.

[Waffdon]

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He must be the worst out of a bad bunch. A deplorable cunt

[Queenslander]

Watching Sky News is your 1st mistake.

[Waffdon]

I needed to post it somewhere since I couldn’t retweet it as Twitter decided to re-ban me for 24 hours

[Ian]

At least Hancock's having a good time.

[Baz]

Have I missed the memo or is tonight’s clapping on the doorstep the FINAL time?

[Spikey M]

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He must be the worst out of a bad bunch. A deplorable cunt

He's actually managed a rare double loss on this. It's too slow because, well, we're leaving lockdown without a functioning app AND it's rushed because, well, we're leaving lockdown without a fucking app.

Vapid cunt.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I reckon he gave up weeks ago and has just been sleeping in his suit, playing N64 all day and popping out to do interviews when he sees his name on the grid.

[Lewis]

The only possible rule breach is the eye test drive, but even that you could go either way. The rest of it is clear cut in not being.

Well in me. Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn seems to have been breaking the actual laws, so half the whingers will have to pack it in now.

[Spikey M]

What's he done?

[Spikey M]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8363289/Jeremy-Corbyn-pictured-flouting-social-distancing-rules.html

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/100998155_10157263954348085_8407236488638496768_oj pg-JS585554327.jpg

Crimes against fashion, apparently.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I honestly couldn't give a stuff either about Dominic Cummings driving to Barnard Castle, Jeremy Corbyn standing next to a man with an Alice band, Boris Johnson pissing in a urinal next to John Lennon, Keir Starmer doing a handstand on top of a human pyramid of sick children, Bill Cash rolling down a hill tied to Mo Mowlam's mouldering corpse... I just don't give a fuck.

All I want is any kind of fucking competence when it comes to rolling out timescales for the rest of us to be able to resume our far more important lives.

[Waffdon]

It’s 24c in my back garden and I’m sizzling. This is great.

[Lewis]

What's he done?

His birthday bike ride sounds like it broke movement and gathering laws.

[Spikey M]

He was probably just checking his hearing.

[Lewis]

Possibly. I just hope for his sake that his party leader buys it, otherwise he'll be getting sacked.

[Yevrah]

I'd have booted him out the minute I was appointed for crimes against having an opposition.

[Waffdon]

England deaths are rising from last week. Shut the borders.

[niko_cee]

He's actually managed a rare double loss on this. It's too slow because, well, we're leaving lockdown without a functioning app AND it's rushed because, well, we're leaving lockdown without a fucking app.

Vapid cunt.

Isn't 'having an app' a complete waste of time anyway as the uptake will be pitiful?

It's a just a shiny modern thing people like the sound of, but in reality you need actual people doing actual boring work with pens and other mundane anachronistic shit to make 'track and trace' work

[Revolution]

Isn't 'having an app' a complete waste of time anyway as the uptake will be pitiful?

It's a just a shiny modern thing people like the sound of, but in reality you need actual people doing actual boring work with pens and other mundane anachronistic shit to make 'track and trace' work

Go on your phone. Settings > google. Its probably already on there.

[Spikey M]

Isn't 'having an app' a complete waste of time anyway as the uptake will be pitiful?

It's a just a shiny modern thing people like the sound of, but in reality you need actual people doing actual boring work with pens and other mundane anachronistic shit to make 'track and trace' work

Why would the uptake be pitiful?

It seems to have been pretty key in the countries that have actually done weqll with this. Or South Korea atleast. That said, if the qualifying line is 'spending more than 5 minutes within 2 meters of someone that tests positive' or whatever it is, then the current set up is ok(ish) but how it works when things start reopening I don't know.

'Errr, yea, there was a bloke at the table next to me outside Starbucks that was a little bit close for a while. Blue t-shirt.'

[Disco]

It would at least give them a window into regional trends, you don't need full uptake to get enough data to track outbreaks and introduce measures in specific areas.

I concede that I may have just given it more thought than the minister in charge.

[niko_cee]

Why would the uptake be pitiful?

It seems to have been pretty key in the countries that have actually done weqll with this. Or South Korea atleast. That said, if the qualifying line is 'spending more than 5 minutes within 2 meters of someone that tests positive' or whatever it is, then the current set up is ok(ish) but how it works when things start reopening I don't know.

'Errr, yea, there was a bloke at the table next to me outside Starbucks that was a little bit close for a while. Blue t-shirt.'

I was going off the experience in Singapore where I think it worked a lot less well than they hoped, although I think their problem might have been that reasonably large sections of their society (migrant underclass) didn't have access to smartphones and they were the ones living ten to a room and merrily infecting each other.

[Spikey M]

I was going off the experience in Singapore where I think it worked a lot less well than they hoped, although I think their problem might have been that reasonably large sections of their society (migrant underclass) didn't have access to smartphones and they were the ones living ten to a room and merrily infecting each other.

Possibly. I think bar the oldies (that shouldn't be out anyway) and the conspiracy nuts (that are alot more pervasive than I realised), most people would play ball.

Well, play ball with installing the app anyway. How many would stay home if they received an alert is a different matter.

[Shindig]

I'd install it but it still all goes off coronavirus symtpoms rather than cast-iron cases. Not only do you need someone to install and use it, but you need that person to have the sense of book themselves in for a test. I'm assuming the app has hooks for that, mind.

Also, I bet this is really, really good for trolling.

[Giggles]

Should be just forced on everyone.

[Shindig]

I don't want to explain to my parents how it works.

[Pepe]

I will just leave my phone at home. Not that I use it much anyway.

[Spikey M]

England deaths are rising from last week. Shut the borders.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/375/cpsprodpb/DEB5/production/_112531075_optimised-peak_v_latest-nc.png

+1 for shut the borders.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There is no border.

[Spikey M]

Mr President. Build that wall.

[Shindig]

One's already there. :D

[Spikey M]

Yeah, but we need one around the Midlands.

[Kikó]

I for one , don't want fucking capita to process my details for track and trace.

[Spikey M]

Do G4S have a data processing wing?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

First he has an issue with CCTV and now this.

What are you hiding, Keeks?

[Shindig]

I for one , don't want fucking capita to process my details for track and trace.

Oof. Atos mustn't have put a bid in.

[Lewis]

Those Scotland numbers are a bit shit when they have fewer people to start with and barely anyone brown or over sixty. They're barely able to test anyone as well.

[Shindig]

81% of the US deaths are black which is one hell of a bleak stat.

[Smjffy]

England deaths are rising from last week. Shut the borders.

But I'm not one of them. :cool: Woo! I am finally out, I just gotta wait until Sunday now as I can't risk the train again so socially distancing whilst driving 300 miles back home should be interesting which in turn brings me too.....

I'm with Jimmy on all this latest stuff with regards to Cummings and this botch job with Boris Johnson. I am more convinced than ever that it's going to go tits up and very quickly too. I'm no conspiracy theorist but I read this and was worried.

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On the plus side though, football as of the 17th. Enough time for Arsenal to beat City, us to beat Everton then the game gets closed again because it's so obvious what is going to happen in this country in my opinion. I have a really bad feeling about it all.

[Lewis]

'I'm no conspiracy theorist but I read this [by a conspiracy theorist] and was worried.'

[Smjffy]

Easy, Lewis. You've hardly covered yourself in glory these past few pages. You might be proven wrong.

Again.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've come out of this as a staunch anti-Cummings hawk, it seems. You see, Lewis? It's all about managing the story.

[Lewis]

Easy, Lewis. You've hardly covered yourself in glory these past few pages. You might be proven wrong.

Again.

He's a well-known idiot who calls everyone he doesn't like Nazis and thinks the TaxPayers' Alliance sits at the centre of a global fascist conspiracy.

[Lewis]

I've come out of this as a staunch anti-Cummings hawk, it seems. You see, Lewis? It's all about managing the story.

The only [other] person who has let the side down is Steve Baker. Everyone else breaking ranks has definite MELT tendencies.

[Smjffy]

Apparently it's a Brexit thing.....but I couldn't give a hoot what he done for Brexit or for Boris's BS campaign but I am convinced, almost certain, that the GE result was solely because of Brexit and people wanting to move on from it, certainly up my area because we just couldn't keep Labour in giving we were probably on of the biggest areas for leaving the EU and their version of it (whatever that was) is/was bollocks. Keir Starmer and Labour aren't any better but for me all they have to do now is ride the next few years out (if it even gets to 2024(?)) and then they'll be back in by default. I still don't see it as over with regards to Cummings and co.

Personally, I don't think I have a party or allegience to any of them. Public are gullible fuckers in that a few good words then that's the next PM, that's how much we scrape the barrel. My right honour friend Rishi Sunak was the next PM, now he's hated and will be even more so in the next month when the layoffs start. Keir Starmer is PM material because he asked a decent first question on PMQ's for Christ sake.

Bonkers the whole thing but I believe it's going to come crashing down and I base that on public mood.

Right now though I'm more angry at Boris than Cummings, DC just broke a rule but Boris has shown himself to be so far from a leader this that he needs go. For me that's where the focus should be, not on Cummings.

[Smjffy]

He's a well-known idiot who calls everyone he doesn't like Nazis and thinks the TaxPayers' Alliance sits at the centre of a global fascist conspiracy.

It's more how closely linked everything is. Same with this Dido Harding etc. We know Government is corrupt, they are all but something doesn't feel right about any of this.

Did you watch the Committee Meeting at all yesterday?

[Lewis]

I try not to watch any of it. But yes, how deep does it go? (https://twitter.com/BettGunther/status/1250368287520837632)

[Jimmy Floyd]

The only [other] person who has let the side down is Steve Baker. Everyone else breaking ranks has definite MELT tendencies.

Doesn't he hate the Domster due to not being offered a good (enough) job when Boris first got in?

[Luca]

You're not kidding. I have been struggling for a little while with my health but I was trying to resolve said issues before fucking it off and moving away again but for the last 2/3 weeks maybe I've been having sharp chest pains, hearts been racing even if I do very little and difficulty breathing, mostly in the evenings but it seemed to come and go. I just put things down to not working and not moving much plus the stress of not knowing how I am going to pay my bills etc. I got as far as Truro a few days ago and collapsed. Maybe it as lugging my suitcases around or whatever but I don't remember too much.

The last place I wanted to be is in a hospital though tbf it's not too bad here as I was informed later that they have separate wards for Covid stuff but aye, I got a little scared hence the post.

I should be out in a day or two but thanks for your words chaps.

Was it a panic attack, Smiff? You were on the train?

[Smjffy]

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Bollocks. It's just another effort to quieten things down.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He was never going to last that long anyway, and he definitely isn't now. He's there to deliver Brexit and it's easy to forget he donned the entire Remain movement out of their skins at least twice, maybe three times in order to do so.

Remember when Lady Hale delivered her 'game changer' with the ruling and the shitty brooch? He saw her off.

[Smjffy]

Was it a panic attack, Smiff? You were on the train?

I don't know if I am honest, the lass at Cornwall Royal actually mentioned panic/anxiety attack whatever but I honestly couldn't tell you. I've never had one as far as I am concerned. The last couple of weeks or the pains have come and gone, heart races even if I just walk down the stairs or something and the breathing difficulties actually tend to arrive in the evening as opposed to being an all day thing but I have had a few moments where my heart has been going like the clappers and I'm trying to breathe and throwing up at the same time but just bile more than anything and that's unpleasant, I can sort of cope with the breathing bit as I focus on it and do the pursed lip stuff but it's impossible when you're throwing up because that acid reflux thing that comes up.

I think if I actually got on the train then I don't want to sound dramatic but I think I might be dead already. For lack of a better word, "thankfully", it was as I was walking to it. Even so, I shouldn't be struggling just lugging around my luggage. I'll go seek further help when I actually get back, it's impossible for me here.

That's the last I really want to say on it all really. I told RL that I don't care if I die a few months ago, I think I was wrong. I do care and it wasn't a very experience. (:cry: fucking eyes)

[Smjffy]

He was never going to last that long anyway, and he definitely isn't now. He's there to deliver Brexit and it's easy to forget he donned the entire Remain movement out of their skins at least twice, maybe three times in order to do so.

Remember when Lady Hale delivered her 'game changer' with the ruling and the shitty brooch? He saw her off.

He's been behind the scenes way before Brexit, hasn't he? I found this was a good little watch in regards to Cummings. Quite enjoying this DDN lot too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-mRsZW4lY8

[Lewis]

Doesn't he hate the Domster due to not being offered a good (enough) job when Boris first got in?

I don't know. They seemed to like (or at least respect, which counts as like) each other originally, but I think Cummings went along with thinking that Baker and the Brexit legends constantly donning Theresa May would make remain more likely, which was obviously wrong (and was obvious at the time). So probably a bit of that and Baker thinking he should be a big noise in government yes.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Dom hates the 'Brexit legends' because they made a phenomenal effort at fucking up the referendum (and if they had had their way and DC had been fired in the January, Remain would have won with like 56%).

Similarly, they hate him for having taken them off the telly during the campaign and blogged 50,000 words calling them vapid cunts since.

[Don]

I see we can now meet another household up to a total group of 6 now, as long as we're 2m apart. I thought they were going to reduce it to 1.5m? Either way it's a big relief for me, should hopefully allow me to put my life back on track.

Also really interested to see the impact of Waff's lot making it 8. That's a 33.33% increase! Going for that NR R number.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Meeting a Scotsman is only 75% as enjoyable as meeting an English person. It's the same number expressed differently.

[Lewis]

Dom hates the 'Brexit legends' because they made a phenomenal effort at fucking up the referendum (and if they had had their way and DC had been fired in the January, Remain would have won with like 56%).

Similarly, they hate him for having taken them off the telly during the campaign and blogged 50,000 words calling them vapid cunts since.

If it wasn't for them we wouldn't be getting a worthwhile Brexit, so it's 1-1.

[Raoul Duke]

Can Household A meet Household B, who are meeting Household C, and therefore have 18 people meeting?

[Don]

Really depends on spacing. If they keep to 2m, no, but if you increase to 4m (2^2) A is allowed into the frame. Ultimately, it's about common sense and whether household A need their hearing checked by listening to the interactions of B and C.

[Spikey M]

Why do they keep making these announcements to go from Monday? Another weekend of no family for those that are stupid enough to stick to the rules.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It sounds like if you really stick to the letter of the law, you can visit someone's garden but not use their crockery/cutlery or go to the loo inside, etc.

I think that might be where my law-abiding nature reaches its natural threshold.

[SvN]

How do I even get to someone's back garden without going through their house?

[Byron]

You mean your friends don't all have front gardens and/or paths leading down the side of the house to the back garden? Peasant.

It is of course bollocks. The government isn't making the rules, it's merely pretending to keep up with the general populace.

In 3 weeks time they'll announce indoor visits ignoring that we'll all be doing it by then anyway.

[Foe]

Green light to do the hell what you want.

Going to be back to normal this weekend for most, whether the government want that or not.

I’m just happy I can hack my way around a golf course again, starting this evening and continuing on Sunday.

[Mike]

How do I even get to someone's back garden without going through their house?

I don’t even have a garden.

[Spikey M]

How do I even get to someone's back garden without going through their house?

He said you can.

He also said you could use their bathroom but have to wipe down everything you touch. Don't forget to bleach your cock.

The scientific advisor didn't took too happy about most of what he said, mind.

[Smjffy]

I don't see a happy ending with this at all. I feel June and especially July is going to be the worst month of the year to date for millions. Patrick Vallance's body language was very telling for me too.

I don't want to come across as scaremongering but I can see it all so clearly in my mind it's like I'm in June already. It's so blatantly obvious what is going to occur.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Green light to do the hell what you want.

Going to be back to normal this weekend for most, whether the government want that or not.

I’m just happy I can hack my way around a golf course again, starting this evening and continuing on Sunday.

The feeling when I flushed a three wood off 2nd tee (let's not talk about the 1st) was the best thing in the pandemic so far.

[Smjffy]

How do I even get to someone's back garden without going through their house?

If I was at my mothers house I would just walk around the side of the house and go to the back garden...interestingly though, my next door neighbour to the left of me won't have that option and she'll have to have people go through her house whilst the neighbour on the right can avoid it because they have a side way. That said, at least we have a garden. So many don't have that luxury.

[Smjffy]

It sounds like if you really stick to the letter of the law, you can visit someone's garden but not use their crockery/cutlery or go to the loo inside, etc.

I think that might be where my law-abiding nature reaches its natural threshold.

You can use the loo but you have to give it a good deep clean thereafter, apparently. You're advised to take your own cutlery/crockery.

None it is going to be able to be policed in any way shape or form.

[Smjffy]

The feeling when I flushed a three wood off 2nd tee (let's not talk about the 1st) was the best thing in the pandemic so far.

I was once on for an eagle....the first time ever. I hit a Par 4 green in one....mate said at the time to just tee off as others were on green and no way I was going to hit it, which was fair as I am awful but I only had to shout four! I didn't get the eagle but I did get my first birdie on a golf course. :cool: Better than the double B's that's for sure.

[Kikó]

At this point it's effectively "don't lick each other". Welcome to summer.

Wish we could ban cars for longer.

[Spikey M]

The deaths are going up again anyway. Make the most of it lads.

[Waffdon]

Seeing the missus for the first time in 69 days. How convenient.

[Ian]

The deaths are going up again anyway. Make the most of it lads.

Sounds to me like somebody's not deluding themself hard enough.

Next time you go to think "God, we're still making a total arse of this" I want you to instead just choose to believe that we've absolutely smashed it and everything is great.

[Shindig]

At this point I'm only watching case numbers. Locally, the North East is doing alright.

[Yevrah]

I thought that was one of the better, more sensible announcements made so far.

Making people wait until Monday who've stuck slavishly to the rules all along is some sort of sick joke though mind. This whole affair has been a microcosm of why it's much better in life not to stick to rules at all. You just utterly screw yourself if you do.

[Spikey M]

Sounds to me like somebody's not deluding themself hard enough.

Next time you go to think "God, we're still making a total arse of this" I want you to instead just choose to believe that we've absolutely smashed it and everything is great.

You're right. Sorry.

It was probably just another change in the way they're recording stuff or summink and the deaths are actually HALF of what they were last week. Our VE Day Patriotism Party Bunting Bonanza has shown this bastard that we're not the country to fuck with. There'll always be an England.

[Ian]

If you're really struggling have a wank to a picture of the Queen while singing Rule Brittannia at the top of your voice.

[Smjffy]

I thought that was one of the better, more sensible announcements made so far.

Making people wait until Monday who've stuck slavishly to the rules all along is some sort of sick joke though mind. This whole affair has been a microcosm of why it's much better in life not to stick to rules at all. You just utterly screw yourself if you do.

Spot on although I would say if we could remove all the deaths that have occurred then the lock down and financial cost etc has been worth it to expose the inequalities in this country and how flawed so much things are or how many supposed systems aren't fit for purpose. The next two months is going to highlight it even more and with Brexit etc too then there is at least an opportunity to come out of it all better than we came into it. It'll take years regardless but there's a small glimmer of hope there. The downside to that though is both main parties are useless and so are the public in certain respects. Rishi Sunak next PM because he said a few good words and now look at how people perceive him, and more to join that list. Keir Starmer is another, a few good questions in his first PMQ then all of a sudden the Labour party is BACK! Bullshit it is. Labour are every bit as guilty as the conservatives have been.

If we're going to have a new norm then that new norm can't be left/right nonsense. I would also say thanks to Brexit we're probably in a fantastic place long term compared to the rest of Europe. Tax Haven Britain anyone?

[Spikey M]

Brittania rules the waves

[Smjffy]

I wasn't going to be downloading the app anyway especially as Dido already has past form but be warned chaps.

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[Don]

No DPIA??? Shiiiii.

As someone said earlier, if you've got a phone capable of downloading an app, you've already bent over and spread your cheeks wide so don't let that stop you from taking another mandingo in the name of civic participation.

[Raoul Duke]

If you're really struggling have a wank to a picture of the Queen while singing Rule Brittannia at the top of your voice.

Time the vinegar strokes for Thursday at 8pm too

[Kikó]

No DPIA??? Shiiiii.

As someone said earlier, if you've got a phone capable of downloading an app, you've already bent over and spread your cheeks wide so don't let that stop you from taking another mandingo in the name of civic participation.

There are legitimate questions about data protection with this half baked application and system.

[Waffdon]

Seeing the missus for the first time in 69 days. How convenient.

How do you kiss someone again? Asking for a friend.

[Spikey M]

Depends. Are you going for Chelsea or Glasgow style?

[thommo]

March 9th was the last time our household saw any of our family and friends, and it won't be this weekend either - thanks to Wales making the announcement on a Friday and holding back on easing restrictions till the Monday. And to make it worse, an arbitrary 5 mile rule will be in place for visiting - makes it tough considering the nearest family we have is about 20 miles away in Carmarthen.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Wales are Scotland are doing literally anything they can to appear distinct from England at the moment, it's quite cute.

Absolutely no difference in the virus outcomes across the three but it's all about that sweet PR.

[Smjffy]

March 9th was the last time our household saw any of our family and friends, and it won't be this weekend either - thanks to Wales making the announcement on a Friday and holding back on easing restrictions till the Monday. And to make it worse, an arbitrary 5 mile rule will be in place for visiting - makes it tough considering the nearest family we have is about 20 miles away in Carmarthen.

The last week in February here but you'll be thankful that we're doing it a bit differently.

Same with the schools, we're not opening them on the 1st June. I feel much more at ease with our restrictions than England's.

[Smjffy]

Wales are Scotland are doing literally anything they can to appear distinct from England at the moment, it's quite cute.

Absolutely no difference in the virus outcomes across the three but it's all about that sweet PR.

You're wrong. Our NHS is probably worse than England's so it's right that we are taking things slower and it's not about appearing distinct, it's about doing things in the right way, at the right time which for me adds weight behind the fact that England are only pushing things out that little bit quicker now because of Cummings and because economy comes first.

[Lewis]

The official Welsh figures are a bit Chinese.

[Lofty]

Not sure how Brexit is going to deliver us to the promised land chaps.

[Smjffy]

The official Welsh figures are a bit Chinese.

:nodd: Indisputable.

[thommo]

The last week in February here but you'll be thankful that we're doing it a bit differently.

Same with the schools, we're not opening them on the 1st June. I feel much more at ease with our restrictions than England's.

I'm a little irritated with the restrictions, but that's probably because I've still been in work 5 days a week, and our daughter has stayed in full-time childcare too, so in that respect nothing has changed whatsoever. It's the lack of visiting anyone that has slowly got to me, and I felt I coped pretty well for the first 2 months. Just don't see why we can't visit family this weekend and why it has to be regimented for only a 5 mile radius, especially considering how rural it is just a few miles out of the towns/cities.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm a little irritated with the restrictions, but that's probably because I've still been in work 5 days a week, and our daughter has stayed in full-time childcare too, so in that respect nothing has changed whatsoever. It's the lack of visiting anyone that has slowly got to me, and I felt I coped pretty well for the first 2 months. Just don't see why we can't visit family this weekend and why it has to be regimented for only a 5 mile radius, especially considering how rural it is just a few miles out of the towns/cities.

Being in this situation (without the daughter part) it's definitely that - life has been exactly as normal, but with all the good parts removed.

[Yevrah]

https://i.postimg.cc/0QCL8fNJ/93-EE7394-E856-4-D9-D-92-A0-EF6-E471-F898-A.png (https://postimages.org/)

Am I being dense here, but why if I've booked a test and it comes back with a negative result do I need to complete the 14 day isolation?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Because the tests are bollocks.

[Spikey M]

Then we might as well put test in the bin with trace.

Atleast 'and' works.

[Yevrah]

Quite a flaw in the whole approach really, when the rest of your household is now no longer isolating.

[Yevrah]

Forced licking of each other by the otherwise healthy really might be the best way out of this mess.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/may/29/excess-deaths-uk-has-one-highest-levels-europe

Finally the definitive numbers are in. [Dodgy European accent] UK nil points [/Dodgy European accent]

[Baz]

https://i.postimg.cc/0QCL8fNJ/93-EE7394-E856-4-D9-D-92-A0-EF6-E471-F898-A.png (https://postimages.org/)

Am I being dense here, but why if I've booked a test and it comes back with a negative result do I need to complete the 14 day isolation?I’ve asked my bosses. :thbup:

[Baz]

Because the tests are bollocks.
This, it seems.

"Its because the test doesn't pick everyone up if you only have a mild infection so you may still have it but it not show on the test"

[P_3]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/may/29/excess-deaths-uk-has-one-highest-levels-europe

Finally the definitive numbers are in. [Dodgy European accent] UK nil points [/Dodgy European accent]
What are the non-covid deaths all about? :serious:

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/may/29/excess-deaths-uk-has-one-highest-levels-europe

Finally the definitive numbers are in. [Dodgy European accent] UK nil points [/Dodgy European accent]

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the Guardian offices as they digested this data, topping out at a COME ON! and punch of the air when they realised they could use 'one of the highest in Europe' in the headline.

[Don]

What are the non-covid deaths all about? :serious:

I seen to recall it was some shit to do with care home deaths not being attributed to it or sonething of that ilk rather than it being people bleeding out from gunshot wounds because they were scared of seeking hospital treatment and catching the sniffles.


I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the Guardian offices as they digested this data, topping out at a COME ON! and punch of the air when they realised they could use 'one of the highest in Europe' in the headline.

:D

Aye, it's not exactly the most damning of margins but it gets the job done.

[Magic]

Lads Leeds was absolutely back to normal and it was just as glorious as I thought it would be. :drool:

[Smjffy]

Lads Leeds was absolutely back to normal and it was just as glorious as I thought it would be. :drool:

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

At the start of this thread we all thought it was a bit of a joke, then later on into the thread the majority went into "oh shit" mode, now it's going back to treating the virus as a joke and in the next few weeks we'll come full circle and back to the "oh shit" setting.

Watch this space and stay safe ffs.

[Magic]

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

At the start of this thread we all thought it was a bit of a joke, then later on into the thread the majority went into "oh shit" mode, now it's going back to treating the virus as a joke and in the next few weeks we'll come full circle and back to the "oh shit" setting.

Watch this space and stay safe ffs.

Bet we don't.

[Manc]

Lads Leeds was absolutely back to normal and it was just as glorious as I thought it would be. :drool:

Elaborate.

[Yevrah]

I think we'll absolutely see a rise in cases and deaths from whatever the bottomed out level is when we reach it, but we'd need to go back to doing absolutely nothing differently, with everything open as normal, for a sustained period of time for the rise to get anywhere close to what we experienced before.

In short, and from just applying the obvious rather than having any form of comprehensive scientific knowledge, I think it'll be fine for a while yet. And if/when it isn't, we'll all be back inside again.

It's worth the risk, as what else would we do?

[Manc]

Whatever happens we simply must follow the SCIENCE.

[Yevrah]

Only when THE SCIENCE is ready to advise, having considered everything and come up with a 100% correct choice of action.

Can't rush these things.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Beeb headline earlier was SOUTH KOREA CLOSES SCHOOLS DUE TO SECOND SPIKE. Reality was: 200 schools in one region went back to home learning for a bit because there were 76 new cases.

There ain't gonna be a second wave.

[Don]

Iran is leading the way with herd immunity so look at us if you want to see future waves in action. Although at this point it's not clear if our first wave ever ended.

[Disco]

I find myself looking over the various graphs the FT put out over my morning tea most days. Brazil, India, and Mexico (sorry Pepe) with an outside punt on Russia are all potential 'winners' judging by their trajectories.

[Shindig]

Russia winning it with their official numbers would be something special.

[Lewis]

The Russian figures are probably accurate and they're all just shrugging it off.

[Kikó]

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We're back.

[Shindig]

Spikey's in that mess somewhere.

[Ian]

"Guy in grey shorts sucker punched 3 people and came out puffing his chest like a tough guy "

He's right as well, look at the fucking nick of him.

[Spikey M]

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-monkeys-escape-with-covid-19-samples-after-attacking-lab-assistant-11996752

Coronavirus: Monkeys 'escape with COVID-19 samples' after attacking lab assistant

:lol:

[Ian]

I for one welcome our new monkey overlords.

[Spikey M]

Spikey's in that mess somewhere.

Eh?

[Offshore Toon]

niko_cee how do you feeling about Guernsey's approach? The Jersey and Guernsey Facebook mandem are acting like you've played everything perfectly, but I can't help but think it's a bit of a short-sighted approach.

[Smjffy]

https://www.lbcnews.co.uk/uk-news/sage-warn-lockdown-ease-political-coronavirus/

We listen to scientific advice, don't we? We follow it, right?

I hope I am overly dramatic but it all feels so wrong to me and I can't it as all I can see coming up is more deaths of huge numbers, not little clusters appearing here and there but taking us right back to the start only with even less support because we've switched it all off. I reckon the UK will have over 100,000 deaths itself before the end of the year of Covid and that's being extremely generous. I see the images of the Spanish and Italian hospitals appearing in British hospitals across the nation which didn't really materialise on this occasion but mostly because we sent so many vulnerable and elderly to their grave by throwing them back into care homes without tests blah blah.

I really do feel like doomsday scenario is upon us but people still aren't taking it seriously? I am so uncomfortable about it all that I am pained by it. Mentally it's like I am playing the future in my mind and it's too real not to be true. I hope it's not and I'm just a bit paranoid maybe but I don't think I am, I think we're going to make the first round of Covid resemble a common cold compared to what's about to follow.

[Magic]

Coming from the man recently hospitalised with anxiety.

[phonics]

Coming from the man recently hospitalised with anxiety.

Didn't you piss yourself from the stress of being in an airport?

[Smjffy]

Coming from the man recently hospitalised with anxiety.


Didn't you piss yourself from the stress of being in an airport?

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[Shindig]

I get the feeling we still don't have a clue where we're at. We're not rolling out the antibody tests in great numbers, still only testing those with symptoms and, whilst infections are generally down, you can never test enough. Iceland gets a lot of praise and their new cases are an absolute trickle. However, they've only had 1805 infections which is 0.5% of Iceland's population. Herd immunity is a marathon of bollocks.

It's not some world-ending shit but this disease is going to linger for years.

[Spikey M]

Coming from the man recently hospitalised with anxiety.

I know you've got the autism, so you might not be aware, but just to let you know - you've gone back to being a cunt recently. Go and read one of your self help for angry women books or something.

[Spikey M]

I get the feeling we still don't have a clue where we're at. We're not rolling out the antibody tests in great numbers, still only testing those with symptoms and, whilst infections are generally down, you can never test enough. Iceland gets a lot of praise and their new cases are an absolute trickle. However, they've only had 1805 infections which is 0.5% of Iceland's population. Herd immunity is a marathon of bollocks.

It's not some world-ending shit but this disease is going to linger for years.

It's outstanding how badly we've handled this. It really is. Haven't got the app, having to lie about the amount of tests we're doing and the tests don't even work properly.

So we can't test, we can't trace but test and trace is a go anyway.

Shambles.

[Magic]

It was more a perspective check. Stay grounded.

[phonics]

As I mentioned before, the pubs are open here but the safety precautions are so thoroughly depressing that I'd rather not go. Imagine a table of 4 with a 10 foot tall piece of plywood either side. Closing in your perspective like you're a horse in the Grand National. And if you see another group of friends who are already a group of 4 you cannot talk to them unless sitting at a seperate table and shouting to them. Think I'll just stick to cans in the park for summertime.

Luckily clubbing was already off the menu even before I saw this:
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[Giggles]

The pubs here are going to be horrendous when they open again. Must order food, table service only, traffic light system for jacks, no leaving your table only togo to the jacks, and two hour maximum stay.

[Don]

Im weeping at that vid :D

[phonics]

The pubs here are going to be horrendous when they open again. Must order food, table service only, traffic light system for jacks, no leaving your table only togo to the jacks, and two hour maximum stay.

I genuinely think the UK will do little to no changes outside of spacing tables a bit and stopping you from ordering at the bar.

[Disco]

Well supermarket etiquette has largely gone out the window today, that was nice while it lasted.

[Smjffy]

:facepalm:

[Manc]

The Cummings effect.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's been slowly going out of the window for a couple of weeks here. When I went yesterday those being careful were massively in the minority.

[Giggles]

Click & Collect.

[Shindig]

I'm only in the place for a few minutes anyway but things were still sensible in my local tesco.

[Lofty]

"Guy in grey shorts sucker punched 3 people and came out puffing his chest like a tough guy "

He's right as well, look at the fucking nick of him.

First thing I noticed, bet he would fold like a deckchair if he was clocked in a fair fight.

[Waffdon]

The Brighton and Dorset photos :drool:

[Jimmy Floyd]

For all the seething on twitter, I'm afraid it's inevitable: 3/4 of these people would normally be in pubs/restaurants/beer gardens/out playing sport/elsewhere with friends. Because all of these things are shut and banned, what do you expect them to do? Parks and beaches are literally the only leisure activity available for most.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The ones interviewed on the beach who say people shouldn't be at the beach should be shot.

[Smjffy]

To any of the more politically minded amongst us. Does this have any significance in any way? I've never really understood polls.

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[Jimmy Floyd]

4 years out from an election, it doesn't mean anything as such but it should give Boris some pause for thought I suppose.

[Smjffy]

Not that I'm asking for it as an election is far from what we need but is there any mechanism's that would force them out before then?

[Jimmy Floyd]

If the PM was unable to command a majority in Parliament would normally be the only time when the party would be 'forced out' and an election called, but with an 80 majority it would be more or less impossible for that to happen. More conceivable would be Boris being forced out internally at some point and replaced by another Tory PM.

[Shindig]

Nope. Right here and now, it's about the pandemic.

[Smjffy]

If the PM was unable to command a majority in Parliament would normally be the only time when the party would be 'forced out' and an election called, but with an 80 majority it would be more or less impossible for that to happen. More conceivable would be Boris being forced out internally at some point and replaced by another Tory PM.

Yeah I sensed it would be something akin to a reshuffle. Cheers Jimmy.
Shindig, definitely agree. I was just curious because I don't understand what it even means. None of the parties are electable for me.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My opposite neighbours have been taking the piss throughout the pandemic with having family over and that, but tonight I can't have the balcony doors open because there is so much weed smoke drifting up from the full on party they are having (with music etc).

They also love talking loudly and explicitly about sex acts (particularly those fucking tedious anecdotes men tell about long forgotten conquests) between around 6-8pm even though they know that a 3 year old child lives next door and frequents the adjoining garden.

I shall plot my long term revenge.

[phonics]

I don't think the 3 year old is going to be damaged by hearing about shagging Stacey from down the road.

[P_3]

If I had neighbours like that I would happily watch them die from Covid_19.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I wouldn't talk loudly about fingering etc if there was a 3 year old child nearby. But then I wouldn't talk about it at all.

[Foe]

But you’re a good person. These folks are clearly less inclined to behave.

Feel superior. Plot revenge. Eat your cheese and drink your port.

[phonics]

I wouldn't talk loudly about fingering etc if there was a 3 year old child nearby. But then I wouldn't talk about it at all.

I'm not going to say I'd encourage it but they're 3...

[Spikey M]

3 year olds ask questions. Lots and lots of questions.

If my 4 year old asked me what fingering was because of some cunt next door, her next question would be regarding why my hands were round his neck.

[phonics]

Do you remember anything from when you were 3? Does it matter really?

[Smjffy]

Do you remember anything from when you were 3? Does it matter really?

It matters.

Someone I know has a 5 year old who doesn't like being girl. Where would that have come from?

[Lewis]

I asked a bunch of people why they weren't distancing properly earlier, and they said if Jeremy Corbyn can go on bike rides why can't they do whatever they were doing in my imagined encounter?

[Spikey M]

It's not about remembering, it's about shaping her world view. Explaining fingering away is probably easy, you just lie, but if he phrases something in a way that can be understood it will change the way the child sees the world. Steal a portion of innocence if you will.

When my daughter was 3 she saw a man with mental health issues getting arrested. Screaming, shouting, fighting, spitting, the works. She woke up every night thinking he was coming to get her and talks about it to this day if we go past where it happened.

[Kikó]

how was hammerstein?