Coronavirus Death Thread

[Kikó]

English, Maths and Science are pretty much bedrocks of education.

But yeah, your BTEC in Food Tech is more important m8. :henn0rz:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yeah but doing only those things because you need to 'catch up' is a reductive bollocks of an education.

[Kikó]

Not the point of my insult Jim.

[Don]

Can confirm Maths alone will allow you to develop into a[n autistic] don of all things. Everything else is just bullshit fluff.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Not the point of my insult Jim.

I was only responding to your first line, I assumed you were insulting Spikey because the very suggestion of me having a BTec in Food Tech would have resulted in a call to Carter Ruck.

[mo]

How does not doing a load of other subjects help you 'catch up' with English and Maths? I'd have thought doing History, Geography, languages, technologies, science etc would help stimulate/develop the English and Maths if anything.

This might just be me talking, but I found English lessons at school to be a pretty pointless load of wank and all the language and clarity of expression I picked up will have been from other subjects and more to the point, just the fact of being at school, talking to people and having to read stuff constantly.

Well this is just it. There's even evidence showing that too narrow a focus on English and Maths is not good for progress of pupils.

English, Maths and Science might be the bedrock, and are rightly the 'core' subjects, but you don't only use those skills and knowledge in those lessons.

[Jimmy Floyd]

In a sense, every other subject is just applied English and/or Maths, which is far more useful in many ways than the neat stuff.

[Giggles]

English is hardly important the way it’s taught. Shouldn’t come in the same sentence as maths.

[Spikey M]

Today has seen EasyJet fucking off and taking half of Southends economy with it. This is going to fist lot of people.

[Shindig]

I only hope with these job cuts, they bring them back as soon as they're confident they can run the routes regularly.

[Spikey M]

It's the first of many dominoes. So many businesses rely on that airport, from those working there to the Taxi drivers outside, the train station opposite, the hotel outside it, etc. It's a huge loss to a town that has very few large employers.

[mo]

Can't even go and watch Sol Campbell's Southend Utd anymore.

[Spikey M]

Cheers Mo, that's cheered me right up.

[Don]

Yeah but their £20 flights to [insert timeout recommended yuppie city break destination here] are unaffected so who tf cares if some white van owning families are in ruin?

[ScousePig]

How does not doing a load of other subjects help you 'catch up' with English and Maths? I'd have thought doing History, Geography, languages, technologies, science etc would help stimulate/develop the English and Maths if anything.

This might just be me talking, but I found English lessons at school to be a pretty pointless load of wank and all the language and clarity of expression I picked up will have been from other subjects and more to the point, just the fact of being at school, talking to people and having to read stuff constantly.

There are loads of cross curricular links anyway, so it's not a massive deal. My literacy is based around my history topics of the Victorians and World War II.

[Queenslander]

Victoria's second wave now has 30 hotspots. :cab:

Apparently it can be traced to a family of ten people...


Edit: Stuff a fine send them to Manus Island!


Prime Minister Scott Morrison has raised the prospect of fines for people refusing to get coronavirus tests as Melbourne grapples with an outbreak.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/people-refusing-to-get-tested-in-melbourne-s-hotspot-suburbs-could-face-fines-scott-morrison-warns

[Jimmy Floyd]

Leicester, Bradford, Doncaster, Brent and Harrow in London... no one's going to say it, are they?

[Lewis]

And Rochdale. If they pushed hand washing as 'personal grooming' it might register.

[Don]

Sounds like intelligent and hard-working areas of the UK.

[Giggles]

Dumbfucks.


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[mugbull]

:happycry:

[Queenslander]

We have spent too long in isolation.



Victorians 'abused' in SA border towns as coronavirus tensions flare amid travel confusion

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-01/tensions-rise-amid-coronavirus-fears-along-sa-victoria-border/12409442

[Don]

I do hope they don't elongate their epidemic, the whorehouses of Prague are one of the beacons getting me through this tunnel.

[Magic]

They've opened today m8.

[niko_cee]

We have spent too long in isolation.




https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-01/tensions-rise-amid-coronavirus-fears-along-sa-victoria-border/12409442

Mt Gambier.

:cool:

Fuck off is that lake blue.

Looking it up, I never knew Bordertown wasn't actually on the border. Boo. What's the crack with travel in Oz anyway? I'm pretty sure some of my parents' friends have just driven from Victoria to FNQ, is that allowed or have they been hooning it on the back roads across state lines?

[Manc]

I've been out in the real world today and people are cutting corners everywhere.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They have been since day 1, or, well, maybe day 10.

This list is a joke. Abolish the north and Southend.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eb2TclKXQAA_QuX?format=png&name=900x900

[Spikey M]

It's because of you London cunts that we're in this mess.

[Giggles]

My local got reported and shut down today :drool:

[Boydy]

My local got reported and shut down today :drool:

What for? Pubs are open again down there, aren't they?

[Waffdon]

It's because of you London cunts that we're in this mess.

Id imagine that’s the same for lots of places with them all going back to their homes up north.

[Giggles]

What for? Pubs are open again down there, aren't they?

For just opening as normal. There’s a fairly tight set of rules around them being allowed to open.

[Spikey M]

Actually, thinking about it... Southend has a population of about 170,000. 20.8 per 100,000 is fuck all.

[Yevrah]

They have been since day 1, or, well, maybe day 10.

This list is a joke. Abolish the north and Southend.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eb2TclKXQAA_QuX?format=png&name=900x900

Presumably that's because the South (and Liverpool) got it first.

[Don]

3 days left till I shit myself from the lols of seeing the chaos unfold before me.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Presumably that's because the South (and Liverpool) got it first.

Partly that but Leicester and the south Yorkshire mill towns will be the sweatshops.

[Shindig]

Id imagine that’s the same for lots of places with them all going back to their homes up north.

They were back around Durham for definite. I feel like we get away with it because the city itself barely has anyone besides students living there. Beyond the city centre, it's not really dense. I guess we'll find out once the pubs open, though. That has to be the biggest checkpoint.

[Kikó]

Id imagine that’s the same for lots of places with them all going back to their homes up north.

Talking about virus carriers, do you reckon it'll be opened up on the 10th?

[Waffdon]

Talking about virus carriers, do you reckon it'll be opened up on the 10th?

Where? Dundee? Beer gardens are open from Monday and pubs/restaurants/everything else two weeks today

[Queenslander]

Mt Gambier.

:cool:

Fuck off is that lake blue.

Looking it up, I never knew Bordertown wasn't actually on the border. Boo. What's the crack with travel in Oz anyway? I'm pretty sure some of my parents' friends have just driven from Victoria to FNQ, is that allowed or have they been hooning it on the back roads across state lines?

Yikes Victorians will be forced into a 2 week quarantine in a hotel of the Govenments choosing at $200 a night. Probably doing some quality out back hooning.

Id be putting on fake QLD plates lol


https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-queensland-borders-open-july-10-except-victoria/951d6c34-af47-4c39-b321-b8eb2fef3ea5

I wish QLD born and bred residents could vouch for people as Id write a letter telling the Premier that, "Nah Yeah these two Victorians are fair dinkum good people let them through."

Edit: If you can pass message on that they are not from Victoria as we are all fucked in the head now about State borders.

[John Arne]

I don't mean to gloat (and feel the wrath of John's anger), but I'm off to the beach this weekend, on a cracking little island off the coast.
No community transmissions here for 75 days, though there was a scare yesterday regarding an Indonesian guy - but turns out he is negative.

[Queenslander]

I don't mean to gloat (and feel the wrath of John's anger), but I'm off to the beach this weekend, on a cracking little island off the coast.
No community transmissions here for 75 days, though there was a scare yesterday regarding an Indonesian guy - but turns out he is negative.

:cool: Share a sunset photo?

If I can find a number 2 Im off to see the Reds or the Lions this weekend. Ill probably go solo to the Lions on my lonesome as I live 500m down the road and my local bar is directly opposite the GABBA.

[Queenslander]

:lol:


Explosive new claims made against private security at Victoria's hotel quarantine


The outlet also claims some guards were sleeping with guests, they shook hands and shared lifts and allowed guests to move between rooms to play cards.

https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/explosive-new-claims-made-against-private-security-at-victorias-hotel-quarantine-c-1138978


:lol:

[John Arne]

:cool: Share a sunset photo?

If I can find a number 2 Im off to see the Reds or the Lions this weekend. Ill probably go solo to the Lions on my lonesome as I live 500m down the road and my local bar is directly opposite the GABBA.

Are crowds allowed in all sporting events, or just some?

[Queenslander]

Are crowds allowed in all sporting events, or just some?

10 000 for Lang Park and the GABBA. Western Australia will allow their new 60 000 seater to open at full capacity mid July.

2 people per booking is the min.

[Pepe]

I saw a masked woman taking pictures of us when we were playing football yesterday. Then she pretended to be running but only did one very slow lap and left. :happycry:

[Magic]

Face coverings mandatory in shops in Scotland from next week. :harold:

2 metres to remain. :harold:

5 new cases in the whole country. 0 deaths in ages. Absolute laughing stock.

[Don]

Won't be saying that when England is in ruins in a fortnight.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Apparently cases dropping again everywhere here on the new week of data, even in the madrassa towns.

[Magic]

Won't be saying that when England is in ruins in a fortnight.


Apparently cases dropping again everywhere here on the new week of data, even in the madrassa towns.

:eyemouth:

[Baz]

TIL these face masks go behind your ears, essentially pushing your ears forward/out a bit. This is something I could definitely do without.

If it gets to a point where I have to wear a mask to leave my house, I’m gonna declare myself agoraphobic.

[Waffdon]

Face coverings mandatory in shops in Scotland from next week. :harold:

2 metres to remain. :harold:

5 new cases in the whole country. 0 deaths in ages. Absolute laughing stock.

Fort’s booking system goes live tonight. I’ll be spamming the refresh button as if I’m trying to get tickets for T in the park

[Kikó]

Book us a couple of tickets.

[Dquincy]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2430RV

Fake flights in Taiwan. Bit weird.

[Waffdon]

Book us a couple of tickets.

Message me when you’re here and I’ll see where’s open but there’s not many decent sized beer gardens anywhere. Think most will just be walking up on the day and hoping you get in.

[Spikey M]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2430RV

Fake flights in Taiwan. Bit weird.

:cab: Just flick through your old holiday photos you weirdos.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up in 36 local authority areas in England.

Knowsley, Bolton, and Hammersmith and Fulham experienced the biggest increases in the rate per 100,000 people.

In Knowsley, Merseyside, the rate of infection has gone up from 6 people per 100,000 to 20/100,000.

In Bolton, which is part of Greater Manchester, the rate has increased from 16/100,000 to 23 and in Hammersmith and Fulham, west London, the rate has changed from 6/100,000 to 12.

In all but one of the 36 authority areas, the rate has increased by less than 10/100,000.

Is it me or is this all proper wankery? 36 local authorities is 10.4% of the English total (so I presume infections decreasing in 89.6% of local authorities) and the numbers mentioned are absolutely tiny. H&F has less than 200,000 population so we're talking about an extra 10/11 people having Covid there in a week, unless my maths has completely failed me.

[Spikey M]

It's bollocks like I said yesterday. Southend are in the top 20 and there's only about 30 confirmed cases here. Even Leicesters numbers aren't that bad.

[Dquincy]

Going to Alton Towers next week as we cannot cancel it due to the park reopening on Saturday. To cancel booking I need to pay £100. Fuckers.

All park restaurants are take away only and you have to wear a mask. Not sure how a 1 year old and 4 year are going to keep a mask on. It's going to be terrible.

[Shindig]

Seeing my folks tomorrow because they've fucked up their tablet and I can't fix things I can't see. Plus it would be nice to see them for the first time in 4 months.

[Spikey M]

Going to Alton Towers next week as we cannot cancel it due to the park reopening on Saturday. To cancel booking I need to pay £100. Fuckers.

All park restaurants are take away only and you have to wear a mask. Not sure how a 1 year old and 4 year are going to keep a mask on. It's going to be terrible.

It's masks for 3+ year olds in the official guidance. Don't bother with one for your 1 year old.

[Yevrah]

Do we still not know how transmissible it is among kids? I know this shit isn't easy, but please don't tell me somewhere with a dodgy human rights record hasn't deliberately infected kids with it and chucked them in a cage with random adults for shits and giggles?

[Luca]

10,000 new cases a day in Florida. Up from 5,000 last Thursday, 3,000 the Thursday before, and 1,500 the Thursday before that.

Paging bruhnaldo.

EDIT: He's a fairly prolific Twitter user, and hasn't tweeted since the 25th of June. You alright, Bruh?

[Giggles]

Has he been around here in a while?

[Raoul Duke]

Shocker:

https://i.redd.it/ejrb79eqog851.png

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't understand that megasurge at all. No other country in the world has had such a thing. Do they have some unique level of blasé-ness that us scummy socialist Europeans can only dream of accessing?

[Giggles]

Shocker:

https://i.redd.it/ejrb79eqog851.png


That’ll be all the cousin shagging.

[Spikey M]

I don't understand that megasurge at all. No other country in the world has had such a thing. Do they have some unique level of blasé-ness that us scummy socialist Europeans can only dream of accessing?

They are literally going out of their way to spread it. Vanilla Ice (lol) is performing to a full crowd in Texas tonight and none of the fuckers will wear a mask because FREEDOM.

[Dquincy]

It's masks for 3+ year olds in the official guidance. Don't bother with one for your 1 year old.

Thanks, wasn't aware of that. Regardless, looks like we are going to cancel and suffer the £100 cancellation fee. Wife is 100% against going. I'm 80/20 against going.

I've been on site in London twice this week. It's the first time using the train and underground. Was OK, it's quite novel using the underground without the usual hoards of people. But...summer in London is usually optimum perve time. Slim pickings this year sadly.

Still the odd muppet not wearing a face mask on the tube. But on the flip side, saw a lady in a burka and realised she's got a 2 in 1 situation going on there.

[Spikey M]

Thanks, wasn't aware of that. Regardless, looks like we are going to cancel and suffer the £100 cancellation fee. Wife is 100% against going. I'm 80/20 against going.

I've been on site in London twice this week. It's the first time using the train and underground. Was OK, it's quite novel using the underground without the usual hoards of people. But...summer in London is usually optimum perve time. Slim pickings this year sadly.

Still the odd muppet not wearing a face mask on the tube. But on the flip side, saw a lady in a burka and realised she's got a 2 in 1 situation going on there.

It's actually 'under 2's'

https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/15/what-are-new-rules-face-coverings-children-need-wear-masks-12850956/

I'd probably go but just be prepared for alot of standing around awkwardly whilst the bolshy kid running the ride has to wipe everything down for the 8000th time of the day.

[ScousePig]

Do we still not know how transmissible it is among kids? I know this shit isn't easy, but please don't tell me somewhere with a dodgy human rights record hasn't deliberately infected kids with it and chucked them in a cage with random adults for shits and giggles?

You've just described primary schools, bar the deliberately infected part.

All back in September, and no mention of summer catch ups :cool:

[Manc]

Table booked at my local for three hours on Saturday neet. :drool:

[Waffdon]

I’m the same Monday afternoon, only three hours. Surely it’s better to have less folk in, no? Rather than having 25 different folk every 3 hours or whatever it is.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Everything I've read on the subject (which is a fuckton as I make an attempt to re-open a cricket club bar) suggests they think being in there for a long time and getting pissed is the main threat to social distancing and therefore transmission.

Pretty hilarious, mind you, that we are allowed to serve booze in our bar on Saturday but we're not allowed to play cricket.

[Shindig]

They've got a lot of catching up to do, to be fair. If they've got the space to take chances, they will.

[Spikey M]

Everything I've read on the subject (which is a fuckton as I make an attempt to re-open a cricket club bar) suggests they think being in there for a long time and getting pissed is the main threat to social distancing and therefore transmission.

Pretty hilarious, mind you, that we are allowed to serve booze in our bar on Saturday but we're not allowed to play cricket.

I can't hug my Nan but....

Shit show. The whole thing.

[Lewis]

The cricket club at the top of my street are doing stuff in nets and that, so they're either doing what they want or just having dads bowl to their kids.

[Don]

BBC News just interviewed Jimmy's dad with a piece on it and they can practice in nets (as presumably there's no fielding). Michael Vaughan was effing and blinding at the authorities.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The cricket club at the top of my street are doing stuff in nets and that, so they're either doing what they want or just having dads bowl to their kids.

We've been allowed to do that since May, but we're still not allowed to play matches, which given it's all outdoors and everyone is miles apart is really quite stupid.

Same goes for five a side football and whatever else (no one's getting infected marking at a corner).

[Spikey M]

The Cricket thing just makes no sense at all. I don't even like Cricket and it's pissing me off. It's possibly the most Socialy Distanced sport there is, but the ball is a 'Natural Vector'? OK, so is a can of beans in Tesco, a coat hanger in Next, the toilet handle in the local pub and absolutely everything about a cunting theme park.

BoJo must hate Cricket. There's no other explanation.

[Lewis]

It is a weird one. Super League is back in a month, so presumably it's open season then.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The running belief within the sport (as good as confirmed) is that everything was signed off and ready to go last Tuesday, and then some MP asked Boris about it in Parliament and he blathered some absolute mess of an answer he'd made up on the spot (the infamous 'natural vector of disease') which put everything in the bin because you can't embarrass the Prime Minister by contradicting him.

[Manc]

What part of VECTOR don't you understand?

[Shindig]

Again, just glove the players up and cellophane the ball nice and tight. But then I guess that's not cricket.


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

[Jimmy Floyd]

BoJo must hate Cricket. There's no other explanation.

There are many pictures in existence of him attempting to play cricket badly (no one who went to Eton should hold the bat like a child), so I suspect it's just they're not interested because it's all economic stimulus and nothing social or health at the moment.

[Spikey M]

Again, just glove the players up and cellophane the ball nice and tight. But then I guess that's not cricket.


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

You've missed 'just' out there and it's ruined the whole joke. Get out. Embarrassing.

[Smjffy]

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Pretty damning.

[Spikey M]

There are many pictures in existence of him attempting to play cricket badly (no one who went to Eton should hold the bat like a child), so I suspect it's just they're not interested because it's all economic stimulus and nothing social or health at the moment.

Only being able to play a game badly is the exact reason why I hate both Bowling and Snooker. Both Natural Vector's too.

[Raoul Duke]

I don't understand that megasurge at all. No other country in the world has had such a thing. Do they have some unique level of blasé-ness that us scummy socialist Europeans can only dream of accessing?

New York got hit first, got it's shit together and then the rest of the country started getting it. The latter didn't do anything to suppress it.

[Spikey M]

They didn't just do nothing about it, they actively set about spreading it. There's whoppers all over Twitter claiming their 180th amendment right to not wear a mask during a pandemic and half of them don't even believe there is a pandemic.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

5G spreads it faster.

[Queenslander]

niko_cee

https://i.ibb.co/gVFKzyN/FB-IMG-1593751387376.jpg (https://ibb.co/JQFJ5nV)

[Giggles]

Those are very specifically priced fines.

[Giggles]

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[Queenslander]

Those are very specifically priced fines.

Im guessing penalty units?

[Queenslander]

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Garbage country at this point.

[Byron]

I'm avoiding the pubs like the plague at the moment. It'll be full of novelty wankers who only drink on NYE, ordering Guinness last and buying drinks one at a time instead of getting rounds and/or double parking.

Us lot at work have talked about it and we're going to go at the end of the month when the novelty should have died down.

[Andy]

At this point drinking in a garden with the BBQ going and the football on TV is far more enjoyable experience than prebooking the local pub for a 3 hour slot.

I think I'll give it a miss for a while.

[Giggles]

The pubs here aren’t pubs at all at the minute. Table service :thbdn:

[Shindig]

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"Hey, how did the party go?"
"I was raped."
"That's a relief."

Unless that was the prize. :|

[Ian]

Yeah can't imagine much less appealing to rush to a pub in the next week or so given the fucking state they're going to be.

[Baz]

I'm avoiding the pubs like the plague at the moment. It'll be full of novelty wankers who only drink on NYE, ordering Guinness last and buying drinks one at a time instead of getting rounds and/or double parking..What? :D

[Ian]

You say it first so the bar staff can get that on the go and then do more of your order before finishing it off.

[Giggles]

What? :D

Takes the longest to pull. Saying “Oh and a Guinness too” as they put up everything else is the sure sign of a cretin.

[Baz]

Oh I thought he meant finishing the night with a pint of Guinness.

[Shindig]

DHSC finally put yesterday's numbers up. 89 deaths, 576 positives, 252,084 tests.

[Giggles]

I'd say the man could coast to President at this stage.

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[Jimmy Floyd]

Cricket update. Boris went on LBC and was asked about why it is still banned. He said, in contrast to his previous waffle: 'Well, it's not the ball so much, but changing rooms and tea.' It's literally in the existing guidance that we won't be using changing rooms, and no one gives a fuck about tea, YET we have already been issued with detailed guidance about how to open clubhouse bars including serving food.

This could be the thing that finally stops me voting Tory.

[Spikey M]

I'm just glad other sports have balls / changing rooms / drinks.

[randomlegend]

Cricket update. Boris went on LBC and was asked about why it is still banned. He said, in contrast to his previous waffle: 'Well, it's not the ball so much, but changing rooms and tea.' It's literally in the existing guidance that we won't be using changing rooms, and no one gives a fuck about tea, YET we have already been issued with detailed guidance about how to open clubhouse bars including serving food.

This could be the thing that finally stops me voting Tory.

They could start hanging gay people again and you'd still vote Tory.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If the Lib Dems came back to being a serious party - or even Labour with a right wing (for Labour) leadership - I could easily be talked round. It's happened before.

[Waffdon]

Sir Keir is basically a Tory anyway so now is your chance.

[Boydy]

Corbyn would have let you play cricket.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He's a slimy cunt but if he produces New Labour without the client state and wanking, it's an option.

Corbyn probably wouldn't, Theresa May would though, gawd bless her.

[Waffdon]

Pubs can open from 6am tomorrow in England. Remember to stay sensible, though! Nice glass of Merlot with your Weetabix

[Spikey M]

I'll have a fry up, extra mushrooms and 6 Jagerbombs please.

[Baz]

I’ve a mate who drinks jägerbombs in his house. Who does that? Never understood the ‘get drunk in my house’ my mentality.

[Ian]

No, but then since I'm not a teenager or a student I don't really understand the mentality of getting hammered for its own sake anyway and surely nobody drinks Jagerbombs for any other purpose?

[Don]

It's far superior to the 'drink a casual tin or two' mentality tbf.

Some cunt has gone and planned a bday for tomorrow which he quite rightly isn't planning some shitty time slot dictated pub crawl for so I don't think I'll get to experience the scenes first hand tomorrow. Might have to suspend my self-imposed DM embargo just to lol at their article with the pictures on Sunday.

[Ian]

Yes it's a pity that necking shots and having one drink are the only two options, really.

[Don]

Everyone just calm down here. Keep this aggro for tomorrow night :drool:

[Spikey M]

The pubs are going to be shit with all these guff rules. I think I'd actually rather neck Jagerbombs in front of the telly.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I had a lengthy meeting about our bar last night and in the end we decided the best way to socially distance it was to serve bottles of beer by the dozen in huge ice buckets, so that fewer individuals would physically come to the bar or into the building at all. And people say Covid has been a bad thing.

[phonics]

Your idea is to have a drinks version of a peanut bowl?

[SvN]

What is "your bar"?

[Shindig]

I'm thinking more bottles in an ice bucket.

Seeing the folks has been class. Public transport was fairly quiet although I've seen some proper dodgy mask etiquette. One bloke just held it up to his face, another pulled his down as soon as he was on. Not so keen on the disposables but my other one's turned up from China. It's black and has filters on it so I presume I'm fully equipped to fight and / or commit crime. My dad's getting by with some builders ones he uses around the shed. Mam looks better than I expected considering she had a stroke last week.

[Jimmy Floyd]

What is "your bar"?

In the cricket club, which we're not allowed to play cricket at but we are allowed to open the (indoor) clubhouse bar to serve drinks and food - although the reason we can't play cricket is (according to Boris) because there's a half time break where people go into the clubhouse for drinks and food.

It really does take some mental stretching to get one's head around, but the income is handy.

[Ian]

What masks are people buying, given I'm apparently gonna need one next week or something?

[Shindig]

Just abolish wicket keepers. They're the only buggers in the same spot for long enough to possible infect others.

[Kikó]

Aren't most pubs going to have a 2 hour window you need to book into before being shooed on from? Meanwhile no bar interaction and long queues to maintain social distance.

LOSE.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm thinking more bottles in an ice bucket.

Seeing the folks has been class. Public transport was fairly quiet although I've seen some proper dodgy mask etiquette. One bloke just held it up to his face, another pulled his down as soon as he was on. Not so keen on the disposables but my other one's turned up from China. It's black and has filters on it so I presume I'm fully equipped to fight and / or commit crime. My dad's getting by with some builders ones he uses around the shed. Mam looks better than I expected considering she had a stroke last week.

The way you just casually toss in the fact that your mum had a stroke last week, in the very last clause after a paragraph of prevaricating about the finer details of face mask usage / logistics, is peak Shinners.

[Kikó]

Managed to totally miss it :/

[Shindig]

She was casual about it over the phone. I thought she was going to tell me she'd tested positive and then she drops in the suspected stroke.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Here's where you can go on holiday from the UK:

Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Réunion, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, South Korea, Spain, St Barthélemy, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Vatican City, Vietnam.

We've properly stiffed the Portuguese.

[phonics]

I’m coming home.

[Shindig]

Do any of those accept American currency?

[Mellberg]

Cricket club. Has to be.

[Spikey M]

Do any of those accept American currency?

Anywhere Caribbean

[Baz]

Went to Tesco today to buy wrapping paper. I didn’t wear a mask. Nobody was wearing a mask.

[Giggles]

I’m stopping wearing a mask in the shop. All you get is funny looks because no other cunt wears one and me wearing one is only for their benefit. Fuck them.

[Waffdon]

For your benefit if no one else is wearing one tbf

[Giggles]

For your benefit if no one else is wearing one tbf

Masks do nothing for you. The wearing of one is purely for other people.

[Disco]

What masks are people buying, given I'm apparently gonna need one next week or something?

Well you've got your KN95 which is your belt and braces foldable mask but most people seem to be going for the 3 ply light blue surgical masks that are going to be fine for making sure you don't gob on anyone or breathe in their horrible plague ridden effluvia.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I don't wear a mask as I don't want to have my beard squashed up right against my mouth or shave it all off.

[Shindig]

Yeah, most people out today seemed to have the 3-ply disposable ones. Mainly because they're easy to get a hold of.

[Kikó]

I've been wearing a mask in cars and on a train. When I'm walking down the street, there is no need.

[Manc]

Cool story bro.

[Kikó]

thanks bro

[niko_cee]

Boris has heard your calls Jimmy, you can play cricket as of the 11th.



We've properly stiffed the Portuguese.

Weren't they one of the first/only countries to say they'll actually accept British visitors?

[Magic]

Masks do nothing for you. The wearing of one is purely for other people.

This is precisely why I'll never wear one.

[Shindig]

When there's a virus about with a high count of asymptomatic carriers, you really should.

[Boydy]

Surely if a mask stops you breathing your germs out over everyone else it must lessen your risk of breathing in someone else's a bit?

[Magic]

When there's a virus about with a high count of asymptomatic carriers, you really should.

Mmmmm nah.

[Kikó]

When there's a virus about with a high count of asymptomatic carriers, you really should.

There's no real proof that asymptomatic people are spreaders.

[Spikey M]

I only wear a mask where it's mandatory.

[Giggles]

When there's a virus about with a high count of asymptomatic carriers, you really should.

Not if no other cunt will.

[Waffdon]

Boris must have the same supplier as Michael Gove. No other reason for his constant twitching and stumbling of words.

[Kikó]

Not if no other cunt will.

Do it for yourself.

[Giggles]

Do it for yourself.

Wearing one has absolutely no benefit to a person. They are purely to protect other people from you.

[Kikó]

Why do medical professionals wear PPE?

[Giggles]

Why do medical professionals wear PPE?

So they won’t spread it during the period they’re not showing symptoms.

This has all been shown, maybe you’ve missed it but you should look it up. Your designer mask is for other people, sorry to break that one.

[Spikey M]

They have proper PPE (sort of) not Kitchen roll on elastic bands.

[Kikó]

My designer mask is the is Lidl one which is worth about 59p.

[Giggles]

I would have bet on that one too. Lucky.

[phonics]

They’ve made them mandatory on public transport from Monday which seems weird as the city has been open for a month now and we haven’t hit above 35 Daily cases across the whole country.

[Giggles]

They’ve made them mandatory on public transport from Monday which seems weird as the city has been open for a month now and we haven’t hit above 35 Daily cases across the whole country.

They’re mandatory here too but nobody wears them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He's unbanned cricket now, the easiest decision ever which costs him £0 took weeks of squeezing blood out of a stone, hopefully things like the arts which actually need £££ rapidly will follow.

[Spikey M]

He's unbanned cricket now, the easiest decision ever which costs him £0 took weeks of squeezing blood out of a stone, hopefully things like the arts which actually need £££ rapidly will follow.

With that NATURAL VECTOR flying around we're only an LBW away from the 2nd wave.

[Manc]

This is precisely why I'll never wear one.

You really are a cunt of the highest order.

[Shindig]

Nah, we'll be fine until he allows Bowls. You've got to think that's the coronavirus' target audience.

[Boydy]

Nah, we'll be fine until he allows Bowls. You've got to think that's the coronavirus' target audience.

You only touch your own bowls, don't you? It'd be fine.

[Shindig]

What about the Jack? Vector of disease, that.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think bowls has been allowed for quite a while already.

The problem sports presumably are rugby x2, and anything else that involves mass groping. I wouldn't want to contract CV from the sweat on another man's groin. Although, now I say it, I dunno.

[Giggles]

I’d love to play Bowls.

[Disco]

Love a bit of bowls.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ohG2I0NA8

[Spikey M]

Christ we're old.

[Don]

If Jimmy's allowed to fondle his balls they better open up the Powerleague pitches soon, too. Outdoor gym near me was re-opened today, did a few sets of whatnot and almost came from that endorphin hit. Was also fucking beautiful to see the park staff removing all the fencing. We did it boys, fucking so proud of my Burgundy British passport today.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Love a bit of bowls.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ohG2I0NA8

Not even the best bowls clip on YouTube, which is this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr7WChCUAXI

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He didn't even need the microphone.

[mo]

I had a mate who was well into his bowls from the age of 18. We of course gave him non-stop shit about his penchant for spending time with octogenarians. He kept going though.

[Giggles]

Is the bowls still on telly? I used to be glued to it every year but it may have always been a BBC Wales thing or something.

[Waffdon]

I see London has had over 300 cases this week and above that 1.0 number again. Ties in with them protests.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Much more likely to tie in with about 5 unscrupulous workplaces in a city of 9 million.

[Shindig]

They've rejigged some of the figures lately. County Durham went up 50 but they took away 30,000 duplicate cases overall.

[Spikey M]

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[Magic]

:D

Fucking hell. So jealous.

[Ian]

Hopefully they end up glassing each other.

[Shindig]

What they don't show you is the moment the owner realises his only three customers left after one pint. With the glasses.

[Giggles]

That old cunt should know better. I’d say he’s a paedophile.

[Shindig]

DHSC no longer tweet the numbers out but instead chuck them in detail on their website. Regional breakdowns and all that jazz.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

[Manc]

Pub was glorious.

[Yevrah]

Went to the pub tonight. It was absolutely fine.

[Waffdon]

Soho looks the tits.

[Giggles]

Went to the pub tonight. It was absolutely fine.

That’s the biggest surprise I’ve read here in a while.

[Boydy]

That’s the biggest surprise I’ve read here in a while.
Two days later: "Lads, I've got coronavirus."

[Kikó]

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The content you all came for.

[Magic]

Where's that SECOND WAVE lads.

[Giggles]

Where's that SECOND WAVE lads.

About 2-3 weeks away. It’s not instant.

Well it’ll still be the first, just another spike in it, but you’ll be locked down again.

[Magic]

About 2-3 weeks away. It’s not instant.

Well it’ll still be the first, just another spike in it, but you’ll be locked down again.

Yawn. Like it was 2-3 weeks away from Easter, VE day, BLM protests, shops opening back up, beaches rammed, pubs opening.

NOT HAPPENING.

[Shindig]

I dunno, we had that week where the new infections were hovering between 1600-2000. There's been 40 outbreaks related to people going back to workplaces.

[Magic]

I dunno, we had that week where the new infections were hovering between 1600-2000. There's been 40 outbreaks related to people going back to workplaces.

So? Loads of capacity in hospitals.

[Raoul Duke]

Yawn. Like it was 2-3 weeks away from Easter, VE day, BLM protests, shops opening back up, beaches rammed, pubs opening.

NOT HAPPENING.

LAW AND ORDER!


caps

[Shindig]

So? Loads of capacity in hospitals.

By that notion we should just let the virus loose because it won't kill everyone. You flippant autist.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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The content you all came for.

Portrait? You twat.

[Giggles]

By that notion we should just let the virus loose because it won't kill everyone. You flippant autist.

In fairness, remember you're chatting to Magic. One of the only people I've ever experienced with zero redeeming features as a human being. If he thought it would give him enough of a lol he'd fill the hospitals and dance on the corpses.

[Yevrah]

That’s the biggest surprise I’ve read here in a while.

Why so?

[Boydy]

In fairness, remember you're chatting to Magic. One of the only people I've ever experienced with zero redeeming features as a human being. If he thought it would give him enough of a lol he'd fill the hospitals and dance on the corpses.

But he cries like a little bitch and wants everyone to take pity on him when things aren't going well for him.

[Giggles]

Why so?

That you went to one so soon.

[Yevrah]

Two days later: "Lads, I've got coronavirus."

I may well have caught it (I didn't act moronically), but we need to face up to the possibility that we're going to stuck with this thing for a long while, if not forever, and that we have to bake that degree of risk into our lives, like we do with other things.

[Giggles]

I may well have caught it (I didn't act moronically), but we need to face up to the possibility that we're going to stuck with this thing for a long while, if not forever, and that we have to bake that degree of risk into our lives, like we do with other things.

There's baking in the degree of risk, and there's going out the first day they reopen and was dubbed 'Super Saturday' to make people go extra nuts.

[Yevrah]

That you went to one so soon.

I've spoken to a load of friends who've said things like "not yet, give it a couple of weeks". What tangible difference will there be in another 2 weeks that will make going to the pub better? If anything, the R's going to be worse.

Just pick one you know has a good chance of not being full of cunts and you should be fine.

[Yevrah]

There's baking in the degree of risk, and there's going out the first day they reopen and was dubbed 'Super Saturday' to make people go extra nuts.

See post above. There's little logic in that.

[Giggles]

Because all the mongs will have got it out of their system in a couple of weeks.

[Yevrah]

Because all the mongs will have got it out of their system in a couple of weeks.

But the mongs will go to specific places. They won't suddenly all rock up at pubs they've never visited in their lives.

[Shindig]

And in two weeks the pubs will be better equipped to manage foot traffic. Although the constant McDonald pile-ups at the drive-thru's probably shoot that theory in the arse.

[Yevrah]

And in two weeks the pubs will be better equipped to manage foot traffic. Although the constant McDonald pile-ups at the drive-thru's probably shoot that theory in the arse.

They're never going to manage that very well as they're dealing with pissed people. It's going to be up to the patrons to do it. So pick the right pub and that's a lot easier. Not a chance, for example, would I have gone to Soho last night.

[-james-]

Pubs up here started doing take-away pints a couple of weeks ago, and most people seemed to be buying them and then drinking them outside the pub or in the park. Drinking in public places is banned in Glasgow but there seemed to be a bit of a blind eye being turned.

There was a slight uptick to the usual amount of 18 year olds trashing the place and pissing everywhere so in the most pointless measure ever they're banning the sale of alcohol for consumption off premises from Monday.

Which is the same day that beer gardens open. Glasgow's beer garden capacity is paltry at the best of times so I'm really not sure they've thought this one through.

[Giggles]

Dublin went mental last night as expected. Everyone was just knacker drinking in the streets because they could only stay in the pub for the 105 mins.


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[Magic]

But he cries like a little bitch and wants everyone to take pity on him when things aren't going well for him.

No pity required, just enjoyment for the board. Take the good with the bad.

[Manc]

Just pick one you know has a good chance of not being full of cunts and you should be fine.

This.

[Shindig]

That's the one advantage from the IPA pubs in town. They're never full and the people in there are in it for the beer wankery, rather than the standard wankery. And you're only in for two because everything is overpriced and 14%.

Make every pub that and see what it does to A&E admissions.

[Giggles]

That's the one advantage from the IPA pubs in town. They're never full and the people in there are in it for the beer wankery, rather than the standard wankery. And you're only in for two because everything is overpriced and 14%.

Make every pub that and see what it does to A&E admissions.

I read that wrong first and thought it was about Dublin too.

[niko_cee]

Because all the mongs will have got it out of their system in a couple of weeks.

Pubs here were busier second weekend than the first, and continue to be very busy most nights by all accounts. No virus though.

[Don]

Did end up having a few in a pub but not my local and took the sesh to a house at about 6 so hard to judge the corona state of play. Bless 'em they did try with their arrows and contact forms but let's just say compliance was lacking :D It's all well and good hoping a second wave won't come if we social distance but I now see why they fret about nightlife, it all goes out the window. The wave will come and they'll shut them down again.

[Giggles]

Pubs should have been left closed until the vaccine came (IF EVER!!*)


*obligatory.

[Shindig]

Did end up having a few in a pub but not my local and took the sesh to a house at about 6 so hard to judge the corona state of play. Bless 'em they did try with their arrows and contact forms but let's just say compliance was lacking :D It's all well and good hoping a second wave won't come if we social distance but I now see why they fret about nightlife, it all goes out the window. The wave will come and they'll shut them down again.

Add to that the idea anyone getting contacted might go, "Withheld number? Fucking scammers." I'm assuming the govt tracers chuck texts out as well, mind. :D

[Giggles]

Let’s needlessly go to B&Q and lick each other’s faces down the pub on super Saturday, but so long as we clap at 5 o’clock it’s grand. That fucking shit should have been killed off weeks ago once it was shown nobody really gives a fuck.

[Manc]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/05/sunak-considers-500-vouchers-for-all-uk-adults-to-spend-in-covid-hit-firms

[Lewis]

The vast majority of that will go to people who don't need it. My friend in America bought another guitar with his stimulus cheque.

[Spikey M]

Pubs should have been left closed until the vaccine came (IF EVER!!*)


*obligatory.

Depressions kill in huge numbers. Killing businesses, making unemployment even worse and depriving people of their liberty may well reduce Covid cases, but what's the point if every tall building is raining people and the hospitals are fucked because no cunt has paid tax in 2 years?

[Giggles]

Depression my hole. 99% of claimed cases are just lazy cunts and only making little of the ones that are really depressed. It’s only a fashion these days.

[Spikey M]

I'm married. Sorry.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My current thing to get wound up by on Twitter is blue ticks (almost always nicely off, with secure jobs in nice houses with family around them) self-righteously declaring that THEY won't be off to the pubs until it's SAFE.

Try living in a shitbox flat on an estate, or having to go work in a shit job every day, or having lost your job, or being on your own, or being in a strained relationship at home etc etc and being lectured by these Lib Dem voting cunts.

[Giggles]

Oh no I have to sit home and watch netflix and eat and drink. Basically 3 months of Christmas.

God fucking love all these saps if there’s a proper war any time soon.

[Yevrah]

Add to that the idea anyone getting contacted might go, "Withheld number? Fucking scammers." I'm assuming the govt tracers chuck texts out as well, mind. :D

Sounds like the pub I was even worse than Taz's when it came to the regulations. Nobody asked me for any of my details, at any point.

[Yevrah]

My current thing to get wound up by on Twitter is blue ticks (almost always nicely off, with secure jobs in nice houses with family around them) self-righteously declaring that THEY won't be off to the pubs until it's SAFE.

The fundamental problem with that as well is that they're not going to be safe from Covid-19, nothing that involves people is going to be safe from Covid-19.

[Spikey M]

Oh no I have to sit home and watch netflix and eat and drink. Basically 3 months of Christmas.

God fucking love all these saps if there’s a proper war any time soon.

I'm struggling to understand how the people wanting to get on with life, rather than cowering behind curtains are the saps?

[Giggles]

I'm struggling to understand how the people wanting to get on with life, rather than cowering behind curtains are the saps?

Because they’re been crying false mental health for 3 months.

[Spikey M]

Because they’re been crying false mental health for 3 months.

Have they? I've seen very little of that.

[Giggles]

Have they? I've seen very little of that.

There’s been loads of it yes.

[Kikó]

How controversial you are Giggles!

[Giggles]

How controversial you are Giggles!

Lol. Try again, Dad.

[Lewis]

The Group are cheering him on with those exact words.

[Boydy]

Haven't quite a few of the scientific advisors said they think it's too soon for everything to be opening up the way it is?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Scientific advisors are always going to say that. At some point you need to just go ahead when the balance of risk is right (not when there's no risk, or it's see you in 2050).

[ScousePig]

Did end up having a few in a pub but not my local and took the sesh to a house at about 6 so hard to judge the corona state of play. Bless 'em they did try with their arrows and contact forms but let's just say compliance was lacking :D It's all well and good hoping a second wave won't come if we social distance but I now see why they fret about nightlife, it all goes out the window. The wave will come and they'll shut them down again.

It's been 'out the window' in schools for five weeks now, fwiw.

[Manc]

Lovely to see Jim and Yev leave team panic.

[Spikey M]

There’s been loads of it yes.

I've seen 1 doing that. My wife's cousin has been babied well into her 20's and moved out in February. She's been using her anxiety as an excuse to break the lockdown rules since its inception.

On the other hand, I deal with a lot of people with Mental Health issues in my line of work. Some I suspect made up, some genuine. All of them that I've spoken to are staying at home, refusing to let their kids go back to school, etc.

[Yevrah]

Haven't quite a few of the scientific advisors said they think it's too soon for everything to be opening up the way it is?

It also took them how many months to recommend face masks and were also claiming large gatherings weren't much of an issue. They're fucking useless.

[Yevrah]

Lovely to see Jim and Yev leave team panic.

The team I've always been on is "Team react to what's currently happening".