I think I've briefly been a member of both Team Panic and Team Whataloadofbollocks, but for the majority of this I've stuck with Team Uselessgovernmentandcluelessadvisors.
The Teams may need some more snappy names.
I find people who can't sit in the house weird. Kind of feel sorry for people who can't stand their own company.
I would echo this.
The scenes from Soho yesterday looked quality though. Probably had that weird 'what's going on vibe' not seen since those hazy mornings in 2002 when everyone bowled out of the pub at 8.30am having just watched Beckham sink the Argies and had no idea what to do with themselves.
Giggles is right though I have seen loads of twats early doors giving it the big one about mental health. A girl I know, who was at one time the most legendary slag ever to frequent the night life in my home town, went on holiday with her new fella just as this all got serious, leaving her mum to look after her 6 month old baby while they went to Thailand. Then panicked about coming back, managing to get on the last passenger plane bound for the UK and arriving in the midst of lockdown. She'd been back about 48 hours before bleating on facebook about why it was a joke you shouldn't be going to the DIY shops buying stuff to decorate your house because people need it for their mental health.
The mumsnet scientific advice is anyone can do anything they want during this if it is for their mental health, would love to see the same principle rolled out in the middle of an air raid campaign.
£1.57 billion bailout announced for the arts, and you can tell Arts Twitter is seething they can't whinge about it anymore.
All that time on their hands and so little art to show for it. Not a new Banksy wall scribble bigging up the NHS or anything.
Insanely jealous of your pub scenes. It's just a complete clusterfuck all around over here, and will be for the foreseeable future.
NSW has shut the border with Victoria.
Liberal Party of NSW have been fucking awful this whole time.
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Fuck 'the arts'.
How very 2020.
35000 unnecessary cancer deaths incoming due to lockdown.
£10.8bn a year to the economy.
Nice. The government would make the money back in taxes.The sector contributes £2.8billion a year to the Treasury via taxation, and generates a further £23billion a year and 363,700 jobs.
Define a necessary cancer death, @Magic.
Do they all have to go outside their houses and clap for the Fremantle Doctor?
The arrest in the replies is great.
The other bits of Australia have really relished getting into the inter-state rivalry business. Westminster really ought to be calling Scotland and Wales out a bit more.
Watching the reaction (on Twitter, and even people in this thread) to wearing face masks is so weird. The benefits are so bleedin obvious (it stops you inhaling other peoples gob, and stops your gob reaching them). Is it not as simple as that? (genuine question for those not wanting to wear one).
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I have some and would wear one if told to, but in general I hate the things. Faces are how we communicate as individuals and the mask prevents us from doing so.
You're supposed to wear them on public transport, but I haven't been on public transport so I couldn't tell you how many people are. I don't think there's any enforcement of it.
I carry one around in case there is a shop that asks me to wear it, but I haven't yet had to do so.
The way the news are reporting it you'd think everyone is wearing a mask permanently in Scotland. Reality is hardly anyone at all wears a mask, mostly losers and SNaziP creeps.
I go into 10-15 houses every day and the government risk assessment is still telling us not to wear a mask except for a few key situations.
You're welcome.
The One Nation leader won’t be returning to Nine’s ‘Today Show’ after comments she made about residents under hard lockdown in Flemington and North Melbourne’s public housing estates. Hanson said they were from “war-torn countries”, and should be used to their current conditions.https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed...using-commentsPauline Hanson labelled residents in the nine public housing estate towers "drug addicts" and "alcoholics" who can't speak English, in an interview this morning on Channel Nine's Today Show.
Going to push the proper pub opening back further
Since yesterday I have a sore throat and ear ache. Dehydrated. Body aching and I'm completely exhausted and sleeping a lot. On the plus side I've not been near that manky shithole Leicester.
Anyway, am I dying?
Pubs were great yesterday but I don’t remember coming home. Getting pints in their actual glass instead of the anticipated plastic shite was a plus.
Hangovers are so much worse WFH than going into the office with one
Great script writing from the illuminati.
That’s 2/4 populist hacks, then. Waiting on Modi and Trump.