Dementors Begone!

[ThatLibraryMiss]

Take your shaming and your doom and gloom somewhere else.

bwahahahaha! this is hilarious- love the bingo card! thank you for this new anti- dementor thread 😙

Exactly, TrustTheGeneGenie. Presumably if schools remain shut then so will holiday clubs etc. So what are we meant to do with our kids? Leave them with granny? But then we’d be LITERALLY MURDERING HER of course (never mind the fact that all my child’s grandparents live at least a two-hour drive away).

@HouseOfSticks, your post is a welcome breath of cool sanity and rationality.
I was 'dementored' in the wild today! In a frozen food shop, perusing the vegetables, I had the temerity to walk past a woman (there was loads of room) and she made a passive aggressive remark about social distancing. Now, the thing is, I look like a meek, peaceable kind of person who won't challenge anything. I'm not. I turned to her and said 'were you talking to me?' She got all flustered and started screeching 'Two meters apart! Two meters apart! You shouldn't barge past people.
I hadn't barged anywhere, as I say, loads of room, only four people in whole shop. When I said this she started screeching again ' 30,000 deaths because of people like you!'
I said 'I don't think you understand how droplet dispersion works' and she blustered off, calling me a moron. I replied that I wasn't the moron wearing gloves to do shopping and did she think it was lurking in the frozen peas.
Well, honestly. Please don't have a go at me re social distancing, wearing gloves etc. I've reached the end of my tether with misinformed fuckwits like this making up their own rules and snarling at people
I went and sat on a bench and drank some water and the looks from some people, you'd think I was committing genocide in an ICU. So there you have it: 30,000 people are dead because I wanted frozen mushrooms. Woe, mea culpa. Not.

I wonder if the dementors will stay at home for a year and start squawking when they get dismissed for not going to work

It fascinates me what the dementors will do once we've all gone back to work! Will they just sit and rot in front of daytime tv? their tops smeared with crisp dust and the tv stuck on channel 5 because they put the remote somewhere and cant find it? will they ever go out ever again?- will they become all wan and feeble due to lack of sunlight/vitamin D? will they exist on the tiny frozen peas you find in the freezer as someone else posted because they fear dropping dead if they leave the house?
Will their hair grow until it reaches the ground because as we all know- a trip to the hairdresser means 798 people will DIE

so many questions...

I walked to the newly reopened nearby Pret today and bought a sandwich. Then I sat on the green at least 5 metres away from anyone and ate it. For a whole seven and a half minutes. IMAGINE THE TRAIL OF BLOOD.

It was delicious.

The masks make me laugh sometimes. I was waiting in the car outside Asda the other night and watched a man get out of his car, put his gloves on, then a mask. Then lit up a fag and pulled the face mask down every time he took a drag of his fag. Then went into the shop. Why not have the fag, then put it all on?

The school dementoring is doing my head in today. A friend posted on FB to say she was looking forward to her year 6 child getting back to school. I commented that I was looking forward to my year 10 DD going back, she was really struggling with her mental health and anxiety and I felt getting back to school, seeing her friends, having a proper routine again would help. At some points over lockdown she hasn’t been able to leave her room without having a panic attack so the sooner we could get her back to some sort of “normal” the better. Someone replied to say her mental health wouldn’t matter when she was dead

Springers "Someone replied to say her mental health wouldn’t matter when she was dead"

OMD. I would be tempted to reply with "better kill her now then". What a thing to say.

@BogRollBOGOF your description of the car seat dementors has absolutely made my day

*I saw someone say they didn’t care if they lost their house as long as they were safe."

i think these people really have no idea of hardship

I’m not sure. I know some ones who’s business is tanking and they are adamant they don’t care as long as they are safe and kids won’t be going back to school till a vax is made. She honestly is one of the most practical people I know though and never see her like this ever. I think something gets triggered in their brains and that it. Some times people really are scared by their own immortality.

That’s the only thing I can think off.

Another one is my granny. She’s fought of pneumonia three times last year, she’s 88 always had a ‘when my time comes it comes’ attitude - even during operations and bouts in hospital. Very very active but this has got her petrified of even picking the post up. She has the news on all day. She has a hospital bag ready by the door and is wearing all her nice cruise outfits because she’s convinced it’s the last time she will wear them as she will be dead next year 😬

Bloody nightmare when I speak to her on the phone as she sucks the life force from telling me a long list of all the people that have died from the old folks home!

I have found my people! I read the dementor threads with my eyebrows almost in my hairline. I went to Marks foodhall yesterday just to buy nice treats. I still have to do my normal shop this week. It was so nice to go to a shop that felt entirely normal, sort of BC if you will. I have kept this information to myself and am only sharing here.

I don't mind the mask thing so much. I understand it's not a substitute for social distancing, I dont take it off to speak and I know it's more helpful to protect other people from my germs than vice versa. It seems less bad than other things we've been told or advised to do. I promise I dont dementor about them though.

I really hope playgrounds open again from Monday so I can take DS for some much needed exercise with other children. Hopefully some dementors will take my picture and it'll be on Facebook with some kind of comment about how sad it is that I don't care if my child LIVES or DIES

@LilacTree1

I think a lot of people have genuinely believed that being on benefits buys you wide screen TVs and Iphones and you just turn up at the council and they give you a house.

My city council housing register site basically says even if you do meet the very specific and narrow eligibilty criteria, you're still unlikely to ever get a property and if you do, expect it to take years.

Agreed @DressingGownofDoom. I actually think shutting the playgrounds was cruel.

Going back to risk, my DH assesses risk, serious risk, for a living. There is more likelihood of one of the events he assesses taking place and potentially killing many people, than of your average healthy child or adult dying from CV. He thinks the overreaction from healthy people is completely batshit. But then he understands risk.

Not so the woman who dived out of our way last night - into the main road FFS - and nearly got taken out by a transit van. Then had the temerity to swear at us! We had come round a corner and stopped to allow her past.

Springers thats awful. I hope you told them to fuck off.

Magda "Not so the woman who dived out of our way last night - into the main road FFS - and nearly got taken out by a transit van. "

shame she wasn't - but then again, not fair to the poor driver if they had knocked her down.

Around out area the cunts who cant social distance are the ones wearing masks.

sagittarius do you mind if I ask, are you in a "naice" area? I'm in a rough area and while people do queue outside Aldi, it's a small place and so far I haven't had anyone be annoyed that you have to walk past in a narrow aisle.

Around out area the cunts who cant social distance are the ones wearing masks

Same here, they seem to think it makes them invincible.

oh you're going to hate me

tbh if you're wearing a mask you're not releasing the droplets that made them impose "social distancing" in the first place.

so I can understand if mask wearers don't social distance.

well, you're releasing them, but they are caught in the mask.

@LilacTree1, not a particularly naice area! A lot of unemployment and social issues and a population roughly divided between deprivation and older, retired, wealthy people who live outside the 'not naice' area but come there to shop.
@Pinkflipflop85 and @Alsohuman, I know what you mean. If I see someone with gloves on I think 'there's another manky bugger who doesn't wash their hands...' That's meant to be light -hearted, sorry if it doesn't come across that way!