Anti Dementors Party Planners Meet Here

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Wanted to make the new thread quickly to get the link onto the last page of the previous one!

I've got rollerskates but my neighbourhood is far too lumpy. I wonder if rollerskating is tripple the murder rate of walking...

Totally with you Livin Have a hug from me. It's really hit me badly tonight. I feel I can't get through the next weeks to months. It's too hard.

We can only do this a day at a time. I do think things have changed massively in the last 3 weeks. So many people are getting fed up and changing their minds on all this. More and more people are at breaking point.

They should talk to Brid. People have been relieving themselves in the street there for years :o

@LivinLaVidaLoki I feel exactly the same. I too am holding back the tears tonight. I am so sad for my son. For our family. For myself. For the future.

Oh and stop treating us like children. Feeding us hope then when the sun comes out on a bank holiday telling us we'll all kill our fucking grannies if we go to the beach.
Just like we did at easter, or VE day.
Oh hang on......
And while the rest of us are suffering, Neil whatshisface was shagging around and Cummings was up and down the country doing what he bloody wants.
Enough is enough. We are adults. Let us risk assess our own lives you bunch of hypocritical, fear mongering populist bastards.

I've just never felt so voiceless

Ok I am not 100% sure I am right about what these threads are for... I’m not even sure I’m allowed to ask... but I think I have just found my spiritual lockdown home?!

Feeding us hope then when the sun comes out on a bank holiday telling us we'll all kill our fucking grannies if we go to the beach.

It's all part of the Very Clear Rules, dontcha know.

You may go Anywhere, but Not There, because There doesn't want you, but you can go There, but not on hot days, weekends or Bank Holidays, although you are allowed to go There whenever you like, unless There is somewhere that doesn't want you, in which case you may or may not go There.

See? Clear as mud.

We are a very placid nation in general not driven to protest but our patience has worn very thin. Spain has taken to the streets today in protest.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52783936

I'm sure at the beginning BoJo said that this would only be short term as peoples compliance wouldnt last forever.

@Sadie789

I suspect that the very fact that you haven't stomped onto this thread telling us we're stupid/murderers/stupid murderers means that you have found your spiritual lockdown home.

Welcome

@justasking111
Good on them!

www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/weston-super-mare-seafront-parking-4159067.amp

There's no end to it

@Shodan suddenly I feel free!

I've just submitted a question to the covid briefing (I know it wont get picked but it felt cathartic)and will be emailing it to my local mp...
Given approx 0.25% of the population are currently thought to have covid, the infection rate is falling, hospitals are half empty, the chance of dying of covid is 0.5% when will the educational, physical and emotional wellbeing of us and our children stop being thrown under the bus? When will it stop being the case that only covid matters?

I'm sure at the beginning BoJo said that this would only be short term as peoples compliance wouldnt last forever

I remember Chris Whitty saying it and I think he's absolutely right. It's an incredibly difficult thing for people to comply with long term. It's one of the reasons I look at my friends calling for lockdown to last longer with confusion - it hasn't occurred to them that people won't comply. You can't actually force people to stay apart unless you get really draconian about it. I don't want to live in a society where the army forces people to comply. Not with a virus that kills such a tiny proportion of people.

Doesn't it get reviewed again next Thursday?

I was chatting to a friend this evening who said she feels like she's been institutionalised and I realised that, yes, that's what's happened to many of the dementors. Some people have gotten so used to never leaving their front door and making every decision based on a set of arbitrary government rules that they don't know how (don't want) to go back to normal. The whole thing is so fucking bizarre.

Good post livin
It seems to hit me more in the morning
Maybe because we are usually home in the evening, so it feels normal

In fact for someone like me who spends huge swathes of the day at home, I don’t know why it affects me so badly
Then I remember
My freedom is gone.
I don’t know if I’ll ever get it back.
I’m nearer to the end of my life than the beginning..is this how it ends for me with more and more misery, powerlessness, lack of choice , for Ed into doing so many things I don’t want to do, behaving in a way I don’t want to behave.

Are they going to pull out more and more laws to force us into compliance.
I had a melt down when we got back from Tenerife because I could ‘ feel’ what was about to happen.
So far I haven’t been wrong
I wanted to believe this lockdown was for a few weeks, but I had the gnawing feeling inside this wasn’t so.

It’s why I couldn’t leap up and start making cakes, doing crafts , reading books , zoom meetings etc
I just felt I’d already been annihilated.
The only way I’ve been able to cope is to get in my car and drive to places I know and love...almost checking they are still there.

Germany has also had protests in several cities.

I posted on the other thread.
We’ve got a picnic planned for tomorrow
Watch it rain

I sound like Eeyore
It looks like rain ☹️

Reporting in before its page 10 again!
Shodan we killed millions i gad a busy spell for a while. All those murderers wanting non-essential coffee and i gave them it to aid thier weapons.
Oh and you forgot the last part of the rules "^But if you are a politician you can do whatever the fuck you like and be praised for it.^"

Work have acquired cloth washable masks for staff. Bloody black! Like life isnt depressing enough. Would feel like a flaming executioner in one😂 imagine going into a shop and all the staff are in black masks.😲 How bloody welcoming! I couldnt wear one anyway as it would irritate my skin to hell and back i would be scratching myself raw. Anyway not one member of staff wore them🤣🤣

Oh ffs my phone hates me!
I gave them thier weapons!

I thought i had deleted the rest on edit.

Dowser be less Eyore. Take an umbrella and a pop up tent 😁

In the supermarket there was a lady with a patterened cloth mask and it was so much nicer than the clinical style. Mask wearing makes me feel uncomfortable which I suspect is largely down to my auditory processing. It is much harder talking to someone wearing one as it both muffles the sound and removes lip reading and a lot of non-verbal cues. It's bad enough that DS2 has reached the toothless stage of milk teeth dropping out

When my DCs have minecraft server battles, it frequently reminds me of these threads as I hear yells across the house of "No, No! I'm going to die, I'M GOING TO DIE! ARRGGHH YOU KILLED ME!!!"
They die a lot in their minecraft battles

Anyone new passing by, the general gist is friendly conversation and discussion. Sympathy when needed, even for "trivial" things as well as the big things, because even during a pandemic, we're still living humans with normal human needs.
We all have our own opinions but accept the world is not black and white, and that there is a bigger picture to consider.

Dementoring is the very dramatic, very judgemental, negative approach (frequently emphisised by excessive use of capital letters), accusing people of murder and sucking the joy out of legal things like eating crisps on a bench, and promising a joyless world at least until 2022 or better still 2030. A proper Dementor's meme needs spelling/ grammatical errors

My local newspaper is having its usual bank holiday gloomfest as people dare to recklessly (legally) enjoy the county. Bonus points for contradictory stories on the same day.

Please do not feed any passing dementors, they soon get bored and move on. Over umpteen threads, it's been very amicable with very little need to use the report buttons.

So to anyone who feels the need for some balanced, nuanced discussion, welcome