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 been lurking for a while but thought I'd finally pop my head in and say hello!

This is all completely bonkers. I was tipped over the edge by comments on the local Facebook page about queues for Burger King and the comments from dementors baying for blood "they should be locked up for life!" and "vile, disgusting people risking their lives for a burger".... What has actually happened to the world?

We've done a lot of murdering. I went to eight different shops yesterday on the hunt for pizza bases, my mum turned up at my house unnancounced last week after I hadn't seen her since February, so that was delightful!

How has all this happened? The world has gone completely and utterly insane.

"You can keep Cummings or you can keep the policy."

This is why I find myself in the unusual position of hoping they keep Cummings.

I want lockdown ditched more than I want Cummings fired.

It really is @nihiloxica!

What annoys me most is that in normal times our jobs are great. They pay for DS to go to nursery and we have a nice house and we have holidays and nice things. We don't earn loads but it's definitely enough. I'm happy with my choices.

Of course if I had a crystal ball and I knew this would happen I would have bought a cheaper house and ensured we only needed one wage to live but.... I could have never envisaged being in a situation where school or nursery didn't exist and wasn't going to exist full time for over a year!

I'm so glad so many people on here think the world has gone mad. It's reassuring.

@BarkandCheese my DD1 has been doing that since they loosened the rules. It applies to everyone not just adults.

@Nihiloxica agreed. Keep Cummings.

I'm an ardent feminist and it seems to me that everyone has forgotten how important childcare is as a femist issue. I have been avoiding those threads.

Domnishambles weekend continues with me planning on some window cleaning. Ours not a friend, relative, random neighbour. Now I've given myself ideas.

When sprogette asked me what I thought about her going back to school I told her my views were nuanced. So nuanced has joined Red Fescue in the list of Strange Things Mummy Says.

I want them back at school. I want them all back doing their best to be a metre apart but otherwise being children. I don't want them sent to a Voluntary Aided Guantanamo.

I am ‘alright’ if I keep my job, but it doesn’t mean I can’t see what damage this is doing to women and children as a whole.

And yes to whoever said men have the anxieties about work returning. My management team (including me) is 4 men, 4 women. The women are all ready to go back in the minute we get the go ahead. 3 out of the 4 men are much more anxious about it and keep ‘what-abouting’ (the fourth has been going in throughout). One of them can’t get his head round the fact that not having a plan for getting back in the office does a disservice to those who want to get back in - apparently I should be focusing my attention on making WFH easier. Not that he has any magic solution to how I might do this.

What i don't get is how we can't even say lockdown is shit without being a murderer. Murdering with our very thoughts! One of my best mates gets very frosty, so frosty you can feel the chill radiating from the phone when she texts if i so much as say I've had a hard day. I'm not in icu so u am FINE. Since when did we have to set the bar this low for a grumble?

@LivinLaVidaLoki your post on page 1 is exactly how I feel. Big murderous hug

Bloody hell, a friend I thought was sensible just sent me this tripe!

Christ on a bike @Drivingdownthe101 ....

What happened to resilience!? People are scaring the shit out of their kids with this utter nonsense

We have had a specific note from DC school saying if they are upset, fall over, wet themselves etc then WE WILL comfort them.

Fucking world has gone mad.

I am old so can't read that. I am so pleased that DD2s school is taking a very sensible approach. Yes it will be different but better than what DD2 currently has.

I’ve forwarded this thread to my Mum. I think she could do with it.

Since when did we have to set the bar this low for a grumble

I agree! I was in contact with a family friend recently and was just expressing how hard I was finding lockdown and worrying about the potential financial repercussions and all she could say over and over again was "well at least you're healthy and not dead". I mean, REALLY? "at least youre not dead"- thats supposed to comfort me is it? well ok then, that applies to every problem in the world doesnt it?- because dead people cannot vent!

It irritated me SO much because she is retired, lives in a big expensive house with a garden the size of a field and just inherited about 500k. Of COURSE its easy for her to not worry about things- we could lockdown until 3000 and it still wouldnt affect her life. She doesnt see many people anyway (her choice), she's retired so no worries about going back to work, she has enough disposable income to carry on like this indefinitely so its oh so bloody easy for her to tell me I should just be grateful I'm not dead. I mean, FFS.

Ive decided I'm going to fade her out. I cant be doing with people who lack empathy like that- especially when I have listened and supported her prior to lockdown during HER worries and never once told her "well at least you arent dead!". This lockdown has really shown alot of people's true colours and its very disappointing.

Urgh that 'poem'. What total shite.

MIL has taken DS to her house

I am starting a campaign for increased regulation of poetry.

Only licenced poets will be allowed to publish poetry in any medium and rhyming couplets will be banned.

Can I sign you up?

Morning all, I would be quite happy for Cummings to go, whatever it took. (Sorry)

On a lighter note, on a previous thread someone asked about knowing that the online shop had definitely gone through. Well pride comes before a fall I didn't check mine out from a couple of days ago, so now the slots have gone. Managed to switch to click and collect, I could move it to Wednesday but the pringles won't be on offer then. Priorities and all that.

love the BBC graph in this article
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52758024
showing that for almost everyone the risk of dying of covid is less than your risk of dying before your next birthday and that is the average risk, however as it says most of the risk for your age group is held by people who are already ill, if you are younger than 20 and healthy your risk is lower than average

Joining in for some balanced discussion that I feel I can't have with some friends and family.
I've always thought that there has been a need for balance between keeping the virus from spreading too quickly v mental health and economy. No point keeping everyone in for months on end, letting us out and the economy has gone to shit.

I also wonder why everyone is grouped together eg figures still show that it's mainly older and those with an underlying condition dying. Would it not make sense to keep some of society going eg those of working age being able to go out and work

Also believe very much in personal responsibility. If my hairdresser were to open now I'd feel very comfortable going to her knowing they can space people apart, disinfect equipment etc.

So many small businesses in my town and struggling. The media has whipped up a frenzy and anyone who dares critizise or think differently is called a murderer.

Fwiw I suffer from MH problem and my DM who is healthy and over 70 has been supporting me and my DD at times as I've been really struggling (LP). Feels like we're having to skulk about in the night to do this. We've risk assessed everything but I'm terrified anyone would find out we are shock horror giving each other some human support.

I have mixed feeling re Dominic Cummings

part of me knows that going to his parents to make sure his child would be looked after if he and his wife got iller was probably an OK decision though against rules what is not gso great is going up and down to London my scientific head knows that this really endangered no-one bar his parents who were happy to help
another part of me knows that if you help make the rules and you try and convince people they are the right rules you are duty bound to keep them
but like someone above removing lockdown is more important than removing Cummings from his job

I replied to the friend who sent it telling her to get a bloody grip and stop being so bloody dramatic. She just replied saying ‘yeah you’re right , I’ve got a hangover and was feeling uncharacteristically sentimental’. Phew! Going to drop her round some Lucozade and monster munch as a hangover cure!

Morning everyone, how have I completely missed a full thread in the space of a day or two?

Anyway haven't been out doing any spreading of diseases bit have ordered new bedding and curtains, a chopping board and bathroom accessories set and most importantly some chocolate which should be getting delivered today oh & yes we had a KFC last night it was hot and delicious .
Having a bad time missing being able to see my mum especially as shes been moved to a care home near me and there has been some red flags picked up on the care mums been receiving in the previous one which I don't want to go into here at present as there will be investigations into the concerns the new home have picked up. But it's awful not to be able to see her apart from through a wee bedroom window especially now and I just want to hug her and let her now it's ok. Shes missing us all dreadfully and I can see a decline in the recovery she was making due to the interaction she had with us after the stroke and this worries me too. Hopefully be able to skype with her in the next day or two as there has been an internet problem at the home over last two days that they are hoping to be sorted out tomorrow.
Anyway glad I found you no plans today just hanging about the house doing fuck all though there is things to do because I am feeling apathetic now. Tomorrow though my oldest is coming over to watch my little one and my brother to let me get to Aldi so I can get a good root about and get things I need while DH stays in the car this time as he keeps forgetting things so will get the old kill count up again.

Take care ladies

Going to drop her round some Lucozade and monster munch as a hangover cure!

You’re a good friend .

@Nihiloxica

99% of poetry is shit. I would like to extend the ban to free form poetry used in adverts. I now have a burning hatred for Natwest.

This Tory government now has plans for education and yet the unions are still being so so dumb.

There have been some interesting tactical choices by the government that make me believe this.

1. allowing unions to make vague demands without challenge (in the name of discourse)

2. wheeling Gove out to counter these. They know his optics are trash with the public sector.

3. acquiescing to a large number of the demands.

Now either they are tone deaf and looking for short term vote winning soundbites to capatilise on their breaking the red wall.

Or

They have plans. Doesn't take a genius to realise that when one side (who is largely ideologically opposed to you) start just agreeing to stuff there maybe something going on....

I know which side I am hedging my bets on.