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The Anti Dementors, danger-buffooning their way through life!

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Drivingdownthe101 · 30/05/2020 09:25

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ISaySteadyOn · 30/05/2020 10:18

Checking in. Still angry about schools. I have heard nothing about any years except Y6 from ours.

I think the unions are showing a certain amount of true colours here. I don't think it is as much about safety as scoring political points. And, for me, it boils down to 2 options: either they think children are rotten little plague spreaders and favour a Trunchbull approach (school sans children) or they don't and should act accordingly. Maybe that's my rigid thinking but that's my opinion.

On a lighter note and to prove my danger buffooning credentials, we had a lovely picnic the other day and the children ran around like mad things and were much more pleasant in the evening for it.

HauntedGoatFart · 30/05/2020 10:19

Good morning dangerous buffoons!

I'm sad today that DS's projected school restart has been pushed back from Monday to the 15th but I think the reality of schools starting to go back will help to antiDementor the whole thing slowly.

Friends seem to be slowly getting more comfortable with pushing the boundaries a bit and I agree with the "halfhearted telling them off, giving it up altogether if the other parent doesn't object" a PP mentioned. Grin

Springersrock · 30/05/2020 10:22

Morning

I’ve had the worst hay fever I’ve ever had this year

I still remember pulling the most enormous bogey out of baby DD1’s nose, I could never work out quite how it had fitted up there. She’s 18 now

trappedsincesundaymorn · 30/05/2020 10:23

Just read the bbc link on the other thread....comedy gold.

Identify a sink nearby??? "Look there's"a sink", it's the thing with the bits known as "taps" sticking up from it" I would just love it if there was a sign saying..."this might look like a sink but it identifies itself a toilet, please respect it's decision and treat it as such".

I think I may have had too much coffee and not enough sleep!!

BogRollBOGOF · 30/05/2020 10:23

Not really having the inclination to buffoon away on a beach after 3 hours drive, I took the liberty of going to a famed beauty spot. Terrible, murderous hoards of people BREATHING everywhere Wink I suspect that it was busy earlier in the day because there were some cars still parked along the road and in the farmer's field car park despite being well into the evening. Admittedly people that turn up anywhere congested and jam up the roads are nitwits at anytime. All car parks should be open now, leaving them shut just compounds the issue.

"The New Normal" has had a ressurection in the last few days. Oh how I loathe that phrase as it implies a bland acceptance of all disruption and any insanity that ensues. I would prefer "temporary normal" that this is just a temporary phase before we get close to our normal systems.

I hope all the perspex screens in places like shops are not permanent. I remember screens going up in banks and post offices. Some permanence of separation is not healthy. I found maternity leave a very lonely time so would go out to places like the library or local shops for some brief adult interaction in a long day. If screens become a long term measure, that's very isolating to people.

But in silver linings, the view from my hill is clearer than ever, being able to see landmarks a good 20 miles+ away and identifying places across the county and beyond. Even a certain powerstation by the M1!

The Anti Dementors, danger-buffooning their way through life!
DrearyWallAntler · 30/05/2020 10:25

As I often do a full Britt Eckland Wicker Man dance when using a friends bog I feel that the BBC guidence is perfectly reasonable.

Hmm
SpnBaby1967 · 30/05/2020 10:29

@trappedsincesundaymorn

Morning fellow buffoons. My hay fever manifests itself in the form of runny nose, weepy eyes and a cough. Not a good look during "normal" times let alone now. I got hissed at by a pesky dementor yesterday about "being out whilst ill". I did point out nobody cared when I had the exact same look every year up until now and staying in from late April/early May (tree pollen) until September (everything else pollen), was not going to happen at this, or any other time. I rounded it of with a "so good day to you madam", because I was in that sort of mood.
I think I need a high vis vest that says "I have hayfever not coronavirus"
OnItCarBonnet · 30/05/2020 10:29

Just checking in!

littlbrowndog · 30/05/2020 10:30

Morning buffoons 😎

SockYarn · 30/05/2020 10:31

I quite like the Danger-Buffoon label. Bit like Dangermouse.

TheKrakening3 · 30/05/2020 10:31

Hello fellow buffoons. So the majority of Australian states are back to full time schooling. Victoria is faffing a bit but will be back full time 9 June. School attendance numbers seem to be almost as high as the same period last year. Aside from parents being kept off school grounds and more rigorous cleaning and no big assemblies, everything is back to normal. School libraries are open, school sport is occurring and classrooms are holding full cohorts of students. None of this impossible social bubble, 12 kids only rubbish. The sky hasn’t fallen, the kids are beaming and the wheels of life are slowly cranking back to normal. I have said it on an earlier thread that I think once the first trickle of kids return, people will jolt quickly out of their fear ruts and the floodgates to normal education will open. Our schools dementors pretty much instantly stopped education dementing and have moved on to other things like state borders and travel. They will eventually run short there too, but I see they are hopefully lining up non-existent chicken viruses as a replacement.

CruCru · 30/05/2020 10:32

Ah, here’s the thread.

I think one of the things I’m so cross about is that people I thought were sensible and normal seem to have gone mad. People have lost the ability to use their own good judgement.

I worry that when this is over, people won’t remember the mindless cruelty (taping up park benches, freaking out at people because they need to nip to the shop to buy milk, shrieking “Stay the fuck at home!!!”), only the stuff where people spent more time with their kids.

CruCru · 30/05/2020 10:33

@TheKrakening3

Hello fellow buffoons. So the majority of Australian states are back to full time schooling. Victoria is faffing a bit but will be back full time 9 June. School attendance numbers seem to be almost as high as the same period last year. Aside from parents being kept off school grounds and more rigorous cleaning and no big assemblies, everything is back to normal. School libraries are open, school sport is occurring and classrooms are holding full cohorts of students. None of this impossible social bubble, 12 kids only rubbish. The sky hasn’t fallen, the kids are beaming and the wheels of life are slowly cranking back to normal. I have said it on an earlier thread that I think once the first trickle of kids return, people will jolt quickly out of their fear ruts and the floodgates to normal education will open. Our schools dementors pretty much instantly stopped education dementing and have moved on to other things like state borders and travel. They will eventually run short there too, but I see they are hopefully lining up non-existent chicken viruses as a replacement.
That sounds wonderful. I really look forward to it.
SockYarn · 30/05/2020 10:34

Oh and yes to the hayfever! Until this week I had been fine and it's now awful, whatever plant I'm allergic to must have come into season. Itchy eyes, running nose, sneezing, wheezing and coughing.

Cetirizine helps a lot, but yes people think you've got THE VIRUS and are deliberately spreading it by looking at them in the Co-Op.

Orangeblossom78 · 30/05/2020 10:38

Morning! Wonder who writes the BBC articles- they sound very anxious don't they. Maybe too much news is getting to them.

Orangeblossom78 · 30/05/2020 10:39

This is also quite strange- sitting in a cafe with cardboard people

www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-52746584

Bollss · 30/05/2020 10:41

I used to suffer from hayfever as a child. Been fine for years but for some unknown reason this year it's making my asthma bad! This has never happened before Hmm

Dp on the other hand swells up at the sight of cut grass poor bugger!

dkl55 · 30/05/2020 10:43

Checking in!

BogRollBOGOF · 30/05/2020 10:44

I get hayfever at least from early March to July and possibly to September. It has been better than usual this year, partly that rapeseed seems to be out of favour with the nearby fields in the last couple of years, and I think the improved air quality has helped. I tend to get sinusy headaches from it, so at least don't tend to look plague-ridden.

I think hayfever contributed to the horrendous nausea that I had in my first pregnancy. Any smell like rapeseed would have me dry-gagging- not easy while driving!

BirdieFriendReturns · 30/05/2020 10:45

Socially distanced BBQs: Bring own cutlery and have one way systems:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8370067/How-socially-distanced-BBQ-Bring-cutlery-garden-one-way-systems.html

FFS!

Willow2017 · 30/05/2020 10:46

Just checking in the shiney new thread. Will be buffooning at work soon.

Orangeblossom78 · 30/05/2020 10:46

More dementing on here about other chicken pandemics and covid just being 'tip of the iceberg' now Hmm

Orangeblossom78 · 30/05/2020 10:47

Wonder of should tell school of DS's hay fever before he starts back next week. It is quite bad at the mo. Is there anything good for children other than piriton I wonder. Hoping they don't send him home

Allinadaystwerk · 30/05/2020 10:49

Goid morning. Brand new to these threads as I have just not clicked on but I think by the sound of it I might be a danger buffoon😁 could someone give me the criteria please? I'm just confirming my first garden partay

Allinadaystwerk · 30/05/2020 10:50

SD'd of course