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Patronii in person, anti Dementors visit the zoo

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ISaySteadyOn · 05/06/2020 11:30

Never started a long running thread before but I figure even lurkers should take a turn. Hope the title ok.

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BogRollBOGOF · 07/06/2020 11:57

I didn't know if yellow tops extended beyond Redcar.

I've got family all over, except here.

MrsArchchancellorRidcully · 07/06/2020 12:05

I'm completely done.

DD BFF came over on Friday to play in the garden. Her mum and I had both agreed she would be fine to come inside for bad weather. It puddled down. Both girls spent all afternoon squealing in her bedroom. Best day ever. Her mum is a deputy head teacher.

But then, hear me out, I got an attack of worry. SOOOOO many people saying I am wrong, virus is a killer. 2nd wave coming. Etc etc. Govt officials and some scientists agreeing.

Is there a chance the view on here could be wrong? I don't think we are but I have moments of doubt. Why is everyone else so convinced otherwise ?

MorrisZapp · 07/06/2020 12:10

My colleague popped over to deliver something yesterday. I hugged him and kissed him.

Full disclosure, he happens to be hot AF but even if he was Jim from Friday Night Dinner I can't do without big fella hugs forever. DP is lovely but I wasn't born to look at one man 24 hours a fecking day.

That's why offices EXIST.

Dowser · 07/06/2020 12:10

Willitnever end
Thanks for the explanation
It’s funny because we go to wales a lot, so I feel I know it much better than Scotland ( great grandparents from Glasgow and grandfather from lochgelly)
So, on our many drives up the welsh valleys, particularly the Rhondda, there’s loads of old unusual named churches, off the top of my head, apart from Presbyterian, Methodist, anabaptist I think there’s some called Bethesda
It really fascinated me. Somethings they are Side by side with one another.
I think I find it unusual because in a small village they seem to stand out more.

I know nothing about them, so please excuse my ignorance but I wonder if they could be stricter in how they deliver guidelines to the flock.

I was almost brought up Almost irreligious, as dad was a lapsed Catholic and mum c of e. The only way the Catholic Church would marry them was if they had no hymns or flowers, mum must’ve said, sod that and they married in a pretty c of e church instead. I went to an ordinary state school and had little in the way of religious upbringing

So maybe I find it a bit easier to bend the rules, if they don’t make sense I don’t know.
Dh is a lapsed Catholic and he wants absolutely nothing to do with religion ( apologies to any religious people on here) and he can be a bit of a rule breaker, without too much encouragement from me.
It’s very interesting willitneverend about you mentioning the churches because I was thinking along the same lines Myself.

This strictly adhering to rules, that don’t make sense has to come from somewhere...doesnt it?
Well that and the fear that’s now been instilled in a lot of people that if they so much as step outside their front door, they are doomed.

Drivingdownthe101 · 07/06/2020 12:12

I suppose there’s always a chance MrsArchchancellorRidcully. I don’t think so though.
And even if we are wrong... what are the chances that either your DD or her friend are one of the 0.1% of the population currently infected? Very very low. So no harm done.

Dowser · 07/06/2020 12:12

Morriszapp
You had me In stitches..really cheered me up
People are breaking out..and finding out they are still alive when they step outside da roolz dontcha know

TheGreatWave · 07/06/2020 12:13

I have just been informed that there is a virus. I am sitting on my hands, I'd quite like to keep my job.

Dowser · 07/06/2020 12:14

Yellow tops never reached our beach side town. I’m sure I would’ve had one if they did and we are only about 25 miles away.
I think the family firm was called Pacittos
Can’t have one now thanks to all this dairy free malarkey which would kill me quicker than Covid.

TheGreatWave · 07/06/2020 12:16

Redcar is up in the North East, not as high up as Durham, but past the likes of Scarborough and Whitby.

They have apparently opened the car park now, but I presume the toilets are still closed.

TheGreatWave · 07/06/2020 12:17

Still there Dowser been much dementoring about it.

Dowser · 07/06/2020 12:17

From trip advisor

RedSharron
Redcar, United Kingdom
85
Reviewed 17 December 2015 via mobile
Best Lemon Top in the world.
The 'Lemon -Top ', vanilla ice cream in either a cone or tub with a scoop of Pacittos lemon sorbet ice on top is sublime and worth travelling any distance to get your hands on!

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 07/06/2020 12:18

I had a lemon top at Filey last summer.

Dowser · 07/06/2020 12:18

I was doing a course at the Redcar college and one day our lecturer suggested we all go for a lemon top.
I was about 40 then
First one I’d had.
Great fun.

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 07/06/2020 12:20

Lemon tops in North Yorkshire. Never heard of one til this summer though (I'm a southerner).

Dowser · 07/06/2020 12:21

Eden camp near Pickering was a POW camp in WW2 that housed a lot of Italian POWs.
They were a nice group of men and got out and about to help in the local farms and as such weren’t seen as much of a security risk.
Several of them met and married local girls.
Some stayed on and opened ice cream parlours in the Surrounding area.

Nihiloxica · 07/06/2020 12:23

I have just been informed that there is a virus.

Hang on... WHAT?

Here we were blithely living our lives as normal...

Thank fuck somebody told you.

Nihiloxica · 07/06/2020 12:24

I have to get a lemon top somehow.

Maybe I could buy a normal cone and then put my own sorbet on it.

Dowser · 07/06/2020 12:31

Worth a try nihil
Till you can get the real thing

HesterShaw1 · 07/06/2020 12:32

I'm struck anew at the slavering anticipation so many seem to show at the prospect of a bloody second wave. It's really most odd.

A friend runs a B&B. He's trying to be positive but obviously his business has been completely trashed along with mine. Now we're cautiously starting to prepare to re open, and he's publishing ways in which this can "safely and realistically" Hmm be done, he has someone determinedly trolling him on social media. Posting some really vile stuff about him only caring about money, not about the elderly and vulnerable, but only about the INFECTIOUS AND GERM RIDDEN TOURISTS. He handled it in a very dignified way, but it would have made me very depressed and upset I think. These fucking people....

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 07/06/2020 12:34

I've been stuck under a wiggly toddler trying to feed her to sleep for a hour and getting steadily more frustrated at the lack of lockdown easing that impacts children.

My dad is 67, overweight. So probably a decent risk of getting fairly ill if he got it. But he can go to the garden centre, go to play golf, wander round b&q. He can socialise in his backgarden. His life is opening back up.

My DD is 6. She is at practically zero risk of getting sick. But she can't do anything. No playgrounds. No zoos or animal parks. No swimming or horse riding. No school until next week and even then only because she's lucky enough to be in yr1. Can't properly socialise because kids want to play, instead of sitting and chatting.

It's so unfair. Why are we punishing children? They don't spread it, they don't die of it.* But they are made to suffer because of it.

*At a population level.

GoldenOmber · 07/06/2020 12:40

Is there a chance the view on here could be wrong? I don't think we are but I have moments of doubt. Why is everyone else so convinced otherwise ?

I don’t think there is a single view on here. I’ve been on these threads since the beginning and I think lockdown was the right idea (although should’ve been done sooner and shorter) and it’s probably sensible for governments to be on the cautious side coming out of it.

But I also think the virus is not itself a big threat to (young healthy) me or my children, and lockdown is a temporary emergency measure not a long-term way of life, and it’s really good that deaths and cases are dropping enough that we can start getting back to normal life. All these things seem to have become controversial somehow and I cannot for the life of me understand why.

It is like people have lost any sense of critical thinking. Social distancing now means that two kids playing together WILL DEFINITELY spread the virus. Schools opening means teachers WILL DEFINITELY die in droves, even if they’ve been open for children of key workers inc. NHS clinical staff the whole time and this has not been happening. Virus being dangerous for some groups and dangerous on a population level for NHS capacity now means virus IS DEFINITELY dangerous to everyone.

I’m also fairly optimistic about a vaccine which many dementors are convinced is NEVER going to happen. Well okay then, have fun bolting yourself inside forever I suppose?

Nihiloxica · 07/06/2020 12:42

I'm struck anew at the slavering anticipation so many seem to show at the prospect of a bloody second wave.

Maybe we should tell them about lemon tops?

I mean, if you're going to be sparring, why not do it over a delicious cooling treat?

dkl55 · 07/06/2020 12:44

@Mascotte it's like mass brainwashing. Thankfully I've just been on a scotland thread and whilst my pals seem blinded still, the mood seems to be turning.

LivinLaVidaLoki · 07/06/2020 12:45

I keep thinking about all these black lives matter protests and the hard dementoring thats going on.
I really really hope there is no second spike because of it not just because it would be really good news, but also because then surely, the dementors would have nowhere to go? Easter, VE day, sunny weekends etc etc and now this.

Sorry I'm probably not explaining myself very well here, I didn't sleep well last night.

Mascotte · 07/06/2020 12:46

@dkl55 oh, I hope so...

On a simple level, I don't even know whether to buy my child school uniform.. he's due to start high school but is in adult sizes and I'm buggered if I'm buying uniform for (maybe) two days a week.