Do you wonder WTAF?!

[Nikhedonia]

WTAF is going on at the minute, CoronaVirus, Donald Trump, the fact we still need to be told via protest that Black Lives Matter, seriously WTAF is happening in the world at the moment?!

I don't think I'll articulate this well, but I sometimes just think that this is a very weird time to be be alive. There's so much of it that is almost difficult to comprehend.

Yes - until last March, 'furlough' was an obscure word I'd come across once in a 19th century novel.

Just invent some neighbours who've invited 500 people round for a barbecue - sorted.

No, I want a complete escape from the CV-19 stuff. I'm thinking of the days of yore, a good Pom Bear thread.

I really dislike the word ‘shielding.’

It makes me think people are hiding behind their sofa with a bit of cardboard over their heads.

Yes - until last March, 'furlough' was an obscure word I'd come across once in a 19th century novel.

I knew it from Orange Is The New Black.

So long as it keeps us all from recognising and discussing the fact that Prince Andrew is a nonce, 2020 will have done its job well.

It makes me think people are hiding behind their sofa with a bit of cardboard over their heads.

I would imagine (based on some of the hysteria on here) that your vision could be quite accurate!

Yes the world has gone mad, completely bonkers but then it's done it every so often throughout history.
Call me a Pollyanna living in my ivory tower, but this will pass & we'll all say WTF & how on Earth did we cope with all that.
Hopefully we may learn.

Or we're just characters in The Sims 2020 Apocalypse or we'll all wake up in the morning & think wtf was that weird dream.

Talking of dreams mine have gone really weird. I'm now dreaming of everyday boring stuff like food shopping, going on a bus etc instead of my usual James Bond & flying escapades.

'Shielding' makes me think of the popular 1970s brand of stripy soap. It was supposed to have deodorising properties.

@Nikhedonia

You're cool. It's all weird.

I knew it from Orange Is The New Black

It was 'What Katy Did Next' in my case. Naval officer Ned Worthy-of-her secured an extra fourteen days' "furlough" to accompany Katy and co. to Venice, where he successfully wooed her in a gondola.

I wouldn't try eating it Pelleas although it does smell rather nice.

Yes the world has gone mad, completely bonkers but then it's done it every so often throughout history

It's weird to actually live in a period that you know will come up in the future history books.

I wonder if others who have lived through 'turbulent' times have thought that.

It was 'What Katy Did Next' in my case. Naval officer Ned Worthy-of-her secured an extra fourteen days' "furlough" to accompany Katy and co. to Venice, where he successfully wooed her in a gondola.

Ah, what I would give to be successfully wooed in a gondola right now!

I spent 2019 having therapy for OCD based on impending doom.
Turns out I wasn't nuts

"All we need now are some locusts."

Coming right up ...

On patrol with Kenya's locust hunters

@PastMyBestBeforeDate oh dear,for you. I suppose your therapist had said that it was likely your OCD?

Shield soap, yes, I’m old enough to remember that.

I’m quite interested in words, they are pretty powerful. A lot of language recently is new, and a lot of it seems to have been nicked from other disasters. It doesn’t all fit.

Shielding reminds me of ‘shielding from nuclear radiation’ and ‘decontamination’ Reminds me of Chernobyl.

I think we need to get a bit of a grip.

Sort of. Lots of crap that led me to expect more crap. And here it is. Forewarned etc

I'm traumatised to fuck.

My business is slowly being rebuilt, I'm only a third way in. Everything is at a stake for me, my family and my staff and yet ...

I still think we'll make it as a world, i still believe we'll recover our core values and rebuild something good around that.

This is not ok for me or others but there must be something left.

I'm fucking hoping so or I'm done!

To be fair, nobody could have coped with it.

But demonstrably, it's perfectly possible to cope with it much, much better than Johnson has. It's a real pity we didn't have a Merkel equivalent.

Ah, what I would give to be successfully wooed in a gondola right now!

As Kenneth Williams once said, 'Oooh, you can be as wooed as you like!'

@PastMyBestBeforeDate I'm sorry you are right. I hope you are coping ok

@Pelleas I just need the right man to come along and woo me! With all this social distancing it's rather unlikely!

To be fair, nobody could have coped with it.

I really don’t agree, most countries have dealt with this a good deal better, some considerably better, NZ, etc. Why do we have such low standards for our leaders?

You’re right, lady Constance.

Also, nice use of ‘demonstrably.’ It’s right up there with ‘arguably.’