Anti dementors flock together

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Gather here anti dementors

was amazing how any journey made was definitely going to result in major car accident, if you cycled you would fall off into a ditch, running you would fall off a kerb and break your ankle.
Yes that was ridiculous. I was going to work on a usually busy main road half an hour each way and would see about a dozen vehicles in all. Yet apparently i was risking life and limb on that dangerous roads putting everyone in every emergency service possible at risk. How on earth did i survive and not end up running off the road and wrapping my car round a tree? Sheer luck i suppose🤔

Oh my god, all dementor should be issued with that toilet roll. Save the good stuff for everyone else.

They would enjoy it though

@dollybagwash I've been on the receiving end of it too on Twitter. It's not nice at all. They just twist what you say out of all proportion.

@TeacupDrama that was me and I know exactly what you mean. The SNP used to be proud of Scotland's educational record and the idea that anyone could get a good education and go off and change the world. All of the positive pieces of that heritage has been deleted and only the miserablist bits remain.

I think we also have a new type of dementor, who are determinedly carrying on dementoring in the face of a rapidly lowering death rate. Someone a few threads ago mentioned Japanese soldiers in the jungle fighting on years after the end of the war, we are getting closer to that point.

I think Nicola Sturgeon is leading the Japanese holdouts...

Apparently the Duke of Edinburgh died at the start of lockdown

What, again? I've lost count of the number of times he's died now.

For flocks' sake.

I go for one teeny weeny hour and a half long bath and there's a whole new thread. Just as well I can speed read (not very well tbh, please don't test me on anything)

@TooTiredTodayOk S'alright, I do know that some people genuinely have friends in the NHS. For that matter, I kind of do too

Anyway. DP told me today that he's being a guinea pig for double testing: antibodies AND to see if he's got The Virus. And he's doing two lots of each- one set of home tests, and then lab tests to see if the home ones are accurate. This is, to use his own words, because he's "PoPo".

It'll be interesting to see what the results are.

Oh and

IZAL.

That was the stuff we had at school. Was in sheets and (ahem) was not at all absorbent

That made me laugh...NS in uniform in a hideout underground in the jungle giving shouty speeches to her fellow inmates who are all fed up listening to her but too scared to point out the bleeding obvious that maybe just maybe the war is over?

Checking in! I just wanted to thank you all for turning my attitude from getting depressed by the dementors to being able to laugh at them (mostly!). So many of them really are ludicrous. I do have some pity for them because I know it's coming from a place of fear but they really need to take a step back.

Has anyone else seen the crap about the "big computer that does hard sums" the Scottish Government are pushing? Apparently it takes 50 hours to calculate R. In thousands of years time the descendants of Scottish Ministers will still be tending to it. It will eventually calculate R is 42, long after everyone has forgotten the question (although they'll still be clapping on Thursdays).

I can totally see NS carrying this on for as long as possible. I feel very sorry for her neighbours, I imagine itd be too frightening to let someone wee in your toilet.

I don’t know if I’m interested or terrified to see what this week brings. Our schools are going to have to quit stalling and either shit or get off the pot with the limited opening decision they ducked out of the other week.

The change in the kids after being back in some form of provision this week has been bonkers, but dd2 was on the phone to a friend earlier and I noticed her friends speech was less fluent than I remember too. I had noticed it markedly with my youngest, but she has speech issues anyway.

This article has made me really sad and angry. How absolutely awful - those elderly people sitting alone at home and dying at home undiscovered for two weeks. And yet the focus of the article is STILL "did they have Covid?" Why is that question important? The fact is they were on their own and died alone, and then lay in their houses for two weeks undiscovered.

What have we become?

Just in case it helps anyone else, I've had Taylor Swifts song "you need to calm down" in my head all day. The focus of the song is LGBT rights but the hook is very apt

Do they fucking understand that the right to protest is fundamental in a fucking democracy.

Well so is freedom of association, the right to run a business, the right to buy things that are not deemed "essential" be the government, and the right to an education.

I'm good with people protesting.

I am not good with anyone who supports the protests also supporting the continuation of lockdown.

If mass gatherings are OK, school is OK.

I went to my daughter's yesterday.

We had a good whinge about the situation, hammered a couple of bottles of wine and I Stayed the Night. We also hugged. AND I took her shopping in my car.

Flouting and flaunting it.

Checking in again.

I dip in and out of these threads as they go so fast!

Had a fab day with an anti dementor friend, me and dd's met her for a dog walk and then back to hers for a lovely inside non socially distanced lunch, we even had a hug, I am clearly now a mass murderer!

You lot have really kept me sane and my spirits up, this whole period has been so full of up and downs and has affected us all in so many ways.

I too thought I was good in a crisis, but a normal crisis usually involves me being able to find a solution. This on the other hand has made us powerless, we can't seemingly do anything to find a solution to get us out of this.

We are beholden to the whim of an increasingly confused government and there seems to be no forward direction and hope. Add to that all the paranoid dementoring, curtain twitching and downright unnecessary hysteria it makes this one big head fuck.

When this is over I suggest us sane anti dementors need to hold a mass gathering and give each all big hugs (we could be the cause of the fabled second wave) 🤣

@Nihiloxica I totally agree with you. We have more chance of successfully throwing shite at the moon the now than them opening schools.

I'm torn with the protests, I understand that is cannot wait but the mass gathering idea I don't like. It's a mindfuck.

Looking at the travelling tabby site we have no cases in the community? Interestingly my mum and Dp's best friend who are both key workers (pharmacy and care) are now against easing lockdown? They have both flouted it since the beginning btw but are now scared of everyone else being allowed out.

@Khione
Glad you had a good day with your dd.

I too have met up with the folks regularly drinking wine and bemoaning the fuck up that this lockdown is, has kept me sane and guess what? We're not dead yet 🤣

Fuck you nicola my P1 needs to be back in school full time

My nursery daughter needs to go to nursery.

Your wee sad face Nicola doesn’t do it for me. Am not swimmin* am fucking sinking Nicola

@Nihiloxica
We have lost so many democratic freedoms as of late. The whole of society is so skewed it's unbelievable.

My yr 10 dd has now been told she will have 4hrs of school contact once a week in a group of 10.

They are now reporting in the press that schools won't get back to normal until 2021 and exams for next year are either put back or assessed the same way as this years non exams.

Really, there is no reason for this, our kids futures are being decimated.

I go away for an hour and you're all talking about me

Naturally my bog roll is soft and quilty.
My Great Grandma used that nasty tracing paper stuff. Funnily enough she also did the hushed reverant voice for talking about the ailments and deaths of random strangers... In her last couple of decades she joined a very dementory church and often fortold of the impending armageddon.

Fuck home school in the morning, I'm flocking off to the far end of the county to a beauty spot to do some hiking. I've just moped on my phone for days. Not having any natural opportunities to do any reckless socialising, I get joy from encouraging other people to just get on with it and enjoy themselves when they post their dilemmas.

The DCs must be bored because they sound keen to go hiking!

I support the right to protest, but I don't believe there is any urgent reason for people in the UK to be protesting the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota.

The racist extra-judicial murders by US police is not a problem in the UK, racist policing notwithstanding.

Going on protest marches is a hobby just like golf is. It's an exciting social event that provides an opportunity to advertise your beliefs to other who share them.

That's cool and I support the right to do it, and I support the BLM cause. But these are not urgent protests in the UK now.

They are happening in these numbers because people are bored and have been stuck at home for months and have been spending far too much time on Twitter fervently agreeing with each other that the world is a "dumpster fire".

Going to a protest is the moral equivalent of going to a lockdown-breaking party. You are rejecting lockdown and asserting your right to meet other people because it is an important human impulse.

But protesting is not a separate case - it is no more important than other human social contact.

@Nihiloxica
I completely agree, lockdown boredom had definitely contributed to the scale of protests going on.

The cause is great and well founded but the level/number of people actually protesting has been exacerbated by lockdown.

The protests have been driven by the lockdown. The headline here is anti-racism but the trigger was an event thousands of miles away: a brutal police murder that is (thankfully) unlikely to happen in this country.

The reality in the UK is that young people are pissed off. Universities have shut down and many young people have no job, no prospect of a job, no ability to see friends, no boyfriend/girlfriend staying over. They're either paying rent to private landlords that they can't afford or stuck indoors with their parents. No pension, no job security, no influence on politics. And on top of that we have systemic racism and a bunch of Tory politicians who glorify colonialism. Young people have had enough. And I don't blame them.

Checking in, with a flock, flout and fuckit. About to fall asleep having finally caught up with all you murderous bastards.