Anti dementors say lockdown can just fucking do one now, we're going for chips.

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New thread! I think this brings the total to 12?

Ive just been shopping for (gasp) clothes

I may just bob onto that thread...……….

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

rookie tbh I won overall for today. I managed to get them both showered and clean their teeth.

For revenge I ate their favourite flavour out of the multi-pack crisps.

Oooh harsh!

I would definitely be called a fat bully if I did that.

It is a very good way to get revenge.

Ooof holy fuck, this in the Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/14/the-past-three-months-have-proved-it-the-costs-of-lockdown-are-too-high

If you listen you can probably hear Dementors exploding up and down the nation.

ey trashed the living room then burst into tears and called me a “fat bully” and thumped each other a few times

In this house i'm either an "annoying old woman" or "ruining their lives" depending on their mood that day.

sockyarn 😂 my youngest is rather trigger-happy with his threats to call the police on me. I’m afraid I laugh at him and ask how he thinks that conversation is going to go. “Hello 999? Police please. Yeh, it’s my mum. She says I’ve got to brush my teeth”.

I remember threatening to call the police when babysitting my nephews. Completely unenforceable thread of course, but they believed me and the younger one burst into tears. I felt bad then

@SummerHouse send your children. DH barely scrapes the key worker status and I definitely don't but the school were quoting "guidelines, guidelines, guidelines" as the reason they couldn't have our year 6s in so I trawled through the government guidelines on key workers and both mine are in now. I'm sorry but I was so angry at the school and now they have two children, rather than just the one.

I shouldn't have done it like that but I have and the children are loving it. They both love it on the three days they go in.

@Cattermole Great article

@Livinlavidaloki How was it? Regale us with your tales of the outside world!

Insane membrane
Your kids..fat bully..love it
I’m chuckling my head off here

Thank you ibake
We are having a zoom dowsing meeting...on health
I said I’ll accept all the good vibrations they are willing to send my way.

@AnxiousElephant77
Longest I queued for was 15 mins at sports direct. Bought some stuff from gap and some smaller independent shops. Need primark but not going to attempt that just yet.

On the way home DH and I got a takeaway coffee and sat outside and drank it.

For a short time it felt almost normal and it was like the misery had been suspended.

@flippetdip I LOVE what you did there. Two for one. Ha! I am tempted to send round the guidelines to all the key worker parents I know who are hanging out their arseholes trying to work while their children are smoking crack in the summerhouse while the school repeatedly reiterate that "home is the safest place for them."

I love this thread ❤️
And now the words "gusset" and "moist" have been thrown in it's made my day!

My dd is calling round for a coffee
Will put the world to rights
Plus I can tell her what my medical Dowser has found.

Just had a look on the local news Facebook page. They are all up in arms about the shops opening, despairing of the queues to get into Primark, much wailing about second waves and how they hope they can buy a body bag in Sports Direct. The one thing I did notice which seems to be new is a lot of sneering and some incredible classist bollocks. Calling people thick, uneducated, illegitimate, comments about benefits claimants. Comments about only the “down market” shops being open. It’s really got nasty. Guess what Mr Smug public sector worker, when the economy tanks you’re job isn’t safe and, gasp, you may well end up on those benefits. And you’re calling those shopping today thick? Who the hell are these fuckwits and who the hell do they think they are?

Dear gods, I knew it wouldn’t fail to disappoint but Christ on a bike!

@Cattermole

Wooho! that article!

Getting young people to abide by a second lockdown would be problematic. They want to work, to meet their mates, go on demonstrations and have some fun. They know they are low risk and will do their own cost-benefit analysis.

Then they are much smarter than their parents. Thank fuck for that!

Afternoon everybody from a very sunny Somerset.

Aww Sunday morning
Don’t say that
I had to drive into N Yorks for our sunshine yesterday
Can’t do that today
Love the sun and hate not having it here
Grey but dry thankfully

@Cattermole That's quite something coming from the Guardian, who have been The Dementor Daily for months. I've read the dear old Graun for years but I had to back away slowly towards a Times sub for the sake of my sanity.

conclude that the economic, social, health and educational costs of full lockdowns are too high and that somehow we have to learn to live with Covid-19.

^ no fucking shit Sherlock. How will mn survive if The Oracle that is The Guardian abandons them. Tbh I mostly just roll my eyes now - they are fighting a losing battle.

My DS has been unfurloughed today after 10 weeks at home and I'm so relieved. He started only his apprenticeship in January and absolutely loved the job after hating 6th form. His mental health was starting to concern me - he's normally fairly stoic and laid back but the isolation was getting to him - not bothering to get dressed or showered, not wanting to meet his friends for a kick around and getting unreasonably angry when I suggested he could empty the dishwasher. I hope he bounces back.
I am afraid I ventured onto the shopping thread, and bit back. The amount of venom from some posters is shocking!

Just posted this on the shopping thread.
"Also, all the posters with mates in the NHS telling them to stay home, it's too dangerous out....when we came out of sports direct the queue was horrendous. Most people wearing NHS badges as they are offering 50 percent off for NHS. So either...

A - I call bullshit
B - Your mates stitched you up to shorten their queue"

Wish me luck

Did the guardian link to peer-reviewed studies though?

My kids have just rolled in for lunch - first question "where are my crisps?". So we had a quick chat about actions and consequences - every day is a school day!

Asked them what they've been doing - climbing trees apparently. DOUBLE DEATH RISK!

@inside one of my son's most treasured possessions is the CT scan of his brain from one of his tree climbing/falling sessions. We were just impressed to see that there was actually a brain in there

@insane not inside - fat thumbs!