Anti dementors are going to hit the shops. Who wants to come?

[Shodan]

This'll be thread number 13, I think.

Let's hope it's a lucky one

(Sorry about the feeble title)

Just waved my sister off, after a thoroughly normal feeling evening of sitting in the garden chatting and watching for bats. A taste of things to come fingers crossed.

I’m so sick of posters on other threads shrieking about “the rules.” ODFOD.

Things I never want to hear again:

The Rules
Social distancing
The new normal

Makes me fly into a rage, drink wine and eat chocolate

The NHS turning into a covid service has affected my family too.

^ yeah us too - dh & my mum both had niggly issues that turned out to be more major & then bang ... lockdown ... no non covid medicine. That’s before dealing with the fact ds1 has been dumped by both the education system & NHS. dd1 can’t get her semi urgent but supposed to be addressed before going to university brain thing dealt with & I am in constant pain & increasingly immobile because treatment for an injury was stopped halfway through. It is incredibly stressful - and we have good but now pretty useless health insurance. My GP who I thought was pretty great has been awful through all of this - really shocking. As usual it’s those least able to fight the system who are most shafted, I know how it works & am pretty good at working it but feel defeated.

No dentistry either - I’ve been seriously looking at the logistics of dental holidays in Hungary! I managed to get dd2’s glasses fixed today and I’m trying to gather the energy to find out what we need to do for check ups.

I cut my hand quite badly tonight - I know everyone says A&E is quiet but I couldn’t face it ... have done a home fix with superglue & steristrips. Luckily I’m well stocked with various pharmaceuticals

@MinesaPinot yep all those plus "blended (fucking) learning" ARGH!

It's part time schooling FFS

@MinesaPinot yeah all of those ... “practising social distancing” makes me want to puke 🤮

@HesterShaw1 I am so with you on Gordon Brown. It truly was the UK's great loss.
DH used to work for a company that serviced the annual Labour Party conference and he says he's a lovely man in person, extremely courteous.

The self-catering UK cottage thread is the thread that keeps on giving! Pure comedy gold.

I love these threads. The normality is refreshing.

I haven't braved the shops yet purely because I fucking hate queuing.
I'm going next week, bottles of hand gel holstered and ready to squirt in the general direction of the mask-wearing, germ-fearing amongst us.
I'm sure the large bottle has a 2M trajectory, so if it goes in someone's eye then tough.

I'm sick to the bastard death of this whole debacle now.
I'm fucked off with the lack of NHS and dentistry provisions, education, common sense and normality.

Locally, everyone is moaning that the shops are open. They're practically shitting themselves with excitement at the thought of a second wave so that they can scream murderer at all us scumbags rushing out for fast fashion.
Fuck off.

I've had a bad day.

I think Gordon Brown did an astonishing job in steering us out of the immediate pitfalls of the credit crunch. But the media did such a number on him, he didn't stand a chance in the elections. And he didn't know how to project to an invisible audience through a television screen. I remember his rictus grin in the television debates - he'd obviously been told to smile more, but he did it at the wrong times and it never reached his eyes. I watched that debate and felt my heart sink, knowing that he'd lost the election to "I agree with Nick" Cameron

@TheGreatWave

Bark Are we talking Mr Bean style bad?

I could have done with that ID in the local supermarket the other day. I nearly picked up alcohol but rememebered that I didn't have ID on me and it wasn't worth the risk after my gin was confiscated when I was 37 and couldn't prove it

he'd obviously been told to smile more, but he did it at the wrong times and it never reached his eyes.
To be fair, he only has one!

I think stay safe now means bye.

Just watched a US show and I'm pretty sure that it's replacing or becoming another phrase for bye or see you soon or you must come back again.

Kind of like Hello was Victorian english for suprise rather than a greeting.

It keeps croping up at end of e-mails instead of regards or thanks or many thanks - it all stay safe.

To be fair, he only has one!

Jourdain I never knew that! I googled it just now and had the biggest lightbulb moment of my life!

How did I not know he had a glass eye?

Torydeathdrug
I fixed my own toothache
It was a 10 on my pain scale but a mix of homeopathy, colloidal silver, herbs and supplements I’ve got it down to a 0.25

Had a session with my medical Dowser and was saying how the infec

@NannyPhlegm

To be fair, he only has one!

Jourdain I never knew that! I googled it just now and had the biggest lightbulb moment of my life!

How did I not know he had a glass eye?

When he does interviews he often sits a bit side on. I don't think it's very obvious unless you know!

Yesterday, and the infection had got into my trigeminal nerve
He said when it happened to him he threw up.
Wow.. I’m made of strong stuff.

Mine was waking me through the night. Excruciating
Try some goldenseal tincture from nature’s answer and rub aLong the gum.

I make my own colloidal silver.
I was brewing today and left grandson and chemistry student in charge while I popped into town.

Told him to check it. It needed to be 12 on the meter

Yep, he did that, but didn’t disconnect the electrodes ..doh
So I came in to pale coffee coloured colloidal silver...instead of clear.

@MinesaPinot

Things I never want to hear again:

The Rules
Social distancing
The new normal

Makes me fly into a rage, drink wine and eat chocolate

I may have been a tad triggered by the "new normal" AIBU thread...

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

It keeps croping up at end of e-mails instead of regards or thanks or many thanks - it all stay safe.

Yes, the rebel of my youth thinks, 'Nah! I want to be reckless! Smoke cannabis, take LSD or magic mushrooms and have sex with strangers I met in bars or gigs!' I don't, though ;).

Totally agree @BogRollBOGOF It's not the new bloody normal!! 'Interim measures' if anything!

Also completely at all the people who are adamant they've had CV despite testing negative both for antigens and antibodies. Because there are no other viruses or illnesses out there any more, obviously.

@Delta1 yes this is driving me absolutely insane. I know several people who spent seventy quid on one of those tests from superdrug, then refused to believe the results when they came back negative.

So many people are "sure" they had it because they had a cough back in January, because of course nobody ever gets a cough in January for any other reason.

Dentists. Who knew right? My youngest broke the tooth which had already been fixed - approximately 10 minutes after my dentist said they were closing (forever). I fixed it with dental putty which has since fallen off and he’s not talked of pain phew! He wanted it fixed before he went back to school. Which may well be a realistic possibility here in Scotland...

Even though a dentist pal will be able to open, she can see a max of 10/day. Only emergencies and no aerosol. She says this translates to extractions with her rather than the hub.

I’ve had two lots of antibiotics for an abscess. I’m very lucky in the sense I don’t get much pain, more a “why is there pus pouring from my gums?” - so it’s looking like I’ll need to tooth pulled. Fair enough at least it’s not a cosmetic necessity (wisdom) - but I have trigeminal neuralgia and I’m terrified of upsetting my nerves.

@jordain - nooo I tend to remember the posters who are funny / I agree with