Anti-dementors are driving round the Arc de Triomphe

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new thread :-)

You can just imagine some person in the future researching internet forums and coming across mn early 2020. They would think wtaf was wrong with society that they turned into such vile people turning on friends and neighbours and others on a support forum? How did the Uk ever recover when they knew such people could be friends, relatives and neighbours just waiting to accuse them of something farsical? Didn't they learn anything from history?

I was glad that when Drakeford spoke about shops he did not ban indoor malls, I think Scotland did. My friend has a tiny shop in a mall selling lovely clothes which are affordable but different. She has done online to the best of her ability I bought a dress from her during lock down. I will be there on Monday, never walk away with less than three items. I buy for DILs too, her clothes are so pretty. She also does lovely footwear.

Grand children desperate for shoes so will go with DIL to get them kitted out next week. Just to entertain them while shoes are fitted.

Our local pub is getting ready now, lots of outdoor seating as well as indoor so fingers crossed DS will get his job back for the summer.

@SockYarn

Gosh the dementoring is strong on the "who is still washing their groceries" threads.

All the stock phrases like "i'd rather spend 20 minutes bleaching my veg than be dead" or my personal favourite "you can't be too careful".

Also does anyone else have an irrational objection to the phrase "Each to their own"? It doesn't mean that at all. It means "I am judging you to fuck for your poor choices but am finding a more passive aggressive way to say that".

I posted on that thread in reply to a poster who asked if retail staff were getting CV in proportionally larger numbers. (From my own experience, no, but I'm no scientist) Jesus christ almighty, someone then lectured me asking if I knew that x% of people have it with no symptoms and could be infecting people unknowingly. For the avoidance of all doubt via my own personal experience NO ONE at my work,a place of about 100 staff of all ages and circumstances, has been off with CV. There's been isolations due to POSSIBLE symptoms but if anyone actually had it, believe me, we'd know! I don't lick the customers or the tins or the fruit so that's obviously helped. And no, I don't wash my shopping, but conversely I don't lick it either. Ffs.

@Willow2017 yes exactly that. I've read about the practice of "active forgetting" that communities had to adopt to move on after WWII ... I can't imagine I'd be very good at it! I'll always wonder if the person I'm talking to was One Of Them.

From a Reddit post, I fell down an internet rabbit hole about the White Feather campaign during WW1

From wiki..."In August 1914, at the start of World War I, Admiral Charles Fitzgerald founded the Order of the White Feather with the support of the prominent author Mrs Humphry Ward. The organisation aimed to shame men into enlisting in the British army by persuading women to present them with a white feather if they were not wearing a uniform"
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_feather

Apparently, the women handed feathers to army-men on leave in civilian clothes, to men who were part of the war effort in factories, disabled men etc etc. To the point where they lost the sympathy of the public at large.

So, the weaponising of shame has a long and sordid history

@Supermarketworker06 not being a scientist isn't a problem for dementors - after all their most important source of evidence & the Font of Truth is 'someone on Twitter who is medical'

I wandered into town a bit earlier, bought a few things from shops and came back the long way round, therefore combining retail therapy and exercise. I ran into two members of my book group and had a longish chat with someone I know vaguely in her jewellery shop - which is fairly usual for my town, pre-lockdown. It was lovely!

I am normally mentally solid as a rock, to the point of weirdness, but the whole debacle of lockdown has had me in tears of rage,frustration, impotence and loss. These anti dementor threads have been a bastion of sanity. Thank you everyone and thank you patronises (or is that patronii)

Also the redundancy/ furlough thread saddened me and made me more determined to spenD what I can when I can.

@Worldgonecrazy

I am normally mentally solid as a rock, to the point of weirdness, but the whole debacle of lockdown has had me in tears of rage,frustration, impotence and loss. These anti dementor threads have been a bastion of sanity. Thank you everyone and thank you patronises (or is that patronii)

Also the redundancy/ furlough thread saddened me and made me more determined to spenD what I can when I can.

Wow, that is so interesting.

I don't understand the indoor shopping mall thing. Is it crowds perhaps, as could limit the actual numbers going in overall?

Some places like Stirling have their main shops in one of those so not much else. Will not help their shops / economy either.

Apparently a year is ok for a child to go without real life socialisation on these days of technology. It's a full on dementor day.

In case anyone is a fact collector

Harry Potter patronus plural is patronuses.

Latin patronus plural is patroni

@Worldgonecrazy in a weird way it makes me feel better to know normally stable people are struggling too.. not that I want anyone to struggle , obviously!

I'm a bit mental anyway but maybe just feeling like a normal person over this 😃

The Bogrolls are in a playground. I repeat the Bogrolls are in a playground having fun.

DS2 has emerged from several days of stupor and stinking mood, cured by being on a creaking swing.

Also been to Go Outdoors which was quiet and refreshingly normal.

Me neither Tory. If i knew anyone that vile during this i would never look at them the same again.

As a family work wise it is a struggle and a worry, two sons both self employed so no furlough, no customers, it is hard. They fought for grants which Wales were loathe to hand out despite westminster handing over the money very quickly. We have some savings from down sizing so were considering helping them out which we may still have to do. It is going to be a bumpy ride for some time to come I think but being together supporting each other helps I think.

[quote torydeathdrug]@Supermarketworker06 not being a scientist isn't a problem for dementors - after all their most important source of evidence & the Font of Truth is 'someone on Twitter who is medical' [/quote]
Or my neighbours ex wifes sister in laws mother in law is a receptionist at the local gp surgery and they put it on FB so its definately true.

Wales - did I miss it are parks still out of bounds?

When I say parks mean, swings, slides, etc.

We've just spent 2 hours on the field after school. Loads of children, nice cafe, just a joy to see them all playing.

Never before have I been so pleased to sit in an exposed playground in a strong breeze freezing my tits off

Just seen on FB Blair Drummond is opening so we’ll be off ASAP to lick the big cats and give them the virus.

I love their rhinos so much! Isn’t one called Dolly? I didn’t love Dolly much when she came cantering towards my mini!

Mascotte I’ve always felt my sanity was on a knife-edge, but the last 3 months have shown me just how truly uncrackers I actually am. I may need to reshape my TFH into a tit-hammock or something instead.

I bet loads of Mumsnetters would have been handing out white feathers!

@justasking111

When I say parks mean, swings, slides, etc.

They say "park" meaning playground around my way and it really confuses me. "Can we go to the park?" "Eh? You are in the park? Oh you mean you want the playground?" Happens a lot with one of the youth groups whose venue is on the park next to the playground.