Anti-dementors are driving round the Arc de Triomphe

[SockYarn]

new thread :-)

Oh fuck it

@AnxiousElephant77

I see they've given Test and Trace to Apple and Google. Surely that was the most logical thing to do from the start? Not ethically, necessarily but from a logistical perspective?

I have a few programmer friends - they were universally sceptical about the government being able to develop their own app. They reckon the google and apple version is a much better idea, including privacy-wise.

One of them has been involved in government IT procurement as a contractor and says it’s pretty shambolic, nobody knows enough to not end up being ripped off and because of competition rules they have to change contractors every few years so end up having to start things over needlessly. In all honesty, I’m a former civil servant and while I’ll defend the civil service when I think they’re being maligned, his view has a ring of truth about it to me.

Gosh, I can't keep up with these threads.

Am really cross. The story about the Paediatricians writing to urge the Government to open schools was at the top of the Times this morning. Now it's been pushed off the front page by Dame Vera Lynn, the Mayor of London calling for facemarks in shops and protests in Oxford.

I agree @crucru, it's an outrage what's happening. I park next to this sign every day and today I took a photo of it and emailed it to my MP. The school in question did not open on 1st June. Only opened this week to R, next week to Y1 and week after to Y2. Never opened for keyworkers kids and has no plans in place to get Y6 in. So, I think UNICEF might have something to say about their claim!

Thank you ohfuckoff (!) I was weeping my way through that this morning!

We’ve decided to involve a solicitor (by zoom of course!) I’m completely at the end of my tether.

Oh and they do have space to be radical and creative in their thinking (know the school and layout well). The poster yesterday re the marquee, now there's a HT who's doing all she can to get her kids back.

I always said I’d be much more like to use the Apple/google version that anything NHS run ... they take security far more seriously & are actually competent!

One of them has been involved in government IT procurement as a contractor and says it’s pretty shambolic, nobody knows enough to not end up being ripped off and because of competition rules they have to change contractors every few years so end up having to start things over needlessly.

My experience- pre kids working for a firm who seemed to just do government IT was similar and company who were bloody awful to work for seemed to take pride is screwing goverment departments over.

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 see they've given Test and Trace to Apple and Google.

Can't BoJo just call up his mate Angela Merkel and ask for a shot of the German one?

@torydeathdrug
That's so interesting about chickenpox and shingles.
Love these threads!

Pickachew, durham is a nightmare and I try to avoid at all costs
Avoiding it is how we found our lovely indian restaurant in shi cliffs
Fancied it tonight but weather not good and we have duck.
Apparently

Why are these infection levels still so high? I know, more testing but honestly it feels like we're going to be at around 1200 for the rest of our god given lives

@MagdaS, that sounds fascinating! Thank you

Rule-breaking Scot here. I live 20 miles from the supermarket and would be DELIGHTED to be stopped by the polis so I could rant. Drove 20 miles (each way!) just to buy my kids a McDonald’s yesterday. 😁 I used to live a 2 hour drive from Tesco! We don’t all live in the Ocado hot-zone.

hester I’d happily use your business... my eldest wants your line of work (vague). He’d chat to for literally HOURS until your eyes glaze over... then keep going!

Am I reading this right? ELEVEN new cases in Scotland yesterday and we’re still closed?

I’ve been ignoring the 5 mile thing as soon as it was implemented. There isn’t enough police officers to enforce it anyway.

Well there’s just been a minor skirmish in the dowser household as I couldn’t grasp how to di,ute a 100 percent solution to 40 per cent
I thought it was 1 tsp of concentrate to 4 of water
But mr ‘ I’ve got a maths degree’ Dowser tells me its 4 to 6 of water.
Wasn’t happy that I rang my maths proficient sil to double check
He said the same

(Are they right?
My maths education ended 52 years ago)
I kind of get it I deal with 100 as my main number, so it’s feasible I guess

We don’t all live in the Ocado hot-zone.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane I'm just a few miles from central Glasgow and Ocado hasn't reached here either.

It's fine for Nicola to say to stay local. If you live in Wester Ross and your nearest supermarket is Inverness or Dingwall, it's not so easy, is it?

sockyarn “just get an Uber” is one of those phrases which makes me twitch! 😂

dowser 1 concentrate to 4 waters would be 20%. 2 concentrate to 3 waters would be 40%

@Dowser

Well there’s just been a minor skirmish in the dowser household as I couldn’t grasp how to di,ute a 100 percent solution to 40 per cent I thought it was 1 tsp of concentrate to 4 of water But mr ‘ I’ve got a maths degree’ Dowser tells me its 4 to 6 of water. Wasn’t happy that I rang my maths proficient sil to double check He said the same

(Are they right?
My maths education ended 52 years ago)
I kind of get it I deal with 100 as my main number, so it’s feasible I guess

Yes they are! 4/6 means that for every 10 tsp, 4 are solution and 6 are water - so 4/10 are solution = 40%. 2/3 works too as Insane mentions.

1 tsp to 4 would mean that for every 5 tsp, 1 was solution and 4 water - so it's a 1/5 solution - 20%.

Always makes me laugh when people talk about public transport, Insane, and I think of the rural community I know in wester ross where "public transport" is the Westerbus. One service to Inverness in the morning, one back in the afteroon.

DC’s school have just emailed to say that all children can go in for a single morning next month to give them “closure” on the school year, and did we want to send ours? I don’t think I’ve ever replied so quickly! And DS nearly cried with happiness when I told him.
It’s tragic that we’re grateful for so little. I really don’t blame the school as they genuinely don’t have the space to take any more children while following all the distancing guidelines (single form entry school on a tiny site, Victorian building with cramped classrooms) but it’s still galling especially after seeing the undistanced nursery children.

We’ve never tried applying for an EHCP, as we were given the impression that DS wouldn’t qualify because he’s academically able and behaves well at school. Maybe we should push a little harder, because the idea of a little more choice for secondary applications would be nice.

Bill de Blasio has just said playgrounds can reopen on Monday. NYC deaths per million for the day yesterday = 2. UK deaths per million for the day announced today = 2. Weep.

For some reason I thought we'd be able to escape the 5 mile zone tomorrow and have a jaunt over to Edinburgh but apparently not. The shops thing is grinding my gears too. DD9 needs to get her size checked for shoes. DH is shielding but has going out for walks since start of lockdown. His consultant said it was fine. He's self employed at well so has started going back to his office as he needs to discuss things face to face (from 2m etc etc). He's been driving over to Edinburgh and took the kids the other night to take some work related photos and had a drive around the city. He was able to go right up to the Castle Esplanade. Edinburgh City Council must be losing a fortune in parking charges.

I myself got a letter this week apologising that I shouldn't have been shielding anyway. Thankfully I had the wherewithall to realise that I shouldn't have in the first place and that it was an admin error from the doctors surgery but what a horrid position to be in if not. I was on some of the shielding threads at the start and there's people on there that are seriously demented and I wonder if they even need to be.