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We got a bit cut off there didn't we? Thread 15 now.

I flew back from China in January and was pretty much the only Westerner on the plane. Many of them wore masks through the 11 hour flight.

maybe I was Patient 0

More on SARS here -

Currently, no areas of the world are reporting transmission of SARS. Since the end of the global epidemic in July 2003, SARS has reappeared four times – three times from laboratory accidents (Singapore and Chinese Taipei), and once in southern China where the source of infection remains undetermined although there is circumstantial evidence of animal-to-human transmission.

www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/

Didn't ealise that either. Maybe best stop my reading about SARS

Actually, I've revised my opinion about flying, and recommend we all flee the UK around the last Monday of August and have a nice quarentine... August Bank Holiday+ schools going back a week later... brace yourselves for a wave of Dementoring so big it would wipe out a Cornish surfer

I have seen some places seem to make them wear masks on the beach. Not good for the tan

There's a bizarre meat thread elsewhere about meat free days.

Seems innocuous enough.

Oho no. It's basically a litany of people sniping over nothing and a few people vainly trying to discuss how often they eat meat.

One on credit scores has turned into a competative 'how much debt I have paid" thread.

Another vice. Debt. Frowned on.

(even in times like this where people might struggle of course, no excuse)

I posted about how the DCs child trust funds had gone down and got told off for that big time at the start of this

How could I be thinking of their uni savings when PEOPLE ARE DYING

@countrygirl99 OMG! That is scary... some friends of ours had a DIY installed wood burner with a back boiler and when they had it replaced, there was some safety valve or another missing that basically could have led to it exploding I feel we’ve got off lightly in the bodge stakes by comparison to them and you!

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane Bloody hell! I hope she’ll be ok? 😬

I've been here about thirteen years, scarily enough, with various name-changes. I miss how it was. I miss the Friday night threads when it was clear most of the posters had hit the vino hard - so many funny, witty women and much less purse-lipped determination to Not See The Funny Side.
One of my fondest memories is the Centre Parks Anal Sex thread.

We got the annual trust funds statements just as the funds had massively dropped - DD1 doesn't seem as far off from Univeristy as she once did either - mostly likely place she's spend the money.

They'll come back up or they won't and we'll somehow manage.

MIL been saving since they were born not a lot but consistently and we've saved into accounts we control for them - that's stopped and started over the years.

There's not a huge amount unfortunately in any accounts so debt will be a given. So she'll need to make the most of the chance and be sure it's the best route for her. Though both DH and I knew we had one shot so didn't dick around as some other's did.

@Orangeblossom78

One on credit scores has turned into a competative 'how much debt I have paid" thread.

Another vice. Debt. Frowned on.

And don't even start on national debt.

Which is just the same as household debt.

Except worse.

@Orangeblossom78

One on credit scores has turned into a competative 'how much debt I have paid" thread.

Another vice. Debt. Frowned on.

I shan't venture on there then. We bought a Reno and took out a massive loan to do it up. Spent it all and we still aren't finished. Oops!

We'd been looking forward to ds going to school because we'd pay about half the childcare cost per month and maybe finally finish the sodding house.

Who bloody knows now tho!

Found you all again! Blimey it goes fast.

Any thoughts on S Korea saying they're having a second wave. I'm not sure what to think.

I have certainly seen the whole 'debt is bad' thing more recently.

I have also discovered that a reasonable chunk of self employed people don't get the difference between cash flow and profit....

My favourite ever thread was from years ago - the poster caller Docket who had made the sinister Easter bonnet. I only have to think of it and start giggling. Those poor chicks....

@DrearyWallAntler

I have certainly seen the whole 'debt is bad' thing more recently.

I have also discovered that a reasonable chunk of self employed people don't get the difference between cash flow and profit....

STBXH who actually I am still good friends with has been saying this about S Korea for a while - that they stamped down so hard and effectively, it was almost inevitable. He's even more of an anti Dementor than I am and is very clued up on modelling and stats.

But I guess we'll see.

That's what people don't understand about this thread. None of us are saying the virus isn't Out There. None of us can see into the future.

FFS I have quoted the wrong post AGAIN!

"I flew back from China in January and was pretty much the only Westerner on the plane. Many of them wore masks through the 11 hour flight.
maybe I was Patient 0"

I believe that makes you Gywneth Paltrow @HesterShaw1 so clearly you are winning at life! (as my DC say)

How interesting a lot of us are old skool! (And lovely that none old skool ADers have found their spiritual home in what MN Should Be Like!) I have also had a million NCs over the years, I have a specific one I have used recently mainly for the FWR boards but this one is obviously prompted for this thread and I have been here, well I have teenage and young adult DC, so fucking yonks

I really dislike this MN (and RL) trend towards lemming-y, totally unquestioning behaviour and the desire for conformity being seen as A Good Thing (maybe it's just that I am getting old) I'm sure people used to not want to conform and be individuals and that was seen as positive, not negative. I should really reference something more high brow like Brave New World but I'm actually thinking of The Matrix and Keanu Reeves

The age group of my DC seem to be very much like this - all very accepting of The Way Things Are and Rules and the same style of clothing/hair etc etc. I don't like it. I have a fucking mohican FFS My friend and I have a running joke that we are Patsy and Eddy from Ab Fab and we have managed to have Saffys for DC

Whoever would have thought we would be wishing for DC who don't do what they are told?! (I feel an AIBU fight club thread re this would be really good fun )

You lot might like this one if bored. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/3864587-AIBU-to-ask-for-your-favourite-isolation-memes?pg=1

Well, I am having a nice afternoon. For the first time since before lockdown I drove to a shop that sells Nicky-nacky things - bought two scarfs, a mug, a bracelet for my daughter, a keyring for my son, a children's book and several cards. I then went to the garden centre. Unfortunately they have pretty much no herbs or compost left but I got some more dill, a French lavender (this will die in the winter, my garden gets too much salt) and a couple of Thai basil plants.

It was my first time in a car (either as a driver or passenger) since mid March and I can still drive (I've been putting it off).

spudlet DH is a chimney sweep and when someone tells him it's a DIY installation he knows it's either going g to be perfect or downright dangerous. There is no inbetween for DIY apparently. He's seen some real shockers. Though the saddest was the family that moved to a lovely cottage a couple of weeks before Christmas and were looking to a cosy family gathering and he had to tell them the woodburner was purely decorative and didn't connect to a chimney or flue at all.

Good god. A relatively positive article in the Guardian.

Yes surely it is a part of growing up to go through a rebelling stage?I have noticed there don't seem to be groups e.g how there used to be for example goths, punks, grunge that sort of thing either. It all seems a bit same-y and good-y as well.

I've only been on here a couple of years - I don't know why I checked it out. I'm 65, my kids are adults and there are no and will be no grandkids but I found the site browsable although I don't post all that often. I can't understand why so many people on the main boards don't seem to know the difference between 'I don't like, wouldn't ...' - which is fine about nearly everything and 'You shouldn't ... and if you do you are ...'.

So pleased to have somewhere where we know how to debate without name calling and respect other views.

I find this thread very calming and stress reducing whilst acknowledging there is an issue and people are affected differently.

There are also some very articulate writers on here and I find myself nodding at the computer - which is a bit odd I guess.

I would love to be able to sit round a huge table with you all, in a pub garden with plenty of snacks and refreshments.

Dementors would hate this! The germs

"French movie fans ventured back into cinemas today for the first time since the Covid-19 lockdown, helped by a new safety feature: Minions placed at intervals in the seats to ensure social distancing is observed.

Stuffed toy versions of the yellow, pill-shaped characters were deployed at the MK2 cinema in the south of Paris for a showing of the 2015 movie “Minions”, a spinoff from the Despicable Me franchise that made them famous.

The Minions, dressed in their trademark goggles and dungarees, were placed strategically around the auditorium to enforce a rule that viewers leave at least one place free between them and their neighbours."