ADs getting ready

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Sorry it’s a bit of a lame title.

So this morning the local rag posted "who is going to the hairdresser today!"
First comment.
"Not me, it's not safe"
Then there was this beaut on an article about holidays.

I spent hours trying to get through to tui yesterday and failed. Tried to get through this morning and get a recorded message that due to covid they are no longer taking calls at weekends.

Forgot to add...
MALAKAAAAAAAAAASSSS!

Also, plastic masks and gloves, disposable plastic cups and stuff in pubs and restaurants and single use menus...

Does this mean we have stopped caring about plastic pollution now?

"Summer of death" sounds quite exciting. Count me in, will there be music and rides and stuff like that.

All this yelling at people online and I'm shops and having instructions barked at me. I've toughened up loads in 3 months. I'm going to come out of this with a really low tolerance for bullshit.

Does this mean we have stopped caring about plastic pollution now?

Quite. We can only be morally affronted by one problem at a time.

It's like those old spaghetti Westerns where the hero takes on a mob of baddies in a fist fight, but they only ever attack him one at a time.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Also, plastic masks and gloves, disposable plastic cups and stuff in pubs and restaurants and single use menus...

Does this mean we have stopped caring about plastic pollution now?

Pretty much, yes.

Just seen this posted on Facebook. Bit dramatic. I mean, not a brilliant comparison considering they didn't have hand gel galore and enforced social distancing then.

Just got back from testing site (I'd bet my house on a negative result but am a rule follower by default).

You should have seen them all leap up when we arrived! Poor buggers all sat around in the grey old day. DH commented after that it seemed a very slick operation.... and utterly ridiculous all at the same time.

@TheGreatWave

"Summer of death" sounds quite exciting. Count me in, will there be music and rides and stuff like that.

It sounds like a metal festival. I'd be in

@BlackberryViolet

I got yelled at by a staff member in Tesco for the same not knowing a completely unmarked queue system

Me and dd1 got yelled at 5 times in town yesterday. If I ever get her out shopping again it will be a bloody miracle. The first time we weren't standing in the blue dots for the till, the blue dots that were hidden behind a shelving unit which we couldn’t see. We walked the wrong way out of a deserted shop as there were no signs to say one way. Then we got yelled at for both being together. Only one of us was allowed in. She’s autistic. I can’t leave her outside. So then we told we would have to stay together but only only one of us can go to the till, so we could shop then she would need to leave while I queue for the till. Fuck that

I last went into town just before the easing, and it was a nightmare then. Not going anywhere near for quite a while, it just sounds a nightmare.

@TrustTheGeneGenie
Not to mention hand washing was never a thing. In the 1800s a doctor who said we should be washing our hands was chucked into an asylum because handwashing went against medical advice and practice.

[quote LivinLaVidaLoki]@TrustTheGeneGenie
Not to mention hand washing was never a thing. In the 1800s a doctor who said we should be washing our hands was chucked into an asylum because handwashing went against medical advice and practice.[/quote]
Wow I didn't know that! In that case, complete and utter bollocks comparison!

I saw that meme - my best friend posted it and I was gutted as she’s usually not dementory at all. But then she quantified it by saying she was desperate to get to the pub (which is far more like her) - very relieved!

@worldgonecrazy your in my town! Enjoy your brekkie! Xx

“Summer of Death”, should that be Summer of (sadly) Death”?

Either way, sign me up! I missed goth weekend back in April so am up for it! Just off a spree to dd1s favourite cafe. No idea if we’ll be able to get in but it may make her feel a bit better after yesterday

I think I’ve seen that meme debunked anyway (as in Pepys didn’t write that). Or it might have been another one... so many dementory memes! Nothing will top giant doctor though.

Morning ADs

I'm curious as to why Twitter and the media are equating anyone who wants to go to the pub with a lager lout off to booze, fight and DIE of the virus. I'd just like a casual drink and bar snacks with a friend! Obviously still murderous.

@dkl55 the no fun, that's funny, I keep thinking of booking the only things that are open, just because they are, but then realise I don't want to spend ££ on wandering round a garden.

@TheGreatWave

"Summer of death" sounds quite exciting. Count me in, will there be music and rides and stuff like that.

😂 I much prefer YOUR version to the suggestion that it might be a “metal festival”.

Caring about the environment has been cancelled for this season.

*Also, plastic masks and gloves, disposable plastic cups and stuff in pubs and restaurants and single use menus...

Does this mean we have stopped caring about plastic pollution now?*

Yep seems so, it’s been that way from the start with dementors using a pack of wipes to clean their shopping and using reusable bags being equivalent to MURDERING GRANNIES.

Can I sign up for the summer of death that sounds fun?

We plan to take the car down to France/Spain in August if we are still allowed by then. Goodness know how many people we will be responsible for killing.

Seen another gem on FB this morning. At least get the death toll right.

I took teenage DD on the tube yesterday to West end for shopping. It was strangely quiet in many areas, I hope it picks up today with the opening of restaurants. Really hit home how much money and income must be lost. Spurred us into buying loads. Perfume wasn’t easy as you can’t pick up the bottles for a sniff.

Did you see the article in The Times with Rishi Sunak asking people to get back out spending? Apparently all the lockdown savings are in the hands of the elderly and white collar workers and the young (jobs, prosperity) are likely to be hit very hard. Not a surprise to any of us, is it?

Over a million people a year actually do die of malaria. Most of them under 5 as well. But who cares about Africans, huh? God help anyone who posts that on my social media.

@TrustTheGeneGenie
Ignaz Semmelweis
He discovered that incidence of "childbed fever" were drastically cut if the medics involved in the birth etc washed their hands.
He discovered that this reduced mortality to under 1% in the hospital he worked at.
He advised other medics to do the same and was roundly mocked and laughed at and other docs tried to push him out of the medical profession. This led to him having a nervous breakdown and ending up in an asylum. This was in 1847.
So the idea that Samuel Pepys or anyone else in the 1600s knew jack shit about infectious diseases and infection control is laughable.

“Summer of Death”, should that be Summer of (sadly) Death”?

Of course. How fucking RUDE of those meme makers to use the wrong term. Dismissing the tragic Covid deaths as if they were just boring old regular deaths from heart attacks or strokes. Or pneumonia caused by some other virus.

The Noel Edmunds pic reminds me of the Cake episode off Brass Eye

"Taking cake can make a minute feel like a month. That might sound like fun, but it's NOT. Young people being run over because they think they have a week to cross the road."

Some people are looking for scary things to get wound up about.

I think that Pepys quote might be fake. A friend on Twitter who is fussy about these things was giving out about it. Apparently it originally came from a Pepys satire site.

Good morning. Going to a restaurant was lovely. The staff were so glad to see us. There were some finicky rules, but overall it was a good, normal experience.