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D = fn + (p x 0) then AD = - fn - (p x 0)

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LadyOfTheImprovisedBath · 07/07/2020 13:50

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Supermarketworker06 · 08/07/2020 20:51

Interesting fact here- Halifax, Barclays and the Post office are not ordering any foreign currency in branch. (Cos corona) If you want to order it on line from the Post office, you have to order quite a large minimum amount, pay an admin fee and then get it sent to either home or PO.

I just want to send some birthday money to my niece in Australia, which previously I could get by popping into the local travel agents.
Lloyds will order it, if you have an account with them (I don't). Online travel agents again want a large minimum amount plus admin and delivery charge.
I just want to send the kid some money!

Nihiloxica · 08/07/2020 20:51

@BarkandCheese

It’s strange with things being kind of normal but not really normal. From a distance it’s normal there’s shops, cafes, hairdressers and other businesses back open, cars are on the road, people are out and about, but look closer and the details are wrong. There’s the queues, masks, everywhere marked out to keep us 2m apart, the businesses which are still shuttered or gone under for good and the the plexiglass screens. It’s like we’ve gone through the looking glass to a slightly crappier version of our lives.
So much this.

This afternoon I suddenly got the anxiety feeling and inability to focus back.

Not sure why. I've been feeling back to myself and getting on with things that needed doing - child eye test, children's shoes. I've been out socially to homes and eateries. We're planning a (same island) camping holiday.

But it just all feels so fragile. There are too many people determined to lock us up and muzzle us.

They say things like "the virus hasn't magically gone away", like lockdown was about getting the virus to go away and must continue until it does.

And they are still all obsessed with locking children away or muzzling them if they must be let out. I actually hate these people. I have never felt this feeling before.

PickAChew · 08/07/2020 20:53

@dowser our fancy new odeon is open
beta.odeon.co.uk/cinemas/durham/#

TheOrchidKiller · 08/07/2020 20:53

I think if I get the track & trace call & I'd been to a restaurant, I'd be inclined to do a bit of a risk assessment on the situation. If it was just the two of us sat far, far away from anyone, with no other diners, & a masked waiter briefly delivering the food to the table that we'd ordered and paid for remotely, I'd be less inclined to self-isolate than if I'd sat 2m from anyone else.

But I also have a terrible guilty conscience even when innocent so I doubt I'd do that really.

Ibake · 08/07/2020 20:58

@Supermarketworker06

Interesting fact here- Halifax, Barclays and the Post office are not ordering any foreign currency in branch. (Cos corona) If you want to order it on line from the Post office, you have to order quite a large minimum amount, pay an admin fee and then get it sent to either home or PO. I just want to send some birthday money to my niece in Australia, which previously I could get by popping into the local travel agents. Lloyds will order it, if you have an account with them (I don't). Online travel agents again want a large minimum amount plus admin and delivery charge. I just want to send the kid some money!
Why not either PayPal her parents some money or send her an evoucher for her favourite store? My SIL and I send each other dosh via PayPal all the time. Exchange rate fair too.
PickAChew · 08/07/2020 20:58

@Ibake

I have just been sent this absolute gem. There's a few of us who are 70's kids. Am tempted to post on the D boards, they'll think it's real.
All that was missing was Charlie the cat :o
PatriciaHolm · 08/07/2020 20:59

@NoisyBrain

I must admit I slipped briefly into Dementor-level anxiety today (but only inside my own head).

We're supposed to fly to Crete 3 weeks from today. It seem the flight is going ahead, and I've established that the accommodation is open for business. I've been trying to remain fairly zen about it all, but I made the mistake of dropping in to the Tripadvisor Crete forum (LOTS of Ds hanging out there) and discovered that if someone on our flight tests positive on arrival, we could be forced to self-isolate in a government-designated hotel if we happened to be sitting within 2 rows of the +ive person!

Fucksake.

@LivinLaVidaLoki what's your take on this? I know you're hoping to head over there.

As far as I can work out (kids are off to Greece with their dad in about 10 days time) - they fill in a form ( travel.gov.gr/) (a few days before which generates a QR code for you. The code is scanned as you arrive to determine whether you need a test or not, dependent on your answers to the form (about where you have been on route I think).

So they are only testing people based on a target profile it would seem. I can't at present find any details about what happens if someone on your flight tests positive...

TheOrchidKiller · 08/07/2020 21:00

@Ibake bloody love that 1970s public information film but I am probably going to have nightmares tonight from watching it!

torydeathdrug · 08/07/2020 21:01

@Ibake protect & survive!

BakewellTarts · 08/07/2020 21:02

Very excited to report that we are going OUT OUT tomorrow night. Well family meal for 4 at our lovely local. I will absolutely take advantage of Rishis offer of a discount on my meal out.

SeaOtterFluff · 08/07/2020 21:07

We've packed up and come home from our holiday. Mostly due to the weather, also my back still hurts (I know, it doesn't really hurt as it's not Virus) after I fell over 10 weeks ago and I just couldn't cope with another one way system & sanitizer. DH didn't want to give in but he's glad to be back home now and catching up with the F1.

I'm feeling the same, @Nihiloxica and @BarkandCheese. It's like some parallel reality, on the surface it looks familiar but when you look closer it's a poor imitation.

IAintentDead · 08/07/2020 21:09

@Ibake

I have just been sent this absolute gem. There's a few of us who are 70's kids. Am tempted to post on the D boards, they'll think it's real.
Those cars take me back - I'm a 50s 60s child and I do have a vague recollection of that kind of warning.

Mum used to say there are some funny men out there that like smacking little girls bottoms. It was vivid enough without being too explicit.

Welcometothe36to40Box · 08/07/2020 21:15

What does ADs mean?!

Nihiloxica · 08/07/2020 21:17

@SeaOtterFluff

We've packed up and come home from our holiday. Mostly due to the weather, also my back still hurts (I know, it doesn't really hurt as it's not Virus) after I fell over 10 weeks ago and I just couldn't cope with another one way system & sanitizer. DH didn't want to give in but he's glad to be back home now and catching up with the F1.

I'm feeling the same, @Nihiloxica and @BarkandCheese. It's like some parallel reality, on the surface it looks familiar but when you look closer it's a poor imitation.

Oh shite, SeaOtter.

What a bummer. The poxy weather is really not helping the mood.

I hope your (totally unimportant and piffling obvs non-Covid) pain eases.

BogRollBOGOF · 08/07/2020 21:17

"Charlie says" was the thing that terrified me most in childhood. It was freaky in its own right, but any stranger danger type stuff made me uneasy. It was that unspoken danger, you'd be taken away which was clearly bad, but no body ever said what would actually happen. Then there were news stories about missing children, hunts or occasional bodies turning up.

I know the advert by heart despite running up to my room with my hands over my ears, hiding under my bed and counting to a very big number in the hope that it would now be safe to go downstairs again, because my safistic big brother used to chant it at me to make me run away when I was annoying him Grin

For similar reasons, I also know that 0800 11 11 is the Childline phone number Grin

torydeathdrug · 08/07/2020 21:23

Zoe app (beloved by the Ds) has tweaked their model again - meaning their prevalence has reduced by a lot. Ironically pretty much identical estimate to the ONS now (you know the ones who are evil Tory stooges & fiddling their figures to save rich people & kill all our grannies).

D = fn + (p x 0) then AD = - fn - (p x 0)
SeaOtterFluff · 08/07/2020 21:23

It's my coccyx, so it really is a bummer Grin. I got myself a special cushion to sit on for the journey home and the nice pharmacist sold me some cocodamol so I'm hoping to sleep tonight!

Is it too late to ask to join the FB group?

DominaShantotto · 08/07/2020 21:23

Talking to a friend who has been so utterly terrified of the school dementoring they don't want to send their kids back in September. They've done a good number on terrifying people.

IAintentDead · 08/07/2020 21:25

BakewellTarts Wed 08-Jul-20 21:02:15
Very excited to report that we are going OUT OUT tomorrow night. Well family meal for 4 at our lovely local. I will absolutely take advantage of Rishis offer of a discount on my meal out.

Not tomorrow you won't. Monday to Wednesdays only and not starting until August. But you can try Grin

torydeathdrug · 08/07/2020 21:26

Here you go - fewer than 25,000 people in the whole of the UK with ‘symptomatic’ covid ... though as Ibake has demonstrated any of us could be .... carriers Shock

“Our new prevalence figures show that 23,459 people in the UK currently have symptomatic COVID and highlight the big regional differences across the UK. While nations like Northern Ireland have almost no active cases, the rates for other English regions, like the Midlands, have been decreasing less steeply.

This estimate is in line with the latest ONS Infection survey in which 25,000 people in England were estimated to be infected with COVID-19 during the two week period that goes from the 14th to the 27th of June. “

TheOrchidKiller · 08/07/2020 21:27

Those public info films had a lot to answer for, BogRoll.

Hang on a minute, I'm from the 1970s, I will have been in one of those 1970s cars! Does that make me immune to the Car-rona virus? Or should I be more worried? Is this why my awful hair has taken on the look of Jimmy Osmond?

Littlebelina · 08/07/2020 21:28

Don't think vue are opening until the end of July Dowser, waiting until more films are released.

Ibake · 08/07/2020 21:30

Wow @torydeathdrug just wow. That is quite incredible to comprehend. I actually can't even think about it too much, my head might explode with the level of nonsense attached to that risk level.

BakewellTarts · 08/07/2020 21:32

@IAintentDead

BakewellTarts Wed 08-Jul-20 21:02:15 Very excited to report that we are going OUT OUT tomorrow night. Well family meal for 4 at our lovely local. I will absolutely take advantage of Rishis offer of a discount on my meal out.

Not tomorrow you won't. Monday to Wednesdays only and not starting until August. But you can try Grin

Maybe not tomorrow then but in the future. I can be on a one woman mission to support my local. Tomorrows meal is paid for by my boss anyway as a thankyou for the first half years work. Yes I work for a good company / team.
RunningNinja79 · 08/07/2020 21:35

@Dowser

Haven’t seen anything for Vue cinema York and there’s a new one at vanguarde but I don’t kNow it’s name.

Cineworld.

I used to work in Vue, dont go there now. Prefer to drive through to Leeds.

I think it was Cineworld that announced that they would open the end of July in UK and USA to line up with new films so I imagine other chains will be around then too.