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

[LadyOfTheImprovisedBath]

New Thread. - Hello.

I love maths. I did maths modules for four years at university. I also love artificial intelligence “fizzy logic” where the correct answer is “yeh, close enough mate “.

“NOBODY GETS OUT OF THIS ALIVE”.

Normally I’d say yes, stick it on the office wall... but tbf you may work in dermatology and I’d only gone in for a rash! 😁

Fuzzy logic ffs. My brain is however working with fizzy logic because my kids won’t stfu.

@BarkandCheese That meme made me laugh out loud!
It was me that was fuming about Drakeford's cheese tweet. Here it is in its full glory...

twitter.com/MarkDrakeford/status/1280436857554251781?s=19

@Orangeblossom78

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/07/italy-could-section-people-who-refuse-treatment-for-covid-19

Things could be worse...why can they not be allowed to stay home? We talked about this before with them making the old people go in 'she didn't want to go' (very elderly lady)

hmmm -given in the example they give there, she was elderly, in Lombardy, in March - I suspect she may have been in a care home, so it wasn't only her that would have been affected by this decision.

[quote NannyPhlegm]@BarkandCheese That meme made me laugh out loud!
It was me that was fuming about Drakeford's cheese tweet. Here it is in its full glory...

twitter.com/MarkDrakeford/status/1280436857554251781?s=19[/quote]
I mean... cheese is life.
But he’s probably got more important things to deal with at the moment.

I agree making people go into hospital is horrible but when it's an infectious disease there is a bit of a double edged sword as someone has to look after them and, especially during a pandemic, there is a big shortage of people able to give safe care at home.

On the other side I am hoping this does speed up the process of legalising assisted suicide for the elderly and terminally ill when they want it. It has got to happen eventually but I hope it happens before I need it.

Signing in for sanity and so I don't lose you all.

Just for reassurance, people can only be "sectioned" here if they are suffering from a mental disorder and certain criteria are fulfilled so that they are unable to make decisions.

So it couldn't happen if a mentally well person chose not to receive treatment .

I know it's a well worn cliche but these threads move so fast! Now I am back at work I won't be able to spend all day on the internet. Frankly, that's a good thing.

For some reason I managed to wing an A at GCSE maths, but the truth is, I understood very little of it. I just learnt things like the quadratic formula off by heart.

Therefore I am having trouble with the equation!

Signing in for the sanity as well

Kids sleeping or whatever. Goin* to do some gaming. They never talk about sadly deaths.

Just about nex5 war

@Mascotte

Holiday update, if I'm allowed to go, now going to stay in Boulogne. Hotel in the old town. Very near the tunnel and a port city. Lots of seafood! I suspect DP has cold feet again already though but not so fussed now.

Good luck with driving and sorry for those having NHS problems.

I'm so envious.

Years ago, if the DC were going somewhere after school, I would dash to Dover and take Le 'Overcraft across to Boulogne. I'd try to catch market day, which I think was Wednesday. A quick browse round the closing (by the time I got there) market, then lunch in the square. When the waiter learned I was alone he would always ask if I wanted a table on the edge to watch the world go by or tucked inside for peace. What a civilised question! I would always take people-watching. And they would always look after me really well, no ignoring the single person.

After lunch I'd slog up the hill and stroll around the old town. There was a fancy restaurant and hotel I always dreamed of going to, but no time. I would check whether any more of the cathedral ceiling had fallen down. Or take a bus along the coast to Wimereux and stroll along the 'Digue' as if I were in the 1930s. There was plenty of time to get the Hovercraft back as it was very quick and I gained an hour.

It's a lovely place and they have experience of lone British women wandering about.

amicissimma we used to take the hovercraft to France and then one time it burst! Obviously it then just acts as a boat but the weather was horrific and we were just churning and rolling, I remember the captain over the tannoy saying ‘we are aiming for Dover and if we are lucky we’ll make it’.
It lurched so far to the side sometimes that all you could see through the windows was under the sea. Petrifying!
We still went on it the next time we went to France though

So if Italy and Spain had a "proper lockdown" and yet are still seeing clusters of cases, why exactly is it bad that we were allowed out to exercise??

@mightbealittlebitmad

So if Italy and Spain had a "proper lockdown" and yet are still seeing clusters of cases, why exactly is it bad that we were allowed out to exercise??

Because we had FAR TOO MUCH FREEDOM. And we cannot be trusted with freedom. And we should have been welded into our houses, not because it would have led to a better outcome, but because it is what we deserve!!

Wonder if dementors will be going on about Italy's great way of dealing with things find the Aus and Italy stuff recently quite concerning - treating people like criminals. At least here (I hope) we have a little more compassion

Yeah think of all the virus breathed out on these solitary lockdown walks
What a risk

@Drivingdownthe101

amicissimma we used to take the hovercraft to France and then one time it burst! Obviously it then just acts as a boat but the weather was horrific and we were just churning and rolling, I remember the captain over the tannoy saying ‘we are aiming for Dover and if we are lucky we’ll make it’. It lurched so far to the side sometimes that all you could see through the windows was under the sea. Petrifying! We still went on it the next time we went to France though

Oh. My. God.

I would have been FREAKING at this point!

I would probably have had to claim asylum in France on the basis there was no sodding way you were getting me back on that.

@mightbealittlebitmad

So if Italy and Spain had a "proper lockdown" and yet are still seeing clusters of cases, why exactly is it bad that we were allowed out to exercise??

The only answer you'll get on here is 'It wasn't' 😜😜😜

However, I'm sure the main site could would come up with a load of crap as to why it is so much worse here because we locked down too late, locked down too soft and relaxed roolz too soon

Had a dementor ask me today how on earth I could go on holiday "at a time like this". Reminded me of my mum.

She got cancer. She was told there was nothing they could do. Just give her palliative chemo. To give her a bit longer.

First thing she did was book a holiday. She had 3 weeks to wait for first chemo so booked and went for a week.

My aunt asked her why she was going and wasn't the insurance cost really high.

My mum just said that as long as she could afford the insurance and that no one ever lay on their death bed wishing they'd had fewer holidays

That's my new mantra.

She also had a trip to the theater not long after she started her second round of chemo against doctors advice as she could "pick anything up" again she said "I'm not going through all this to give myself more time to lock away in my house. I want to live before I die".

I often wonder what she would make of this madness.

I'm considering France for our family moon (sorry to use that vomit inducing phrase but it won't be a honeymoon because we'll be taking DS!) I've only ever been on a school trip to the trenches but I really fancy it (thanks to escape to the chateau!)

Anyone got any reccomendations? Will be me, DH (by then!) And DS who will be 5.

DS is happy with anything if there's a pool and a park. I like warm weather and dh is just happy when I'm happy

Seven day average deaths in Scotland sitting at 0.6 a day. That's not even a whole fucking person. 4 and a bit people a week.

But be good, obedient little citizens and wear your tartan muzzles.

Yeah think of all the virus breathed out on these solitary lockdown walks
What a risk

The real risk were cyclists spreading contagion from village to village

The mask thing is gaining traction I think because the media are fucking driving it. Well I just won’t go in any shops if I can possibly help it🤷🏻‍♀️

@SockYarn I now really do despair. The dementors are winning. Their stamina is unbeatable, I fear.

@LivinLaVidaLoki I think you spoke about your mum's attitude early on in these threads. It really stuck with me. I now say to real life dementors that if I die, I want to die living. I just realised that I've been paraphrasing your mum.