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Hello Girls..it’s me again.

Hope your all out and about enjoying this glorious Saturday.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

Worthy of a thread, but I'm not that masochistic

Thought the same!

Me too, cannot even share it with friends, it like brexit not to be discussed.

Remember the hysteria when princess Diana died, that was the first time we really saw the power the media and www. had over people it was compared at the time to a type of mass hysteria.

Oh yes, this is being driven by mass hysteria. And when you see the sheeplike way people follow their fellow sheep it's actually really scary. I'm old enough to remember the hysteria about Princess Diana's death, and all the people who didn't know her at all, crying and screaming 'Diana' as her coffin passed by. It was frightening in the intensity and also quite baffling. I put wood stain on the living room windows while the funeral was on tv because I found it all so weird and unsettling I just couldn't watch. My feeling about lockdown is the same. Just WTF???

A woman MACED a couple having a picnic? WTF

And as for the bully boy on the train platform. Id already seen that prick Someone knows who he is.

The way this is fucking going has a big possibility of not ending well .

@justasking111

Remember the hysteria when princess Diana died, that was the first time we really saw the power the media and www. had over people it was compared at the time to a type of mass hysteria.

The irony is that generally, MN is quite disdainful about Diana's death.

I found it shocking. I was 16 and it was only 5 years after my dad died suddenly. Being around the same age as the Princes, I identified with that kind of grief quite stongly. I did go into town and sign a book of condolence and lay some flowers. No public wailing though

I still give the door a firm push shut on my way to bed each night

OMG i do this too. I check it more than once when the flat is a fucking sweatbox like now.

NZ's response reminds me of the 'sunk-cost fallacy' so often derided on here.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

thecritic.co.uk/the-lockdown-lobotomy/

Brilliant article, you murderers will love it. Am debating sharing it on my FB... Not sure if I dare be so openly anti lockdown.

Wow brilliant article. All the more chilling for what we have seen.in the media and on here.
Wtf will people be like when we go back to normal who will they chose as their next victims or will they all crawl back into thier holes and pretend it never happened?

, but so much of this stuff is safety as performance art - done because companies/institutions/individuals feel they need to be seen to do something, regardless of how effective it may (or may not) be

We saw the same thing after Grenfell . People in flats were told they wernt allowed doormats just outside the door anymore. While dangerous cladding is still left on a lot of buildings.

Its called tokenism

Amazing article. I also read their one about Imperial's modeling, and how lockdown was political rather than a result of following the modeling - also excellent.

When i was in high school in the late 80s one of my English teachers sent a letter to my parents saying i had missed two lots of homework. I knew i hadnt. I had done it and handed it in. My dad went in for a meeting. Turned out my homework was at the bottom of her bloody handbag.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

thecritic.co.uk/the-lockdown-lobotomy/

Brilliant article, you murderers will love it. Am debating sharing it on my FB... Not sure if I dare be so openly anti lockdown.

Brilliant. I'm the same. Scared to show on fb.

Really good article. Thank you for sharing.

Yes, excellent article. I enjoyed reading that. Thanks
I have just arranged to go to coffee at a friends house - indoors. Good to get a bit of real life back. I have spoken to quite a few people in my age group this week (60's) and all of us, without exception, have poo-pooed all the current government strictures and method of dealing with the current situation. In fact, apart from online, I have yet to speak to anyone who does agree with it - so where are all these people who think all this crap is a good idea? You could almost start to believe conspiracy theories and think that pro lockdown and 'rules' posters are agents of the government!

Excellent article. Would be discredited by the D’s as it’s written by a psychologist who obviously knows nothing about viruses

Morning all! Just checking out my new user name - it's me, allflightscancelled.

Thanks for the great article!

Another dull day of half life here in the lifeboat station

@BogRollBOGOF I cried buckets.... Apparently. I was three! My mum tells me I loved the "lovely pwincess" as I apparently called her! I have no recollection whatsoever!

I'm in a right bad mood today. I want a sodding holiday but I refuse to pay three times as much and then have to be masked every time I go in a shop. Similarly daren't go abroad as can't afford to bloody isolate for two weeks for no reason

Want to eat those cake things you get in Spain for breakfast. Can't remember what they're called. And then go lay by a pool until tea time. Ugh. This isn't a life!!!

Genie have I missed you starting your new job? How is it?

Commiserations about the holiday

I remember being unsettled by the Diana hysteria too. I was about 16, and I couldn't work out why I wasn't crying. I thought there must be something wrong with me. I also thought it was weird how suddenly no-one remembered that she was a bit of a controversial figure - I used to love watching Have I Got News For You and they were always taking the piss out of her on there. I couldn't work out why she was suddenly a saint. Again, thought that I must have got it wrong.

Churros, @TrustTheGeneGenie . I want churros now! With caramel sauce.

We’re aiming to have as normal a week as possible, but being slightly defeated by the heat. We went to see MIL and had a couple of nights in a hotel, which was good timing as the hotel had air conditioning. We’re meant to be going to a museum today but the thought of the Tube is too hideous to contemplate!

Was anyone else screaming "thank you Boris" at the radio this morning, when it was announced that the UK is officially in recession? I know it's not totally his fault (vomits), but it is because of his actions that we are facing a very bad recession, and he's "muzzling" the recovery, pun intended.

And yes @SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito, I remember the Diana hysteria well; I was seventeen at the time, and just starting to notice sensationalist media then. With all the other "sensations" and cries of wolf soon after that: the Millennium Bug, your mobile is killing you, there are weapons of mass destruction, these are the reasons I refused to take the virus seriously at all (and I still think it's extremely oversold, and the reaction by both the government and the people is totally and utterly out of proportion). What will we do when there's a real catastrophe?

Churros... Mmm. There was a whole thread derailed by churros a few weeks back. With dark chocolate for dipping for me please. And black coffee.

I'm old enough to remember the hysteria about Princess Diana's death, and all the people who didn't know her at all, crying and screaming 'Diana' as her coffin passed by. It was frightening in the intensity and also quite baffling

I remember being shocked at her death - the rest of my family had come of a family holiday - think I stayed and worked -Mum was ironing in kichen when we heard but I also remember being bemused by the aftermath.

DH looks back very cynically -more so than me- about events and her as a person but he queued to sign a condolence book and I think left flowers.

Hi, hoping I can join, having had my second baby in lockdown and managed to keep my toddler semi entertained through it i thought the nursery holidays would be easy. How wrong I was! I think it's the heat that's done it. Counting down the days until she can go back now.
Also finding mask wearing a struggle as my anxiety has suddenly come back with a vengeance and I seem to have some frightening memories that have suddenly resurfaced which I haven't thought about for 10 years. The problem is my anxiety is just as bad going maskless in a shop because I don't want to be yelled at for not wearing one. My baby started pulling it down too trying to see if I was smiling and it broke my heart that she couldn't see my face when I know how important it is for infants to read facial expressions. I just know it's a result of the times and some days I have great days it's just been a few crappy days recently.

Just to add we planted 10 carrots at the beginning and finally harvested the single carrot that actually grew! I also love hedgehogs but unfortunately discovered a few years ago the fact we have badgers round here means we won't have hedgehogs!

I've not been on these threads for a while. Keep thinking everyone will realise the madness and things will go back to normal IRL but it just carries on and on. Surely it's evident by now that there is greater population immunity and that the CFR is low? I just can't believe everyone is still going along with this? That article was great btw - actually read it independently yesterday and forwarded on to a few people.