ADs deflower male cucumbers for the Greater Good. All phallic aubergines welcome .

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Because bitter male cucumbers don't bring joy, but phallic aubergines can raise an irreverent smile.

AD chat continues about life, the universe and everything. We know the answer is 42 but what is the question?
6x7?
How many roads must a man walk down?
How many unsadly reincarnations have PHE put into the database?

I tiptoed onto that thread and fled sharpish. I didn’t think I had an amazing glamorous life pre-lockdown either, but I used to go to the theatre and ballet a lot, and DH and DD are both musicians. And I desperately miss my team at work,we don’t have the same connection working remotely.

I’m also starting to have nightmares about people in masks. I hadn’t quite realised how much I rely on assessing the intentions of the people around me when I’m moving around London on my own or with DD. Now I can’t do it and it’s really unsettling.

I miss my old life. We aren't even close to affluent, or exciting or owt like that. I just miss actual normal things. Our very average holidays. Seeing family. Not wearing a mask in a supermarket. Not having to pre book every sodding thing we do. I wanted ds to start school normally.

This is nowhere even close to my normal.

Why oh why are they STILL telling glasses wearers to rub washing up liquid or soap onto their glasses. They have been told and told numerous times that it fucks up the coating on the lenses.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane Sorry to hear you are also in pain today.

My biggest issue with conspiracy theories is that they assume the powers that be are vastly more competent than they actually are .

Anyway my fave recent conspiracy theory was the Boris's Fake Baby thing which did the rounds on the more extreme end of FBPE Twitter a while back - much analysis of pics of the Boris Baby and how the baby looked "too old" & the whole pregnancy & birth was faked to garner sympathy. I loved the idea that a group of people as stunningly incompetent as the current No 10 set up could have pulled that one off. I think they also thought him having Covid was made up too

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - Hanlon's Razor.

Or my preferred version:

Never attribute to malice that which rank incompetence will achieve of its own accord.

I saw that thread about ‘normal’ life. My life is nothing like normal- still not allowed to go back to my office, teaching in the uni where I work is completely online for at least semester one and all the places I’d normally take my toddler on a wet day remain shut. None of these are particularly glamorous, they’re just the wee things that make up life outside the confines of my house. But they mean a lot to me.

Ds1 starts GCSEs this year. I’m so glad he wasn’t in a higher year. DNephew got his a level results this year. Fortunately he had an unconditional offer on his first choice university, but sil didn’t announce his grades like she did with DNiece which makes me wonder if he was screwed over as he a bright lad and expected A’s ☹️

@wanderings Our church is working really hard to get open (according to dh on the committee thing) ds2s godmother is in the choir and really missing it.

I also want my MMA class back too but since that involves lots of physical contact and rolling around the floor with people I can’t see that happening soon. On the other hand if I sort myself out I might be able to get my fitness levels back up and weight back down to where it was when we finished in March and started comfort eating way to many biscuits 😆

@Ghostlyglow. The sad thing is, I think people have got so used to how things are now they genuinely believe It’s normal and have forgotten what normal is really like.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Thanks for the info. Hope you had a lovely time. We aren’t due to go to Rhodes until the latter half of October for the last two weeks of the Greek season. Hopefully things will be calmer then.

I hope you don’t mind me popping in, really struggling today. I am not able to wear a mask as my asthma (which is normally well controlled) is triggered by them. I feel like everything is worse since masks became compulsory in shops and I am back in lockdown effectively as I don’t feel comfortable using my exemption card for non-essential shopping or visiting places. I have a pet therapy business which relies on visiting care homes and 2 part time child care jobs which are all closed to me now. I know I am lucky that DH has a secure public sector job and I have a small investment income, but I am able to contribute less than half what I was able to earn monthly now ☹️

So far today I have been in tears twice, firstly because I saw a cute handbag that would have been a small extravagance I could have afforded before, which made me sad, but then I realised there was no point having it anyway as there is nowhere to go.

Then I heard a song from the 80’s that just made me remember what it was like to feel young and carefree and have things to look forward to. I feel very despondent about the winter and without concerts and the theatre and things to look forward to it will be hard.

I am driving to the Midlands to visit my adult children tomorrow, the first time I have seen any of them since Christmas and it is awful to think they may not be able to come this year.

I am generally a rule follower, but I feel more and more disillusioned by the road we are on and feel the mask rules were more based on economics than science. We have had 2 UK holidays and tried to make the most of the summer, but we are not pub goers and perhaps eat out once a month normally so feel there is little on offer.

Thanks for listening I have been following for a while and it helps to know there are people who don’t think everything else should be thrown under the bus for COVID.

@TrustTheGeneGenie
I think the weather turning has plunged us into a bit more doom and gloom

That reminder that autumn is just round the corner.

Welcome @Evenstar, you're bit the first to confess to tears on these threads and I doubt you'll be the last. Un-mumsnetty hugs and .

[quote Dowser]@TrustTheGeneGenie
I think the weather turning has plunged us into a bit more doom and gloom

That reminder that autumn is just round the corner.[/quote]
I think you're right. I'm always a miserable bitch come winter but it's gonna be so much worse this year.

@Evenstar hello and welcome to a corner of internet sanity (and obscene vegetables 😃)

Wasn't the internet made for obscene vegetable and crazy cats?

Welcome to the place where you can share the highs and the lows because we're still allowed the full range of human emotions in the AD version of a pandemic (even one that ceased to be an epidemic 3 months ago...)

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

Would you like me to send you the two Narayani trigeminal nerve remedies I have.

They will be covid free of course 😁and May just help?

My grandson saw the Anma practioner who worked on him for about an hour.
One leg was longer the other, so he balanced him up again.
All these things can have impact on other parts of the body.

I haven’t seen the little squirt to see how he’s been..but we will see how he goes for now and can always have more treatment at a later date.

Thank you 💐

Here is a list of Amatsu practioner around the uk, if you want to give the therapy a try

Course I can’t speak for them , just my guy who is brilliant, but maybe someone can help you

amatsutherapyintl.com/uk.html

Welcome @Evenstar to the tiny corner of the internet where sanity reigns. It always feels good when a lurker delurks. I realise there are more of us than it appears.

The extreme conspiracy theories are unsettling. The Bill Gates microchipping one is so strange. As I told my DC, if he really wanted that he'd place it in a sleek minimisalist white device and we'd pay him for the pleasure of owning it, and probably Instagram a video of us microchipping ourselves

minimalist. Not whatever strange word autocorrect inserted in my post. 🙄

Don't go on any other school threads
Why did I do it

Today I got a sharp reminder of what we've lost.

I overheard someone speak a little sharply to a friend. Normally I (or she, if the tables were turned) would just give an I'm-on-your-side pat on the arm and a supportive grin. But I couldn't get close enough and was wearing a mask. She lives alone so can't offload and it wouldn't have been appropriate to call or text - it would have made too much of a tiny incident.

Those thousands of tiny social interactions over time make such a difference to one's mental state, but they're so small that to complain about the absence of any particular one sounds ridiculous.

@amicissimma

Today I got a sharp reminder of what we've lost.

I overheard someone speak a little sharply to a friend. Normally I (or she, if the tables were turned) would just give an I'm-on-your-side pat on the arm and a supportive grin. But I couldn't get close enough and was wearing a mask. She lives alone so can't offload and it wouldn't have been appropriate to call or text - it would have made too much of a tiny incident.

Those thousands of tiny social interactions over time make such a difference to one's mental state, but they're so small that to complain about the absence of any particular one sounds ridiculous.

This

It's death by a thousand paper cuts

Our neighbour 84 was out in the garden again today, it is lovely to see her again, after five months she is still compos mentis an amazing woman.