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?

My hip is fucked from either sitting on a knackered office chair at a too high desk or on the sofa with a laptop. Compared to uni where desks in the study area are all the right height etc.

Just spent hours chair shopping in the hope of finding something where my arse still has some feeling left in it by the end of a day of shitty recorded lectures

[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 always notice this week of the year that the evenings aren't as long as they were and a weather change like this year's amplifies it. We're half-way between the solstice and the equinox so it is a gear change for nature even though we still recognise it as being firmly into the summer.

I can find the natural energy from July/ August a bit stagnant. There's not a huge amount of natural change, and then the energy picks up into September. I suppose I feel similarly at the opposite point of the year in Jan/ Feb, except that winter mode is harder until you start getting that glow at 6pm.

I actually prefer the autumn/winter. I was in tears by Wednesday night of last week. 34c is too much. I just cant handle it.

The microchipping conspiracy theory originates in the quantum dot technology that MIT have developed, at Gate's request, and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This was a mainstream story in the science/technology press, and I can't understand why people who express concerns about it are vilified. Even before Covid, when I read about the quantum dot technology, I felt the hairs on the back of my neck rise. When you live in a country with a coercive vaccination policy, you become sensitised to the potential for a technology which has been ostensibly developed to track the vaccine status of children in the developing world been rolled out across entire populations.

Our Premier here has already said the Covid vaccine (which doesn't even exist yet), 'will be delivered to every single Victorian', the subtext being, 'whether you want it or not.'

Is it so hard to imagine that entry to public spaces could be dependent upon one's 'scan' showing vaccine compliance?

www.sciencealert.com/an-invisible-quantum-dot-tattoo-is-being-suggested-to-id-vaccinated-kids

There seems to have been a concerted attempt to 'tin foil hat' people who have expressed concern about this technology.

@skeptile
I like to be open minded about these things.
I want to know what’s out there and scared that they might be true.
I met David Icke a couple of times in the 90 s and I was floored when I listened to his talks , especially about paedophilia.
I remember thinking it was outrageous.
He was the first to properly out Jimmy Savile.
He urged people not to give up on cash. Before covid, cash was being used less and less, though I’ve stubbornly clung on to its use.
I hate using cards.
I much prefer cash. I like to slip my grandkids the odd tenner. I cannot believe that this may soon be gone.
A cashless society, means no cash. None.
He talked about problem- reaction- solution
Well haven’t we seen all of that with people actually baying to be locked down
He mentioned micro chipping. How it would be presented with our pets, then gravitate to our children.
What shocks me is how quickly this is all happening.
It just feels surreal, like we are all walking into our biggest nightmare.
That we are being played.
I hope it isn’t true.

Yes, Dowser, I feel deeply concerned. The quantum dot isn't even a conspiracy theory. And yes, all your movements could be 'tracked', via scanning requirements for entry to designated spaces. And Gates would obviously own the software required for the scanning (he envisages a simple mobile phone app) - and have access to all the data uploaded. He has massive financial interests in how this pandemic is managed. And he is everywhere, on record in multiple interviews saying that the entire planet needs to be vaccinated against Covid.

It actually reminds me of the Savile situation - totally skin crawling, but only the nutters say anything against him.

I don’t think we need microchips. Our phones locate us all the time. That’s how google traffic knows when traffic is slow, it’s our phones transmitting our speed constantly. I found this out when some orange traffic on a country road turned out to be a group of cyclists.

And I’m sure Alexa gets bored of eavesdropping/ listening to me and Me Crazy having sex ....

Morning all .. we had a lovely weekend visiting eldest son in Exeter. We went on beautiful walks on Dartmoor and had some delicious meals. It all felt relatively normal (discounting face masks everywhere). When we checked into the hotel we just had to sign a declaration that we were happy with them keeping our contact details for two weeks and that we’d let them know if we developed symptoms. However when I was looking through the room info folder there was a long list of things that would supposedly be happening to ‘keep us all safe’, including temperature checking on entry - none of which happened and was presumably just there so someone could tick a box saying extra precautions had been taken ...

Our phones locate us all the time.

Not yesterday they didn't. That's how we got horribly lost on a walk. Spent the last hour wishing I'd never read those mumsnet spooky threads about walking in woods.

Watched Derren Brown last night. Bitterly disappointed that he didn't wheel Boris out at the end and announce the whole pandemic was a big stunt. It would be good if Derren could hypnotise the lot of them into sorting this nightmare out properly. Or hypnotise me into skipping gaily through this mess until its over, so as to make it bearable. (I'm not quite suggestible enough for that to work).

I'm not sure I understand the whole point of a temperature check as surely anything could raise your temperature slightly be it an ear infection so it's not necessarily going to be covid!
That phrase annoys me the most 'to keep you safe'
I have to admit I don't think I've disinfected one trolley since this all started as I'm normally juggling two moaning children and I haven't noticed catching covid yet so surely there is a possibility it isn't spread as easily as they claim

Vintagelovingmum

I'm not sure I understand the whole point of a temperature check as surely anything could raise your temperature slightly be it an ear infection so it's not necessarily going to be covid!

I know - it’s utterly pointless - wouldn’t pick up asymptomatic infections and is meaningless outside a medical setting 🙄

But it only lives on trolley & basket handles & in changing rooms. Nowhere else any of us could possibly touch, ever!

Alexa reports “who’s a good boy?” Back to the mothership. But I’m very quiet, they’ve probably had to turn it off and back on again thinking I’ve b0rked the system.

(Quiet aside “put your bloody shoes on” at 100 decibels).

Thank you dowser, but it’s mostly under control. There’s probably some perverse thing going on where I feel I deserve the pain to keep me grounded or something.

It's socks that are the nemisis. Socks. Any request to "go upstairs and put your socks on" is followed 20 seconds by little "peish, peish, phroarrrrrr pow" sound effects and you know that the mission failed and DS2 is already lying on his bed on his back imagining some kind of intergalactic battle.

As school returns,I must reinforce the ruls of "get dressed... TO YOUR SOCKS!!!" in order to avoid such shananigans...

Not that shoes are much better.

At least no extra curriculars will mean DS2 has to try harder to go to school in DS1's shoes because he left his after football...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-53802226/coronavirus-hundreds-gather-in-madrid-for-anti-mask-protest

Has this already been mentioned? But of course it’s only us whiny Brits who complain about wearing masks. I though every other country (except the US) “just got on with it”

It was a sad day for me yesterday - I discovered that my sister is somewhat of a dementor

She invited our parents over for a socially distance afternoon in their garden - and then apparently literally SCREAMED at her 11yo DS for letting Grandma in through the front door, and then screamed at mum for walking through their house to get to the garden - "HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ABOUT SOCIAL DISTANCING?!"

Poor mum.

Also DSIS won't have any Covid vaccine or give it to her kids, because it's been rushed, and seemed very shocked to hear that i was looking forward to sending my DC back to school.

I don't think I can talk to her for a while, it wouldn't go well. So that's really sad

I've started feeling so guilty when I pick things up in shops to check ingredients that end up buying them anyway, then I come home with more than I need
I used to love shopping and would really enjoy pottering round primark especially when I was child free but now there is nothing I want to do less

Had plans today with a friend and because of the weather we've had to cancel but now because you have to pre book everything we don't have anything to do today, don't think I can face getting the paints out again and the tantrum when it comes to bath time (and that's just me)

@TheOrchidKiller

But it only lives on trolley & basket handles & in changing rooms. Nowhere else any of us could possibly touch, ever!

Morning. I went for shopping after i finished work on Sat. Got prayed by some over enthusiastic bloke spraying his trolley handles as i went past! I handle a million dirty dishes and cutlery plus cash all day at work. If its so bloody infectious on surfaces why haven't we all gone off sick with it by now?

Am off out to indulge in coffee and pastry and read my book in a disease ridden cafe. My little luxury 'me time'. Will need to muster up enthusiasm to don a mask as i need to go to boots or savers. Oh joy.

Agree on temp checks if its a scorching day, you were runnjng kate and hurrying, it's a cold day, your normal temp is 37+??? and apparently some people can't work a thermometer nor use common sense so it's an exercise in uselessness.
Just another 'It's da rules but I don't actually know anything about it " bit of virtue signalling. How did we get to the stage where randoms can point something at us which they dont understand and arbitrarily stop us doing stuff? It's madness the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

OMG the heavens have just opened its bucketing! There goes my plans for now.😤😤

I woke up to Radio 4 and all the education stuff.

Apparently NI is going with teacher assesment for GCSEs and they've had grammar school HT on saying they've never had such bad results the head of the sixth form college association on saying their results are worse than anything in last three years.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53799860

A-level grades awarded in sixth form colleges this year fell below the average of the last three years in England, new analysis suggests.

The Sixth Form Colleges Association said its research is evidence that students in larger institutions have been failed by this year's system.

The government has defended the approach it used to determine grades

Apparently smaller groups they didn't use the algorithm but went with teacher grades and as they'd limited amount of overall grade increase which meant there were fewer high grades left for larger institutions.

There was also talk about school opening being delayed as the schools would have to deal with mass appeals.

I think they'll have to do something.

I've started feeling so guilty when I pick things up in shops to check ingredients that end up buying them anyway, then I come home with more than I need

I'm not sure if were supposed to touch things so I've shrugged and just shopped as normal so things get picked up and put back.

@Mrsfrumble

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-53802226/coronavirus-hundreds-gather-in-madrid-for-anti-mask-protest

Has this already been mentioned? But of course it’s only us whiny Brits who complain about wearing masks. I though every other country (except the US) “just got on with it”

Don't be daft! That's 'Fake News' doctored photos by granny murdering selfish people who CBA to wear a mask to SAVE LIVES don't you know?

It's only the UK thats ignorant selfish non law abiding idiots. Jeeze!

😉😉

This was wayyyy back but I got an E in my mock A level maths then an A in the real thing. We did a full paper for the mock but still had a few gaps (I also had a whole topic I never touched due to timetable clashes because I did 3 sciences, too). I also found math exams to be very much a matter of fitness - training for them rather than merely revising.

I can see how so many students are stuffed.

DS1 school refused through his gcse mocks so I'm not expecting much for this week.

Er, enjoy the rain, @willow2017 - it's mostly passed us, now, but was biblical in the early hours. I live in a chalet bungalow and it sounded like someone pouring marbles on our bedroom roof!

@Dowser This is a heavily referenced article, on the rise of a digital identity system currently being rolled out in West Africa.

I see current circumstances as irresistible opportunities for the exercise of what Naomi Klein calls 'Disaster Capitalism', where corporations see financial opportunities, and begin to nudge the public narrative. Politicians are often complicit.

www.mintpressnews.com/africa-trust-stamp-covid-19-vaccine-record-payment-system/269346/

Beautiful sun here in Melbourne today. We had a lovely day.