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The ADs get ready to rumble then have a nice cuppa tea

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BogRollBOGOF · 14/09/2020 19:34

Watch us wreck the mike, watch us wreck the mike, watch us wreck the mike.
Psych.

Now gather nicely in groups of no more than six...
Unless you're outdoors in Wales...

Oh well, come on in whatever the laws where you are. Plenty of space in this bubble of sanity Wink

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WouldBeGood · 18/09/2020 08:43

@Justgivemewine it’s quite satisfying, isn’t it? My previously D DP is now even more AD than me 😂

Littlebelina · 18/09/2020 08:45

No good can come of going on school threads although I find I always end up reading them. Christ knows why, it's the same 8 posters yelling the same thing over and over again until everyone else leaves and therefore they get agreement

WouldBeGood · 18/09/2020 08:46

@ISaySteadyOn I think one of the main things I’ve learned from all this is how much teachers dislike children, and parents.

Littlebelina · 18/09/2020 08:46

(Just realised that can apply to most of the Internet Grin)

WouldBeGood · 18/09/2020 08:47

I’m a well educated woman, mostly at home and with access to tech and i am completely fucking hopeless at “home educating” my child. Not ever attempting it again!

profpoopsnagle · 18/09/2020 09:04

Yes- I decided a while ago that 'lockdown' was a shit phrase to describe what we had to do. For me, the regulations meant that we were locked up, in that our personal liberties and freedoms were taken away from us just like prisoners. Prison isn't the place, it's the state of being. So lockdown happens as the stage after being locked up.

I'm a MN teacher and I bloody love all my class kids. The odd one or two over the years have been harder to love! I wanted them all back on the 1st June, and I'm starting to think it would have been much better if we had done it then. There was always going to be a big party of germs meeting when children got back, it would have been easier to deal with in summer and would have spread the consequences (like getting tested) over a larger period of time. We'd be so much further ahead, than we are now heading into October.

DominaShantotto · 18/09/2020 09:05

@ISaySteadyOn

Considering as the phrase 'lock down' used to be mostly applied in the case of prison riots...

Can you remind me to stay off the school threads? It is bad for my blood pressure. Especially the ones where MN teachers make it clear how much they loathe children really.

Thankfully mine have moved on from the infant school where the head was making it very clear she didn't want to have to have the kids back at all before summer (the one I fought to get DD2 back to as she was struggling so much) but by all accounts it's not improved and she's really making the parents very clear she does not want the kids back at all by all accounts.
DominaShantotto · 18/09/2020 09:07

@WouldBeGood

I’m a well educated woman, mostly at home and with access to tech and i am completely fucking hopeless at “home educating” my child. Not ever attempting it again!
I'm a fucking qualified primary teacher and my kid rebelled and kicked the shit out of me when I tried to instigate much home learning (we suspect she has ASD anyway)! I can explain the maths in the same terms they use in school till the cows come home, but my child needs to sort her life into "home" and "school" with the inconvenience of homework to strop about - she couldn't cope with it at all.
Miraculous · 18/09/2020 09:14

[quote WouldBeGood]@ISaySteadyOn I think one of the main things I’ve learned from all this is how much teachers dislike children, and parents.[/quote]
To be honest I think it’s mostly the parents that most despise.

Willow2017 · 18/09/2020 09:32

Got yet another letter from Scot gov re my "shielding".
Funnily enough it states "At this time, though there has been a small rise in the number of cases? Generally the rates of infections are low. This means that yoyr chances of catching the virus are low."
There is no need for you to start shielding again.
So why the hell are we getting more restrictions?
Off to get shopping and see if my cafe is still open after the new restrictions and what they are doing. Might just point my phone camera at the thingamajig I won't be telling the world my personal details at the door.

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BogRollBOGOF · 18/09/2020 10:05

If a pretty thourough lockdown didn't solve the problem in March-May, particularly as the weather was favourable and the cold/ flu season ending, why would a half-hearted lockdown work any better this time? Spain's harder line throughout has not had any further success either.

Our government is being mocked by a microbe doing what microbes do 🤦‍♀️

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ISaySteadyOn · 18/09/2020 10:33

@profpoopsnagle, I'm sorry. I made an unfair generalisation there. I had just read too many school threads.

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BogRollBOGOF · 18/09/2020 10:46

It always surprised me hown many colleagues did appear to hate young people. Often (but not always) the clinging on until the day they could get their pension types. It was so frustrating as jobs were thin on the ground and very competitive in my area and I'd have loved a permanent contract for years.

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Bollss · 18/09/2020 11:53

i dont get this "lets have a second lockdown" - ffs you thick twats you're only considering it because the first one didnt work

lockdowns dont eradicate viruses. It didnt work the first time, and it wont work the second time. We'll lock down, come out and OH! cases will rise again.

Jesus fucking christ on a bike i am not gonna claim to be particularly clever, or well educated, because im not but it it obvious to me that if you release measures, cases will rise. What can you do about it? Whats the point in trying to do anything about it?

I am sooooo fucking done. So done.

Reedwarbler · 18/09/2020 12:28

I hate this sort of leaked/Chinese whisper type information that appears (certainly on the bbc news website) about whatever new restriction the government is thinking about. It's a bit like a naughty child being told that if they don't behave they won't have a certain treat. But how are we supposed to behave? Everyone I know (and see) is abiding by current restrictions (although I live in a rural area, so I don't see many people!) Alright, we all moan about it, but we are doing our best. What more can we do? The government is looking very foolish. Dido Harding has an appalling track record in business, why she was given this current job is a mystery.

Bollss · 18/09/2020 12:32

i'm hoping this is them doing what they usually do and sort of trying to gauge the public mood for the information they leak.

Hopefully they will realize that the public mood is very much "fuck off and leave us alone we don't want lockdown again" - which to be honest is how i think the majority are feeling now.

Miraculous · 18/09/2020 12:37

Sat on tenterhooks waiting to see if the ‘small area of the midlands’ facing further restrictions would be our area. Thankfully it’s not.
To be fair we’ve had three cases in the past 2 months. There are some benefits to living in the sort of small town where people say ‘no one ever enters and no one ever leaves’ Grin.
It’s no way to live though. Waiting to see whether you’ll be allowed to visit your mum again for the foreseeable future.

JamSarnie · 18/09/2020 12:42

@TrustTheGeneGenie

i dont get this "lets have a second lockdown" - ffs you thick twats you're only considering it because the first one didnt work

lockdowns dont eradicate viruses. It didnt work the first time, and it wont work the second time. We'll lock down, come out and OH! cases will rise again.

Jesus fucking christ on a bike i am not gonna claim to be particularly clever, or well educated, because im not but it it obvious to me that if you release measures, cases will rise. What can you do about it? Whats the point in trying to do anything about it?

I am sooooo fucking done. So done.

This is just how I feel.
thenightsky · 18/09/2020 12:46

@TrustTheGeneGenie

i dont get this "lets have a second lockdown" - ffs you thick twats you're only considering it because the first one didnt work

lockdowns dont eradicate viruses. It didnt work the first time, and it wont work the second time. We'll lock down, come out and OH! cases will rise again.

Jesus fucking christ on a bike i am not gonna claim to be particularly clever, or well educated, because im not but it it obvious to me that if you release measures, cases will rise. What can you do about it? Whats the point in trying to do anything about it?

I am sooooo fucking done. So done.

This is exactly how I feel too.

What's that saying that goes something like: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

Reedwarbler · 18/09/2020 12:47

Also, have you noticed how 'exponential growth' are the new 'fuck off you ignoramus' watchwords? Someone mentions how few cases they have locally, and the answer is 'well, you obviously don't understand exponential growth'. Another one to add to coronavirus bingo.

Miraculous · 18/09/2020 12:49

@Reedwarbler

Also, have you noticed how 'exponential growth' are the new 'fuck off you ignoramus' watchwords? Someone mentions how few cases they have locally, and the answer is 'well, you obviously don't understand exponential growth'. Another one to add to coronavirus bingo.
Yes. ‘Do you not understand exponential growth?!’ is the new ‘stay the fuck at home’. Yes I do understand exponential growth. I understood what it mean pre Covid too. When I expect the vast majority of those plastering they phrase across MN had never even bloody heard of it.
justasking111 · 18/09/2020 13:33

@BogRollBOGOF

If a pretty thourough lockdown didn't solve the problem in March-May, particularly as the weather was favourable and the cold/ flu season ending, why would a half-hearted lockdown work any better this time? Spain's harder line throughout has not had any further success either.

Our government is being mocked by a microbe doing what microbes do 🤦‍♀️

Exactly
justasking111 · 18/09/2020 13:47

OK being serious now if you have young children who make a santa list well get them to make it now. DIL has a friend high up in the toy world purchasing wise says buy now, put away or you may not get it. The slow boat from china container wise has ground to a halt so when it is gone it may be gone. So many ports around the world are refusing entry coz of covid. I am only telling you guys coz I know the media either are not reporting this or do not know.

RealityExistsInTheHumanMind · 18/09/2020 13:49

@Reedwarbler
Dido Harding has an appalling track record in business, why she was given this current job is a mystery.

So has Trump - didn't stop him either.

I think when people are frightened they look for a grown-up - and their definition of a grown up is someone who has confidence in what they are saying. Doesn't matter that what they are saying just that they sound confident and sound like they know what they are talking about. - You know, like many abusers do.

DominaShantotto · 18/09/2020 13:53

I'm just trying to get ahead of our "blended learning" while it's still not quite term-time (for when the schools all go tits up and I get no work done) and played one of our module inductions today. Apart from loads of "oooh dead interesting" stuff coming I'm increasingly disturbed by phrases such as "and we shall end the term with dementia" and was struggling to keep a straight face by the end of it all.

I'm already fucking demented - this pandemic's done that!