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

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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

Offs. Let's destroy all fun and hope the kids don't notice.

I bet schools are going to shut again anyway. DD1 and DS couldn't settle at all and it proved to be an impetus to something we'd been thinking of for a while. We're home educating them now which was not an easy decision to make.

DD2 otoh settled beautifully and will be devastated if/when schools shut again.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Just saw this on Facebook. I hate myself for even thinking it, but it took all I had to not comment "what? So we can have nhs pumpkins? Cos no one let the kids keep the bastard rainbows did they?"

Yep that one's doing the rounds here as well. It'll be taken over like the kids rainbows were - the kids aren't allowed any joy at the moment.

The rainbows got fucking ridiculous - the local Tesco still has a huge one painted really high up in the windows, the local council ordered them as huge banners to thank the NHS and we had people paying to get NHS rainbow banners printed to hang on their houses. The little innocent kids' rainbows so they could say "oh that's Jamie's house and there's a rainbow he made" was totally fucking destroyed by the need to make a public show over it all.

I'm feeling very snarky tonight - someone worrying about if their hairdresser appointment will be cancelled has just been "how dare you - people are dying"ed.

I fucking hate the fucking fucked up fuckwit arsehole fucking cunts. Hate. Hate. Hate.

YY @DominaShantotto I was incensed about that too.

Five hours of refreshing that pissing site to get DD2 booked in for a test - for the bug that she's got from DD1 who has already HAD a negative test. But I know there'll be ones at school who'll flap and send her home if she doesn't go.

This thing with grown adults vying to be the best at everything has been such an eye opener for me! You can draw a rainbow dont care if uou are 6 I will buy a huge one to cover the house nyah nayh!
You want a respectful 5 minute clap? Wait just a minute, I will be noisier and more visasable than you and then criticize you for lack of effort.
It's pathetic. Really shows how many childish attention seeking twunts there are everywhere😠

@DominaShantotto

Five hours of refreshing that pissing site to get DD2 booked in for a test - for the bug that she's got from DD1 who has already HAD a negative test. But I know there'll be ones at school who'll flap and send her home if she doesn't go.

Bloody hell quote the guidelines at them and ask them if they are over riding government instructions? 😉 Ask them if they want to be part of the hysteria that has wrecked the testing system due to unecessary testing. Teachers don't have the right to demand tests every time a kid gets a sniffle, they will be tested a dozen times before xmas!

I felt myself getting a bit snappy today. My DSis was telling me that a mutual friend hasn’t seen her mum since January and really misses her. Her mum’s not vulnerable, nor is she. I just had to say that if you’ve decided not to see your mum at all for so long, that’s on you. Not even during the time of lesser restrictions. We’re not babies, we can do our own risk assessments and tbh I think it’s a bit shit of you because your mum would probably have been better off getting to see her daughter occasionally. Her mum lives a train journey away, not even that far. If you let this govt make all your decisions for you then you’re fucked.

Work is still plastered with rainbows. It was done with good intentions & we had a colouring competition for staff's kids.

I mentioned quietly to a fellow AD the other day that maybe it was time to remove the rainbows & move on.

"Yes,"he said grimly, "but they'll probably replace them with hazard tape."

And yep - I know that it's overloading the test system - but I do understand our head being desperate to keep the school open as much as she possibly can (unlike the lot who just want them closed) so in this one I'm kind of prepared to grit my teeth and play the game a bit in the hope the hysteria settles down soon.

That fucking site though is fucking awful

Trick or treating is held outdoors in the cold, pumpkin hunts take place in fields around here. So why is it so dangerous this year??

@justasking111

Trick or treating is held outdoors in the cold, pumpkin hunts take place in fields around here. So why is it so dangerous this year??

Because, and this was the justification by a friend's husband (who is still slightly dementory) "we can't have you sticking yer hand into a bowl full of germ covered Haribo"

This is a child who has been known to lick her friends and share licks of her friends' lollypops to compare flavours!

Well I’m annoyed, I can’t go into my DP’s house but my neighbour can have GC over night.
My DM is heading for a nervous breakdown again.
On lighter note, yesterday I was in Currys looking for a new fridge freezer and I touched and looked inside every single one, rebel. Who buys something like that without touching!
Also my DD sat in a gaming chair, it’s what she wants for Xmas. We did ask if okay, and the assistant just rolled her eyes and left us to it.

justasking111

Trick or treating is held outdoors in the cold, pumpkin hunts take place in fields around here. So why is it so dangerous this year?

'Cos if you go out in the cold without a vest you'll catch your death. You could trip over a twisty pumpkin stem, break your neck of femur, & in a remote field you could bleed to death.

@MissEWeatherwax
My DM is heading for a nervous breakdown again.
Mine too.
I admire your fridge-freezer touching. It's the small things that bring pleasure.

Trick or treating also involves joy and fun and enjoyment. All of which are proven to instantly cause Covid-19 and let people forget that THERE IS A GLOBAL PANDEMIC ON.

@TheOrchidKiller, I know.
I think for Halloween we just go back to burning witches, sorry I mean non maskers. Joking. But the D’s would be all for it.
But I’m old north east and they should pick swedes. The smell of a burning swede is never forgotten.

I was at church this morning. Somebody gave a box of chocolates to the (strictly limited to 6) choir. Various options for distributing them considered; putting them on a plate, handing them out, letting people help themselves from the packet: all impossible under the roolz. Would anybody just do it anyway, like people do in the real world? Would they heck.

"We have to be seen to be doing the right thing."
"We are being watched."
Totally fucking Orwellian. I don't know why I bother going. And it's not even an escape from bloody Covid; the C-word is mentioned ALL THE FUCKING TIME! In prayers, notices, and I lost count of how many times it was said (this Sunday alone) "we would normally do xyz, but it's not allowed". I've already resigned from a voluntary church role, because I simply can't bear to be part of the nanny state.

As for the government: it's now fucking tyranny. It's an epidemic of POSITIVE RESULTS (some of which may be false, or maybe even totally random), not hospital admissions. The Clowns are DELIBERATELY causing this confusion, to keep us terrified, docile, and ready to accept without question what horrors they have in store this week. And why make us wait until TUESDAY? If it's so fucking urgent, act NOW! Saint Boris can work on Sundays, like many of the voters who pay his wages have to.

And yes, the blackout on protests. On lockdown sceptics, I saw mention of some small incident in London yesterday, anti-lockdown protesters versus police. I didn't even know that this had happened, or that it was planned (or I would have attended).

WAKE UP, PEOPLE! WE ARE SLEEP WALKING INTO 1984!!!!!!!! I know that on this thread, I am preaching to the converted. However, I have noticed more replies like mine on other threads. I think light is finally dawning, and people are realising that Saint Boris and his merry men are DELIBERATELY BRAINWASHING the public.

If Saint Boris jettisons organised sport this week (earning potential for me), I shall be incandescent with rage.

Thought I would add a rude tomato grown by BIL to raise morale

DS1 hates Halloween. The costumes freak him out. I'm astonished that he's said nothing about face coverings as I seriously thought that he'd struggle with their widespread use. I do try to keep my opinions to myself on that one incase they regurgitate them at a really awkward moment

There's a farm that does pumpkin stuff nearby. I've never paid to go... there's a public footpath running through the fields so I get to watch them growing all summer/ aurumn.

Just taken the daring move of signing up for a half marathon in a month...
It's not the training I'm worried about as I'm only a few long runs away from being sorted for training.

I made the mistake of going on a Christmas Covid thread. I used the word "shit" a lot. I like family, and carols, and parties and children's nativities. I've done the 4 of us stuck in at home for nearly 6 bloody months, and great, I have to cook a fecking roast dinner on top.
Good job I like Christmas decorations because that's the one safe cool thing left.
I also love mince pies, but a box of 6 Mr Kiplings is a half marathon to run off so it is possible to have too much of a good thing if I don't want to end up borrowing Santa's belt.
Plus DS1 has a festive birthday, so it'll be rubbish if he can't do something birthday-ish too. Trouble is, I don't want to spend 2 hours in whatever kind of mask city type venue you might be able to book.

I haven't been to church since the first weekend of March, because masks. Because hymns. Because the kids can't cluster at the craft tables.

DS1 isn't complaining. He's a hardened , critical atheist already. By the time I can literally face a return to church, I'm wondering if we can get away with leaving him at home on Minecraft instead. He'd be happier as he finds it a sensory difficult place to be.. unless the PA system is screeching, he likes that!

@MissEWeatherwax
The smell of a burning swede is never forgotten.
You're not wrong there! Grew up in the SE when pumpkins didn't exist. DM used to hollow out a pumpkin for us. The stench lingered into November.

@Evenstar
Thank you for that tomato. It seems to be giving the finger to the world.

That’s what I thought @TheOrchidKiller, even funnier is that BIL is a Dementor of the highest order and thinks anyone not wearing a mask is a mass murderer 😂

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Just saw this on Facebook. I hate myself for even thinking it, but it took all I had to not comment "what? So we can have nhs pumpkins? Cos no one let the kids keep the bastard rainbows did they?"

I didn't get past the first line.

That bloody font is worse than comic sans!

@Evenstar

Thought I would add a rude tomato grown by BIL to raise morale

That raised a smile from DS1 :o

Please don't burn the Swedes. They pay our mortgage with their fancy tunnels and stuff.

DS1, who hasn't even left the house, this month, is as snotty as hell.

And I am a tactile shopper. If I'm hoping to buy it and if your shop is a massive Faraday cage then, sorry, but I'm going to read all the labels and give it a squeeze if it's textile based.

@Evenstar

Thought I would add a rude tomato grown by BIL to raise morale

I want that tomato