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

[BogRollBOGOF]

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

@RealityExistsInTheHumanMind this should reassure. The AD's are all fucking geniuses.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/swearing-study-intelligent-intelligence-university-rochester-a7916516.html%3famp

My family hate me, my marriage is over but if I leave I will be homeless.

Domina do you have any support right now? I think brains are good at telling us all sorts but I bet your family doesn't hate you. We have all been under massive strain this year. Your struggling isn't you. It will pass. Can you tell someone in real life how you feel?

@BillywilliamV

It may not be a popular opinion but I really think it’s incompetence that is the issue, not actual sadism!

@BillywilliamV yep, the UK governments seem entirely clueless and with no stated purpose to sll this.

www.bing.com/videos/search?q=big+bang+theory+yes+i+am+a+fricking+genius+&view=detail∣=8B44EE2BBC5C12C4D1F78B44EE2BBC5C12C4D1F7&FORM=VIRE&PC=U316

Yeah us😉

I don’t mind my kids swearing - but it MUST be within context.

Just checking in with you ladirs, and again, thank you for the sanity.

Domina, so sorry to read that you are suffering so much, I love your posts and was in awe of the way you fought to get your DD's in to school earlier this year. Sending strength to you.

Covid board is nuts today! They are baying for lockdown and taking worst case scenario as gospel truth. I've cracked and posted about my situation, asking if my family are acceptable collateral damage. I think the answer will be yes. I think some people on this site won't be happy until the vast majority of us are living in abject poverty and misery. All in it together? My arse.

My swearing recently would make a hardened trooper blush ...

Ds2 is 20, has ASD/depression/general lack of motivation... he dropped out of sixth form halfway through as it all got too much. Then he tried college and only managed half a term before that got too much as well .... Earlier this year he finally decided that he’d like to do ‘something’ and we signed him up to the local council’s ‘work right’ service which helps young people with additional needs join the work force. He had a work experience placement lined up which was great - only problem, it was supposed to start on 23rd March 😩.. since then he’s drifted in and out of depressed torpor but last week started an online employability course. A couple of hours ago I had a call from the course leader - was ds2 going to join them? As this week is all about creating good habits .... er no... unfortunately not - ds2 is still in bed, hasn’t eaten or drunk anything all day and doesn’t ‘feel good’ aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh ......

I'm amazed that in DS1's outburst the other evening, he snarled "for Pete's sake" which is bit more grown up than his usual "poopy nappy face" type insult (and I tend to use face rag rather than face nappy). I'm quite impressed that he isn't snarling expletives constantly after 5+ months stuck in with me

Domina
Sorry things are crap at the moment. It all just seems one thing after another doesn't it? I hope you are misreading your family's feelings towards you because of all the stress you are under. Is there anyone you can chat to outside the family? Can you access your gp or have you had a councillor in the past who can help you? Take all the help and support you can get. You fought for your Dd now fight for you.
Sending ((hugs)) which i know won't change things but we are all with you just rant away.

[quote Ibake]@RealityExistsInTheHumanMind this should reassure. The AD's are all fucking geniuses.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/swearing-study-intelligent-intelligence-university-rochester-a7916516.html%3famp[/quote]
Einstein level in this house!

I saw your post on the BBC article expecting for your situation. That thread seemed to start well but has descended into dementor-ness. The person who said it was just about our social life .

I'm not quite sure what the point was of the briefing today without any action, it's just made people anxious / demented.

I've sat and done watching uni lectures for 2 week's time this afternoon as a distraction (which is sheer desperation time). It's firmly established that online learning is SHIT and I'm not taking in anywhere near as much as I would in a live environment where we could bounce ideas off each other and the teaching staff.

Fearing for my degree classification to be honest.

They have started dementing that youngish women have had a big rise in hospital admissions but can't see anything on this in the news, frightening people .

There is a good article in the Telegraph criticising the talk today but behind a paywall.

@Pleasedontdothat Sorry to hear about your DS. We were there for a few years with DD. The staying in bed & missing lessons was classic depressed/ anxiety behaviour.
Things improved when she left school & got a job, something she chose herself. I've spoken to other mums with boys who sound like your DS. It sounds like being in a formal learning setting isn't always the best place for them, but doing something practical where there's a bit of responsibility & structure but no great pressure to perform, works better. I know this is really difficult to arrange with covid restrictions (much as DD likes working she also feels confident enough to try some work experience but there isn't any right now). Just wanted to give you some hope to cling on to.

Personally, I think online group work for young adults (well, for any age) with depression is not the way forward. I thank my lucky stars covid wasn't 2 years ago when DD was still at school. Although as she was barely there in the end it probably won't have made any difference.

@DominaShantotto
Agree about the online learning. I find it very dry & dull. I hope things improve.

@TabbyStar

I saw your post on the BBC article expecting for your situation. That thread seemed to start well but has descended into dementor-ness. The person who said it was just about our social life .

I'm not quite sure what the point was of the briefing today without any action, it's just made people anxious / demented.

Thanks Tabby. Think I need a break from social media in general and MN specifically.

Well the government seem to be doing a good job of ramping up the fear. On the way to pick the dc up from school some woman coming the other way lept into the road to avoid me. Haven't had that happen for months. Wish there could be some more balanced reporting of actual real risks. The cars on the road are more dangerous.

So we had the Chuckle Brothers today with their Graphs of (possible/might/maybe) Doom. All we need is Blustering Boris and Hancock with his fake 'I do care ' look and we'll be well away.

Overheard on the school run this morning:
Mum to 5 year old: Stop coughing, you've had Calpol, you'll be fine.

Had a lovely day off with DP (first child free day since last year) and a pub lunch eating outside.

What strikes me as odd is the amount of dementors who have time to constantly watch all these briefings and speeches to the hoc....
Do they really have nothing better to fill their time with than fucking covid.

Though I will also leave this here

I absolutely salute the Calpol woman, a balanced and well/thought out approach.

at Calpol woman. That’s me in the mornings with my cold-riddled children “Please for the love of God DO NOT cough in class!”

Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) is blaming the rise in cases in London on increased socialising in August ( eat out to help out anyone). A few weeks ago the same Sadiq Khan was moaning about London being a ghost town and needing people to get back to work and support the businesses in the capital. And they wonder why people are fed up.

@cassgate Sadiq Khan can get to fuck. I hope he gets his arse handed to him at the Mayoral election. Wish we didn't have to wait so bloody long to tell this government what we think of them.

Dd2 (5 months) is on the calpol at the moment so of course dd1 (2.5 yrs) has to have some too, we've been letting her lick the spoon after baby has had it seeing as it's the bloody cold she bought home from nursery and she's now over it apart from some choice coughing fits in lidl every so often!
Watching this morning I did wonder if boris was leaving them to it because he's finding it difficult sticking to the script or if he's self isolating after travelling to Italy (honestly I can't remember my own name let alone which countries you have to isolate after visiting!)

Keep thinking of you @DominaShantotto and hope you're ok