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

DIL so happy her little one can start a sport again but youngest cannot so am having him tomorrow. I said going forward the mums should be sharing lifts as we used to do. You take them, other mum picks them up. She said she will mention it but coz of the roolz does not know if they will go for it.

DS employee who has been furloughed since March was due to start back next week. DS has put the desks around 10 feet apart only two of them in the room. Well employee came in shaking with fear wearing a mask told DS that he would have to wear a mask in the office all day, and quoted other roolz he would need met. The guy was in a hell of a state. DS said that he could not meet all his requests so he resigned. How have we come to this a middle aged professional man is giving up work to become a house husband because of his fear.

I thought what Priti said about families mingling was ridiculous, and then it got me to thinking about bus stops.

If there are 7 people waiting at a bus stop, and some start exchanging pleasantries - nice day, have you been waiting long for a bus, etc - are they now breaking the law, and will the covid marshalls be waiting to pounce?

Or is that OK? And if that is OK, why is 2 families bumping into each other and saying hello for 2 minutes breaking the law?

It's all just so ridiculous.

If they pull another national lockdown i shall shut my purse to non essentials until well into next year. And ive heard ppl in RL say they will do the same
Ive had it!!

I don't know what's happened.
Fuck school. If it closes. Fine. I'll take them on a walk. We'll visit how many friends as we can. I can't be arsed anymore. Keep your school. Keep your career. Keep it all. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Six? Six? That's not even a car full!
Not if you have a 7 seater.
When I was at infants school there was a family living up the road that had the 4 wheeler version of the Reliant Robin. They gave me & DM a lift in it once. How that car moved with 6 people inside I don't know. It would've been mid-1970s so anything went. If the car had seatbelts they would've been "optional" at the time. (Wearing a seatbelt- now that is sensible).

I agree with the mood changing. I do feel a shift from the "lets keep safe" nonsense now and people are getting more and more fed up with it all. The Government are seemingly more incompetent by the second and there is really is no excusing it...

I read today that the figures for flu death confirmed last week was 168. Now bearing in mind all the hand washing, social distancing, masks, how are we catching it or are these figures low compared to other years. Norovirus seems to have disappeared though which is good news.

@TheOrchidKiller I remember being taken back to school from swimming in a teachers car. 4 on the back seat. 4 of us sitting in the boot. Circa 1984

I've had this earworm on & off for months. Googled it, it's "Change" by The Lightning Seeds :

"The world is full of fools
Who never get it right
You don't know what to do
So you do anything you like"

Funny, that...

@HeIenaDove

Just recieved a letter for a cervical screening. I find them INCREDIBLY painful. Part of the reason my last one was in November 2014. There is no way i could deal with it while wearing a mask. So its not going to happen. Im not sexually active so im low risk Not the same as no risk. No one is. But im willing to take those odds. I still woudnt be going if masks wernt involved because its too excrutiatingly painful. But add a mask in as well...............no. Ive been put through enough stress this year. Im not accepting any more of it than i have to.

@thenightsky

I got one a couple of months ago and then about 6 weeks ago I got sent an appointment for it.

My one last year should have been my final one, as they don't do them over 65 generally but they found HPV cells (having only started testing for them that year) so said I needed another this year.

Normally, and I have been having them regularly for 30 years, it's uncomfortable but don't bother me much.

I went last Friday and it was horrible. She used no lube, rammed it up and then started twisting it. She then pulled it out and tried again. She kept blaming my prolapse (mild that I have had for at least the last 2). She then said she thought she managed it but I 'may' get called back if she hadn't got the right cells. Like fuck will I be going back.

Masks don't normally bother me but I had to take it off, I was hot, sweaty, breathless and in pain. She wasn't impressed but I don't give a fuck, I was far less impressed with her.

We are 5

@RealityExistsInTheHumanMind what an appalling experience

www.itv.com/news/2020-09-15/two-weeks-for-rule-of-six-to-stop-coronavirus-spread-or-tougher-social-distancing-measures-loom

How are they going to know with no bloody tests?

I bet the cunts will shut the salons again.

I did illegal mingling today. Unfortunately the 7th person to join our covid secure group of 6 was the local PSCO...

We didn't really know what to say and eventually he wandered off and we ended up in fits of laughter at the whole stupidity of it.

Fecking hell. Sliding back in (after a few too many name changes, can't remember what I was before). 'Tis Mental out there!

On holiday atm... breaking da Roolz courtesy of 18m DD which takes us to 7. BIL v. anxious we will get busted by some over zealous Covid Warden, and that's on top of the usual family emotional rollercoaster.

I’m just fucking fed up with no toddler groups around here. A few (expensive) classes have reopened and tbh I don’t want to take DS to structured stuff where he won’t listen and will trot off and play with his cars. Our toddler group was great, really informal with song time at the end. Just a natural, easy environment for him to start learning how to be around other kids. £1.50 a session. It could have opened on Aug 31st but the chief dementor committee member says no.

It sounds stupid but I feel shit for him, no toddler group, no birthday party, no play dates allowed. He’ll barely have been around other kids when he starts nursery in January. He’ll play with other kids in the park a bit, which is a relief.

They can get lost. Lockdowns don't work.
Lockdown x 1 worked because we were understandably worried. France and Italy were in a mess and we agreed that action was needed. We agreed to a 3 week lockdown to flatten the curve. I really think the majority was on board with that - judging by how traffic went down if nothing else.

There is no agreement for a second lockdown. Yes lots of loud people are baying for it but that doesn't mean the majority are willing to be locked down again and I very much doubt they are.

The people that will obey are probably at low risk anyway for catching because they are still living pretty compromised lives. Many of us that aren't in favour will also take care of ourselves, mostly obey but evaluate for ourselves and be a low risk of infection.
The ones that want to go out will just find different ways of doing it and hiding it.

They will say its the rule of six that has failed rather than their shite testing system.

I don't think a lockdown will happen like before but I do think they might curtail more social interaction.

Much easier to say no one can interact at home with any other household but not close businesses as that costs money.

Whether people will comply will be telling because most of us that have to work do so to fund a lifestyle not to provide taxes. They have used up a lot of goodwill they had at the beginning.

Just started organising stuff for my online Uni... totally fucking depressing. This year is going to be such a grind - lonely and relentless and with DH giggling at TV shows on his PC (with headphones on) and the annoying yapping barking dog going for hours at a time... and I think the army are firing tonight judging from the bangs I can hear.

First thing on the uni stuff... the importance of finding yourself a quiet dedicated workspace where you won't be disturbed. They obviously have never lived in my house.

I have never understood how a woman can perform a smear test and deliver such pain. 😔 caring profession my arse.

I’ve been thinking about this lockdown business and I’ve changed my tune.

I had Lyme last year and it could’ve turned into Long Lyme - in fact scam any dementory Lyme fb group and people will blame stubbing a tie or returning a library book late on Long Lyme.

I digress. I was Poorly for about 6 weeks and I think if everyone would just stay at home this winter then we could eradicate ticks.

Whaddya mean it doesn’t work like that?

[quote HeIenaDove]www.itv.com/news/2020-09-15/two-weeks-for-rule-of-six-to-stop-coronavirus-spread-or-tougher-social-distancing-measures-loom[/quote]
Ah that explains the 2 week rule to our gps, they will be expected to issue permission for a covid test..............

So he is contemplating asking GPs to act as gatekeepers to the testing system, which would mean those wanting a test could only get one if their local doctor were to authorise it.

But introducing GP screening would undermine the timeliness of the data, since it would add at least another 24 hours to the process of wanting or needing a test and getting the result.

I understand Hancock is very reluctant to assign this responsibility to GPs but he may have no alternative.

@PickAChew

How are they going to know with no bloody tests?

It's perfect. If nobody can get a test there will be fewer cases ergo the rul of 6 worked😃😃😃😃