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Just trying to live a meaningful life in an increasingly bizarre world in which nothing makes sense any more.

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@justasking111

My DS will come home at xmas come what may.

I honestly do wonder how many are going to drop out now.

Hell of a lot trying to get shot of their accommodation contracts on my year group's FB page.

Folk are being absolute pricks about students on social media. I work for one of the Scottish universities that’s had infections in halls and everyone is saying oh the selfish wee bastards, bloody Freshers Week.

They didn’t have a Freshers Week, all events were online except a couple of outdoor things. They have no face to face teaching. Anything will spread in halls, parties or not. I bet plenty of them were too scared to have bloody parties anyway. And now they’ve not to go to pubs or see their families. Fucking lovely. Plenty of these students are 17-18 year old kids.

@AgentCooper I wholeheartedly agree.

Do you know his many are actually ill ill?

How many

So now the students get pilloried for existing. Charming, it was children who were virus factories last, wonder which group is next, baby boomers probably.

@AgentCooper

Folk are being absolute pricks about students on social media. I work for one of the Scottish universities that’s had infections in halls and everyone is saying oh the selfish wee bastards, bloody Freshers Week.

They didn’t have a Freshers Week, all events were online except a couple of outdoor things. They have no face to face teaching. Anything will spread in halls, parties or not. I bet plenty of them were too scared to have bloody parties anyway. And now they’ve not to go to pubs or see their families. Fucking lovely. Plenty of these students are 17-18 year old kids.

Other customer in the hairdresser was absolutely raging about students this morning - that they were "all piling off the tram together at one stop"... for the university.

They were "standing around by the tram stop in a group"... waiting for a tram. Plus then after their journey they were disgracefully walking along a street in a group "with their housemates to go home"

Been busy all day so only just logged onto FB, oh my gawd, virtue signalling re the app. not one person has piped up to call them out on it. One elderly lady I know says she disagrees on principle but uploaded it up to placate her family

@justasking111

So now the students get pilloried for existing. Charming, it was children who were virus factories last, wonder which group is next, baby boomers probably.

It'll be the women they feel fit into the "Karen" demographic next.

Hello my lovelies. Having a hard time in real life so not posting much but still here and fighting the good AD fight.

Vitue signalling everywhere on my social media over the app. I'm just smiling and waving and not downloading. Not going anywhere anyway so meh no difference!

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-esther-mcvey-suggests-poor-14210844

Tory Esther McVey says poor families 'prioritise new phones over food

lol I fucking bet shes changed her mind now.

But as poorer ppl have been told they must not prioritize phones surely they are only doing as advised if they dont/are unable to download the NHS app.

Reading Guardian just now Paris is shutting its bars at the weekend their figures are much worse than ours. The locals are rebelling apparently. The french are much more argumentative than us, will be interesting to see what happens. Spain is bracing itself especially Madrid for tougher measures as well.

[quote WouldBeGood]@AgentCooper I wholeheartedly agree.

Do you know his many are actually ill ill?[/quote]
@WouldBeGood all I know is that nobody has been taken to hospital or judged to be really ill with it.

@justasking111 must admit I did laugh last week when, in true French style, the testers went on strike due to their working conditions. Vive la France!

@DominaShantotto some absolute weapon took a photo of a group of our students walking past the union together, saying LOOK AT THEM! NO SOCIAL DISTANCING.

And I was just thinking, ok big John from East Kilbride, you haven’t walked down any streets lately? Or been to the pub? Or had people round? The sheer audacity of them, being outside and walking.

Thanks @AgentCooper.

Poor students.

These dementors want to remember that uni. towns and cities keep their businesses open all the year around. Rather as tourism does. I was amazed at how cheap and plentiful goods and services are in Leeds compared to where we live.

GET A LOAD OF THIS.

Jay Rayner
@jayrayner1
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Sep 23
This just in. If your car is chauffeur-driven you will not need to wear a mask. A cynical person would point out that this means the cabinet, being driven around in government cars, have exempted themselves. But I am NOT that cynical person. We're all in this together. and so on.

twitter.com/jayrayner1/status/1308778234172108800?s=20

All in this together folks All in this together. IVE FUCKING HAD IT IVE REACHED MY LIMIT.

I would have thought that students getting it now would be a good thing, in that by the time they will want to return home ( for reading week/Christmas), they will have either had it, or have been exposed to it and be immune to it in some way. They won't be taking the virus with them and spreading it at home.

I think it was very, very wrong of Matt Hancock to say he wouldn't rule out preventing students from returning home for Christmas.
Now, I don't think for one moment it would be practical to do it. But there will be a number of homesick students at the moment who will have heard that, & I hope for Hancock's sake their mental health doesn't nose-dive.

On a different note, please can I let people know to be careful if you are considering buying a private covid test. DD's friend felt pushed into doing this last week because her OH had symptoms & they couldn't get a NHS test. They paid over £100, which they could barely afford, & the test has only just arrived, a week later. Sounds like they have been scammed.

Me too also as well.

Boss can gtf. He cannot dictate what you put on your own phone it's ridiculous.

Survived another day at work 3 of us left and all discussing how ridiculous all these new 'rules' are. People are questioning it thank goodness.

[quote AgentCooper]@DominaShantotto some absolute weapon took a photo of a group of our students walking past the union together, saying LOOK AT THEM! NO SOCIAL DISTANCING.

And I was just thinking, ok big John from East Kilbride, you haven’t walked down any streets lately? Or been to the pub? Or had people round? The sheer audacity of them, being outside and walking.[/quote]
On another thread someone is gleefully tracking all the uni case numbers (I believe they're relying on The Tab for their highly accurate journalist figures) and have my uni down as "reporting cases".

My uni doesn't start back for another fortnight (I've done half of the first week's recorded lectures and homeworks already though). Focusing on the uni work and reading through textbooks they've clagged on the reading list but no one is ever really going to fully read (the recommendation for "classic cases in neuroscience" as "fascinating bedtime reading" from our really sarcastic lecturer made me smile - and I'm the sort of sad bugger who does genuinely find them fascinating) is keeping me going at the moment to be honest - I need a focus to drive through on and ignore my mental health.

Another one fuming at the possible banning of students from going home at Christmas! Surely that means they will have to ban anyone from travelling? All my three live away (not students though) and WILL be home for Christmas even if I have to hire a transit and drive round the whole
Bloody country under the cover of darkness to get them them smuggle them home in the e back of the van 😡😡

My father has become a total dementor now even going as far as to scold me for not downloading the app 😢😢

Checking in.

Sigh. My oldest has been sent home from school for two weeks because of a confirmed case in his class. He is in the height of 11+ prep.

I’d be more accepting if 1) the child had been actually eligible for a test (reasons not might be outing, so not going into them) and 2) all the affected schools from this family had acted consistently - ours is the only one which has sent children home.

Checking in.

The app. Hmm. I think I will only download it should I be forced to by work. Like others have said I just don't trust that I won't be having to isolate every two minutes because I've walked past someone's house or been stuck in traffic next to someone and so on and so forth.

Indeed we are not all in the same boat and I'm sick and tired of hearing it. The only people who say that are those who boats are the equivalent of a luxury yacht.

@DominaShantotto
I'm another one doing a part time post grad degree with two kids in tow. I absolutely hate this online learning crap, it just started this week, and it appalling.
But worse is the "alternative assessment" to exams that they cooked up. They were absolute bollox. I do well in exams: I study hard and do well; if I don't study hard I don't do well, its been simple. The "alternate" assessment were some crap mix of coursework and questions with 3-5 days to finish them, and didn't assess anything in any logical or consistent way. It felt like they were just handing out the grades/degree....

My fear is that they will do that again in January and there will be no exams. I'm paying so much money for the course and it's really upsetting that I don't feel like I'm getting what I paid for.
Why can't exams be done? Just set up the chairs a meter apart which you do anyway to prevent cheating!
I don't get it.
I really feels like common sense has left the building

Anyway I feel for the uni students. My nephew is starting medicine in London next week and I wish he could have had the proper freshers experience....