ADs crave hotel breakfasts garnished with phallic strawberries

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Oh for the good old days of a breakfast buffet.

Back when you could make plans and reasonably expect them to happen. When you could turn up spontaneously and browse or linger at your leisure. When you could meet whoever you like and give them a hug

But until those days return, here's some more AD chat about life, the universe and phallic fruits...

The funeral stories are inhumane.
I've heard a similar one recently.
@BogRollBOGOF when he's done with the drum kit, pass it over here. Could do with something to hit. Cymbals would be good. Or a great big gong.

Just been looking at the figures, hospital admissions, positive tests for the south east. I would be pretty annoyed in Hancock brought in stricter rules if I lived there, Drakeford has here and it makes my blood boil.

Looking at the students in the north locked up I say let it blow through them all. DS first year last year he was ill a lot in the first term one bug after another, we put it down to mixing with all sorts, partying, bad diet, the usual freshers lurgies.

Eldest boys went to a boarding school as day boys, many moons ago a lurgy went through the school, teachers, three quarters of the pupils, matron and nursing staff all laid low by it, dorms turned into sans, public health involved. Turned out to be a bug brought over from Nigeria by one pupil.

I can only imagine the viral soup created in a university environment.

Local taxi drivers are quitting in droves. I was told this today. The mask requirements in shops meant less non drivers were going shopping so less ppl were using taxis. Now the pub curfew has put the cherry on the cake. Job isnt worth doing anymore. The one who brought me home from Tesco at 7pm made £22 ALL DAY.

Good luck getting a taxi in an emergency if you dont drive. Because a lot less of them will be doing the job.

Our local taxi service are doing prescriptions, picking up shopping, still doing school runs for rural areas, it is not as profitable as pubs, which are closing during the week now. My friends pub closed for the foreseeable future yesterday an awful shame their food was excellent, live music at weekends, all gone now.

Hotel guests were turfed out on Thursday and told we are sorry but you have to leave, what an awful experience for them. I do wonder if they will come back with Drakeford talking about rolling lock downs as and when he deems fit. You could rebook but risk being thrown out again.

@justasking111
Looking at the students in the north locked up I say let it blow through them all. DS first year last year he was ill a lot in the first term one bug after another, we put it down to mixing with all sorts, partying, bad diet, the usual freshers lurgies.
Absolutely this. They aren't going to get the vaccine when it is available. Surely, when generally, all they are mixing with each other, this is the time to let them build the herd immunity.

All the Nottingham hotspots are student areas.

20 years since I met DH in a uni society. So many wonderful, drunken nights

@BogRollBOGOF you old romantic you

[quote justasking111]@BogRollBOGOF you old romantic you[/quote]

They were not dignified days, and frankly I'm amazed I can remember them!

My PGCE year sobered me up (not that it took much as I am a laughable lightweight) and I've been socially middle-aged since then!

There are a lot of 5-15 year olds as a result of that society! There were a lot of marriages out of it and most have survived.

Did anyone else see bbc breakfast yesterday. They did a piece on the situation in care homes and it broke my heart. After the piece they even said that thousands of people had been in touch to say they were in the same situation. Its good to see in a way, that stories of the effects of this are being told in the media.
Though I strongly feel the media have A LOT to answer for the mess we are in.

Though the dementing GP is on this morning talking about positive cases levelling off, but then "but there is a lag between hospitalisations and deaths" god I'm so sick of any bit of good news having that caveat. Also, dickhead, there may be a lag but if the cases are levelling off then surely the hospitalisations and deaths will do too.....

Oh and a group of footballers having a birthday party will not be prosecuted, but I bet before long there will be another kids birthday party broken up and fined.

Trust Boris to waffle about wind farms. Has Greta Thunberg been whispering in his ear? Who cares about FUCKING WIND FARMS right now? If he's going to talk about post-pandemic, what would placate the public and his own party would be to talk about swift plans to jettison the emergency laws when the pandemic is over.

I'm just feeling so angry today. Already. On social media, especially over on the covid board, post after post about "people are selfish, people are stupid, this is why we are in the situation we are in"
No. I have had enough. Enough enough enough. We are in the mess we are in because we have a government who have had months to sort out test, track and trace and they haven't. Who have had months to sort out test capacity and they haven't. Who have recently had to admit that the contacts of over 10k people have not been tracked or traced, think for a minute about how many people that could have spread to.....that went quiet really quickly didn't it???
But no its easier for that fucking clown to stand on television and have the fucking audacity to say we are in this mess because Doris down the road didn't wear a face mask to Lidl. To turn us against each other so we don't see how badly they have let us down.
For the first time in a long time I feel so bloody furious.

@wanderings

Trust Boris to waffle about wind farms. Has Greta Thunberg been whispering in his ear? Who cares about FUCKING WIND FARMS right now? If he's going to talk about post-pandemic, what would placate the public and his own party would be to talk about swift plans to jettison the emergency laws when the pandemic is over.

Well, he's certainly got the hot air to power it...

Like pulling out Grant Shaps to witter about transport initiatives when all the media wants to do is interrogate him about Cummings and Banard Castle.

That was the best cynical laugh that I'd had in a couple of months

I can’t bear this life much longer. It’s awful.

Oh and the huge irony of someone on the news this morning whinging about people not wearing masks, when theirs barely covers their mouth and doesn't go anywhere near their nose.....

I am annoyed that the media did a number on everyone earlier but hopeful now that they are showing the horrible side of the restrictions. The posters that pop up and spout 'but you would lockdown blah blah if you had lost someone' can't deny how low someone has to be to socially distance a grieving widow at the funeral without admitting how selfish they are themselves.

Oh and if Boris says we will have a 'world beating' anything I cringe for him as he should be embarrassed.

We have a world beating balls up! He managed that one!

As a an aside, it would appear that masks have not exactly been a roaring success

@WouldBeGood

As a an aside, it would appear that masks have not exactly been a roaring success

Ah yes, but that will be because of those selfish granny murderers not wearing them / selfish idiots not wearing them properly.

Nothing to do with the fact that three layers of cotton is going to do the square root of fuck all against a microscopic virus.

@WouldBeGood

As a an aside, it would appear that masks have not exactly been a roaring success

This makes me wonder - have the government set out any criteria for what they would consider "success"? For masks or for any other lockdown measures? If we're going to have this stuff, the very least they should do is tell us what it's meant to achieve and commit to reviewing it and removing it if it's not achieving that.

Reading something on the beeb this morning, saying that letting covid run through uni's unfettered isn't the answer, because no one know how long the immunity it confers may last. As it looks likely that uni students won't be offered vaccines anyway, what would they propose to do with them? Shut them up forever just in case they get sick?
Personally, I have absolutely no faith in a satisfactory vaccine being delivered anyway, but I am cynical like that.
Meanwhile, Roche is having problems with its supply chain and is not only running out of covid tests, but tests for everything else. How long before hospitals are like 3rd world ones, with sick people lining the corridors, groaning and puking - oh hold on, they already are, as you were.

@WouldBeGood

As a an aside, it would appear that masks have not exactly been a roaring success

The most efficious thing you can say about masks is that they deter people from going to indoor public spaces and are therefore helping to crash the economy

DH tolerates them with no ill effect other than their general ick, but he is not voluntering to go anywhere where they are required. We paid no admission fees on holiday as it was entirely outdoor, natural spaces (and we have NT membership) we're avoiding shops and any indoor attractions. Lots of countryside walking does the economy no good (and yes there is such a thing as bad weather despite your clothing!)