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...

Welcome everyone new! I have to let you know that since April these groups have been a godsend! Keeping me sane, laughing, moaning and questioning ! Such lovely people willing to offer reassurance, support and kindness! My other support has been my db who funnily enough is a code writer and is very familiar with the one used by Dr lockdown! He has given me the inside info on the system which really made me more angry that that's what all the bs has been based on!! Another good person to look out for apart from the lovely people in here is the daily carbuncle! On alot of other posts giving facts and perspective in a fantastic rational way! Sorry to waffle just wanted to extend my welcome and thanks to you all! You are definitely the light at the end of my tunnel!! Xx

Someone asked people not to beathe????

Oh fucks sake. BREATHE, you stupid turd of a phone.

Carbuncle is great, I admire her posts a lot. Wonder why she's never wandered over here? Perhaps we should go on a recruitment drive?

"Psst want to come to a place where it never gets nasty and where they're obsessed with phallic veg?"

"you're allowed to say you miss hugs..."

Hello, @NastyBlouse! I too love the slow horses. I’m currently listening to the new Cormoran Strike: Robert Glenister is a great narrator

Hi all. Welcome to everyone new!

I've had a right nightmare of a day today!

FOR FUCK SAKE. I got told off today for going the wrong way..........we have major building works going on in the town centre and you cant tell where the one way system starts or ends.............. at the entrance to the shopping centre some pensioner pointed out i was going the wrong way then started to rant about how ppl not going round the one way system properly is spreading Covid.

My reply was.................CRAP. Whats spreading it is our Government ineptitude and shit track and trace system but keep on voting for them eh? And she walked off. It was then that i realised she wasnt wearing a mask. Im the last to moan about this but how hypocritical. She intimated that me stepping on paving stones in the wrong order was going to spread it. I was wearing a mask despite struggling to breathe in it but still not fucking good enough.

And hello @Kettledodger and @Wishfulthinking1977 😊

In other news the Sally Army cant provide their usual meals and community gathering for the homeless and/or vulnerable this year. NOT their fault. Im NOT blaming them at all. But its another example of not all being in it together despite what some on the Coronavirus board would like everyone to believe.

One of the joys (?) of 'those' threads is watching as one reputable scientist after another comes out with an AD message and has to be decried as a quack.

World reknowned and respected Cancer specialist Karol Sikora, to whom many owe their lives, was pronounced a charlatan early on.

The Oxford University team, specially Sunetra Gupta, apparently understand nothing. The Great Barrington Declaration seems to have been the work of imbeciles. Now Edinburgh University is joining in and I await the description of them with interest.

It looks as if this has escaped their notice. From The Guardian, March 12, reporting on the briefing by the Sainted Patrick Vallance 'He says delaying the peak pushes it into the summer, when respiratory diseases are less common.

'He says it is not possible to stop everyone getting it. And it is not desirable either, he says. He says you want people to pick up immunity.'

Friend's just put a photo of her child's hands on FB - they are absolutely RAW from the handwashing. It's shocking - and I grew up with a sibling with one of the worst cases of childhood eczema his consultant had ever seen so I'm fairly unshockable where skin problems go... but this has been inflicted under the guise of keeping kids "safe" by people meant to protect them.

A member of the residents’ association for our building recently ‘politely requested’ that people hold their breath while using the lifts because covidSAFEfeardroplets. (No one is doing this to my knowledge but still. To even ask

@NastyBlouse This has reminded me of a line in a rap that Lenny Henry did as Delbert Wilkins in The Delbert Wilkins show back in the 80s

"If the price was right theyd sell off air
and breathing would become an FT share"

Thought I'd add a bit of a nice story! I'm going to be a grandmother for the 2nd time in March! 1st ones only 9 months! I was honoured to be at 1st ones birth and dd wants me at this one's! Unless roolz change she is going for a home birth as she doesn't want the experience to be like a bio hazard zone!! Xx

Aw congrats @Wishfulthinking1977

I have a second great nephew due in December.

@wishfulthinking1977 how lovely. They'll be best of friends as cousins that close in age!

I had a homebirth in the middle of the proper lockdown because we were worried about similar. I had 4 midwives in my bedroom at one point (staff change over time shortly after ds was born). It was a lovely experience (if slightly crowded) and midwives were ace! Would definitely recommend.

Hello de-lurkers! Welcome to the thread of good sense and nonsense.

The people I know are getting more open about the fact that the roolz don't make sense and are often counter-productive.

I think aside from all the lockdown roolz and scaremongering, the equinox is having an effect. The daylight and weather have now returned to roughly where we started, and what have we to show for the year?

In good trivia I am now stocked up on upgraded coats. I spent last winter getting drenched umpteen times a day with school runs and whatnot. I am no winter lover (except the rare frosty, sharp sunny days) and the reality of trudging through slimy leaves in varying degrees of rain is not remedied by notions of hot choc(olate) nor snuggling with pajamas or blankets. Nevertheless I do try to get out in whatever daylight is avaliable as well as a lot of functional walking.

If I'm going to spend more time than ever outside (either due to prolonged school pickups or fuckall else to do other than another bloody walk!) I'm going to bloddy well be comfortable! The last few weeks of Brownies have been made much better by my new mahoosive thick coat, and after getting soaked through at the weekend, I now have an upgraded waterproof (sailing) which will be long enough not to have constantly soaked thighs. I also sucumbed to a poncho that is kind of both tragic and amazing. If it's the kind of day that you're going to be sopping in 30 seconds, I won't care if I'm basically wearing a full length tarpaulin over my coat
(That'll show the no such thing as bad weather smunts... there is bad weather and crimes against style )

Congrats @Wishfulthinking1977

@DominaShantotto - DB has a friend who is a dermatologist who's really worried about the effects of too much handwashing and gel (the gel is quite a lot worse for skin I think).

@helenadove congrats back to you! 😘😘 Luckily dd is more ad than me and is fighting on fb daily and questioning everything! She refuses to stop lo socialising and I am very proud and surprised I raised such an independent free thinker! My achievement this month is to turn 6 ds into ads! Do I get a fanfare!! 😂😂 Just pleased that others are beginning to see another way! Xx

@albazavi thank you ❤️❤️ they will be siblings! God help my dd!! Xx

@110APiccadiily thankyou 😍😍

@Wishfulthinking1977 congratulations, another homebirth during lockdown here, actually ended up with my dh delivering baby as midwives were too far away and the others had gone home. Ended up with the 2 of the fire first responders, 2 paramedics, 2 midwives and a local retired midwife who was back on the books due to covid in the house plus my 2.5yr old. I would say it was the most magical moment of my life getting to do it this way and I was so happy I didn't have to mess around in a hospital or birth centre waiting to be discharged especially in current conditions!
@DominaShantotto sorry it's so crap at the moment, I keep thinking of everybody here all the time at the moment and I'm just so thankful for you all

People who had home births - was that always something you'd have liked to do? Were you worried about it? I'm looking for any advice really - I'll have to make a decision on this in about 4 weeks! I never wanted a home birth, always said I wanted to be where the doctors and medical equipment was! We're about 20 mins from the hospital, which is more than I'd like, and it's my first baby. But I also want DH there for the whole thing, and I'm really worried about being on a ward afterwards by myself with a newborn. Both options frankly terrify me.

Hope that's not hijacking the thread...

@110APicadilly it wasn't something i had planned to do if it wasn't for Covid. But was ds3 and was very low risk. He was born mid april and i wasn't worried about DH not being there until active labour as i labour very slowly, but was very worried about staffing levels. We had discussions about ambulances with the midwives and it wasn't a risk in our area.

Tbh i preferred the out of sight out of mind approach to the clean up in hospital and didnt like having to put the towels in the wash an hour after giving birth. But it was a good way to keep a sense of control over the birth when there was no control.