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...

@LivinLaVidaLoki, perhaps the ones who have died from isolation or spousal abuse or undetected cancer or heart attacks or tuberculosis or sepsis or appendicitis or starvation or dehydration might be missing though.

More likely the ones who are missing are the ones who saw that stupid meme and immediately hit the unfriend button

Ohh Loki that has fair put me off my tea.

Even overly-worried & almost-dementory DM is now saying it's getting out of hand & she's not wearing a mask outside, & doesn't think entire industries & professions should shut down. This is quite a turning-point for her.

@GhostlyGlow - la la la, I cant hear you!!!

I'm busy checking out west end theatres for matinee performances between Christmas and New year for my brother to do the "over indulgent gay uncle" act, with some guidance from me.

It will all be fine! We will pick a fabulous show for him to treat them too, we will go for pizza/burgers before, it will be better than any physical gift they could get. Nothing will stop the fun...

Fuck sake. Can we just stop with this shit?

and if he can't spent a few hundred quid on an event, he'll spend the same amount on toys which I will then have to find houseroom for, this might beat the year he bought a 5' unicorn for dd

@DisgruntledGuineaPig honestly they're loving it .

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Just seen this I vomited in my own mouth slightly.

Well that's a bit late for DM's friends who died of cancer as octogenarians so often do. Sigh.

@GhostlyGlow - they are just so happy that no one gets to have fun.

Its like they've not just happily say "ok well that's not for me, but if you enjoy it, go for it." for the last couple of decades, but been annoyed at other people doing things and spending money in a way they don't want to, and have taken it as a personal insult to how they want to live, and are delighting in he idea of everyone being forced to live the way they think is right.

The joy in other peoples joy, and livihoods being destroyed is a fucking terrible look.

If we can, we are doing our trip up to London to meet uncles and visiting musical theatre in Christmas week. Im now happy to accept the mask. I dont think the puritanical types should win. The joyless fuckers can do one.

Fully team Cavalier here!

(I am well aware that wasn't the most historically accurate referencing - the joyless fuckers can still do one)

@DisgruntledGuineaPig

(I am well aware that wasn't the most historically accurate referencing - the joyless fuckers can still do one)

Apparently Oliver Cromwell danced all night at his daughter's wedding, so I'm guessing even he would balk at a fair few of the Covid rules. I can't think of a better historical group to use as a comparison though. The rather ironically named "Committee of Public Safety" of the French Revolution perhaps?

I'm with you @DisgruntledGuineaPig. I said something a bit similar on another thread a few weeks ago and got a right telling off .

That pic is vomit inducing. Fuck off.
I have seen 1st hand over this weekend the results of lockdown and "saving the elderly". A couple of them will not be leaving hospital other than in a box they are now too ill through neglecting themselves to be treated aggressively. They will be cared for in hospital (and the nurses are fab) Its criminal.

Just curious and I believe there is another thread asking this but I feel safer asking this question here! What exactly would happen if a majority refused to comply with restrictions? After doing doing some research the public outnumber the police 500 to one, the army (if they are all in the uk) 250 to one added together 350 to one! If people refuse to comply and I'm only gauging on the people I am in contact with and my friends family and friends in the North are all saying they won't! Then what will the government do? We don't have the numbers to enforce, we don't have the prisons to hold all so called rule breakers and the so called fines and restrictions are already being challenged in courts across the globe! They got 95% compliance in March which even shocked them! Now I think they will get 50%if they are lucky! What do people think they will do?

@Wishfulthinking1977 I think the time for mass non compliance has come

@Wishfulthinking1977
It never happens all at once and all in a defined space. Most of us are too law abiding and will do what the police say - even if we were rebelling to start with.

BUT if there was sufficient rebellion, consistent protests that were supported by the masses, then the rules would change. The WHO are already backing down about lockdown working. The miners and the Poll Tax put paid to Thatcher, and whatever you think of her, she was far more of a leader than this one.

Thanks for the replies I was just wondering how the government would be able to deal with it? I live in a small sw seaside town that has been flooded with people for all over the country for the last months yet even though our population is mainly over 65 we still have yet to have one case! We have had many deaths from popular local figures that have died alone, we have had some cancer patients diagnosed too late we have many elderly, confused and abandoned, we have many women having to go through miscarriages alone but still no covid deaths even related ones! We can't see a Dr or dentist and now because our rates are now at 150% as in going from 8 to 24 in a week! We are being threatened with tier 2! Sorry but no one here apart from those that are financially and emotionally fine will not comply!!

Am raging now Drakeford shut down Conwy our number of positives jumped suddenly we were all baffled. Found out tonight it is our local meat packing factory who supply Tesco, Asda, Co-op with our world famous welsh sausages, pies, etc. Now I am not blaming the workers, but the bosses who leant on them to keep their mouths shut, the media who will print nothing, the council who are keeping it zipped too. All to protect 70 jobs, when our lockdown is destroying hundreds, maybe thousands of jobs. That factory owner must know people in very high places to pull this one off.

The Anglesey Plant owned by asians held their hands up and worked to eliminate the covid outbreak.

The Wrexham plant owned by americans held their hands up and worked to eliminate the covid outbreak.

The Conwy plant owned by welshmen ................................have remained silent.

So it is fine to expose anyone bar a welshman then??

Just joining in if I may. I’m nervously waiting for tomorrow’s announcement.
Everyone I talk to is fed up with it all now and sick of all the scaremongering in the media and quite frankly I’m finding it difficult to believe anything this government says any more.
We need a balanced debate, with both sides given the opportunity to present their findings rather than just being fed what the government want us to hear.

Hi, @Aztectrousers! It’s all about the balanced debate here. It’s very stressful just now with these threads hanging over us

The thing that fucks me off about the travel restrictions (if they are imposed) is that we have been into the Peak District regularly over the summer, to walk, and have not come within 2m of anyone. The risk of transmitting the virus through that has been miniscule. It has been good for our mental and physical health, but no, now we’re confined to our local area again and the green space behind the house which is normally flooded over winter.

And I won’t be able to see my mum for her 70th or over half term either - though I accept there is a greater risk associated with that.

It’s the utterly harmless being banned with the risky that winds me up.

I promised myself that I was going to avoid all Covid threads for my own sanity but have just had to reply to a post which implored us to seek out pleasures where we can by scrunching through autumn leaves, having a bake a cake ritual on Saturday’s and collecting conkers. I pointed out that this might not be of comfort to people in my city (Liverpool) which is now potentially facing mass redundancies as pubs etc close potentially for 6 months. I am in a very fortunate position and we are financially secure but I am devastated for my city tonight. There is a real sense of despair and helplessness and the lack of empathy and compassion is tangible. I don’t think this country has ever been more divided

@user1471448866 to be honest, those wholesome winter fun romping through the leaves with riots cheeks and a mulled wine posts made me want to kill the poster 😂😂

Yeah, I love squelching through autumn leaves sooo much.

I'll credit autumn that it can be stunningly beautiful, but in a transient, melancholic way and the thought of a pretty featureless winter looming close is not enthusing me.

Hugs to those in areas being treated extra harshly. This is millions of real lives being treated like toy soldiers.

Is it me or are the acorns hurling themselves out of the trees with reckless abandon this year?
Have even the oak trees had enough of 2020 too?

@BogRollBOGOF it is the best year for acorns in many a year here. The olduns say sign of a cold winter, mother nature being prepared.

My DS is in a city at uni. he has come to love it and is so upset to see it suffering so badly. Liverpool is somewhere I love to visit so vibrant, the people so friendly, I feel for them tonight.