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...

Exception to gatherings added for remembrance Sunday.
We will not have to cram the poppies in our windows along with the pumpkins and rainbows after all.
Presumably an exception will later be added for Christmas.

So all pubs to shut except Wetherspoons.

So we can gather for Remembrance Day but not other things? Surely they'd need to limit Remembrance Day parades? No disrespect, but a gathering's a gathering. Or do the participants have to pre-book, as with everything else?

I'm surprised we dodged Tier 2 over in East Yorks, as we've recently crossed the 100 cases per 100,000 threshold. I guess a Tory council & Tory MPs help, although in fairness Hull escaped too and they're solid Labour.

Any hope of the kids scouting getting to open indoors and not fucking zoom is buggered then.
Dh trying to stop me swearing at Boris- he can piss off

Just found out that our town has the lowest infection rate in Essex. Yet there is no low risk tier. The lowest tier is medium.

@DominaShantotto

Any hope of the kids scouting getting to open indoors and not fucking zoom is buggered then. Dh trying to stop me swearing at Boris- he can piss off

Ours aren't meeting anyway. Basically that was DS2 leaving Beavers shortly before his 7th birthday if it's fucking Zoom all the way through until next Easter when he turns 8. He may as well just move on to Cubs and join DS1. Sad because the Beaver team has put in more effort and would be willing to get back to F2F. The GG structure would let them get on with it, but the group structure is holding them back.

I wasn't best pleased with the Cubs on camp last year. We didn't have the ASD diagnosis at that point, but had just found out about the dyspraxia (and let them know). I was there with my Brownies, found DS1's boots in my tent and went to take them to his pitch. I found him on his own crying with tear tracks leaving clean marks down his filthy, dishevelled face. I'm not bothered about him being filthy, it's camp, but it wasn't good that he was alone and clueless within 10 minutes of being dismissed for morning activities. I couldn't pretend that I hadn't seen him in that state and leave him to it, and he was in a zombiefied state of exhaustion. I took him back to our base camp, revived him with hot chocolate and the repetitive motion of pushing a toy car from our leaders' creche. Then took him off to the disabled showers to sanitise and recondition him.
Later, he ended up being guided out of the disco back to his leaders by a leader from another GG unit who knows him because he got to the point of sitting in the middle of the disco from overwhelm.
We do tough love and don't mollycoddle, but we do keep our eyes out more on the girls with more needs.
It was odd being there but not there and trying not to intervene, but there was that point where he needed TLC.

We should have been on a big camp this summer. Lots of missed nights away.

Wasn`t there some hoo ha in Liverpool years ago involving Boris. He was thoroughly routed at the time I seem to recall.

Did not see the talk were Whitty and Vallance there??

I still don't understand why people can't see how cruel these measures are. I'd rather die of the virus than live like this much longer.

Also, Sadiq Khan was practically salivating at the thought of tighter restrictions on London. Wtf is wrong with him?

Though it won't make much difference to my life since I never go anywhere further than 2 miles outside my house or do anything except go to the park again anymore.

I'm sure Witty had a hard on at the thought of locking tier 3 down even harder with all those lovely extra measures he had in store when this lot don't work. Of course now he's issued all those threats - it's going to breed even more toxicity in that area, and the constant not knowing what they're going to do next is going to feed MORE anxiety and mental health issues.

DB is on holiday right now here in the UK.. Hes gone away with his partner for four days for his birthday.

@DominaShantotto

I'm sure Witty had a hard on at the thought of locking tier 3 down even harder with all those lovely extra measures he had in store when this lot don't work. Of course now he's issued all those threats - it's going to breed even more toxicity in that area, and the constant not knowing what they're going to do next is going to feed MORE anxiety and mental health issues.

This is the thing. We've been in the equivalent of tier 2 since the end of July. Numbers have continued to rise. So we are officially tier 2 now. How long until we are tier 3. And then when cases keep rising because lockdowns don't work. Then what? March round 2?

DCs complaining about the ads for retraining "Rethink. Retrain. Reboot." Or summat.

The voiceover says that the ballet dancer in the ad's next job could be in cyber security, "she just doesn't know it yet."

Patronising.

And completely ignoring the fact that the dancer has probably trained to a high standard since she was 2, but that's not good enough anymore. And that training in cyber security isn't just something you do a quick 6 week course in at your local college, followed by then instantly getting a decently-paid job.

No thought - or hope- that once this is over people might want to go back to the ballet.

DCs said they'd seen something with a photo of Rishi & the caption, "next job could be in Nando's, he just doesn't know it yet."

That ad is massively insulting to both dancers and cyber specialists. Have a better one (if I've attached correctly).

"This is the thing. We've been in the equivalent of tier 2 since the end of July. Numbers have continued to rise. So we are officially tier 2 now. How long until we are tier 3. And then when cases keep rising because lockdowns don't work. Then what? March round 2?"

Presumably the numbers will go up, up, up (with London joining in a bit behind this time) and then, at some point start to come down, because, well, that's what happens. And then we'll get told how brilliant lockdowns are. And they'll start talking about the third wave, no doubt.

I believe King Canute went through the tide-holding-back fiasco to demonstrate that he couldn't actually control the tides. Boris, take note.

Love the ads, 110APiccadilly.

Tier 3, no travelling except for essential needs however these are guidelines rather than enforced in law. Drakeford is going to have a conniption. I can see borders closing again.

I just wanted to say ive really appreciated these threads. Thank You so much

This morning I'm more angry with the media than I am with Saint Boris. I refused to watch the televised bit: has he abandoned the slogans? But we do NOT need alarmist headlines like "back to square one". But have they quietly shifted from "the deadly virus which will kill us all"? The BBC said nothing about London, but I saw alarmist headlines on the front of the Evening Standard: media speculation, or do they know something we don't?

As always, Saint Boris and the clowns appear to have no plan, at least as far as they are telling us: are they trying to get us through the winter, and hope than numbers ease off after that? Hoping to play the "Boris saves Christmas" card? Herd immunity by stealth, as they dare not U-turn and make that the official strategy?

No idea. I had to google to find out what tier London was in. BBC didn't say.

I had to email my parents who are full on Ds today. And I was honest with them about how I felt and what this was doing. But they won't listen. They've never really thought I had anything worthwhile to say.

I can see the logic in tidying up the localised restrictions so they are more standard across England.
Doesn't mean I agree with them.

Soo much safer to follow the roolz and drive granny out to a busy cafe for lunch and sit at the same table than to sit 2m away on the other side of her lounge...

@ISaySteadyOn

No idea. I had to google to find out what tier London was in. BBC didn't say.

I had to email my parents who are full on Ds today. And I was honest with them about how I felt and what this was doing. But they won't listen. They've never really thought I had anything worthwhile to say.

that's hard. My relationship with my mother had a battering in my 20s because she didn't accept me being a free thinking adult. O hadn't actually lived with her since I was 3! In her case she suddenly realised too little, too late that her daughter was becoming an adult and tried to rein in... at exactly the wrong moment!

It's thawing now. I think middle age, aging parents and my baby brother reaching adulthood have mellowed her a bit.

Article about Sunetra Gupta and herd immunity in The Times for a bit of balance!

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8db02cc6-0ca3-11eb-94f0-d7c8706d29dd?shareToken=98c10a8b4e179b0e997ba515c562f7c7

Hmmm not sure what I think right now.

I listened to Boris yesterday as DH insisted and it was clear that very little extra was being done on top of what we have right now. Then reading the news this morning it seems that SAGE want to shut things down hard but the government are pushing back due to the economy.

I am feeling a bit more hopeful today that they won't simply shut things down.

Letting restaurants and other places stay open is sensible to me as it's the normal human community transmission that is causing the increase.

I think I saw a piece yesterday (although I can't find it now) which showed what the expected effect shutting certain sectors down would have on the R value and surprise surprise it wasn't hospitality but making people work from home and education moving to remote. I am not saying I think that should happen but we shouldn't be crippling industry and jobs for no benefit.

@TabbyStar thank you for the link to that Times piece. It seems that the moment you suggest an alternative approach to lockdowns etc you are immediately accused of being a crazed right wing libertarian, so it is good to see that Prof Gupta is the complete opposite. Not that one’s politics should matter, of course.