ADs self isolate in a fridge Boris style

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We've polished off our hotel breakfasts, flocked to the beaches and eaten out to help out with Rishi. Now the D-Day style floatilla of Anti-Dementor boats weather the stormy seas of tiers 1, 2 and 3 and support each other through the calls for lockdown.

Hold on tight and get those bouyancy aids on...

@MissEWeatherwax

I’m letting the side down because I like sanitising the trolley handle, I hope it stays after Covid. I’m not cleaning my bin handle. I just wash my hands after touching bin( doesn’t everyone). I will be annoyed if we go into tier 3 because of the university figures. I checked, and their are 4 people with Covid on the ICU ward.

I'll let you off, if only for your excellent choice in user name.

Re sanitiser, I’m a bit of a hygiene nut anyway. But I now look slack against the grocery disinfectors and post quarantiners.

@MissEWeatherwax
@SirSamuelVimes
You can get a good idea that someone is an AD if their user name has a Terry Pratchett reference. I haven't seen anyone with a name like that dementing. And there are quite a few about. I may go back to my aintentdead one.

I loved that name, @RealityExistsInTheHumanMind.

Unfortunately I keep finding myself lurking on the coronavirus threads. I don't know why I do it.

Me too @bakingcupcakes. There’s a certain kind of grim spectacle about it. I have a biscuit every time someone says ‘exponential growth’.

@NastyBlouse

Unfortunately I keep finding myself lurking on the coronavirus threads. I don't know why I do it.

Me too @bakingcupcakes. There’s a certain kind of grim spectacle about it. I have a biscuit every time someone says ‘exponential growth’.

But that’s why I’ve put on half a stone since March... all those biscuits!

@ISaySteadyOn

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8834045/Women-France-felt-like-suffocating-forced-wear-face-masks-childbirth.html

How can anyone think this is acceptable?

That's appalling. On the plus side, at my antenatal appointment today, the midwife said, "You can take the mask off if it's bothering you."

As it happens, it wasn't - I was breathing funny because my stomach was tender where she was trying to find the heartbeat! But I felt reassured that she offered if I'd needed it.

Yes, the great Sir Terry Pratchett. I still miss the books, I always received one for my birthday then Christmas. My DM always bought the Christmas one, so I couldn’t read too soon. DSis the birthday one. It was a great tradition. I have two signed books.

Wonder what Sir Terry would have made of all this.

@ISaySteadyOn

Wonder what Sir Terry would have made of all this.

I read this and thought Sir Terry Wogan I assume he'd be pretty fucked off too.

I have never cleaned a trolley or basket handles. Don't see why I should, when the previous user has left their empty Starbucks takeaway cup & a sandwich wrapper in it, which I have had to remove, put in a bin, & then sanitise my hands to remove the stickiness.

I’ve been lurking on these brilliant threads. I was frontline nhs at the beginning of all this and was royally pissed off at all the sanitisers and sterilisers then. I’m now working in the emergency control room and am just resigned. I’ve had Covid and am fat and 50+++ but I’m still here and I want to go on holiday.😢😢😢I know that makes me shallow and probably a murderer to boot but I don’t care.

I was reading some stories today about travel writers and the like taking off to far off countries with no news etc, going on mad he walks to escape it all or live in the wilds, don't blame them.

Cross posted Recycled, same idea though... don't blame you

@Recycledblonde

I’ve been lurking on these brilliant threads. I was frontline nhs at the beginning of all this and was royally pissed off at all the sanitisers and sterilisers then. I’m now working in the emergency control room and am just resigned. I’ve had Covid and am fat and 50+++ but I’m still here and I want to go on holiday.😢😢😢I know that makes me shallow and probably a murderer to boot but I don’t care.

No judgement here. Murder away, we'll see you in cells .

@blobby10
You asked (way up the thread) about where the expression "in spades" comes from. It's from the card game Bridge where spades is the highest "ranking" suit, so in spades means the most extreme/highest, etc. Sorry, it was bugging me!

@Recycledblonde

I’ve been lurking on these brilliant threads. I was frontline nhs at the beginning of all this and was royally pissed off at all the sanitisers and sterilisers then. I’m now working in the emergency control room and am just resigned. I’ve had Covid and am fat and 50+++ but I’m still here and I want to go on holiday.😢😢😢I know that makes me shallow and probably a murderer to boot but I don’t care.

Neither shallow nor a murderer. Just a human who wants to be allowed to live her life. I think that's all most of us want. Not to hurt anyone but just to live.

Has the world gone fucking mad?!
So I had tears today.

I'm doing a post graduate science research degree with a prestigious London university. Today it was announced that there will be no exams and replaced with 24 hour timed coursework for the whole YEAR. Everyone is rejoicing. The idiot 20 odd year olds are saying things like "yay we can google our exams".

What's the point of doing a post grad degree if you don't want to learn? No one can think that writing an open book essay is the same thing as writing an exam in terms of learning. I have an average of 90% and last terms essays instead of exams were a shit show. You could have done it all without having attending a single class of the degree which made passing the module pointless.

I have spent so much mental effort and money and childcare and just SO MUCH emotionally and financially to do this degree and to do it RIGHT. I listened to every lecture, spent hours till midnight after kids were in bed to study, and now basically every single person who does not understand anything or studied any of it will google their way to write an essay in 24 hours and probably get the same grade as me because there is no robust assessment method in place.

I know this is a course and not a livelihood but I have lived to study this and get a job afterwards. My life my childcare everything was planned around this. I have in tears written to ask whether there's an option to defer, or even drop out and get a refund - with an average grade of 90%. But I don't want a degree on these terms where everyone will get 85% and more and no one will fail because they can't be bothered.

I asked if given the small msc size (less than 10 in some modules) they can do exams in socially distanced way in a big hall and they said no.

So I guess I'm dropping out. I want to cry. All this for a virus that won't even kill 99.9% of us.

@DominaShantotto
I know you considered dropping out
What stopped you?

Im in Essex and now cant visit my elderly mum AGAIN

Phew I've found you all!
Had another video chat with my aunt and cousin earlier today and my aunt is still cross and now considering petitioning the Greek government about the cancellation of the ohi day celebrations.
Lord help them if this is still going on in March and they cancel Independence Day celebrations...she'll be storming through Athens shouting "Ελευθερία ή θάνατος"
(Freedom or Death....a phrase that seems quite apt for now)....

[quote WrinklesShminkles]@blobby10
You asked (way up the thread) about where the expression "in spades" comes from. It's from the card game Bridge where spades is the highest "ranking" suit, so in spades means the most extreme/highest, etc. Sorry, it was bugging me![/quote]
wrinkles THaNKYOU!! I don’t know where i originally heard it but at least now I know what it means 😁

My fb is going absolutely tonto

Mine too @HelenaDove
I've been muting malakas all evening.

Don't drop out Robin maybe you will get really good grades with the coursework, sounds like it.