ADs head off to The Three Bellends and discuss luxury duvets and stationery

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(Socially distanced of course and in strictest obedience of all localised lockdowns and 3 or 5 tiers and whatever illogic the powers that be can dream up next)

The original digital discussion continues...

Surely the starlings should be banned from flocking too?

@Orangeblossom7777 I have prescribed co codamol as well - the high strength one. I have back trouble that never got more than one trip to the physio because of covid. A box of 100 lasts me ages, but I have noticed it has now been added to my other medication on my script as a regular item (rather than having to ask for it). I have never been questioned about my continued self diagnosis of back pain, in fact they have not shown the slightest interest. It strikes me that our surgery is happy to dole stuff out if it stops you bothering them, which never used to be the case.

Yes that is exactly what happened to me as well (meds) it lasts me ages too, 2 monthly prescriptions.

I had a strange visit to a male NHS physio and after that not keen to go. (he was going to see me again)

Asked me to take trousers off and wear pants and do these exercises on a table. Just felt weird. Didn't understand my condition either. So never went back.

@Orangeblossom7777

The last one here was a student from Sweden, Bogroll.

My relative has been able to get out for a weekend and see family- but not her home, home. She did post a fed-up picture this week though.

It's about the point that many students would have had a visit by now.
I used to do about every 3 weeks in my first year then it stretched out.

@Orangeblossom7777

I had a strange visit to a male NHS physio and after that not keen to go. (he was going to see me again)

Asked me to take trousers off and wear pants and do these exercises on a table. Just felt weird. Didn't understand my condition either. So never went back.

Sounds dodge.

I can see he might have needed to see movement but you could have forewarned to bring tights or leggings etc.

Omg the Wales threads

Hello, room for a newbie?
I like your thread very much but I have no idea what's going on here!! What is an AD? Happy to join any bunch of dudes willing to engage in endless waffle and not judge or be judged

Checking in. The stuff going on in Wales is absolutely insane. They have lost their minds, they must have done.

Talking of insanity, this shit has ended up with me having a fairly serious mental health diagnosis (deliberately vague). And, having waited for the NHS to help me since July, I gave up and went private on Thursday. Diagnosis and immediate referral via BUPA yesterday.

@EndlessWaffle an AD is an anti-dementor - none of us think Covid doesn’t exist or isn’t very serious for some people, and there are a range of views. What we have in common is a need to question the logic and effectiveness of the measures that have been put in place, without fear or judgement or accusations of being conspiracy theorists.

There is always room for others who fit that mould.

Who had WalesHasGoneCompletelyCrazy as a username? They definitely need that one back right now - this is utterly completely off the scale bonkers.

Huge Amazon delivery arrived here this morning - Christmas shopping started for the kids (I'm normally finished by now but mentally I've not been in any place to deal with it yet).

Looking very much like we're headed for Tier 3 next week (our council seem desperate to lock us up) so god knows if the halloween sleepover the kids were looking forward to (yes against rules but both sides were happy to do it) will end up happening... if not I'll be getting it right in the neck from a pissed off DD1. These kids have lost so much for a huge proportion of their lives.

Still no word on our county working out what's happening with scouting... so it'll be standing on a field in the dark in the pissing rain next half term at this rate.

@MagdaS

Checking in. The stuff going on in Wales is absolutely insane. They have lost their minds, they must have done.

Talking of insanity, this shit has ended up with me having a fairly serious mental health diagnosis (deliberately vague). And, having waited for the NHS to help me since July, I gave up and went private on Thursday. Diagnosis and immediate referral via BUPA yesterday.

I am actually wondering whether Drakeford has had/ is having some sort of mental health crisis. He's been under a lot of strain personally (apparently his wife and mother in law are both vulnerable and he's been living in the granny flat at the end of the garden) and professionally. That wouldn't make what he's doing right, but it does provide a possible explanation (the alternative explanation is that he's a small minded petty bureaucrat.)

Well in welsh lockdown now, everywhere deserted OH took dogs for a walk this morning not a soul about. Then went out for a loaf of bread from the bakery still dead.

My dad mid 60`s gave me a book and said read this it is a very important book, deep thinker my dad. You could all do worse than have a look at it

www.amazon.co.uk/Fahrenheit-451-Flamingo-Modern-Classics-ebook/dp/B00BAJ6GL2/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&s=digital-text&keywords=fahrenheit+451&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1603534618&sr=1-1

@EndlessWaffle

Hello, room for a newbie? I like your thread very much but I have no idea what's going on here!! What is an AD? Happy to join any bunch of dudes willing to engage in endless waffle and not judge or be judged

That's largely the sum of it! AD is short for Anti-Dementor, the types that think that all joy must be sucked out of life to fight a virus. Drakeford is excelling as a Dementor at the moment. The Umbridge types who believe in the sake of rules for the sake of rules and any practical problems caused by bad rules must be remedied with even more rules.

We all have our own slant. We tend to look at the broader picture. Generally complient at least most of the time (if irreverently) but we do have our different boundaries. We respect the lost art of polite discussion.

We don't feed trolls. Occasionally we do get followed in by those of a totally different disposition who think we must be argued into subservience and they are ignored so the conversation doesn't get nasty.
But genuine newbies who need a bit of support to get through the state of the world are very welcome.

Farenheit 451 is the one mentioned in my dysutopia unit in A-level English that I didn't get round to reading. I remember that the name comes from the temperature at which paper (books) burn.

@EndlessWaffle

Hello, room for a newbie? I like your thread very much but I have no idea what's going on here!! What is an AD? Happy to join any bunch of dudes willing to engage in endless waffle and not judge or be judged

Welcome!

@EndlessWaffle

Hello, room for a newbie? I like your thread very much but I have no idea what's going on here!! What is an AD? Happy to join any bunch of dudes willing to engage in endless waffle and not judge or be judged

The ADs were the anti-dementors. It came about at a time when absolutely any chink of optimism was being completely sucked into oblivion all over the forums. Literally "my kid smiled in a really cute way today" would be taken over with "don't you know grannies are dying and we're all going to be eating gruel and back in the dark ages and you're thinking about being happy because your kid smiled - how could you be so callous" type shite was going on.

We kind of banded together when someone posted a thread to that kind of effect and we've stuck with it. Sometimes we do drop into getting annoyed at elements of the situation - like care home residents locked in unable to see family and deteriorating from the lack of interaction - like some kind of museum exhibit to be preserved behind glass at all cost; and most of us are pretty pro-keeping the schools open because of the impact on the kids (several of us have kids who really did not cope with lockdown) and women (for whom the working from home while juggling the "build the Eiffel tower out of toilet roll tubes" home "learning" tasks seems to be falling disproportionately on). But most of the time we just chat shit - keep each other going as we stagger amongst ourselves the mental "walls" of "can't keep doing this shit" we all hit - and make as much smut out of dodgy shaped vegetables as we possibly can.

DH just threw up an interesting point - wondering how many people's home and contents insurance is now going to be invalidated as they're working from home but haven't told insurers? (He's not that forward thinking - ours is up for renewal and he's changing a few things and trying to get a sleepy Oleg meerkat)

And HelenaDove I saw the shit on the other place about you (I used to post there when it was originally set up but it's long since lost that purpose to it) and it was fucking uncalled for. Yes you got on my nerves when you first came on here about your social housing passion (although I admire you for your tenacity on it and hope you achieve your goals) but respect to you - I lost my rag slightly - and you took it on the chin and actually you've been a bloody decent egg to have around on here. The way they were going on was just bloody uncalled for and unprovoked.

Hopefully that makes sense and doesn't upset you.

I’ve just got my stitch fix box through today, three lovely slouchy sweaters/cardigans in lovely jewel colours. Had to send back the smart coat though as I can’t think where I’d wear it, uniforms at work and no posh places to go out of work. The sweaters will cover my coach potato middle/ lockdown lardarse beautifully and cheer me up with their Christmassy colours.

Or even couch potato midriff.🙄🙄🙈

I joined after getting called a Covidiot and lots of abuse for having a picnic in the park (we live in a top flat) - no others about, think that was in late spring.

We've seen all sorts of mad dementing, people 'clamouring for the bodies', crisps on a bench, it has been quite a long running thing now.

The latest seems to be some kind of mad competition between devolved governments with Wales and Scotland trying to out compete with measures due to the current rise in cases

We're from all over too, so all experiencing different levels of it with the main general stuff in place throughout..

On a Wales thread I am duty-bound to go back and swallow my words if when the power-mad dictator Drakeford ends the lockdown when he says he will, and doesn't come out with "actually, I said I'd review it on 9th", like Saint Boris might.

@wanderings

On a Wales thread I am duty-bound to go back and swallow my words if when the power-mad dictator Drakeford ends the lockdown when he says he will, and doesn't come out with "actually, I said I'd review it on 9th", like Saint Boris might.

I've just seen that it made me giggle.

Hello @EndlessWaffle

Perfectly named for this thread 😃

I'm debating one of those huge oversized hoodie blanket things - but not too sure if that's a sign I've given up totally on life.

DD1 is going to be happy - finally found her some Harry Potter pyjamas in her size - she's that really awkward point around age 11/12 clothes (for her sheer leg length - the child is all legs) that kids clothing ranges tend to stop but women's won't fit her yet.