ADs are braving the wind and the rain

[CruCru]

Hi all

I couldn’t find the new thread so here is one I set up. It’s windy out there! Glad I weeded my flowerbeds a couple of days ago.

I really can't see anyone wanting to clap for fucking anything. Except maybe a Game of Thrones style massacre of the Tory front bench.

the non clappers in the street.

There was only one thing worse to a clapper than a non-clapper, & that was a non-clapping NHS worker. I had a couple of neighbours tell me, "We clap for you." I know they meant well but it was rather awkward & mortifying. Hence the need to hide.

@Theluggage15

I was talking to a pharmacist a few weeks ago about flu and he said that the flu season really starts properly in December, peaking February. So those brilliant scientists have not only kicked covid from the summer to the autumn but are now kicking it right into flu season. Super!

Yep exactly. And the movement of services to online consultations - apparently one of our area's never had a shorter waiting list for paediatric speech therapy... "they're just banging through the waiting list" apparently - so they can't be doing anywhere near a proper assessment or therapy (I know it's a shitshow at the best of times) - it's going to be the level of "hear them say a few sounds and whack an information sheet in the email".

It is all fucking bollocks. They're all fucking knobheads out there in the world. Arseholes, knobheads, feck... I'm turning into Father Jack - I'll have a pet brick next.

@TheOrchidKiller

the non clappers in the street.

There was only one thing worse to a clapper than a non-clapper, & that was a non-clapping NHS worker. I had a couple of neighbours tell me, "We clap for you." I know they meant well but it was rather awkward & mortifying. Hence the need to hide.

The clappers in our street, with the posters in their window that they were "staying home for the NHS" all used to pile into knobhead next door's garden for a pissup after clapping! Our gardens are small and shite - you couldn't socially distance in them with just two of you!

@DominaShantotto
Yep - at one point I had the head and neck anatomy books out figuring out how exactly they were proposing to get the swabs up that far!
Oh god, I did that too!

To quote Father Jack, "How did that gobshite get on the television?!"

@Taswama
Enjoy your time with your mum.

I did hear right the army are being used.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8901017/Boris-Johnson-brings-Army-help-roll-rapid-turnaround-tests-Covid.html

Oops strayed into the non compliance thread!! Had to comment as a certain poster was really fucking me off! Waiting for the selfish, murderer replies!! Xx

Call me selfish but I don't right fancy being routinely tested.

@justasking111
I read a news article earlier about mass testing in Redcar. Apparently they are using the army to run the testing stations, but people get invited by postcode. The tests are voluntary & no one gets a knock on the door insisting they go.
Let's hope it stays that way.

@TrustTheGeneGenie

Call me selfish but I don't right fancy being routinely tested.

I was shouting at the screen "and what about informed consent" at that point.

Spitting Image NOW

However, I cant help but think if you test more your numbers will go up, so if they are aiming to get cases down how's that going to work?

Am doing tests for research but I wont do extra ones, & I'd not be too keen on testing asymptomatic members of my household who aren't going anywhere other than out for daily exercise.

The testing situation's improved a lot to be fair to the incompetent fuckwits - DD2 has a post-cold cough which is lingering, and I know the TA in that class is a miserable neurotic fuckwit with a face visor on her head and face like a slapped arse constantly (she was all smiles during the keyworker/vulnerable provision - she's another who obviously enjoys the easy version of the job) and I know she's likely to be a knob about DD being in there on Monday morning... so we logged onto the testing site about 10am this morning - test booked and done by 1pm a couple of miles away. Hopefully comes through tomorrow so there's no excuse to be difficult for DD.

DD2 is a very sensitive soul who has picked up on a lot of shit being said in that class - they've been told turning around spreads covid so DD was scared she was going to get it when someone turned around to look at her, told they mustn't leave their seats so DD went without all her writing aids because she was scared she'd spread covid if she got up... I'm at the point of being a complete arse back to the school now.

Oh yeah and the newsletter asking that we stopped our kids questioning the ridiculous rules - nope I'm not going to stop my 8 year old pointing out that anti bacterial spray against a virus is not the most logical move (we've discussed the alcohol content needed - she'll query that percentage next knowing her)!

What Spitting Image?

[quote TheOrchidKiller]@justasking111
I read a news article earlier about mass testing in Redcar. Apparently they are using the army to run the testing stations, but people get invited by postcode. The tests are voluntary & no one gets a knock on the door insisting they go.
Let's hope it stays that way.[/quote]
Boris is talking about 10 million tests a day, voluntary?? well he will have the whole country done in six days and can rest on the seventh.

I was switching between the Press Conference and Liverpool’s match and miraculously we managed to get another win despite being 1-0 down and a large proportion of our first team injured. Jürgen for PM I say and he’d soon sort things out

@DominaShantotto
Your poor DDs, that's no way to treat a child in school. And poor thing, having to get another test.
I feel sorry for all the children having to get tested & wait at home each time they get a cough. I know of a few who go through it every other week.

They do seem to have upped the testing capacity & turn around for results around here, from what other people have told me.

Anyway, Aldi's rhubarb gin is having a nice sedative effect so I think I'm off to bed now, so long as the tit who keeps letting off fireworks shuts up.

@user1471448866
I second that, Jurgen is ace!

@TheOrchidKiller We just refer to it as "going for a mega nose pick" (and don't do the tonsil bit - she wouldn't have the coordination or sensory tolerance for it and they say you can do both nostrils instead). She was fine about it - I wouldn't have but the TA is a fucking fruit loop over this and we're already having bother with the class teacher.

@Wishfulthinking1977

Oops strayed into the non compliance thread!! Had to comment as a certain poster was really fucking me off! Waiting for the selfish, murderer replies!! Xx

Oh god I went on there too, why oh why? I got as far as blackpetunias posts and left before I got myself deleted or banned.

The dementors are in full salivation mode at the moment.

Did anyone catch Boris crack at the "experts of doom" he glanced at Whitty and Valance as he said it. .

Well this article is a breath of fresh air.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8900897/Oxford-experts-DR-TOM-JEFFERSON-PROFESSOR-CARL-HENEGHAN-reveal-blueprint-handed-Boris-Johnson.html

@Justgivemewine

"The dementors are in full salivation mode at the moment."

Well it is a full moon, ask any police person what that is like.

"The scientists may be pretty uniformly gloomy" glancing left and right, listen at 11.00 minutes, made me laugh again.

news.sky.com/story/in-full-boris-johnsons-statement-as-second-lockdown-for-england-announced-12120310

@CruCru

What Spitting Image?

Sorry It was on ITV when I posted and had me laughing out loud twice in the first 5 minutes.

I don't think it is as good as the original though - and the puppets aren't as good by a long chalk (still easy to see who is who though)