ADs take the National Express when their lives' in a mess, it will make them smile

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🎤On the National Express
There’s a jolly hostess
Giving porridge free
She’ll provide you with shots
amaretto or what
You like to seeeeee...

Going out was in style
Now we’re stuck in this aisle
Dream of being free
And it’s hard to get by
When your arse is the size
Of the furlough feeeeeee🎤

Bah ba ba la
Bah ba ba la

Tomorrow belongs to meee...

Welcome to the 17:38 to freedom, stopping at virtual hugs, critical discourse, and random tangents along the way. ETA unknown...

Also have you noticed "over there" how many of the older threads where people questioned if there would even be a second wave, have been resurrected by people tagging the op and commenting things like "bet you feel a bit stupid going back and looking at this now op". Its thoroughly unpleasant.

@LivinLaVidaLoki exactly.

I do think more people are coming round to this way of thinking though. In real life anyway

I found the nostalgia thread quite sad. There are clearly lots of people with really miserable lives if they feel that way about lockdown

I'm sick of the fact that if you express any opinion you're called ignorant and a denier and that you must be some right wing granny murdering Trump supporter.

I'm not - I just am wondering w hen the risks to our kids' futures, mental health and everything else actually become worth considering. I'm also sick of the harassment over bloody face masks as well - this pandemic has given people carte blanche to be complete and total shits to those weaker than them.

Found this last night. Bloke did the same as Cummings but WITHOUT being infected with the virus. Gets prosecuted for it.

www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/18869967.london-man-travelled-250-miles-newgale-lockdown/?fbclid=IwAR3uCwEdAFtHyxGc96_1Qq62oKL648H5NAOExah-DyUxjkUc8UoKFqPNEuw

Been a run of days with people being hit by trains around here - the covid crowd are all denying they could be suicide of course.

Sounds about right @MercyBooth
Randomly was driving DS to school when heard on the news about Dominic Cummings leaving and DS (9) asked why people were happy he was leaving. We talked about his lockdown breach and he looked up at me and said "well mum, I suppose when you're best mates Boris Johnson its not like you'll get in trouble is it"

Out of the mouths of babes....

@DominaShantotto

I'm sick of the fact that if you express any opinion you're called ignorant and a denier and that you must be some right wing granny murdering Trump supporter.

I'm not - I just am wondering w hen the risks to our kids' futures, mental health and everything else actually become worth considering. I'm also sick of the harassment over bloody face masks as well - this pandemic has given people carte blanche to be complete and total shits to those weaker than them.

Completely agree 100% with this @DominaShantotto

Completely agree @DominaShantotto

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Also have you noticed "over there" how many of the older threads where people questioned if there would even be a second wave, have been resurrected by people tagging the op and commenting things like "bet you feel a bit stupid going back and looking at this now op". Its thoroughly unpleasant.

I saw an article on the BBC saying that in a years time we should be back to normal. When this has all passed I feel like tagging the OPs of some of the crazier dementor threads and doing the same to them. "Remember the police state you were so excited about"? I won't do it though because I'm a coward but I'm feeling really angry and vindictive at the moment.

Me too.

I also don't believe that being right wing or supporting Trump necessarily makes you evil. It can do but it is not a given just as being left wing does not make you good. I think people are more complex than that.

Also, Domina, Stardew Valley, Marnie is not in her shop on Mondays and Tuesdays but she should be there Wednesday onwards. I know cos I keep buying animals

I don't want to defend Cummings or anything, but I will note that Newgale is in Wales, and the Wales rules were (and generally have been) a lot stricter, which might make it easier to prosecute.

oh i see.

@starfish88
I suspect they won't be able to take it as well as they can give it out.....

@LivinLaVidaLoki

I think one of the random things that gets to me about this site at the moment is how if you don't just glue yourself onto your couch with a nailed shut front door then you are branded a conspiracy theory nut covid denier.

I believe covid exists, I believe for some it is a very real threat and I follow the rules (not roolz though), but just because I want to understand the reasoning for them and get frustrated when there is none it doesn't make me a covid denier or a tin foil hat wearing, anti van, teacher hating conspiracy theorist.

This! It was discussed on earlier threads that many of us found ourselves politically and 'culturally' homeless partly due to this. Over summer I was on the tube and overheard a group who had clearly been to a lockdown protest. They were rattling on about vaccines were created to make people ill to cull the population and how lockdown was a conspiracy created by environmentalists. Being a very strong environmentalist and having spent much of my adult life campaigning to very little effect on the issue, I was fairly tickled that they thought us hippies were powerful enough to have such an effect! I actually rather wish we were that powerful but have many years of experience that we're not! The idea that I am now a bedfellow with people with those views like was an odd mix of hilarious and upsetting!

Just seen my typo, I mean anti vax not anti van.
I've nothing against the humble transit.

@Reedwarbler is there any chance , if your FILs care home doesn't have a tablet for the residents use, if you were to buy him one, would one of the care assistants be able to operate it so that he could video chat with you? Mums home uses the google duo app for family links . Mums got pretty advanced dementia but a care assistant dials me and sets the tablet so mum is able to see me. I think she was bemused by it to start with but she seems to understand now it's me on the screen and can answer the odd question when I talk to her .

Fingers crossed though for them moving forward with testing to enable family visits again .

Still enjoying a good lurk on these threads. I don't know why I keep clicking on the 'other type' of threads, like some kind of masochist.

I must confess I had a semi-dementor moment on the phone with my DM yesterday though. She's in her late 70s, DF is over 80, she's barely left the house since March and she announced they've got their hairdresser coming round during the week. They've got form, this also occurred during the last lockdown. I mean, I don't know whether I should be slightly impressed that my usually very law-abiding parents have gone all gung ho in their golden years, and if they aren't concerned about the virus risk that's their decision, but I did feel the need to point out the risk of a neighbour shopping them to the rozzers...

Going back to the Bing/Peppa/mindlessness of CBeebies...
I've just discovered DD is now old enough to sit through the Julia Donaldson animations on iplayer. So much more calming for a drizzly Sunday afternoon. Bliss!

 for @Reedwarbler and @RobinHobb. Sorry, just catching up properly.

Noisybrain
One of the things that concerns me about the current situation is that something like having your hair cut in your own home can be deemed unlawful. If someone had told me a year ago that that would be the case - or that I and my daughter would have committed criminal offences (each meeting with another person indoors) - I would have thought them mad. Lord Sumption puts it rather better than me!

@HitchihikersGuide yeah I get what you're saying and I've seen a few people (probably you included, apologies for being too lazy to find the relevant thread/s) trying to patiently explain this point of view 'over there', in the face of extreme frothing and assumption-making that anyone who questions the rules must be breaking them.

That was a long sentence.

Oops, a stray 'i' wandered into the @ name there!

and an extra 'h', ffs....

I am trying to find joy in the small things because I don't want to gloom all over the thread. It's v hard in the rainy wet with nowhere to take fractious DC. They're being right nightmares and I feel like I must be an awful mother or why would DS kick me in the shins (where I am suffering from shin splints).

But DD2 took a break from being a nightmare and tidied her room. So there's that.