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

[BogRollBOGOF]

🎤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...

Apparently leather sofa breaches FB community guidelines for adult nudity

I blame a mutant algorithum.

It's bloody comfy though

This struck a chord

Truth has been bothersome for a while.

When did the centre-ground become such a bad and extreme place to be

@justasking111

This struck a chord

I hear that.

Also, my first response to news now to is to see how I can check if it’s real or fake and quite often there’s not a way!

@BogRollBOGOF

Apparently leather sofa breaches FB community guidelines for adult nudity

I blame a mutant algorithum.

It's bloody comfy though

Not when it is cold it isn`t

adult nudity, when I saw the penis beaker I thought all bets were off as to the naiceness of mumsnet

I solved the cold problem by buying an amazing fluffy blanket... until the other 3 members of the household all started scraping over getting hold of it. I hope I can get more for them for Christmas so I can snuggle in peace

My mum has been out today and treated herself to a new winter coat. She told me this when they phoned me earlier. This is a woman who NEVER treats herself to anything.

Just catching up with the thread. Regarding the "protect the NHS" slogan. I've a friend on Facebook who during the first wave was denouncing anyone who had ever sued the NHS. Stating it made them a traitor and they should be ashamed.

I was infuriated. I typed out a whole response about my DB. He was in an accident a number of years ago. Something heavy fell on his shoulder and knocked him down. He complained of tingling in his left leg and they stuck an orthopaedic boot on it and told him he'd sprained it in the fall.
Over the next few weeks it was getting worse and he couldn't stand without falling. They told him he was just clumsy in the boot. We went out to lunch one day and he couldn't hold his knife and fork, couldn't close his hands around them.
I drove him to the hospital and asked why had they never x rayed or scanned his back as it looks like he could have some kind of nerve damage. They said it wasn't needed he had hurt his shoulder not his back. After a little kicking off they agreed to MRI his back. He had an appointment that Friday afternoon.
Friday teatime he had a call from the specialist hospital the mri was done at he had to go in for surgery the next day. Whatever had fallen on him had not only compressed his spine but it had broken too. They explained that in a matter of weeks he could be paralysed but surgery may help.
Surgery didn't help. He is paralysed. After 6 weeks in hospital and 4 months in a spinal unit he now lives in a care home whilst he has various surgeries to his hands and wrists to help him there and so he can complete every day tasks and hopefully step down to assisted living (incidentally hes not had physio since March).
He will never stand or walk again and will forever suffer with the health complications of paralysis (mainly renal and respiratory infections).
The surgeon was clear if he'd have had the surgery immediately it may have had a different outcome.
He has lost his home and his income and will need care for the rest of his life. So damn right he sued them, it was their fucking fault. They left him walk around with a fucked up back for six weeks
What was he supposed to have done?

I didn't post it in the end as there's no point arguing with stupid.

Protect the NHS my arse, they killed my dad (for 5 months kept fobbing him off with antibiotics for a water infection that was actually prostate cancer. By the time they figured it out he lived for 3 weeks) and crippled my brother. So before they need "protection" they need to get their house in order and get their shit together.

Oops that was long.

@WouldBeGood

We pay for the fucking NHS. It’s not a generous gift to be bestowed on us if we’re good

Yes!

Good luck today @Sonicthehedgehogg

That's awful about your brother and your dad Loki. My mum became increasingly ill last year. By last summer she'd given up all her hobbies and my dad was basically her carer. She had repeated trips to the gp but was always fobbed off. By the time her cancer was diagnosed it was really wide spread and much more difficult to treat. It's a slow growing cancer so the oncologist said she must have had it for years for it to get like that and usually they'd treat people long before it got to that stage. I hope nothing happens to me before DS gets to 18. I'd be really scared if I required treatment for something now because I'm not convinced it'd be carried out to a reasonable standard.

I won't be in the queue for the vaccine either. Not until it's been used for a while anyway.

@justasking111

You know what puzzles me is that whenever an NHS worker says that lots of people have left the NHS both in the first wave and when they saw the second wave coming. What on earth are they doing for money to pay rent/mortgage/food bills. Do they all marry well?

How many could afford to leave, ditto teachers and other key workers.

We’re an ageing workforce and a lot of staff where I work took retirement during this. The ones who had retired-returned (mostly PT) have decided to leave. The rest of us with bills to pay hang on in there, of course. But there are lots of clinical vacancies (still >40,000 nurse vacancies) as this government chose a decade of austerity and flat pay.

I don’t believe in long lockdowns as I think they will cause more harm than good. A series of short ones might have been less harmful. But an NHS that sits at >95% capacity and poor staffing all winter in a normal year was not going to cope with this.

I am struggling to believe all the calls for endless lockdowns on the pandemic topic as I don’t seem to meet anyone in normal life (including all of us caring for patients) who believes non targeted and endless lockdowns are a reasonable strategy for managing a virus that for most of the working population is fairly harmless.

That's tragic about your brother Living. We too have had problems with the NHS, not quite to that extent (my DF died after a failure by them but he was old and ready to die). My DM was sent home by A&E being told nothing was wrong, and three weeks later she was in ICU after having an emergency operation and nearly dying. The silo-ing of things is appalling, being told you don't have something and then having to start all over again with a different discipline to work out what you do have (if you don't give up in despair) is infuriating, they've probably spent 10 times what they need to on me because no one looks at the whole picture. It's not really any better with private though, many of the consultants are still blinkered in their own areas. There are some great staff, the care of my DF when he was dying was excellent, but the system is broken.

I am struggling to believe all the calls for endless lockdowns on the pandemic topic as I don’t seem to meet anyone in normal life (including all of us caring for patients) who believes non targeted and endless lockdowns are a reasonable strategy for managing a virus that for most of the working population is fairly harmless.

I find the stats quite difficult to believe IRT support for a lockdown, but then the local FB page is full of dementors too, and even occasionally in the Excluded UK Facebook group, which is people who've not had financial support and are most affected by lockdowns! - though we suspect they may be trolls....

Anyone else reckon we’re being warmed up for staying in lockdown lite after the 2nd?

Now it seems to be that we’re waiting for these vaccines, then it’ll be waiting for them to be rolled out further to different groups.

It’s so sad - our most beloved lecturer put us into breakout groups yesterday just so we could put cameras on (the software won’t take us all on camera in the main room) so she could jump rooms and see us as she missed us! I miss her too

I'm trying not to think past Dec 2nd.
It's sports reopening that will put me back to where we were.
The boys are constantly wrestling. I take them out 3:45- 4:30 when it's getting too dark to do anything and I can't burn them out. They're not ready to sleep before 10pm.

They start wrestling for fun, but DS1 can't read when DS2 giggling turns to whimpering, and he doesn't have much control over how much power he puts into a kick which is generally too much. I end up shouting just to be heard over them.

You are not alone. The noise can drive me mad.

I have no faith in lockdowns ever ending tbh so I am not particularly invested in 2 December. I have this unfortunate growing acceptance that the things I loved are gone forever so I am trying to make new things I love.

@DominaShantotto

Anyone else reckon we’re being warmed up for staying in lockdown lite after the 2nd?

Now it seems to be that we’re waiting for these vaccines, then it’ll be waiting for them to be rolled out further to different groups.

It’s so sad - our most beloved lecturer put us into breakout groups yesterday just so we could put cameras on (the software won’t take us all on camera in the main room) so she could jump rooms and see us as she missed us! I miss her too

Yes I struggle to believe it will end at all on the 2nd. I've booked myself a mini break for the beginning of January next year in a hotel but I'm not holding my breath for that either and not for the holiday we have booked for May.

I'm anticipating them saying that figures are too high then it's people need vaccinating then more people and more people...

I can't see an end in sight.

I’m going to post something positive! My OH had a positive covid test three weeks ago and wasn’t particularly ill but has had an intermittent high temp so unable to go back to work. For four days now his heart rate has been 100+ peaking at around 170 yesterday. We don’t live together so I knew nothing of this til I went to his this morning as was worried - got there 0720, called 111 and he’s now in local urgent care unit being assessed! Downside is I’m having to sit in the car outside, desperate for a wee and a cup of coffee 😂😂 but on this occasion the nhs service has been amazing 👍🏻👍🏻

If lockdown goes past December 2 I don’t know what we will do. Both DS and I are hanging by a thread. And sometimes falling off that, I think.
@DominaShantotto I miss my students so much too! We are doing blended learning, so half in the room and half online, but yesterday I had to do the whole thing online and actually it was better, because everyone was really chatty - much more an even playing field. So I think next week I will do the same (it’s our last week of term), just so I can chat with everyone. It was so lovely to have a lovely and really interesting discussion. Made my day!

Oh and I hear you re sport. DS really needs it.

I’d rather wear a lanyard than risk catching bacterial pneumonia.

Masks may make people feel safer, without actually making anyone safer.

I did notice on OH’s box of masks bought from Boots, that it isn’t even called COVID anymore, it’s just referred to as ‘the virus’.

It’s all very chilling

What bothered me about the whole protect/clapping/CaptSirTom stuff was how quickly a few changes in semantics convinced the entire country to regard the NHS as a charity almost overnight.

I think there's something insidious in shifting mainstream perceptions of it from a public service, paid for through taxation, to something that needs additional funds raising through charitable donations in order to cope with a major public health issue.

Ba boom TISH

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@NastyBlouse

What bothered me about the whole protect/clapping/CaptSirTom stuff was how quickly a few changes in semantics convinced the entire country to regard the NHS as a charity almost overnight.

I think there's something insidious in shifting mainstream perceptions of it from a public service, paid for through taxation, to something that needs additional funds raising through charitable donations in order to cope with a major public health issue.

Cross post

Yes but that was intentional.