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...

@amicissimma

Well Greta's not going to be pleased with me.

The lack of anything on telly has sent me into the dark corners of the big numbers on Freeview where I found a program about the amazing arty stations on the Stockholm underground. When I'm let out I've got to go and see them. And I'm not sailing there.

Sounds good.

I think Sweden will get asylum applications from the UK.

Guess what I see a lot of adverts for too... on my defence, they started in the spring before I got much of a bee in my bonnet and rather ranty on the topic. I go up to bed and DH is watching current affairs about the USA and China and the flipping things are on everyones' faces. It's that lack of escape from them that's intensified my loathing of the things.

I'm making good use of iPlayer. Currently on Heroes.

I ousted myself as an AD at work yesterday

I’m in South Australia where they’ve just put us in super strict lock for supposedly 6 days (plus 8 more days with lesser restrictions). They’ve called it a ‘circuit breaker’ (wonder where they got that from )

This lockdown stipulates no exercise or dog walking outside the home. I voiced my concern that maybe that part of the lockdown was taking things too far but it didn’t go down very well. Whoops ...

@bluetongue

I ousted myself as an AD at work yesterday

I’m in South Australia where they’ve just put us in super strict lock for supposedly 6 days (plus 8 more days with lesser restrictions). They’ve called it a ‘circuit breaker’ (wonder where they got that from )

This lockdown stipulates no exercise or dog walking outside the home. I voiced my concern that maybe that part of the lockdown was taking things too far but it didn’t go down very well. Whoops ...

Hang on, dogs will really struggle trapped indoors?

I hope you’re okay. Melbourne scared the life out of me.

I’m so bored of it all. I’m staying at my parents for a while as DH is deployed and I’m pregnant and have complications. I’m sure the Dementors would be screeching at me over on the CV forum. Even though under the law I’m technically “allowed.”

The food is pretty good here!

That was an unfortunate auto correct. Ousted myself not ousted. As far as I know I still have a job to go back to

Just posted this on that thread. So many things they havent thought of.

So when can we expect the big announcement that the Christmas adverts featuring families will all be pulled off air.
For the psychological good of the country surely. It wont be good to keep having salt rubbed in the wound every time you watch Corrie Im A Celeb etc. Not to mention Phil Schofields How To Spend It Well At Christmas.

Having salt rubbed into the wound like this will cause anger and resentment to build until the pressure cooker finally boils over.......................

Most people here have at least a courtyard for their dog luckily and from what I’ve from the head of our Police here they aren’t going to be going as far as Victorian Police in their interpreting of the rules.

Just to clarify. Im serious If we are being nudged to accept no Christmas then those adverts plus Schofields show need to be pulled.

I don’t suppose anyone watched the Great Plague programme on Channel 5? I’m interested but I sense the whole show has been cooked up to create more hysteria rather than being a history programme.

@MercyBooth

Just posted this on that thread. So many things they havent thought of.

So when can we expect the big announcement that the Christmas adverts featuring families will all be pulled off air.
For the psychological good of the country surely. It wont be good to keep having salt rubbed in the wound every time you watch Corrie Im A Celeb etc. Not to mention Phil Schofields How To Spend It Well At Christmas.

Having salt rubbed into the wound like this will cause anger and resentment to build until the pressure cooker finally boils over.......................

I don’t think it will. People seem quite happy to do as they’re told in England.

@DominaShantotto

The nudging to get us to accept no Christmas is working on the covidiots (I'm claiming the term for those who think lockdowns work and that we just need to lock down harder and the virus will go away - will also accept covarseholes and covigilantees) who are now demanding Christmas is cancelled and that we just stay in and that we want to stay locked down.

They are being played like the only bloody orchestra allowed to play - not only are we being locked up again... but they're bloody begging for it and more and harder like some shitty porn film.

I get the very real impression the uni staff are growing sick of blended bullshit and worried about the students being stuck at home all the time and moving to tip the blend balance a bit more as well.

I think we're still in the early stages of a long ropey winter. I'll take the social amnesty of Christmas for some respite along the way. Anything that helps get through to around April when cases naturally dwindle. Then hopefully by September the majority of life should be much closer to normal.

It's still very far from a normal Christmas anyway. Graciously not being illegal to see family and friends for a few days is not a full-on Christmas!

What are they going to do if people say...................No family Christmas = no vaccine.

@AcornAutumn

I don’t suppose anyone watched the Great Plague programme on Channel 5? I’m interested but I sense the whole show has been cooked up to create more hysteria rather than being a history programme.

I did. I found it good. 'So people with money ran away and care was done by those who actually cared'

'Poorer people were affected more because of their living conditions'.

'It spread from London because many with money ran away to their country homes - taking with them servants and clothes (the lice lived in clothes)

I found it a very interesting watch - having previously read World Without End by Ken Follet - which covered England in that era. (A very good read I may add)

until the pressure cooker finally boils over.......................
It needs to happen. We need to see the riots. The public have been gaslighted and treated like lab rats for long enough; and I still say the vaccine news has, perversely, given Saint Boris the green light to extend restrictions more, because he can tell us there's an end in sight. At this moment, in the middle of the month of lockdown (which we were told was to enable Christmas, not to have ANOTHER fucking lockdown after it), the public are despairingly resigned to it, but if we don't get that relaxing of restrictions that was promised on 2nd December, the public anger will EXPLODE, as business owners file for bankruptcy, robbed of their Christmas trade.

Nanny thank you, I’ll add it to the list.

wandetings I agree but I’m not brave enough to riot. Perhaps if I didn’t have mum to look after, I would be. I don’t know. I’m shocked how okay people think this is.

I have never seen so much emotional blackmail in my life.

Im in tears. I feel shat on.

@MercyBooth

Im in tears. I feel shat on.

Here's an AD hug and

I spend my life trying to prevent underexercised children from rioting. I should donate their energy to the cause.

The Christmas thing is annoying because a lot of the "so what, have a quiet one, it's only a year" people have a large proportion of spineless idiots who can't bring themselves to just sort out a quiet Christmas for themselves anyway. Probably a strong correlation with the ones that clear out their diaries with relief for lockdown and delight in wholesome family time.
Sod the consquences on the rest of the population/ society/ economy.

@MercyBooth

Im in tears. I feel shat on.

Step away from that thread. It's hideous bot central.

@BogRollBOGOF Thanks. DM is Italian. Her/my family on that side are in Italy and New York. They never fly over. Personally i havent physically clapped eyes on them since 1983 . DM last saw them in 2001 She and Dad flew out on 10th September the day before 9/11 She hasnt been on a plane since. All she wants is her own family that are here around for Christmas She only had two children Me and DB. My nephew and his partner new baby etc will be in contact by phone. It will be a quiet Christmas with no more than 4 maybe 5 of us. The way some of them act on that other board is like its going to be a rave But the shat on feeling is by this gaslighting abusive Government. And some posters over there use the same tactics. The only scientist i have respect for is Jonathan Van Tam. He is the only one who had the balls to say that the rules apply to everyone after Cummings was found out. Ferguson has got some fucking cheek to still be sticking his beak in after what he did too.

@MercyBooth
Oh good god is Ferguson out again....

Ferguson was behind the disputed research that sparked the mass culling of eleven million sheep and cattle during the 2001 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. He also predicted that up to 150,000 people could die. There were fewer than 200 deaths. . . .

In 2002, Ferguson predicted that up to 50,000 people would likely die from exposure to BSE (mad cow disease) in beef. In the U.K., there were only 177 deaths from BSE.

In 2005, Ferguson predicted that up to 150 million people could be killed from bird flu. In the end, only 282 people died worldwide from the disease between 2003 and 2009.

In 2009, a government estimate, based on Ferguson’s advice, said a “reasonable worst-case scenario” was that the swine flu would lead to 65,000 British deaths. In the end, swine flu killed 457 people in the U.K.

Last March, Ferguson admitted that his Imperial College model of the COVID-19 disease was based on undocumented, 13-year-old computer code that was intended to be used for a feared influenza pandemic, rather than a coronavirus. Ferguson declined to release his original code so other scientists could check his results. He only released a heavily revised set of code on 1st May after a six-week delay.

I genuinely don't understand how we give this dipshit airtime.

Also, one day of relaxation 5 days of restrictions doesn't mean "5 days of lockdown".
How did we get into the mentality of "restrictions = lockdown"?

On a lighter note.....

I've a visit to do today, just over an hour away. To cheer things up a bit, on the journey, do I listen to....

A Motown
B Christmas music

So elsewhere, there are people complaining that it's not fair if we get Christmas "off" because the government locked down over Eid. I think the decisions the government made over Eid were terribly unfair. I'm not sure how the situation of those affected by that will be improved if we're all locked up for Christmas though.

Also... 5 days lockdown for one day free sounds oddly linear. Shouldn't someone go and ask Sage if they know what exponential growth is? (There is no way they have a robust, well thought through model, which is genuinely telling them something as neat as that.)