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Ads crave a night on the tiles; vintage chicken, avocado or contemporary stone effect?

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BogRollBOGOF · 29/11/2020 00:28

We might be craving tiles, but we'll leave the woodchip and artex alone unless we're feeling very brave...

Welcome into another thread covering the whole range of life and death, novelty vegetables, DIY, any other randomness and musings about a certain pandemic.

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MissEWeatherwax · 02/12/2020 22:51

I’m pleased about the vaccine roll out. I always thought I was a introvert, but reading the threads I’m not. I am, but I already say no to doing things I don’t want too, I don’t need a pandemic to have a quiet Christmas!
I like doing my own thing and am happy with my own company.
But I like going out of the house.
As soon as masks aren’t mandatory, I’m burning mine.
My local MP (labour) voted against. He is getting lots of likes and engagement on his Facebook page. So he fighting for us, he might be losing, but he is still fighting.

MissEWeatherwax · 02/12/2020 22:55

TrustTheGeneGenie, that thread makes me realise how much teachers must hate their pupils and their job! My really have the worst job in the world don’t they and are the most vulnerable in society.
I thought that picture with children with the screens around them horrible. Like working in a call centre.

SirSamuelVimes · 02/12/2020 23:03

Urgh, @AcornAutumn, what a horrible dream. I had one last night that DH & I had bought a house in Sheffield. We had sold our house and bought this one without seeing it, other than in pictures, and we'd gone down to do some painting etc. I was hating the house and regretting buying it but feeling completely stuck and trapped. Don't think we need Freud to work out that one!

MercyBooth · 02/12/2020 23:42

Re. the vaccine, Ive been reading and im sure i heard at the press conference that it will make it less likely that you will get as seriously ill. You may still have to wear a mask. As they are not sure it can stop transmission, But if you get less seriously ill thats good obvs as you wont need to go into hospital, but reading between the lines is it more to protect the NHS.

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BogRollBOGOF · 03/12/2020 00:10

I realised on the way to the supermarket at 8pm that I'd forgotten to put my visor back in the car after my unfortunate trip to the pharmacy last week, and decided to plough on regardless. It's nice and quiet at that time.
A sunflower lanyarded member of staff spontaneously struck up conversation about the impacts of seasonal stock on yoghurt supplies because I'd decided to just pick up the cardboard tray of them in the absence of multipacks Grin

It was a refreshingly normal moment of mundane interactions Smile

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BogRollBOGOF · 03/12/2020 00:15

My mental goal is to keep plodding on until Easter and then the world should get better again out of seasonal impact. Vaccination is a bonus. I don't have many hopes to be dashed before that point.

I go to an event on the last weekend of March every year. Naturally it was cancelled with a couple of weeks notice in 2020. Not expecting it in 2021 either. I just hope the organisers can keep it going for 2022.

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Willow2017 · 03/12/2020 00:17

Has anyone seen the new Lurpak advert? They have a 'rude' carrot🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ok who on here is in advertising?😄

wanderings · 03/12/2020 07:25

The papers are going for an upbeat tone this morning, all about the vaccine and "now we can reclaim our lives" (bollocks we can!!), but that isn't reassuring me at all. Instead, I'm thinking: "The spin machine has been at work overnight. What are Saint Boris and his merry men trying to hide? Are they trying to make us go mad and 'flock' to the shops, so they can blame the public for it all going wrong later? Are they trying to keep it very muted that the vaccine does not make the virus less contagious?"

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BogRollBOGOF · 03/12/2020 07:52

The reality is that if you're feeling tired, coughing, blocked sinuses, temperature etc, does it really matter if it's a cold, Covid or flu. Minor illbesses that have you bonding with the bed for a few days aren't normally identified.

The vaccine covers the bit that the government really cares about; "save the NHS" from the nastier end of cases that end up in hospital primarily from older or medically vulnerable groups.

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pearlypidge · 03/12/2020 07:58

What I think is: so what if the vaccines don't completely stop you from catching covid.

I mean, obviously it would be great if they did stop transmission completely. But as long as they successfully reduce it to a mild illness, then surely that's all that is really needed. We deal with coughs and colds and other viruses all the time without the need for masks and the whole of society shutting down.

So if there are any moves to keep "covid-safe" practices (ugh, I hate that phrase!) once the majority have been vaccinated, then I will be seriously pissed off!

Bollss · 03/12/2020 07:59

Are they still not going to vaccinate under 50s though? I can see them using that as a reason for restrictions.

pearlypidge · 03/12/2020 08:12

They surely will vaccinate the under 50s eventually(?) We'll just be right down the priority list.

And if they don't, they would basically be saying that under 50s weren't at risk enough to bother vaccinating.

And if that is the case, then there would still be no need for restrictions, otherwise the arguments all get a bit circular although that's never worried the government before

MaudesMum · 03/12/2020 08:13

I'm fairly excited by the vaccine news. Apparently there are about 15 million people in the initial priority list - which is basically the number of over 50s plus healthcare workers. If you break it down like that it shouldn't be impossible to vaccinate them all by Easter. It looks as if by that point there'll be something of a coalition of groups against remaining restrictions - led by the business community and Tory MPs and I'd also like to think those young people whose lives have been restricted so badly would be starting to rebel.

bluetongue · 03/12/2020 08:28

Like others I’m still not convinced that a vaccine will get us back to ‘normal’ if governments have their way. No idea why we can’t live with the small risk of Covid the way we do with flu. If anything the Covid vaccine sounds as though it’s much more effective than flu vaccines. Maybe masks and social distancing can be for flu from now on. Nobody need ever die again Grin

Personally I can’t wait to get back to proper normal. None of this bloody Covid normal nonsense.

NastyBlouse · 03/12/2020 08:39

@AcornAutumn
Does anyone else have that thong when you think your tension has reduced a bit, then you find yourself with a clenched jaw and shoulders round your ears and can’t concentrate on anything?

Just twang the elastic a bit Grin

In all seriousness though, yes absolutely! I’ve been feeling like this since March. I have all kinds of back grumpkins and neck tension. Shoulders for earrings. Lots of headaches and the return of some TMJ/TMD I thought I’d banished three years ago. And frequent struggles for concentration and motivation. So many of my friends are saying the same. Even my doctor (not giant, he prescribes my antidepressants) said he felt like that sometimes, and that pretty much every patient he’d spoken to has said the same.

DominaShantotto · 03/12/2020 08:46

Well, they asked for copies of the confirmation of DD's diagnosis as they can't take the word of the SENCO at the infant school or the meticulous file she'll have passed on (I know her well) - so I have given them copies of absolutely everything (I now have no printer ink left) including slightly "shaming" them by re-copying THEIR provision planning next to the last one we had from the infants!

The class teacher is lying basically but the head will automatically believe her as she is a "SENCO with 20 years experience" - by all accounts when she was SENCO she was shit (someone else is doing that job now). DD2 isn't the liar - DD1 is the one with a flexible approach to the truth!

AcornAutumn · 03/12/2020 08:54

Nasty “ Even my doctor (not giant, he prescribes my antidepressants)”

I could use a giant, I’m 5ft 1!

Jokes aside, in spite of more pills I was awake and posting at 4am

I haven’t been able to workout for three days as I had to stay with mum for a hospital thing. So maybe that will make a difference today.

I know generally there’s been a massive increase in people grinding their teeth.

Blobby10 · 03/12/2020 09:12

Did anyone else feel more than a tad surprised at the news today? The vaccine was approved for use yesterday and within 12 hours they had however many million doses on their way to the UK? Now I'm no scientist but common sense should surely show that mass production of a vaccine on this scale should take more than 12 hours? Unless the pharma company had prior notice that their vaccine would be approved? No surely not - they wouldn't do that would they?!

At 51 I'm on the bottom of the list to have the vaccine but will gladly donate mine to anyone under 50 who wants it. I don't see the point in giving my healthy immune system something synthetic to fight. Same as with a flu jab - I don't need it! I just hope that Ireland don't introduce evidence of vaccination as a requirement to enter the country as thats the only place I go 'abroad'.

Bollss · 03/12/2020 09:27

i can see my comment above has been deleted - guess they are lurking here too.........

Wishfulthinking1977 · 03/12/2020 09:27

Checking in! Stupidly wandered into a mask thread and now want to hide until next Christmas!!

AcornAutumn · 03/12/2020 09:33

@Blobby10

Did anyone else feel more than a tad surprised at the news today? The vaccine was approved for use yesterday and within 12 hours they had however many million doses on their way to the UK? Now I'm no scientist but common sense should surely show that mass production of a vaccine on this scale should take more than 12 hours? Unless the pharma company had prior notice that their vaccine would be approved? No surely not - they wouldn't do that would they?!

At 51 I'm on the bottom of the list to have the vaccine but will gladly donate mine to anyone under 50 who wants it. I don't see the point in giving my healthy immune system something synthetic to fight. Same as with a flu jab - I don't need it! I just hope that Ireland don't introduce evidence of vaccination as a requirement to enter the country as thats the only place I go 'abroad'.

Agree.

Trust I didn’t see you saying anything offensive here, that’s weird.

Bollss · 03/12/2020 09:36

i didn't - i just mentioned a certain other poster who clearly lives in mns pocket.

starfish88 · 03/12/2020 09:54

@Blobby10

Did anyone else feel more than a tad surprised at the news today? The vaccine was approved for use yesterday and within 12 hours they had however many million doses on their way to the UK? Now I'm no scientist but common sense should surely show that mass production of a vaccine on this scale should take more than 12 hours? Unless the pharma company had prior notice that their vaccine would be approved? No surely not - they wouldn't do that would they?!

At 51 I'm on the bottom of the list to have the vaccine but will gladly donate mine to anyone under 50 who wants it. I don't see the point in giving my healthy immune system something synthetic to fight. Same as with a flu jab - I don't need it! I just hope that Ireland don't introduce evidence of vaccination as a requirement to enter the country as thats the only place I go 'abroad'.

To be fair this is one of the steps that the magic money-tree sped up. Normally they would have to wait for approval to begin mass production for roll out but with this vaccine they had started mass production already and were taking the gamble that if it failed they would have to throw it all out.

I'm fairly positive for the vaccine particularly for the groups the UK are planning on offering it to as long as they want it and it isn't mandatory or coerced (through passports or otherwise). My 90 year old grandma and 80 year old FIL (with pre-existing conditions) both would benefit from getting it and long term concequences don't really apply either way for them.

Orangeblossom77777 · 03/12/2020 10:05

Some news on the exams today...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55160374

Taswama · 03/12/2020 10:48

@MissEWeatherwax - we are also planning a ceremonial mask bonfire- even the ones that MIL has lovingly made for us.