ADs building hadron colliders out of used yoghurt pots

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... whilst waiting to see if the kids are or are not going to school next week and walking with imaginary cows.

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Second night in a row where I am shouting "F off!" to it all.

Our police & crime commissioner thinks we will be in tier 3 until February. So that's soul-destroying.

Read that they might restrict how far people can travel over Christmas. WHAT BLOODY DIFFERENCE WILL THAT MAKE?! You could not have covid & travel 300 miles without having any contact with others en route to visit family who also don't have covid. Or you could have covid without knowing, pop next door & spend the day with the huge family there & infect them all. THERE IS NO LOGIC.

In an attempt to calm things down in my head I've tuned the car radio into Radio 3. They've got a carol competition on & I've caught odd bits of choirs singing as I've been driving about, & it's joyful & beautiful. They played some Duke Ellington this morning too, which cheered me up no end & I did shoulder-dancing at some traffic lights. I think non-covid radio is the only thing to listen to right now.

@AcornAutumn Your kind warnings turned out to be quite right! My legs were basically cotton wool by the time we got to the end of the (admittedly quite long) street. So we had to curtail our outing. DD was content enough, she didn't want to go out anyway, but I felt like a bit of time outside would be good for her.

Luckily DH got away early from school so he could pick up the other two and I could have a nap!

DD1 still food refusing and we're trying the "not paying attention" option. Except for DD2 and DS, who don't understand the concept of tact, and are "helpfully" chipping in with exchanges such as:

DD2: Look, he (DS) et the toast and he isn't dead... yet
DS: (drops to the ground writhing and choking)
Me, ineffectually: I don't think that's really very helpful... Ignore them, they're being very silly.
DD2: We were learning about suffragettes last week. They had straws put up their nose when they wouldn't eat... (????)

And so on...

I'm trying to ignore the news and the government and Covid and count my blessings. We are all okay, it's not making too much of a difference to us... staying positive, staying chilled... but at the same time, I'm so sad for those who are not okay, either from isolation and loneliness, from the stress, from financial difficulties. It's all so shit!

@SufferingFromLongLockdown

I've just realised that it wasn't from a mainstream paper so unlikely to be much disagreeing with the article. . Still some very good points in it.

Off Guardian is great but I think it will get banned by twitter soon, it gets a content warning etc.

Jourdain sorry to hear that, recovery from pneumonia is boring. I’d put laundry in and need a nap!

Medical science and research studies have jumped the shark, check this one out

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/15/apathy-found-early-warning-sign-dementia-40s-giving-hope-early/

Can someone give me a slap every time I venture on to the C boards?

Hide them, @AcornAutumn. Hide them now . Then you won't be tempted.

I should shouldn’t I?

Just saw this, glad it’s not my council. Or is it a nationwide tv ad?

mobile.twitter.com/CllrEjiofor/status/1338903582855278593

[quote AcornAutumn]I should shouldn’t I?

Just saw this, glad it’s not my council. Or is it a nationwide tv ad?

mobile.twitter.com/CllrEjiofor/status/1338903582855278593[/quote]
I've just seen that as well, reminded me of the public information ads from 70s/80s (rug on a polished floor, you might as well lay a bear trap) and/or brass eye. Not sure the latter was the effect he was going for.....

It's some ratio on that tweet as well....

@AcornAutumn The Corona boards are populated by people who I wouldn't trust to tell me where to buy bread!

(French expression, I don't know if it exists in the UK?!)

[quote AcornAutumn]I should shouldn’t I?

Just saw this, glad it’s not my council. Or is it a nationwide tv ad?

mobile.twitter.com/CllrEjiofor/status/1338903582855278593[/quote]
You have to laugh at that. It's ludicrous! And presumably poor old Ade is perfectly within his rights to go to the gym then home to see his dad. 🙄

@Jourdain11

(French expression, I don't know if it exists in the UK?!)

I've never heard it but I love it!

@Jourdain11

(French expression, I don't know if it exists in the UK?!)

Thank you, I’ve not heard that one!

Sorry folks, this is depressing but I needed to do it

🎤 It’s Christmas time
Since March, I’ve been afraid
This Christmas time
It’s straight gin, no lemonade

And in our world of plenty
We should keep a small stockpile
Cos they might well ban all booze
Post Xmas time

So say a prayer
Prayer for the tiered ones
At Christmas time
It’s hard
When no one’s having fun

There’s a world outside your window
And it’s a world of dread and fear

Where the only place we’re going is
A land of fascism (okay, that doesn’t scan.)

And the Christmas bells that ring there
Have all been sanitised

Well tonight think on it well
What should we do?

And there won’t be freedom in the land this Christmas time
The greatest gift we’ll get this year is toilet roll (this does scan with the Boy George line if you sing it to the tune with the oh)

Where no one sees their friends
We all go round the bend
Is there any point this Christmas time?

Here’s to you
Raise a glass to all ADs

Not to them
I hope their balls shrivel up

We will get a good revenge next time.🎤🥂

@AcornAutumn
love it

What I like about this particular set of Acorn's lyrics is the note about how to make it scan! I can picture Boy George singing "toilet roh-ho-ol" very meaningfully with one hand over his headphones.

Thanks

I was thinking more “tooooiii-let roll”.

Actually “land of fascism” isn’t so bad, depending on how you sing it

Ot maybe both “tooooii-let rooo-hhlll”

Do you think it’s like this at Taylor Swift’s house? 😂😂😂

I don't know, Acorn. Do you think Boy George put that much thought into how he sung the original lyric?

(I have a non-famous but rather "precious" musician cousin. I can imagine him agonising over how best to sing about bog roll, with emotion).

@AcornAutumn

Can someone give me a slap every time I venture on to the C boards?

And me. I've made the mistake of venturing over there today and I actually think it's worse than back in March and April.

Pink - I wasn’t here then so I don’t know.

Orchid - in fairness, I’d probably do the same in that kid of job.

Remember this?

@TheOrchidKiller

I don't know, Acorn. Do you think Boy George put that much thought into how he sung the original lyric?

(I have a non-famous but rather "precious" musician cousin. I can imagine him agonising over how best to sing about bog roll, with emotion).

Singing about bogroll with emotion? That would be the most fun I've had all year

I'm learning a lot about many of my fellow citizens during this pandemic.

The talk of visiting a Covid ward reminds me how many of them seem unaware of what has always gone on in hospitals. It seems to have come as a complete shock that a good number of people in hospital are very ill and a lot of them die. And, quite often, that death is not particularly pleasant, although the staff do what they can to alleviate suffering.

As my rather forthright anaesthetist neighbour put it 'If you can't handle suffering and death, sometimes on a large scale, maybe medicine [or nursing] is not the career for you.'

Front page of tomorrows i paper.

twitter.com/theipaper/status/1338977649776070656?s=20

Wednesday's front page: Vaccine at GPs hit by NHS IT chaos

Yeah a postponed Christmas like those on the Corona board are suggesting would totes happen

@amicissimma

I'm learning a lot about many of my fellow citizens during this pandemic.

The talk of visiting a Covid ward reminds me how many of them seem unaware of what has always gone on in hospitals. It seems to have come as a complete shock that a good number of people in hospital are very ill and a lot of them die. And, quite often, that death is not particularly pleasant, although the staff do what they can to alleviate suffering.

As my rather forthright anaesthetist neighbour put it 'If you can't handle suffering and death, sometimes on a large scale, maybe medicine [or nursing] is not the career for you.'

Exactly what my dad would say.

Someone on the C board asked how many pandemics dad had worked through

I listed them

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