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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https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/16/dr-hilary-apologises-breaking-coronavirus-rules-forgetting-wear-face-mask-13758754/

What an absolute non-apology 😂 Spends more time talking about all the wonderful hard work he was doing, and of course was only in there because he was going to collect a prescription for a patient What an utter knob!

@Sonicthehedgehogg

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What an absolute non-apology 😂 Spends more time talking about all the wonderful hard work he was doing, and of course was only in there because he was going to collect a prescription for a patient What an utter knob!

@Sonicthehedgehogg I had to switch off (again!) listening to him and PM justifying themselves forgetting to wear masks 'cos everyone does it'. Errr no - most of us either don't go into the shop or pull something over our face or go back to home or the car to get the sodding thing! Those two pricks have been so bloody supercilious and self righteous throughout this whole shitty time that it really wound me up today.

Not in the best of moods anyway after DS1 told me last night he has to wear body armour every time they go outside even off duty because of a high level UAV alert (drones carrying bombs) on his base and it might mean he doesn't get home at the weekend/for Christmas as scheduled. I know its what he signed up for in the military and that lots of people have it much harder etc etc but when added to existing work stresses and worries its really (and probably irrationally) pissed me off

Hope the funeral goes well Reedwarbler

It hammered it down for my dads. I spent the morning on my induction day at secondarty school and remember the paved area being a sheet of water with rain bouncing back upwards off it.
The cemetary turns into a right swamp too.
I like knowing that DM has a double plot. It's a bit of certainty.

The last time I saw my uncle was in ITU and he looked more peaceful than I'd seen him in years while he was sedated. It was strange talking to him because he'd never had the mental capacity for normal conversation and certainly not during his long decline. We travelled 100 miles each way to see him, so in the break between visiting hours, I went off on a nostalgia tour of the town and park where I spent my early years. Gorgeous May day. A "happy" day isn't quite right, but it was comforting and peaceful, not a sad memory. He died several days later after appearing to improve. It wasn't anticipated, but wasn't shocking either.
I have worried about his friends in the care home this year. Stimulation is so important to them. I really hope that they haven't been deprived of their social and emotional needs.

And there I was gasping for breath trying to keep the bloody visor on in the pharmacy the other week.

Generally, I'd be forgiving about someone forgetting... very different when they've been a sanctimonious arse for months over the whole thing.

I did ignore the fact that I'd forgotten to put the visor back in the car after walking to the pharmacy and bludgeoned on with my supermarket shopping, but I strategically go when it's very quiet anyway.

Was a bit busier last night, but still quiet in the grand scheme of things. I struggled with the big supermarket though as they've put additional stock up high which gives me that looming claustophobia. I was doing a hokey cokey with the visor if there was no one else in the aisle. With that lot closing in on me overhead, I can't cope with being closed in on my face for long.

I've just realised which fictional character BJ really reminds me of (hence me wanting to call him Uncle Boris): Uncle Andrew, from CS Lewis's The Magician's Nephew. Some of his lines are so fitting:

"Can't you see the whole thing is a great experiment?"

"Silence, sir! I will not be talked to like that by a dirty, idle, schoolboy."

"Perhaps you'd better call on Mrs Plummer and tell her why she'll never see her daughter again; because you were afraid to put on a ring." (I could just imagine BJ or one of the twats saying "perhaps you'd better explain to your children why they'll never see Granny again...")

"We elders are not bound by rules and morals of society. Ours is a high and lonely destiny."

@BogRollBOGOF that sounds a horrible experience - I had a recurring dream when I was little and had a high temperature (in the olden days when having that sort of thing was part of being a kid and didn't invoke full scale panic) of being in a room with 2 huge balls of string, one on top of each other, and they wobbled and started to fall onto me before I woke up. The terror I felt was indescribable - I still remember it so clearly! Must be horrible to experience it in daylight and real life

Why don’t Morgan and Jones get fired or suspended when the newsreaders were?

I'm wondering when we find out about new tiers, it's usually leaked before any announcement, I can't see it in the House of Commons agenda (unless in PMQs) and there's nothing scheduled for BBC1. Am I missing something? Are they still doing it? We have an infinitesimal chance of going down to tier 2. I just want DD back at work (she does too!)

I posted on that thread again

I actually think maybe I should find the old list of infection control measures and keep it on copy and paste.

Mercy thank you for your comments about my dad. Something I feel bad about - I’ve been there when people have said to him “you saved my life” eg one of the local cabbies, a school friend’s brother.

Dad used to say “it’s not really me, it’s god”. I don’t believe in god and I’d say “dude, take credit for your achievements”.

Now I’m glad he wasn’t an arrogant type who would like the NHS worship.

That was quite outing if anyone who knows me is on here!

@TabbyStar

I'm wondering when we find out about new tiers, it's usually leaked before any announcement, I can't see it in the House of Commons agenda (unless in PMQs) and there's nothing scheduled for BBC1. Am I missing something? Are they still doing it? We have an infinitesimal chance of going down to tier 2. I just want DD back at work (she does too!)

I can’t see it either

Unless it’s the Joint Committee meeting on Statutory Instruments? Then they announce to press?

Ah yes it could be that, it is done through SIs. BBC is just showing the map for 16 Dec with the original tiers + tier 3 announcements from this week. We're in a county that's supposed to be being decoupled from the nearest city, our rates are middling at the moment as a county. It would be nice if they did it by district as they have done for Essex and Herts as we're quite rural.

Mum is in Essex and her bit is Tier 3, does anyone know which bits are Tier 2 please?

I'm not expecting any change around here. We were falling prior to lockdown, and have passed the dip. Local figures fluctuating around now. Mostly lower than average. I think tier 3 was wrong for where we were 2 weeks ago, but if rates are going to rise because hey it's December and that's what happens with respiritory illness, I can't see local restrictions easing. I tend to cope better with ongoing crap than uncertainty of crap, so it's easier to just assume that this is the way it is for a few months than hokey cokey around.

It's shit for businesses, but then the hokey cokey is no go for trying to function either and for some, staying shut is simpler than messing with stock and staffing with short notice changes.

The problem is around hospitality is that you close it and it drives people into each other's houses, which isn't regulated. I'm not convinced it's an overall win. And the chaos for businesses is appalling, the amount of food and drink that's being thrown out is terrible.

I’m the same, would rather resign myself to staying in the same tier than get my hopes up in the anticipation we might move. Although tier 2 here so we can only go one way I guess.
Wish the government would publish their reasoning behind the tiers. Finding the secrecy more stressful than a bit of honesty.

Bog “ I tend to cope better with ongoing crap than uncertainty of crap, so it's easier to just assume that this is the way it is for a few months than hokey cokey around.”

I’m the same. I feel terrible for theatres but at the same time, I’m puzzled they didn’t see this coming.

@AcornAutumn

I posted on that thread again

I actually think maybe I should find the old list of infection control measures and keep it on copy and paste.

Mercy thank you for your comments about my dad. Something I feel bad about - I’ve been there when people have said to him “you saved my life” eg one of the local cabbies, a school friend’s brother.

Dad used to say “it’s not really me, it’s god”. I don’t believe in god and I’d say “dude, take credit for your achievements”.

Now I’m glad he wasn’t an arrogant type who would like the NHS worship.

That was quite outing if anyone who knows me is on here!

Maybe he meant it was him in conjunction with God. That they worked together? So not taking no credit but rather giving his coauthor credit too?

I am not particularly religious but I read loads of LM Montgomery :-p

hope today goes okay @Reedwarbler

Hope everyone else is having a good tolerable day too.

I still need to get DPs xmas presents. Wrapped all DS's last night. Probably gone overboard as usual. Not like we have done anything else this year though i guess.

Hope the funeral goes as well as these things can.
We had a funeral early this year before covid, bloody hell the rain was horizontal, it was a burial and it was horrendous.

@Reedwarbler thinking of you

Drakeford has stuffed us all up from 6pm xmas eve, we are shut down as tough as March fuckity fuck.

[quote justasking111]@Reedwarbler thinking of you

Drakeford has stuffed us all up from 6pm xmas eve, we are shut down as tough as March fuckity fuck.[/quote]
Do you mean no household mixing?

Only one other family for xmas day the bubble has shrunk

@justasking111

Only one other family for xmas day the bubble has shrunk

Oh So me, mum, sister would be banned in Wales or are there exemptions for households of one?

@justasking111

Only one other family for xmas day the bubble has shrunk

I think this is advice, not law.

@Iheartmysmart

I’m the same, would rather resign myself to staying in the same tier than get my hopes up in the anticipation we might move. Although tier 2 here so we can only go one way I guess. Wish the government would publish their reasoning behind the tiers. Finding the secrecy more stressful than a bit of honesty.

I thought tier 3 was just labour constituencies