ADs building hadron colliders out of used yoghurt pots

[NannyGythaOgg]

... 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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And we were sold the November lockdown on the basis that it would enable families to see each other at Christmas. Im fucking sick of being lied to and gaslighted.

Marking place for new thread - I've been a bit absent for the last few, DD has had 11+ exams, and work has been crazy.

I also wish I was a morning person. I'm not exercising enough. When DD wasn't in school we exercised together before she started school and I started work but now that time is taken up chasing her to put her uniform on and clean her teeth. I'm thrilled she's in school but I wish I could motivate myself to get out of bed a bit earlier and do a workout before she gets up.

@TheOrchidKiller

"Vallance has admitted there’s no reason for curfew, for hospitality to be closed..." Has he, now? And what're you going to do about it, Paddy?

@AcornAutumn
A 30 minute workout is pretty good, in my exercise-hating-but-I-know-it's-good-so-I-do-the-bare-minimum opinion. I also wish I was a morning person. The dark mornings are making it even harder to surface, as well as not having enough things to keep me occupied that I haven't already done a million times this year. I'm bored.

I normally love working out but lockdown has changed me in many ways, sadly.

Feeling a bit cheered by a thread in the Other Place. A few people throwing in an "I'm alright jack" but lots of people questioning how long things have to go on once vaccines are in full swing and the hoped for/expected reductions in mortality rates come into force.

WTF???!!!
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Thank heaven I found you all!

How utterly random that we were talking about professionals on social media yesterday....this morning, I'm sat browsing on my phone over my coffee.
Friend 1 works in private sector finance, furloughed until September, just back at work. Company she works for sent all their employees a lovely gift hamper to cheer up their Christmas and to say thank you. Shes really happy with it so posted a picture on Facebook.
Friend 2 the aforementioned nurse from the last thread commented "Wow. Us in the NHS got a Thursday night applause and all annual leave cancelled"

Just why? Ffs.

Our rates are doing ok at the moment... but we have a university here so when they have their 'going home' tests it'll bump up our numbers

Possibly not, as in the Cambridge experience, it went through students at the beginning of term, we don't know any that have tested positive either (DD's BF and friends just came home) - herd immunity in action!

The NHS Charities advert sounds appalling. I was just reading in the lockdown sceptics news letter about the most popular comments in the Daily Mail being that it's disgusting and are they trying to frighten children even more?

Hi all, I lost you, sorry!

Sorry that everyone is feeling so rubbish with the restrictions. DH climbing up the walls with the threat of London restrictions, which will mean he can't go to the pub with his TA mates. (Which he obviously isn't supposed to anyway - I did wonder how the staff managed to justify that a 33 year old white bloke and a black woman in her 60s were a household - he was planning to claim that she was his mother!). I think in a way I've been a bit fortunate. I got my leukaemia diagnosis literally a week and a half after lockdown, so I lost my normality anyway. And as a result, haven't noticed so much the erosion of actual normality! Although it would be nice to see more people without feeling guilty. My friends are not very law abiding.

I think that whenever you can do normal stuff again, it just feels so right and good. Like, oh yeah, that is what life is supposed to be like! So I'm sorry that everyone is finding the weirdness tough. It amazes and horrifies me, how people actually seem to want to be dictated to.

I'm still detained in the hospital. I had to have some oxygen yesterday because I was having a bit of trouble breathing, but it helped a lot and I'm feeling better, but my blood counts are still a bit too exciting. I am feeling a bit down to be honest. Lack of social interaction, and I get nasty black thoughts creeping in (of the, what if I don't see my kids grow up, variety). This is where some visitors would make a big difference! Honestly, if I wanted to be socially isolated I could have gone to live in the Outer Hebrides instead of Zone 2 in Plague City.

In lighter news, DD2 has obviously figured out how to get round the parental controls on Netflix and watched most of The Other Boleyn Girl. She's now flouncing around quoting her favourite passages, which seem to be the most dramatic ones: "My Lord: how hath I offended you?" And, "THE QUEEN NO LONGER BLEEDS." (Although DH has clarified that she has not a clue what that means.) She also got a ticking off at school for asking if white ghosts were the ghosts of white people and if brown and black people had brown and black ghosts.... hmm

I commented "seriously, if seeing someone else getting something nice for Christmas is making you this bitter about your work, maybe you should look at getting another job." Braced myself for a flaming and friend 3 comments "another job? Where are they? There aren't any cos everything had to close so that [friend 2] can post 20 pics a day of herself in PPE on Facebook while calling us all selfish bastards for wanting to see our family and hug another human being. I'm sorry you feel so bitter but berating [friend 1] for being happy for getting something nice in a shit year isn't going to make your situation any better is it?"
I smiled so hard.....its not just us....there are more of us out there in the real world.

Hello all.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

I commented "seriously, if seeing someone else getting something nice for Christmas is making you this bitter about your work, maybe you should look at getting another job." Braced myself for a flaming and friend 3 comments "another job? Where are they? There aren't any cos everything had to close so that [friend 2] can post 20 pics a day of herself in PPE on Facebook while calling us all selfish bastards for wanting to see our family and hug another human being. I'm sorry you feel so bitter but berating [friend 1] for being happy for getting something nice in a shit year isn't going to make your situation any better is it?" I smiled so hard.....its not just us....there are more of us out there in the real world.

There are. There really are and there are more every day. Thank you for the reminder of that.

Jourdain, your DD is brilliant.

Morning all. I've woken up in a funny mood. It's just gone 7am and yet I'm questioning all my life choices. This is what happens when I've got nothing else to do / think about / plan. I can't take it anymore.

Have you got something you can distract yourself with Gene? Or anything planned for the rest of the day?

I'm at work after school drop off @TabbyStar but whether it will help I don't know! We'll see!

At the weekend I've got some more fucking woodchip to strip. Domina was right I'm having to have it plastered ffs but he's said he'll fit me in before Xmas so I best get a shift on!

Was on these threads through the summer and so pleased to see you're all still here, fighting the good fight.

*@Jourdain11 * being in hospital is bad enough but can't even imagine how awful it must be to be in there without visitors . I do hope you improve enough to be let out very soon.

I'm also struggling this week - I'm not exercising enough - usually up at 5 to go to the gym but I've lost all motivation and have become fat and unfit rather than just fat. The hundreds of miles I cycled over the summer to cope with stress seem a distant memory. This year has been such hard work both personally and professionally, even without Covid and I'm exhausted and drained. like so many people I haven't had a break since 1 January - only bank holidays and a couple of Fridays off through the whole year whilst the rest of the staff enjoy a 3 or 4 day working week or furlough. I shouldn't be bitter - I'm running the company and that should be reward enough but I'm so so tired I'm making errors with work stuff.

The factory closes at 4pm on 17th December so I'm hoping that I can be finished by the end of 21st and at least have a couple of extra days before Christmas.

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I don’t think the government knew how stupid people would be about all this. That’s one thing I can’t blame Gov for!

Jourdain “ I did wonder how the staff managed to justify that a 33 year old white bloke and a black woman in her 60s were a household - he was planning to claim that she was his mother!).”

Fair enough. My best friend is adopted and the only black person in the family. I’d hope bars etc wouldn’t question anyone on households.

@Jourdain11 sorry you’re stuck in the hospital.. must be rubbish. Your family sound great. My friends are disappointingly obedient so no fun to be had even though I’m not stuck in hospital!

I was feeling fed up this morning but am going to try to be more positive. Getting a restaurant meal to cook at home tomorrow and gyms reopen too. Must get back to it. I’d been doing super well before our latest lockdown but am now feeling pretty lethargic again. Annoying.

WouldbeGood gyms reopen tomorrow- do you mind if I ask where you are?

Tier 4 in Scotland, so pretty much full lockdown, moving to tier 3 tomorrow - still pretty much lockdown but with gyms and shops open.

Restaurants allowed to open til 6 but no alcohol. So lots of them are just not reopening. Just to give a flavour of what it’s like up here.

Also travel restrictions so you’re not allowed out of your area, eg to go to Glasgow for shopping.

It’s pure mental up here.

@WouldBeGood

Tier 4 in Scotland, so pretty much full lockdown, moving to tier 3 tomorrow - still pretty much lockdown but with gyms and shops open.

Restaurants allowed to open til 6 but no alcohol. So lots of them are just not reopening. Just to give a flavour of what it’s like up here.

Also travel restrictions so you’re not allowed out of your area, eg to go to Glasgow for shopping.

It’s pure mental up here.

Oh right, I didn’t realise the gyms were opening.

My friends in Glasgow she said it was a bit odd, hopefully it will improve a bit. Site seems a bit OTT with schools threads and Brexit etc for me today, giving the rest of it a swerve I think! to Jourdain and hope you get out of hospital soon.

I got involved in a rather spirited debate on an Australian website about the vaccine being developed in Queensland that had to be scrapped due to false positives on HIV tests (vaccine used a part of the HIV virus in the vaccine). Some were saying what’s the big deal, sure you might test positive to HIV even though you don’t have the virus but at least you won’t get sick with Covid.

Don’t know about you but getting a positive HIV test seems like a pretty big deal to me! I get that you can’t actually catch HIV from the vaccine but I think it’s for the best that this vaccine won’t be used.

@bluetongue

I got involved in a rather spirited debate on an Australian website about the vaccine being developed in Queensland that had to be scrapped due to false positives on HIV tests (vaccine used a part of the HIV virus in the vaccine). Some were saying what’s the big deal, sure you might test positive to HIV even though you don’t have the virus but at least you won’t get sick with Covid.

Don’t know about you but getting a positive HIV test seems like a pretty big deal to me! I get that you can’t actually catch HIV from the vaccine but I think it’s for the best that this vaccine won’t be used.

Blimey, I didn’t know that was happening.