ADs are elite athletes and can run very fast

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Another thread in the saga filled up (so no forwards link)

I think maybe we're endurance athletes, or maybe multievent like a decathlon

I feel so depressed... why, why am I being so feeble? I'm like, "come on, it's okay, get yourself together" and then I just cannot!

My subconscious has given itself away. I wanted to check the guidelines and typed: gov.fuk

@Jourdain11. Because humans aren't meant to live like this, and we've all had to do it now for nearly a year.

@amicissimma

My subconscious has given itself away. I wanted to check the guidelines and typed: gov.fuk

@wanderings

I so want to start a thread over there with the title "Are you all happy now?", with the text "The lovely Saint Boris has given you your beloved lockdown, condemned the public to more weeks of staying at home, and closed the schools. Now are you going to crack open the champagne, and drink to you and your children's ruined futures?"

I think the thread would be deleted before I saw any replies, though.

Meanwhile I'm going to break a few roolz as a matter of principle.

I’d say go and start a thread. Own your views/truths and lay them out clearly, give people a chance to read and consider them in the structure of one thread, rather than dropping the odd comment here and there? I’d much rather see everything coherently in one place.

But no doubt you’ll not own it, you’ll hide away behind “it would be deleted anyway”.

To everyone else, I’m sorry - it’s all bloody shit and don’t know which way is up at the moment.

I came on to ask what flower bombing is too!

I feel so depressed... why, why am I being so feeble? I'm like, "come on, it's okay, get yourself together" and then I just cannot!

I felt exactly like this this morning, there's work I could have some but I just felt too burned out to do it.

Last year (some of) the teachers responded to any discussion around schools with , which they took on as their own version of the . It stood for "you're not a teacher so your opinion has no validity".

Yes, I'm not exactly motivated to give my all at work. Unfortunately I've got tons of it, just as DD has been sent home again. I foresee six more weeks of working late into the evenings to make up for time spent homeschooling in the daytime.

@DrDiva

I came on to ask what flower bombing is too!

During the first lockdown, when lots of posters were getting lovely enhriching, well thought out home learning supported by school - some of us mere failures as parents happened to have schools whose idea of home learning was to bung a couple of worksheets together from Twinkl and tell us it was our kids' education for the next fortnight.

If you dared point out that some schools were not exactly pulling their weight in this you got called out for "teacher bashing" and there was a group who would just reply with fucking flower emojiis in an attempt to shut down any discussion of it because they were being so maligned by the fact that St Bottom's Primary in Little Arsington at the opposite end of the country were being a bit shit.

Just had the first argument with DH about how crap he was last time as well. Fairly sure my kids aren't getting a school place - despite DD2's mental health being destroyed last time.

Nope the resident broomstick brigade are already gearing up the parent blaming for not enforcing and supporting home learning, not making sure their children have a laptop each and work space within the home (fuck I'll just whack up a quick extension overnight or shove one child back up into my uterus). It's a cesspit out there.

Hopefully that just MN twats though. It’s not teacher-bashing to say that however hard schools work to provide online learning, it will not be accessible to many for a variety of reasons, and will not match up to the experience of children who are able to attend school. The government are a bunch of fuckwits but even they must know that.

@TabbyStar - that’s terrible!

He’s on his way home with concussion and stitches.

Just read through the guidance. Specifically mentions no picnics.... is someone up high on MN? If the next set define a picnic as a packet of crisps on a bench then we'll know for sure.

Ah, thanks. A kind of talk-to-the-hand thing.

@DrDiva

Ah, thanks. A kind of talk-to-the-hand thing.

Yes, but with a smug eye roll inferred.

I'm lucky (?) insofar as I've got a relatively secure job (supermarket) and dh is in another relatively safe job but he may be furloughed. I'd like to be furloughed , rather than have to deal with some of the fuckwits I've had the pleasure of seeing these last few months.
I'm looking after my granddaughter one day a week, but might have to look after her older brother, and i don't want to do home schooling. He comes here to be spoilt, to go down the park and feed the ducks, walk in the woods and splash in puddles, not do bloody work sheets!
I'm just fed up.

@Sonicthehedgehogg does it really mention no picnics?
It's my 30th at the beginning of feb and we were supposed to be in center parcs but now it's all cancelled so our other plan was to hope national trust gardens are open nearby and just trudge round one of those then have a champagne picnic whatever the weather! Maybe I'll just have to swig out of the bottle as we go.

Sending lots of wine (plus non alcoholic drinks) to everybody having a hard time. It's all a bloody joke! Had to hide in the garage and had a huge scream then poor dd1 (who is 3 on thursday) opened the door to the utility and asked me why I was sad so I just broke down. She doesn't understand any of it and honestly I'm fed up with people telling me 'she doesn't have high expectations because she's only 2/3' shes been banging on about a party for months now so she knows what a birthday and what a party is!

I post here as a safe space- I am rubbish at confrontation and would genuinely be crying my eyes out if I were to receive some of the responses that I have seen on here in terms of both the Corona board and AIBU as well as Facebook and Twitter. Perhaps that does make me a coward as I am not willing to put myself through that but at the moment that is what I can cope with.

I was going to laugh at no picnics, that well known British winter activity, but what's the definition of a picnic? We've picked up coffee and a bacon bap to eat on a bench.

@Vintagelovingmum

• No picnics
• No socialising
• No mingling (specifically)

I say swig from the bottle and saunter round (but then the NT royally pissed me off in the first lockdown with their attitude to children so I'd encourage it partly because it would annoy them)

@Sonicthehedgehogg

Just read through the guidance. Specifically mentions no picnics.... is someone up high on MN? If the next set define a picnic as a packet of crisps on a bench then we'll know for sure.

I think that's a straight copy of the original legislation.

May this thread continue to be a safe haven from SHOUTY CAPITALS, sneering retorts and general hysteria.

I bought myself a hip flask for Christmas and now have a lovely afternoon dog walk around 3pm slight pissed on port. Makes taking off my wellies a bit of a challenge but hey whatever. I obviously only do this if I don’t have to drive later on.

I just hope the police and council aren't so zealous with this lockdown

I stopped going out in lovely weather due to the police circling the park with their megaphone saying "do not stop, you are only here for exercise". Etc. Big signs near the lilac trees etc saying the same.

I think that's a straight copy of the original legislation.

Ah, fingers crossed for a champagne picnic for all then