Banning Easter eggs a step too far

[VivienScott]

I’ve just read that some officials are cracking down on shops selling Easter eggs as it’s non-essential. Isn’t this all going a bit far now? Easter eggs aren’t essential but a chocolate bar is? Feels like some people are letting a minuscule bit of power go straight to their heads.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52090441

You would do well to consider your vanity and your fecking grey roots are literally killing my granny!shits

It's fine. The cat o' 9 tails is already out and I have an hour set aside to self flagellate, after this evening.

Promise

My Mum is 87 and spent a year in hospital she was critically ill but getting her dyed was uppermost in her concerns and God help the person who stood in her way once she had regained her thought function. Thankfully the staff recognised her extreme need!

This thread made me laugh so much after reading the ever-so-serious “loss of human rights” thread which also mentioned aggressive policing.

I’ve been craving a Mars Bar but I’m too scared to buy one!

"If they ban them, they should ban booze"

No booze allowed during South Africa's lockdown.

I think that the point was that the chap photographed buying them appeared to have bought nothing else. And it appeared as though they were for the grandkids so presumably that would involve a trip to post or deliver them. If, however, you are shopping for essentials, I see no problem with grabbing some.

Dances, someone picking up hair dye isn't literally killing anyone. Get a grip. I know you are scared, but lashing out at others won't help.

Your granny needs to be self isolated, safe and sound.

Try to calm down, @Dances.

Things like this is really important at time like now. What can all the kids look forward to, if things like easter eggs are banned?

This is just ridiculous. I absolutely agree no one should be popping to the shops just for an Easter egg but adding one in with the essentials does no harm.

Schools have a duty still to check on the children at risk in their schools not the Police.

I'm a bit of a comfort eater & my actual reason for a trip to Tesco on Saturday was to buy lots of cakes & chocolate including mini eggs (and magazines to read while eating it).
I thought I was being clever by adding in the 'essentials' such as bread, milk & cheese but the checkout lady was on to me " ha ha it's nice to have some treats at the moment" she said, "I've noticed everyone's doing it!"

I may add I'm a frontline nhs worker & I've been looking after suspected covid patients so I needed that chocolate!!
I'm trying to lose weight now though so I won't be so bad again.

If we're going to ban anything as not necessary booze would be the thing to pick. As far as I'm aware people do not generally punch the people they live with on Easter egg fueled binges.

Are you having a laugh Detroit

Honestly at this time of year Easter eggs are a brilliant treat in this time of uncertainty. As long as you aren't going out just to buy them then of course add them to your basket. They taste so much better as eggs anyway!

shits Make sure to report back and receive your public punishment.

Now, what colour are you using?

@DetroitOnTheMove dances post was directed at me and I am sure she was actually joking.

@Dances its booked in for after emmerdale. I will make sure you are aware of how self punished I am

Same as it is now. Just a dark brown.

I am thinking, now is not the time to get creative. No matter how bored I am 😂

'Lube', smile...?
You are damn well going to have to account for that non essential item (ye fecking harridan). Have you no sense of your duty to society?

How about a big blond 'skunk' stripe, shits? That would match Your Shame well.

Lovely Supermarket worker in a rather bleak store had put brightly coloured eggs all along the empty shelves.
He said ''They wouldn't normally go there, but {implying they look better than empty shelves everywhere.
He also said his latex gloves {a single pair} got torn to flinders within 5 minutes of unpacking/loading veg.
Easter eggs are important to kids... the eggs were made long before the food shortages so why not?...They look oddly cheerful on the shelves at this strange time.

As long as I live I'll never understand sarcasm or irony. Never...I'm culturally disadvantaged.

Honestly as a key worker if a policeman or woman told me while i was doing my essential shopping i couldn't buy an egg to take home my kids i don't think i would be polite .Everyones lives have been turned on it's head my one DC was supposed to be on a school trip at Easter really looked forward to it .Small in the meaning of things but they are entitled to some small slither of normality.

@Dances well string me up too .My fab sister is a key worker in a supermarket she is going to see if they have my hair dye in tomorrow horror .I am working out in the community with the elderly, call me vain but i don't want my grey showing .

DH reckons it'll be the PCSOs doing silly checks 😂
Toytown police ...Trying to wield power.

If this goes on for six months I dread to think what my hair’s going to look like. I’ll have to go out with a paper bag on my head.