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Ffs just tell us when the funeral is!

636 replies

CrapBucket · 09/09/2022 18:28

Just tell us if its the Saturday or the Monday please ffs. 'Expected' to be is driving me mad.

OP posts:
MadeWithCare · 09/09/2022 23:09

PenguinMan · 09/09/2022 23:06

It's covid all over again.

OMD the hysteria on here is crazy 🙄

Hysteria to point out that losing a day's pay will really hurt lots of people? But nice partial quote there.

RichardMarxisinnocent · 09/09/2022 23:09

PenguinMan · 09/09/2022 23:06

It's covid all over again.

OMD the hysteria on here is crazy 🙄

Can you please stop using the word hysteria?

Pumperthepumper · 09/09/2022 23:10

Culldesack · 09/09/2022 23:07

Talking of mindlessness, students deserve to be encouraged to think critically, not how you demand they think. So I take it you're going to be telling your students or pupils what a waste of space the Queen was.

You can stay up on your high horse all day long; thankfully, your ignorance and misplaced arrogance doesn't affect my life.

I’ve already covered it with my pupils, and I’ve already said on this thread - I told them about what she achieved and how she was able to do that.

AND I managed it without grief wanking myself into a state of servile grovelling about the loss of the master. That’s why I’m so glad you’re no longer teaching, can you even imagine how you would have handled this?

PenguinMan · 09/09/2022 23:12

So if schools aren’t closed but my child’s private nursery is, what next ?

@Pumperthepumper What would you do if your child had D&V and couldn’t go to their private nursery?

Culldesack · 09/09/2022 23:13

Pumperthepumper · 09/09/2022 23:10

I’ve already covered it with my pupils, and I’ve already said on this thread - I told them about what she achieved and how she was able to do that.

AND I managed it without grief wanking myself into a state of servile grovelling about the loss of the master. That’s why I’m so glad you’re no longer teaching, can you even imagine how you would have handled this?

..with professionalism, humour and anecdotes. Then again, my style was never robotic and lacking in feeling.

DietrichandDiMaggio · 09/09/2022 23:14

I hope that schools are closed, because I want to be able to watch the funeral.

Pumperthepumper · 09/09/2022 23:14

PenguinMan · 09/09/2022 23:12

So if schools aren’t closed but my child’s private nursery is, what next ?

@Pumperthepumper What would you do if your child had D&V and couldn’t go to their private nursery?

I would go to work and send them to nursery.

Pumperthepumper · 09/09/2022 23:15

Culldesack · 09/09/2022 23:13

..with professionalism, humour and anecdotes. Then again, my style was never robotic and lacking in feeling.

Personal anecdotes?

PenguinMan · 09/09/2022 23:15

Hysteria to point out that losing a day's pay will really hurt lots of people? But nice partial quote there.

@MadeWithCare Who is losing a days pay?

No one has said they’re closing.

So yes it is being hysterical to talk about not going into work, losing a days pay or having no childcare when most places of business and schools have said they are not closing.

People are just enjoying whipping people into a frenzy and making them panic.

PenguinMan · 09/09/2022 23:16

I would go to work and send them to nursery.

@Pumperthepumper I assume you don’t have kids then as nurseries do not allow kids in with D&V.

lightisnotwhite · 09/09/2022 23:17

InPraiseOfBacchus · 09/09/2022 22:50

So heartless for prioritising their children and jobs over a woman they never knew and whose services they never asked for and only dubiously and peripherally benefitted from.

You don’t know Boris / Liz Trust , you may never use a school or public transport and you don’t give a shit who's in power as long as who are financially better off.

What exactly are you prioritising over the values of supporting others and doing what you can to make the world better,

Culldesack · 09/09/2022 23:19

PenguinMan · 09/09/2022 23:16

I would go to work and send them to nursery.

@Pumperthepumper I assume you don’t have kids then as nurseries do not allow kids in with D&V.

😎😉

Potato28 · 09/09/2022 23:22

D-Day 0 was today not yesterday
So the funeral will be Monday the 19th
It will be a bank holiday, Schools will be closed

Pumperthepumper · 09/09/2022 23:24

PenguinMan · 09/09/2022 23:16

I would go to work and send them to nursery.

@Pumperthepumper I assume you don’t have kids then as nurseries do not allow kids in with D&V.

No, i do. But I don’t get paid for days off due to childcare. You’re so out of touch.

ThinWomansBrain · 09/09/2022 23:24

when my Dad died there was a queue for the crematorium - maybe he same problem.
Although the funeral director said it's always a problem in thw winter months, so maybe not.

Pumperthepumper · 09/09/2022 23:25

Culldesack · 09/09/2022 23:19

😎😉

You still haven’t shared your personal anecdotes about the Queen.

PenguinMan · 09/09/2022 23:27

No, i do. But I don’t get paid for days off due to childcare. You’re so out of touch.

@Pumperthepumper It’s funny you say I’m out of touch when you’ve literally just said you’d send your child in with D&V which is complete BS and another lie.

Culldesack · 09/09/2022 23:27

Pumperthepumper · 09/09/2022 23:25

You still haven’t shared your personal anecdotes about the Queen.

That's because they weren't personal. You still haven't explained how you would send your child to nursery, when there is a rule about not admitting them in the first two days. Well spotted @PenguinMan .

Culldesack · 09/09/2022 23:28

PenguinMan · 09/09/2022 23:27

No, i do. But I don’t get paid for days off due to childcare. You’re so out of touch.

@Pumperthepumper It’s funny you say I’m out of touch when you’ve literally just said you’d send your child in with D&V which is complete BS and another lie.

Yep, likes to throw their weight around.

Pumperthepumper · 09/09/2022 23:28

Culldesack · 09/09/2022 23:27

That's because they weren't personal. You still haven't explained how you would send your child to nursery, when there is a rule about not admitting them in the first two days. Well spotted @PenguinMan .

Oh no personal anecdotes? So just random ones about a woman with no influence on your life T all?

I’d just send them in. The bug would circulate. Others would get Ill. They’d then worry about childcare too.

Pumperthepumper · 09/09/2022 23:29

PenguinMan · 09/09/2022 23:27

No, i do. But I don’t get paid for days off due to childcare. You’re so out of touch.

@Pumperthepumper It’s funny you say I’m out of touch when you’ve literally just said you’d send your child in with D&V which is complete BS and another lie.

It’s not. That’s what I’d have to do because I’M NOT ENTITLED TO TIME OFF FOR CHILDCARE LIKE YOU CLAIMED

PenguinMan · 09/09/2022 23:30

I’d just send them in. The bug would circulate. Others would get Ill. They’d then worry about childcare too.

😂😂😂 your funny.

Yep you definitely don’t have DCs.

MilliwaysUniverse · 09/09/2022 23:30

There have been some technical issues with the change of PM and reshuffle which have delayed some of the things that need to happen before the funeral date is announced. Expect to hear tomorrow for sure (unlikely to be Saturday due to this, there's a relatively strict timeline that will be followed)

sleezeandwineparty · 09/09/2022 23:30

Fuck! The 19th! I got a last minute appointment for my children with their nurse that day! By some miracle I am off work, and I even joked after I high fives the air with him, "let's see what disaster will scupper this plan!"
They are a year over due for this appointment and they go to adult services in a couple of months and the wait list for that is about a year 🥲
Hopefully the NHS will get a day in lieu as so much will have been organised, surgeries, investigations, treatments.

PenguinMan · 09/09/2022 23:31

@Pumperthepumper What union are you with?