How thick are some people?

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About a quarter of a mile from my home there is a McDs which is closed a few days ago for a refurbishment til around 8th August (I think). It’s off a major roundabout. Drive on the roundabout a few times a week.

Despite the whole area fenced off, most of the external walls have gone, signs with reopening date with another McDs postcode (there’s one nearer), car park taken up by portacabins and old ventilation bits etc - people are still trying to enter McDs! This is even from the side of the roundabout where you can see the building is just a shell.

How people are going to cope with McDs closed for 7.5 weeks with the schools breaking up on the second week of July.

It's probably muscle memory/being on autopilot where they're used to driving there and don't really look at it.

Is this Tamworth?

I was going to say this, some people are so stupid I do genuinely wonder how they’ve made it to adulthood without dying/being held in a secure unit for their own safety.

On the plane the other day DS asked if there was land below us. Yes, I said. You can clearly see the sandline. Hang on, I mean the beachline.

Took me a full two minutes to retrieve the word coastline.

Never mind voting, something I think how they could survive and stay alright until now 😂
But some people are genuinely wrapped up in their own thoughts....

IME the sort of people who go to MacDs aren’t old. They’re young and usually have more kids than than planet can cope with. And are high as kites.

And this is proof that fast food does indeed alter your brain.

Weirdly, I think I have recognised the location and tbh if it's the one I think it is, it might shut the local whiners up for a few weeks about the cars turning right out of the exit after the road layout changes.

Some studies suggest that voting ages should be in line with jury service ages (18-75).

People over 75 wouldn't be required to pay tax, then?

I’ve managed to get it in my eye in error a couple of times.
I used to work for D&A and Vision Express teaching people how to use contact lenses.

I come across some very thick customers at my work. My clients are not UK based and one actually thought the UK and Australia were the same place

Says it all really if there eating that crap

You realise it's perfectly possibly to have a healthy diet and the odd treat, yes?
Also, slightly ironic that you seem to think people who eat McDonalds are thick whilst simultaneously failing to spell 'they're' correctly.

There's often other reasons than simply 'they're thick'!

People on auto-pilot who therefore do not see new signs or that a building is being renovated because they are not expecting to see that, they're focused on the road, on driving the car etc... is that really 'thick'?

People who don't know the difference between 'they're' and 'there' (and presumably 'their') ... is that 'thick'...? Or are their fingers on auto-pilot, typing one thing when the brain says another (I do this often, and generally catch it but that is after all what proof-reading is for!).

I can generally spell, but when I am doing some sort of painting/drawing or even signwriting, I am concentrating on forming the shapes of the letters, controlling a paintbrush or pen, I can then miss-spell even very simple words. I don't think that's down to being thick, I think my concentration is simply on something else.

How do you not understand schools in England do not break up at the same time?

That would explain a lot!

I must live down the road from you as I know exactly which one you’re talking about!

Leicester?

We break up on Jul 9th

Got to be

not necessarily, this is perfectly describing one in Staffordshire too…

As an older person who, along with my husband (and many of my friends of the same age, 70-ish), voted to stay in the EU I wonder if it was the around 60 and younger age group who voted to leave. There was a referendum in 1975 about staying in the EEC (as it was then) and we over 65s who were then just old enough to vote were amongst the over 2 to 1 majority in favour of staying in. The UK had to work very hard to join and while the EU isn't perfect we know we are a lot better in than out.
People have short memories. I can't understand why, as the election approaches, people aren't asking themselves how any other political party would have coped with the pandemic and the Ukraine crisis? I expect all parties would have been just as overwhelmed as the Tories were, and left in the same or worse economic position.

I can then miss-spell even very simple words.

You misspelled “misspell” 🤭🙈

I know. But I don't like 'misspell' it feels funny in my brain. And Mumsnet is neither my editor or my employer so I don't really care either.

Currently at the doctors about my eyes.

When patients names come up on the screen, with room number to visit, most of them look confused even though there are signs on both floors telling which direction the room is.

Even when you check in, receptionists say “please take a seat up/downstairs” and still get at least one person sitting in the waiting area on the wrong floor “Where’s room 5?” “It’s downstairs mate” another patient replies….