You have to wear TROUSERS to get the vaccine!

[OnlyTeaForMe]

[NB - Lighthearted . . .]

Is it just me, or did anyone else find this visual on the BBC website a bit weird?
ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8BB8/production/_116386753_vaccine-queue-nc.png

Ok so inside scoop

The designer is a woman and a mum "so you're shitting in one of your own"

They have to get graphics out very quickly and use stock images a lot

Trousers are easier

I think this link has been shared among some of the designers

Maybe they are telling us 'keep your legs warm because you are going to be queuing for a while'

@SchadenfreudePersonified

You ARE quite brilliant!🤣

We have 15 categories of who is getting vaccinated in Ireland and the last one is children under 18 and pregnant women! Although by the time they get to the last of the 18 year olds my nearly 17 year old will probably be 18! We don't have a nice colourful chart with that info though just a boring document to download🤔.

It’s pyjamas

@shescreamsforme

Ok so inside scoop

The designer is a woman and a mum "so you're shitting in one of your own"

They have to get graphics out very quickly and use stock images a lot

Trousers are easier

I think this link has been shared among some of the designers

Aww... I hope she can see the fun in it and the fact that there is no malice on our part!

Gifts for the designer, for giving us such a laugh >>>

No- there is no malice at all here - it's just a bit of silliness.

We all know it's stock images and pulled together at short notice etc - what we are more poking fun at is the government, and their ever-changing rules, "inclusivity" (no wheelchairs), the government and their insistence on social distancing, Brexit (the Frenchman), the government and mask wearing, diversity (not many people of colour), the government and their arsey incomprehensible instructions, and - well, the government, really.

I don't think we're "shitting" on anybody, and TBH if I was the designer I'd be delighted - this means people are taking notice of it even if they are making fun of it. We won't be the only ones laughing and joking about it - and as any advertiser will tell you - humour captures the imagination.

There is no such thing as bad publicity, as the saying goes.

To the designer - thank you for lightening an intolerable situation.

You are keeping us to and , and to tippling rather than .

A sober(ish) nation salutes you!

Agree fully no malice in the slightest. It’s been silly fun. Have laughed out loud not at the designer but at posters’ humour.
I’d like to bloody well thank the designer for that and also for what I consider to be a fun, easy to understand, impactful design !!!

Of course that's not to say we won't be eyeing up all the future visuals with great interest

What I want to know is, which budget paid for this visual and how much did it cost? You still need to be able to read English to access it, so a bullet-pointed list would have had the same utility.

We all know that designers are under a tremendous amount of pressure to get graphics out by deadline and under budget especially at this scary time.
As pp have said, Thank you Lucy and Dominic for letting us be a little silly with this and we were by know means meaning to cause you stress. You guys rock!

Actually, I been informed that the people are queueing to get the jab from the Amazon delivery drivers...BBC couldn't get permission to use their image so Lucy and Dominic had to leave it off

That's it I'm complaining no white woman with afro (me) how very dare they

@Sweetpea1532

Actually, I been informed that the people are queueing to get the jab from the Amazon delivery drivers...BBC couldn't get permission to use their image so Lucy and Dominic had to leave it off

PMSL here!

Maybe they're the ones with incontinence problems or bags? Everytime they had to visit the bathroom they rejoined the queue in a very British manner?

I am also looking closely for those who enter a new age bracket when they are already in the orderly queue! I’d expect them to be ushered forward.
I can’t see any of this going on here. Hmmm

I've just realised my wardrobe is terribly outdated if everyone is wearing that garb nowadays. It's only been a year that I've not been getting out and about. Didn't realise things had changed so much.

Some of them have clearly been getting some Debenhams closing down sale bargains!
media.debenhams.com/i/debenhams/090010365620_3/dark_yellow_tailored_fit_chinos.jpg?w=1000&h=1000&fmt=webp&qlt=60

@OnlyTeaForMe

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@OnlyTeaForMe

They also have the mens black shoes!
Good find, Tea...everybody loves a bargain

But now I’m worried if this is closing down garb what are those of us who will need it later in the year do when our call comes !! Do we need a version of a brexit box stash ordered now ?? A Covid cupboard.
Will Debenhams have enough stock ??
Bloody hell. This in too often everything . . .

On top of not ‘in too often’ I was so overwrought I just could not write or spell.

@HeronLanyon
I'm sorry this news has about done your poor head in

No probs sweetpea I was in a low spot there. I’ve now managed to source my Covid Vaccine Queue Compliant clothing. Just now need to get my hair cut or let it grow - I’m kind of between those lengths currently. Then I need to make sure I don’t accept any early invite as obviously I won’t be wearing any kind of coat - these are all summer vaccines obviously.

@HeronLanyon

Have you thought about one of those bun hairdos with the curly tendrils.? So 70s