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Cheese in coffee/ mild meats (?) thread..

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Wilkolampshade · 13/04/2021 13:02

Hi all,
Could some kind soul please link to the thread, it'll be from this time last year I guess, where someone posted about using cheese in coffee as a substitute for milk and I'm sure, also suggested we only buy 'mild meats' as others weren't essential?
I'm not making this up... am I?
I've tried to explain to family members but they've all been a bit

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justasking111 · 14/04/2021 14:09

Made me chuckle here one local lady would berate anyone she met on her walks with her pooch accusing them of not being local because she did not know them personally

psychomath · 14/04/2021 14:09

justasking that's brilliant, glad they were successful! I love little community success stories like that.

TheOneWithTheBigNose · 14/04/2021 14:21

I got absolutely slated for saying our daily walk took 1.5 hours. Apparently I thought I was special and above the law. Even though daily exercise being for an hour was never the law. It was never even guidance. It was a throwaway comment made my Gove.

SaucyHorse · 14/04/2021 14:33

I remember confident threats from before the UK 'lockdown' was actually implemented that a lockdown would mean animals starving to death in the fields, as animal care would not be essential.

There were definitely some posters back in spring/summer 2020 who I genuinely felt quite sorry for, despite their scolding and making up rules left right and centre, because they actually seemed to have been quite severely psychologically affected. I hope they are doing better now.

Brabraboo · 14/04/2021 14:41

I’ve been thinking about the old threads recently too!

Although I didn’t really contribute to them, I read every thread on the Coronavirus topic religiously, desperate for information and perhaps looking to a sense of control. I didn’t trust Boris’ stupid announcements because he consistently u-turned and I felt we were being gas lit from one extreme to the other all of the time. One minute he’s shaking hands with patients, the next we are all gonna die etc etc.

I agree with others that it’s difficult to just make fun of some of the posters to those threads because we are doing so in hindsight. We know so much more now about the virus, its transmission, it’s death rate etc. We did not know a lot of this at the time and there was very real feeling that it was a deadly plague on us all (at what other time in our lives have we had literal death statistics announced in the news daily for one illness etc) we also have a government who chose to heighten the level of personal risk felt by all of us in order to insure compliance with measures. It’s perhaps not fair to mock people who were hugely susceptible to all of that.

Having said that. Does anyone remember the comments by posters saying that if you chose to send your child to school on the week before they were closed, you should send them with their own body bag?! Or am I imagining that this was said?!
Or the thread where someone’s neighbour had children blowing bubbles in the garden , which were coming over her fence and could infect her since they were someone’s breath

Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 14/04/2021 15:53

Wasn’t there a big debate about if it was safe to bake cakes for you neighbours in case you put Covid into the cake mix?

WhatssUpP · 14/04/2021 15:56

My little ones 1st birthday was on the first week of lockdown and I had a lady behind me in the queue and a lady on the till questioning why I was buying a birthday cake, candles, a supermarket toy which was together with my main shopping and I remember turning around to both of them and saying "none of your business and why are you selling these if it's illegal? I'll buy what I want and when I want mind your own business".

I think it was a perfect field day for covid marshalls to go and bully others and I'm so glad this group is getting smaller and smaller and now they are probably locking themselves up at home because no one gives a shit. I also remember the times when people would take their own sweet time on the one way system isles and shouting at people who dared to come close. You try that attitude at my local Tesco's right now, you would get mowed down with a trolley

Brabraboo · 14/04/2021 16:02

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin that definitely definitely was mentioned. I remember it

TheKeatingFive · 14/04/2021 16:06

Thanks!

TheOneWithTheBigNose · 14/04/2021 17:38

Does anyone remember the comments by posters saying that if you chose to send your child to school on the week before they were closed, you should send them with their own body bag?!

Someone on here said that the reason schools were opened up before anything else was because kids body bags are cheaper than adult ones.

Heysiriyouknob · 14/04/2021 17:45

@TheOneWithTheBigNose

Does anyone remember the comments by posters saying that if you chose to send your child to school on the week before they were closed, you should send them with their own body bag?!

Someone on here said that the reason schools were opened up before anything else was because kids body bags are cheaper than adult ones.

Fucking hell. That's absolutely disgusting. Whoever said that should be ashamed.

TheVampiresWife · 14/04/2021 19:09

I remember the bubbles! Also the poster who asked if she was BU (she thought she wasn't) to expect her next door neighbours not to use their garden because the neighbours had covid and were isolating. She was too scared to go into her own garden or let her DC play in it if the neighbours were sitting in theirs, or had been recently. There was a 6ft fence between them so they couldn't see each other let alone breathe on each other.

Most posters told her yes, she was BU, but there were plenty who insisted isolation meant staying in your house (presumably with a red cross painted on the front door).

Heysiriyouknob · 14/04/2021 19:46

Do you also remember when people were saying not to go within 2m of your garden fence because of the neighbours.

Jesus Christ. It all seems so insane looking back.

This was the boogeyman that was going to kill us all though. That's how it was touted. I feel for the people who were/are affected by the fear.

psychomath · 14/04/2021 19:52

Does anyone remember the comments by posters saying that if you chose to send your child to school on the week before they were closed, you should send them with their own body bag?!

I think it was before they reopened in June, but yeah, I definitely remember it being said.

Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 14/04/2021 19:59

The comments about the body bags are really beyond the pale, all those key worker parents that had to send their kids to school must have felt awful.

There were also loads of debates like “would you have takeaway delivered” with plenty of bonkers responses - miltoning pizza boxes and the like.

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Wilkolampshade · 14/04/2021 20:16

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin you make a good point about key worker parents and the feelings around school. My two DC too old for school now but DH worked all the way through bar the first couple of weeks, not because he's a key worker, but because his boss absolutely insisted on it. A tiny office in Central London, no ventilation, no screens, not even a bottle of sanitiser in the loo. We didn't know how to feel really, angry? Worried? Guilty? A 'friend' made it clear she thought this was beyond awful and that he should resign, not for his own safety's sake, but out of a sense of social conscience.
Not sure the bank would have agreed.

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TheVampiresWife · 14/04/2021 20:41

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin

The comments about the body bags are really beyond the pale, all those key worker parents that had to send their kids to school must have felt awful.

There were also loads of debates like “would you have takeaway delivered” with plenty of bonkers responses - miltoning pizza boxes and the like.

I see your Miltoning pizza boxes and raise you Miltoning fruit and vegetables! Remember that? Not just one poster, either. There were Miltoned tomatoes and Miltoned cucumbers.

In all seriousness it does show what scary times they were, and as PPs have said, I hope the people whose fear drove them to such extremes are feeling calmer now.

Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 14/04/2021 20:50

@Wilkolampshade I can’t imagine how stressful that must have been for you both. Hope you came through it okay

@TheVampiresWife Miltoned cucumbers and tomatoes! I do remember that, very odd salad dressing to have

So true about hindsight being a wonderful thing, it was horrible at the time. I still look back at the last 12 months and think WTAF!

psychomath · 14/04/2021 20:52

I found the body bag comment, it was on this thread - it's been deleted (unsurprisingly) but someone's quoted it. The poster never posted again under that name, so I wonder if they were banned or realised they'd gone too far and NC'd out of embarrassment.

I remember when cafes were still open in March, I would go to my usual one on my lunch break thinking it would be fine as long as I washed my hands, then once I was home alone after work I'd start panicking that I'd put my phone down on the table and not sanitised it Also kept waking up in the middle of the night terrified that my mum (in her 70s) would die and I'd never see her again. Happily she and my dad are still very much alive and I visited them last week But it was a very scary time, and I've been one of the people who was more relaxed about covid overall.

Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 14/04/2021 21:04

@psychomath I should hope they are throughly ashamed of themselves and have fecked off to Tattle where they belong

BogRollBOGOF · 14/04/2021 21:15

I remember the body bags.
Also potatoes with a candle so as not to blow over a cake (about June, involved a grandparent)
Leaving home baked brownies on a doorstep being tantamount to murder.
And several nasty threads where mums of children with SNs were hung out to dry for driving a short distance to a "safe" place like the beach or quiet fields more than once a day.

So much nastiness piled to people who were struggling or had kind intentions.

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Wilkolampshade · 14/04/2021 21:17

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin thank you that's kind, but it was all rather extraordinary as his boss is actually a very very elderly gent, recent organ recipient, TOTAL covid denier... and most of the time we were more worried about killing him than us..

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Wilkolampshade · 14/04/2021 21:19

Thank you all for your replies. It was a horrific time, and of course not over yet.
Love to you all, and I'm so grateful for the humour shared on some of those threads. Really got me through.

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RJnomore1 · 14/04/2021 21:25

Sorry if anyone already found this...I couldn’t spot it on the thread so far though...

Cheese in coffee/ mild meats (?) thread..

Heysiriyouknob · 14/04/2021 21:30

@RJnomore1

Sorry if anyone already found this...I couldn’t spot it on the thread so far though...

My biggest regret is never actually asking what exactly counted as essential.

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