Tiery Weary & Crackers!

[Bikingbear]

As a carry on from the last thread

So message from my friend who was at the theatre and out for dinner last week ()now going back to T3 in an English county. She’s tasted freedom and now wants it back. I don’t even remind anyone that up here we haven’t had anything that looks like freedom since Junember Interesting though that she is really angry now, can’t see the justification at all. I would describe her as v.compliant since March. This whole Christmas farce might be a step too far for many who’ve been well behaved up to now?

I still think we will see a miracle and new beginnings in time for the start of election 2021 campaign. Cynical ole me

So, when the high spot of your month is a vaccine trial, you know 2020 can get tae fuck.

Travel expenses. Free biscuits. Lovely, lovely nurses and a doctor and, who knows, they might have given me the good stuff.

My only sadness was I picked a white twix (ew) and wasn't fast enough to swap it for a penguin.

And they were hugely amusing as they kept asking me if I might be pregnant. I am well past that (youngest is nearly 19). Was quite flattered.

Thicker grade lining paper works to make tubes, just tried it with a 1m length and it seemed pretty robust. Bit plain but you could decorate it with motivational slogans! I'm reminded of The Good Life Xmas special...

@Cismyfatarse

So, when the high spot of your month is a vaccine trial, you know 2020 can get tae fuck.

Travel expenses. Free biscuits. Lovely, lovely nurses and a doctor and, who knows, they might have given me the good stuff.

My only sadness was I picked a white twix (ew) and wasn't fast enough to swap it for a penguin.

And they were hugely amusing as they kept asking me if I might be pregnant. I am well past that (youngest is nearly 19). Was quite flattered.

I read that as "the high spot of your mouth" and thought they'd injected you there and thought it sounded horrendous :o

Glad you are not with child but a wee virgin birth for Christmas might have a been a treat - you could have squished it it into a two meter cracker as a surprise for the day...

There’s a white chocolate Twix? 2020 is even more fecked than I thought!

My mum and Dad are being paid to take part in a Covid research project (not the vaccine) they're being tested one a month for a year, £50 first year then £25 a month, each. They're using it to buy a new freezer.

hello, I just accidentally clicked the report button on a post on here because I have clumsy fingers, hoping nothing comes of it because I am an idiot but clicked straight back

anyway, good to see a new thread.

Oh my!!! NI entering six week lockdown on Boxing Day. I am speechless.

Please don’t let NS try to beat that🤦‍♀️

And they were hugely amusing as they kept asking me if I might be pregnant. I am well past that (youngest is nearly 19). Was quite flattered.
we had a nun on a trial & had to get endless approval from lead investigators etc for including her because she wasn’t (& wouldn’t!) taking contraceptives
There was no data point for “celibate”

@Bytheloch

Oh my!!! NI entering six week lockdown on Boxing Day. I am speechless.

Please don’t let NS try to beat that🤦‍♀️

Fuckity fuckity fuckity

@Bytheloch

Oh my!!! NI entering six week lockdown on Boxing Day. I am speechless.

Please don’t let NS try to beat that🤦‍♀️

I see your 6 week lock down and raise you a demand for all first born sons to be delivered to bute house for reprogramming into nicbots and first born daughters to be my sturgettes.... Socially distanced one a time in the back garden...

We may be safe now, Scotland won't want to be the last small nation of the UK to bring a post Christmas lockdown.

Yes tier 3 is the end of the world for the south east the actual end 🙄. Nick Hancock looked devestated as if he had lost all his friends i lold

wbeezer big fans of The Good Life here.

We’ve always shouted ‘bang’ when we’ve pulled our Christmas crackers as homage to the Christmas special.
Just thought I’d share that with you all.

@anon444877 I worry it will make her want to go big

Because I think her fans like to be “kept safe”, and if Wales and NI can do it....

There’s a white chocolate Twix? 2020 is even more fecked than I thought!

It is rank truly rank!

I've come across this foul white twix too and wondered how it ever got made and is still being made.

Noooo @WouldBeGood what else can they do? Tape us to our beds and make us watch episodes of the daily propaganda on loop?

Glad you are not with child but a wee virgin birth for Christmas might have a been a treat - you could have squished it it into a two meter cracker as a surprise for the day...

I've been drinking the vodka we had to remove to turn DD's bottle of Smirnoff into Werther's Original vodka but that properly made me laugh. Don't know why cause if someone actually gifted me a baby I'd cry...

6 week lockdown OMG! That must take you to mid February.
I feel like we have been in lockdown for months. Its grim. It will certainly make people realise that it is see people at Christmas as your next opportunity will be Easter at the earliest.

Sobering reading about the Antrim Area hospital in NI, with 17 ambulances waiting outside and paramedics being brought in from the Republic of Ireland.

Earlier on Thursday, the chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in NI, Dr Tom Black, said the NI health service faces a "nightmare six weeks ahead"

"Dr Black said pressure on the system meant healthcare staff "will have to make moral and ethical decisions they weren't trained for".

"You really don't want to get sick over the next six weeks," he said."

That last line really sums up the point of the restrictions. Most of the time, most if us don't need or think about access to emergency medical help. But I certainly have the expectation that it's there if needed. But it might not be, if there's overwhelming Covid patient numbers, let alone any chance to keep up with cancer treatments and more routine stuff.

It’s not just the health service in NI that faces a nightmare six weeks ahead.

How can we live like this? It’s mental. Lockdowns do not work

See, I can see this now happening every winter covid or no covid. What a great way to reduce normal winter pressures on hospitals rather than funding more. Population already convinced that anyone getting ill is their own fault and putting unnecessary pressure on nhs. Total narrative switch.

Yes @WaxOnFeckOff I can see that. And people just blindly obey because they are scared.

"You really don't want to get sick over the next six weeks," he said."

Insert this line every winter for the NHS. This isn’t a Covid crisis, it’s standard overload on a system that barely coped in winter 2017, for example. Not disputing that it won’t be a good time to get sick, but let’s take from this that the narrative is about to switch back to ‘save the NHS’.