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Guilt Free Railing 10

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WouldBeGood · 01/08/2021 23:04

Is the end nigh?

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WouldBeGood · 08/08/2021 22:43

This mask

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Ladylunchalot · 08/08/2021 23:16

Bugger, have just had a positive lateral flow test (need to do them for work). Have managed to get a test for tomorrow morning but as I now have a headache I wouldn't be surprised.
Work are going to love me phoning in the morning especially as I've been off for 2 weeks annual leave. Glad I got my weekly shop earlierWink

Groovee · 09/08/2021 06:45

@Ladylunchalot

Bugger, have just had a positive lateral flow test (need to do them for work). Have managed to get a test for tomorrow morning but as I now have a headache I wouldn't be surprised. Work are going to love me phoning in the morning especially as I've been off for 2 weeks annual leave. Glad I got my weekly shop earlierWink
Oh no. Fingers crossed for you xx
Groovee · 09/08/2021 06:46

@WouldBeGood

It’s nuts *@Groovee*

Buy Mr G a white suit and get him strutting his stuff 😂

Oh my god. That image is NOT a good one haha. Thinking of the bloke in dear John that wore the cross necklace or something (showing my age here)
Groovee · 09/08/2021 06:47

@Lockdownbear

Would MrG need a mask in a nightclub?

I'm still giggling at the thought of some girl picking up a OK looking guy in a club, only for him to reveal a face covered in spots laterGrin. I've got a really childish sense of humour.

Well off course. Mr G has a face only a mother can love. 🙊😂

But Dd said that, as her old shot job at uni have been in touch looking to see if she wants to go back.

Groovee · 09/08/2021 06:50

Here we go…

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titsintiers · 09/08/2021 07:34

@Ladylunchalot

Bugger, have just had a positive lateral flow test (need to do them for work). Have managed to get a test for tomorrow morning but as I now have a headache I wouldn't be surprised. Work are going to love me phoning in the morning especially as I've been off for 2 weeks annual leave. Glad I got my weekly shop earlierWink
Not much you can do it your test is positive. Hope you stay well if it is.
TheGenealogist · 09/08/2021 08:01

I've just had an early morning rail after coming down this morning to be greeted by Queen Nippy on telly whanging on about masks forever and vaccinating 12 year olds.

Everyone she speaks to is apparently OK with masks. Could that be because she's living in an echo chamber and only speaks to people who think the sun shines out of her arse?

I've been "good" for a year. I've been doing the mask thing, even though it makes me struggle to breathe - I'm mildly asthmatic. Couple that with menopausal hot flushes and 3 minutes in and out of the Co-op is bearable, a longer trip round Asda isn't.

So I've ordered 2 exemption lanyards.

And the BBC can FUCK OFF with reporting that "final restrictions have been lifted".

rookiemere · 09/08/2021 08:07

Maybe Nicola and her vacuum chamber are ok with masks as they haven't had to wear them at their place of work throughout this whole damn thing.

I have to say one of the things that made me angriest is SG - and BG so I'm not overly partisan - continuing to go into work and see their colleagues, and even more red mist making , not wearing masks whilst doing so.

ResilienceWanker · 09/08/2021 08:20

@Ladylunchalot

Bugger, have just had a positive lateral flow test (need to do them for work). Have managed to get a test for tomorrow morning but as I now have a headache I wouldn't be surprised. Work are going to love me phoning in the morning especially as I've been off for 2 weeks annual leave. Glad I got my weekly shop earlierWink
Oh nooooooo. Bugger indeed - Sorry to hear this! Hope you stay OK Flowers And on freedom day too ... most inconsiderate.
WouldBeGood · 09/08/2021 08:27

@Groovee 😂

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GoldenOmber · 09/08/2021 08:28

Everyone she speaks to is apparently OK with masks.

Then why does it need to be a legal requirement? Either everyone’s fine with it in which case they’ll do it anyway, or it needs to be the law because people won’t do it otherwise, in which case everyone’s clearly not fine with it. Surely.

Groovee · 09/08/2021 08:34

I'm glad I haven't turned the tv on so far. Restrictions lifted... eh not at work they haven't... I've still to social distance and wear a mask... for at least 6 weeks was what was said was it not?

TheGenealogist · 09/08/2021 08:38

@WouldBeGood

I have had an entirely mask free weekend though without recrimination. And my friend was over last night: previously Covid worried, now ditching mask where possible after a refreshing trip to England on holiday.

I’m also dreading it when people start the fucking asymptomatic testing again, although I’ve now met a few (normal) people who are just not doing it.

We;re not doing asymptomatic testing. The kids all picked up lateral flows at school around March I think, just before Easter holidays anyway. Oldest DS who was 18 and in S6 did a couple. Other two were swabbed once and hated it. So I told them they didn't need to do it unless they had symptoms.

Tested DS once in late May when he had cold-like symptoms which were probably hayfever. Negative. All the rest of hte tests are just sitting there unused. School have never asked why we're not doing it. There are also lots of other people I know who ARE doing it, but not bothering to register the negative results. School aren't asking them either.

WouldBeGood · 09/08/2021 08:38

Oh, for god’s sake, she’s just awful- a cursory glance at Scotsnet would tell her that most people want masks to go. Yes, some people are “fine” with them but it doesn’t mean they couldn’t wear them.

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TheGenealogist · 09/08/2021 08:39

Yes @Groovee, at least six weeks. That takes us to around the 25th of September, the September weekend.

Does anyone really believe it will be just 6 weeks though?

WouldBeGood · 09/08/2021 08:39

Masks are the thing most people dislike, actually, thinking of all the people I’ve bumped into (not literally, obviously, cos Covid) it’s been pretty universal

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TheGenealogist · 09/08/2021 08:45

But Queen Nicola says everyone is fine with masks, and her opinion is the only one which matters.

Come on @WouldBeGood, you know the drill. Obey her. Do not question. Thank your lucky stars for Scotland being blessed with Queen Nicola, keeping us all safe.

ResilienceWanker · 09/08/2021 08:46

@GoldenOmber

Everyone she speaks to is apparently OK with masks.

Then why does it need to be a legal requirement? Either everyone’s fine with it in which case they’ll do it anyway, or it needs to be the law because people won’t do it otherwise, in which case everyone’s clearly not fine with it. Surely.

Yes, this! I understand that having something in law will "encourage compliance", and she thinks that "masks" is worth doing so it should be made mandatory. But if she has to do that, it can only be because lots of people wouldn't wear masks otherwise! Otherwise it wouldn't be "necessary and proportionate" to have the requirement in law. So she must be lying. Or she is very, very selective in the people she is speaking to, and ignoring anyone who has told her something that doesn't fit with what she wants to hear. Which may be even worse.
Scottishskifun · 09/08/2021 08:53

@TheGenealogist

But Queen Nicola says everyone is fine with masks, and her opinion is the only one which matters.

Come on @WouldBeGood, you know the drill. Obey her. Do not question. Thank your lucky stars for Scotland being blessed with Queen Nicola, keeping us all safe.

😂 Sums it up well!

@ladylunchalot hope you're OK loads of water and keep ontop of pain relief regardless. Hopefully a dodgy lateral flow!

Groovee · 09/08/2021 08:54

@TheGenealogist

Yes *@Groovee*, at least six weeks. That takes us to around the 25th of September, the September weekend.

Does anyone really believe it will be just 6 weeks though?

The Edinburgh Sept weekend is the week before that. Then it will be October and the January then we'll be in June and still social distancing in school and wearing masks.
TheGenealogist · 09/08/2021 08:59

I really hope you're not right @Groovee. But you probably are. My middle child is starting S5 this week and should be doing Highers. She doesn't do well with uncertainty and it's all completely up in the air.

If they said "definitely masks all year but exams as usual" she'd be happier.

GoldenOmber · 09/08/2021 08:59

I would find it a lot easier to carry on with masks if the message was “ok, we know they’re a pain, we’ll ditch them as soon as we can, but we’re asking you for now to keep on with them until all the over-18s have had a chance to be double-jabbed.” Or something like that. But when it’s “masks indefinitely because they’re no bother really so shut up asking how long they’re here for” it’s a bit harder to keep plodding on.

“But it’s such a little tiny thing, just a few minutes when you pop into a shop, what’s the problem? And in every other shop. And on your way to work, and in the office, and any time you need to go somewhere beyond walking distance, and in cafes and restaurants and pubs, and in museums and libraries and galleries, and in church, and in your office, and outside at school and nursery pickup, and indeed anywhere that even vaguely meets definitions of ‘indoor’ and ‘public’ right down to birdwatching hides on RSPB reserves…”

OnceUponAWhine · 09/08/2021 09:19

@TheGenealogist

I've just had an early morning rail after coming down this morning to be greeted by Queen Nippy on telly whanging on about masks forever and vaccinating 12 year olds.

Everyone she speaks to is apparently OK with masks. Could that be because she's living in an echo chamber and only speaks to people who think the sun shines out of her arse?

I've been "good" for a year. I've been doing the mask thing, even though it makes me struggle to breathe - I'm mildly asthmatic. Couple that with menopausal hot flushes and 3 minutes in and out of the Co-op is bearable, a longer trip round Asda isn't.

So I've ordered 2 exemption lanyards.

And the BBC can FUCK OFF with reporting that "final restrictions have been lifted".

Yep- Queen masker is all over the news today as our restrictions have now dropped, apparently…AKA excellent media opportunities for television’s Nicola Sturgeon to wang on about caution in Scotland etc.

Feck all has changed today, seriously fook all, especially for the children returning back to school with their masks for 6 weeks (aye, right, it’ll end then?!) after enjoying 6 weeks of freedom, because McCovid is back to understanding dates and settings.

shouldistop · 09/08/2021 09:22

Everyone she speaks to is apparently OK with masks.

Well she hasn't bloody spoken to me. I hate the things, steam up my glasses, make my face sweaty, give me spots, make it hard for my son to understand me so I've got to repeat myself. Absolutely hate the bloody things.