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riverrunning · 13/08/2021 17:43

Definitely too easy!

Did anyone see that there is a barbie vaccine scientist modelled after Sarah Gilbert? She gave the money to WISE.

I don't know whether to cry or buy one - I hope she's got nice shoes 😀

ResilienceWanker · 13/08/2021 17:53

It's fine for women to be scientists, as long as their lab coat is nicely tailored and they have Good Hair and pert boobies.

Callisto1 · 13/08/2021 18:01

I was debating whether to look up if there is any decent kids shows at the Fringe, but it all sounds like a lot of hassle.

The library experience really depressed me. The more I think of it the more I feel that most free or cheap kids events have either disappeared or become really difficult to do.

Scottishskifun · 13/08/2021 18:02

I bought my nieces some of the career range before think I got the Dr, marine biologist and astronaut.

Much better than just malibu barbie, baby sitter barbie etc.

latissimusdorsi · 13/08/2021 18:04

@mibbelucieachwell

Loving the exam Qs.

My offering:
Which is the only social group that is permitted to urinate in public, break covid rules, breach the peace, sing offensive songs, vandalise public property, intimidate passers by and drink to excess in public?

Too easy?

Well that's easy Is it nursery parents?

ElephantOfRisk · 13/08/2021 18:15

Quick trip into sainsburys this evening and did a mask recce. I passed/saw maybe about 70 folk, 2 no masks, 1 was a child, the other a quite aggressive looking young bloke.

riverrunning · 13/08/2021 18:20

Lots of kids still wearing masks round me.

Higher politics question: Does objective truth matter in politics or does the end justify the means?

ResilienceWanker · 13/08/2021 18:22

Is it nursery parents?
Actual lol

ResilienceWanker · 13/08/2021 18:34

@Callisto1

I was debating whether to look up if there is any decent kids shows at the Fringe, but it all sounds like a lot of hassle.

The library experience really depressed me. The more I think of it the more I feel that most free or cheap kids events have either disappeared or become really difficult to do.

Yes - you really need some serious commitment. And when we looked, there were only about 10 shows on, allegedly suitable for children, though they do seem to be bringing more out all the time... Each one's only on for about 3 or 4 performances, though, so you need to be free on those particular dates too - none of the usual word of mouth recommendation stuff and booking for a week on Saturday!

Or you can go to one of the "online performances" Yup, because that's totally different to everything I've been doing for the past 18 months. It was new and exciting in March 2020. Not so much now.

I totally agree that the usual free fun stuff is some combination of a) not fun, b) not available and c) a right faff to get into. So much for our promised SUMMER OF FUN.

ElephantOfRisk · 13/08/2021 18:51

Maybe it's based on Sturgeon and Swinney's definition of fun?

i.e. sitting on a wooden chair (no cushions just in case it happens to get comfy) gazing quietly out of a window and drinking a glass of warm tapwater or doing a 100 piece jigsaw of the forth bridges whilst wearing a saltire jersey and sucking a lemon.

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WouldBeGood · 13/08/2021 18:53

Or wearing a nappy and false eyelashes and sipping an irn bru

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GoldenOmber · 13/08/2021 19:00

The more I think of it the more I feel that most free or cheap kids events have either disappeared or become really difficult to do

Or ‘still technically exist but are now Online Experiences’, which with the best will in the world are not the same and especially not when you’re a child. Our library used to have Bookbug sessions for the toddlers. Now it’s videos on the Facebook page of someone sat alone in another one of the council’s libraries trying their best to sing nursery rhymes enthusiastically to an empty room.

riverrunning · 13/08/2021 19:01

this summer hasn't been a whole lot of fun - I'm contemplating letting my DD get her ears pierced so that we don't remember this one for being the Summer our gorgeous and amazing old cat died.

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WouldBeGood · 13/08/2021 19:02

It’s been shite @riverrunning

Last year was much better, despite no jags 🤷🏻‍♀️

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riverrunning · 13/08/2021 19:05

last summer we had more hope - let's face it who isn't terrified that we'll end up in yet another frigging winter lockdown with home school insanity toboot.

To go to green list places last October I needed one test. Vaccines were the promise for travel - I'm now double jagged and I'd need 3 bloody tests to go this year!

GoldenOmber · 13/08/2021 19:08

Last summer it felt like we were on a trajectory back to normal, even if it might have to go into reverse at some point. Now it’s like… “welcome to your destination, sadly it is masks and Enhanced Cleaning Measures and everything being shut or crap until the end of the time.”

ElephantOfRisk · 13/08/2021 19:15

@WouldBeGood

Or wearing a nappy and false eyelashes and sipping an irn bru

I think that's Angus your thinking of (and a lot of the other weirdos)

Y0uCann0tBeSer10us · 13/08/2021 19:23

@GoldenOmber

Last summer it felt like we were on a trajectory back to normal, even if it might have to go into reverse at some point. Now it’s like… “welcome to your destination, sadly it is masks and Enhanced Cleaning Measures and everything being shut or crap until the end of the time.”

Yes! Exactly this! There are no more review dates on the horizon, no more levels to go down through. This is it, we arrived at 'beyond level zero' and it's the same as it was before, with no prospect of it ever improving!

As always it will be the poorest who suffer most - while the council libraries are treating everyone like they have ebola, toddler groups are online (so like watching telly then?) and council pools are still operating as though everyone has the plague, those who can afford to are going to in person baby and toddler groups so their children get vital interactions for their development, and to private pools/gyms where you can swim with strangers and even (shocker!) use a sauna or steam room or have a shower afterwards! Parents with the means will navigate whatever shit show of an 'education' is given to their children, with devices and room to study and tutors if needs be, while poorer children will have to fend for themselves. Those who can afford it will bypass the ridiculous medical waiting lists and just go private, while those who can't will just have to suffer.

Iwantthesummersun · 13/08/2021 19:26

@ResilienceWanker I have been railing about fringe prices for families for ages. It can easily be £60 for a family of 4 to go and see a 50minute production. It’s absolutely crazy. I used to love taking my class to the book festival in the first week back. There’s virtual things this year but it’ll be another year at least until we can get kids back at the book festival.

riverrunning · 13/08/2021 19:28

Covid has been a great unequaliser. You can tell the SNP will be using it as the reason for the next 20 years because they took covid seriously. But not seriously enough to care about all the other negative effects they're not mitigating.

ResilienceWanker · 13/08/2021 20:29

@GoldenOmber

Last summer it felt like we were on a trajectory back to normal, even if it might have to go into reverse at some point. Now it’s like… “welcome to your destination, sadly it is masks and Enhanced Cleaning Measures and everything being shut or crap until the end of the time.”

Exactly this! They can say "it won't be like this forever" as much as they like, but it's still rail-worthy, as there's no timescale/ targets, and there's nothing we can do to make them allow things to be less crap. So, yes, people who can will pay for a better experience, and people who can't are left with the new normal...

And I feel you summersun! I've not been here for long enough to remember when it was really cheap, but it definitely didn't use to need a second mortgage. It does make it pretty unaffordable to see something that may be great, or may be a bit rubbish, when you can go to a "proper" theatre for the same cost, basically!

Scottishskifun · 13/08/2021 20:44

@Y0uCann0tBeSer10us completely agree!

How is the last 18 months levelling up for any child from a poorer background! It's sending so many children backwards many of which will never get back from and get stuck in the cycle again.

One of the reasons I rail against lack of covid clinics is for people who can't afford help who have just been abandoned with little help. I'm lucky I can afford the private treatments I'm having to be able to get relief and improve slowly but it shouldn't be that way.

OnceUponAWhine · 13/08/2021 20:45

Ending the day as I started it, railing about squirrels.
Intrigued to see a story this evening about the arrest of a sibling. I guess not everything can be protected by an injunction after all…

ElephantOfRisk · 13/08/2021 20:56

Ooh what @OnceUponAWhine?

Callisto1 · 13/08/2021 20:58

Indeed GoldenOmber the destination we've reached is a bit rubbish! I really resent this everything is back to normal. Because for me it's not that different than tier 2 really. Except if cases rise and schools become Covid pits I can look forward to more self isolation and closures.

I get that it's important for the economy to reopen paying stuff, but if we're now at the stage of clubbing and drinking with abandon, I want to be able to visit a museum or library without booking a bloody slot. I want my toddler to go to a playgroup so I can have a biscuit and drink a cuppa while they mess about with other kids. I want to know the other parents at nursery so I can arrange a playdate without it feeling weird. ARGH!