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1 minute ago, welshbairn said:

He makes more sense than most, much of the time. It's just that he's a bit tourettic in his emphasis which people find hard to accept.

I don't think he's an idiot. Not at all.

I just think if another poster says it's sunny, he'll say it's raining. He's a waste of time.

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7 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

I’m an employer.  I agree we are all bad bàstards; every single one of us.  Including the ones who aren’t.

I’m astounded that the SNP has so many supporters in here yet the Communist Party has so few.

As an SME you should be very thankful that is the case Comrade.

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48 minutes ago, Detournement said:

Boris will surely have thought of this and kept something up his sleeve. 

 

I read that tonight's "address" is pre-recorded, so I think we'll have to wait. 

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I'm practising my British exceptionalism/Allison Pearson impersonation.

If we cannot run up and down the streets in cardboard spirfire costumes, carry out smoke displays on our bicycles or prance around doing the conga waving the union flag and siniging Vera Lynn then we have lost our sense of being British and have let the virus win.

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4 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

One of our gripes (Mrs Danger and myself pre-lockdown when we’d both go into the supermarket), was people who seemed to want to spend hours food shopping.  We’d go in, get what we needed, and come out and fume at the folk who would stand in front of the cold meat shelf for five minutes before selecting a pack of ham.

In fairness there might be some folk who have nothing better to do and try to make the outing last.

 

My wife does that. I'm a get in, get it, and get out kind of guy when it comesto getting the messages.

Not her. She'd fill two trollies if she got half a chance, and land home without the one thing we actually need. I always took a list - usually updated by text as I made my way round the store - she doesn't bother with a list, not surprised my youngest step daughter has threatened more than once not to take her shopping again.

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26 minutes ago, bendan said:

Surely the funniest thing about this is that it is, and has always been, the pathway out of lockdown.

In the blame culture we now live in, it's not unexpected that there is an adverse reaction to a bit of responsibility being put on people to look after themselves and make appropriate risk / reward decisions.

Workplaces will make an effort to do what is possible as this will allow them to open. Working from home will still be encouraged for those who can. KFC etc are offering reduced services to limit the number of staff required on shift to limit the risk.

Outside of work, make your own decisions. If you decide to partake in a range of social activities and also visit a vulnerable friend or relative, then you are responsible if they catch it from you, no one else.

If it is absolutely vital to you to visit someone vulnerable then you should think about limiting or even removing yourself from social activities initially until the picture develops.

Is that fair? Maybe not, but most things in life aren't. 

No one is suggesting that bars and restaurants be open tomorrow, but we are not a million miles away from that being a possibility.

However just because you have the option to do something that was forbidden the day or week before doesn't mean that you have to do it.

People have lost the ability to think rationally about how the decisions they make daily affect themselves and those around them. Something that we all subconsciously did up until 8 weeks ago.

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Just back from a walk to post some stuff. Stopped at the post box to get a stone out my shoe. Approaching me on the otherwise deserted pavement was a guy wearing in-ear headphones. As I stood with one foot in the air shaking my training shoe, this grade one fanny stops dead in his tracks about ten feet from me, does a 45 degree turn, marches into the middle of the road. Stops, turns, like soldiers on parade, and proceeds to march straight down the white lines - in the middle of the road. He doesn’t return to the pavement, he just keeps walking down the middle of the road. Approaching him, a woman in a white Mercedes A Class. He can’t hear the car. She hits the brakes and has to slow right down to walking pace. He’s still marching down the middle of the road.

Cnuts like this need to get a fcuking grip.

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