Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[Scosha]

15 minutes ago, HibsFan said:

Likewise don't have anything against him personally, but it's been a window into Britain's deeply disturbed national psyche from the second he burst onto the scene.

When you think about it, the country was applauding a centenarian doing laps of his garden to raise money for a collapsing welfare state.

How the f**k does that sit right with people? 

Yup. Very well put. 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

5 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

Its like Diana all over again. 

G-G-Granville, fetch your cloth.

Edited February 2, 2021 by Zen Archer Esq.

[vikingTON]

1 minute ago, mizfit said:

 

 

Some people will almost certainly be viewing this as a dry run for the next member of the royal family.

 

 

Nah the pubs aren't open. 

[GNU_Linux]

That's going to be a thing isn't it?

Paging Annmarie Plas.

[RH33]

3 minutes ago, madwullie said:

Imo there's crucial years and the rest is pretty nebulous. For me, p1, p7, s1 and the certificate years in high school are so important. The rest is kind of treading water to an extent and with kids working at different level and speeds it's not too much of an issue to catch up. 

Once you start hitting exam years though and there's a finite amount of time to cover a certain amount of content, there's definite issues. I suppose this is one of the main considerations in bring back the secondary kids they're planning - meanwhile AFAIK the data still suggests that really young kids aren't at any real risk, so the balance is tipped towards having them in. 

I'm not at all concerned about my p4 son, when it comes down to it they'll all have missed more or less the same amount of school, so it's not like we've been flying round the world for 3 months and he's missed loads that he'll never be taught. Like I say though, my 5 year old has missed a lot of foundation building stuff, and no matter how able he is compared to his peers, that's an issue. If he was to be off for much longer I would be more worried, but (with my limited knowledge) I think it's salvageable. Obvs primary teachers in here might have a different opinion though. 

Of course, none of this considers the potential effect of the virus on the various groups of adults that are required to keep a school running tho. 

As for the logistics of entire year groups re-doing a year, I'm not even sure that would be possible. What would happen with the new p1 like you say? Anything like this would have real knock on consequences for schools for, what, 12 years to come. I reckon they'll try just about anything before considering that. 

I actually enquired about if it would be possible my youngest to repeat P4. She’s a feb baby but at the time she needed school. P1 teachers all knew her as we collected from class, her sister was in P1 and nursery had nothing left to offer her.

Her concentration is shot to bits. Had I known global pandemic etc etc

My son is 12.5 and in P7 (deferred September birthday) he’s had no transition at all but he’s doing the core tasks fine. His dyslexia is becoming more pronounced but that’s more to do with complex and longer written work rather not being in school. 

The middle ones great (p5), work done, learning new concepts.

[MP_MFC]

Elton John dusting the ivories one more time in preparation.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, madwullie said:

Be quite fitting to get his corpse hitched to a dozen drones and do a flyover of the whole nation. Maybe have him flanked by spitfires. State funeral afterwards at the absolute minimum. 

Suspect his daughter will set up a gofundme soon to help "give him the send off he always wanted". In Bali. 

Some excellent posts but THIS has to be the best so far, I've literally got tears running down my face in utter hysterics.

Keep up the good work, although I do find it rather ironic that this has cheered us all up much more than any walk around a garden ever could !!

[Rizzo]

23 minutes ago, UAE1929 said:

That's going to be a thing isn't it?

Ideally it'll be a Rimmer from Red Dwarf sort of effort. I'd take part in that.

[invergowrie arab]

Did Scorland get 10% of the money? Bet we  never.

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

3 minutes ago, MP_MFC said:

Elton John dusting the ivories one more time in preparation.

Candle in Barbados?

goodbye Captain Tom

though you were a hundred years, god took you far too quick

and it seems to me you were put at risk 

for a photo on a plane

 

Edited February 2, 2021 by Inanimate Carbon Rod

[John Lambies Doos]

I find it quite sad tbh. Despite all the media frenzy and bravado on here, a 100 yr old man who spent his last yr giving his time to charity has died.
RIP

[GiGi]

Scenes when the knighthood gets posthumously ripped back when they find out he was patient zero for BBDOS21

[invergowrie arab]

FFS 

[Miguel Sanchez]

1 minute ago, invergowrie arab said:

FFS 

Get Reynard back, I want his take on things.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

2 minutes ago, John Lambies Doos said:

I find it quite sad tbh. Despite all the media frenzy and bravado on here, a 100 yr old man who spent his last yr giving his time to charity has died.
RIP

Then again, he was a Tory, so you, know, every cloud.

[Billy Jean King]

All it took to bring P&B together again was one particular COVID death.
I love you all.

Get the pubs open for his state funeral. Public holiday.

[ayrmad]

4 minutes ago, John Lambies Doos said:

I find it quite sad tbh. Despite all the media frenzy and bravado on here, a 100 yr old man who spent his last yr giving his time to charity has died.
RIP

He's had a good innings, no sadness from me about anyone dying at that age. 

[Have some faith in Magic]

"Captain Tom Moore defended by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby over Barbados trip as he fights Covid in hospital – Metro" https://metro.co.uk/2021/02/01/captain-tom-moore-barbados-trip-defended-after-trolls-attack-14001571/amp/

 

You are all vile trolls.

Not sure a 25+ degree change in temperature is a good shock for a frail 100 year old respiratory system. 

[madwullie]

Genuinely surprised at the clamour for us to follow the English lead in the next few months. I get NS' approach is too Conservative for some, but the mob down south have made f**k up after f**k up, u turn after u turn, and looking at it objectively, have almost seemed to be encouraging the virus to spread throughout the whole shitshow. 

Eat out to help out, waiting until it was almost pointless to have even the most basic checks at airports, opening the schools for one fucking day, Boris saves Christmas, billion pound contracts for m8s, etc etc etc etc etc.

London and the South East have been in proper lockdown far longer than we've endured recently up here, all as a result of their disastrous flip flopping policy making, and its been suggested that had they had the balls to stop people going abroad for piss ups in the summer, we might even be in a situation where we have many multiples fewer cases, hospitalisations and deaths than we currently have.

I mean, I get the snp are about a million miles from blameless here, but to be gantin on the UK govt imposing looser restrictions on us than our govt would like because Matt "verge of tears" Hancock hinted we might just get to go a holiday in the summer (a promise he'll have zero problem ditching last minute, as previously shown, if it looks like a stupid decision 2 months down the line)... It just seems bonkers to me. 

If everywhere else is opening up, the numbers are miles down, and the vaccines prove to be as effective as they are looking, then all this will be possible without humping the Tories' leg now because they've shown a bit of ankle. 

Edited February 2, 2021 by madwullie

[ayrmad]

14 minutes ago, madwullie said:

Be quite fitting to get his corpse hitched to a dozen drones and do a flyover of the whole nation. Maybe have him flanked by spitfires. State funeral afterwards at the absolute minimum. 

Suspect his daughter will set up a gofundme soon to help "give him the send off he always wanted". In Bali. 

Can The Rangers not use that extra £40k and drop his ashes from the Red Arrows in a few weeks.