Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[vikingTON]

4 hours ago, sparky88 said:

Selecting a cheap bottle of plonk from B and M is possibly even harder than ending lockdown, given that it doesn't have a license.

^^^ idiot found

[AUFC90]

Really like aldi some great deals on booze and fresh stuff is good.

Anyone that chooses Tesco/Asda over Aldi/Lidl for meat and veg or off their heads imo.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

10 hours ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

As part of a tentative reopening of the US state of Tennessee the Republican governor is allowing restaurants to reopen on Monday at 50% capacity. The 6 Democratic counties of TN have refused and instead have their own plan to reopen which will start on Thursday.
I thought this was nicely representative of Coronavirus being used as part of a bitter partisan national political power struggle.

At this time be grateful that the Tories have so much support from the media and general public and can get on with the job at hand without toxic hostile politics getting in the way.

[Jacksgranda]

11 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

I think sensible SNP members and supporters are willing to criticise when its valid.  I’m glad we have Sturgeon in charge but there’s various aspects of our response that I’m less than happy with.

I don't think any government anywhere has got this 100% right, which is understandable. However, those that have had more time to prepare should have been better prepared.

Those advocating that lockdown should have started sooner are completely ignoring the way lockdown has been treated when it became unavoidable. There is no way the public would have tolerated it when infections and deaths were relatively miniscule.

[Todd_is_God]

4 minutes ago, AUFC90 said:

22 hours ago, D.A.F.C said:

Really like aldi some great deals on booze and fresh stuff is good.

Anyone that chooses Tesco/Asda over Aldi/Lidl for meat and veg or off their heads imo.

I'll buy chicken in either tbh. Aldi packs are cheaper, but the breasts themselves are smaller.

£/kg i don't think there is a huge difference.

[ICTChris]

Twitter thread about adherence to and support for the lockdown

[DA Baracus]

B&M is decent for cleaning products and juice.

The alcohol they sell looks shite.

[Mark Connolly]

While I was walking through Kelvingrove Park there, I saw a guy standing in the middle of the playpark leaning against one of the slides. Cop car pulled up, one of them got out and asked if he was OK. "Yeah, I'm just taking a photo of the Uni" was his answer. When the cop pointed out that this didn't seem like an essential journey or exercise, and that he had had to enter an area cordoned off with police tape to take said photo, he took the huff and said there were other people doing similar and they were picking on him. He then wandered off, muttering under his breath while the cop looked completely fed up.

Am I wrong for thinking she should have just nicked him for being a knob?

[Miguel Sanchez]

Just now, Mark Connolly said:

While I was walking through Kelvingrove Park there, I saw a guy standing in the middle of the playpark leaning against one of the slides. Cop car pulled up, one of them got out and asked if he was OK. "Yeah, I'm just taking a photo of the Uni" was his answer. When the cop pointed out that this didn't seem like an essential journey or exercise, and that he had had to enter an area cordoned off with police tape to take said photo, he took the huff and said there were other people doing similar and they were picking on him. He then wandered off, muttering under his breath while the cop looked completely fed up.

Am I wrong for thinking she should have just nicked him for being a knob?

Were you taking a picture of the university at the time?

[Bairnardo]

While I was walking through Kelvingrove Park there, I saw a guy standing in the middle of the playpark leaning against one of the slides. Cop car pulled up, one of them got out and asked if he was OK. "Yeah, I'm just taking a photo of the Uni" was his answer. When the cop pointed out that this didn't seem like an essential journey or exercise, and that he had had to enter an area cordoned off with police tape to take said photo, he took the huff and said there were other people doing similar and they were picking on him. He then wandered off, muttering under his breath while the cop looked completely fed up.
Am I wrong for thinking she should have just nicked him for being a knob?

That they looked fed up and didnt take any further action is probably a good indication of how much of this type of thing they currently deal with

[Mark Connolly]

1 minute ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

Were you taking a picture of the university at the time?

No, I was wondering why there was a grown man in the cordoned off playpark

[trainspotter]

41 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

I criticised the scot gov response to this, testing and ppe provision and the cybernat brigade went tonto. 

To be fair, I think that was one particular poster who has strong form for arguing that night is day where the current SNP administration is concerned.

I'm less than impressed with Sturgeon's recent talk of "adult conversations" on lockdown measures as if she's rolling out well rehearsed FMQ responses to the usual suspects.  Maybe I'm misinterpreting but it comes across as an unwillingness to make decisions.

[NotThePars]

Gutted that Sparky88 caved on the B&M selling booze thing. The way lockdown is melting everyone's brains I'm guessing it would've taken another 2 hours max before someone drove out to their local B&M (wife in tow) to take photo evidence.

[Marshmallo]

1 minute ago, NotThePars said:

Gutted that Sparky88 caved on the B&M selling booze thing. The way lockdown is melting everyone's brains I'm guessing it would've taken another 2 hours max before someone drove out to their local B&M (wife in tow) to take photo evidence.

If you're married you can do NORMAL things like a NORMAL married couple so sounds fair enough imo.

[strichener]

5 minutes ago, NotThePars said:

Gutted that Sparky88 caved on the B&M selling booze thing. The way lockdown is melting everyone's brains I'm guessing it would've taken another 2 hours max before someone drove out to their local B&M (wife in tow) to take photo evidence.

@lichtgilphead has form for this

 

 

[Guest]

47 minutes ago, AUFC90 said:

23 hours ago, D.A.F.C said:

Really like aldi some great deals on booze and fresh stuff is good.

Anyone that chooses Tesco/Asda over Aldi/Lidl for meat and veg or off their heads imo.

Not if you don't have an Aldi or Lidl anywhere near you.

Personally I still prefer buying my meat from an independent Butcher as opposed to ANY supermarket.

[ICTChris]

Does B and M sell booze?

[Mark Connolly]

Just now, ICTChris said:

Does B and M sell booze?

I think it's Schrodinger's supermarket

[madwullie]

3 hours ago, Turkmenbashi said:

From the 4th of May onwards I will be allowed to see two friends again, but only outdoors with social distancing.

And potentially on the 18th of May I will hopefully be allowed to get my hole again (not confirmed).

Prayers  

[Fratelli]

Have noticed a lot of the bot farming alt-right twitter opinion leaders - Alison Pearson, Hopkins, Paul Joseph Watson etc  are starting to turn on the NHS a bit and reject lockdown, subsequently making thousands of union jack emoji numpties/bots say the same thing. What are they after here? not sure what the endgame is.

Also probably been mentioned on this thread, but that doctor who keeps posting misleadingly positive stuff about the virus on twitter (who has links to the government) has weirdly picked up a massive amount of followers considering he's not famous and only opened his account recently. He also seems to have right wing twitter in the palm of his hand. Some shady shite going on here to influence public opinion imo. 

Edited April 25, 2020 by Fratelli