|
Who is your first pick in the deputy leadership race? This poll is closed. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| R. Allin-Khan |
|
6 | 1.60% |
| R. Burgon |
|
80 | 21.33% |
| D. Butler |
|
72 | 19.20% |
| A. Rayner |
|
35 | 9.33% |
| I. Murray |
|
5 | 1.33% |
| P. Flaps |
|
177 | 47.20% |
| Total: | 375 votes | ||
|
Jose posted:genuinely more for american people than obama did after 2008 If Trump goes full Strasserite surely he’s going to stomp the sad shell of Joe Biden into folksy dust e: 136BCE, Arah-Nisanu (Mar-Apr, the month of Bel): Babylon falls dark as the Moon passes before the Sun Shogi fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Mar 18, 2020 |
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:27
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 18:32 |
|
|
Shogi posted:If Trump goes full Strasserite surely he’s going to stomp the sad shell of Joe Biden into folksy dust All he has to do is mention Biden bragging about how many times he tried to cut social security and it's a slam dunk
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:28
|
|
|
JeremoudCorbynejad posted:gently caress. So it didn't peak, then. My Italian colleagues tell us that their state tv news network tells them the peak is expected on March 25th.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:28
|
|
|
Advice, please! I live in a busy area of Zone 2 London, in a studio flat. I have my own kitchen and bathroom, and can fairly easily just shut the door and feel relatively safe from the virus. I recently turned 30, so age-wise I'm at fairly low risk, but I do have type 1 diabetes. I genuinely don't think this puts me at as much additional risk as some people seem to think because I have various issues with the stats, but I am understandably nervous, particularly as London seems to be bearing the brunt of this, my rental contract ends at the beginning of May, and there's a significant chance that the city might be quarantined entirely. Realistically, with everyone working from home or self-isolating, there's nothing I need to be here for that I couldn't do somewhere else, so I'm seriously considering getting the gently caress out of dodge if I can - even though that might mean eating another month's rent on a flat I'm not living in if I can't persuade the landlord to release me from the contract. My partner lives in the south-west but I can't move in with her because of her current (hopefully temporary!) housing situation, but my parents are happy to have me move back to theirs in Tyneside (lowest rates of COVID in the country!) until this all blows over. Realistically this was always going to be the plan at the start of May, but I'm anxious because they're both around 60 years old. Neither have serious health problems though, and they're taking this quite seriously as far as I can tell - only going out to do the shopping. My dad is working from home while my mum (who is an obsessive clean freak anyway) works in a very small team (3 or so of them) in a closed office, and all of her colleagues are taking it seriously too. There's talk of perhaps her being able to move to WFH, but it hasn't been confirmed. So, what do I do? Hole up in London and pray for the best, or pack the gently caress up ASAP and get out? e: I should also point out that my dad has offered to drive down here, I throw everything in the car, and we drive back. This isn't going to involve lengthy trips on public transport. ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Mar 18, 2020 |
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:28
|
|
|
Well, that's official then. The De Pfeffel is shutting down all schools from Friday. May god have mercy on those trying to arrange last minute child care.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:28
|
|
|
Turns out that my epilepsy prescription hasn't been signed off by my GP, despite a request waiting for it be signed off. And you know what, I ain't even mad with the absolute chaos that's going on
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:28
|
|
|
Jaeluni Asjil posted:If you go to https://www.parsleybox.com/ME3 Thank you, ordered one for my dad just in case, he's 76
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:29
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1240314680779902976
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:31
|
|
|
some good no deal brexit scenarios happening https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1240328029664161792
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:32
|
|
|
RockyB posted:Well, that's official then. The De Pfeffel is shutting down all schools from Friday. Yep, it's so cruel that they've waited until after 5pm today to announce school closures. Surely they know people will be scrambling to organise child care, freakin' quit dragging your feet, announce the closure in the morning, have some human decency dammit.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:34
|
|
|
Just having to persuade a friend that deliberately getting infected with coronavirus "to get it over with" is probably not a great strategy.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:35
|
|
|
JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Boris is definitely feeling Churchillian 
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:36
|
|
|
ThomasPaine posted:Advice, please! I mean ultimately it's a gut decision, not a brain one. You're no more or less likely to contract it staying indoors in London than staying inside in Tyneside, because it's not like it can go through walls, and I know this is a bummer but there's a nonzero chance you're already infected and could infect your parents. However I absolutely understand the impulse to be with family (and their desire to be with you) at a time like this, and really only you can make that call. I mean personally I've turned down offers from family around the country to bug out - partly because I'm low-risk, partly because of that insane "I'm safer in my own home" mentality that leads people to try and ride out hurricanes and wildfires, but mainly because they all have worse broadband than I do. I can cope with never leaving the house but there's no loving way I'm going back to ADSL.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:39
|
|
|
Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, coughing during the PM's anti-corona conference 
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:42
|
|
|
ThomasPaine posted:Advice, please! Well to me it sounds like go to family sounds like a plan. It doesn't sound from your other posts that being on your own is working too well for you. Will you be able to get some 'own space' there? Love my folks to bits but staying with family always has me desperate to get some space and time alone after a few hours. But only you can make the decision.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:43
|
|
|
is there any roundup of the options for online grocery shopping and delivery? I haven't done that before and I'm trying to get other people ready for it too I know Tesco and Morrisons and the like do it, but I've also heard their schedules are rammed. What else is out there/good?
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:43
|
|
|
knox_harrington posted:Just having to persuade a friend that deliberately getting infected with coronavirus "to get it over with" is probably not a great strategy. Yeah would not advise. I’m healthy and youngish, I almost certainly have it and even a mild symptomatic case is really quite poo poo. Unless you love waking up at 4am repeatedly with your chest absolutely knacking I spose. They might be very anxious but they need to think through the possible consequences including for other people, and find a better coping strategy
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:44
|
|
|
Gonna be wild when the queen dies of Covid under Johnson's watch and they can't even give her a state funeral because London's on lockdown
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:44
|
|
|
goddamnedtwisto posted:
Seeing as there's a TfL bus from Hounslow to Slough (the dear old 81), this is particularly apt
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:44
|
|
|
u brexit ukip it posted:Gonna be wild when the queen dies of Covid under Johnson's watch and they can't even give her a state funeral because London's on lockdown Thrown into a ditch with the rest of them* (*royals or other old people? am I even talking about the virus? you decide)
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:50
|
|
|
loving lol boris said no when asked if he'd get a brexit extension because of this
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:50
|
|
|
Julio Cruz posted:that is Boomer-on-Facebook levels of random ITALICS and underlinings and capitalisations I wa s going topost this hehe MAUREEN WHERE IS THE "I LIKE" BUTTON ON THIS 
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:52
|
|
|
CoolCab posted:I think it's worth highlighting here that nerves are going to get extremely frayed as this goes on, particularly as places like this thread become where people are getting most of their socialization. And that's OK - things are catastrophically, terrifyingly hosed right now. But we should try to be understanding of other posters when they express their anxieties - even when that expression isn't done optimally. I was about to say, thank you to people ITT for support and general news stuff. Going to get loving crazy over the next few months so I'm glad to be here (took a break after the election and felt better for it, but now I must rush back to my social media node) ThomasPaine posted:
I'd go with, be with your family. You don't know what's going to happen over the next few weeks, and it seems like where you've been has been difficult. And if you need to, the countryside won't be too far away rather than somewhere in the sprawl of London so you can go for walks and that. If we start getting blackouts or anything like fires or floods, I'd rather be out in the hills than in an inner city.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:52
|
|
|
Jaeluni Asjil posted:Well to me it sounds like go to family sounds like a plan. Living alone is fine, really, I just get frustrated because, in retrospect, my life before moving here was pretty idyllic - I lived in a nice flat with my partner in a nice area of a city I love, doing I job I enjoyed. Via my posting on here you only really see me at my worst when I talk about that, for obvious reasons, but I can't deny that it has been a challenge, and the last thing I loving needed was a pandemic on top of everything else. Yeah, I'd have my own room at least. If I had been due to be in London for another half a year I'd stay, but the fact that I am inevitably going to have to do this whether now or at the start of May is making me consider whether I want to be at the epicentre right as everything completely goes to pieces. e: Also I've been self-isolating for the last week and a bit so fairly unlikely I have it, or if I have had it I had a super mild case (was a little phlegmy but not really the same symptoms) ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Mar 18, 2020 |
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:52
|
|
|
Jose posted:loving lol boris said no when asked if he'd get a brexit extension because of this Odds of having a pandemic, no deal brexit and the queen's death all happening at the same time looking better.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:54
|
|
|
knox_harrington posted:Just having to persuade a friend that deliberately getting infected with coronavirus "to get it over with" is probably not a great strategy. Tell that to Rutte. The Netherlands have changed course to full-on charge into the fabled dreamland of "herde immunity".
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:55
|
|
|
Jose posted:genuinely more for american people than obama did after 2008 trump bad.... but this good??
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:57
|
|
|
baka kaba posted:is there any roundup of the options for online grocery shopping and delivery? I haven't done that before and I'm trying to get other people ready for it too Our small independent grocers and some of the local cafes are offering home delivery locally. If you're not on Facebook now might be a good time to sign up, not 'friend' anyone, join some local groups or pages. Our town has now the general groups but also two specific mutual aid groups (one as a direct result of the flooding which some are only just able to move back into their homes and others still can't) which are proving useful.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:57
|
|
|
If you had to take public transport I'd say gently caress no. But since you can get a car, I feel like you probably should. Don't worry too much about a lockdown though. In other countries they're allowing essential travel and I think "i'm moving house" would qualify. So I don't think you need to drop everything and move out tomorrow.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:59
|
|
|
Barry Foster posted:everyone else assumes that I'm the crazy one for accepting realistic predictions   So many warnings for saying things would happen which then happened. Like a loving cursed soothsayer or something. Got told off today for saying alas that these dark days should be mine. I want to check on my neighbours round the corner who are old as poo poo. How do I do this safely or should I just leave them alone? I don’t have phone numbers.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 19:00
|
|
|
guillotine everyone who has ever worked in the home office https://twitter.com/trillingual/status/1240334414690881538?s=20
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 19:01
|
|
|
Sanford posted:I want to check on my neighbours round the corner who are old as poo poo. How do I do this safely or should I just leave them alone? I don’t have phone numbers. Pop a note in in big clear letters with your number on it. Disinfect it before you insert it (always good advice)
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 19:03
|
|
|
justcola posted:I'd go with, be with your family. You don't know what's going to happen over the next few weeks, and it seems like where you've been has been difficult. And if you need to, the countryside won't be too far away rather than somewhere in the sprawl of London so you can go for walks and that. If we start getting blackouts or anything like fires or floods, I'd rather be out in the hills than in an inner city. Blackouts, fires or floods? You're being a *wee* bit histrionic there, I think. If society breaks down to the point where the power stops (or nobody's around to flick the switch on the Thames Barrier) then it really doesn't matter where you are, we're all dead.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 19:05
|
|
|
Jose posted:loving lol boris said no when asked if he'd get a brexit extension because of this
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 19:06
|
|
|
THEY'LL KEEP FIGHTING AND THEY'LL WIN! Would you like to know more?
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 19:10
|
|
|
Goddamn, Graundiad doing sterling work once again
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 19:11
|
|
|
We's gonn have us a shitdown hooweeeee!!! 
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 19:12
|
|
|
so many just outright lies, even contradicting their own study that was written at a remedial level so even the infants in suits can read it not a peep from the court scribes
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 19:14
|
|
|
goddamnedtwisto posted:Blackouts, fires or floods? You're being a *wee* bit histrionic there, I think. If society breaks down to the point where the power stops (or nobody's around to flick the switch on the Thames Barrier) then it really doesn't matter where you are, we're all dead. Blackouts were/are a common feature in Egypt - funnily enough the one time we didn't get a powercut was during the revolution, can safely said we weren't all dead. People like me had an array of rechargeable lighting (much cheaper there than here), others like my New Age Hippy friend believed in the power of the candle. They were a feature before and after though. People blame Morsy even though there was sabotage going on in the power plants, and they seemed to forget that it was all going pear-shaped under Mubarak in 2009/10.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 19:15
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 18:32 |
|
|
RockyB posted:Goddamn, Graundiad doing sterling work once again
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 19:15
|
|
