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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
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ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

learnincurve posted:

Oh honey don’t worry, it’s essential travel and the Queen won’t be signing off on anything till the morning at least!

Thank you! I am unfortunately incapable of any emotion but paralysing low-level anxiety at the moment, but I appreciate your concern!

Diseases in particular scare the poo poo out of me and I've always had bad health anxiety, even though I know my chances of surviving this even if I get it are like 99.95%

ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Mar 23, 2020

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Cassiopeia
Feb 17, 2011
Call your boss and tell them you got that from the NHS. If they are telling you not to go to work then listen to them. Ideally I'd say call tonight but :shrug: if there's no one who can pick up then have to do it in the morning.
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She is going to check tomorrow as she doesn't know the process and get back to me. Asked if I have my laptop with me. Can't believe our Trust have not already considered what happens when their workers get this considering the government said people would be getting notified from today last week...I wonder if they have any idea how much of the workforce this is likely to apply to.

Cassiopeia fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Mar 23, 2020

xtothez
Jan 4, 2004


College Slice
Boris 2019: Get Brexit Done
Boris 2020: You can exercise once per day. You may also go to funerals.

I bet at Christmas he thought this was going to be such an easy ride.

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

learnincurve posted:

They will be living together so it’s fine! Don’t freak him out unnecessarily my dude.

Dad's got his foot down and son's fired up on whiskey, it's going to get rowdy.

Wayfaring Stranger
Feb 16, 2011
I'm an archaeologist and was meant to be on away work in Kent from tomorrow for the rest of this week. Swift emails to my union and line manager and I am at home, for now, awaiting the executive decision. Was worried that my higher-ups thought terrestrial geophysics was somehow key to the nation along the lines of critical care nursing but happy to have been proven wrong.

Marmaduke!
May 19, 2009

Why would it do that!?
If people in this thread seriously thought that they would get into trouble for watching the bojo broadcast without a TV license then we should let them believe they'll totally get arrested for leaving the house twice in one day. Possibly by the TV detector vans pulling double duty

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Marmaduke! posted:

If people in this thread seriously thought that they would get into trouble for watching the bojo broadcast without a TV license then we should let them believe they'll totally get arrested for leaving the house twice in one day. Possibly by the TV detector vans pulling double duty

You're allowed to leave the house once to go to work, then to go back home, plus once to exercise, plus however many times it's important to go shopping for food or other essentials.

High streets are going to be busy again.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I play with a Boss DS-2 through a PA amp, gently caress purists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kaOGsC1S1s

Computer, show me worse takes than Peter Hitchens.

Ash Crimson
Apr 4, 2010
Boris 2020: You can exercise once per day. You may also go to funerals.

New thread title?

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
I see we were thinking alike.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting
Those stay in for 12 week emails started going out today I think. And look like this.



Lol that you can opt out

NotJustANumber99 fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Mar 23, 2020

Ash Crimson
Apr 4, 2010
Boris 2021: Human flesh is now fit for consumption in limited amounts

Cassiopeia
Feb 17, 2011

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Those stay in for 12 week emails started going out today I think. And look like this.



Yep got mine as a text. I live alone I am going to go mental. Implies I cant even go in my own garden just open a window. Going to be tough 😥

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

ThomasPaine posted:

my dad is now driving to london assuming if we can turn this around before morning we'll get away with it, mum is panicking and is with him, lord this is going to be a fun night. I do hope they don't get shot by are brave boys. I'm polishing off the last of my whisky because gently caress this to hell, lol. If this pandemic hadn't happened I'd have been looking forward to moving back in with my partner now but looks like that's on hold for a good few months at least. incredible. At least there's a playstation and a back garden up at theirs, so a few more distractions from all this garbage.

where in newcastle you going to be?

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
wait how do I dry out my fleshlight at my parent's house when we're all under quarantine

Jose posted:

where in newcastle you going to be?

wallsend, so north tyneside technically

Danger - Octopus!
Apr 20, 2008


Nap Ghost

Marmaduke! posted:

If people in this thread seriously thought that they would get into trouble for watching the bojo broadcast without a TV license then we should let them believe they'll totally get arrested for leaving the house twice in one day. Possibly by the TV detector vans pulling double duty

The way they followed up the announcement that it would be enforced by the police by saying that they also didn't have enough police was a nice touch.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Lol that seems a needlessly elaborate way of delivering that (mostly justified) burn.

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

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ThomasPaine posted:

wait how do I dry out my fleshlight at my parent's house when we're all under quarantine

quickly

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Cassiopeia posted:

Yep got mine as a text. I live alone I am going to go mental. Implies I cant even go in my own garden just open a window. Going to be tough 😥

get a couple of friends / relatives online and have an online virtual coffee shop meet.
A group of my friends are doing this tomorrow (including people from US, UK, Aus, NZ, Egypt) over zoom.

Maybe that election night thing that Mehall & co did over I forget which platform once or twice a week might help?

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

This is a silly post with little news value.

ThomasPaine posted:

wait how do I dry out my fleshlight at my parent's house when we're all under quarantine


at least 2m away from mum & dad wherever you do end up leaving it

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

ThomasPaine posted:

wait how do I dry out my fleshlight at my parent's house when we're all under quarantine


wallsend, so north tyneside technically

i'm going to break the lock down and oscial distancing rules to bang on all your pots and pans

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



NotJustANumber99 posted:

Those stay in for 12 week emails started going out today I think. And look like this.



Lol that you can opt out

Got mine too. Genuinely didn't think I fit in that category. Would've been good to know a week ago before I had to go out ten times.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Lol that you can opt out

That's opting out of further texts, and is a legal requirement on all mass texts (yes even ones telling you how not to die)

Cassiopeia
Feb 17, 2011

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

get a couple of friends / relatives online and have an online virtual coffee shop meet.
A group of my friends are doing this tomorrow (including people from US, UK, Aus, NZ, Egypt) over zoom.

Maybe that election night thing that Mehall & co did over I forget which platform once or twice a week might help?

Yeah will have to get over my fear of video calling. At least I'll have time to research while I work from home! Sounds good I'll look into it. I'll also stop lurking and start posting more :)

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Jose posted:

i'm going to break the lock down and oscial distancing rules to bang on all your pots and pans

that would definitely scare me more than the rona

Cassiopeia posted:

Yeah will have to get over my fear of video calling. At least I'll have time to research while I work from home! Sounds good I'll look into it. I'll also stop lurking and start posting more :)

me and my girlfriend have got a pretty solid thing going with discord, which cuts out the need for video link (which is pretty awkward unless you're, you know, doing something video is necessary for). It's nice just being able to browse whatever and talk poo poo, and you can stream video to watch movies together etc. Also tabletop simulator on steam is like £15 and can do a decent model of pretty much any boardgame you can imagine, which is a nice way to pass the time and socialise while (physically) alone.

ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Mar 23, 2020

Z the IVth
Jan 28, 2009

The trouble with your "expendable machines"
Fun Shoe

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Are you one of the 1.5 million people that were getting notified as being of extra risk? Wondering how they'll notify my mum (and many others living in areas with zero mobile phone signal?)

She'll get a letter if she's one of those that fits the criteria for shielding. Those are going out later though, we've just been asked to start collecting information to be forwarded up and letters will be going out later this week.

thespaceinvader
Mar 30, 2011

The slightest touch from a Gol-Shogeg will result in Instant Death!
My wife got her email from her doctor. She got super worried about me having gone to collect the new car (timed THAT right, especially as the exhaust loving fell off as I was driving up in the old one), moreso than about grocery shopping despite me being much closer to many more people at our tiny local coop.

I'm super glad I sorted the car though, I've been low-level worried about it I now realise for months if not years. The new one should be so much more convenient.

I'm super freaking out about the news this evening though. The conspiratorial part of my mind is loving RACING.

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006
watching Boris on the news and he's so blatantly desperate to be compared to Churchill it's hilarious

I wonder how many times he tried to get "we will fight this virus on the beaches" into the text

Lungboy
Aug 23, 2002

NEED SQUAT FORM HELP
I've not had my email or text yet, I was expecting somewhat more than simply repeating what they've been saying for a week.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

thespaceinvader posted:

.

I'm super freaking out about the news this evening though. The conspiratorial part of my mind is loving RACING.

How so?

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
Morrisons website just poo poo the bed.

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006
if Boris can get me into the habit of going for a run once a day it'll be the crowning achievement of his PMship

Nettle Soup
Jan 30, 2010

Oh, and Jones was there too.

It died just after the announcement and has been dead since, for me. (I just wanted to check if they sold something!)

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

goddamnedtwisto posted:

That's opting out of further texts, and is a legal requirement on all mass texts (yes even ones telling you how not to die)

No I'm pretty sure you just text back stop and flounce out the house

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Jose posted:

i'm going to break the lock down and oscial distancing rules to bang on all your pots and pans

ThomasPaine posted:

that would definitely scare me more than the rona
He came on a pail hoy, and death followed with him.

XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid
lol if the UKs digital infrastructure crumbles hours into the lockdown

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

XMNN posted:

lol if the UKs digital infrastructure crumbles hours into the lockdown

thank god corbyn didnt roll out high broadband fibre to evryeone

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

I saw Johnson trying out the classic Blair power gestures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FnmnuDiVno&t=82s

Earlster
Jul 28, 2006

So jaded I'm green.

Cassiopeia posted:

Welp just received my text straight after the briefing to isolate for 12 weeks. I work in the NHS in a non clinical role. Can 100% work from home and have a laptop but I have been made to go on everyday. Do I just not turn up tomorrow?



NHS Coronavirus Service: We have identified that you're someone at risk of severe illness if you catch Coronavirus. Please remain at home for a minimum of 12 weeks. Home is the safest place for you. Staying in helps you stay well and that will help the NHS too. You can open a window but do not leave your home, and stay 3 steps away from others indoors. Wash your hands more often, for at least 20 seconds.

Read more advice about staying safe at home.
https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus-extremely-vulnerable-guidance

We will send you more messages with information.

To opt out reply STOP

Wife just got the same message, her mom is in the final stages of terminal illness and she is so scared she won't see her again :(

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NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting
I couldn't handle if lowtax city Corona and the forums went down and I couldn't read posts here telling me how dumb I am, it's not the same when only my loved ones are saying it.

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