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NotJustANumber99 posted:I predict the casualty figure for the first night all the pubs reopen at once will surpass the entire Corona virus death toll. Pubs and the first football matches that allow crowds.
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We're still a good two or three weeks away from the fallout caused by the Easter weekend, let alone the inevitable second peak after the lockdown is eventually relaxed.
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Josef bugman posted:I dread to think about how much spin is going to be applied to everything to try and get away from all of the people killed by this government. tbf you only really need to do a lot of spin for something if the media doesn't like you, they're just going to say, e.g. it was China's fault, or we followed the science so it's the scientists fault, or it was something nobody could have predicted or done anything about and labour would have killed ten times as many the interviewer will then say "thank you very much prime minister" and move onto their questions about what films he watched when he was feeling poorly
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learnincurve posted:Do you own a blender? Can someone please do the same thing with Jeremy Corbyn, intercut with clippings from the leaked report, set to the Beastie Boys - Sabotage?
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XMNN posted:the interviewer will then say "thank you very much prime minister" and move onto their questions about what films he watched when he was feeling poorly I suppose it depends on which billionaire dickhole is paying them at this point. Gods bones I wish that proper socialism was around.
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ThomasPaine posted:We're obviously still pretty awful but it's loving crazy how short a time has passed since this kind of embedded, lazy sexism was totally ubiquitous and didn't even register as remotely problematic to 99% of the population. The early 2000s were a hell of a time. Worked in my dad's newsagents from the late-90s through the early 00s. Probably read every issue of Zoo and Nuts rather than stacking shelves, who knows how badly that warped me
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The moment we get even a mild relaxation of the lockdown, plenty of people are going to see it as a sign that it's ok to rush out and do everything that's been denied to them for the last couple of months, especially if the weather is decent. On the very first day, the beaches and parks will be packed, and social distancing will go out of the window. I'm expecting a relaxation sooner rather than later, and expect my workplace to be reopened by the end of May at the earliest. I think the exact date will depend on the government and public perception of how well or badly the relaxations in continental Europe work out, and any mild good news fro there will result in us 'going in hot'.
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XMNN posted:tbf you only really need to do a lot of spin for something if the media doesn't like you, they're just going to say, e.g. it was China's fault, or we followed the science so it's the scientists fault, or it was something nobody could have predicted or done anything about and labour would have killed ten times as many Except in this particular moment it seems that the papers are split about whether to keep Johnson or not, it'll be a very hard line to point out that horrible mistakes were made but were primarily made by Johnson and so Gove/whoever is guilt free and a good successor. When the elites are fighting amongst themselves it's always an opportunity for the left.
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Josef bugman posted:Is anyone else drinking a lot more since the quarantine started btw? I am finding it increasingly attractive to drink myself into oblivion at the moment. I'm definitely drinking more. Don't have to worry about rolling myself onto the train and looking like a human being to coworkers if I have a hangover, not driving anywhere anyway, aaand we ordered a case of our favourite wine just before lockdown started and we have nowhere to store it except in the middle of the living room so I keep being reminded it's there. I haven't yet given in to the temptation of pouring myself a drink while I'm working but I dunno if I'll hold out forever if work gets particularly stressful.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Worked in my dad's newsagents from the late-90s through the early 00s. Probably read every issue of Zoo and Nuts rather than stacking shelves, who knows how badly that warped me Did you ever sell one of these? 
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Pesky Splinter posted:Even ignoring the fact it's from the Sun, lots of people acting like once the lockdown is slowly rescinded, that'll be the end of lockdowns, not having potential waves of COVID 19 resulting in periodic lockdowns and such. Whenever I'm talking to people I throw around August as the end of this quarantine, then another one over Christmas (based on nowt much). Anything beyond June seems unpalatable to folk, then I bore them further with saying if we lift the lockdown too early we'll have to go into another one then all of this will have been for nothing. Josef bugman posted:I dread to think about how much spin is going to be applied to everything to try and get away from all of the people killed by this government. Good to see you again - I'm a pretty steady drinker anyway, though I'm finding I keep running out of booze if I start when I feel like it. I think if you can afford it and want to rather than needing to, crack open a can ey. All these little bits that we're usually told to avoid but we like (booze, games, lie-ins, whatever) are probably better for our mental health and therefore better for getting through lockdown. I'd swap all of those things in a heartbeat just to touch someone, but as I can't, may as well sup.
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Josef bugman posted:I think the museums are going to take a bit re-opening. Most of them are going to stay closed for a bit to claim the money back. I was on a placement at one of the big London museums and the internal emails I'm getting are very clear that they expect to be closed for several months at least.
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ThomasPaine posted:Did you ever sell one of these? It's pink and sexualized, but it's still got the no girls allowed logo. Is it specifically for out and proud gay men who are also a bit misogynist?
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Pair of great tits in my garden just been joined by a third. /bird chat
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sassassin posted:Pair of great tits in my garden just been joined by a third. 
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Massive flaw with that prediction in The Sun, schools open up on May 25th. That's half-term holidays. Of all the weeks they could have picked its the only one that's impossible.
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Sad Panda posted:Massive flaw with that prediction in The Sun, schools open up on May 25th. That's half-term holidays. Of all the weeks they could have picked its the only one that's impossible. Not to defend the Sun, but I'd assume that if schools reopen before the wider lockdown is released (so no family holidays) the term times are going to shift around to both make up for closed time and to provide childcare for (more) workers.
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See it's not work it's the fact that I am bored and love the feeling of an altered state of being that alcohol brings. I'm probably going to go out next wednesday just for a large beer run because I have precious little else to be getting on with. justcola posted:I'd swap all of those things in a heartbeat just to touch someone, but as I can't, may as well sup. Yep, I just want to be near someone in a friendly way and just see folks. I am at least getting on with DnD, so it could always be worse. ThomasPaine posted:I was on a placement at one of the big London museums and the internal emails I'm getting are very clear that they expect to be closed for several months at least. Mhm. I am betting we are going to reopen for maybe 2 weeks in July/august and then the second there is a secondary outbreak just shut right the gently caress down.
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justcola posted:My mum sent us this saying we're just a few weeks away from going back to normal. After pestering her for the source (The Sun) I was a bit more dubious. Pretty excited for mandatory face masks to use public transport, because there will definitely be enough masks in a month to make that viable. (Also, where am I meant to buy one without first being able to go on the bus to town?)
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I got some actual poo poo in a newsagent for buying a Yorkie (am girl). Not bad but still. Guy thought he was hilarious I'm sure.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Worked in my dad's newsagents from the late-90s through the early 00s. Probably read every issue of Zoo and Nuts rather than stacking shelves, who knows how badly that warped me I enjoyed the occasional copy of Bizarre when my colleagues weren't in the back office to see me
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HopperUK posted:I got some actual poo poo in a newsagent for buying a Yorkie Well yeah, it was inside the wrapper
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HopperUK posted:I got some actual poo poo in a newsagent for buying a Yorkie (am girl). Not bad but still. Guy thought he was hilarious I'm sure.
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I'm drinking about the same as I did before lock down, i.e. maybe a double of something tasty with the wife once a month when the kids have given us a particularly rough day. Comfort eating is more my thing.
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Josef bugman posted:I dread to think about how much spin is going to be applied to everything to try and get away from all of the people killed by this government. I did for a bit but it plays absolute merry hell with my brain. I scared myself on the weekend of Starmer's announcement, the amount I drank and the absolute despair caused by the ensuing weekday withdrawal, and quit for a couple weeks. Did have a few beers last night though and thoroughly enjoyed it. With that said, you just gotta do what you gotta do in a situation like this. I'm pretty much allowing myself to weed as much as I feel like, but it turns out that I naturally keep it to the evenings regardless, so that's fine and keeps me sleeping at least a bit Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Apr 19, 2020 |
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justcola posted:Whenever I'm talking to people I throw around August as the end of this quarantine, then another one over Christmas (based on nowt much). Anything beyond June seems unpalatable to folk, then I bore them further with saying if we lift the lockdown too early we'll have to go into another one then all of this will have been for nothing. There's no treatment, no vaccine, prevention is patchy at best and at most 10% of the population have been infected at this point, and the Government *still* don't seem to have any kind of planning or infrastructure being planned for test-and-trace. We *will* have to go into another lockdown, the only real question is timing and where we want to start it in relation to the flu season - do we want it over with before the flu season? Overlapping with it? Put off until after it? Bearing in mind the lockdown would also work against the flu it's an interesting question, but also leaves us with the possiblity of CV and flu combined ramping the hospital occupancy rate up much quicker, as well as the chances of getting both at the same time (particularly in hospital). The big unknowable is how much distancing people will do even with all restrictions eased - it's possible (although not that probable IMO) that we can keep the infection rate low enough with residual social distancing to keep under bed capacity (which will have to drop a bit just to let the poor buggers have a holiday).
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Barry Foster posted:cool cool, like how the nazis did it Is there another way to process the information we are being given by the tories on how they see government working?
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Dog Pipes posted:Is there another way to process the information we are being given by the tories on how they see government working? no, you're absolutely right
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Skarsnik posted:What is it with hairdressers being such a big deal? Just as with bogroll, being able to have your hair cut is a symbolic representation of normality for a lot of people, and hair salons are also a prime example of the type of small business the government is sending to the wall. Personally, hairdressers should be one of the last places to reopen. By their very nature they can't employ social distancing, and unless they're taping hair clippers to broom handles, they would need a hell of a lot of PPE to work safely. Soylent Yellow fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Apr 19, 2020 |
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Lt. Danger posted:bit confused re: Yorkie, the "not for girls" seems fairly obviously ironic? like you can definitely say it's not particularly funny or whatever but the thread seems uncharacteristically credulous about this I think we're generally aware that Yorkie don't want to ban women from accessing their chocolate bar, but the line between "ha ha i'm pretending to be sexist/racist/etc as a joke, like, a joke" and actually just doing a sexism/racism/etc has always been fairly thin, and that's been increasingly clear for a while now I mean the food and drink industry (and many others) already do the thing where they aim products at just one gender with varying levels of subtlety (e.g. Diet Coke vs. Coke Zero), so the "joke" is pretty much, "we're doing the thing we always do, but being slightly exaggeratedly jokey about it, so if you criticise it then it means you hate jokes"
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Soylent Yellow posted:Being able to have your hair cut is a symbolic representation of normality for a lot of people, and hair salons are also a prime example of the type of small business the government is sending to the wall. Gloves and mask for the stylist, cleaning the chairs etc between customers (the implements are all meant to be cleaned between each use anyway) and distancing in the waiting area and a couple of big bottles of hand sanitiser should be enough, surely?
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Barry Foster posted:no, you're absolutely right Sorry. I've had beers. I'm getting so bored that I'm starting to drink more to alleviate it. When I'm hungover I get paranoid that I have the roni and then when I'm sober I'm bored again.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Gloves and mask for the stylist, cleaning the chairs etc between customers (the implements are all meant to be cleaned between each use anyway) and distancing in the waiting area and a couple of big bottles of hand sanitiser should be enough, surely? If the nursing homes are struggling to get masks and hand sanitiser, how are the hairdressers going to be able to? Or even afford it?
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Melissa McCarthyism posted:Really cool how Labour seems totally toothless when being served juicy government failings on a platter. It’s easier for them if they aren’t in power
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