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Jakabite posted:Being a dick about people wanting to go on holiday after a year of lockdown misery isn't as good a take as most of this thread seem to think. God forbid people should be asking whether they might be able to go and do something enjoyable to blow off some steam in the near future. i find it hard to sympathise with people who are gurning about being deprived of luxuries i have never had, yes 
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a pipe smoking dog posted:This is kier starmers response to "would you press the button"
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Feb 11, 2021 12:26
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Jakabite posted:Being a dick about people wanting to go on holiday after a year of lockdown misery isn't as good a take as most of this thread seem to think. God forbid people should be asking whether they might be able to go and do something enjoyable to blow off some steam in the near future. Graphic update to plague inc. looking good.
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Feb 11, 2021 12:27
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The mobile reader (Awful app) makes keeping track of bookmarked threads really, really simple. I know I'm just describing things that people can see on their screens,  ing in case anyone hasn't noticed any of it  NotJustANumber99 posted:People have been fined for this though. I still do it, though. There have been police checkpoints about, haven't come across any myself but you're allowed to drive to the shops so I just go walking near where a shop I might want to go to is, just in case. There's a few people about selling coffee & cake out of vans in some of the nice walking spots near me, which definitely looks like an ILLEGAL PICNIC to me, but I assume nobody cares about that
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Feb 11, 2021 12:28
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Jakabite posted:Being a dick about people wanting to go on holiday after a year of lockdown misery isn't as good a take as most of this thread seem to think. God forbid people should be asking whether they might be able to go and do something enjoyable to blow off some steam in the near future. I can't blame anyone for being desperate to get away from this hellhole. But it's loving irresponsible & selfish. We'd not be enduring lockdown misery last year if people loving behaved themselves last year (combined with a government who cared more about dealing with the pandemic than keeping Wetherspoons open). It's infuriating. So loving what if it's "not a good take", I'm angry. I want to be able to go to gigs again. I want to just be able to walk into a record store & browse their vinyl. I want to be able to sit on a bus that has its windows closed in February.
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Feb 11, 2021 12:31
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I think there's a difference between wanting to go somewhere and feeling bad that you can't, and feeling like you're entitled to go somewhere and getting annoyed that people won't let you I'm kinda gutted that I probably won't get to visit my (overseas) parents this year or go to Primavera Sound, but I think it's right that I shouldn't do those things
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Feb 11, 2021 12:34
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forkboy84 posted:I can't blame anyone for being desperate to get away from this hellhole. But it's loving irresponsible & selfish. We'd not be enduring lockdown misery last year if people loving behaved themselves last year (combined with a government who cared more about dealing with the pandemic than keeping Wetherspoons open). It's infuriating. So loving what if it's "not a good take", I'm angry. I want to be able to go to gigs again. I want to just be able to walk into a record store & browse their vinyl. I want to be able to sit on a bus that has its windows closed in February. Yeah, same, and doing any of those things right now but also be irresponsible and selfish, but wanting to do them and asking when you can plan to do them isn't. No one in this thread is any better than someone who's looking forward to going away for a bit just because they're looking forward to doing more local things. The way some people are about the whole wanting a holiday thing, you'd think that going abroad on holiday (yes, even to party and drink and sit by a pool, perish the thought!!!) was a moral defect even outside outside of the pandemic.
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Feb 11, 2021 12:40
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It feels like a waste to have Annual Leave to take and nothing worth doing with it, but that's what my Steam Backlog is for. I tend to go somewhere abroad each year, even if only for a week or so, but I didn't last year because it would have been irresponsible. The thing with people getting irate about it is that - as with everything else covid-related - is that there have been lots of people who've been irresponsible and faced zero consequences. I suspect most people know someone who's ignored travel restrictions because they wanted a holiday, or to see a relative, and seeing that while you're being told "you can't go away this year" sticks in the teeth.
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Feb 11, 2021 12:41
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lol https://twitter.com/huwlemmey/status/1359801880638083077?s=20
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Private Speech posted:Note that that doesn't work anymore on account of Brexit. Brazil > Portugal > Ireland > UK ?
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Brazil > Portugal > Ireland > UK ? This is also the hierarchy of attractiveness
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Feb 11, 2021 12:53
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I wish Ken Loach made superhero films to be honest. I've always though he could have made a cracking 'Watchmen'.
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Feb 11, 2021 12:56
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But who watches Ken Loach's Watchmen? That's right, middle class people.
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Feb 11, 2021 12:57
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i bring the thread good news https://twitter.com/LizzyBuchan/status/1359834598964887553?s=20
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actually, the term superman is descended from the nietschian concept of the ubermensch, so in making a superhero film loach has finally allowed us to straight up call him a nazi without having to even argue about socialism [/guardian]
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Feb 11, 2021 13:01
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Loach's woke version of Superman is a direct attack on the idea that some people can be better than others, anathema to the reality-denying hard left. [/spiked]
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Feb 11, 2021 13:06
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picturing jeremy hunt squaring up to a swan
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Feb 11, 2021 13:06
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It's more likely he swerved to avoid running too close to a poor person and ran into a tree instead
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Brazil > Portugal > Ireland > UK ? So looking into this this still works....sort of. Basically a UK drivers licence is recognised in Ireland if you are here for a holiday for the duration of the holiday. And it is valid if you live in NI with a NI/UK licence but travel to the ROI for work. However if you live in the ROI and have a UK licence it isn't valid, but you are allowed exchange it for an Irish licence even now (provided it has one or more years left on it.) If you get an Irish licence it counts as an EU licence (as would a Portuguese licence) which is currently still valid in the UK. At least until the UK government collapses and the In-Ger-Land F1ST political party takes over.
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Feb 11, 2021 13:21
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So I have a childhood friend who is now a hospital doctor, working in the UK. Throughout all of lockdown(s) he has not given a poo poo about covid restrictions, and in a group call last night he mentioned that a) he had friends over to his house the previous evening (to experience his VR headset, which I imagine is pretty unsanitary in and of itself) and b) that he and his wife are going on a sneaky UK AirBnB break in the next couple of weeks. Obviously he's acting like a oval office, but my question is whether he is indicative of a wider trend of medical professionals somehow exempting themselves form the rules, or whether he's an aberration. Any UK medi-goons care to comment?
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Feb 11, 2021 13:25
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Unkempt posted:I wish Ken Loach made superhero films to be honest. I've always though he could have made a cracking 'Watchmen'. https://youtu.be/mJp6tBoa9JI
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Jose posted:i bring the thread good news Shame it wasn't his loving hyoid. in minecraft.
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Feb 11, 2021 13:46
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To be fair, she isn't a film critic, nor pretends to be? It's a loving stupid take, but it's not the career-shattering hypocrisy that this tweet suggests.
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Feb 11, 2021 13:49
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Borrovan posted:I think there's a difference between wanting to go somewhere and feeling bad that you can't, and feeling like you're entitled to go somewhere and getting annoyed that people won't let you Yeah Primavera is my one big holiday and not having that to look forward to puts a dampener on everything.
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The Perfect Element posted:So I have a childhood friend who is now a hospital doctor, working in the UK. Throughout all of lockdown(s) he has not given a poo poo about covid restrictions, and in a group call last night he mentioned that a) he had friends over to his house the previous evening (to experience his VR headset, which I imagine is pretty unsanitary in and of itself) and b) that he and his wife are going on a sneaky UK AirBnB break in the next couple of weeks. Engage him in polite and enthusiastic conversation about it until you get all of the details, then shop him in. Grassing to the cops is bad, except when it's really funny and the person on the receiving end is a massive prick.
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Feb 11, 2021 13:58
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Brazil > Portugal > Ireland > UK ? I was responding to that direct-to-the-UK path by twisto or whoever. Doesn't Ireland require residence tl convert the licence though?
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Engage him in polite and enthusiastic conversation about it until you get all of the details, then shop him in. Yeah do this. And his hospital. And his parents.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Engage him in polite and enthusiastic conversation about it until you get all of the details, then shop him in. You should listen to this guy as both a doctor and fruitbat
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Private Speech posted:I was responding to that direct-to-the-UK path by twisto or whoever. My thinking is that Ireland will still observe EU exchangeability and there are also separate agreements that allow you to go from Ireland to NI license.
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The Perfect Element posted:So I have a childhood friend who is now a hospital doctor, working in the UK. Throughout all of lockdown(s) he has not given a poo poo about covid restrictions, and in a group call last night he mentioned that a) he had friends over to his house the previous evening (to experience his VR headset, which I imagine is pretty unsanitary in and of itself) and b) that he and his wife are going on a sneaky UK AirBnB break in the next couple of weeks. Yes, medics are the absolute worst at following their own advice, because they're human. As a counterpoint to the answers given so far to the question you didn't actually ask, so take it as an answer to them not to you - don't be a loving grass. This is someone in probably the worst possible job imaginable right now and I don't think they should have their life ruined permanently for blowing off some steam. Call them a oval office right to their face about it, don't go Jobsworthing off to his boss or the old bill.
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Posted on Facebook a couple of hours ago: I don't know what the issues with the supply are - UK-wide apparently. (Pfizer vaccine is the one in the mass vaccination centres IIRC) Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Feb 11, 2021 |
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Feb 11, 2021 14:20
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don't narc
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Feb 11, 2021 14:21
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He's breaking the law and putting other people's lives at risk. Tell him off first or whatever but if he is unrepentant and intends to carry on he should be reported.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Yes, medics are the absolute worst at following their own advice, because they're human. I'm sympathetic to this, but for this detail: "Throughout all of lockdown(s) he has not given a poo poo about covid restrictions" That's not a medic getting burnt out, that's a medic with no regard for human life and who should not be a medic. I'm going to be the meganarc poster here and say he should be fired.
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CoolCab posted:don't narc Counterpoint: loving do, it's a pandemic.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:
Yeah, that's the long and short of it. I mean, he has worked throughout the pandemic, and has definitely been working in the worst possible environments (ICU etc.), so to some extent he has been through it, but as you say, this is not a result of burn out. Also worth noting that both he and his wife have had the virus, so now there's an extra layer of justification-armour. I think it is highly unlikely I am going to grass - a few off-hand comments on WhatsApp and Zoom calls etc. over the last year is hardly a solid body of evidence.
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Feb 11, 2021 14:43
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fine. lawnmowerman trap him in his vr headset reliving the pandemic forever
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Running to the filth is bad and any leftist who does it should feel ashamed IMO
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The Perfect Element posted:
Ah, that changes my opinion then. I mean there's still the largely unknown risk of reinfection but I'd reckon the risk of spreading it is much, much reduced if he's had it and he's certain he's had it. If I was certain I'd had it I'd probably travel too - if I was confident I'd not get fined for it.
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Jakabite posted:Running to the filth is bad and any leftist who does it should feel ashamed IMO
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