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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: amba on 18 April 2020, 18:58:51
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Just my imagination but the "local world" seems to of either decided to go back to some form of normality or the population have said " break this I going back to before life "
Lots more cars on the road today...read our local Range and Wilko stores are going to be opening and all the local take aways seem to of re-opened.
Have I missed something or is this just a rebellion !!!.....Thought we had "atleast another 3 weeks of isolation"
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Twilight zone or Outer limits? :)
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Twilight zone or Outer limits? :)
Monty Python.
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We have some young idiots down here who think they are invincible and the rules don’t apply to them. Even their children are mixing with the adults from other households, sitting in the Sun and forcing others to walk through their groups to get into their homes.
They just don’t care, or are just too ignorant and naive to recognise that something bad is going on and another 888 died over the last 24 hours. ::) ::) :'(
As they are endangering the other households around here I, and others, have spoken to them. The police have now received numerous complaints about them and I have sent a report in.
Officers have been patrolling, watching especially for this lot and others doing the same thing. Eventually they will get the message! >:(
So, yes, some are relaxing and thinking it is all safe now for some reason. Just what the authorities have warned about.
Expect another big wave of infections and deaths! :o :o >:(
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I live at the end of a small cul-de-sac so if a car goes past my house it's crashed. ;D
I believe the Range and Wilko never shut around our way, they are on the list of stores permitted to be open, as are take-aways. :y
I personally wouldn't want to go out unless it was absolutely necessary. I have explained to my disabled parents that I won't be visiting as they have carers four times a day, so they are at enough risk without me adding to it...... or them putting me at risk. :-\
What a world we live in now. ::)
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Yes it does seem that a minority of society think that as they have now had a minor inconvenience to their usual lives they are now free to roam the place further helping to spread this virus .
The first week after the announcement of restricted movement I was hopeful the rules would be obeyed....sadly I have proved to be wrong
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Most people round our way are being sensible with the exception of teenagers who are still roaming around in groups of 5 or 6 or more!
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time to give the army some live rounds to police the lockdown violations :)
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time to give the army some live rounds to police the lockdown violations :)
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What a great detail that would be 😄
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time to give the army some live rounds to police the lockdown violations :)
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What a great detail that would be 😄
I'm in , as long as i don't need a medical or do the assault course ;D
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Unfortunately, once again, "the media" in their expert knowledge and sensitive manner have actually re-inforced the idea in the minds of the "youths" .... the numerous "data sets" (as the only thing that matters is a data set nowadays) they insist on pouring over interminally and shoving down our throats with no explanation as the sound bite "the data says" is the God of the media.... these "data sets" have been emphasising 2 points time and again ...
1) The vast majority only have very mild symptoms and recover within a week, its like a mild case of flu. The fit and healthy have no problems
2) 91% of those who have died are over 60
Now, given the total lack of a discerning, thinking mind in the modern youth, as education is all about passing tick tests and not thinking, it is easy to see how they make the simple assumption that it will not affect them.. and if it doesn't affect them .. who gives a s**t ..... end of story .. that is the way of the youth of today
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My parents and my wife's parents are all in thier 80s and are in that inevitable slow decline to death.
There is a small part of me, that I try to keep hidden and subdued that thinks. If they did die, now. At least there'll be an inheritance. And there carefully saved rainy day fund can be my rainy day fund. 1/3 of both lots of assets woukd allow me to retire.
Obviously I don't want that to happen which is why they are being treated like they should be. We are doing shopping, and leaving it at their front door. The only person at risk is my daughter working in Salford Hospital as a Pharmacist.
I wish this were over. But it's not.
I'm currently expecting my notice to be handed to me n3xt week.
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Either you value your life or you don't , it appears that a lot don't and just want to get back out there to do as they please, unfortunately we no longer have enough resources to control stupidity, we need to see some real hard line dealing with the idiots amongst us but we have become far too soft in the UK, for this to happen , a £60 fine is certainly not the answer.
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time to give the army some live rounds to police the lockdown violations :)
Waste of time, give the membership of the OOF Cull committee, permission to shoot any person breaking lockdown, Dam I'd be a busy boy, sitting a top a hill with a Barret 50,, :y :y
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time to give the army some live rounds to police the lockdown violations :)
Waste of time, give the membership of the OOF Cull committee, permission to shoot any person breaking lockdown, Dam I'd be a busy boy, sitting a top a hill with a Barret 50,, :y :y
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Please form an orderly queue behind me, lots of training going to waste 😀😃😄
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.I've noticed loads more cars on the road. On my way home from work last Sat I was virtually the only car on the M61. This week there were loads more
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Shooting people doesn't require training, dealing with it does.
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My parents and my wife's parents are all in thier 80s and are in that inevitable slow decline to death.
There is a small part of me, that I try to keep hidden and subdued that thinks. If they did die, now. At least there'll be an inheritance. And there carefully saved rainy day fund can be my rainy day fund. 1/3 of both lots of assets woukd allow me to retire.
Obviously I don't want that to happen which is why they are being treated like they should be. We are doing shopping, and leaving it at their front door.......
I sympathise as I have first hand experience of this with my parents. Over two years ago my mum was struck down with a stroke (my dad was already registered disabled). She has been chair bound since that day, totally reliant on carers for home care. I was made POA so had to deal with everything. You start caring for them with a good heart, doing everything within your power to make them comfortable, whether it be doing their shopping or fitting rails etc. I get phone calls at all times, whether it be day or night. I love them to bits but it gradually wears you down, so much so that you start to give up on life yourself. ::) It would break their hearts to know what they have done to my life. My weekends are written off because they rely on me and I can't sleep because I'm waiting for the phone to ring. I can't drink because I may have to shoot off at any time because something has happened.
Financially my parents were very comfortable, and happy in the knowledge that my sister and I would inherit their hard earned savings and the house.
The reality of them having decent savings after both becoming disabled is: Carers visit = 4 X £18 per half hour visit per day. Times that by 2 for both of them, double it on Bank Holidays, Christmas etc. and you'll soon watch over £120K disappear before your very eyes.
I was naive, never having had to deal with anything like this before, so I just paid the bills as they rolled in each month. My parents owe me nothing, I've never asked them for anything, so I let it happen. I'm sure a lot of people would have robbed them blind but that's not me. My inheritance will now be a big fat zero as they are now both on social care anyway, being below the financial threshold now. My annoyance is that they didn't spend the money on themselves, they could have had such a good life with all that money but they chose to save it for me and my sister to inherit. Ironically, the Coronavirus Lockdown has been the longest rest I've had from working full time and my other evening and weekend duties. ::)
So folks, please learn from this as you'll only get one bite at the cherry. Look after your own kids now if you so wish, as one day it will be too late, as my parents found out. :'(
Apologies for droning on. :-[
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This, thankfully, is one aspect of life I've never had to deal with. Dad went suddenly when he was 77. Mum is 90, but still at home with my youngest brother who lives with her. She's ailing, of course, but my bro is able to do the shopping and look after her in general. She's still all there (she's on the phone to wifey right now) but is one of those who will go to bed and not wake up, I think. She blames the hospital for seeing dad off, so will absolutely refuse to go if the time comes.
We never had any money in our family, so that aspect doesn't come into it.
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Shooting people doesn't require training, dealing with it does.
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Have done both , you quite obviously haven't.
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You say that like it's a bad thing... ::)
My point being that kids and idiots regularly shoot people without a second thought. Training involves alot more than simply pulling the trigger ;)
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Shooting people doesn't require training, dealing with it does.
JCB with a thumb bucket on the boom arm to pick up the ones you can't scoop up with the loader bucket
bin lorry to compact and transport to land fill
obviously ,being a sociopath helps too ;)
where do i sign up :-\ LINKY ??
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Shooting people doesn't require training, dealing with it does.
JCB with a thumb bucket on the boom arm to pick up the ones you can't scoop up with the loader bucket
bin lorry to compact and transport to land fill
obviously ,being a sociopath helps too ;)
where do i sign up :-\ LINKY ??
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Dare I say " The good old days"
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Shooting people doesn't require training, dealing with it does.
JCB with a thumb bucket on the boom arm to pick up the ones you can't scoop up with the loader bucket
bin lorry to compact and transport to land fill
obviously ,being a sociopath helps too ;)
where do i sign up :-\ LINKY ??
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Dare I say " The good old days"
There was a chap from Austria, who had a few ideas on how to get rid of people en masses, Trouble was after he was found out, The greater world didn't agree with his ways.
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Shooting people doesn't require training, dealing with it does.
JCB with a thumb bucket on the boom arm to pick up the ones you can't scoop up with the loader bucket
bin lorry to compact and transport to land fill
obviously ,being a sociopath helps too ;)
where do i sign up :-\ LINKY ??
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Dare I say " The good old days"
There was a chap from Austria, who had a few ideas on how to get rid of people en masses, Trouble was after he was found out, The greater world didn't agree with his ways.
Covid 19 is similar , killing the "weak"
people ignoring lock down, social distancing etc are covid 19's foot soldiers
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Shooting people doesn't require training, dealing with it does.
JCB with a thumb bucket on the boom arm to pick up the ones you can't scoop up with the loader bucket
bin lorry to compact and transport to land fill
obviously ,being a sociopath helps too ;)
where do i sign up :-\ LINKY ??
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Dare I say " The good old days"
There was a chap from Austria, who had a few ideas on how to get rid of people en masses, Trouble was after he was found out, The greater world didn't agree with his ways.
Covid 19 is similar , killing the "weak"
people ignoring lock down, social distancing etc are covid 19's foot soldiers
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Exactly right they are the enemy of people who don't mind abiding by the rules & really it's only sensible advice , stay home & practice social distancing simple really.
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Exactly right they are the enemy of people who don't mind abiding by the rules & really it's only sensible advice , stay home & practice social distancing simple really.
Not sure about the "don't mind" part , it's costing a bloody fortune ;D :D
BUT it's viral to try and reduce the spread of a virus ,which ,despite all the "experts" ,know very little about :(
if we can keep as many people alive as possible (by lockdown and social distancing) until we do know more ,and have a plan to deal with it, that is the price we will have to pay .
until i'm bankrupt anyway ;D :D
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Exactly right they are the enemy of people who don't mind abiding by the rules & really it's only sensible advice , stay home & practice social distancing simple really.
Not sure about the "don't mind" part , it's costing a bloody fortune ;D :D
BUT it's viral to try and reduce the spread of a virus ,which ,despite all the "experts" ,know very little about :(
if we can keep as many people alive as possible (by lockdown and social distancing) until we do know more ,and have a plan to deal with it, that is the price we will have to pay .
until i'm bankrupt anyway ;D :D
Its worse than that imo. I object to the fact we had to have rules about it. I object to the state interfering and imposing rules on my everyday life. As I think Im able to take responsibility for myself.
I understand that with individual freedom comes responsibility, and this case is almost the ultimate responsibility, in that being irresponsible could easily kill other people.
Unfortunately there are those who walk among us who don't understand the concept of personal responsibility, so we have to have a temporary Soviet style state, just to try and force them into not killing people they don't even know.
If only we could herd them into one space and let them be as irresponsible as they want to be with each other.
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Exactly right they are the enemy of people who don't mind abiding by the rules & really it's only sensible advice , stay home & practice social distancing simple really.
Not sure about the "don't mind" part , it's costing a bloody fortune ;D :D
BUT it's viral to try and reduce the spread of a virus ,which ,despite all the "experts" ,know very little about :(
if we can keep as many people alive as possible (by lockdown and social distancing) until we do know more ,and have a plan to deal with it, that is the price we will have to pay .
until i'm bankrupt anyway ;D :D
Its worse than that imo. I object to the fact we had to have rules about it. I object to the state interfering and imposing rules on my everyday life. As I think Im able to take responsibility for myself.
I understand that with individual freedom comes responsibility, and this case is almost the ultimate responsibility, in that being irresponsible could easily kill other people.
Unfortunately there are those who walk among us who don't understand the concept of personal responsibility, so we have to have a temporary Soviet style state, just to try and force them into not killing people they don't even know.
If only we could herd them into one space and let them be as irresponsible as they want to be with each other.
If you give people responsibility, they go up onto the moors and set fire to the place, as they have done today. Tying up about 70 appliances, I heard.
https://www.lep.co.uk/news/people/fire-crews-tackling-huge-moorland-blaze-near-burnley-2542998
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Just shows how self centred the minority of the population are at the expense of the majority ,
I wonder what would be the position have been if some form of government intervention hadn’t been applied .
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If only we could herd them into one space and let them be as irresponsible as they want to be with each other.
This has been TheBoy's quest for years and finally people are starting to listen. ;D
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Apologies for droning on. :-[
Non needed Allan ;)
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If only we could herd them into one space and let them be as irresponsible as they want to be with each other.
We used to have a place like that. They now call it Australia. :)
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If only we could herd them into one space and let them be as irresponsible as they want to be with each other.
We used to have a place like that. They now call it Australia. :)
We still do, It's Called London, only problem was when Paddy built the fence he had the plans on the wall, and that wall became the M25.. doh!!
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If done properly, lockdown would be the first step of a long term plan that would allow gathering of data to reduce the need for shutting the whole country.
Our government has long proved incapable of that, so we're oppsed.
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The best practice depends on who you ask.
The economy will recover, the dead less so.
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The best practice depends on who you ask.
The economy will recover, the dead less so.
are you sure ?
in the last few years ,TV has been rammed with zombie Apocalypse films /TV series etc
Government training videos for when the dead rise perhaps :-\ ;D :D
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The best practice depends on who you ask.
The economy will recover, the dead less so.
are you sure ?
in the last few years ,TV has been rammed with zombie Apocalypse films /TV series etc
Government training videos for when the dead rise perhaps :-\ ;D :D
There are a lot of people in high places doing good impressions of zombies right now.
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Hancock does a good impression of a man who is completely out of hid depth. Wouldn't trust him as a doctors receptionist never mind Secretary of State for Health.
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I really do think that we seem to be missing the point of this Self Isolation and keep everybody safe.
Just read that B&Q have now decided to open around 60 of there stores as from tomorrow .."after the lockdown".
Now maybe I,m missing the point here but who has lifted this Goverment impossed stay at home policy .Seems that major retailers have now decided that as they have lost enough money that they are just going to open and to hell with it all.
I can see this situation lasting a whole lot longer
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Hancock does a good impression of a man who is completely out of hid depth. Wouldn't trust him as a doctors receptionist never mind Secretary of State for Health.
To be unfair to our doctors receptionist, he's probably a nicer more caring individual, who cares more about the health of the nation than she does about the health of the "customers" that she deals with. Mind you Stalin, Polpot and Hitler would be more caring.
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I really do think that we seem to be missing the point of this Self Isolation and keep everybody safe.
Just read that B&Q have now decided to open around 60 of there stores as from tomorrow .."after the lockdown".
Now maybe I,m missing the point here but who has lifted this Goverment impossed stay at home policy .Seems that major retailers have now decided that as they have lost enough money that they are just going to open and to hell with it all.
I can see this situation lasting a whole lot longer
It could be, although I don’t know, that they will somehow operate an online click and collect system with each store and/ or operate a door kiosk type system where one member of staff, wearing face mask and gloves, deals with each customer in turn from the queue outside. Halfords are doing this, with other staff members shooting around the customer empty store to retrieve what the Customer wants.
As for non-essential stores opening, that is I am sure a good way off ;)
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Indeed, this is exactly how there stores that are currently 'open' operate. Likewise Homebase and Helfrods :y
Helfrods are nominally click and collect, but if you rock up needing bulbs or cleaning supplies etc, then you queue up and they go and fetch it for you 8)
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Hancock does a good impression of a man who is completely out of hid depth. Wouldn't trust him as a doctors receptionist never mind Secretary of State for Health.
To be unfair to our doctors receptionist, he's probably a nicer more caring individual, who cares more about the health of the nation than she does about the health of the "customers" that she deals with. Mind you Stalin, Polpot and Hitler would be more caring.
Sounds like she is moonlighting at my local surgery. Tried dealing with ours recently and she is an evil little tyrant. She has even been reported for refusing a cancer patient a doctors appointment. When his wife complained she and her husband were struck off the register and told to find themselves a new surgery.
People who complain to the GP,s about her find she has their full support. I can only surmise this is because the business makes plenty of money and the GP,s don't get bothered too much by the great unwashed.
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Indeed, this is exactly how there stores that are currently 'open' operate. Likewise Homebase and Helfrods :y
Helfrods are nominally click and collect, but if you rock up needing bulbs or cleaning supplies etc, then you queue up and they go and fetch it for you 8)
Read the news
"In the newly re-opened stores, perspex screens will be fitted to checkouts and two-metre floor markers will indicate the distance shoppers should maintain from each other"
So..just like Asda, Tesco, etc.
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Also..Jaguar Landrover are planning to open in May, and Wimpey are planning to start building again in May.
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Why would I do that? It's depressing and I am stuck at home self
pleasuring isolating :D
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Why would I do that? It's depressing and I am stuck at home self pleasuring isolating :D
They're all getting twitchy on the Jaguar forums about their darlings not having been thrashed around by the apprentice cared for for a few weeks. ;D
Meanwhile, my brake pads turned up today... :D
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Been out twice today
shopping this afternoon then to the oldies to take shopping about 9 tonight
seems every other car on the road wants to race
what is wrong with people :-\
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Hancock does a good impression of a man who is completely out of hid depth. Wouldn't trust him as a doctors receptionist never mind Secretary of State for Health.
To be unfair to our doctors receptionist, he's probably a nicer more caring individual, who cares more about the health of the nation than she does about the health of the "customers" that she deals with. Mind you Stalin, Polpot and Hitler would be more caring.
the receptionist's job is, and always has been, to keep the sick people away from the nice healthy doctor.....
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Hancock does a good impression of a man who is completely out of hid depth. Wouldn't trust him as a doctors receptionist never mind Secretary of State for Health.
To be unfair to our doctors receptionist, he's probably a nicer more caring individual, who cares more about the health of the nation than she does about the health of the "customers" that she deals with. Mind you Stalin, Polpot and Hitler would be more caring.
the receptionist's job is, and always has been, to keep the sick people away from the nice healthy doctor.....
There's a catchy three sentence reminder about that... If only I could remember it... :D