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The Tories' relationship with the phrase "by the end of the week" is eerily reminiscent of NUFC takeover ITKs

There's a lad on my Facebook who's hovering over a return flight booking to Madeira via Frankfurt so that he can stock up on cheap cigarettes. Says the 14-day quarantine would be worth it. What can you do.

What is this, Muffhub?

I just made some banana muffins. They look like banana muffins.

He'll be delighted with that, Clive

Shopping is mostly awful, but then so are people. I guess that goes some way to explaining the appeal.

Eurostar have extended their free rebooking period to include the dates I was going to have a weekend on the Dutch coast in July, so I've done the various cancellations today (since it's not worth two weeks of quarantine, quite aside from anything else). The Airbnb guy wrote back basically saying "people are starting to make bookings again now, but since you're from the UK, I understand your position". Get used to this, folks, we're the sick man of Europe again except this time with actual sickness.

Stop politicising this political thing!

We should have believed in Britain more and tried to sell the virus some innovative jams.

Nearest equivalent from my world is this masterpiece that tried (and failed) to get the German ticket to Eurovision in 1986. And yes, the band is called "Mister Fisto".

Meanwhile, fun stuff like this continues https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-52826751

In fairness, I did once make this

That's technically not Jurassic Park, but that doesn't seem important compared with... pretty much everything else

Fill yer boots

I'm the last person to buy into conspiracy theories, but given we know the government started out wanting this to spread through the population, they didn't expect people to actually adhere to the lockdown guidance they eventually issued, and they now have a story at their disposal that's making even reasonable people say "fuck it" and ignore the advice... Now about that denpressure....

Lads, let's just be pragmatic about this.

Classic Dom

Sounds about right. Now, does anyone have a decent article about the Mackems' disintegration?

I was in Malaga that week and the only place I could find that would show it was a dodgy back-alley bar where I was very much the only person who gave any kind of shit about the match, or indeed football in general, or indeed anything not tangentially related to organised crime. Was a fun night.

Whereas it's been on the wane around here (not that it was ever anything more than a few people clapping while awkwardly acknowledging each other's existence for the first time ever, London being London). We're still out on the doorstep every Thursday even though it means we miss the first few minutes of that evening's rewatch of an old Eurovision. I reckon that makes us easily as dedicated as any key worker.