Coronavirus

[Monkeys Fist 42459]

39 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

Troops ending the week on a high. 

He’s got the match to get through, yet 

[Blastronaut 1333]

16 minutes ago, ewerk said:

Table service should be mandatory at all times regardless of covid.

 

Bollocks to that. How the fuck am I supposed to properly scrutinise the whisky selection if I'm not able to stand at the bar?

[strawb 4268]

Ask what they have?

[Dr Gloom 21937]

Our work Christmas do was cancelled this morning. My kid’s end of year school performance was cancelled this afternoon. He’s gutted as he’s been practising every day for a piano solo.

It’s not the same as this time last year. We’re double jabbed, boosters are coming. We all know the risks by now. If you’re nervous about going to a big event, you have the option not to go but why cancel everything for everyone? It’s not like attendance at this sort of thing is compulsory.. 

[Gemmill 44930]

Am pleased Quiff has quickly found something to occupy him. 

[Blastronaut 1333]

59 minutes ago, strawb said:

Ask what they have?

 

In a restaurant aye but in a good boozer that's like asking waiting staff to recite war and peace. Struggle to find a horseshoe bar as it is, mandatory "Sit the fuck down and we'll come to you" would be the death knell of all decent pubs.

 

[ewerk 30629]

43 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

Our work Christmas do was cancelled this morning. My kid’s end of year school performance was cancelled this afternoon. He’s gutted as he’s been practising every day for a piano solo.

It’s not the same as this time last year. We’re double jabbed, boosters are coming. We all know the risks by now. If you’re nervous about going to a big event, you have the option not to go but why cancel everything for everyone? It’s not like attendance at this sort of thing is compulsory.. 

Look who had his eye on Jenny from Accounts. 

[Blastronaut 1333]

1 hour ago, Dr Gloom said:

We all know the risks by now. If you’re nervous about going to a big event, you have the option not to go but why cancel everything for everyone? It’s not like attendance at this sort of thing is compulsory.. 

 

Not compulsory for those attending, different story for the staff who in many cases just have to trust that everyone is double jabbed like you and not just some moron that thinks this is over.

 

Gutted for your kid, glad for his teachers. Bad enough they have to deal with 20+ of the the little shits from different households on a daily basis in a pandemic. Cramming their parents and extended family into an assembly hall?

 

[Dr Gloom 21937]

1 hour ago, Blastronaut said:

 

Not compulsory for those attending, different story for the staff who in many cases just have to trust that everyone is double jabbed like you and not just some moron that thinks this is over.

 

Gutted for your kid, glad for his teachers. Bad enough they have to deal with 20+ of the the little shits from different households on a daily basis in a pandemic. Cramming their parents and extended family into an assembly hall?

 

I felt exactly the same this time last year. Now, I just feel like we’ve got to get a grip. There are no restrictions in place at the moment. How much longer are we going to live like this? At what point do we accept that this is now normal life? 

[Blastronaut 1333]

1 hour ago, Dr Gloom said:

I felt exactly the same this time last year. Now, I just feel like we’ve got to get a grip. There are no restrictions in place at the moment. How much longer are we going to live like this? At what point do we accept that this is now normal life? 

 

The lack of restrictions isn't a sign that it's over. More an indication of an incompetent government and a general population that can't think outside their own four walls.

 

 

[strawb 4268]

3 hours ago, Blastronaut said:

 

In a restaurant aye but in a good boozer that's like asking waiting staff to recite war and peace. Struggle to find a horseshoe bar as it is, mandatory "Sit the fuck down and we'll come to you" would be the death knell of all decent pubs.

 

Agree to disagree, standing at a bar is fucking shite. Steve from accounts buying a round for all his workmates, 3 pints of lager, 2 cocktails and then ten minutes later he orders a Guinness for the lad who “likes his ale”.

sit at the table, order from the online menu, like a civilised person.

[Dr Gloom 21937]

6 hours ago, Blastronaut said:

 

The lack of restrictions isn't a sign that it's over. More an indication of an incompetent government and a general population that can't think outside their own four walls.

 

 

I completely agree about the government’s incompetence throughout the pandemic. I don’t think there’s evidence yet to suggest that we need to start closing everything down again. My main criticism this time is the mixed messaging. You’ve got the PM saying let’s not panic, don’t cancel Christmas plans and then Jenny Harries saying avoid unnecessary socialising. That creates the sort of panic we’re seeing now.  

I don’t think it’s over. I don’t think it ever will be. This virus is never going away, it’s endemic, it’ll continue to mutate. Do we shit the bed from now until eternity ever time a new variant emerges? I dunno, it feels like the world has changed forever but we’re still reacting to it like we were in the early days of the pandemic when there were no vaccines, cases were rising exponentially and the NHS was close to being overwhelmed. I could understand the panic and would support tightening restrictions if that was the direction of travel again.

You mention the bar staff’s safety and while I agree that people who work in hospitality face an increased risk of exposure the flip side is a lot of those businesses are already on their knees. Furlough is gone and a lot of them are desperate for a busy Christmas period. 

[Dr Gloom 21937]

6 hours ago, strawb said:

Agree to disagree, standing at a bar is fucking shite. Steve from accounts buying a round for all his workmates, 3 pints of lager, 2 cocktails and then ten minutes later he orders a Guinness for the lad who “likes his ale”.

sit at the table, order from the online menu, like a civilised person.

It’s the continental way. It is more civilised, which is why it never worked with the British drinking culture.

It can be traced back to our ridiculously early closing hours. Our history of binge drinking has a direct link to last orders at 11 - you get more rounds in when propping up the bar then waiting for a waitress to bring your drinks to your table. 

[Gemmill 44930]

15 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

I completely agree about the government’s incompetence throughout the pandemic. I don’t think there’s evidence yet to suggest that we need to start closing everything down again. My main criticism this time is the mixed messaging. You’ve got the PM saying let’s not panic, don’t cancel Christmas plans and then Jenny Harries saying avoid unnecessary socialising. That creates the sort of panic we’re seeing now.  

 

When you talk about the mixed messaging though, who do you think is providing the advice that should be followed? It's Harries, not the PM. We know only too well that he is prepared to take a risk with people's lives and just hope that things turn out for the best. 

It's the thing that winds me up about my work - slavishly following government advice in a developing situation when, if we've learned anything over the past 2 years, this is the point at which they'll be getting the advice wrong. 

I totally understand the "we've just got to live with it" position, but that is a decision you take at an individual level and everyone will have a different appetite for risk. Like it's a shame that your kid's thing has been cancelled, but if that was my lass's school, my attitude would be sorry but fuck off, there are teachers with health conditions who have parents and grandparents with health conditions who they'll be seeing over the Christmas period, and it makes no sense to fill a room with people, some of whom will DEFINITELY have it, and just tell them to suck it up for the sake of some end of term celebration. 

Same with Xmas do's. If there hadn't just been this new variant come up, then I would totally agree that we should just be cracking on with stuff. But what if we get to January and we find out, actually we now have enough data to know that Omicron is an absolute motherfucker that resists vaccines and fucks people right up. "Oh but I wanted to go to my Christmas do..." is gonna look like a pretty mental thing to be looking back on as the reason you're at your mam's funeral. 

[Christmas Tree 4728]

Well this is cheery Saturday morning stuff  

[Gemmill 44930]

I'm not letting Trooper have all the fun. 

[ewerk 30629]

Yeah but this will be the SECOND Christmas do he’s had to miss. When does the madness end?

[Dr Gloom 21937]

8 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

When you talk about the mixed messaging though, who do you think is providing the advice that should be followed? It's Harries, not the PM. We know only too well that he is prepared to take a risk with people's lives and just hope that things turn out for the best. 

It's the thing that winds me up about my work - slavishly following government advice in a developing situation when, if we've learned anything over the past 2 years, this is the point at which they'll be getting the advice wrong. 

I totally understand the "we've just got to live with it" position, but that is a decision you take at an individual level and everyone will have a different appetite for risk. Like it's a shame that your kid's thing has been cancelled, but if that was my lass's school, my attitude would be sorry but fuck off, there are teachers with health conditions who have parents and grandparents with health conditions who they'll be seeing over the Christmas period, and it makes no sense to fill a room with people, some of whom will DEFINITELY have it, and just tell them to suck it up for the sake of some end of term celebration. 

Same with Xmas do's. If there hadn't just been this new variant come up, then I would totally agree that we should just be cracking on with stuff. But what if we get to January and we find out, actually we now have enough data to know that Omicron is an absolute motherfucker that resists vaccines and fucks people right up. "Oh but I wanted to go to my Christmas do..." is gonna look like a pretty mental thing to be looking back on as the reason you're at your mam's funeral. 

But the early evidence suggests the vaccine protects against omicron leading to serious illness. What you’re basically saying is I can’t get with Jenny from Accounts because of a hunch. 

[Gemmill 44930]

Listen, if Jenny from Accounts was reading this, she'd be on my side. 

[Howmanheyman 33266]

Sorry lads, but Jenny from accounts fancies Barbara from HR. She turned the other way when a lad called Dave put her off sex with men for life when he said he felt guilty shagging her halfway through as he thought she was a bit psychologically delicate at the time. She's all about the minge now. 

[Toonpack 9442]

14 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:

Sorry lads, but Jenny from accounts fancies Barbara from HR. She turned the other way when a lad called Dave put her off sex with men for life when he said he felt guilty shagging her halfway through as he thought she was a bit psychologically delicate at the time. She's all about the minge now. 

Post room Dave came early, didn’t he

[PaddockLad 17283]

Just pleased Dave’s married now….can’t help thinking he’d have been better writing to the problem pages of Just 17 or the Daily Mail or something

[Alex 35095]

Credit to Gloom like. The lengths he goes to justify his love of going out and getting wasted is admirable  

[Gemmill 44930]

 

 

[NJS 4389]

This Downing St party thing is quite amusing - why would the Met investigate a crime they're 100% complicit it? 

 

They must have entrance logs as well as security detail shift details so I'm guessing it was fully authorised at the top. 

 

The quote about not investigating retrospective crimes is so wonderfully stupid it must emanate directly from Cressida "he vaulted the barriers" Dick.