Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
We don't get any separate bills. We each pay a sum to the landlord every month that includes rent and all bills. We have communal space as well, but can lock our rooms with a key.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
If you have communal space, especially if it includes a kitchen and a bathroom, then it's pretty obvious and unambiguous that it's a household for the purposes of transmission risk. Tenancy agreements and how the bills are paid are completely irrelevant. As are locks on doors.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
You can have that. I'm taking 'unworkabubble'.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Yes. I agree.
There will be people who don't, and by not mentioning the situation, it'll be more likely to get out of hand.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
This is great news for me as I live alone and have been following the rules, not meeting up with the man I met online literally as all this started. We can now form a bubble. So selfishly: ace!
BigTom
Well-Known Member
So no Tinder yet?
"single person household seeks single (or multiperson!) household for bubbling purposes"
bubbling becomes the new netflix and chill phrase. I'll probably find out that "bubbling" is already some depraved sex act tbh and not suitable for appropriation for this phrase. There must be some good pun along the lines of those posted up thread specifically related to sex / friends with benefits type situation.
There's no-one local this would work with and I don't want to take public transport to get to anyone it would work with so
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
When government ministers start talking like this:
liewedge: "we did the best we could with what we knew".
No, you fucking didn't. Your government sneered at, pooh-poohed, and downright ignored any voice that dissented from your business-friendly, hand-the-contracts-to-your-mates plans.
Was PPE procurement done "in good faith"? Well, if by "good faith" you mean "fucking naive", perhaps. Was the timing of lockdown, long after the scientific voices were urging it, done as "best they [could] with what they knew"? The fuck it was, it was delayed and hung out while the likes of Tim Fucking Wetherspoon raced around threatening people.
Given how shit it's all been, it would be incredibly refreshing to see government ministers line up and give an unqualified apology for the poor decisions they've made, and some kind of commitment to how they were going to improve future decision-making. Because at the moment it's a litany of "look how brilliantly we've done!" as the corpses pile up and we build nicely towards the second wave...
But it'll be a cold day in hell before that kind of apology ever comes.
you know that they know they've fucked it. This is the thin end of the defenceSimon Clarke said:
No, you fucking didn't. Your government sneered at, pooh-poohed, and downright ignored any voice that dissented from your business-friendly, hand-the-contracts-to-your-mates plans.
Was PPE procurement done "in good faith"? Well, if by "good faith" you mean "fucking naive", perhaps. Was the timing of lockdown, long after the scientific voices were urging it, done as "best they [could] with what they knew"? The fuck it was, it was delayed and hung out while the likes of Tim Fucking Wetherspoon raced around threatening people.
Given how shit it's all been, it would be incredibly refreshing to see government ministers line up and give an unqualified apology for the poor decisions they've made, and some kind of commitment to how they were going to improve future decision-making. Because at the moment it's a litany of "look how brilliantly we've done!" as the corpses pile up and we build nicely towards the second wave...
But it'll be a cold day in hell before that kind of apology ever comes.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
And, from the Guardian's live feed this morning...
Nice bit of shade-throwing there - anyone objecting to the Government's reckless plan to get back to business as usual ASAP is, presumably, being "pessimistic". Or at least not very "can-do".
Fuck them all. With a fucking pineapple.
Nice bit of shade-throwing there - anyone objecting to the Government's reckless plan to get back to business as usual ASAP is, presumably, being "pessimistic". Or at least not very "can-do".
Fuck them all. With a fucking pineapple.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
They can’t admit to making mistakes as that could make them liable to lawsuits and even criminal prosecution, to think wishfully
Ms Ordinary
randompointlesschemistry
And if the non-local person also isn't reliant on public transport...
(That doesn't stop the 'bubble' thing from being good, for those that need it & that it works for)
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
They won't admit to making mistakes because they're politicians. It's an unusual situation but that doesn't mean the normal rules of their game don't apply.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
And with no apology there'll be no change in direction because that would tacitly admit they were wrong to begin with.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Yeah, they're condemned to continue with the fuckups, even if they don't want to. One might almost feel sorry for...nah. Fuck 'em.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
Don’t forget though that politicians can easily change direction when it suits them, just so long as they maintain either that the material facts have changed completely or that they haven’t changed direction after all.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
No it wouldn't. They could easily say that they did what they thought best but got some decisions wrong.
miss direct
misfungled
I have a question. If you go to visit a friend/relative who lives a long way away (which I think is allowed), and plan to meet in a park, but it's pissing it down, can anyone suggest a safe alternative? Also still worried about using toilets/lack of public ones.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I had this the other day. Choose a park with big trees with thick leaf coverage to shelter under, which is what we did. Lack of loos is more tricky. No real alternative to finding a bush or something to go behind.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
I don't get what you're asking. Where to go to the toilet, or where to hang out outside if the weather is shit?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
If you meet in the park only drink one bottle of wine
miss direct
misfungled
Both, really.
It's a two hour drive, so I'll definitely be needing the loo at some point during the day. Will come prepared!
The UK needs more "outside but covered" places like bandstands.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Think Amamna Spielman is probably looking forward to the New Year's honours.
Thora
Differently Ethical
I wouldn't - you'll get wet/cold and have to piss behind a bush.
maomao
普費斯
Take an umbrella and a she wee.
miss direct
misfungled
I've got wet weather gear. I just really want to see my Dad, who's in his 70s and shouldn't be getting cold and wet. It's been a very long time.
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