Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[LDC]

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.

Outside markets are open? Pissing in public must get a free pass currently as well? Or use one of those funny poncho things old people used to use for changing on the beach? A nappy?

 

[andysays]

...are completely irrelevant. As are locks on doors.

Even bathroom doors?

You're the last person I expected to post this

 

[Roadkill]

If you meet in the park only drink one bottle of wine

And do drink wine rather than beer, 'cos that makes you need to piss more!

 

[Teaboy]

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!

I believe (though I've not been myself) that toilets are open in motorway service stations. I presume they will have a fairly strict cleaning protocol but whether you think they're safe enough will be a personal decision. I'd happily use them but then again being a bloke its a bit easier going for a piss without touching anything.

 

[marty21]

Outside markets are open? Pissing in public must get a free pass currently as well? Or use one of those funny poncho things old people used to sue for changing on the beach? A nappy?

Sign in my local park , basically telling people to piss & shit at home, green spaces in Hackney had a bit of a battering following the relaxation of lockdown. I'd prefer it if people did go home to poo tbf

 

[Celyn]

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.

Does the place have a large train station or bus station? Not wonderful places but they have waterproof roofs, and possibly takeaway coffee.

 

[LDC]

View attachment 217131Sign in my local park , basically telling people to piss & shit at home, green spaces in Hackney had a bit of a battering following the relaxation of lockdown. I'd prefer it if people did go home to poo tbf

Was thinking the gutter rather than the park. But yeah, fair enough.

 

[Anju]

Was it made clear whether we're using metaphorical or real bubbles? Also, will it lead to a new porn category and related sub categories.

 

[andysays]

View attachment 217131Sign in my local park , basically telling people to piss & shit at home, green spaces in Hackney had a bit of a battering following the relaxation of lockdown. I'd prefer it if people did go home to poo tbf

Yeah, my colleagues in Parks have had people (mostly middle class they tell me) demanding to know why the toilets aren't still available for their use almost since the lockdown (general and public toilets) was announced.

Genuinely doesn't seem to occur to many of them that someone has to clean them and that's even more of a health hazard ATM than normally.

ETA what park is that, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Supine]

Does the place have a large train station or bus station? Not wonderful places but they have waterproof roofs, and possibly takeaway coffee.

No takeaway coffee but often open toilets

 

[souljacker]

My local parks toilet is still working but that's a self cleaner so might be why. Costs 30p though! I just pee in a bush.

 

[teuchter]

The thing with non-availability of toilets is that it affects different people disproportionately, making a couple of hours sitting in the park, 20 mins away from home, trivial for some people and nearly impossible for others.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The thing with non-availability of toilets is that it affects different people disproportionately, making a couple of hours sitting in the park, 20 mins away from home, trivial for some people and nearly impossible for others.

Public toilet availability in the UK is pretty dire at the best of times anyway, to a point that amounts to direct discrimination against those less able to make do without them.

 

[Teaboy]

Public toilet availability in the UK is pretty dire at the best of times anyway, to a point that amounts to direct discrimination against those less able to make do without them.

Yeah, this has highlighted just how much we rely on pubs and superstores etc for access to public toilets.

I do find the lack of basic forward planning people are doing a bit baffling. Both me and my g/f are fortunate to have decent working bladders but time and again when friends are trying to meet up for drinks in a park somewhere we are the only ones to point out the lack of loo situation. It doesn't occur to people and often they don't seem to care.

Oh well if there are no loos it means I can piss and shit where I like... No, it doesn't it just means you're going to have to limit your time spent away from home. I do get for some people have conditions etc but I'm not talking about them.

 

[nagapie]

Yeah, this has highlighted just how much we rely on pubs and superstores etc for access to public toilets.

I do find the lack of basic forward planning people are doing a bit baffling. Both me and my g/f are fortunate to have decent working bladders but time and again when friends are trying to meet up for drinks in a park somewhere we are the only ones to point out the lack of loo situation. It doesn't occur to people and often they don't seem to care.

Oh well if there are no loos it means I can piss and shit where I like... No, it doesn't it just means you're going to have to limit your time spent away from home. I do get for some people have conditions etc but I'm not talking about them.

I think he was talking about people who cannot use your general public toilet as they are inaccessible for many with disabilities, including the disabled loos, meaning those with disabilities are forced to stay away.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Noone appears to bother with masks in the tiny Tesco express which made me feel very self conscious in mine. The pharmacy in the other hand is fully kitted.

 

[Orang Utan]

I feel more smug than self-conscious wearing mine

 

[maomao]

View attachment 217131Sign in my local park , basically telling people to piss & shit at home, green spaces in Hackney had a bit of a battering following the relaxation of lockdown. I'd prefer it if people did go home to poo tbf

I must have peed in just about every park in Hackney when I lived there. Have yet to poo in a park though.

Pee is good for the ground anyway, excellent fertiliser.

 

[marty21]

Yeah, my colleagues in Parks have had people (mostly middle class they tell me) demanding to know why the toilets aren't still available for their use almost since the lockdown (general and public toilets) was announced.

Genuinely doesn't seem to occur to many of them that someone has to clean them and that's even more of a health hazard ATM than normally.

ETA what park is that, if you don't mind me asking?

Millfields

 

[Mation]

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.

 

[Mation]

My local parks toilet is still working but that's a self cleaner so might be why. Costs 30p though! I just pee in a bush.

Some of them are free. The one in Camberwell (London) is.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Matt Handcocks just said he's proud to be a member of the most diverse Cabinet in British history.

Almost all privately educated and/or Oxbridge

Thank god for diversity

 

[Numbers]

Matt Handcocks just said he's proud to be a member of the most diverse Cabinet in British history.

Almost all privately educated and/or Oxbridge

Thank god for diversity

He did have a handy list of diverse names he read out.

 

[Raheem]

TBF, I can't think of another time the country was run by 11 cunts, 7 wankers, 3 walking shitmountains and a Weeble.

 

[Steel Icarus]

He did have a handy list of diverse names he read out.

I missed that, I was hurling myself off a bridge into a moat of sharks and spikes

 

[PD58]

Just to bring back a lack of levity, I do not think this has been posted and it is such a humane and real read of life at the front line.

The peak

 

[kabbes]

This bubble thing — I reckon we’ve probably been a bit slow off the mark and all the good singletons will be gone now.

 

[prunus]

This bubble thing — I reckon we’ve probably been a bit slow off the mark and all the good singletons will be gone now.

Absolutely not, the best singletons are only just opening the second round of bidding.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

TBF, I can't think of another time the country was run by 11 cunts, 7 wankers, 3 walking shitmountains and a Weeble.

Less of the weeble, please

 

[Raheem]

Less of the weeble, please

We'd all like to see that, but I don't think you can catch it twice.