MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Presumably the young lady in the middle with her friends is desperate for a new pair of jeans
Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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hi dad, when did you start posting on urban??
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
It's not them of course but with masks on I could easily imagine this being my youngest with a couple of her mates, She informs me that there are people sleeping in doorways who have a greater sense of fashion than I do.
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
The thing is, if all your clothes were from Primark (because that's all you can afford) then a lot of them won't have lasted through lockdown. That's how fast fashion works.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Youngest has more than one pair of fashionably ripped jeans, somewhat illogically they were more expensive and came from more upmarket shops than her unripped pairs.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I don't understand. You've been out and about doing stuff and you were annoyed to see other people out and about doing stuff?
Or have I misunderstood?
editor
hiraethified
There was a huge queue outside Sports-fucking-Direct in Brixton today
www.brixtonbuzz.com
In photos: massive queue in Brixton as lockdown eases and shops reopen, Mon 15th June 2020
This was the huge queue seen outside Sports Direct in Pope’s Road, Brixton today, with the line of people stretching all the way into Atlantic Road.
www.brixtonbuzz.com
clicker
nanook rubs it....
They were advertising 50% off for all NHS staff today.There was a huge queue outside Sports-fucking-Direct in Brixton today
In photos: massive queue in Brixton as lockdown eases and shops reopen, Mon 15th June 2020
This was the huge queue seen outside Sports Direct in Pope’s Road, Brixton today, with the line of people stretching all the way into Atlantic Road.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
My how we've all missed rampant consumerism.
editor
hiraethified
Even if they were giving away stuff they'd still be a shitty company
Sports Direct workers say they're being forced to work despite being on furlough
Staff have reportedly been asked to volunteer to go into stores one day a week to help clear through stock, despite the entire team being placed on furlough last month
www.mirror.co.uk
The 7 most shocking testimonies from workers at Sports Direct
The Committee heard a series of accounts of worker mistreatment, including staff being penalised for a short break to drink water and for taking time off work when ill
www.independent.co.uk
It's still been there, just via Amazon
clicker
nanook rubs it....
Yes, but it might explain some of the queue.Even if they were giving away stuff they'd still be a shitty company
Sports Direct workers say they're being forced to work despite being on furlough
Staff have reportedly been asked to volunteer to go into stores one day a week to help clear through stock, despite the entire team being placed on furlough last monthThe 7 most shocking testimonies from workers at Sports Direct
The Committee heard a series of accounts of worker mistreatment, including staff being penalised for a short break to drink water and for taking time off work when ill
Back at work for the second day (retail) and already so exasperated that there is no requirement for customers to wear face coverings. Yesterday someone promptly sneezed next to me without covering their sneeze in tissue or elbow, and someone just lengthily went about a complicated order for over 15 mins while coughing well covidy coughs and going "Haha, don't worry, just a tickly throat". FUCK OFF!!! It's at best massively insensitive and at worst a massive health hazard. He was talking to one of our managers who is the type to never stand up to a customer. I beat a hasty retreat to my lunch break, hoping the shop will air out over the next hour...
It's just not cool at all.
It's just not cool at all.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I don't understand why masks aren't required in shops either. They should be, given that no fucker is actually distancing any more, not round our way anyway.
That's fucking shit behaviour zora , sorry you have to put up with that
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Are you quarantining books that have been rummaged through? Though that sounds unmanageable. We’re only doing click n collect in my library but that will exclude a lot of customers
Ranbay
The same rules apply
Nope not annoyed at all, just pointing out people don't seem to care much anymore near me.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Your doppelganger across town is probably saying the same thing about you.
I kind of file that alongside 'people complaining about how many people there were in the park when they went to the park'. As with the park people, I suspect the now-out-and-about-doing-stuff people won't have much of an effect on the decline in infection rates either.
Aye, and although you'd get the impression from the media that it's just working-class folk queuing to get into Primark, 'luxury' shopping centres have been bursting at the seams as well.
maomao
普費斯
Plenty of working class people (those with cars anyway) go to Bicester. It's outlet innit.
I know, but it's still a counterpoint to the implied sneering in the press at poor people queuing up for cheap jeans.
andysays
Love and solidarity
Anyone who wears jeans is irredeemably lower class, surely...
teuchter
je suis teuchter
When you look at the deaths per head of population numbers, the UK is broadly similar to Spain and Italy. But these graphs show the Z-number which as I understand it is a way of measuring excess deaths. So why is Italy's peak less than half of the one for Spain or for England?
from here Graphs and maps from EUROMOMO
from here Graphs and maps from EUROMOMO
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I've been suspicious of some of that data for a while. There is a totally unexplained anomaly in England as well, not mirrored at all in Wales or Scotland, which makes me suspect some problems with these things - probably not comparing like with like. It's not a great time for reliable statistics anywhere, tbh.
I worry that opening up general retail is a lot riskier than food retail and outdoor activities. We know the virus is mostly spread by touch. People shopping for non essentials do a lot of picking things up for a look and then putting them back again. In an enclosed space. This can’t be good.
Go on, I'll have a guess. Though, lets face it, its almost certainly to do with the way the data is collected and presented.
Anyway, I remember something being said when Italy was first being hit hard that they had the 3rd oldest population in the world. Could this be a factor in that more of those who were dying in Italy may have reasonably been expected to die this year anyway?
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