give people a few days to start faking those then
― ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link
yep I don't there is a practicable way of doing it without potential of people feigning oldness/disability to get their orders tbh
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:08 (four years ago) link
Anyone caught doing this to be immediately disabled
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
death by a thousand faked blue badge cuts
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
haha just realised i have a couple of my mum's dad's WW2 ration books in a shoebox somewhere, so maybe i'm ok for powdered egg and radio malt for a day or two
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
Johnson ducks @Ianblackford_MP’s call for him to temporarily introduce universal income for all. Deep concern in Govt that if it came in, it would prove politically impossible to ever withdraw.— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) March 18, 2020
― stet, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
had an email from sainsbury's saying that they would be prioritising deliveries for the elderly and "the disabled". how you prove you're either of these in their online shop i have no idea
You're a mature, grown-up liberal democracy.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:26 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETK9geiXQAIkS4s?format=jpg&name=small
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
it me
(all of them)
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:33 (four years ago) link
We think we have it bad, but think how bad England’s most boring man has it:
I’ve walked the dogs, washed the car, tidied the house. I’m now bored out of my brain. Self isolate for weeks? I can’t manage a day!— michael owen (@themichaelowen) March 15, 2020
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:47 (four years ago) link
I think you have to register DOB when you sign up to shop Sainsbury’s/Waitrose/Nectar online? I don’t do online shopping as a rule because I’d rather walk to the shop than wait in for parcels. Takes less time where I am.
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:52 (four years ago) link
I think you could be right about that. I mostly put in a nonsense DOB when i sign up for stuff cos it's none of their business, mostly like 1-Jan-1902 or something. So I'll be fine, they think I'm 118 years old
― ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:05 (four years ago) link
by my maths, if every mp gets infected, 11.9 of them will dieplace your bets― uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 08:58 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
place your bets
― uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 08:58 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Due to a member of my family showing symptoms of Coronavirus, I’m following NHS advice and self-isolating for the next 14 days.I’m showing no symptoms myself and feel absolutely fine but it’s vital that we all follow the Government’s medical advice.— Tim Farron (@timfarron) March 18, 2020
― uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
All that milk is going to see him just fine.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
I'm presuming a large amount of pensioners are not very online, my mum certainly isn't. And it'll often be family members who will be doing the ordering for them. Is there any way I can send a burning bag of dog shit to Tim Farron's doorstep now he's at home for a while?
― end-a-game beans (calzino), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
deliverpoo
― uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
Schools closing in Wales and Scotland. Can’t see England and NI lasting much into next week.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
I think they break up for easter in 2 weeks, are these fuckers just going to wait until then?
― end-a-game beans (calzino), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
Deutsche Bank expects the mother of all recessions: "The quarterly declines in GDP growth we anticipate substantially exceed anything previously recorded going back toat least World War II." pic.twitter.com/jfPY5jR0Vw— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) March 18, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
That's less a recession and more a short but very sharp shock but those forecasts include a sharp rebound in Q3 which seems... hopeful. If it goes on for longer then everything depends on how long businesses and households can be kept on economic life support.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
just got a call from the son's teacher who reckons schools will be closed in England as well this 5pm press conf
― end-a-game beans (calzino), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
Hull College closed to students from tonight so yeah I guess it's happening to schools too
― ---------------six feet----------------- (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
lots of online chatter about london being put into lockdown, no idea what to believe at this point tbh
― uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
My friend works for Weatherspoon Bristol. This is what they got today from owner - 'UK is right to keep pubs open, following the Dutch position"She gets no handgel, no masks and is not allowed to wear gloves. pic.twitter.com/w6L9AKfwBD— Daniela Gabor (@DanielaGabor) March 17, 2020
bludgeoning Tim martin to death with a sledgehammer and shutting up all his stinking pisshole pubs would be some justifiable state intervention/homicide if it potentially saved lots of lives during this next upward curve of infection. Seriously though...
― end-a-game beans (calzino), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
bg: https://www.ft.com/content/e8c98d1c-6926-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75 yep
― stet, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
the old you can't link FT problem, if you google search "London lockdown imminent to slow coronavirus outbreak" clickable FT link is at the top.
― end-a-game beans (calzino), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
Time for people to get a bone on for martial law, huzzah
― ---------------six feet----------------- (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
Schools across the UK are also expected to close by the weekend, although special provision would be made for the children of key workers, including NHS staff, to avoid the risk off parents having to take time off work for child care.
would have been maybe a good idea to implement this a couple of weeks back.
― end-a-game beans (calzino), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
Interesting to see whether lockdown means no entrance to / exit from London and who's going to enforce that, if so.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link
old-school east end gangsters or gtfo imo
― uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
they've suspended filming Eastenders I heard. Maybe some of them toughies could lend a hand. Lol not watched that shite in decades tbh!
― end-a-game beans (calzino), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
the gangsters live in spain now iirc, the east end is now just full of me
― mark s, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
xp finally a silver lining
― ---------------six feet----------------- (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
Bane, iirc
― Number None, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
Dirty Den
― end-a-game beans (calzino), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
Schools close on Friday ‘until further notice’.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
Oh Christ I forgot Gavin Williamson was Education. All schools closed except for children of key workers and vulnerable children.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
Love too admit they have to keep the schools open cos it’s the only place some children will be fed.
Absolutely no doubt in mind this speech was delayed because Boris had the shits. He looks terrible.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
get well soon big man, hope u don’t shit yrself to agonising death
― uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
Love to admit the most important role of the state education system in the UK
― ---------------six feet----------------- (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
but there’s no such thing as society iirc
― uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
Remember when you could be fined for taking your kid out of school for a day cos that would irreparably ruin their education
― ---------------six feet----------------- (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
... what happens to the kids of teachers?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
They'll go to school, where there'll be a load of edumacating going on
― ---------------six feet----------------- (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
can't wait to get my Morrisons delivery from an 11 year old teacher's kid whose just done a shift at toilet roll factory.
― end-a-game beans (calzino), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2020/03/government-documents-show-no-planning-ventilators-event-pandemicWill there ever be any accountability
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
GCSEs and A-Levels cancelled, inevitably.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
Feel like these conferences are painting an optimistic picture of how we're ensuring we don't stretch the NHS capacity to deal with serious cases while refusing to state what that capacity is and how close we are to it.
If the schools measure is an ineffective a delay tactic as it's been stated over the past week then why change and why now?
On of the journos attempted to get the PM to call his father immoral.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
Lloyd Russell-Moyle has tested positive according to the local news. He's also HIV positive, fuck
― ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link