love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

1,019 dead from coronavirus in the uk

260 in the last 24 hours :(

A nation of grasses and curtain-twitchers.

”We are getting calls from people who say 'I think my neighbour is going out on a second run - I want you to come and arrest them'.

"We have had dozens and dozens of these calls."

And that's well before we've reached the point where the system is totally swamped, local exceptions aside xp

had a video call with a friend this morning and we talked about how that was probably gonna happen. I confessed that on Wednesday this week I posted a birthday card to my mum in the post box across the street, then an hour later I went out for a walk. rebel without a cause, me

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Wondering how long it'll be before the first double-jogger is convicted on the strength of their strava

Whatever I said about people being under emotional strain, I just despair sometimes.

Was listening to some expert on civil legislation saying that the good thing about the lock down rules in the form that they're in, is that the public need to see that everyone is being treated equally and fairly and there would soon be complaint and unrest if people thought that were not the case. And yes, you can see that happening already as people see the grave social injustice of their neighbour letting their dog take two shits in one day on the barren scrubland across the road. Fairness is indeed the British way and no-one can tell me otherwise

And in Bournemouth a woman has been arrested after “endlessly driving around for no reason”, police said.

rozzers loving this

sickening comments on the original fb post. so many expressions of support
https://www.facebook.com/BmthSouthPolice/posts/2891169884306354?__tn__=-R

Unfortunately someone like that could be trying to avoid an abusive partnerxp

I had no idea endlessly driving around for no reason was a criminal offence, good to see the filth taking a tough stance on environmental issues. Maybe when we get the squaddies out they can just shoot people

endlessly driving round for no reason = all motorsport ever

At least people are sharing a lot of this stuff

At 7.55 am this morning at my local Corner Shop which was only opening for seniors between 8 - 9 am, a young man came from the car park and tried to cut in to the front of the queue, an old woman beat him with her stick and forced him out, when he tried a 2nd time an old man punched him in the gut, as he approached the front of the queue a 3rd time he shouted, if you don't let me unlock the fucking door you won't get in there.

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Shooting fish in a barrel innit? They don't have to do any work like they do when, you know, they have to catch actual criminals.

A guy jumped the queue we were in earlier just to buy a lighter. I wasn't too fussed as at least he was in and out in ten seconds but he was coughing before entering :[

Funny to read this and remember that outside of this thread a beloved ilxor nearly got banned when US lib monocles shattered cause they were rude about the filth

#thankful pic.twitter.com/K1dIlsHftp

— Manny (@mannnnny80) March 28, 2020

Good man

Funny to read this and remember that outside of this thread a beloved ilxor nearly got banned when US lib monocles shattered cause they were rude about the filth

just posting some highly necessary content here

love you king pic.twitter.com/kfgLDFTNto

— what cloud the new hxh chapter on 🤔 (@nencontrol) March 27, 2020

xp I was sober then and not wanting to get into it

we should adopt said ilxor into this thread

he already posts here occasionally

morbs, silby? it's one of them innit? i rarely peer into American lib hell, because it's usually got too much Fred in the thread, or at least more than I can stomach.

the latter. Actually I realise posting now silby may not be a he, sorry if I got this wrong. calz, not even gonna touch your other point.

It is silby, who is not a he iirc

Xp!

ty wins, I still love silby

yep silby is a fine poster

Funny to read this and remember that outside of this thread a beloved ilxor nearly got banned when US lib monocles shattered cause they were rude about the filth

what's the story here. bunch of cap'n-save-a-cops on the USpol threads?

Maybe best to leave it but it was one of the covid threads, a perfectly fine “hope cops get it lol” post nearly caused an international incident

the fuck

Sky News is reporting that the deaths from coronavirus aren't so bad because most of the people "would have died anyway some time this year"... pic.twitter.com/12PdzyhYki

— Conor McCabe (@CMacCaba) March 28, 2020

graphic is pure brasseye

fucking failed state

Is this #clapforboris thing real?

Honestly can't tell anymore

Law of averages suggests he's already had it at least once.

Person who suggested it seems legit, but I think it'll go about as well as when they tried to get that shitty brexit comedian to #1 on the day the UK left the EU.

Geoff Norcott?

The only clapforBoris thing I've seen was a joke, I'm sure

#borishastheclap

#clapfromboris

Lads

isn’t the clap one of those things it’s increasingly difficult to cure now?

Maybe best to leave it but it was one of the covid threads, a perfectly fine “hope cops get it lol” post nearly caused an international incident

― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Saturday, 28 March 2020 17:18 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol checked this out and it is unreal

also just found out I'm getting furloughed

unfortunately didn't save up for a concertina in time to use this opportunity to practice

I'm watching a lot of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Star Trek Next Generation.

Do we know how long the lockdown phase will last?

hard lines plax. on both furlough and lack of concertina.

also yes just checked out that thread and silbs makes an acab joke on *ilx* and suddenly high table goes v quiet and says “gosh i think that’s in awfully bad taste”. then it all gets a bit The Invaders.

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was pondering that today. presumably to do with the rate of new cases going back down below a threshhold

Honestly so glad for this thread and all who sail in it

And that’s shit plax, hope they’re not cunts about the pay

also wondering that. i think they’re reviewing was it end of april? it’s very hard not to imagine it won’t go on till end of may tbh. also hard to get think schools will go back before september?

also curious what it will look like. it’s not like the gov are going to go “right everyone! pub’s open!” is it?