KIP covid thread

Xmas tree

Fair fucks on droppin the booze jim

Lockdown been good for that tbh, tho i take a drop at home but never to excess unlike when out

Amazingly,, this year will be the first time that my wife and I will actually wake up together in our own house on Christmas day. It will be very nice. Christmas with family and gatherings and church and traveling and visiting is fun, but I am very much looking forward to seeing what it’s like to have one quiet holiday at home.

Long, cold, clear walk in the park still legal and safe

So, which one is it?

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/KIP

Long, cold, clear walk in the park still legal and safe

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Sunday, 20 December 2020 16:21 (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this one's u&k

^ the whole basis of my sanity, or what's left of it

Happy we decided to stay put a few weeks back (or in-laws decided not risk it even with tests etc) as have ordered a chicken from the farm shop and bought a ridiculous pile of 'christmas treats' already so don't need to get much or change plans etc.
Took my 6yo on a 2-hour round trip to drop presents at my parents' (staying outside) and, well, this is the KIP thread but let's say I now feel positive about not spending Christmas with them :|
Kids will have fun with food, telly and presents so won't be missing out.

> So, which one is it?

Keep it positive

Im KIP by treating poms contributions recently as

obtuse

I'm flattered.

I won't get to see my parents for Christmas, so I'mma KIP by picking up a bottle of Rémy Martin.

Fuck that’s a great idea

Oh we just finished our own little christmas dinner (before doing all the shared ones) and opened 1/2 of our presents to each other- glenlivet 15 yr old

Very nice, very christmassy tbh

I'm thrilled about not having to deal with domineering Trumpoid in-laws, frankly.

Ive to do one day with himself, tis enough

glenlivet 15 yr old

My dad's a fan. It's 80.50 CAD (51.50 EUR) for a 750 ml bottle here – how much is it in Ireland, pray tell?

Maybe not the real KIP spirit but I don't care for holiday season at all so I'm kinda relieved I don't have to deal with parents and in-laws and celebrations this year. I'm sad for other people around me who do like that time of the year so it's a bit bittersweet but if I'm honest on a totally personal level I'd happily take a December lockdown every year.

No i think its KIP, KIP is a personal journey

Paying twice that, pom, ffs

Ah good I finally found the #ffs channel, been searching

Christ, even your Tesco-bought Founder's Reserve is scarcely cheaper when you take the missing 5cl into account. Then again, Montreal is a mere 4.8k km away from Ballindalloch.

I will KIP by entertaining the possibility of picking up a bottle of Glenlivet 15 in light of this new information.

Its fine, its not a redbreast nor green spot tbh (not rounded enough for my taste)

Facebook "on this day" has been reminding me lately of all the terrible, stressful train journeys home (and, usually worse, back afterwards). None of that this year.

(I enjoy the trains when I'm on them, it's the schedules and delays and the way they close Paddington for works seemingly every Christmas that I don't like)

Yes there were definite benefits to covid xmas to somewhat counterbalance the obvious rotten parts

xp must bump whiskey thread theres been a haul

No visiting over Christmas which meant that once the place was tidied and comfortable meself, the brother and the brat got to hunker in and enjoy cooking, movies, spins together for the few days

covid is an ideal situation for anyone who needs to keep their family out of their lives

Maffew12 has a fistful of dollars shared on plex and there were four types of cheese and three sweet chutneys left to finish

Paperwork, cupboards, obscure cleaning jobs etc have literally never been in better order

Signed the guy who has just shampood his suede shoes and vinegar soda'd the bottom of the curtains

Deeply grateful to have worked from home on 1/6/21, rather than going to my Southwest DC worksite.

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Lockdown sure lets you play with hair/beard combos without unleashing them on the world

aye, ive grown my hair out, am less than fastidious on the shaving front, rather than beard-trimming every other day when im working in the office. thinking of pivoting towards a mullet when i go to my barber next week, bit off the top and sides and leave the back and i'll be in mullet zone

Pics ffs

if i remember. haven't posted to wdyll threads in yonks anyway

including: shaving multiweek-grown beard off in stages to see how one would look with various styles, eg full beard -> porn donut (circle beard) -> zappa -> dr phil or full beard -> lemmy -> horseshoe -> chaplin.

I've been bombarded the past few days with clickbait ads about men who used lockdown to grow "monkey tail" beards. Fellas, keep it positive, but do try to keep your composure.

Yes look the thread isnt a free for all either, agreed

yikes

That is not a clearly kip post, expand or face banishment from this blessed thread imo

https://i.ibb.co/1rJSyf8/Brian-Blessed.jpg

I'm trying my best to KIP right now but I keep getting into verbal aggro with arseholes who don't seem to realise a park I've been frequenting for over a decade doesn't have a dogs must be on leads rule. But the positive aspect to this post is: I was talking to another dogwalker earlier who gave me some encouragement for my hardliner "just tell 'em to fuck off" stance.

Take the positives where you can grab em these days imo

Having a fine time reading and writing a fair amount and catching up on music in a way that was impossible before.

Not traveling for work since Dec 2019, after many years of 40k+ flight miles, and pretty successfully working from home got me rethinking things big time. 20 years of renting ended on Friday when we got the keys to a place we bought.

yayyy Jaq! that's so cool.

Fantastic.

Also fingers crossed, same before too long.

Talk of three days per week from home going fwd too.

Good weather for nice strong hot chocolates (bournville cocoa powder none of yer shite)

What about green & blacks

Yes also fine its more the premix "hot chocolate" or flavoured stuff

Not that you cant get interesting flavour cocoa, mind.

But it must be cocoa, nothin with milk solids etc

belatedly realised that I can put in a holiday form for the whole of February and half of march because I've been on furlough since April 1st (barring working one week in November) and I have to use my holiday entitlement up by end of March ensuring that I get paid 100% of my wages for that time rather than 80%.

was thinking how i haven't been sick with a cough or cold or anything in over a year. which is nice.

didn't take all of my vacation entitlement last year so i have 6 weeks to take this year, not including statutory holidays and the week my work closes at christmas. if somehow, god-willing, i am able to make it back to scotland this year it will be for a whole month.