#441

People want to go out and that’s the easiest excuse. Of course they don’t need to.

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#443

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#444

I’ve got into a routine of doing one Zoom session a week with my mates, which is plenty tbh (and means seeing them far more often than I would in normal life). We don’t have anything new to talk about, but we start about 10pm after a few cans and it genuinely descends into sharing nostalgic youtube vids and stuff. Definitely harder work than just sitting with people though.

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#445

You’re right, I was being unfair. It’s a big achievement and a lot more than I’ll ever do.

I understand people needing this, I’m just not sure it should be the news that’s providing it. There seems to be a marked difference in editorial stance between the different channels, with the BBC being relentlessly positive, C4 being quite bleak, and ITV somewhere in between.

I guess everyone reacts to trauma in different ways: some people want to ignore it (and I don’t mean that in a judgemental way, I have certainly avoided issues in my life that I didn’t want to confront), others want to get angry or sad about it, others want cheering up. So my views are biased towards the ‘getting angry about it’ end of the spectrum.

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#446

Like many people above, I’m getting increasingly frustrated with people at the mo.

My dad (in his 70s, high blood pressure) drove to Leeds the other day to pick up a chair. He already has a chair.

A kids birthday party in the shop downstairs has just ended.

I think someone at work has shed some light on this attitude when she said “It’s so nice we’re on the way out of this now. My friend’s a hairdresser so she’s coming round tonight to give me a trim.”

I give up. I’m so happy my sisters and my friends are taking this as seriously as they should, because otherwise I think I’d start smashing things.

#448

It’s worrying if this is a widely held view. Even Johnson has said it’s only the end of the first phase, and whilst his main goal was to appear Churchillian, if he’s saying it and it’s not getting through, then we’re a bit screwed.

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#449

She got roundly corrected, so not sure it’s a widely held view, but definitely some people’s interpretation.

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#450

@Ruffers…

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#451

Imagine being enough of an absolute Karen trying to grass this to the police though

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#452

Can you blur the K-word please?

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#453

Oh my god rolling at this text from one of my atds, always on the pulse this one

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@guntrip can probably tell who this is from lol

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#454

Unsure if serious but I am unable to sorry

#455
Maybe in slightly poor taste re: Captain Tom

You know how the tabloids like to build someone up only knock them down? Well, I wonder if they’ve got something on him…

#456

Completely unserious as fuck

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#457

Garden State (pension)

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#459

Turns out he was actually a pilot for the Luftwaffe.

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#461

Can Liz use her power to test key workers?

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#464

Liz-ard

makes you think.

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#466

Sorry that you’re going through all this but this genuinely made me snort

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#467

You just KNOW that Richard Curtis must be writing a film script about all of this don’t you? Corona, Actually or Love, Virally or some bollocks.
Bill Nighy is almost certainly lined up to play Captain Tom too

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