#1252

I think, deep down, we all knew that llamas would be the ones to save us all.

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#1254

I for one, welcome our new Llama overloads etc

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#1255

My sister’s sent over some photos of her VE Day street party

Really glad I don’t live in [redacted Conservative constituency]

#1256

Appropriate socially distanced parties, or all rule-flouting types?

#1258

Yep. This is pretty infuriating, isn’t it? :frowning:

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#1259

Life is full of these infuriating things though, people who queue jump or don’t let you out at junctions. It’s awful but you have to satisfy yourself that they’re pricks and will get what’s coming to them one way or the other, and, most importantly, that they’re in the minority. However many parties you might see, the majority of people are still going to be largely following the rules.

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#1260

If this were true, life would be so much more bearable

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#1261

I know, I just get this infuriated by rule breaking in regular life as well.

#1262

They will all know misery in their time

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#1263

Put it in the daily thread but the amount of folk who’ve put their garden furniture out in the pavement so any pedestrians have to walk out in the road is ridiculous. Some on busy roads. With cars parked on the road. Fuck knows how a wheelchair or pram is meant to get past with a 2m gap

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#1264

feel bad as I went to big tesco today (had to walk as my car battery is flat), must have been once a week since lockdown but it was the first time I was aware of the arrow system, must have just been oblivious in the past. now I noticed it I was pretty irked with people ignoring it

#1265

Tbh a one way system in a supermarket sounds incredibly irritating and unnatural. As long as people give each other space (which they won’t - regardless of one way system - because people are idiots) you should be able to roam freely.

Maybe I’m not that bothered about it because I pass people in corridors at work every day, I dunno.

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#1266

I’m sure it’s been said already, but… The government’s communication has been so fucking shit, especially over the past few days, and with the press making things worse. The prime minister says a whole bunch of stuff at PMQs, which is then reported in the papers on Thursday and has to be played down at the press briefing. In the meantime, people think “woohoo lockdown is nearly over!!!” and there are 17 parties on @AQOS’s walk

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#1267

ran past about 5 street parties here in Surrey. union jacks draped over the fences, people with mini flags, bowler hats, that sort of thing. no distancing, probably 15 per group.

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#1268

I say ran - walking to where I was going to run.

#1269

Yeah I’m not sure if the benefits because a lot of the time I had to walk past people I wouldn’t have if I could just turn round, only really works if there are no dawdlers

#1271

I’m an essential worker with a government health care agency and also a designated state disaster services worker and also am on two immune suppressants. I’m not leaving packages out to disinfect or washing everything all the time (no time, no room) but I’m otherwise quite vigilant still.

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#1272

Curious as to whether you can have a second peak if you never got off the first one.

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#1273

Every time I get angry at obvious non household friends hanging out in the park and start thinking ‘why should I suffer when nobody else seems to give a fuck?’ I remember that every one of my friends is being a good boy as well, and I’d have nobody to hang out with anyway.

People on Facebook from home etc who I don’t hang out with all seem to be strictly locked down and I don’t think they’re following threads like this.

You see people breaking the rules and assume everyone is doing it but, even though parks are busy, imagine how many people would be socialising in pubs, cafes and restaurants at any given moment normally, and imagine how many big groups would be in parks (because that’s all that’s open) if the vast majority of those were’t following the lockdown.

Maybe there’s more house parties going on than what I can see, I dunno. I live in a studenty area though, and it doesn’t seem like it.

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#1275

Where I live, people are doing pretty darn well during the week and then on the weekend tossing all to the wayside and swarming parks and beaches. Not nearly so bad as SoCal but still very stupid behaviour.