Down the pub - the thread about nothing and everything

[Grahamm]

I have a regular weekly delivery slot from Asda on Tuesdays mornings.

Today I get an e-mail from them saying that they don't apply over Xmas and the New Year, so I spent ages trying to get into their delivery booking system to put in an order and check it out just to make sure we'd have food over the holiday period!

[dazza]

I have a regular weekly delivery slot from Asda on Tuesdays mornings.

Today I get an e-mail from them saying that they don't apply over Xmas and the New Year, so I spent ages trying to get into their delivery booking system to put in an order and check it out just to make sure we'd have food over the holiday period!

Outrageous, isn't it  :rolleyes  You might actually have to go food shopping. What's the world coming to ?  :lol

[Grahamm]

You might actually have to go food shopping. What's the world coming to ?  :lol

Hilarious.

My girlfriend has severe asthma. She was one of the ones who had to Shield during the first lockdown.

I've seen her in hospital on an oxygen mask twice in the past, because her asthma has flared up so badly she could barely breathe.

There are too many idiots out there who won't wear masks or think that they don't have to cover their noses or refuse to socially distance etc etc etc for me to want to risk going shopping in Asda and contracting the Virus and then, somehow, having to work out how to stay away from her for a fortnight (at least) in the SAME FOCCING HOUSE!

Yes, dazza, really FOCCING HILARIOUS.

[VNA]

My butcher has just posted on social media that due to the lockdown in England and a massive surge in orders that there may be delays and some shortages over the next week or so!

[VNA]

My local Wickes, no turps or white spirit, also no brilliant white Dulux satinwood paint. The paint section looked quite sparse of stock in general.

Oh oh.  Decorating my living room this week.  Off to buy paint for the walls this afternoon.  Always hate picking the colour, never sure if I’ll get it right.  But no issues up here so far, but then a big surge in purchases in England could affect stocks across the UK.


I always use Dulux or Crown Trade Gloss and Trade undercoat if required.  Hard work, and it absolutely stinks but great finish.

[fazersharp]

[quote author=dazza link=topic=22082.msg321052#msg321052 date=1604348496]
You might actually have to go food shopping. What's the world coming to ?  :lol

Hilarious.

My girlfriend has severe asthma.
There are too many idiots out there who won't wear masks
[/quote]As I understood and have been hearing from radio phone ins on the subject people with asthma are some of the ones in Asda not wearing a mask as they can be exempt. A woman just the other day says wearing a mask gives her flashbacks from when she was raped and had a hand across her mouth. Those who do not wear a mask in Asda are not all idiots.

[Grahamm]

As I understood and have been hearing from radio phone ins on the subject people with asthma are some of the ones in Asda not wearing a mask as they can be exempt.

Yes, *some* people are exempt, but most of them wear a "Hidden Disability" lanyard.

However a lot of them are just idiots, cf the students who had a Halloween party just down the road from me with about 20 people in the house and spilling out into the street.

[fazersharp]

Yes, *some* people are exempt, but most of them wear a "Hidden Disability" lanyard.

It should be law then to have to wear one "Hidden Disability" lanyard, ----no mask-- no lanyard -no baked beans.

[VNA]

It should be law then to have to wear one "Hidden Disability" lanyard, ----no mask-- no lanyard -no baked beans.

Absolutely not.  Nobody who cannot wear a mask should be harrased or made justify not wearing a mask.
Further people with conditions such as dementia will either not understand or forget their mask.
All of us who can, of course should, be lets try and support each other, not pick on people who have a genuine reason not to wear a mask.

[fazersharp]

It should be law then to have to wear one "Hidden Disability" lanyard, ----no mask-- no lanyard -no baked beans.

Nobody who cannot wear a mask should be harrased or made justify not wearing a mask.
be lets try and support each other, not pick on people who have a genuine reason not to wear a mask.

Yes that is what I was saying -- speak to Grahamm - he's the one who thinks all those without a mask are idiots, not me.

Yes, *some* people are exempt, but most of them wear a "Hidden Disability" lanyard.

However a lot of them are just idiots,

[agricola]

[quote author=Grahamm link=topic=22082.msg321057#msg321057 date=1604363523]
[quote author=dazza link=topic=22082.msg321052#msg321052 date=1604348496]
You might actually have to go food shopping. What's the world coming to ?  :lol

Hilarious.

My girlfriend has severe asthma.
There are too many idiots out there who won't wear masks
[/quote]As I understood and have been hearing from radio phone ins on the subject people with asthma are some of the ones in Asda not wearing a mask as they can be exempt. A woman just the other day says wearing a mask gives her flashbacks from when she was raped and had a hand across her mouth. Those who do not wear a mask in Asda are not all idiots.
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Sadly, many of them are idiots. Youngest has a part time job in hospitality, often faced with people claiming exemption who cannot prove that entitlement, either no certificate and/or no lanyard. I bracket them with the partying folk, those that go/have been abroad and dont isolate etc.


Id have had the water cannon out before now, dyed water, round them up later, temporary camps in the Peaks/Highlands. Dont want to wear a mask? there you go, feel free.

[Dudeofrude]

Imo too many people use a 'hidden disability' as an excuse just purely because they don't want to wear one. They've already proven it doesn't affect your oxygen levels so you can breathe just fine through them, it may not be as comfortable but thats the same for everyone wearing one.
Plus being 'exempt' from wearing a mask doesn't make you exempt from catching the virus and spreading it. So if you really are too ill to wear one then you shouldn't be going into crowded public places.... simple as.

And my wife (like Grahams) is severely asthmatic and the pair of us have spent many a night in the hospital with her on a ventilator followed by weeks of steroids after catching a mild chest infection, but as she works at the hospital she still manages to wear a mask for her full 12 shifts without bother. During the first wave she was even forced to wear those horrendous air tight ones that left bruising all over her face. But its part of the job so she puts up with it

Its not the best but at the minute it's a necessity and the more people try to bend the rules and make excuses the longer this BS is going to go on for ??

[VNA]

Sadly, many of them are idiots.

Yup agree.  But all we can do is keep pushing the message.  Unfortunately we live in age where folks ‘have had enough of the experts’.  There is all the fake news, and conspiracy theories etc etc.


But whilst I see some folks, whom I figure, like you say, quite likely just don’t care, most people seem to be complying.


By the way I have heard some scientific experts comment that a lack of compliance in the UK is a contributor to the situation we find ourselves in.  Although the biggest problem is an inability to test and trace effectively. 

[YamFazFan]

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[fazersharp]

I predict a win for Trump.

[Dudeofrude]

Just imagine where we'd be if everyone was like Corbyn's brother. It doesn't bear thinking about.

Same situation as the USA at a guess ??

[agricola]

Sadly, many of them are idiots.

Yup agree.  But all we can do is keep pushing the message.  Unfortunately we live in age where folks ‘have had enough of the experts’.  There is all the fake news, and conspiracy theories etc etc.


But whilst I see some folks, whom I figure, like you say, quite likely just don’t care, most people seem to be complying.


By the way I have heard some scientific experts comment that a lack of compliance in the UK is a contributor to the situation we find ourselves in.  Although the biggest problem is an inability to test and trace effectively.

Yep, fair comments. There seems to be a generation that will not/cannot accept responsibility for their own actions. Its been commented in various threads previously, the so called "snowflake" generation.


Im just pleased we've brought our two up to act responsibly

[agricola]

I predict a win for Trump.

That'll be interesting. There's enough military hardware tucked away in compounds to fuel a small war, including aircraft

[YamFazFan]

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[mtread]

I mean, other than slagging Boris of for a full 3 hours how else are Nick Abbot and James O'Brien going to fill half their radio shows?.

Politics!
Perhaps they could get in a few Tory backbenchers to take over, and give them a rest  :lol