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vom wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 3:28 pm just managed to rebook my second jab for next weekend (instead of the end of the month), and at a venue I can walk to this time

hooray

hooray, I am now fully jabbed

and I didn't really get any side effects. even the sore arm was barely noticeable this time

hooray

Good to hear, Vomas!

50000 cases a day, two days before getting rid of all restrictions completely. Yeah I don't really want to leave the house right now at all.

happy freedom day, etc etc

How long before the whole of britain is considered a biological weapon

I'm not changing my routine at all till I've had the second jab, and possibly not for some time afterwards

dng wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 3:04 pm 50000 cases a day, two days before getting rid of all restrictions completely. Yeah I don't really want to leave the house right now at all.

I know what you mean - my anxiety levels are following a similar trajectory to the reported number of cases.

dng wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 3:05 pm How long before the whole of britain is considered a biological weapon

Yeah, but Corbyn.

Bruce Sato wrote: Fri Jul 16, 2021 9:44 pm I'm not changing my routine at all till I've had the second jab, and possibly not for some time afterwards

Sounds like sturdy common sense to me.

"Andrew Lloyd Webber cancels opening night of Cinderella due to Covid case"

There's always a silver lining if you look hard enough for it...

Ping.

Bollocks.

I’m going to get everyone for this

I hope it turns out to be nothing/okay, Paul! *thumbs up*

i had my second vaccination today and now i can't move my arm with out it hurting and it's mildly annoying

also oh no poor pual

commiserations on ping!

It's good to know you've had your second shot, Dave. When you hear of those who've had two shots and have still been pretty ill, it makes you wonder how bad you'd be if you'd only had one shot! Ugh!

Yes. Also due to ultra fatness I bet I'd bloody die from it and all, just to teach me a lesson (don't be fat, catch coronavirus)

My sister is immensely wrathful because the headteacher at her school has succumbed to Covid and she got stuck talking to him for too long on Wednesday (the last day of term) with the result that she must now isolate and can't go with baby to visit parents next week as was planned. She is particularly displeased because this plan had led her to not buy any food for the week. But since my dad has not been vaccinated at all (due to crippling fear of injection), there's not much to be done.

Oh, man, that's really crappy, Bruce.

Fingers crossed that it pans out well.

Does the number of falling cases mean that things are improving (fingers crossed), or does it mean that peeps are just removing that NHS app from their phone/not getting tested/pinged?

I think it means that Euro 2020 was behind everything

despite all claims to the contrary at the time

dng wrote: Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:16 pm I think it means that Euro 2020 was behind everything

I bamlem Marcus Rashford!!!!

What are the odds that this is not an isolated incident

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58186032

Christ!

Urgh.

Anti Covid vaccinererer Richard 'Right Said Fred' Fairbrass in hospital with... you guessed it...

I am jib a second time. This one necessitated a 5+ mile walk to the Oxford Utd stadium, and also a 5+ mile walk back. So I am pretty knacked already.

I went to that stadium once. southend lost 2-1.

i didn't walk there though

Bruce Sato wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:09 pm I am jib a second time. This one necessitated a 5+ mile walk to the Oxford Utd stadium, and also a 5+ mile walk back. So I am pretty knacked already.

5 miles each way?!?! Bladdy hell!

Good-o 'bout the jab, though!

Ves, now I might go to the pub a few times before it is too cold and dark to go outside.
The walk was due to mask madness and also not wanting to be in a bus or taxi with random persons. There would only have been about 30-40 minutes of walking each way if I'd been able to get the bus, rather than the 90 minutes each way that it ended up taking. I begin to wonder if I will ever get bus again.

i think getting the bus is one of the strange things that i never thought i'd miss but i do actually miss

That reminds me - the last taxi ride I got, the sodding driver was regaling me with how ill he was when he got Covid, and I ended up just nodding whilst masked up, and with my head leaning out of the backseat window like a breeze-obsessed cocker spaniel*!

*other dog breeds are available.

i don't miss taxis at all

dng wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:41 pm i think getting the bus is one of the strange things that i never thought i'd miss but i do actually miss

Same here - I haven't set foot on a bus since March 2020!

i genuinely can't remember the last time i got a taxi. probably with chortle hound in london once or something. fuck knows

like ten years ago or something

Taxis are an exotic mystery to me. I think I've only ever booked two. Ironically, the last time was at a friend's housewarming party in Littlemore, where the Oxford Utd stadium is; I'm fairly sure I went past the house today, though my friend no longer lives there. I don't know about her coke-snorting, creepy former housemate, but I'm understandably reluctant to investigate further.

The last time I got a bus was June 2020, just before they made masks compulsory on them. I only really used to get buses to and from the big supermarket out of town once a week to go shopping, but I quite enjoyed it because the route goes through a little bit of countryside. I haven't been on a train since early February 2020.

I think hot air balloon travel is now the only sensible and safe solution left...

To my great shock and amazement, my dad has managed to have the first vaccination, although it sounds like it was rather a torment for him. This is immensely pleasing news, since it means we now have to worry a lot less about inadvertently killing him.

good man

also has anyone else heard about how the mayor of Florida is considering bringing back Polio?

Nostalgia will kill us all

Florida is renowned among Americans for its confederacy of utter morons

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/45 ... -mandates/

is the one i was referring to. A senator not a mayor

Hurrah for Bruce's dad!

Yes. Good man

We sorted oot ma's booster jab to-day, so that's a relief. Next up: her flu jab.