Yes, I think those who feel immune to the virus have no idea how much they incense anyone with half a brain.
Actually forget the half-a-brain criteria.....we saw some footage on television last night of a packed church in Moscow. One woman there was briefly interviewed. She said words to the effect "No-one can catch the virus in a church", and then we were informed that she was a doctor!"
Yes, I think those who feel immune to the virus have no idea how much they incense anyone with half a brain.
Actually forget the half-a-brain criteria.....we saw some footage on television last night of a packed church in Moscow. One woman there was briefly interviewed. She said words to the effect "No-one can catch the virus in a church", and then we were informed that she was a doctor!"
Rats, Rats. Rats. I went to church today to do a sermon for live feed. Church is closed. Only people that should have been there were the Camera operator, the Pastor and me.
I was in the front row with my back to the door. When I got up to go preach I noticed a man and a women sitting in the very back of the church. No biggie they were not sitting near each other. I knew the man, he is a member and often does maintenance around the building. I never saw the women before. At the end of the service she rushes up to the pastor who seems to have known her and says, "fist bump," so they come together and bump fists and I start to leave. The man and I nod to each other from a distance. The women comes up behind me grabs me by the shoulder and says, "fist bump," and taps me on the elbow before I could get away. 6 feet people 6 feet. Stay home people, stay home.
There are no known cases in my county never the less, I felt very invaded. I am 81 and although old really not ready to die, because some people are to dumb to follow directions.
In Australia our Prime Minister advises all persons over 70 to stay home and not to venture out unless accompanied by a "support person". I'm 2 months away from my 80th birthday and I find this both extreme and insulting.
Rats, Rats. Rats. I went to church today to do a sermon for live feed. Church is closed. Only people that should have been there were the Camera operator, the Pastor and me.
I was in the front row with my back to the door. When I got up to go preach I noticed a man and a women sitting in the very back of the church. No biggie they were not sitting near each other. I knew the man, he is a member and often does maintenance around the building. I never saw the women before. At the end of the service she rushes up to the pastor who seems to have known her and says, "fist bump," so they come together and bump fists and I start to leave. The man and I nod to each other from a distance. The women comes up behind me grabs me by the shoulder and says, "fist bump," and taps me on the elbow before I could get away. 6 feet people 6 feet. Stay home people, stay home.
There are no known cases in my county never the less, I felt very invaded. I am 81 and although old really not ready to die, because some people are to dumb to follow directions.
Ditto what LC said. Also grounds for yelling at the woman, And if she should try it again with some kind of authority around, try to get the authority's attention,
Or a bunch of appropriately-distant Shipmates could accompany you with clue bats...or raid the Gator's stash of rusty farm implements...
(I'm in a bad mood. Might as well use it.)
I may try to go to a proper grocery tomorrow. Need fresh veggies. Too many TV dinners. But I'm not sure if I can make it out early enough for the "disabled and seniors hour"; and I don't know if I can cope with possible crowds later.
I usually get most of my groceries delivered by a supermarket, but they're totally booked for at least this week. There are a couple of other services (e,g,, Insta-cart) that I might use, but they're probably booked up Hmmm...If i do a click & pick option, they wouldn't have to do the shopping...Well, I'll try a trip on my own, and figure it out from there.
It must be very hard for some people - learning difficulties/mental health issues/autism etc. - to cope with what's happening. The situation seems to change by the day, so it's hard enough for ANYONE to keep up!
If OTOH it was just deliberate fu*kwittery (a la Trump)...
Our washing machine. The power button has decided to pack up today, so I can't do washing and we have to try and get a new one put in and the old one removed in the current circumstances.
Today I consign my own clumsiness to hell. Two sharp knives washed yesterday; two knuckles left bleeding. Still tending to reopen when moving fingers. Gah.
Actually it turned out I had accidentally unplugged it!! So crisis averted for now.
Owing to a lack of sockets in the kitchen, if I want to use the food processor, like yesterday, I have to take another plug out. Normally I use the toaster socket, but for some odd reason I unplugged the washing machine instead.
I only twigged when I realised the power light was still flashing on the food processor, and I knew the toaster worked, as we'd had toast this morning.
I failed at that and have got a handwashing regime in place for the duration with a friend doing the occasional big wash.
The most I could get was a washing machine delivered. It was not being prepared to take away the old one that was the decider for me.
The problem seems to be that many local authorities have closed their amenity tips, not just to the general public but to businesses because domestic and commercial waste/recycling tends to be handled on the same site.
I wonder if she was learning impaired in some way. What you describe sounds like very odd behavior.
She did not appear to be by her conversation with the pastor, but perhaps you are right. I would feel much better about what happened if that was the case. I have calmed down and let go of the whole thing now, life goes on. As an added note just found out the Pastor thinks because she has a flu shot and a pneumonia booster she will not get this virus. I give up. I am staying home.
@Golden Key, are there any organic delivery boxes you can sign up for in your area? I get one twice a month and they are very reasonable. They even do eggs and almond milk. You can also do sprouts if you have dry beans, or seeds. Easy and gives you some fresh greens.
I also plant the ends of celery and spring onions in my window flower pots and use the growth in salads and soups. Parsley seeds also do well in a flower pot in the kitchen window.
Marks and Spencer's website. It has taken an hour to order a fruit basket to be delivered to my parents. The first attempt reset the address so that I found I had ordered a basket to be sent to my own address. I cancelled. Second attempt failed. Third attempt again reset the address to my home address. I cancelled. Fourth attempt reset the address, but I caught it and typed in Mum's address for the fifth time. I've also entered my card details four times, which I'm not thrilled about.
Plus the first available delivery slot is 15 April, but I can understand that.
A tip from a fellow hand washing clothes person for the duration. Washing is not too bad, a bit tedious but essentially straight forward. For small loads, a Scrubba wash bag saves your hands while washing (but you still get them wet while rinsing) and is quite effective. What I do find difficult is wringing out so the clothes are dry enough not to drip anywhere. The solution for me is to wrap everything in towels, preferably microfibre towels, and then wring.
What I do find difficult is wringing out so the clothes are dry enough not to drip anywhere. The solution for me is to wrap everything in towels, preferably microfibre towels, and then wring.
That's what I do when doing hand wash in a hotel room.
Me too but I don't wring them. I roll the wet item up in the towel and then stand on it and march/shuffle up and down the length of the roll. I hope this helps!
You do, but they dry. It is an especially good way to wash a few things out when staying at a hotel and when you know that they wouldn't dry by themselves before morning. In that case, the towels are going to be changed out anyway.
ICTH the anti-social bu**ers who've dumped multiple split and leaking black sacks of rubbish in my skip, depositing a fair amount of rotten food scraps all over the grass.
Our (oil) boiler, which has chosen today not to light. Normally this means that Mr. S has to go out to the far end of the house, unlock the casing and press the reset button - but today the reset button has not popped out.
Since in the summer we couldn't find an engineer to come and service the wretched thing, heaven only knows what will happen now
People who have long phone conversations after you have been invited to visit them. It makes my blood boil. I now pluck up courage to gently say something along the lines that I find it disrespectful. It is a phenomenon that has happened since the arrival of mobile phones - I don't remember it occurring with landlines.
I used to dry small items, such as underwear, in a motel room by wrapping a towel around it and sitting on it for a half hour. I then hung them up in the bathroom. They were com
People who have long phone conversations after you have been invited to visit them. It makes my blood boil. I now pluck up courage to gently say something along the lines that I find it disrespectful. It is a phenomenon that has happened since the arrival of mobile phones - I don't remember it occurring with landlines.
Also people who have long and loud mobile or Skype conversations in their back gardens when you just want to sit out and enjoy the sunshine. (Yes, new neighbours, I'm looking at you!)
I was sitting in the community centre café talking to Father F***wit one morning when his mobile rang. Without a word of apology, he answered the call (it was Lovely Wife), leaving me in mid-sentence.
Our (oil) boiler, which has chosen today not to light. Normally this means that Mr. S has to go out to the far end of the house, unlock the casing and press the reset button - but today the reset button has not popped out.
Since in the summer we couldn't find an engineer to come and service the wretched thing, heaven only knows what will happen now
The Blessed Mr S fixed it! After a long search in the User's Guide, he located a second reset button (wtf?) and the boiler fired right up!
Now we just have to remember that Useful Tip for next time...
I was sitting in the community centre café talking to Father F***wit one morning when his mobile rang. Without a word of apology, he answered the call (it was Lovely Wife), leaving me in mid-sentence.
I wonder if we don't need a whole new set of manners built around mobile phone etiquette.
20 years too late, I'm afraid. Of course a person who's on the phone knows for a fact that no-one nearby can hear them. Nor do partying, music or DIY sounds go over a fence.
It was noticeable that, when we were on a Spanish train a few years ago, people went into the vestibule to phone.
TICTH people coming from Edinburgh to covid it out in their second homes. Some I know, and usually welcome. This time I sent them a welcome email saying that since they would be self-isolating for 7 days, please let me know if they need anything and I would get the volunteer team into it. With a rider that the team is for keeping the whole community safe. They won’t know about the level of local feeling on this matter.
Also, I know that they are not registered with a local doctor, so if they get ill, they will be outed as those who think the rules do not apply to them. (And two of them are lawyers!). Scots have been told not to relocate to second homes in words of one syllable.
Local Bobby? Nearest police station is 20miles away. Anyway, I like these people. They are part of the church community in their normal visits. I guess I am just disappointed in them: I expected better.
The Welsh Government having been saying this for a couple of weeks.
The new Private Eye, knowing that Covid-19 hasn't yet reached Ambridge, has published a plea to people not to come to Borsetshire and spread the disease. It would place an enormous strain on the health services there, seeing that they don't actually exist.
TICTH Those who for some reason have believed the rumour that G5 telephone masts have "caused" the Covid-19 virus (how???) & are attacking them, burning them and so forcing firefighters to have to go and fight pointless fires. What dicks
They've been killing birds as well - the masts. that is. So we are told by someone who knows people who know things.
I think it should be essential that all students, reading whatever subject, but especially PPE, should be compelled to do a science course as well. How to spot rubbish at a glance. And then they wouldn't circulate to other people who can't spot it either.
TICTH people coming from Edinburgh to covid it out in their second homes. Some I know, and usually welcome. This time I sent them a welcome email saying that since they would be self-isolating for 7 days, please let me know if they need anything and I would get the volunteer team into it. With a rider that the team is for keeping the whole community safe. They won’t know about the level of local feeling on this matter.
Also, I know that they are not registered with a local doctor, so if they get ill, they will be outed as those who think the rules do not apply to them. (And two of them are lawyers!). Scots have been told not to relocate to second homes in words of one syllable.
Only seven days? Here, in Canada, it is fourteen and that is only if you can convince them at the border between provinces that your journey is essential. Anyone relocating to their summer home is sent back.
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Actually forget the half-a-brain criteria.....we saw some footage on television last night of a packed church in Moscow. One woman there was briefly interviewed. She said words to the effect "No-one can catch the virus in a church", and then we were informed that she was a doctor!"
Perhaps she has not read the instructions from the hierarchy in Moscow: http://www.patriarchia.ru/en/db/text/5608615.html
Perhaps she has not read the instructions from the hierarchy in Moscow: http://www.patriarchia.ru/en/db/text/5608615.html[/quote]
Not very reassuring except in relation to children and parish clubs.
" The work of Sunday schools and parish clubs should be suspended until a special instruction."
I was in the front row with my back to the door. When I got up to go preach I noticed a man and a women sitting in the very back of the church. No biggie they were not sitting near each other. I knew the man, he is a member and often does maintenance around the building. I never saw the women before. At the end of the service she rushes up to the pastor who seems to have known her and says, "fist bump," so they come together and bump fists and I start to leave. The man and I nod to each other from a distance. The women comes up behind me grabs me by the shoulder and says, "fist bump," and taps me on the elbow before I could get away. 6 feet people 6 feet. Stay home people, stay home.
There are no known cases in my county never the less, I felt very invaded. I am 81 and although old really not ready to die, because some people are to dumb to follow directions.
Idiot woman. That ought to qualify as assault.
Ditto what LC said. Also grounds for yelling at the woman, And if she should try it again with some kind of authority around, try to get the authority's attention,
Or a bunch of appropriately-distant Shipmates could accompany you with clue bats...or raid the Gator's stash of rusty farm implements...
(I'm in a bad mood. Might as well use it.)
I may try to go to a proper grocery tomorrow. Need fresh veggies. Too many TV dinners. But I'm not sure if I can make it out early enough for the "disabled and seniors hour"; and I don't know if I can cope with possible crowds later.
I usually get most of my groceries delivered by a supermarket, but they're totally booked for at least this week. There are a couple of other services (e,g,, Insta-cart) that I might use, but they're probably booked up Hmmm...If i do a click & pick option, they wouldn't have to do the shopping...Well, I'll try a trip on my own, and figure it out from there.
It must be very hard for some people - learning difficulties/mental health issues/autism etc. - to cope with what's happening. The situation seems to change by the day, so it's hard enough for ANYONE to keep up!
If OTOH it was just deliberate fu*kwittery (a la Trump)...
I failed at that and have got a handwashing regime in place for the duration with a friend doing the occasional big wash.
The most I could get was a washing machine delivered. It was not being prepared to take away the old one that was the decider for me.
Eeek!
Owing to a lack of sockets in the kitchen, if I want to use the food processor, like yesterday, I have to take another plug out. Normally I use the toaster socket, but for some odd reason I unplugged the washing machine instead.
I only twigged when I realised the power light was still flashing on the food processor, and I knew the toaster worked, as we'd had toast this morning.
The problem seems to be that many local authorities have closed their amenity tips, not just to the general public but to businesses because domestic and commercial waste/recycling tends to be handled on the same site.
She did not appear to be by her conversation with the pastor, but perhaps you are right. I would feel much better about what happened if that was the case. I have calmed down and let go of the whole thing now, life goes on. As an added note just found out the Pastor thinks because she has a flu shot and a pneumonia booster she will not get this virus. I give up. I am staying home.
@Golden Key, are there any organic delivery boxes you can sign up for in your area? I get one twice a month and they are very reasonable. They even do eggs and almond milk. You can also do sprouts if you have dry beans, or seeds. Easy and gives you some fresh greens.
I also plant the ends of celery and spring onions in my window flower pots and use the growth in salads and soups. Parsley seeds also do well in a flower pot in the kitchen window.
Plus the first available delivery slot is 15 April, but I can understand that.
A tip from a fellow hand washing clothes person for the duration. Washing is not too bad, a bit tedious but essentially straight forward. For small loads, a Scrubba wash bag saves your hands while washing (but you still get them wet while rinsing) and is quite effective. What I do find difficult is wringing out so the clothes are dry enough not to drip anywhere. The solution for me is to wrap everything in towels, preferably microfibre towels, and then wring.
Since in the summer we couldn't find an engineer to come and service the wretched thing, heaven only knows what will happen now
I quietly got up, and walked out.
The Blessed Mr S fixed it! After a long search in the User's Guide, he located a second reset button (wtf?) and the boiler fired right up!
Now we just have to remember that Useful Tip for next time...
Oh bravo!
We really do.....
It was noticeable that, when we were on a Spanish train a few years ago, people went into the vestibule to phone.
Also, I know that they are not registered with a local doctor, so if they get ill, they will be outed as those who think the rules do not apply to them. (And two of them are lawyers!). Scots have been told not to relocate to second homes in words of one syllable.
Couldn't your local bobby pay them a little visit and ask if their journey was really necessary?
I wonder how many of them will comply? If they don't, then send in the Polis...
The new Private Eye, knowing that Covid-19 hasn't yet reached Ambridge, has published a plea to people not to come to Borsetshire and spread the disease. It would place an enormous strain on the health services there, seeing that they don't actually exist.
I think it should be essential that all students, reading whatever subject, but especially PPE, should be compelled to do a science course as well. How to spot rubbish at a glance. And then they wouldn't circulate to other people who can't spot it either.
Only seven days? Here, in Canada, it is fourteen and that is only if you can convince them at the border between provinces that your journey is essential. Anyone relocating to their summer home is sent back.