Re: 11pm and cornflakes
"such as might be expected to be served as breakfast".
That will be two slices of toast with no butter then.
Ideally, government regulations should not be open to interpretation, but the UK's wishy-washy response to the coronavirus pandemic has only left people scratching their heads – or, worse, thinking of ways they can bend the rules. Is it 2m social distancing, or 1.5? Is it stay at home, save lives, protect the NHS, or hands, …
I wonder if a “Vegan Breakfast” would count?
- a cup of coffee and a cigarette…
I did once complain to a Australian colleague – late into a long day meeting abroad – that that was all I’d had so far that day.
…That’s nothing – all I’ve had is a Dingo’s breakfast…
A Dingo’s breakfast?
…Yeah, a scratch, a sniff and a look around…
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A healthy draught of the creamy black Guinness product both sets up and has overwhelmed many a stout soul whenever treated and delivered as a substantial meal.
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What a complete effing joke.
It is like this with the schools. They demand that every school provide a "substantial" school meal during the COVID-19 crisis but (as usual) leave it up to the head teacher to define what that meal should be or what substantial means. My lot come home and say that they get a pack of crips, a choice of sandwich, an apple and a small orange drink on good days.
However it really is colossal clusterfuck. Ignoring the widespread corruption, cronyism and double standards, the simple reality is the government are incapable of either asking for assistance or acknowledging they are wrong. On anything.
Every time I see one of the prime wazzocks on television they evade answering questions, repeat the same nonsense answers or spit off more and more soundbites. I could almost forgive them this (almost) if it weren't for the fact that every single thing they say or do is measured first and foremost against potential backlash.
Nothing is genuinely done to give benefit, because it's the the right course of action or due to the fact we deserve some honesty. It's all done to try and mitigate fallout and that should not be the primary driver. This is why you end up with debates about scotch eggs* a substantial meal and folk spending time devising workarounds.
They are, as long as served with crisps (preferably Seabrooks)
Ready salted.
As these are the king of crisps anyway
You wouldnt say that if that was your only choice of flavour from birth until you left home.
You wouldnt say that if your mum , inexplicably refused to accept that crisps were available with actual flavour installed , and blindy bought multipacks of bland bland same same ready fucking salted year after year , crually refusing to even explain why WHY , WHY in Gods Name would you not get Salt and Vinegar , or Cheese and Onion , given it costs exactly the same.
You wouldnt say that if you had to go to school and see the other kids with their Flavored crisps ,
all the flavours under the sun , Prawn cocktail , fish and chips , salty bacon ,pickled onion.
...and you standing forlornly with your bag of Safeway ready fucking salted.
"Many people will suffer very little side-effects from the virus."
And the rest don't count? So let's put the bullet in the cylinder and spin it, shall we?
"Doesn't mean it isn't a serious illness, but it's not ebola or cholera."
Because if people were squirting blood from all orifices, then we'd take it seriously?
The problem is that Covid isn't a hollywood illness, if it was, then people would take more notice. As I said (or meant to say), these precautions aren't arbitrary rules like parking restrictions or stuff like that. We're in a public health crisis, and every single time we relax and take our eye off the ball, the numbers spike again.
Many people will suffer very little side-effects from the virus. Doesn't mean it isn't a serious illness, but it's not ebola or cholera.
A) Dont be so fucking selfish, i cant believe you got 7 upvotes for that.
B) Its a good job its not Ebola , given the absdulrtlely shambolic lack of 'give a fuck' the public has shown during this episode , or we'd all be dead.
Past generations were told to to Storm the beaches against machine gun fire.
All we had to do was *not* go to the beach , and lay off the pubs and clubs.
seems thats too much to ask these days.
It's taken me a good while to see the parallel with life in N Ireland. On the one hand there was a terrorist campaign which could kill you but on the other you had to get on with life. So there were rules and the bulk of the population got along with them, the exceptions mostly being those who were part of the problem.
There were considerable differences. For a start the overall risk was lower and the risk distribution was different. A big difference was that it was impossible to be in denial; if your regular pub was a smoking ruin you could see it was a smoking ruin. You can't see a virus so there's scope for Covidiots to tell themselves and those around them that it doesn't exist.
I don't see how we get round the last problem except the Covidiots discovering things the hard way. For the rest of us, however, we do need rules because they are essentially a codification of what the risks of infection are and how to avoid them. The rules will evolve as the mechanisms of infection are better understood and as treatments improve and vaccination is introduced.
My 78yr old uncle had 2 days slight breathlessness
He has type 2 diabetes (in remission) and is overweight (but less than in 2019)
Recovered fully within the week.
Only other person I know who has had it was also of similar age and outcome.
This is not to dismiss those who who have been seriously ill or have died. However, to claim "it will kill you" is overblown
It "could make you seriously unwell and may kill you" is closer to the truth
For my part, I've had "proper" 'flu 5 times in my life. Each time has been a week in bed delerious followed by bilateral pneumonia requiring 2 weeks antibiotics. I have no chronic conditions but my 'flu experience is not the same as others but dont go round telling people 'flu will kill you' (it MAY)
Really? Ask anyone in any large hospital if they agree this virus is overblown.
This is a pandemic and hospital ITUs were full (and are filling up again) with intubated people with serious complications as a result of COVID 19...not seasonal flu.
This is about not overrunning the NHS and filling beds needlessly with sick and dying people. Flu does kill...yes...flu does cause ITU beds to be occupied...yes...flu DOES NOT cause hospitals to reach their capacity, cancel elective surgery and leave people without an effective health service. This virus does...
It is not about your uncle and his dicky ticker, it's about whether or not an ambulance is available to take you to hospital after a car crash and whether or not there is a bed for you to be treated in and whether or not there are staff that are well enough (not too strung out to think) to fix you up.
Your anecdote is genuinely irrelevant.
I know 2 people who have died of covid in the last month. One was in his 80's, had diabetes and early signs of alzheimers. The other was my age, with no pre-existing conditions. I have never known anyone to die of influenza; most people who claim to have had flu simply have a heavy cold. No, it's not universally fatal, but to equate a disease that is much more infectious than flu, kills at least 50,000 peope in less that a year (compared to maybe 1500 from flu - and please don't quote me the Sun or "brexitfacts" figures) is daft.
Oh fercrissakes. If "they" try to spell out precisely what is and is not a substantial meal, there will inevitably be edge cases and some smart-arse who thinks they've found a loophole which they can exploit. Much better to leave it as is:
1. Customer must order a substantial meal
2. Don't take the piss.
Dunno what this means: `This is how it "worked" before the second lockdown`. It was quite different a couple of months ago.
Very good nonsense if you ask me. Don't like hard yolks. For variety, if you're in Manchester, I can recommend the "Manchester Egg" which uses pickled eggs, which always have soft yolks, and black pudding.
Keep the hard-boiled ones for hurling at the clueless hordes of government ministers.
Keep the hard-boiled ones for hurling at the clueless hordes of government ministers.
I thought the age old practice called for plain unboiled eggs, preferably rotten, to be hurled against politicians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFfbgyt5Ceg
A word of caution - remember John Prescott!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpqWFDXTkus
Nigel Farage also popularised/appeared to attract Milk Shakes
In Ireland they applied a "€9 euro substantial meal" rule with a 1hr 45min max time rule seated. I know many UK pubs serve food priced under that amount but surely having a set min limit and a max time seated would have made more sense.
But then I look at the UK Gov and realise that using a scotch egg quantity measure (and having mixed messages about it) is about the right incompetence level expected....
Welcome to NY, we've had this enforced since since July, with just as funny outcome due to it being so vague and wiggly worded.
Originally "must be served with food", and then people just bought a bag of chips or a soft pretzel.
Quickly changed to "substantive food".
Chicken wings were suggested to not be "substantive food", and we nearly had riots before it was backtracked.
But a small sandwich with chips was ok. As long as it wasn't too small...
As of the last time I was out at a bar (early October?), a mid-size 100mmx100mm square of tomato pie was on the menu and apparently counted.
I had ordered a full Friday Fish Fry though, because I actually went for food instead of just beers.
Funny to think that ordering the full appetizer sampler platter would technically be against the rule as it's all hors d'oeuvres.
Pints all around. Mine, in 5 hours, is going to be a canned Guinness poured in the special glass, at the house, on the couch, doing my part to stay out of that whole debacle.
Went out in teir 3 Liverpool to Wetherspoon just before the lockdown, and wanted to order starters while we had our drinks and then place the order for our mains afterwards, after previously getting the starters and mains together when we had ordered them at the same time. But the staff there were refusing to let us do it. So we left and went to a pub around the corner where they were being cockwombles and that was acceptable.