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Holy crap what did I miss in the press briefing today?
What's going on? Pulled up in my van from work and the whole street is outside getting pissed!
I've never seen every one so sociable. I thought we were in the midst of a highly contagious pandemic. Have we won the European league?
Yep, looks like a quarter of our street was crammed into a neighbours back garden.
police heli flew over the area a while back and I'm not surprised as i think there were loads of others doing the same judging by the noise
I turned out of a field into a street party in Burghfield on a ride this afternoon. There were 3 people, all at a sensible distance from one another (:
'We' won in Europe, don't you know!
Have we won the European league?
For (now deadly) tossery? Yes, I think we can safely say yes, we have.
For deadly tossery? Yes I think we have.
****s sake.
Cue 'Sombre Churchillian Boris' on telly on sunday announcing a few token lockdown restrictions being relaxed and all the pitchfork brigade getting in a froth.
All so spectacularly and utterly predictable. It's just pathetic.
Not bad on my street but the new estate behind our house are out in force, loud music, no social distancing, sharing food and grog. They're not chavs either, their houses cost a fortune!
Some doctor wrote in the telegraph about how it was irresponsible terrorism and that the virus would not kill 80% of people.
Personally if your going to share that shit in your Facebook or other social media you should be given a free shot of covid 19 so we can study its effects.
Just been for a bike ride. The gammons and gammonettes are out in force, blocking the streets and drinking bubbly. Stupid thing is they've all got huge front gardens.
I think our place at the top of the European deaths league will be unassailable.
Outlying villages of the eastern Peak like party town, everyone in their front gardens getting pissed together, sunbathing in the park, full works observed whilst out on the bike. You’d not have guessed we were still under lockdown.
Neighbours two doors down had a full blown party last night too, friends round for the night in the garden, I’m guessing that missed the press release saying go for it.
I was cyclical and expects the worst but after a pleasant run tonight, whilst people were out and about, there were all a good distance away from each other.
Just got back from a nice local walk. There's a party of about 25 people in a farmer's field about 200m from my house. Fectards
I hope they get Covid-19 'cos they think they're more important than the rest of us.
Meanwhile some other neighbours are having a nice 2m apart drinky. 👍
Plenty of people out in their drive ways and front gardens around where I live and surrounding villages and towns, all social distancing, plenty of music and merriment and talking to each other her over fences and hedges and across roads. Perfectly safe from what I could see and probably how the vast majority of people are going about it. Always a small proportion of dicks out there in any situation.
I saw a gathering at the local war memorial at 11am, all very well spaced. Other than that, there was hardly anyone around. Actually rather worrying at times, it genuinely felt like I was completely alone in the world. Crossed a normally-busy trans-Peak A-road about 10am and there was absolutely nothing on it.
A few people doing their gardens once I started going through villages and when I got home, various neighbours were all out the front of their respective houses on chairs and bean bags but all well >2m from each other.
well >2m from each other.
How far were they from anyone wanting to walk down the street?
The 2m thing is for when you have to leave your house for something essential. It's not a do whatever you like as long as you stay 2m apart.
At long last Gary Glitter's birthday is getting the celebration he deserves
Don’t be so negative, even though you’ve achieved the highest death rate in the EU (you’re still in the EU right?) you need to achieve more deaths in the gammon age bracket for Brexit to be reversed in the next referendum. A cunning Boris ploy now that he’s probably immune (and actually really wants to stay in the EU).
Obviously tongue in cheek Irish humour in the face of potentially grim consequences of above mentioned close contact 🙂
They’re not chavs either, their houses cost a fortune!
Money is no sign of class.
Very quiet & orderly here in Z3 of London Village.
They’re not chavs either, their houses cost a fortune!
Eh. Being a chav is nothing to do with how much money you have....
Lockdown "rules" haven't applied to the majority of users on the forum, not sure why people have decided to get self righteous now
All very jovial but socially distanced round here.
You lot must live in some right shit areas, no wonder you're all so wound up.
This thread is going to be great; I can just tell 😀
Yep, watching with interest 🙃
For those getting upset about it - this is what the government wants, the NHS is ready for the next batch of patients so take a ticket and wait for your number to be called.
They’re not chavs either, their houses cost a fortune!
Having money and being a chav are not mutually exclusive things, far from it.
White Merc/Beemer with tinted windows = chav nine times out of ten.
Lockdown “rules” haven’t applied to the majority of users on the forum, not sure why people have decided to get self righteous now
Please show your workings.
I noticed a bit of low key street party action here In Bristol whilst on my essential journey.
Couldn't tell if they were 2m apart though, could’a been 1.8..b*stards..worst thing of all is they were smiling...kill em all with Covid i say
Plenty of people out in their drive ways and front gardens around where I live and surrounding villages and towns, all social distancing, plenty of music and merriment and talking to each other her over fences and hedges and across roads.
Similar where I am. Had a nice bike ride and passed many front garden gatherings.
Lockdown “rules” haven’t applied to the majority of users on the forum
In what way?
3 consultants and 2 GPs on my road. They decided early on to let their kids play together. Don't assume NHS staff are sticking to any of the rules.
Just got back from a street party.cycled there and back.in all the front gardens with music etc.everyone was keeping a distance
By luck I managed to drown out most of the short street party karaoke organised by local pub, while plodding away on the turbo.
Pandemic social distancing? Just flu bro!
10,000 out on Zwift together at 11am today
I'll just drop this in (for England):
During the emergency period, no person may participate in a gathering in a public place of more than two people except—
(a)where all the persons in the gathering are members of the same household,
(b)where the gathering is essential for work purposes,
(c)to attend a funeral,
(d)where reasonably necessary—
(i)to facilitate a house move,
(ii)to provide care or assistance to a vulnerable person, including relevant personal care within the meaning of paragraph 7(3B) of Schedule 4 to the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Groups Act 2006,
(iii)to provide emergency assistance, or
(iv)to participate in legal proceedings or fulfil a legal obligation.
I<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">'ve</span><span style="font-size: 0.8rem;"> discovered a new measurement of distance out on my runs over the downs. It's the covid. One covid is the distance apart that two people who are not part of one household but have met up to go for a walk keep apart. It is defined as a distance not close enough to define you as going for a walk together but too close to actually qualify as social distancing.</span>
It is important though not to confuse it with two very similar distances. Firstly the distance any teenager dragged out for their daily exercise will walk from their parents. Secondly, and this is to be observed in normal times, the distance two men who are friends but for some reason don't want anyone to think they might possibly be a couple will walk from each other.
Our local mayor gave the go ahead so there
The 2m thing is for when you have to leave your house for something essential. It’s not a do whatever you like as long as you stay 2m apart.
Fairly sure that sitting in your own garden chatting to neighbours in their own garden is not against any lockdown rules or laws.
During the emergency period, no person may participate in a gathering in a public place of more than two people except...…..
None of which stops a socially distanced event where everyone is in their front gardens and chatting to their neighbours doing the same thing
There was a social distancing street party organised in our street, I say organised, we had a flyer through the door at tea time yesterday. I didn’t go, I’ve lived in this street for 15 years and I couldn’t tell you the name of the woman who organised it, think I’ve spoken to her once.
Now they’re all pissed up, the few hangers on that are left have congregated right outside my house, some of them on my lawn!
They’re all crowded together, including the paramedic, same ones that were out banging the pots and pans in their NHs T-shirt’s yesterday night.
Boils my piss.
During the emergency period, no person may participate in a gathering in a public place of more than two people except……
“Public place”
everyone is in their front gardens and chatting to their neighbours
I have no objection that. It's the ones in the street I'm complaining about.
Idiots
My partner got back from her shift in a hospital lab to see her close having a full on street party.
Some attempting a bit of social distancing, the test just doing their thing apparently. Kids running all over the show between parents and neighbours.
She is bloody livid.
House opposite me is having a big party but are trying to hide it by having it in a gazebo that is actually as big as their garden.
Honestly, friggin mental.
Though if you get your news from the papers you can see why many think the lockdown is over. Or that it's suspended so you can do your patriotic "duty" today anyway.
F****** idiots.
Our street, only about 20 houses, had a social distancing street party, everyone sitting in their front gardens and drives having tea and cakes, and wandering up and down the street having conversations at a few metres distance. I know some on here don't like the idea of marking VE day, but if it's an excuse to show a bit of community togetherness it's all good as far as I'm concerned.
It was enlivened by a neighbour's bees swarming along the street, cue putting on the protective gear and getting the queen* in a box and waiting for the workers to accompany her into the box then taking them to start another hive.
*Queen bee not Her Maj.
Eh. Being a chav is nothing to do with how much money you have….
Our cul-de-sac loves an excuse to sit on the road together in any circumstance. I can't be doing with it under any circumstance.
They generally seem to manage the distancing though, but the kids not so much, so what's the point?
My irk at the moment, is that a house on the corner of the nearby council estate has a guy who runs a mobile disco - you can guess the rest, but I'll fill in the blanks.
Last night, we had all manner of cheesy pop/disco blasting out. People a good half mile away were asking where the party was on Facebook as they could hear the music.
I let it pass, as thought there may be an extended NHS appreciation nonsense excuse - it started at 8 and finished around 10. This now appears that it's going to be a regular thing, as I got invited to the Thursday night street disco page today. Do they not know me? 😂 It's thinly veiled as raising funds for a care home, but that part of it doesn't seem to have generated much interest.
Aaaaaaannnndddd tonight, it's on again!!!!
Again, I'll let it pass, the first hour was wartime songs, we are now fully back into cheesy pop though.
I'm confident that the bloke who organises it, will believe that 10 people stood on the street 'enjoying' it, validates it's popularity. The other hundreds of people that live nearby, maybe aren't enjoying it quite so much.
If it makes an appearance tomorrow, the Babylon are getting a call
Our little cul du sac residents have been having a weekly quiz. Every participant sits on their drive. Then when it's over all the people who are taking this social distancing seriously, pack up, thank the quiz master, then retire.
The other knob heads get pissed at the bottom of the road and just have a party.
Same today I imagine. I wouldn't mind but the neighbours work in a care home and proudly tell us all how they've kept the residents and staff safe.
It makes my blood boil.
We had a few households out in in their front gardens, no problem with that but some local idiot was letting off fireworks at 5 in the afternoon, bright blue sky. I just ask why?
Just been out for a bike ride and very sad at the complete selfishness of a small minority. Quite a few having full on street parties. Gazebos out on verges, blocking pavements, no social distancing at all, dancing in the street whilst clearly pissed.
It must be very miserable if you happen to live in the middle of it and are elderly/vulnerable. It isn't a game. For these people it is a likely death sentence if they catch it.
Thousands of people are dying and yet large parts of society don't give a shit.
If Al Qaeda were killing 500+ people every day we would literally be on a war footing.
What on earth will the rest of Europe think to this?
Who gives a shit, we've f***ing abolished Europe, beat em twice the whole ****ing lot of em. Yeah? This'll show em. They don't like it up em you know.
Etc.
Don’t live in a close or a cul-de-sac seems to be the answer...
Been cycling around today - lots of people seeming to enjoy themselves responsibly in the villages near me in Cockermouth.
Looking at the BBC website - have a scroll down to the picture in Milan.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52594570
Some people are dicks but it would appear that all of them are Brits...
Plenty of people out in their drive ways and front gardens around where I live and surrounding villages and towns, all social distancing, plenty of music and merriment and talking to each other her over fences and hedges and across roads.
That describes my road perfectly. Everyone out in their front garden showing off vintage crockery, no households within 2m of each other.
Not really my thing, but I can honestly say I had nothing better to do.
I live in a quiet street, part of it is currently heaving with pissed up neighbours, bunting and karaoke. They've even dragged the frail old lady out of her house to be with them.
we would literally be on a war footing
But we are.
Sadly, from a grown up point of view, it is one that is 75 years out of date.
Some people seem to have given up on it around here too (South Coast). Beach rammed, parties, BBQs, people driving to each others houses etc etc.. Our neighbours had 3 car loads around for a party.
Given the enormous cost in personal and economic terms of the lockdown, surely it needs either enforcing or abandoning?
Given the enormous cost in personal and economic terms of the lockdown, surely it needs either enforcing or abandoning?
Personal? Economic?
You are forgetting the overriding one, though.
Political.
Is anyone really surprised? Government spent the last week talking about relaxing the rules, the PM called it "unlockdown", lots of "sources say" and other leaks in the press... All of the messaging all week has encouraged people to stop taking it seriously, with today's "nothing has changed" coming so late that it wouldn't change any plans. And now they can blame "irresponsible people" or "wanton criminality" and wash their hands of it. And our horrendous death toll, which actually is pretty much entirely because they absolutely botched the lockdown at the start, can be blamed on people who broke it.
Is anyone really surprised? Government spent the last week talking about relaxing the rules, the PM called it “unlockdown”, lots of “sources say” and other leaks in the press… All of the messaging has encouraged people to stop taking it seriously. And now they can blame “irresponsible people” or “wanton criminality” and wash their hands of it. And our horrendous death toll, which actually is pretty much entirely because they absolutely botched the lockdown at the start, can be blamed on people who broke it.
It's not what actually happens that matters, but how you apportion the blame.
That's populist politics for you...
It did get a bit out of hand here. Police turned up and had a word when some folks put all their tables and chairs out on the green. Walked the dog this eve with the wife and the front garden parties had all moved into the street. You couldn't walk through, so went the other way. No big deal, but no way was it lockdown.
We are a social animal. Its hardwired in (most) of us. It was inevitable this lock-down could only be sustained for so long.
It will be fine, the sunshine kills the virus! That is the level of stupid we are up against.
Loads of garden parties in sunny hampshire this afternoon as i was bimbling around
The sunshine and general bonhomie still didnt stop 1 arse from hurling the usual " Get off the road, you dont pay road tax or insurance "
I do, my Volvo is £275 a year for tax and £220 to insure , plus my bike wheels are worth more than your shite T reg faded to pink Toyota starlet
The other 50 miles, glorious
Government spent the last week talking about relaxing the rules
Only because they were being forced to release details of how they were going to release the lockdown by other political parties, etc. If people and/or press then interpret that as "let's have a bbq and get pissed in the sun" then you can hardly blame the government.
Some people are dicks but it would appear that all of them are Brits…
That Milan Pic, social distancing to pot, 4 out of 6 visible masks incorrectly worn and to go with that the Mayor is planning to get medieval on the area and shut it completely.
Lets see how Milan is doing in 3 weeks time, Italian deaths were 247 today for a marker.
A bunch of idiots who actually believe that staying at home for 6 weeks (apart from daily walks/runs/bike rides etc) is the equivalent of the hardship of WW2. If we're going to be a laughing stock on the world stage we might as well do it properly.
GlennQuagmire
Only because they were being forced to release details of how they were going to release the lockdown by other political parties, etc. If people and/or press then interpret that as “let’s have a bbq and get pissed in the sun” then you can hardly blame the government.
Bugger me, never knew it was Labour's fault. Didn't they lose the election or something?
then you can hardly blame the government.
You absolutely can. The government has made a complete hash of the whole thing and continue to do so. It's easy to blame the individuals but that really is a distraction from where the blame lies.
Much as I personally didn't have much truck with VE day, round here it has been pretty well-behaved. Rode though three local villages on today's one-a-day - each one had a few folks sat in their front gardens or on the path chatting to neighbours through the sea of bunting and flags. Only saw a couple of people breaking 2m, so in the genteel middle class villages of East Northants the vast majority are still playing ball (the residents of the local town less so judging by my weekly visit to the supermarket there).
Best moment was at once very cool (in a sad way) and painfully cheesy. One village sits on a slight hill (as much as we have hills round here), and as I rose from the saddle to grind my way up I got the full TdF rolling applause and urging on from the 'crowds' lining the road, as if I was cresting the Tourmalet at the front of the breakaway.
(BBC website source, Friday 11am)
"Foreign secretary Dominic Raab, leading the government’s daily coronavirus press conference in Downing Street, said: “There is no change today in the guidance or in the rules.”
Except if you wave flags, bunting and have a street party to celebrate... really ashamed by those 10 o'clock news pics, WTF!!
Money is no sign of class.
Oh, I absolutely agree but you are talking about professional people here, the type that society would look to for support.
I have no illusions and have a son classed as at risk so take no chances. Those that say the papers have no influence are talking rot.
What exactly is everybody celebrating? That 75 Million people died? I just find this VE Day a total jingoistic distasteful display . Just look how other countries such as France are remembering this day and it’s a much more sombre affair.
The eldest,who’s bedroom window the party is under asked me to go and ask if the remaining partygoers could keep the noise down a bit.
Got a load of abuse from the newest resident in the street, having a go at me for not clapping for the nhs. Earlier in the week she had two women turn up at her house and they all went inside then went for a walk together. Fuming.
Gave as good as I got though, stupid fat bitch 😡
Edit - we do clap for the nhs, we just do it from inside the front door, because I hate people. Also, I think it’s more important to do the things rather than the displays.
Jingoism at its best....
Start looking to where you want to be the future and not to what you once where in the past.
The UK is so hung up on its past glories that it forgets to look to the future. Does any other country in Europe have such celebrations?
I know of no other country that rests on its laurels nor stand on the shoulders of its past glories like the UK manages to do.
Oooh. Look at us. Two World Wars and one World Cup. Rule Britannia. Bunting.
Think about where you want to go, not where you have been.
Woohoo!
Maybe I'm not so much of an outlier as I thought...
Its a public holiday every year in both Germany and France, the last time it was a public holiday in the UK was 25 years ago.
We had a street party with our neighbours. When I say party, we sat about five metres apart, exchanged a cake and sprayed our hands first. They are on they’re own, and missing the family badly, so it was nice to chat. And we also played a little jazz. There was bunting. I think this was reasonable.
Lots of social distancing stuff going on down our road today, which I steered clear of, but good luck to them.
Special mention for the couple who set themselves up on the public footpath though.
I've not been out enough really to know wtf is going on, other than the playground in the square was almost normally busy for a sunny day. Went to the chippie yesterday. Woman in Chippie said she thought people don't care any more. Can confirm chip shop portions are still ludicrously over-sized. Saved the leftovers for later that evening. I still weave about all over the place to avoid getting close to people and stare furiously at my feet at the people who loiter around pinch points - why do they do that? Um, had home made scones earlier, were probably the nicest ever had... I had no part in their production, 3yo did the mixing!
Its a public holiday every year in both Germany and France, the last time it was a public holiday in the UK was 25 years ago.
Can't speak for France, but today in Germany was just like any other day other a short bit in the news I heard on the radio this morning.
Unless you're confusing today with 11.11., St Martin's Day, which is the beginning of carnival in Germany.
Public Holiday in Berlin, which was covered in the press here, but seemingly not elsewhere - used to be a public holiday in the East. Someone said on here it was an annual holiday, apparently not. The point still stands that there are plenty of countries that celebrate the end of WWII with a public holiday more frequently than the UK.