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Stev8s

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346 posts

207 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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i know this has been brought up on other topics but I feel this one needs its own thread I am like many others are following the advice and staying at home I work for myself and currently have no money coming in although fortunate to survive be able to survive this but there are plenty out there who have lost there jobs but I find this totally and utterly fking unbelievable and whilst I in the beginning was happy to clap for the NHS this is bang out of order I think heads should roll and to see the police and ambulance clapping along totally out of order
I am made to feel like a criminal if I have to go out to work to deliver printer cartridges to companies that have run out or deemed essential or not worrying whether I am going to get stopped by the police
Too be honest I dont know where I am going with this but it makes my blood boil when its drummed in to us constantly by the news to stay at home and people can get away with this as someone said next week it will be Tower bridge full of people with boats passing by and a flypast its getting out of hand and ridiculous

768

19,317 posts

120 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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768

19,317 posts

120 months

scenario8

7,690 posts

203 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Police helicopters have been directing panda units to move on members of the public who are completely innocently sitting on their own in the park directly behind my home. Because of some non specific threat to humanity that obviously must be.

Police return to their station and mix freely with each other all shift, return to their homes, do some shopping and so on and then return to the station the following shift to mix with each other once again. It’s similar nonsense at hospitals and at post office sorting offices and at so many workplaces still running.


StanleyT

1,994 posts

103 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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There was a police roadblock on one of our A roads today. 6 police officers stood together in a group. A passer by shouted at Dibble "2 metres apart Coppers".....and they all looked at each other and went a bit red, then spread out.

Cunningly, had I wanted this left a 2m gap for me to drive my 1.8m wide car through!!!!!!!! As it was the nice policeman asked me what I was doing out I explained. He thanked me for it and I went on my medically related business.

The car ( *) of five girls with Techno blasting out in the queue coming the other way might have been about to be given a harder time, but maybe I prejudge, the could have been a quintuple of sisters whom had all decided to do a mercy mission of haircuts at care homes, judging by the platinum-ness of the visible hair.

( *) not an MX-5 but I'll give a virtual pint to the first person to guess the type of car (Manu, Model).

Pothole

34,367 posts

306 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Stev8s said:
I am made to feel like a criminal if I have to go out to work to deliver printer cartridges to companies that have run out or deemed essential or not worrying whether I am going to get stopped by the police
Made to feel like that by whom? What are you worried is going to happen?

stitched

3,813 posts

197 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Unfortunately the same in any workplace, we are creatures of habit. Probably more so when at work.
What really annoys me is the message this sends out to the idiots ignoring sensible practice.
If it increases the number of youngsters hanging out together as 'well it's ok for them' attitude increases then a huge home goal for no
tangible reason.

nammynake

2,648 posts

197 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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It really doesn’t require its own thread.

Mods - how many different threads on CV ?!

Cold

16,456 posts

114 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Pothole said:
Stev8s said:
I am made to feel like a criminal if I have to go out to work to deliver printer cartridges to companies that have run out or deemed essential or not worrying whether I am going to get stopped by the police
Made to feel like that by whom? What are you worried is going to happen?
A significant proportion of the general public - which includes PH - will be banging the "sTayAthOme or we'll all die, you murderer. Are you stupid?" drum to anyone who even looks at their front door keys and will often make such a disapproval known to the perpetrator while continuing to fervently twitch their own curtains.
Sometimes it's just an idiot, sometimes it's an idiot with an overinflated sense of authority and a uniform.
Tiresome.

So to see representatives of such a regime, including head honcho Cressida Dick, ignore the hastily produced law while expecting others to meet their own interpretation of the regulations is at the least ironic, at the worst criminal but most definitely misguided.


irc

9,425 posts

160 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Pothole said:
Stev8s said:
I am made to feel like a criminal if I have to go out to work to deliver printer cartridges to companies that have run out or deemed essential or not worrying whether I am going to get stopped by the police
Made to feel like that by whom? What are you worried is going to happen?
Worrying about being stopped by the police and having to account for one's movements in what is a free country. While meantime the police and NHS are happy to ignore the 2M rule for photo opportunities?








https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/...

130R

7,024 posts

230 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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It appears punctuation has fallen victim to corona as well. RIP

Terminator X

19,767 posts

228 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Stev8s said:
i know this has been brought up on other topics but I feel this one needs its own thread I am like many others are following the advice and staying at home I work for myself and currently have no money coming in although fortunate to survive be able to survive this but there are plenty out there who have lost there jobs but I find this totally and utterly fking unbelievable and whilst I in the beginning was happy to clap for the NHS this is bang out of order I think heads should roll and to see the police and ambulance clapping along totally out of order
I am made to feel like a criminal if I have to go out to work to deliver printer cartridges to companies that have run out or deemed essential or not worrying whether I am going to get stopped by the police
Too be honest I dont know where I am going with this but it makes my blood boil when its drummed in to us constantly by the news to stay at home and people can get away with this as someone said next week it will be Tower bridge full of people with boats passing by and a flypast its getting out of hand and ridiculous
Just one place though or very few places? So easy to get outraged when the media report stuff with no context eg yes look at this place but look elsewhere and fking no one out and about. Where I live it is like a ghost town, seriously almost no one leaving their homes. I was out for a run last night at close to 8pm and stopped to clap with others. People came out of their house, were stood miles apart then returned.

TX.

RanchoGrande

1,151 posts

193 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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130R said:
It appears punctuation has fallen victim to corona as well. RIP
With no full stops it felt like I was reading it on fast forward.

biggbn

30,641 posts

244 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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StanleyT said:
There was a police roadblock on one of our A roads today. 6 police officers stood together in a group. A passer by shouted at Dibble "2 metres apart Coppers".....and they all looked at each other and went a bit red, then spread out.

Cunningly, had I wanted this left a 2m gap for me to drive my 1.8m wide car through!!!!!!!! As it was the nice policeman asked me what I was doing out I explained. He thanked me for it and I went on my medically related business.

The car ( *) of five girls with Techno blasting out in the queue coming the other way might have been about to be given a harder time, but maybe I prejudge, the could have been a quintuple of sisters whom had all decided to do a mercy mission of haircuts at care homes, judging by the platinum-ness of the visible hair.

( *) not an MX-5 but I'll give a virtual pint to the first person to guess the type of car (Manu, Model).
A Class or A1?

Richjam

318 posts

212 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Popped into the local Tesco last night (shopping for my parent's) the woman with the keep 2 metres apart board was having a good chat to her colleague stand right next to her!

Pothole

34,367 posts

306 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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irc said:
Pothole said:
Stev8s said:
I am made to feel like a criminal if I have to go out to work to deliver printer cartridges to companies that have run out or deemed essential or not worrying whether I am going to get stopped by the police
Made to feel like that by whom? What are you worried is going to happen?
Worrying about being stopped by the police and having to account for one's movements in what is a free country. While meantime the police and NHS are happy to ignore the 2M rule for photo opportunities?








https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/...
You mean the police who are forced to work sitting next to each other in vehicles and have to get coughed on and spat on daily? And the NHS workers who are forced to work right next to each other because that's what frontline healthcare requires (and have to get coughed on and spat on daily?) or some cloud cuckoo land fantasy versions of same?

irc

9,425 posts

160 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Pothole said:
You mean the police who are forced to work sitting next to each other in vehicles and have to get coughed on and spat on daily? And the NHS workers who are forced to work right next to each other because that's what frontline healthcare requires (and have to get coughed on and spat on daily?) or some cloud cuckoo land fantasy versions of same?
Yes I do. There is a big difference between sitting beside one colleague for a shift (I do it myself) for essential work and gathering in crowds for photo ops.

Slackline

411 posts

158 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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https://www.facebook.com/alaine.osborne/videos/101...

Does seem a bit much to be handing out fines and telling people to go home when they can stand shoulder to shoulder. Granted, it's for a noble cause, but doesn't look good!

Pothole

34,367 posts

306 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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irc said:
Pothole said:
You mean the police who are forced to work sitting next to each other in vehicles and have to get coughed on and spat on daily? And the NHS workers who are forced to work right next to each other because that's what frontline healthcare requires (and have to get coughed on and spat on daily?) or some cloud cuckoo land fantasy versions of same?
Yes I do. There is a big difference between sitting beside one colleague for a shift (I do it myself) for essential work and gathering in crowds for photo ops.
I can't see any plod in that picture. Nursing staff won't get to just sit next to one person, will they? Anyway, I get it. You're whining because someone else isn't as marvellous as you. Oh, well.

98elise

31,588 posts

185 months

Friday 17th April 2020
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Pothole said:
irc said:
Pothole said:
Stev8s said:
I am made to feel like a criminal if I have to go out to work to deliver printer cartridges to companies that have run out or deemed essential or not worrying whether I am going to get stopped by the police
Made to feel like that by whom? What are you worried is going to happen?
Worrying about being stopped by the police and having to account for one's movements in what is a free country. While meantime the police and NHS are happy to ignore the 2M rule for photo opportunities?








https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/...
You mean the police who are forced to work sitting next to each other in vehicles and have to get coughed on and spat on daily? And the NHS workers who are forced to work right next to each other because that's what frontline healthcare requires (and have to get coughed on and spat on daily?) or some cloud cuckoo land fantasy versions of same?
That shouldn't need explaining to the OP, yet here we are!