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Advantages Of The Pandemic

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by PerryL, Nov 3, 2020.

  1. I think it was in Manchester this time last year they were doing that to look for Easter Eggs.

    Btw, I think @bradders was being sarcastic
     
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  2. That rings a bell but the one that I was trying to remember was certainly in Gloucestershire.

    I think that the dumbness of coppers is pretty universal, though.
     
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  3. I didn't mean you were mixing the two up, but that they were doing that sort of nonsense all over.

    My son told me that in early Dec when we were still in "Tiers", him and some mates from uni travelled (lawfully) by train and the railway station was being patrolled by paramilitary style security guards, wearing stab vests and webbing and some even had their faces covered with balaclavas, sort of like Spetsnaz operators. They were not really interacting with travellers, though they would sometimes intervene to break up groups - he got the impression they were just there as a sort of intimidating presence to try and put people off.

    Then when they reached their destination station, the Police were out in force, strung out in a line across the platform, eyeballing people and kind of deliberately trying to obstruct and provoke.
     
  4. Oops, wrong 80's band!
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  5. One advantage for me has been that even though I keep buying stuff for the bikes hand over fist, I have more money stashed away than I ever had ...God knows what I must have wasted my dosh on before. I used to run month to month pretty much down to dregs.
    Now I seem to have loads left over almost every month. WTF is that all about?
    My salary has stayed the same (sadly) so I am not earning more. I still have a company car that I am paying tax on even though its not coming off the drive ...but the money keeps going into my savings.
    I am not sure I can afford to come outta lockdown now :D
     
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  6. Finally remembered the band but the link is beyond me! I need help!
     
  7. The sparks.
     
  8. They did a version of that with Faith No More. I reckon it's way better:
     
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  9. March, April, May and June are normally the best months of the year. pre-Covid and the MOT extension they were also some of the busiest months of the year too. ie, no holidays. not this year. apart from one day of snow, i am now on my 12th day of scortchio. superb.
     
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  10. No commuting.
    No having to deal with all those people you don't like.
    No scam phone calls (thought they're slowly starting up again now).
    Quiet roads.
    Quiet in general.
    Saving money.
    Internet/forum friendships growing.
     
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  11. 1. No commuting

    Which means less time riding bikes.

    2. No having to deal with all those people you don't like

    Which just means more time on the forum dealing with people you don't like (jk ;))

    3. No scam phone calls (thought they're slowly starting up again now)

    For some people those scammers were their only human contact.

    4. Quiet roads.

    Lockdown v.1 was nice but v.2 was the worst of both worlds with the roads round here pretty much as busy as usual but most of the shops in the towns were closed.

    5. Quiet in general.

    Ditto.

    6. Saving money.

    Errrrmmm....I somehow managed to end up with two more knackered old motorcycle moneypits during lockdown.

    7. Internet/forum friendships growing.

    See (2), above!

    Lockdown 1 wasn't too bad because it sort of had an exciting apocalypse-lite feel about it, the roads and cities were deserted, people (including the Govt) started to be a bit more compassionate, the NHS saved the PM's life, everyone started baking and growing their own veg, employment patterns changed in a way that reset the work/life balance etc etc. As time has gone on however, unfortunately, there has been massive govt incompetence and many of its members and their cronies used Covid as an opportunity to get their snouts into the trough, employers are acting like Victorian mill owners once again, Boris screwed the nurses over, neighbours started spying and snitching on one another, Policemen just made the rules up as they went along in ways that would not have been out of place in a Monty Python sketch and the loss of our already meagre and heavily eroded liberties and privacy will probably never be fully reversed.

    Bah humbug. Still. I booked my first trackday of the season yesterday and had a funny incident with my dog earlier, so life isn't too terrible.
     
  12. Whoa, dude! I was only finding silver linings.
     
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  13. For me lockdown 1 was glorious, roads were literally like a ghost town, could get around so easily, the company knocked an hour off our day to allow for extra time spent serialising everything, it was great, home by lunch everyday.
    Then people got bored, stuff found ways of reopening (stick a fridge in the corner and we can claim to be a supermarket) roads were busier than before, kids went back to school (roads even busier) and the company decided sterilising wasn’t as important as profit and they put the hour back on.

    we now look back on lockdown 1 with fond memories (not the people dying bit, that wasn’t so good)
     
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