When will this shit end?

[Losing my hair]

1 minute ago, Homer said:

Talk of divorce - it's like the Eastenders Xmas special in here.

My son used to be a policeman in Luton - he said working Christmas there was worse than an Eastenders Christmas.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Gingerfish79 said:

Absolutely this. Labour have been and continue to be pathetic. 

Keir Starmer had a press conference yesterday where he criticised Johnson over Christmas, he was asking for a tightening of rules last week as well. Labour are doing what that Tweet is asking them to do. 

[RobertProsineckisLighter]

Manchester wanting anyone who has traveled from a T4 area or Wales to isolate for 10 days..  and some other stuff. 

[gfa]

4 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

 

Cannot stand Grant Shapps - will be him moaning for 5 minutes about how France shut the border. Just because our government is stupid and wouldn't do the same thing, doesn't mean its a bad idea. They will just politicise it urgh

[Crazyfool01]

Oh 😞 

[Losing my hair]

3 minutes ago, Gingerfish79 said:

Absolutely this. Labour have been and continue to be pathetic. 

Is Barnaby Raine somebody other than a random guy on twitter?

[Dark Star]

31 minutes ago, Homer said:

The wife (kiwi) sometimes (who is otherwise an excellent cook) often serves up tinned tomatoes with a roast and also puts sour cream on her roast potatoes. I still can't figure out if that's an NZ thing or if she has a serious mental health problem.

My experience of two kiwi kristmases is that they have absolutely no issue whatsoever with sticking salad and gravy on the same plate. Plus you'll hear the word 'pavlova more times in a week than they have in the whole of the rest of your life.

I can't work out what is the biggest crime here...

1. Tinned tomatoes on a roast
2. Sour cream on roast potatoes.
3. Salad and gravy on the same plate. 
9. Pablohoney

Living on the upside down part of the planet clearly does strange things to people. 

Edited December 21, 2020 by Dark Star

[balthazarstarbuck]

6 minutes ago, zahidf said:

 

 

Real shame Grayling’s not in charge of Transport anymore- there was a man who could source a ferry in a hurry.

[Homer]

1 minute ago, Dark Star said:

I can't work out what is the biggest crime here...

1. Tinned tomatoes on a roast
2. Sour cream on roast potatoes.
3. Salad and gravy on the same plate. 
9. Pablohoney

Living on the upside down part of the planet clearly does strange things to people. 

I've already been informed we are having roast beef on Xmas Day. Is this normal behaviour or have I been gaslit into submission by the tinned toms?!

[Losing my hair]

21 minutes ago, philipsteak said:

And then he'll finish by saying how much he's looking forward to the Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas special. And his favourite pizza is Hawaiian 

I'm with the Icelandic president when it come to pineapple on pizza

https://icelandmag.is/article/president-iceland-announces-he-would-ban-pineapple-a-pizza-topping

[Mr.Tease]

9 minutes ago, Gingerfish79 said:

Absolutely this. Labour have been and continue to be pathetic. 

But they have been 'forensic' and 'grown up'! Which apparently was all they needed to be to be 20 points ahead in the polls!

[zahidf]

'High confidence' new variant spreads more easily

The government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) has upgraded its confidence that the new variant spreads more easily, the group's chair has said.

Prof Peter Horby told a Science Media Centre briefing: "We now have high confidence that this variant does have a transmission advantage over other virus variants that are currently in the UK."

Minutes from a meeting on Friday said the group, which advises the UK government, had "moderate confidence" in this.

Another Nervtag member, Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told the briefing there was strong evidence the new variant is 50% more transmissible than the previous virus.

He also said there was a "hint" the new variant infects children more.

"There are other epidemiologically interesting trends with the virus, there is a hint that it has a higher propensity to infect children... but we haven't established any sort of causality on that, but we can see that in the data," he said.

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[Dark Star]

4 minutes ago, Homer said:

I've already been informed we are having roast beef on Xmas Day. Is this normal behaviour or have I been gaslit into submission by the tinned toms?!

Roast Beef is always acceptable. However, given the previously mentioned culinary wonders I'm concerned you may end up with a plate containing said beef, rice pudding, deep fried roast potatoes, and tartar sauce. 

Edited December 21, 2020 by Dark Star

[philipsteak]

6 minutes ago, Homer said:

I've already been informed we are having roast beef on Xmas Day. Is this normal behaviour or have I been gaslit into submission by the tinned toms?!

She's just broken you hasn't she?

[Losing my hair]

1 minute ago, Homer said:

I've already been informed we are having roast beef on Xmas Day. Is this normal behaviour or have I been gaslit into submission by the tinned toms?!

Roast beef is more than acceptable for Xmas lunch, and imo is preferable to turkey, so long as it's NOT accompanied by:

1. Tinned tomatoes
2. Sour cream
3. Salad

Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes and horseradish sauce are compulsory accompaniments.

[squirrelarmy]

5 minutes ago, Losing my hair said:

I'm with the Icelandic president when it come to pineapple on pizza

https://icelandmag.is/article/president-iceland-announces-he-would-ban-pineapple-a-pizza-topping

The fact that pineapple on a pizza is too much for a country that will quite happily eat fermented shark says it all. 

[gigpusher]

1 minute ago, Homer said:

I've already been informed we are having roast beef on Xmas Day. Is this normal behaviour or have I been gaslit into submission by the tinned toms?!

Nah that's fine. Most people don't like turkey they just don't want to admit it. 

[Radiochicken]

34 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

 

 

I mean, pull my eyes out with a rusty pole...

(...but also has testing picked up in the pre-Xmas rush in London? Raw case numbers will always be the scariest)

[gigpusher]

Is it wrong to admit I'd be happy to try the roast potatoes with sour cream. I think I could get on board with that. 

[Homer]

2 minutes ago, philipsteak said:

She's just broken you hasn't she?

She has now - I think she may be beyond help (she's at the supermarket now so I just Whatsapped her):

 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Radiochicken said:

I mean, pull my eyes out with a rusty pole...

(...but also has testing picked up in the pre-Xmas rush in London? Raw case numbers will always be the scariest)

Testing data goes up to the 16th, but here is there positivity rate up to that point for London.

Edited December 21, 2020 by Ozanne

[Homer]

3 minutes ago, gigpusher said:

Is it wrong to admit I'd be happy to try the roast potatoes with sour cream. I think I could get on board with that. 

To paraphrase Patridge, like a savoury dauphinoise.

[gigpusher]

Just now, Homer said:

To paraphrase Patridge, like a savoury dauphinoise.

I could see it working to be honest. Not sure about the tinned tomatoes but I am vegetarian and a tomato based sauce does work with some veggie alternatives to roasts as well. Maybe your wife is just ahead of the curve and it will be the luxury dream food that nobody can get post-brexit. 

 

[BobWillis]

14 minutes ago, zahidf said:

'High confidence' new variant spreads more easily

The government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) has upgraded its confidence that the new variant spreads more easily, the group's chair has said.

Prof Peter Horby told a Science Media Centre briefing: "We now have high confidence that this variant does have a transmission advantage over other virus variants that are currently in the UK."

Minutes from a meeting on Friday said the group, which advises the UK government, had "moderate confidence" in this.

Another Nervtag member, Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told the briefing there was strong evidence the new variant is 50% more transmissible than the previous virus.

He also said there was a "hint" the new variant infects children more.

"There are other epidemiologically interesting trends with the virus, there is a hint that it has a higher propensity to infect children... but we haven't established any sort of causality on that, but we can see that in the data," he said.

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Ferguson 😂😂😂😂😂 no wonder people are having a hard time believing it. 

[Homer]

1 minute ago, gigpusher said:

I could see it working to be honest. Not sure about the tinned tomatoes but I am vegetarian and a tomato based sauce does work with some veggie alternatives to roasts as well. Maybe your wife is just ahead of the curve and it will be the luxury dream food that nobody can get post-brexit. 

 

Part of me wants to message another kiwi and find out if this is normal behaviour in New Zealand. But another par of me suspects that the frisson is the only thing keeping our marriage together (that and the fact that neither of us is allowed to leave the house).