The background that made you look like you were in the cockpit of a fighter plane was fun. I had one that placed me at Barnards Castle for a team virtual piss up. Good times.
It's not weird to say saving a fortune on commuting and not having to come up to London.
I liked the enforced social distancing because I like it that way anyway. Two metres in the queue outside Waitrose was fine by me also.
Saving money on travelling to interviews; not clicking with the interviewer is the same on Zoom, Teams or F2F. Also, re the above, one could wear jeans with one's jacket and tie.
I was thinking about this last night, as I met my father for a quick pint. Remember when restaurants, and certainly pubs were told by Whitty et al to keep the doors open. Christ. And only entering and exiting venues by designated front doors, notwithstanding those doors were inches apart..
Rule of six , same household, yeah right. Saw loads of times people , mainly students, pull two tables together to make 12. Manager " Are you all from the same household?"
Students "Yeah"
Manager " OK"
They had no way of checking
And filling in those stupid pieces of paper on entry. My local restos and pubs, would empty them at the end of the night and contained on those pieces of paper, was just scribble, literally .
The entire night shift of Sussex emergency services appearing outside my house for a guy who’d come off a motor bike. Basically their only shout of the shift.
BT FINALLY fixed our 5 years standing rubbish broadband issue when we said Dr M needs to work from hone. They came round the next day and didnt even charge.
Volunteering at the local hospital, I was rubbish, I kept getting lost, Dr M tells me they have now had a go at fixing the poor sign posting.
I was also brewing prolifically. My home brew shop had a bit of old pale ale grain to shift and I bought 2 sacks at about £30 a pop.
I was mostly brewing English ordinary bitters because we were getting in the beers quite early in the day on account of having nothing better to do (we had months of this shit where I live, over the course of a couple of years). Got about 500 pints out of it.
By contrast I've brewed about 40 litres this year.
nursery requiring lat flow tests from u5s despite haringey saying they weren’t needed / appropriate
2 year development tests all but cancelled
me and nob (3) got stopped by the police because he had sat down on the floor to eat a sandwich and you weren’t allowed to sit down (or eat?) in Brent Cross shopping centre at the time
loads of my friends have ended up with solo children as fertility treatments stopped and their window was those 2 years
Queue of people 2m apart that snaked back on itself so the people going in different directions were only inches away from each other. Made a mockery of the whole ridiculous thing.
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Remember Christmas office quizzes online?
Much better than irl tbf
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My PA was absolutely f*cked at the start of our Xmas quiz.
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I never ever want to see another online quiz as long as I live.
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People boasting about leaving the house who now insist on wfh
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people having zany backgrounds to their teams / zoom to act as a conversation starter.
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The background that made you look like you were in the cockpit of a fighter plane was fun. I had one that placed me at Barnards Castle for a team virtual piss up. Good times.
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I do miss seeing people's dogs to be fair.
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I remember one guy had an awesome cat that was always walking along the bookshelf behind him
yah yah annual allowance OMG THE FLOOF
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I thought Clergs’ response would be that the tea never shouted back
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The silence when sitting outside, punctuated only by glorious birdsong
The absence of contrails in the sky
Thinking "sod it" and going for a walk for the allocated time
Sitting at the kitchen table with my family for lunch and dinner
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It's not weird to say saving a fortune on commuting and not having to come up to London.
I liked the enforced social distancing because I like it that way anyway. Two metres in the queue outside Waitrose was fine by me also.
Saving money on travelling to interviews; not clicking with the interviewer is the same on Zoom, Teams or F2F. Also, re the above, one could wear jeans with one's jacket and tie.
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Heh I did an interview shirt and tie and pants on below. It was absolutely boiling tbf but really I just wanted to do it
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Heh! Just make sure you don't 'stand up'!
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I was thinking about this last night, as I met my father for a quick pint. Remember when restaurants, and certainly pubs were told by Whitty et al to keep the doors open. Christ. And only entering and exiting venues by designated front doors, notwithstanding those doors were inches apart..
Temprature checks!
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Don’t forget to put your mask on when you go to the lav…
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Rule of six , same household, yeah right. Saw loads of times people , mainly students, pull two tables together to make 12. Manager " Are you all from the same household?"
Students "Yeah"
Manager " OK"
They had no way of checking
And filling in those stupid pieces of paper on entry. My local restos and pubs, would empty them at the end of the night and contained on those pieces of paper, was just scribble, literally .
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Oh no we can’t open the windows!
in April.
You utter fvcking melts
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The destruction of Maidstone.
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Signing in and leaving your phone number (oh yeh) when entering a pub.
Kids back at home, either on Furlough or sent home from Uni, playing lots of board games.
Cycling through deserted town centres.
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Cookie this was advocated in December mate.
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I was home brewing, churning out 40 pints every fortnight
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That track me app that saved a billion lives in the UK alone.
Wonder if it can still be turned on.
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40 pts a fortnight ain't even self sufficient.
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Petrol at under £1 a litre.
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The entire night shift of Sussex emergency services appearing outside my house for a guy who’d come off a motor bike. Basically their only shout of the shift.
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BT FINALLY fixed our 5 years standing rubbish broadband issue when we said Dr M needs to work from hone. They came round the next day and didnt even charge.
Volunteering at the local hospital, I was rubbish, I kept getting lost, Dr M tells me they have now had a go at fixing the poor sign posting.
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Christ all that cash on shite and they're telling folk they have to wait two years for a hip
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finally being able to sit on a park bench again
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@shatner
I was also brewing prolifically. My home brew shop had a bit of old pale ale grain to shift and I bought 2 sacks at about £30 a pop.
I was mostly brewing English ordinary bitters because we were getting in the beers quite early in the day on account of having nothing better to do (we had months of this shit where I live, over the course of a couple of years). Got about 500 pints out of it.
By contrast I've brewed about 40 litres this year.
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Haringey put all the benches in cages.
nursery requiring lat flow tests from u5s despite haringey saying they weren’t needed / appropriate
2 year development tests all but cancelled
me and nob (3) got stopped by the police because he had sat down on the floor to eat a sandwich and you weren’t allowed to sit down (or eat?) in Brent Cross shopping centre at the time
loads of my friends have ended up with solo children as fertility treatments stopped and their window was those 2 years
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Bloody loads can’t (won’t and don’t) remember so much of it
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Queue of people 2m apart that snaked back on itself so the people going in different directions were only inches away from each other. Made a mockery of the whole ridiculous thing.
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Maidstone for me
The whole place destroyed by the council
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Shit times
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What proboner said.
And those awful pre recorded supermarket messages " We are here to keep you safe, bla, bla, bla"
Marshalls in hi vis at the entrance of supermarkets
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Why can’t you move on from Lockdown. It was an appalling time. Just forget it
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Why does this no longer happen?
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T5 @ 1300 with the departure board showing 15 flights for the rest of the day
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