A interesting article looking at the current trends without the usual hyperbole
So I think weāre still young enough and fit enough to do it (mid 30ās) and with young kids a house with a lot of land feels like something that will allow them to have fun, because I worry for their long term prospects with the world as it is.
Couple this with the Governmentās aim of destroying contracting coming to fruition, and frankly weāve just had enough of the working world as it is.
Itās a shame we canāt just pack up and leave, because I have no pride in being English, itās more of just a cross I have to bear.
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This is rather silly isnāt it?
For starters, as a nation, weāre not really nationalists. Paxman reckons the quintessential quality of the English is that they donāt care about being Englsh.
A cross you have to bear? Fucking hell mate. You want to talk to BeirutSaint.
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Well, good, then itās not just me that feels a bit ashamed to be English/British. I assumed a lot of people were proud of it.
He didnāt say our people were ashamed of being British, he said they donāt feel any pride in it.
Heās right. I feel no pride in my origins; I made absolutely no contribution of any kind into where or how I happened to be born. Nor do I feel any shame in them, or shame for any actions my ancestors may have performed.
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Ambivalence then from your side. Iām on the ashamed spectrumā¦
Why would you need to feel shame or pride over the accident of birth?
Life will shame you enough on its own.
This is some Catholic original sin shit.
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Uhmā¦ certainly true for meā¦ but in mitigation, I have become increasingly so BECAUSE of the way things have evolved in the UKā¦ the polarisation and the deep wounds and the simple fact I dont feel i have anything in common with āthe peopleā that have influenced the direction the UK is taking, especially those who are comfortable with telling one āmarketā to fuck off, whilst brown-nosing one 3500miles away run by the cunt of cuntsā¦ with folks in charge who make decisions knowing that they can do as they please as long as they keep telling the EU to fuck off. Its also why they can get away with being incompetent on COVID, because I suspect many of their supporters are also happy ignoring scientific advice and feel adherence to rules is threatening the hard fought democratic freedoms earned since our defeat of those pesky eurofuckersā¦ its like we are becoming a mini-me version of Trumps US - a place for the rich evil fuckers to make huge gains, whilst many of those impacted most have simply bent over to be shafted, thankful that its someone local doing the āinvadingā as opposed to anyone foreignā¦
I could go onā¦ a society evolved to a low denominator where ignorant people follow ignorant people, social media āinfluencersā and demonstratable lack of reason applied to daily decisions let alone those that effect generationsā¦ its a selfish society, as the large crowd gatherings demonstrateā¦ but these things are not unique to the UKā¦
So grumpy miserable cunt I may be, but IMHO, itās justified.
I suppose we could all feel some level of pride in being the quickest of 500 million sperm to hit on that egg. Thatās no mean feat 
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I suspect is most of our cases it should be a celebration of being the least shit sperm
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ā¦which is why we ended up supporting the Saints.
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Tbf I was born in Canada.
Chris Whitty confirms where the most case increases are:
"highlights case numbers among 17- to 18-year-olds and 19- to 21-year-olds as going up āreally quite steeply since the middle of Augustā.
What I donāt get us why only one journalists even began to touch on the main issue - Johnson is on about a way out of this shitstorm based on an entirely imaginary system of testing that doesnāt exist anywhere in the world. What happens while we wait for that?
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Keep safe and stop spreading it, I suggest
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A level results parties because they all nailed it?
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By going to work, school, eating outā¦
All covid spaced etc. Unlike the youngsters parties.
Mrs Bucks is at a work group meeting in Hyde Park at the moment. All the over 40ās are keeping their distance etc. The 25 year olds have missed the news (there is a global pandemic on) and are huddled together like itās 2019.
How are children in school meant to keep distance between themselves whilst walking in corridors? Theyāll pass it onto each other then parents and the community. I genuinely canāt see how schools can avoid becoming spreaders.
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