šŸ“š The Sotonians Lockdown & Beyond Diaries

Do we have that feature on here?

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Piss poor planning - you are like the govt and PPE

Where as I am like ze Germans and has overstocked

Off for a cask Old thumper

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That’s not how it’s used on Cunts Corner, tbh.

It’s optional. It’s called self-control. Many of us are known to have lapses in the functionality :smiley:

Not really. It turns out Mrs Fatso is not keen on my old magazine collection and everything has been put in the recycling bin. I’m now reduced to looking in bushes.

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I bet Mrs Fatso isn’t too happy about that, either.

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I don’t know if you’re aware of it fatso, but there’s this new thing called The Internet. It’s primary function is to provide pornography to males of all ages and backgrounds, free at the point of delivery. People occasionally use it for other sundry purposes, but only rarely. Give it a try, rooting around the park under hedgerows is bad for the back.

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I wonder if my missus would like to borrow herself? :thinking:

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This account of her visit to Lidl’s Shirley Branch this morning…this could have been a great Monty Python sketch

"A warning to all: avoid using Aldi Southampton at the moment if you can.

I’ve just got back from a truly awful shopping trip there.

Having queued up, patiently and socially distancing, as I neared the entrance a shop worker clipped a carabena onto the belt loop of my jeans, my perplexed expression must have said it all as she explained that whilst people are distancing in the queue outside, they aren’t distancing once inside the store.

So what some Donut has dreamt up is to rope 6 or so customers together with 2m of rope between each of us WTAF.

Well these are strange times and with the threat of a second wave of infection I thought I’d best not complain and just tow the line (so to speak).

I’m telling you now, what an absolutely idiotic idea this is. We’ve negotiated our way in to the store, some with trolleys and others trying to grab a basket before the berserk conga line drags them away.

I was near the middle of the rope picking up some veg, the woman at the front, who was trussed up like a kid in a harness was trying to drag the whole line to the apples and the bloke at the back trying to pull the other way to get his hands on last weeks courgettes which were now this weeks courgette offer.

It was like tug-of-war for the deranged.

It’s embarrassing to say, but I lost it, started ranting and raving about the rope and how the hell are people meant to shop like this, I went to unclip the carabena which miraculously brought the attention of the staff who told me I’d be asked to leave the shop if I uncliped. ā€œFFS we’re not rock climbing, we’re trying to buy cheeseā€ are words which I’ll carry with me to my grave.

Strangely this outburst had the effect of bringing our train together as a team.

We carried on now with lots of communication, people passing stuff along the line to other to fill their baskets. Now I know passing things to one another could spread the infection as much as person to person contact but I honestly think if we hadn’t of done, I’d still be there now.

As we started along the aisle I generally refer to as ā€œbiscuits and creosoteā€, it was clear from the melee that all was not well in the adjacent aisle. As far as I could tell there had been 2 trains of people and a lady in the middle of one chain had ducked under the other to get her hands on a pop-art cat bed. The tangle had resulted in a multi-pedestran pile up in which the epicentre resembled the diety Durga, it wasn’t clear how long they’d been there but one old chap was trying to free himself by feverishly sawing at the rope with his house keys.

We navigated the remaining aisles without major trauma, other than having to rescue Doreen (2nd in line) after she fell in the chest freezer trying to reach the last beef Wellington. We were individually unclipped prior to the till, at which point any cameradery we’d had quickly evaporated as everyone scrambled for the first available till.

With the ordeal still impeding rational thought, it was a welcome and familiar sight to have the check out throw all my shopping on the floor in the normal 1000mph fashion.

I really did not appreciate being strung along like that, but I hope you did."

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Lol the FB Version was Waitrose in Leigh otherwise word for word.

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Even Donut?

Lockdown is over - the Forest is rammed

Amazing how many camper vans have been taken for a day out

And the number of dickheads having BBQs when the Forest is like a tinder box
It’s is so bad that if you see someone with a BBQ, the advice is not to ring the forestry commission, but to call 999 and the fire brigade will come straight out to deal with it

Just fuck off back to your homes

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Yes it was a fun read though. :lou_lol:

And that is what started the fire in Wareham forest last weekend, someone’s discarded BBQ, they say they found 4 or 5 others left in the area too

Tiger v Phil Part 2 coming up on CNNI, TNT and then google search.
Hopefully the NFL Stars will have more personality than Dustin & Rickie last week

OK got my time zones wrong. Coverage now on

It is HAMMERING down course is soaked, they have some funky formats & $25m for a hole in one.
All for charity

OK, bit more shit together than last week.
Jamie Foxx just did the Intro to the show.
Announcer on the 1st Tee is Samuel L Jackson ripping the piss superbly

And so Tiger slams one down the middle, his partner Peyton
Tiger is the only drive on anything resembling grass :slight_smile:

And the tech didn’t quite work when they tried to interview Tiger in his new Jety Powered Buggy (Available at the in-show Auction obviously)
They are also Auctioning the Beer Cart. Unfortunately it is filled with Michelob so I’m out

What is great about this is listening to Tiger when he has hit shots.
It was perhaps THE most ā€œspecialā€ thing I got to experience being up close with him - all his little talk to himself stuff and little banter comments

I’ve been really busy during the lockdown. I’ve learned a new language, Python.

Even for a non programmer, it’s quite readable.

def fucks_left_to_give(fucks):
    return (len(fucks), 0)

your_complaints = ['Fuck'] * 10000

your_fucks, my_fucks = fucks_left_to_give(your_complaints)

print(f"You had {your_fucks} complaints.  I have {my_fucks} fucks to give")
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Finally trip to Dentist today. Last week was the temporary fitting to check it all settled down.
Today the proper stuff.
Problem was 1 of the teeth holding the bridge has exposed nerve endings into which the post was fitted. Medically sound & now covered it will settle down.
Reality - HOLY SHIT screams & wakes up on oxygen.
Couldn’t get the Tramadol down fast enough.
Another wiped out afternoon.

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