Todd_is_God Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 1 minute ago, pozbaird said: Are there still curtain twitchers in your street liable to report you? What are you likely to be doing, on day 7,750 of lockdown that would incur their wrath? During the first weeks of lockdown in March, maybe, if you were holding house parties or going out ten times a day. How best to put this... I suspect neither you or your wife are about to invite twenty mates round for a bevvy session, so fcuk the curtain twitchers. Not worried about our neighbours tbh. More if we were visiting someone else and it started pishing down and we had to go inside. As I said it's the wife thats more conscious of it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 I've been hillwalking three times this month and haven't done anything other than drive, stop for coffee at a petrol station, walk and drive back. As the guy in the first post said it's not an issue for regular hillwalkers - I think there will be a lot of people who are fairly sensible - it's the hard core of morons who tend to spoil it for others - you just had see the pictures from Loch Lomond that first weekend to realise that there are still a significant minority who just do not give a f**k. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 17 minutes ago, St. Jude said: .I take it that means Tennis courts rather than 5 aside and 7 aside fitba pitches? 13 minutes ago, Slacker said: Tennis courts opened in phase 1. @johnnydun 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 7 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said: Not worried about our neighbours tbh. More if we were visiting someone else and it started pishing down and we had to go inside. As I said it's the wife thats more conscious of it Cnuts could pass you a brolly and a cheese vol-au-vent through the letterbox. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Ferrino Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 5 minutes ago, pozbaird said: Cnuts could pass you a brolly and a cheese vol-au-vent through the letterbox. Letterbox’s are c***s, aren’t they? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 To save marshmallo the trouble. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 In amongst all the chat, some quite noteworthy statistics from the last 24 hours 11 new cases is the lowest daily number since 11th March. That we know this figure includes tests from all settings makes this great news. 0.3% of all tests yesterday came back positive. This is the lowest figure since 3rd March, where it was 0. 2 new deaths is the lowest weekday total since 24th March, where there were also 2 deaths registered. 7 day average deaths now stand at 3.5 Patients in ICU with confirmed Covid-19 are now in single figures at 9. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 9 minutes ago, pozbaird said: To save marshmallo the trouble. Why is there a horse in the circle? 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: This is not my opinion but posted on a hillwalking website. "My assumption on why there is the 5 mile rule is that most people who travel to a "beauty spot" will want to use toilets and buy food and drink in the shops etc. This means that people will leave Glasgow, where the infection rates are still quite a bit higher than the rest of the country (or were when the rule was brought it, don't know about now), and then use the infrastructure elsewhere and risk spreading it there. I feel there could have been more regional restrictions like if your neighbouring council area has a different R rating then you can't go there, but you can move around within your own area or any neighbouring ones which are at a similar level, or something like that. I think we have to recognise that we are the minority in the general population in that we will happily take our own food, pee in the bushes (well away from car parks and not leave any paper etc!!) and have a nice day out without meeting anyone. Most of the population will want to use infrastructure. I presume that is the logic anyway." And the reply: "And this is exactly what happened in Glencoe. It was a lot more than three times the traffic. The local supermarket was rammed with tourists. In one situation a group of bikers asked a local policeman where they could stay in a hotel for the night. And this is with a 5 mile restriction in place. I think the government realised what would happen if they opened things up completely. I, for one, don't want to see our village outnumbered by tourists 10:1 at this point in time. We have an elderly population as it is (including a large care home) and we've seen mountain rescue and paramedics out and about for the first time since the lockdown. Perhaps the 5 miles is over-restrictive but the in reality this is just about stopping the floodgates of the central belt from overwhelming the Highlands." These were comments in reply to this article: https://www.ukhillwalking.com/forums/ukh/scotlands_outdoor_restrictions_are_senseless_and_unjustifiable-720576 I don't think it's as clear cut as some are making - the real issue is there are still lots of arseholes out there ignoring restrictions - opening up more increases the number of those arseholes prepared to go further. Presumably nobody in the Highlands has bought anything through major online retailers (processed and shipped in the plague-ridden Central Belt) or drove to the nearest town supermarket for their 'big shop' over the past three months; they must plan on waiving their own access to specialist hospital treatment for Covid or anything else as well. Or perhaps their demand for isolation only works when they want it to. How convenient. Just because you choose to live somewhere doesn't mean that you get to gatekeep access to it though. Not that their argument matters anyway given the ridiculously low number of recorded cases anywhere in Scotland right now. Unless I've missed the entire populations of Luss and Balloch being wiped out since people from Glasgow had the temerity to rock up there as soon as lockdown ended three weeks ago. Edited June 18, 2020 by vikingTON 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 7 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said: Why is there a horse in the circle? First red dot image I came to on Google image search. Neigh idea about that. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 32 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: @johnnydun Can you score an og in Tennis? 15-0 to johnnydun. Spoiler Some 'Goals' centres have opened in England with limited capacity, not sure about up here though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Heard mention of "stress-access" shops opening at the end of the month. What does that mean? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alta-pete Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, The Skelpit Lug said: Heard mention of "stress-access" shops opening at the end of the month. What does that mean? Outside door. I.e. no indoor shopping malls. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, The Skelpit Lug said: Heard mention of "stress-access" shops opening at the end of the month. What does that mean? HMV on Argyle St can open, but HMV in Braehead can’t. Apple store on Buchanan St can open, but Apple store in Braehead can’t. Primark on Argyle St can open, and I assume Primark in Braehead can too - because it has an external door. The actual fcuk sake of it all now. Edited June 18, 2020 by pozbaird -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 1 minute ago, alta-pete said: Outside door. I.e. no indoor shopping malls. Cheers. Seemed an odd phrase. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Outdoor sports courts reopening on 29 June....I take it that means Tennis courts rather than 5 aside and 7 aside fitba pitches? I take it to mean things like MUGAs in public parks which have been officially closed, although that hasn't stopped the kids round our way using them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 I’m concerned about this poor chap. All red, all in the one minute. -4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 I’m concerned about this poor chap. All red, all in the one minute. [emoji3] Substitute poor chap for f*cking zoomer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernLights Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 The English are binning their prototype Coronavirus tracing app and going with the Google/Apple model. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53095336 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 4 minutes ago, NorthernLights said: The English are binning their prototype Coronavirus tracing app and going with the Google/Apple model. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53095336 Fucking hell, what a mess. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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