It is way too busy out there and I’m not seeing much alertness, everyone’s just given up afaics. That’s the good old blitz spirit!
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Sunday, 17 May 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
the ol’ blitz spirit, where people turned on all their house lights and stood in the street waiting to take a v2 rocket on the chin so the economy wouldn’t collapse
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
There's more than one London - mine's looked a lot like what plax is describing, all along.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
Dulwich Park is rammed but only by CV standards, still down on usual craziness. Distancing being attempted
― stet, Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
I mean london is so densely clustered around its striations of class, I live in a corner populated with lots of wealthy and very entitled young people and it has turned into a 24-hour outdoor aerobecize class. Every time i go to walk the dog it feels like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0SrGWTVyBw
― plax (ico), Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
I can walk a few blocks towards bloomsbury and the streets empty out but as soon as i head in the direction of upper st/old st i'm surrounded by the plague-spreading straplings from pepys' diary
― plax (ico), Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
class and types of housing has got tons to do with it no doubt
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
Bloomsbury is often pretty quiet tbh but likely to be especially so with no students or office workers. The very idea of negotiating Upper Street right now fills me with panic.
I ordered some folding chairs for the park the other day and I'm already wondering if that was a mistake.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
There's been some speculation that London is a lot further along in the curve than the rest of the country and cases have declined significantly. Impossible to know really, especially as we have no idea what percentage of the city may have been symptomless. Going outside doesn't feel quite as much like running the death gauntlet as it did a month ago but that might be complacency setting in.
Then again it's been more than a fortnight since I went further than the bins so what do I know?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
twitter's culture-war crybullying carousel are currently aiming their racism-calling ray at stewart lee, it is literally breathtaking to see how they do it. at this stage i almost think they believe their own formerly-disingenuous bullshit
― imago, Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
can someone pls translate that for people who don’t use twitter
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
actually don’t bother
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
Bloomsbury is very quiet still, 1 in 5 in masks, but the good coffee shops and Master Wei are open for take-away. Never had to queue more than five deep to go into a shop and everyone in Sainsbury’s etc is trying really hard to maintain social distance. I think the queuing and space invasion are both worse in Zone 2 residential areas.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
I live right inside the zone1 rim and definitely heading in is preferable than heading out. don't go near the fn canal though jesus
― plax (ico), Sunday, 17 May 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
My bit of Peckham is still pretty social distancey, I’d say over half the people I see on the street have masks on. Some stuff has slipped a bit (lads playing basketball etc) but mostly it still has the weird uncomfortable paranoid atmosphere of a few weeks ago.
― crisp, Sunday, 17 May 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
In Glasgow and I can definitely see more people out and about and a lot more cars on the road. And we've been specifically advised to remain indoors!
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 17 May 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link
weird uncomfortable paranoid atmosphere
To be honest I'm going to miss this when it's gone
― zoom séance goes tits up (Matt #2), Sunday, 17 May 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
Am dangerously accustomed to nice empty London now, yeah.
― stet, Sunday, 17 May 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
Main person I saw tweeting about this is Ben Judah and I don't really feel like I'm more entitled than him to decide what is or isn't anti-semitism.
Name actually read as German, not Jewish to me (my own ethnocentrism at play there obv) but either way "hurhurhur weird name" is a bad look and significantly below Lee's level. 100% not something to get capt-save-a-stew about.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 17 May 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
I hate joggers as much as the next person but you are not going to get coronavirus from joggershttps://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 17 May 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
Canal has mostly been OK when I am on it - but I only go early on weekdays. I tend towards the Granary Square--> Primrose Hill walk rather than any part of East London.
Approximately where are you, plax? Sadlers Wells/Finsbury?
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link
I hate joggers as much as the next person but you are not going to get coronavirus from joggers
https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 17 May 2020 17:53 (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
This describes joggers moving past you quickly, not appearing behind you suddenly and breathing down your neck until you sidestep. This has happened to my multiple times and I see it happening quite frequently. Main reason never to go near canal where this happens under the bridges where it's tight and there's nowhere to go.
I agree Suzy, canal is always way nicer on the west part, but I live just by where it opens out east after angel (to answer your question!)
― plax (ico), Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
summary execution for all joggers and drivers imo
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link
In Bow the Roman Road has looked nearly as populated as it was On pre-virus market days. About 1/10 masks. Queue for Poundland can have 10-15 people in it, even more so than Tesco. Went Shoreditch the other day to get some stuff. Didn’t venture out much but on brick lane the queue for the bagel shop went off the street and on to the Bethnal Green road. I know it’s densely populated around here but it does feel like people are treating it like it’s over
― a hoy hoy, Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
I've stopped walking by the local canal because it seems too close to people's homes (though that might feel different for others).
I chose to shop at a biggish Sainsbury's yesterday when all I was really after was bread, wine and The Guardian. I actually think Sainsbury's has been fairly decent - closing off aisles when they're being restocked etc - but it felt horrible. People were too close and ... we're not actually at a different point than a few weeks ago when we all thought we were going to die.
― djh, Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
twitter's culture-war crybullying carousel are currently aiming their racism-calling ray
probably have soyface too the virtue signalling beta cucks
― no (Left), Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
Sainsbury's by me has felt way too full all the way through this, reduced from the dawn of the dead numbers pre lockdown now just like a busy suburban supermarket.
― plax (ico), Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
― no (Left), Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:42 (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah i'm talking about the hard-right disingenuous crybullies, not actual victims here
― imago, Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
This describes joggers moving past you quickly, not appearing behind you suddenly and breathing down your neck until you sidestep.
Well it draws a distinction between being in an enclosed room for tens of minutes and outdoor interactions lasting a few seconds.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 17 May 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
you know, the ones who insisted until they believed it that jeremy corbyn is a racist
Still as Danielrf said, Lee should be better than that shitty aren't non-english-sounding-names-such-a-jolly-wheeze routine. Even if a load of hypocritical racists are first in line calling him a cunt.
― calzino, Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
I'm guessing he wouldn't have done this if he knew it was Jewish surname he was taking the piss out of.
― calzino, Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
There is nothing in Tudgenhat's wikipedia entry about him being Jewish, and nothing in his father's either, also if you read the entry the passage isn't actually mocking his name, not exactly anyway.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
not read it tbh. I find his humour pieces in the Observer generally not very funny tbh and I say this as someone who has enjoyed his tv shows.
― calzino, Sunday, 17 May 2020 19:38 (four years ago) link
without reading the details i feel safe saying that nobody should be assumed incapable of dickitude, include Stewart Lee
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 May 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
the MoS hatchet job on Starmer has got to be the most inept right-wing attack job I've ever seen. Less donkey sanctuaries more donkey jackets next time eh lads! His approval ratings have probably just shot up 10 pts with rich nimby pensioners in the tory heartlands who don't want property developers ruining the view from their back garden.
― calzino, Monday, 18 May 2020 08:31 (four years ago) link
And now, the political party broadcast the Labour Party should be doing.
Our letting agent asked us to make a video of the flat we are basically being forced out of. I wish them the very best of luck. pic.twitter.com/h3fcOw657w— Sandy Batchelor (@sandybatchelor) May 17, 2020
― gyac, Monday, 18 May 2020 08:44 (four years ago) link
Excellent work
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 May 2020 08:50 (four years ago) link
I AM A FREE
I AM NOT MAN
A NUMBER
on his bedroom wall, very good work!
― calzino, Monday, 18 May 2020 09:01 (four years ago) link
not all landlords, just about 99.9% are scum of the earth
― calzino, Monday, 18 May 2020 09:03 (four years ago) link
I love this and so do you don't lie.
Perhaps if World War 2 happened today the questions would include:- pic.twitter.com/XeOOrJPnuX— Lord Ashcroft (@LordAshcroft) May 17, 2020
― nashwan, Monday, 18 May 2020 09:19 (four years ago) link
But if World War 2 was only happening today what would've been shown instead of 'Allo 'Allo? A Troubles sitcom? Don't make me laugh!
― nashwan, Monday, 18 May 2020 09:21 (four years ago) link
Dad's Republican Army
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 18 May 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link
Only Melts and Donkies
the adventures of Starmy the cheeky brylcreemed spiv
― calzino, Monday, 18 May 2020 09:31 (four years ago) link
Bombed and abandoned buildings were a treasure trove for looters. After a raid on Dover, one man returned home to find his entire house stripped. Even the carpets and pipes had been taken by opportunistic thieves.Others even looted while air raids were taking place. At the height of the air raid on Coventry in November 1940 two men were caught ransacking a wine seller's."I cannot think of conduct more detestable than that, during the most dreadful air raid which has ever taken place, you should be found looting," the judge told them as he jailed them for six and seven years respectively.In Kensington, west London, a gardener was caught removing rings from four dead bodies in January 1941 while on one day in November 1940, 20 of the 56 cases at the Old Bailey were looters. Ten of these were auxiliary firemen.There were also cases of murderers hiding their victims in damaged houses. When the bodies were discovered it was assumed they had been in the house when the bomb hit.
Others even looted while air raids were taking place. At the height of the air raid on Coventry in November 1940 two men were caught ransacking a wine seller's.
"I cannot think of conduct more detestable than that, during the most dreadful air raid which has ever taken place, you should be found looting," the judge told them as he jailed them for six and seven years respectively.
In Kensington, west London, a gardener was caught removing rings from four dead bodies in January 1941 while on one day in November 1940, 20 of the 56 cases at the Old Bailey were looters. Ten of these were auxiliary firemen.
There were also cases of murderers hiding their victims in damaged houses. When the bodies were discovered it was assumed they had been in the house when the bomb hit.
I think I've found the real Blitz Spirit here!
― calzino, Monday, 18 May 2020 09:32 (four years ago) link
and there's some more over here! (sorry for vile racist content)
The migrants invading Britain off the Kent coast are not genuine refugees, they are economic migrants who have navigated through many safe countries to reach Britain for our welfare system. @pritipatel must not grant a single one asylum!— Leave.EU (@LeaveEUOfficial) May 17, 2020
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 18 May 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link
which of us is not hearing "Don't Panic" shouted in a Norn Irish accent right now?
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Monday, 18 May 2020 09:35 (four years ago) link
some top quality content itt this morning lads
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 May 2020 09:49 (four years ago) link
this point abt the UK being a magnet keeps coming up bc it has intuitive appeal & I think the reasons why asylum seekers/refugees often travel through a bunch of other countries but make the extra effort to get to the UK are interesting and there are a few different answers and the decisions are not always beyond question
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Monday, 18 May 2020 09:52 (four years ago) link
refugees can get pretty animated on this point ofc bc lots of them naturally feel that there are wrong uns giving them a bad name who they want to differentiate themselves from, and I think it's patronising to put it down purely to internalised prejudice
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Monday, 18 May 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link