love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

i will never watch HOMELAND (2011- )

HOMELAND (2011-the infinite) is one of those grown-up adult realpolitik shows that thinks having bipolar disorder gives you superpowers

I bailed after 3 but I was going through a stage where I watched lots of garbage TV, including goth vampire shite and that crap about oh noes for some inexplicable reason the electricity has stopped working on all of planet earth!

But I used to watch this garbage when on the exercise bike, I don't do that any more!

as recent portrayals of bipolar go I think "makes you a super spy" ranks above "makes you murder your parents and kill yourself" but I think it still leaves something to be desired

My furrowed brow impression of Saul "just don't wanna see Carrie getting hurt again, she's been through enough, but yeah get her on that next one way plane to Afghan"

Danes tangent > duck tangent

rip fred b :(

Just been out for lunch. It was weird but not that weird. All the staff had welders mask looking things on, spoke to a few of them, they all said they were really happy to be able to work again but were nervous as well and hoped customers were going to be understanding about all the new measures they had in place. Restaurant manager (who we’ve got to know a bit over the years) was more concerned about her missing absentee ballot for the Polish elections. Not sure how often I’ll be eating out over the next while, but when I do go out I’ll be staying local and tipping a lot more than normal. Still unsure about pubs.

"they were really happy to be able to work again"

clearly the management were lurking nearby

That wasn’t my impression at all, they spoke very freely about the nerves they felt - this is a little neighbourhood place whose staff have mostly been there for years and clearly love their work, having spent years in the industry myself I don’t find it hard to believe people are excited to be back at it. Obviously on the whole working in kitchens makes social distancing basically impossible and staff welfare is a massive concern, but that isn’t even purely covid-specific. I hope that lots of places will use this as an opportunity to make their workplaces better and safer environments for their staff in general and to improve working conditions.

spoke to a few of them, they all said they were really happy to be able to work again but were nervous as well and hoped customers were going to be understanding about all the new measures they had in place and not talk to them too much.

Are you not talking to anyone these days AF?! They did seem a bit perturbed by all the handshakes tbf.

"Why Rosa Luxembourg had to die", Paul Mason in the Spectator

— Tee Em (@tedsplitter) July 4, 2020

Unusually, Mason hasn't linked to that disgraceful article on his own Twitter page.

Kerching! Money in the bank, no real need for him to draw attention to it now.

I see Farage broke his quarantine today to get a photo of himself with a pint in a pub

Happy #PubsReopening Day 🎉 pic.twitter.com/gjPk6IhFJQ

— McKatzen (@TonePolicing) July 4, 2020

I don’t know why anyone bothers writing a ‘pinion for the Spec unless Paul Mason needed an extra £75 for spice.

I bet Taki gets paid more than that, but he's an out member of the fash.

Mason is a nobody, even Stoya wouldn't know him from Adam

How do Spiked pay? If that is the going rate then lol!

Some say opinions are like arseholes and in this arseholeocracy Mason can earn a Labourer's day rate for typing out dubious piffle, not that bad in the scheme of things I suppose

Soho lockdown is over pic.twitter.com/Oa683CfxsM

— Jamie Roberts (@visitjamie) July 4, 2020

super saturday baby

I don't see how anybody could've foreseen this

what's the point of the rozzer in the pulpit

Eternal q

... I know I know it's serious (xp)

Victory for Rona day

Rozzer in the pulpit
You'd better not kill the groove

To be honest just looking at that Soho video filled me with an overpowering desire for this gamble to pay off.

Yes, I'm afraid watching footage of people in pubs makes me want to go to a pub.

trying to come up with a list of things that don't make me wanna go to a pub

Starmzy made a haircut tweet earlier. that v much made me want to go to a pub.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcHRVsqWkAAJiUt?format=jpg&name=large

Walking past this shithole earlier I was thinking I'm quite happy to drink tinnies and be anywhere but there.

truly a place you turn to when you have no heroin

"Your Local" Heroin dealer!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53063047

this exhibits so many levels of fuckedness for the uk in 2020 it seems like a good exemplar

lack Horse

We’re opposing stuff now? Great https://t.co/GB7UXoPGVM

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) July 5, 2020

lol welcome to the resistance DomCum

So glad she didn’t stand again

“Could you attend a Labour Party meeting with the Daily Mail under your arm?”

Times Radio's Gloria De Piero challenges Lisa Nandy, Labour MP for Wigan, to answer the charge that the party does not understand ‘ordinary working people’.@GloriaDePiero | @tnewtondunn | @lisanandy pic.twitter.com/K0GtkU3Q3u

— Times Radio (@timesradio) July 5, 2020

Nandy not Towns and legit concerns for some people, lol what a party of garbage.

Wrong person to take your complaint to Gloria

maybe Lisa understands that the terms in which she gave her answers are gross simplifications that might be ok for a pub argument but are completely asinine in terms of economics or the mechanics of governance. or maybe that's the actual level that she and many other "senior" MPs think at. I couldn't possibly say.

I was on my phone and didn't click on the vid because I now enough about both parties and the shit they talk. But I'm guessing De Piero will have adopted the Times Radio house style now and be even fucking worse than she was before

I prefer alessandro, if I'm honest

https://twitter.com/havinganormalo1/status/1279773522202636288?s=20

It's been deleted...basically bad ppl begging for Sunak to save the arts.

If you vote Tory but wish the NHS a happy birthday later by clapping make sure you shit in your hands first.

— Hannah O'Hanrahahanrahan (@buntyhoven) July 5, 2020

all these arseholes that don't care a jot about zero hours/UC/foodbank fuckery suddenly care a lot about workers in the theatreland. I mean I think they should subsidise and help them survive, but some of these fuckers are very selective with their sympathy aren't they?