Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

can't even.

Our neighbours have clubbed together to rent some mobile toilets for Blackheath after getting tired of people pissing and shitting in their gardens. Used sanitary products all over the place. It's really quite depressing to see.

The antisocial behaviour seems to be getting worse. A group of about 100 kids shot out a bunch of neighbour's windows with air rifles last week.

EDIT: Its purely anecdotal but I've noticed more moped muggers than usual. Perhaps taking advantage of the increased number of drunk people with their guards down.

I'm trying to convince myself to go, but the working from home makes it very easy to delay it :)

In gardens? Gross :(

Lots of littering and some alley dumping here (council gets it cleared bit it keeps coming back) and teenagers sometimes fight / behave badly in the local park but people dont go that far.

The local area has to deal with the litter, a socialist anarcho collective of pickers stops it getting out of hand. It's nice to see people work together (I pick litter too) but that's really awful you need to get toilets...

It did seem a bit of a weird decision to allow pubs to open for takeaways but not permit toilets to be opened.

I wonder if Elise Christie is correct that it would have been a wiser public health decision to allow indoor sports before opening pubs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/53210534

Opening pubs, even if the staff are able to enforce constraints, is going to have a huge impact on other behaviours. Closing pubs effectively created lockdown even before the other restrictions were put in place; turns out most Brits don't see the point of going out in the afternoon/evening if a pub isn't at least part of the plan.

https://twitter.com/lougloug/status/1277269875971547136

Shitting? WTF!

They live near what exactly?

If you don’t go now, you won’t have a chance to until next year! 😅

Did think that opening and encouraging something more health orientated would have been a better idea.

Especially given the number of people I've seen out during lockdown running who... well... don't look like people who ran before lockdown. It's also been lovely seeing whole families out running.

Shame that positive outcome couldn't have been harnessed for long term benefits.

I agree. How people are meant to remain mindful of social distancing while pissed is going to be interesting to observe.

I think I'll be avoiding the pubs for a while yet if I'm honest.

One of my neighbours, who sadly has a bad alcohol problem, became the first person I have touched outside of my household since lockdown began when he suddenly lunged in for a hug after falling out of a taxi last night.

That's not quite true actually, I touched him when me and @HairyChris had to help him into his flat a few weeks ago after he passed out on the floor outside.

So I took a trip to the airport this morning - to drop someone off and that was a weird experience, from what she said around the flight I can only imagine it must be quite worrying for people that have to fly at the moment.

from what she said around the flight I can only imagine it must be quite worrying for people that have to fly at the moment.

What did she say?

Lots of questions around the 'need' to travel, she was questioned 3 times, asked to fill out a lot of paperwork too.

Most of the facilities in the airport shut and once on the plane a row per person (this was AA so may not apply to all) no food either, which I found odd for a 10+ hour flight.

I can imagine this will stay for the forseeable and with whats happening over the otherwise of the pond I'm not sure I'll be able to enter for a while yet...

Week before last I had gone on a long walk to find a Collect+ place that had the new printer thing that Asos needs. About 4 miles in 25+ degrees later I realised the post office could send it, so a queue later I'm at the counter handing over the package. A guy walks to the front to collect a form from the counter, being very friendly and talking to everyone, then he made the fatal mistake of putting his hand on my back while explaining he wasn't skipping the queue. There was a decent size pool of sweat by that point lying in wait. And thus goes the first human contact apart from my gf I've had in like 3 months.

I'm enjoying these 'first human contact outside of your household' posts.

It has got me thinking actually. How often would I have touched somebody outside of my household before lockdown started? Since I kicked the cottaging habit, I reckon not very often at all.

The antisocial behaviour seems to be getting worse.

There's some weird shit going on round our way, including some old alcoholic / weird dude who tows a large PA speaker behind him blaring out reggae and 80s stuff. Impressively loud. Would be funny / cool except he does it at 11pm

I'm enjoying these 'first human contact outside of your household' posts.

Well, in that case, I had my first human contact with anyone in over three months today. My sister and youngest niece came up to the Fens for what was intended to be a socially-distant sit-in-the-garden visit. As soon as she was released from her car seat, Niece #4 ran over to me, hugged my legs and head-butted me in the knackers. And then announced that she needed the loo. So that plan didn't really go to plan at all.

Sounds grim, on top of what was already a grim experience last time I did it.

My first physical contact outside of the house was a few weeks back when a local gammon tried to push me off my bike.

Yeah I know she was nervous the whole time, which for an already nervous flyer must be shit.

Made me realise how much me and my friends hug. We sort of did that awkward look at each other and nod hello thing at the weekend.