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🐗 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 8 - room for the peeved and cantankerous too🐗

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    steveTu said:
    Maybe this should be on Covid-19...
    I am a football 'fan' - I like watching football. But who is deciding whether certain industries have to adopt the social distancing rules? You can't play football without breaking the rules. You can't fly in a plane (with normal seating arrangements) without breaking the rules. So can factories and offices then simply ignore the advice and have employees within a few feet of each other?
    I really can't see how some industries (like football..and most collective sports, air travel - bulk travel in general) can work, or even be thinking about working, unless the social distancing thing is dropped completely. And what sort of message does it give to the general public if those industries are allowed, while family members may not be 'allowed' to see each other?

    The advice is "social distancing where possible".  Maybe footballers should have to wear masks and goggles (in place of visors).  I'd love to see that.
    I was a great cartoon yesterday.  A 'mature' lady teacher in front of her class of snotty nosed kids, with another child outside with a sign saying "Miss you Granny".
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-52770695
    Devon.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited May 2020
    It would be a great game with social distancing.... Spurs have kick-off - it's Alli to Kane - and Kane is running the length of the half - and the keeper moves out of his way...and HE SCORES! 1-0 Spurs. Arsenal have kick off - it's Lowqualitycasseette to Wheresmyboomerangone and he's running the length of the half and Lloris gets out of the way...and HE SCORES!
    Repeat above...how many kick offs can you get in 90 minutes? - and what about that time wasting when you have the ball, it's 100-100 and you know if you score and waste the last few seconds...it's Kane with the last kick of the match and...the keeper moves out of the way..101-100 to Spurs.
    I dreamt that last night...
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    This is the one that got me yesterday @Hostafan1

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-52769343

    I hope these people are proud of themselves.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I'll take that result @steveTu
    Only problem is, Ar5sena1 would find a way to cheat.
    COYS.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ..and apologies for swearing in that post - I should have said Woolwich.... I'll disinfect my keyboard....

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    How could they play without spitting on the pitch? I suppose they could do it in their masks.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited May 2020
    Does that disgust you as much as it does me? You wouldn't want to fall over on a professional football pitch - or be the kit man after they've used their shirts as handkerchiefs (ieves)?) - would you?

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Only if it disgusts you a lot😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I am officially fed up with chasing stuff round the garden! Time for a cup of tea I think.

    Footballers in a communal shower - now there's an image it will be hard to shift 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
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