El Zen
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With xmas going ahead as originally planned, I’ll be spending most of tomorrow in the kitchen. Roast pork ribs, potatoes, sprouts, kraut, gravy. Then get absolutely stuffed. Who cares about the prezzies?
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Good to hear, mate! Happy holidays!
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Btw, @HanoiVillan, did you get to go to Canada?
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Genuinely sorry to hear that, buddy.
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You are overestimating my wife’s cooking.
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Swings and roundabouts.
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Speak of the devil. The boy doesn’t have the plague and xmas is saved. Rejoice!
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Still awaiting test results for Zen jr. It’s the difference between all of us being out of quarantine immedietly, and worst case where the wife has to stay in for another seven days. Which is ironic, as she’s been consistently unsymptomatic and had mutliple tests (both kinds) come back negative. F***ing exhausting, the wait.
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Ferran Torres is the right kind of signing, if they’re going to spend big money. Problem is, no way should they be able to spend any kind of money in their situation. You’d think they’d be willing to let just about anyone not named Pedri, Gavi and Fati leave for an affordable price in the Jan window.
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Literally, if given a bit more time.
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My boy, also six, has taken a firm stance against believing in both Santa, the toothfairy, and god. He plays along around xmas time, though, and has promised not to tell the other kids in school about it
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Or one Boris might use if caught offside: Step out to help out.
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If treated as one large single event, my student years were extremely formative. As life-defining as anything. But this is getting extremely off topic.
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I should try to explain what I meant, then. It seems you may be putting too much emphasis on the more than most groups I know comment. By groups here, I mean broadly defined social groups. I don’t define ‘people who have lost someone to covid’ as a social group in that context.
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Meanwhile, reports in Norway show that 60 per cent of new covid-related hospital admissions last week were unvaccinated.
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That is the big question. I’m out of isolation tomorrow, but Zen jr. is still awaiting his PCR result after the first one came back inconclusive. Still don’t know what xmas will be like.
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Well, I’m out. Call it whatever you want and merry xmas
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Fine. Agree or disagree, but don’t call it bizarre. I said students have suffered, more than most groups I know. They at least deserve our sympathy and respect, not to be mocked and belittled. That is my message. If you find that bizarre, we experience reality through different parameters.
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Because ‘most’ isn’t the same as ‘all’. What I wrote really shouldn’t be all that controversial.
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But why are these mutually exclusive? What did you actually find bizarre? All I actually said was students as a group have suffered and sacrificed. I didn’t say ‘students have suffered and f*** the old’.
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Many students have suffered a lot through this. More than most groups I know. Not from disease and starvation, but from severe loneliness, depression and from having their academic progress halted and stalled. Economic compensation might not be the answer, but as a society we’d be wise to acknowledge their sacrifice and never call them spoilt or weak for speaking out about what they’ve given up. They deserve that.
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Thanks. We’re absolutely fine. All symptoms have passed for me, and were very mild anyway, and the boy has been largely unsymptomatic, but has a touch of the sniffles. But if his test is positive, we’ll almost certainly be spending xmas eve isolating.
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Sorry to hear that. I’m out of isolation on Thursday, but half expecting Zen Jr’s test to come back positive today, which would mean we’re spending another few days to ourselves, missing xmas with the rest of the family.
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Finished Witcher s2. Really good. Too short. Want more, now.
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Sure. But ‘not WWII’ is setting the bar for normalcy and quality of life rather low. We really shouldn’t trivialise the toll living with restrictions - whether they are currently in effect, or if it’s the uncertainty of knowing they can return - has taken on us.
