Coronavirus

[Karl_b]

There's absolutely no way I will ever work full-time in an office again. This is going to be  bit of a brain-dump but quite apart from this whole scenario, the last 12 months have been difficult for me mentally and physically and it's made me really start thinking about what I want from the second half of my life. 

 

It feels like society is on a precipice - Covid, UBI, technology, health, poverty, equality, BLM and so many other complex areas of humanity feel either broken or about to break. I think about it and it overwhelms me, so I need a way to cope!

 

I just mentioned it in response to Neko's off-grid Canadian dream but I have a 10 year plan that I want to enact but the Covid situation may have brought it forward. I want to work less and spend more time in my garden growing crops and raising chickens, this has proven I can afford to. I want to spend more time at home with the wife and dog, in a combination of work and not. I may even want children! I can see a good short term scenario where I drop to a 4 day week and work 2 days from home. The flexibility and extra time that would give me would make such a huge difference to my wellbeing that it alone may be enough.

 

But then the 10 year plan takes it further. I want to use my skills and contacts as an architect to build a small, zero carbon co-op living development for us, our elderly parents, siblings + families and maybe 2/3 others. It's utopian, it might happen, I may already have the land lined up.

 

I genuinely feel like writing a 'manifesto'. Not for others but myself. Not eloquent or intended to stoke revolution but something to guide my life by. Ultimately it comes down to:

 

- Work less

- See family more

- Get a second dog

- Garden, grow food, enjoy the produce

- Don't buy shit I don't need

- Live a zero carbon life

[JohnnyH]

Im going to masturbate less. 

[Anubis]

11 minutes ago, Karl_b said:

There's absolutely no way I will ever work full-time in an office again. This is going to be  bit of a brain-dump but quite apart from this whole scenario, the last 12 months have been difficult for me mentally and physically and it's made me really start thinking about what I want from the second half of my life. 

 

It feels like society is on a precipice - Covid, UBI, technology, health, poverty, equality, BLM and so many other complex areas of humanity feel either broken or about to break. I think about it and it overwhelms me, so I need a way to cope!

 

I just mentioned it in response to Neko's off-grid Canadian dream but I have a 10 year plan that I want to enact but the Covid situation may have brought it forward. I want to work less and spend more time in my garden growing crops and raising chickens, this has proven I can afford to. I want to spend more time at home with the wife and dog, in a combination of work and not. I may even want children! I can see a good short term scenario where I drop to a 4 day week and work 2 days from home. The flexibility and extra time that would give me would make such a huge difference to my wellbeing that it alone may be enough.

 

But then the 10 year plan takes it further. I want to use my skills and contacts as an architect to build a small, zero carbon co-op living development for us, our elderly parents, siblings + families and maybe 2/3 others. It's utopian, it might happen, I may already have the land lined up.

 

I genuinely feel like writing a 'manifesto'. Not for others but myself. Not eloquent or intended to stoke revolution but something to guide my life by. Ultimately it comes down to:

 

- Work less

- See family more

- Get a second dog

- Garden, grow food, enjoy the produce

- Don't buy shit I don't need

- Live a zero carbon life

You see what you've started, Neko.

[Bruce Spanner]

Hancock is such a snake, on R4 now, all of a sudden wants to be out and about speaking now that they fluked a potential cure.

 

'No, what we said was it (the world beating track and trace system) would be in place on the first of June and that we would build on it's successes over the summer months and it was' 'But it didn't work did it?' 'It was in place and we build on how much impact it will have'. So it wasn't in place and it's a work in progreess that might be finished over the summer then?

 

What a pathetic cretin.

 

No, it's not ready, it's not world beating, it's not even that effective, but it might be, at some point, if you just believe! He also had the gaul to do a comparision with other countries 'We have one of the biggest systems in the world' Happen you do, Matt, now all the other countries have dialed theirs down because they were fucking successful at implementing it. Twisting truths to their literal breaking point.

 

They are doubling down on own the narrative now with constant affirmations of 'excellent', 'outstanding response' 'better then other countries' etc. It's sounds like some schlep who has just started their first day at a call centre 'use these key words and the customers will believe you...'

 

We're being govened by people who would wilt under the pressure of any acceptance of their own shortcomings and people are dying becuase of their fucking sixth form, bully boy, egoist, pathetic, blinkered incompetance.

[Karl_b]

15 minutes ago, Anubis said:

You see what you've started, Neko.

 

[No2]

13 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Who needs an education anyway.

Why would educate people when stupid people are the main source of your vote? 

[Spy Bee]

Our 9 year old is going back to school for 4 days between now and September. So I'm confident he'll catch up on all the work he has missed.

[Mudface]

36 minutes ago, JohnnyH said:

Im going to masturbate less. 

Some people just have to take things too far.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

I usually work from home 3 days a fortnight, but working full from home has actually opened my eyes a little bit. No 2 hour round trip to work is insanely good. I'm going to apply for some fully remote jobs and see what comes of them. When we go back to the office, I'm working from home 2 days a week until I find a remote job.

 

I'm a software developer, and my absolute DREAM is to be good enough at it that I can confidently take up freelance work and spend some time being a nomad developer. Travelling around the world with just my laptop and some clothes, getting up early, working 6 hours then spending the afternoons meandering through various cities.

[skend04]

We aren't going back until at least the end of September and in the time at home I've done all my projects and got a tender out in a week, to get £1m worth of buildings on a site where the school burnt down 2 weeks ago. 

 

Apart from the socialising aspect, there's no reason why a lot of jobs can't be done from home. Once you're disciplined enough it's not too bad this working from home lark.

[JohnnyH]

29 minutes ago, Mudface said:

Some people just have to take things too far.

Fine. I’ll masturbate the normal amount. 

[Section_31]

3 hours ago, Anubis said:

Answers on a postcard. This from a cunt who’s spent the entire lockdown baiting people from an extended jolly in Florida. Hateful little twat.

 

 

 

He's got no class at all Sugar. Someone described him once as a poor person's idea of what a rich person is. 

 

He was on Twitter a while back asking if anyone knew any Rolex dealers as he needed a new Rolex. And I just thought that summed him up. He wouldn't be wearing a Patek or a Bell or an IWC, it'd be a big fat fucking gold Rolex. 

 

He wouldn't drive a Merc, or a Beamer or a Lexus, he'd be driven around in 'a Rolls'. 

 

He's the type to drink Champagne and make other people drink Champagne even though he doesn't like it, or wine which HAS to be from Bordeaux. He's Dell Boy's poster boy for success, Emma's dad from the Royle Family. 'What do you think of the wife's tits Barbara? Eight grand a pop.' 

[Spy Bee]

India having never reported over 500 deaths in a day before yesterday reported 2006 deaths!

[Spy Bee]

And this is fucking outrageous from the government:

 

 

[Mudface]

40 minutes ago, Spy Bee said:

And this is fucking outrageous from the government:

 

 

Holy shit. What is the matter with these fucking psychopaths? They're either unbelievably incompetent, or just pure evil. Probably both, sadly.

[Barrington Womble]

57 minutes ago, Spy Bee said:

And this is fucking outrageous from the government:

 

 

This fucking government. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

They giveth with one hand and take back double with the other. Frightening to think of the shit they'll get up to post Brexit when they become the Yanks bitch. What a kick in the crutch for those student nurses. 

[Mudface]

Hopefully Starmer can pick this up next.

[Mudface]

2 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

They giveth with one hand and take back double with the other. Frightening to think of the shit they'll get up to post Brexit when they become the Yanks bitch. What a kick in the crutch for those student nurses. 

The thing that gets me is that this and the free school meals thing are piddling sums in comparison to things like furloughing, yet they mean a huge deal to the people affected and not implementing them could end up costing a lot more. It's Duncan-Smith-esque in its boneheaded stupidity and callousness.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

1 minute ago, Mudface said:

The thing that gets me is that this and the free school meals thing are piddling sums in comparison to things like furloughing, yet they mean a huge deal to the people affected and not implementing them could end up costing a lot more. It's Duncan-Smith-esque in its boneheaded stupidity and callousness.

 

Exactly, plus how much do they spunk on planning for certain projects that don't even get off the ground, are scrapped after a while or cost a load more than when they were originally costed and pushed through parliament. It's quite clear that they put vanity projects or money into big business ahead of the people they are supposed to serve and whose money they are using. 

[sh#t waffle]

This lot are the toriest bunch of tories we've ever had the misfortune to have governing us.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

10 minutes ago, sh#t waffle said:

This lot are the toriest bunch of tories we've ever had the misfortune to have governing us.

 

Thing is, are they actually real Tories in the sense of what the country have had to put up with over the decades? This current bunch, especially Johnson and his cabinet of fellow cunts are either inept or out and out scum. 

[Dr Nowt]

2 hours ago, Spy Bee said:

And this is fucking outrageous from the government:

 

 

Holy shit that is horrendous. I literally know about 30 of them in that cohort, having gone to college with a bunch of nurses and me doing psychology on a heath professions access course in 2016/2017.
 

One of them messaged recently to tell me she’d signed up to this scheme and would be finishing her degree working not studying, and an ex of mine is on it also. I’ll message now to find out if this is true and what’s happening to them.
 

Hope like fuck it’s jumping the gun, as they were already the first cohort to not get the student bursary and obviously it has since been restarted (albeit for less) as of this coming September. They won’t see a bean of it, so had already felt shafted from every direction.

[SasaS]

6 hours ago, Karl_b said:

There's absolutely no way I will ever work full-time in an office again. This is going to be  bit of a brain-dump but quite apart from this whole scenario, the last 12 months have been difficult for me mentally and physically and it's made me really start thinking about what I want from the second half of my life. 

 

It feels like society is on a precipice - Covid, UBI, technology, health, poverty, equality, BLM and so many other complex areas of humanity feel either broken or about to break. I think about it and it overwhelms me, so I need a way to cope!

 

I just mentioned it in response to Neko's off-grid Canadian dream but I have a 10 year plan that I want to enact but the Covid situation may have brought it forward. I want to work less and spend more time in my garden growing crops and raising chickens, this has proven I can afford to. I want to spend more time at home with the wife and dog, in a combination of work and not. I may even want children! I can see a good short term scenario where I drop to a 4 day week and work 2 days from home. The flexibility and extra time that would give me would make such a huge difference to my wellbeing that it alone may be enough.

 

But then the 10 year plan takes it further. I want to use my skills and contacts as an architect to build a small, zero carbon co-op living development for us, our elderly parents, siblings + families and maybe 2/3 others. It's utopian, it might happen, I may already have the land lined up.

 

I genuinely feel like writing a 'manifesto'. Not for others but myself. Not eloquent or intended to stoke revolution but something to guide my life by. Ultimately it comes down to:

 

- Work less

- See family more

- Get a second dog

- Garden, grow food, enjoy the produce

- Don't buy shit I don't need

- Live a zero carbon life

You want to live in a co-op somewhere in the sticks with your parents and your extended family? You don't need a 10 year plan for that, there are plenty of third world countries you can all probably move to tomorrow. Carbon level would be pretty low too. If you chose Mongolia, stay well away from Ulan Bator , the pollution is horrible.

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