'Real men don't wear masks'.......FFS

Laughing said:
Why are you insulting people st, what are you hoping to achieve?
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I’m saying it’s hysterical to say that weddings going ahead with slight restrictions on numbers if they are indoors are extreme restrictions. If yoI stop being argumentative for the sake of it and actually think about what you’d said you’d realise your over reaction
 
SmallTown said:
I’m saying it’s hysterical to say that weddings going ahead with slight restrictions on numbers if they are indoors are extreme restrictions. If yoI stop being argumentative for the sake of it and actually think about what you’d said you’d realise your over reaction
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You must have forgotten what weddings were like pre-COVID if you think the restrictions are not still extreme compared to the norm. Weddings outdoors still aren’t legal in this country for non-Jewish/Quaker people although they are changing that law to clear the inevitable backlog of weddings in the coming months.
 
Colin Warnek said:
You must have forgotten what weddings were like pre-COVID if you think the restrictions are not still extreme compared to the norm. Weddings outdoors still aren’t legal in this country for non-Jewish/Quaker people although they are changing that law to clear the inevitable backlog of weddings in the coming months.
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No I haven’t. I genuinely think that allowing weddings to go ahead in a pandemic is fine and to label restricting the numbers slightly as “extreme” simply is hysteria. I think you both need a sense of perspective and stop being such drama queens
 
Muttley said:
I don't think I know "the biscuit one"...

...waits cringing

...and then he carries blithely on. "Just asking a question" as if it was somehow clever.
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Nope I have no idea what point JM14 is making. If its a simple as you can have a wedding then that's not what I said nor what I meant and he knows that. So to ask what his point is would seem reasonable to. Clearly not to you so perhaps you could explain for me?
 
Teesste said:
Jesus wept what has happened to this board. I've been coming on here for more years than i care to remember, mainly just to read and sometimes taking part in conversations but it was always a place to lift the spirits and enjoy conversations with other Boro fans.

Of late it has become nothing more than a school playground with grown men playing games and battling over the most petty arguments, trying to get one over on each other when really they should just send each other pics of their knobs, decide who's is biggest and move on.

I'm fortunate enough not to have any issues with my mental health but I can really see how people spending time on here that do have problems would find it a fairly depressing place to be.

Come on fellas lets get this board back to the enjoyable and welcoming place to be where people don't feel as though any comment or contribution will be pounced upon and ripped apart by the pack.

Rant over.. Teesste out
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Spot on
 
Colin Warnek said:
A wedding is hopefully a once-in-a-lifetime special occasion, not an Easter fete. People with decent sized families and a number of friends can reach 50 guests without trying when you factor in the plus ones and kids.

I would certainly agree that getting married under these conditions would be an extreme relative to the norm.
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The key word in that is lifetime.

I wouldn't say it is extreme to normal, but it is certainly reduced. But, the thing is, is people having 100 EXTRA guests (above 30 or whatever it is) at their wedding, indoors, during July (only for the month or so), more important than say 100 lives lost per day? I'm not saying we will get back up to 100 per day, largely due to waiting a month after we got delta, but it's still possible, until we have more data.

I don't think it is anywhere near as important, it's not like they've been stopped forever, it's just over a year and nearly over (as much as we can ever get it). I think lives and other aspects of normality take precedence, like functioning healthcare, NHS staff under normal workloads, A&E which isn't rammed etc. Until that lot is sorted major parties can wait (and I love party).

I'd also feel it extremely poor taste to be having massive celebrations now, just wait. It's a once in a lifetime pandemic, wait a few months for your once in a lifetime moment. Or just get married with 30 people, and then have a big party in a few months time, like most will.

Birthday parties, forget it, people actually having 10 more birthdays is more important (10 years is the average age lost for a covid death).
 
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Teesste said:
Jesus wept what has happened to this board. I've been coming on here for more years than i care to remember, mainly just to read and sometimes taking part in conversations but it was always a place to lift the spirits and enjoy conversations with other Boro fans.

Of late it has become nothing more than a school playground with grown men playing games and battling over the most petty arguments, trying to get one over on each other when really they should just send each other pics of their knobs, decide who's is biggest and move on.

I'm fortunate enough not to have any issues with my mental health but I can really see how people spending time on here that do have problems would find it a fairly depressing place to be.

Come on fellas lets get this board back to the enjoyable and welcoming place to be where people don't feel as though any comment or contribution will be pounced upon and ripped apart by the pack.

Rant over.. Teesste out
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I totally understand your point, but hiding from problems is rarely the answer, but you're very welcome not to read posts about them? Just avoid any thread that mentions brexit or the pandemic and you should be mostly safe.

It's not petty arguments, that's the point, the restrictions (which most are for, and defending, for now) are saving lives, and would have saved more lives if done sooner last year, you don't get anything less petty than that.

Life can be depressing, especially in depressing times, especially when we have some of the most depressing things happening. The thing is, by facing the problem, it would have been solved or at least limited earlier, hiding from it and delaying actions is what has cost us massive amounts of death.

Highly emotive topics will lead to highly emotive defence and even attack, it's the nature of the subject, and the subjects which are the most newsworthy will always have threads posted.

I'm looking forward to this pandemic beating over/ mostly over, it's doing all our heads in, some more than others, but it doesn't mean people have to shy away from debate.

Maybe ask Rob if you can start a d*ck pic thread? ;)
 
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