clojure-uk

A place for people in the UK, near the UK, visiting the UK, planning to visit the UK or just vaguely interested to randomly chat about things (often vi and emacs, occasionally clojure). More general the #ldnclj
dharrigan 2020-10-21T05:44:27.231600Z

Good Morning!

djm 2020-10-21T06:18:30.231800Z

👋

mccraigmccraig 2020-10-21T07:14:46.232200Z

mån¡

alexlynham 2020-10-21T07:23:34.232300Z

morning

2020-10-21T07:45:46.232600Z

morning

agile_geek 2020-10-21T07:49:53.232900Z

Bore da :welsh_flag:

2020-10-21T08:13:00.233400Z

There’ll be no crossing the bore da from friday tho 😞

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dominicm 2020-10-21T08:14:24.233900Z

My family are in Wales, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out

2020-10-21T08:17:01.236200Z

It sucks. In Oldham we weren’t allowed to meet anyone outside your household for the past 3 months (bar the last 2 weeks) but now going back into Tier 3 again so :man-shrugging:

dharrigan 2020-10-21T08:43:32.236500Z

I do think there is covid-fatigue starting to manifest

dharrigan 2020-10-21T08:43:52.236700Z

(or rather, has already started)

2020-10-21T09:01:16.241300Z

That’s an understatement… the pissing about with local rules and restrictions doesn’t do anyone anyone any favours either. They should’ve done a second full national lockdown ages ago, maybe for a month. Their current approach is just going to cause everyone lots of grief in the interim; and mean they’re going to need another national lockdown anyway. If you act sooner, your interventions can be much shorter.

2020-10-21T09:01:58.241800Z

As it stands GM will go into T3; then come out just in time for a national lockdown.

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:10:38.241900Z

exactly

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:10:45.242Z

absolute bunch of morons

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:11:13.242100Z

it's what happens when you have a political class that are not only completely without vision or a programme for the long term but also the short term

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:11:23.242200Z

they only know how to be reactive opportunists

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:11:47.242300Z

and so when a real crisis comes along the idea of proactively making decisions and leading is a muscle they've never flexed and never used

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:11:54.242400Z

:rage4:

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:13:22.242500Z

literally any of my pals who have done acute medicine heck any of my pals heck... pretty much anybody i know would do a better job at listening to a panel of experts and making a sensible decision than this parade of clowns

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:13:40.242600Z

i for one vote rick for pm

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mccraigmccraig 2020-10-21T09:25:20.245Z

i'm sure there's a reality tv show in there @alex.lynham - with career politicians and pundits pitted against random people in the street

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:36:53.245100Z

....in a fight to the death?

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:37:33.245200Z

chris grayling would square up, then trip over and somehow strangle himself with his own shoelaces

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:37:57.245300Z

imagine being that incompetent lol

dharrigan 2020-10-21T09:38:16.245500Z

He's my local mp

dharrigan 2020-10-21T09:38:20.245700Z

I do not like the guy

dharrigan 2020-10-21T09:38:41.246200Z

Not that I've ever met him, and I suppose it's wrong to form opinions of people whom one has never met

dharrigan 2020-10-21T09:38:48.246500Z

but he does rub me up the wrong way

dharrigan 2020-10-21T09:39:06.246800Z

Failing Grayling

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:39:19.246900Z

he reminds me of that insult that the drill sergeant uses in full metal jacket

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:39:42.247Z

"tell me son, did your parents have any children that lived?"

dharrigan 2020-10-21T09:39:51.247200Z

that's rough 😉

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:39:51.247300Z

but yeah, what an idiot

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:40:05.247400Z

you're a very patient, charitable man @dharrigan :D

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:41:30.247500Z

i spent my teens defacing signs cos i went to college in jeremy hunt's constituency, and had the misfortune of meeting him a couple of times. ironically put a question to david cameron on europe as well, in like 2009. my interaction with him ended 'cool, you'll get that over my dead body'

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:41:44.247600Z

and yet i appear to be still living even though he did get his way lol

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:43:16.247700Z

although on a lighter note i've been sessioning the short simpsons clips on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm6CzMdSu3zaGfjs9yTcUsQ

alexlynham 2020-10-21T09:43:27.247900Z

would recommend for coffee breaks :D

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Conor 2020-10-21T11:16:25.248300Z

Might want to check you're still alive @alex.lynham

Conor 2020-10-21T11:16:46.248400Z

Every week, usually after going to get groceries, I get the sense I've already died and I'm in hell

alexlynham 2020-10-21T11:33:51.248500Z

lolll

danielneal 2020-10-21T12:05:31.249200Z

that's known as the cotard delusion

joetague 2020-10-21T13:05:53.249500Z

😆