Missing Doom

[Chedney Honks]

Anyone else see the light at the end of the tunnel and want to recoil into the gloom?

I will really miss the exponential layers of fuckdown weighing down like so many damp, warm blankets.

It has been the most wonderful time.

[Fambo Number Mive]

I won't miss it at all. Although I'll be surprised if cases per day will be even under 1,000 before the beginning of 2022, so we still have a lot of this to go.

It feels like the pandemic has made it easier for the government to bring in a second round of austerity, has increased pollution and the speed of climate change (with people switching from public transport to cars) and has made it easier for the government to distract from the issues caused by Brexit. It's also led to the proposal of a working from home tax and the shoring up of support for Johnson among his base.

I can't really see anything good that's come out of the pandemic.

[Chedney Honks]

I got an Godzilla boxset.

[GMTV]

I won't miss it at all. Although I'll be surprised if cases per day will be even under 1,000 before the beginning of 2022, so we still have a lot of this to go.

It feels like the pandemic has made it easier for the government to bring in a second round of austerity, has increased pollution and the speed of climate change (with people switching from public transport to cars) and has made it easier for the government to distract from the issues caused by Brexit. It's also led to the proposal of a working from home tax and the shoring up of support for Johnson among his base.

I can't really see anything good that's come out of the pandemic.

Climate change increased by everyone staying at home, heating their houses all day, more Internet/tech, ordering stuff online to be delivered by car/vans.

[non capisco]

Anyone else see the light at the end of the tunnel and want to recoil into the gloom?

I will really miss the exponential layers of fuckdown weighing down like so many damp, warm blankets.

It has been the most wonderful time.

I'm now obsessed with the thought that I'm going to finally catch it in the next few weeks and will be in hospital wheezing my last breaths out as I look out of the window and see a load of smiling people queuing up for the vaccine. "Oh, bugger!"

[ASFTSN]

Not sure there's any shortage of gloom/doom anywhere around here...this is one of the most depressed places on the internet I know. I love it here but it honestly moves me a couple of notches up to panic attack or down to depressed as fuck sometimes...it's a flippin' gamble.

[Chedney Honks]

The trick is to go past the needle til doom and gloom make you go mmmmmm.

[ASFTSN]

Sounds a bit like deliberately re-opening a wound

[Chedney Honks]

After ten months of being battered by other people's stupidity, ignorance and selfishness, it's amazing I have anything like the trace of empathy that I do. On a humanistic level, I do really care, and I haven't stopped following my own community-first approach since weeks before the first lockdown, but I actually somewhat hope that a lot of selfish people die to teach them and other people like them a big lesson.

[ASFTSN]

I don't think that's how the selfish element in society learns lessons...and I'm not sure any outlook that hopes for anyone's death could be considered humanistic. I get where you're coming from I guess. I got accused by someone of being 'gleeful' about  the pandemic when in March I imagined there would be at least 40,000 deaths in the UK by the time this was over. It's very easy to get the wrong idea about people's outlook on this thing.

In conclusion I have no idea what point I'm trying to make.

[bgmnts]

I'm sad.

[ASFTSN]

You were sad before the pandemic too

(so was I)

[Alberon]

Well, there's decades of economic doom to look forward to.

Does that make you feel any better?

[Chedney Honks]

It's not the same thing, unfortunately.

[wooders1978]

There was a bit of unbeat vibe in my town, cases are low, the town has managed to keep a lot of its shops and restaurants open and trading

So some arsehole kids have gone around destroying people's outside Christmas decorations just to keep the mood morbid

[BlodwynPig]

Anyone else see the light at the end of the tunnel and want to recoil into the gloom?

I will really miss the exponential layers of fuckdown weighing down like so many damp, warm blankets.

It has been the most wonderful time.

Of course. Hate the wanton destruction happiness and 'normality' brings.

[BlodwynPig]

Climate change increased by everyone staying at home, heating their houses all day, more Internet/tech, ordering stuff online to be delivered by car/vans.

Can you copy the published evidence on this, please?

[BlodwynPig]

Well, there's decades of economic doom to look forward to.

Does that make you feel any better?

yes, us gloom-mongers are the ones who see the beauty in everything. Doomlords in white socks and sandals, I despise them.

[BlodwynPig]

There was a bit of unbeat vibe in my town, cases are low, the town has managed to keep a lot of its shops and restaurants open and trading

So some arsehole kids have gone around destroying people's outside Christmas decorations just to keep the mood morbid

It's the liberal end of celebration that ruins everything. Selfish, patriotic, communal self-celebratory glibness. "Bring out your broom for London...Blitz Spirit".

[bgmnts]

Of course. Hate the wanton destruction happiness and 'normality' brings.

The amount of hate I've gotten for this view is staggering.

[BlodwynPig]

The amount of hate I've gotten for this view is staggering.

Names, addresses.

[Sebastian Cobb]

https://playclassic.games/games/first-person-shooter-dos-games-online/play-doom-online/play/

[Dex Sawash]

Finally

[poo]

Coronovirs showed us the way, but unfortunately consumption and travel are gonna be off the fucking chart after we get jabbed.

[jamiefairlie]

I'm now obsessed with the thought that I'm going to finally catch it in the next few weeks and will be in hospital wheezing my last breaths out as I look out of the window and see a load of smiling people queuing up for the vaccine. "Oh, bugger!"

Yeah, like the poor saps who got shot at 10:59 on the 11th November 1918.

[Mobius]

Same, I'd just gotten used to it. Why do they have to keep mucking about with it?

[BlodwynPig]

Same, I'd just gotten used to it. Why do they have to keep mucking about with it?

So we can never truly find peace. It's intentional and malevolent.

[A Hat Like That]

Coronovirs showed us the way, but unfortunately consumption and travel are gonna be off the fucking chart after we get jabbed.

IN! for a repeat of the Swinging 20s.

[A Hat Like That]

Yeah, like the poor saps who got shot at 10:59 on the 11th November 1918.

There is a war memorial near where I live and over 50% of the deaths are after 11th 11th 1918.

In fact:

[A Hat Like That]

There's also a memorial to a VC winner who fought off a tribe of cannibalistic pygmies. But that's another story.