IWLTS in 2020...

[Heebie Jeebie]

Oh Smunder. What a badly worded message, at best.

IWLTS you couldn't have designed this process more badly if a team of experts had sat down together with the goal of making it shite. To the pensions provider for an ex employer. You can't talk to them on the phone at the moment so have to request an online activation code which comes by post. This comes in a letter telling you to visit a URL which is wrong, and instructions which are also wrong, when you eventually find the correct site yourself. The activation process includes choosing a 15 character password including uppercase, lower case, a number and a special character. There were other points of failure after that but I'll not go on. I got in eventually. All this to send them a message.

[sally maclennane]

IWLTS: I'm not making up these rules just to make your life difficult. They are the actual rules and mainly to keep you safe!

I suggested to my mum that we have a walk to a shop near her to get some plants as she said she wanted to buy some. After telling her we couldn't go in the car, she has huffed and puffed the whole way here, and complained about "these ridiculous rules"

She is finding lockdown really hard and my stepdad is not very well but refusing to let her call the doctor out because he is afraid that he'll end up in hospital and won't get back out. Which I do understand but its not helping my mum :sigh:

[smalex]

No! Oh GOD. That's ludicrous

[mojojojo]

Oh, Beatrix! I hope that things change in time for you

IWLTS: “thank you, you’ve made my day ” to the anonymous colleague that called me an “OG” in my 360 review. I’ve no idea who might have said it but it made me hoot

[Cerise]

Old git? Harsh.

[smalex]

IWLTS: Are you trying to make your daughter into an instagram star? Shes 9. It's so cringe.

[Topcat]

I don't think I need to see this, but at the same time you can't leave that there, Smal.

[F'Artiste]

Oh that’s hideous Beatrix. I have a friend due to give birth very soon, and she’s really worried about how restrictive it’s going to be when she’s in labour.

IWLTS: It’s a pandemic, it’s not our bloody fault that you’re choosing to not follow the law. Stop sulking and stop blaming us.

My ILs have seen V and A2 (socially distanced in a park) once in three months and are basically throwing their toys out of the pram about having to socially distance still and are subsequently being very Kevin the Teenager whenever we try to make plans to see them in the park. In constrast they’ve been mixing households with my SIL and BIL for two months (who have also been mixing households with their friends and SIL family) and babysitting their children twice a week. They basically see us as being selfish for not letting them see V and A2 properly and are punishing us (and them by default) for it. It’s so hard, you can’t even have a civil conversation about it.

[F'Artiste]

Wow, big whinge there . That was not meant to be so long!

[Derek Nimmo]

THEY are whingeing at YOU? Spectacular! I hope your dear half is firmly in accord with you on this.

[F'Artiste]

They are, and rolling their eyes at us for wanting to social distance . He absolutely is, but his entire family essentially think the same as his parents, so he has no way of talking about it openly .

[smalex]

I don't think I need to see this, but at the same time you can't leave that there, Smal.

Her kids are budding gymnasts, the older one is very talented and was headed for big stuff but it's all gone a bit tits up, so Project 2 seems to be pimping her 9yr old out all over Instagram with her own Instagram profile and lots of hashtags and attempts to promote her wearing lots of kit and BLEUGH.

[Ismee]

F'art, we've had exactly the same issue with Mr Is's family, thinking we're being over the top for following the rules. It's infuriating!

[Lily]

That's horrible F'art. Maybe Mr F needs to stop trying to explain and just instead lays the law down: "My kids, my rules. Look forward to seeing you, socially distancing, next week." The joy of not bothering to argue, just sticking to your guns, is a new one I'm only just learning. Mind you, I don't have in laws or children or a partner so it's easier in lots of ways.

[Princess Morripov]

Old git? Harsh.

Original Gangster so basically part of the old school crew. I love that I can’t ever see that flying in our awfully stiff feedback reviews.

[Lily]

Pov, wassup gangsta?

IWLTS LOOK. LOOK AT WHAT YOU ARE POSTING, YOU STUPID COW.

This woman keeps saying the Cenotaph wasn't graffit-ed. I said it was but not very much. She shared an article from 3rd June saying it wasn't. I said yes, but here is one on 6th June saying it was. She shows me a Youtube video saying it wasn't. I say, yes, that was taken on 4th June. LOOK AT THE FUCKING DATES YOU TWAT. How hard is it?

[mojojojo]

Original Gangster so basically part of the old school crew. I love that I can’t ever see that flying in our awfully stiff feedback reviews.

The rest of the review was pretty formal I can’t picture any of the people I asked for feedback saying it, so I’m quite puzzled

[Livilla]

I didn't know what OG meant! (maybe I should take the to the fuddy-duddy thread )

To my Mum, who just told me in horrified tones that they think one of her friend's husbands has early onset-dementia: Mum, he's 82. I don't think there's anything early about that, it will just be dementia. (It is a kind of sweet demonstration that in your head you never get old, it's just your body that ages, though ).

[Ruby]

Early onset. My aunt was in her 50s when she died of dementia.

[smalex]

Oh that's very sweet but hilarious.