[COVID-19] - Things to do when under lockdown

[Leinster Fan]

To be honest I achieved very little in either lockdown. Managed to read a lot during the first one but that fell off when socializing became an option again over the summer and I haven't managed to start up properly again bar the odd 20 pages here and there now that we're back in lockdown.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

My fundamentals are reasonably sound (he says with a lot of false confidence), I did C# in college and use php on the daily

The real reason I'm interested in mainly just for dicking around rather than using it in any sort of professional setting - automation/raspberry Pi/dumb little projects kinda stuff

 

[Yulia]

Read/listened to a lot of stoic philosophy and now the history of Rome too.

Oh..envy. The only one thing related to philosophy I did this year: I've visited Immanuel Kant's grave today. I'm currently in Russian Kaliningrad for a couple of days and decided to visit its "Königsberg places",so Kant's grave was on my list.
Why do you read it? Just for.. pleasure?

I wouldn't,
I went pretty hardcore into trying to get the basics before I went there in March, since then I've just been doing the bare minimum so the app will stop sending me notifications to do my daily practise

Well,it's difficult to learn a foreign language if you don't work in it/don't live in this foreign country tbh. I was learning a couple of languages that I completely forgot because never used them after. Although, have never learned Polish but speak it fluently now after living for 4 years in Poland and talking to my colleagues in Polish..so if you really want to learn it, it's better to move to Japan I think

 

[The Alpha Bro]

Oh..envy. The only one thing related to philosophy I did this year: I've visited Immanuel Kant's grave today. I'm currently in Russian Kaliningrad for a couple of days and decided to visit its "Königsberg places",so Kant's grave was on my list.
Why do you read it? Just for.. pleasure?

I definitely enjoy it, I wouldn't say pleasure though, I find it very helpful for my mental health, motivation etc... So there's definitely a self improvement aspect to it and I take a lot of quotes down.

 

[Yulia]

I definitely enjoy it, I wouldn't say pleasure though, I find it very helpful for my mental health, motivation etc... So there's definitely a self improvement aspect to it and I take a lot of quotes down.

Would you recommend something to read? For mental health and motivation, I mean

 

[The Alpha Bro]

Would you recommend something to read? For mental health and motivation, I mean

Ego is the enemy is a good one to get into it. Anything by Ryan Holiday is very good.

 

[The_Blindside]

Home gym anyone?

 

[The_Blindside]

Covid: Friends fined for 68-mile drive to visit McDonald's

Staffordshire Police stopped a car that had travelled from Manchester to Uttoxeter.

www.bbc.co.uk

most expensive Mcdonald's takeaway.

 

[duncanb]

Maybe a tad of positivity UK vaccine rate now above positive tests.
Yes we're been **** at most things covid wise, but we seem to be nailing vaccination.
Hard to praise here a positive for some.
Heyho.

 

[Which Tyler]

Yep, I'm full of praise for the vaccination effort.
I have the odd disagreement on strategy, but even there I understand the rationale. Generally though, it's rolling out very successfully

 

[rugbeian]

Here's something to do while you're locked down. I streamed the new Tom Hanks movie News Of The World today, and it's really good.

https://decider.com/2021/01/15/news-of-the-world-stream-it-or-skip-it/

 

[The Alpha Bro]

One night in Miami.

I liked it, not exactly a masterpiece by any means but a very interesting portrayal of Ali, Cook, Brown and Malcolm X. Will probably watch again and enjoy it a bit more after doing a bit of reading on the Nation of Islam, the film was difficult enough to understand without a reasonably comprehensive knowledge of the group.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1354142601142788096

 

[The_Blindside]

COVID-19: Students threw lockdown-busting party because they were 'bored and wanted some fun' — Sky News

Students who threw a birthday party for friends, ignoring lockdown rules, told police raiding the get-together they were "bored and wanted some fun".

apple.news

”we were bored and wanted to have fun”.
“It was only supposed to be a small gathering.”
“how can you expect a 20 year old girl to afford to pay £10,000 For this ?”

The yoof today.

 

[ncurd]

COVID-19: Students threw lockdown-busting party because they were 'bored and wanted some fun' — Sky News

Students who threw a birthday party for friends, ignoring lockdown rules, told police raiding the get-together they were "bored and wanted some fun".

apple.news

”we were bored and wanted to have fun”.
“It was only supposed to be a small gathering.”
“how can you expect a 20 year old girl to afford to pay £10,000 For this ?”

The yoof today.

Suspect the youth of yesterday would of done exactly the same thing. I always remember The Who's My Generation was written in the mid 60's

 

[The_Blindside]

Suspect the youth of yesterday would of done exactly the same thing. I always remember The Who's My Generation was written in the mid 60's

Yeh but it’s our prerogative now we are older and wiser to tut at the youth today. i am being facetious BTW.

 

[big ginger 8]

Suspect the youth of yesterday would of done exactly the same thing. I always remember The Who's My Generation was written in the mid 60's

Insert Socrates quote about the youth of today.

 

[The_Blindside]

 

[The_Blindside]

 

[Kiwiwomble]

all right, not so much something to do during lockdown...but something not to do inspired by being lockdown for so long

joined the local club preseason training a few weeks ago, during lockdown I got pretty lonely and thought it would have been good to have a few more local mates to catch up with even if at distance

last time I played for a club was uni 21 years ago and I turned 40 the other week, really did forget how much of a step up it is going from casual/social sport to proper club with 20 years olds hoping to go profressional


**** im sore

#powerhouserugby