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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you call the police in America, they send everyone to the afterlife instead.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't that a bar in Night City? Sounds like a great time!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Be sure to ask Claire for a Jackie Welles.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Most years, my in-laws come here from Idaho. We have a small apartment and end up with 11 people here for a week. It's a ton of expense, and my bonus usually goes to paying for things for them.

This year, they decided not to come down, and my wife's parents are going to visit friends on Christmas. For the first time in our marriag3, we get a quiet Christmas alone. We're going to drink mulled spiked cider, smoke weed, and watch all our favorite Christmas movies and shows.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That sounds like a dope ass Christmas! Enjoy!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

That sounds like a dope ass Christmas! Enjoy!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Merry Christmas!

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, I don't remember anything remotely like that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

It happened in the nanny states like Australia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We had that here in quebec, it happened to our neighbors, not sure who snitched on them, they even went through the trouble of not parking at the same place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago

Quite, we had many measures like that during covid. Not allowed to go on walks after 8pm unless you have a dog? Well guess what, everyone bought a dog, resulting in a surge of abandonned dogs when covid ended.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just slap your knees, stand up, and say "Welp!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Nationally recognised signal

"Welp" can also be replaced by "Well, I suppose..."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What country is he referencing? because no I do not remember that at all

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

At least in Germany during Christmas 2020 you were only allowed to have private parties with a maximum of 5 people, from a maximum of 2 households.

This was however not enforced unless some asshole snitched on your family

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Given the England flag in their name I'm guessing the UK.

I don't think we had any social distancing restrictions during any Christmas but some did come into effect shortly after, I don't think people were allowed to visit. I remember us having a new year's party with our neighbours in the back garden, technically them not allowed to go into our house and having to stay 2 metres from them. Must have been December 2020.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There was a scandal that Boris Johnson held a Christmas party, when he told everyone else to not meet up. Wikipedia tells me, you guys had social restrictions during Christmas in 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partygate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

We did but you could have a certain number of people over on Christmas. It then got much stricter just after Christmas.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean you could just ask them to leave politely, firmly, and repeatedly, and if they don't, have the police arrest them for trespassing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just did that for Thanksgiving, would like to try a different approach for Christmas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Just tell them about your favorite Linux distro and they soon be gone.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I actually don't remember that. Where was this?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

We had this regulation in Europe but it wasn't enforced unless you made a huge party. It was more an easy way out for people uncomfortable meeting others because of COVID without having to argue about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

That's because it didn't happen unless you had a 600 family member reunion or block party in Florida.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It never happened, this is just historical revisionism. Doubly so because the police will remove people from your house whenever you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

It was probably a strongly suggested guideline instead of an actual ban.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago

It happened in Colombia too! Only gatherings of four people, no cars on the streets etc

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

No, that didn't happen, I lived in the most COVID paranoid area of California, and I hadn't heard one paranoid take about any police being used to break up any parties

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Wow, it's almost as if other places exist and had different responses to covid.

A quick google would reveal that police were used to enforce lock down measures in places such as UK and AUS.

Victoria Police alone gave out 39,985 covid lock down violation orders in the 2.5 years we had lockdown orders in place.

The Engagement party fined we all remember. Idiots.

General lockdown law breaking

Including such crimes as, playing video games with 3 people in a lounge room, and having 9 people over for dinner.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

> Drunk Brits

> Coppers having to deal with them

Just another day in the glorious empire

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It absolutely definitely happened in the UK. Not on Christmas day but not long after.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Mostly you’d show up on your neighborhood’s Facebook group.