2Nd Cousins Lockdown

[allenlondon]

Boris J has announced new distancing rules for family gatherings outside the home (so applying to pubs, parks, other people’s houses, etc).

Known as the Cousin Rule, it allows cousins to visit cousins, but NOT 2nd cousins. The fine for visiting 2nd cousins has not been announced. Phoning cousins is still not allowed, but texting 2nd cousins is okay, except for maternal cousins once removed, where the strict guidelines apply. This of course applies only to England. If your 2nd cousin once removed on your mother’s side was born in Scotland before 1985, you can speak by phone, but not by text.

Boris Johnson said “You know it makes sense.”

[naomi24]

Could be. :o)

[allenlondon]

The Buddha exhorts us to practice ‘metta’ (loving kindness). I don’t recall the Sutra where he asks us to suffer fools gladly.

[naomi24]

That’s why I don’t, Allen. ;o)

[allenlondon]

No, in your case you practice neither, Naomi.

[gulliver1]

13.12, ever wonder why some men never get married.

[naomi24]

Neither what Allen?

[diddlydo]

Blimey - I think Naomi has become even more radicalised than she was over e.g. Brexit.

[Peter Pedant]

// what if your 2nd cousin happens to be your wife ?//
and the queen?

the windsors go in for cousin marriage

oops note by the footman ( so long as they arent scrapping haw haw haw)

the idea of good satire ( or puerile nonsense as someone lacking any sense of humour calls it) is that it sounds like the real stuff to start off with .....

well done

(intestacy rules in scotland encompass 2' cousins but in Egland only full cousins - or cousins-german - I was completely taken in )

[Peter Pedant]

yikes
jesus there is some bad temper around tonight
Children - love one another - as Jesus said

[allenlondon]

Oh I do, I do (love one another). Except for Kissing Cousins. My ggg grandfather came from deepest Norfolk.

[10ClarionSt]

Look folks, just do what I do - take no fkn notice of any of it. Simples!