Food, Drink & Dining Out The Perth Thread - Part 3

[Chief]

Part 4 is here:

The Perth Thread - Part 4

Did you see that article in the local paper (not The West Aus) about a forum on the 15th to discuss ways to make crossing Charles st safer/better? I personally don't and have never (even as a child) had an issue with crossing it. Don’t even get me started. Yes it’s difficult to cross and I’m...

www.bigfooty.com

 

[CakeEater]

make more sense to keep it to the same time as previous days and in fact ever since it started

can’t ever recall a 9.00am

Its because Greg Hunt has been announcing it first so this is a silent FU to the Feds

 

[estibador]

They chose to go play cricket for a tidy little sum - meanwhile, people are dropping dead all around them and there’s a shortage of oxygen, ventilators and hospital beds

Seems millionaire cricket owners have their priorities back to front

I have no idea if the millionaire cricket owners are also donating money to hospitals or not...

...but I'm firmly against any notion that professional sport shouldn't be played during these times. It came up last year on here regarding the AFL season and I saw the same suggestion on reddit yesterday regarding the IPL.

Sport means a hell of a lot to a lot of people. It's always been an escape for many and people need the escape and comforting reminder of better days more than ever during lockdowns/chaos.

People say there should be more important priorities, but there's always more important priorities and what benefit would cancelling sport provide? Are we going to conscript all the pro athletes to work on the frontlines in hospitals instead?

 

[Off The Couch]

I have no idea if the millionaire cricket owners are also donating money to hospitals or not...

...but I'm firmly against any notion that professional sport shouldn't be played during these times. It came up last year on here regarding the AFL season and I saw the same suggestion on reddit yesterday regarding the IPL.

Sport means a hell of a lot to a lot of people. It's always been an escape for many and people need the escape and comforting reminder of better days more than ever during lockdowns/chaos.

People say there should be more important priorities, but there's always more important priorities and what benefit would cancelling sport provide? Are we going to conscript all the pro athletes to work on the frontlines in hospitals instead?

I have no issue with cricket continuing in India with Indian players - what I do have an issue with, is Australian cricketers travelling to India a hotspot and then getting a priority ticket home when it’s finished - do we think they are going to do the same quarantine as others have to. I feel the same way about olympians heading to Japan - vaccinated ahead of health and frontline workers and again a trip home, when we still have thousands stuck abroad because they keep getting bumped or it’s now financially out of their reach

It just seems that our priorities are all skewed

once again I’ve taken it into politics - apologies. Need to give myself a time out

 

[Scotland]

I was OK with the IPL being played in empty stadiums in soulless Dubai last year but having it in India while the country is being ravaged by COVID is a bit much.

 

[ashley12]

Bit of classic "we will get crowds in by May" announced in January and things blowing up.

Surprised more sports haven't tried to operate out of NZ or Aus. Tennis specifically.

 

[Forward Press]

Bit of classic "we will get crowds in by May" announced in January and things blowing up.

Surprised more sports haven't tried to operate out of NZ or Aus. Tennis specifically.

In F1, they have been operating via 'bubbles' to allow the travelling circus to still happen - it means that specific teams and drivers have their own people they are in contact with as they go from race to race, so a positive test does not shut down everything. Does tennis operate like that too?

Even with the bubbles, team members and drivers still get infected because the occasional idiot holds a massive party with people outside the bubble or flies back to Mexico via private jet, but at least the event still goes on with the infected bubble removed.

 

[gaskin]

This smoke is ridiculous. It is quite thick down Cockburn way.

 

[Matele]

My girlfriend was the passenger in the Argyle crash. She’s in Royal Perth and had surgery on her spine yesterday. I cannot see her because of the lockdown and restrictions.

Her friend was the driver. They went through uni together and had gone out for a day trip. All I keep thinking about is how she said she didn’t want to go out because of COVID and the amount of Perth travellers that had fled to the South West. I wish I had told her to stay home with me.

I’ve lost a friend and nearly lost my partner. I’m a mess.

 

[JackOutback]

I have no issue with cricket continuing in India with Indian players - what I do have an issue with, is Australian cricketers travelling to India a hotspot and then getting a priority ticket home when it’s finished - do we think they are going to do the same quarantine as others have to. I feel the same way about olympians heading to Japan - vaccinated ahead of health and frontline workers and again a trip home, when we still have thousands stuck abroad because they keep getting bumped or it’s now financially out of their reach

It just seems that our priorities are all skewed

once again I’ve taken it into politics - apologies. Need to give myself a time out

It's a complicated situation. Cricket might seem frivolous to some, but it's their job, and it's a job that lasts for about 10 years if you're lucky so there is a need to cash in during that time. We allow other people to travel for work, so cricketers shouldn't be left out because for the rest of us it's a hobby, and it wasn't a 'hot spot' when they left (that, and unlike other people travelling for work, there's a lot more precautions put in place). That said, the situation is now spiralling out of control, the arguments to keep playing (that it gives locked down people entertainment, that it encourages them to stay at home) look weaker by the day as more people die.

Some Aussies have already made the decision and returned, I can't see the competition continuing if things stay as they are or get worse.

But yes, they are fortunate because unlike most Cricket Australia will likely charter a flight home.

 

[daniologist]

My girlfriend was the passenger in the Argyle crash. She’s in Royal Perth and had surgery on her spine yesterday. I cannot see her because of the lockdown and restrictions.

Her friend was the driver. They went through uni together and had gone out for a day trip. All I keep thinking about is how she said she didn’t want to go out because of COVID and the amount of Perth travellers that had fled to the South West. I wish I had told her to stay home with me.

I’ve lost a friend and nearly lost my partner. I’m a mess.

That's awful to hear AM. Hope you can see her soon.
it's ok to be a mess sometimes. Admitting that you are a mess is a big step, someone to talk to might be helpful? https://www.rtswa.org.au/

 

[BG__]

At least wearing a mask seems to help a lot with all this smoke at work

 

[Spitty_the_alpaca]

My girlfriend was the passenger in the Argyle crash. She’s in Royal Perth and had surgery on her spine yesterday. I cannot see her because of the lockdown and restrictions.

Her friend was the driver. They went through uni together and had gone out for a day trip. All I keep thinking about is how she said she didn’t want to go out because of COVID and the amount of Perth travellers that had fled to the South West. I wish I had told her to stay home with me.

I’ve lost a friend and nearly lost my partner. I’m a mess.

Oh Jesus, I'm so sorry.

 

[Fabab]

My girlfriend was the passenger in the Argyle crash. She’s in Royal Perth and had surgery on her spine yesterday. I cannot see her because of the lockdown and restrictions.

Her friend was the driver. They went through uni together and had gone out for a day trip. All I keep thinking about is how she said she didn’t want to go out because of COVID and the amount of Perth travellers that had fled to the South West. I wish I had told her to stay home with me.

I’ve lost a friend and nearly lost my partner. I’m a mess.

Sorry to hear mate,hope your girlfriend makes a full recovery.

 

[Perth gal]

I’m sorry to hear about your girlfriend. Just a thought, have you tried just going to the ward and asking to be let in on compassionate grounds.? I’m a nurse and we let someone in yesterday who’s mother is palliative.

 

[Perth gal]

I also hope she gets better soon.

 

[Kram]

I’m sorry to hear about your girlfriend. Just a thought, have you tried just going to the ward and asking to be let in on compassionate grounds.? I’m a nurse and we let someone in yesterday who’s mother is palliative.

My niece is in for an eating disorder and she was allowed 1 visitor on Saturday.

 

[Taylor]

Yes, there are rules that are "you aren't allowed to" and ones where "you can't do that".

Hospitals are busy big machines that have so many moving parts with nobody having a finger in all the pies that you can walk straight into emergency and to the family member you're there to see and nobody will say a thing as long as you look like you're supposed to be there.

This works with everything. Just go, the worst thing that can happen is you're right where you are now.

 

[Matele]

I’m sorry to hear about your girlfriend. Just a thought, have you tried just going to the ward and asking to be let in on compassionate grounds.? I’m a nurse and we let someone in yesterday who’s mother is palliative.

Yeah I have. I was told unless she was dying I wasn’t allowed to see her.

 

[Perth gal]

I would just go in anyway. Not all staff are the same. They may say yes.

 

[Forward Press]

Yes, there are rules that are "you aren't allowed to" and ones where "you can't do that".

Hospitals are busy big machines that have so many moving parts with nobody having a finger in all the pies that you can walk straight into emergency and to the family member you're there to see and nobody will say a thing as long as you look like you're supposed to be there.

This works with everything. Just go, the worst thing that can happen is you're right where you are now.

Actually, at RPH they make people that are not staff line up at all entrances and they verify your reason for being there.

Not sure if it's the case with other hospitals.

 

[Spitty_the_alpaca]

Yeah I have. I was told unless she was dying I wasn’t allowed to see her.

miserable campaigners, I'm sure right now she needs your support.

 

[craigos]

Pretty cool that covid (even when there is none) trumps all other aspects of life. Had a friend in Melbourne only allowed to facetime his Mother whilst she died.

Best wishes AxialMat , your GF will need a lot of support and counselling.

 

[Power Raid]

Yes, there are rules that are "you aren't allowed to" and ones where "you can't do that".

Hospitals are busy big machines that have so many moving parts with nobody having a finger in all the pies that you can walk straight into emergency and to the family member you're there to see and nobody will say a thing as long as you look like you're supposed to be there.

This works with everything. Just go, the worst thing that can happen is you're right where you are now.

Just dropped the wife off at Charlie's emergency. As we were greeted at the door with a bloodied wife, after splitting her head on a stone bench top, I was told no visitors.

So I couldn't even get through the doors.

 

[Taylor]

Just dropped the wife off at Charlie's emergency. As we were greeted at the door with a bloodied wife, after splitting her head on a stone bench top, I was told no visitors.

So I couldn't even get through the doors.

Was she dancing on the kitchen bench Coyote Ugly style?

 

[Power Raid]

Was she dancing on the kitchen bench Coyote Ugly style?

I wish our lives were that exciting at the moment

She bent down to adjust the high chair and coming up clipped the edge of the stone top bench. Despite being rounded off, it opened her right up and the amount of blood seemed disproportionate to the injury.

She has a lovely egg on her forehead and no doubt a black eye by days end.

I'm guessing, I'll be the DV role model for the next fortnight.