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Social Distances
Jun. 25th, 2020 06:20 pmSlightly out of date now that they're changing the minimum distance to 1 metre but that change is probably not going to change much, because *no-one* was obeying the 2 metre rule anyway.
Partly because British pavements are not made for it. Very few near me are more than 1 m wide. Back at the height of lockdown, there were few enough car that I could just walk in the road instead, which I don't mind doing, because unlike most people, where I spent part of my childhood they didn't have paved roads so I know the trick of walking into traffic. Now, it's a bit trickier.
I'm wearing one of my bandanas as a mask. I'm using the rainbow one because I am fully aware that if I wear the red one or the camo one, my look goes a bit Che Guevara. And I can't find the green one! It's somewhere in the flat.
Every time I see people at "there's no way that's 2 m" distance, I can't help but think of a terribly vulgar joke that one of my old fencing coaches used to tell, that the distance of fencers was so terrible because of what they'd previously been told 6 inches was. (Yes, I have tidied that one up somewhat.) Apparently everyone in Britain is confused about what 6 inches is.
I do have an unfair advantage. I spend at least 2 hours a week, sometimes 4 and occasionally 10, at 2 m distance away from the en garde line so I have a feel for what 2 metres is, but still. Some of the shop-drawn lines really aren't!
Partly because British pavements are not made for it. Very few near me are more than 1 m wide. Back at the height of lockdown, there were few enough car that I could just walk in the road instead, which I don't mind doing, because unlike most people, where I spent part of my childhood they didn't have paved roads so I know the trick of walking into traffic. Now, it's a bit trickier.
I'm wearing one of my bandanas as a mask. I'm using the rainbow one because I am fully aware that if I wear the red one or the camo one, my look goes a bit Che Guevara. And I can't find the green one! It's somewhere in the flat.
Every time I see people at "there's no way that's 2 m" distance, I can't help but think of a terribly vulgar joke that one of my old fencing coaches used to tell, that the distance of fencers was so terrible because of what they'd previously been told 6 inches was. (Yes, I have tidied that one up somewhat.) Apparently everyone in Britain is confused about what 6 inches is.
I do have an unfair advantage. I spend at least 2 hours a week, sometimes 4 and occasionally 10, at 2 m distance away from the en garde line so I have a feel for what 2 metres is, but still. Some of the shop-drawn lines really aren't!
