Jacob-

In all honesty, although I was in support of the first lockdown I just do not care anymore. The virus is beyond controlling and leaving schools open throughout the autumn term has undeniably hugely affected the figures, the November lockdown was useless with schools still open. In my mind there's one of two things that should be done- either don't let schools reopen in January and go back to full lockdown... or abandon lockdown completely and accept that the virus is here now because it is evident that the tier system shite is not effective and frankly more people are dying/ suffering from unemployment and mental health/ suicide than this goddamn virus. It might be a purely emotional response but I am so so done with this shit. The ONLY reason for continued lockdown in any way is to reduce the strain on the NHS, if it cannot be evidenced that it is doing that it should be reviewed. We can't stay like this forever and expecting the vaccine to magically fix everything is naive- I'm sure it will help immensely but it won't eradicate the virus, so maybe we should aim to ease back into some semblance of normality. Of course if we were to lift lockdown we'd have to maintain sanitisation practice, masks, distancing etc but businesses are dying, people are suffering economically and emotionally. These half measures do nothing but make people angrier- there are people living across county borders who could literally walk from tier 4 into tier 2 as it stands with the arbitrary way this has been implemented. If we see any measurable effect on the figures from the tier 4 implementation I will be extremely surprised. It's laughable how badly this has been handled. I know people have said it's an impossible task and I agree it is not a position to be envied but it doesn't take away from the fact that many governments HAVE handled this much better and this government has u turned, made last minute decisions and effectively winged it through the entirety of this calender year, they're a shambles and because of them the UK is the laughing stock of the world.

Ahhh ofc.

Where am I on that grid? :angry: Nah I was 12th. Anyway I'm happy- first time my 18 has won in ages iirc. :heart:

What a great winner. :wub: And the deduction didn't affect me too badly, just going to pretend I still got 12th like I should have though, thanks for all the love everyone. x

Absolutely.

Exactly this, it's absolutely fine for me to spend weeks on end in close proximity with hundreds of different people at work because schools are absolutely fine to keep open (because of childcare essentially) even to the point where there are several confirmed cases going through school but I can't see my family over Christmas because they announce this bullshit a day before I'm about to drive home? Despite the fact I've tested negative this week. Nah f*** off.

I've got votes in now, I've just come to the end of a fairly intense term and it was on my mind to vote until yesterday, I just went straight to sleep after end of term drinks with a couple colleagues. :cry: Just hoping I don't get a deduction. In any case, botes are there now! Thanks so much for extension Cody.

Monday (hopefully) works for me! Would love to get to a plug session again. :wub:

Nah if that's DNQing you don't deserve me in BJSC. x

No idea. Don't take my word as gospel but I just didn't know what else to do. :lol: But I'm sure given the circumstance slightly late votes *should* be accepted with a new deadline?

Inbox full. Going to send it to a BJSC mod and hope for the best.

Entered a gorgeous track for you all. x

Was a fun sesh, thanks to everyone who joined! Including meekul - you were hilarious even outside of the vc. ^_^

Sunday is great for me!

+12 Q +10 \ Jadakissnia \ STACEY - DMT +08 Q +07 Q +06 Q +05 Q +04 Q +03 \ Séyetana \ Yuko Tomita - Auto Bān +02 Q +01 Q

Okay great, see you all in half an hour :o

Would definitely love to do this if people are available, we should set a time like we do for plug sessions though to make this happen! How does 2pm tomorrow (well, sort of today- Sunday) sound? If any other time is better for maximising numbers can try another time ofc. ^_^

Okay votes are in.

Honestly it would've been no worse than Pale Waves being approved back when they were but hey.

Wait I want an appeal and overturning too. :lol:

Sorry I'll get a reconfirmation in soon! My power cut last night so I just went to sleep but I've got something, will fill in the form in a second.

REEEEEEE my first veto, 40 something contests in. Oops well 118 was a while ago, I checked the wiki and thought ah it's a different song and only a feature (that's the one that has no veto points see x), I barely pay attention to any form of charts these days (not even BJ ones soz :( ), I can't even remember the last time I listened to Radio 1 (or radio generally), haven't been on the forum much for a while aaaand I'm bad with keeping up with blogs. I just heard my friend play in literally 2 days ago and thought it was a massive tune. A real shame cause I was hyped for this one, though I was vaguely aware that she'd picked up some buzz, just thought I could get away with it. :lol: No idea what to replace it with, I'll have a look this evening.

Confirmed!

Attenborough-core. :lol: Thanks for the points Bré, Rollo, Jade, Ducky and everyone else! Oop at Wooden Spoon though, thought I was doing okay until the latter part of the reveal. Was happy to qualify tbf but thought I'd get 30s or low 20s hmmmmmm. Lots of good songs too low but a few great ones higher up too. Congrats Bhangra!!

Here is Apple Music playlist!