Kebabs for Jabs

Liverpool FC are giving away tickets for a pre-season game if you send a photo of your first or second vaccination. I’m sure that will get a response.

Unfortunately I had a very authoritarian mother and not doing as I was told was not an option. Therefore no one will be surprised to learn that I was anything but hedonistic. I didn’t do drugs of any kind unless you count alcohol, and I’m still very partial to the odd glass of wine. However it certainly seems to be true that some young people are shunning alcohol and drugs these days, but I don’t think it’s the majority, if the street scenes in club areas are anything to go by (pre Covid) and the ambulances lined up in such areas on a Saturday night are anything to go by. Plus we know drug abuse is rising, so I don’t think we can claim young people are paragons of virtue these days, but and I think this is very important to remember, young people have given up far, far more than those of us who are older. I know some will claim it’s for the benefit of everyone, but I’m afraid the stats don’t bear that out. Young people are at minute risk of serious illness or death from Covid, so any sacrifices they have made have been made for us.

I have children (and nieces and nephews) in their 20s and they are not as hedonistic as we used to be. They drink very little and I don't know any of them taking pills/drugs. They seem to be better educated on the risks than we were...just an observation. I remember having a chat with one of mine about what they put in ecstasy these days and it not being like it used to be and he was absolutely horrified and lets not get onto my good v bad marijuana chats

Alegrias1

I can't tell which are the wind-ups and which are serious any more.

Nor can I. Pretty grim state of affairs.

I certainly don't recommend anyone should just do as they're told!
I rarely did - and don't reccomend it as a general principle.

I rest my case

Oh dear…

In the words of Pink Floyd leave the kids alone

I can't tell which are the wind-ups and which are serious any more.

We mature citizens did our duty, spent gawd knows how long on phone booking dates. Driving miles to a strange town(no directions or parking when we got there!?) Lined up like divvies. What did we get? Sweets Jack you-know-what! If the vaccines WEREN'T ok , we could have been mutated into ...ooh I dunno....entitled millennials?!?... Lots of youngsters now are a bunch of self opinionated thickos! Those who know have willingly taken one for the team, we never even knew what a vaccine was half the time, we trusted, we had them , we survived into adulthood and beyond? in black and white days we would have been shouted at "do as your told!" .... And would have done so.....

I think it's shocking how little is thought of young people

I sometimes wonder if some “grans” were ever young

Well if I was a young person who had been in lockdown to protect the elderly and vulnerable, and then read some of the posts on here I would wonder why I had bothered.

No, really, let's stop making stuff up about young people.

Just watched our local news there and if you went for a jab today you got a ticket for a music festival in August and there they were, all queuing from 6am. I'm sure others are fuming if they went last week for theirs, that they don't feel so hard done by, that they won't bother go for their 2nd jab.

A lot of youngsters are quite happily ingesting recreational drugs, which could kill them, but won't have a perfectly safe vaccination which could save their lives. Where is the sense in that?

So maybe these bribes will incentivise some to have the first vaccination, but what about the second one? Double kebab? I did see on tv news that one state in the USA were giving out $100 supermarket vouchers. So who pays?

Oh, fanny, you’ve made me laugh ??

We all want our freedom, young, old, and inbetweens. If the vaccine is what gives us our freedom back, I’d have thought we’d all be up for it. Young people as well.

They had coffee vans and ice cream vans outside our vaccination centres for the young ones get a freebie, so a kebab is a step up. Our local news reporter asked a young fella why he got his jab and he answered so he could go to a festival. I think that's more of a draw rather than a bloomin kebab. They just want their freedom, that's it.

I'm too easily taken in

Its because I'm a trusting soul.

Lucca

songstress60

It is disgusting. If I had known there would be freebies I would have held out for the vaccine till I received a free kebab/pizza/Wetherspoons voucher or whatever was going. Aren't the young self-serving and me-first enough!! Waste of taxpayers cash.

Ah I see - clearly a spoof.

But with a grain of truth. As I mentioned elsewhere, if you're the sort of person who would be influenced by this you're very probably the sort of person who, when we all have to get boosters, will deliberately hang on until they're bribed.

songstress60 you want a free kebab don't you? what's your flavour?

I heard they were giving out slush puppies and glo sticks to the over 40s and dimming the lights in the vaccine centres

songstress60

It is disgusting. If I had known there would be freebies I would have held out for the vaccine till I received a free kebab/pizza/Wetherspoons voucher or whatever was going. Aren't the young self-serving and me-first enough!! Waste of taxpayers cash.

Ah I see - clearly a spoof.

It is disgusting. If I had known there would be freebies I would have held out for the vaccine till I received a free kebab/pizza/Wetherspoons voucher or whatever was going. Aren't the young self-serving and me-first enough!! Waste of taxpayers cash.

A woman after my own heart FannyCornforth!

DGD (19 next month) was at the head of the queue! She works part-time in a chippy and is constantly meeting customers, so has been very conscious of masks and hygiene right from the start of the pandemic, so the vax was the icing on the cake. Her 17-year-old younger brother was given it earlier as he has a record of asthma. Other two GSs, 13 and 16 will probably have it when schools start again in September.