Are You Affected?

[Bobbisox1]

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-separate-households-banned-from-meeting-up-in-greater-manchester-east-lancashire-and-parts-of-west-yorkshire-12039473
Today is the start of Eid , what will it mean to those communities ? It's going to be very hard for everyone

[fiction-factory]

Crossed posts, Toorak. Thanks. Maybe i need to pay more attention

[Peter Pedant]

// FF Ramadan is a period of fasting, Eid is a celebration of the end of Ramadan.//
Eid just means festibval ( arabic ) comes in two flavours
kebir ( big ) and al fitr ( breaking fast ) and this is al fitr

too much detail ( which may after all be s=dangerous and iinappropriate - ) but it gives you some idea what they do during it

[Toorak]

Today is Eid al-Adha

[Peter Pedant]

08 15
Beeb and andy burnham
you can talk in a pub and not in a garden
Jesus I think I will go and shoot myself

anyway boys - remember they did the experiment in Bournemouth
half a million people and bright sunlight = no covid spread

so if ya gonna do it - - do it today !

[dannyk13]

PP eid al fitr was in May, The present one is Eid al Adha.

[Peter Pedant]

yes you are sbolutely correct

Eid al-Fitr 2020 began in the evening of
Saturday, 23 May

I theenk I will go into the garden and shrub some sherbet

[Peter Pedant]

thanks boys - - - anyone else ?

[Ken4155]

Giz, I thought you meant the Daneshouse area.

[allenlondon]

Sorry to be accurate (Affected will do Baz, :0)
( bit early for the spelling police , haha ))

but it’s not spelling, it’s word usage.

I would have pointed it out earlier, but I thought there was an unwritten rule here about criticising other people’s English (except in the case of Andy-Hughes).

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[THECORBYLOON]

ZACS, the councils are waiting on clarification of the areas affected.

When the lockdown was re-introduced in Leicester, legislation listed all the postcodes covered by it and it took a few days to be released.

[dannyk13]

ZM, The areas affected are Greater Manchester, Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees.

[woofgang]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53602362

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/north-west-of-england-local-restrictions-what-you-can-and-cannot-do

I suspect that they were really hoping to be able to do this after Eid but decided they couldn't let it wait.

[gulliver1]

Always thought Eid was the person on A/B who suspends Abers accounts.

[emmie]

that would be Ed or Spare Ed, when one transgresses the rules

[kat1]

Yep!!

[Gromit]

There are two Eids. This is not the main one at the end of Ramadan which is usually lively. This Eid is a lot more low key.
I believe this Government is utterly useless, but I don’t believe they have imposed new restrictions on nearly 3 million people in Greater Manchester because the 5% of the population there muslims.

Hancock says the strict new measure are being introduced because people are not social distancing in there homes. How does the Government know that? How can the Government possibly know what is happening in my house?

[gulliver1]

08.56, Oh! Thanks for correcting me.

[Bobbisox1]

Of course they haven't done it with Eid in mind Gromit, that would be ludicrous, it's unfortunate that this has happened at such a time for the Asian community, liken it to it happening to the Christian community on December 31st? although the pubs and other businesses are to remain open

[Bazile]

What was all that further Affected ,Effected comments for?

I told you that it was 'Affected' and not 'Effected '

[Peter Pedant]

// but I thought there was an unwritten rule here about criticising other people’s English//
can we extend that to arabic as well please - that excuses the er fitr/kebit/adha gaffes