pozbaird Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Just now, madwullie said: Frankly I would have made up some shit excuse not to serve you as well m8 Thanks for letting me know that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderspaceman Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said: Nissan close Sunderland plant....... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/17/nissan-closes-sunderland-factory-coronavirus-ford-vw?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Brexiters will blame the eventual UK collapse on the virus. ETA they might be right... Edited March 17, 2020 by cyderspaceman 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Romeo said: Very little to do at work at the moment as my NHS department mainly deals with people with pre-existing conditions and we can see most of them as it puts them at risk. When I get back from annual leave I may be "repurposed" get your guesses in now. Mortuary technician 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 1 minute ago, pozbaird said: Thanks for letting me know that. Should have asked four fat child portions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Just now, welshbairn said: Should have asked four fat child portions. I did try. Offered to stick a few quid in the charity tin next to the till, and they could avoid the ‘no button on the till for an adult eating those sausages that will be thrown out in about 56 minutes anyway’ problem. They weren’t for having any of it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BawWatchin Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 17 minutes ago, pozbaird said: Was out today, in the Bearsden area. Nipped into Waitrose for some lunch - their cafe was closed. Carried on with my business - hadn’t managed lunch by 3 o’ clock, then found myself passing the Dobbies Garden Centre near Milngavie. Diverted in, knowing there would be something available (if their cafe was even open). Walked in, and the place was dead. Hardly anyone around. The cafe was open (hurrah!), but there was a big chalked sign saying ‘cafe will close at 4pm until further notice’, and there were maybe only four or five folk in it at all. The shelves in the cafe, normally stocked with their wares, were sparsely stocked. A ragtag collection of treacle scones and traybakes. Walked past those, walked past the sandwich counter as nothing was on display, and the big metal bowls normally full of chicken mayo’ or prawns in a marie rose sauce were empty. It was depressing - the phrase ‘this shit is getting real’ immediately sprung to mind. Suddenly, ahead of me, at the ‘hot food’ counter, under a heat lamp, was a plate with maybe twenty or so cooked link sausages. Fcukin’ result - I thought. The lassie behind the counter pipes up ‘can I help you’... Yes, can you do me a roll on link sausage please’.... ‘Sorry, they’re on the kids menu’. Me: ‘Sorry? What? The place is empty, kids are just this minute coming out of school, and you’re shutting in an hour!, any chance of just shoving a couple of those links on a roll?’.... ‘Hold on I’ll ask the manager’.... ‘Sorry, manager says no, there’s no button on the till to put it through as an adult meal’.... Me: ‘You have to be kidding, there’s hardly anything on your shelves, there’s at least twenty cooked links there, you shut in an hour, they’ll be thrown out’..... ‘Sorry, nothing I can do’. In the name of actual fcuk, the blitz spirit, that’ll get us through. Jesus fcuking Christ. They mistook you for an adult? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Just now, BawWatchin said: They mistook you for an adult? Not when I started scweaming and scweaming until I was sick. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 £330 billion is certainly a big headline number but the specifics about how these policies will help workers - not just businesses - are as clear as mud. Doesn’t help when you have a bumbling, Wodehouse parody acting as messenger in chief. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigmouth Strikes Again Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 1 hour ago, ICTChris said: My parents are in their 70s and my dad has some health problems. They are pretty sensible though and are also lucky enough to live in a big house with a big garden and to have my brother and his family nearby to help them with stuff. My dad has arthritis in his ankle so can't really go anywhere on foot which helps, if that's the right way of putting it. My wife's mother is in her mid 60s but her partner is 76 has had cancer treatment and has early stage dementia. He lives in a one room flat in the centre of Edinburgh and self-isolating will be really challanging for him. My mother-in-law's attitude is basically that he wont' do it and she seems to be quite breezy about it. It's hard to impress on her that it's actually serious and not just a load of rubbish. I think in her case she is also extremely contrary about anything her daughter says to her. I think it'll be a real struggle if we have to self-isolate and tell her not to come and visit etc. The elderly are just not getting it all, told my geriatric mother that she might have to stay in the house (she couldn't figure out how this could be enforced), then just laughed and said she'd had the Asian flu when she was small, and that she was immune/not giving a f**k. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairn Necessities Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, pozbaird said: I did try. Offered to stick a few quid in the charity tin next to the till, and they could avoid the ‘no button on the till for an adult eating those sausages that will be thrown out in about 56 minutes anyway’ problem. They weren’t for having any of it. This is basically Ricky Gervais in After Life... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 10 minutes ago, Snafu said: What are they going to do, help pack the shopping? SAS, special aisle service. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 10 minutes ago, cyderspaceman said: I tried 'google jargon buster' to no avail. Sold out, probably. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Work shut. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderspaceman Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 4 minutes ago, pozbaird said: Not when I started scweaming and scweaming until I was sick. You could have waited till the kids came in, took one quietly aside , gave them a fiver and asked if they liked sausage and if not could they...no, wait a minute, I think I've taken a wrong turning here. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moomintroll Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 I tried 'google jargon buster' to no avail.Sorry, Stock Keeping Units, basically a product you sell & Out of Stock, basically fucking everything right now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 15 minutes ago, Snafu said: What are they going to do, help pack the shopping? They'll have buckets to save up for their trip to Afghanistan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderspaceman Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Moomintroll said: 19 minutes ago, cyderspaceman said: I tried 'google jargon buster' to no avail. Sorry, Stock Keeping Units, basically a product you sell & Out of Stock, basically fucking everything right now. Ta. (sorry, Thanks) "Sorry, you cannot add any more reactions today." Edited March 17, 2020 by cyderspaceman 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderspaceman Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, coprolite said: They'll have buckets to save up for their trip to Afghanistan. Oh aye! THEYwon't have any problems jetting off to the sun for months on end. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Branson is a fucking cretin. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Paddy Vallance setting a very ambitious target for fatalities. Quite gutsy tbh. I hope it can be achieved. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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