Covid?

Brexit?

Both?

I notice it’s taken McDonald’s to run out of milkshakes for it to actually cause people to lose their shit.

I read that 14,000 EU lorry drivers left jobs in the UK since brexit, and only 600 have returned.

Covid caused loss of tests to be cancelled.

 

4 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Some Wallpapers...

Cost the earth.

Shand-Kydd for example.

My old man would gazump those less skilled by quoting he'd do a house/rooms using less rolls

If your dad had the quality stuff he could've nabbed a dozen rolls and put his feet up the rest of the summer.

It was the 80’s, was probably woodchip and anaglypta

40 minutes ago, Spider said:

Backbone of Britain.

My dad was a trucker, I used to go all over the place with him during the summer holidays.

Ive thrown bottles of piss onto more hard shoulders than I can count.

Did you ever assist him in the murder of a prostitute?

10 minutes ago, Spider said:

It was the 80’s, was probably woodchip and anaglypta

My dad's heyday was the 70/80s, he was really excellent at his job, and some days working on posh houses he'd confess to my mam he was shitting it the night before (using scandalously priced paper)...One stray cut or miscalculation and...

These folk were like that time period's equivalent of snobby cunts on Grand Designs who visit Italian marble quarries to pick out in person the worktop they're going to spemd £35k on...

Shand-Kydd 'Murals' (2.8×4m) costs for one - prices have gone up, but not vastly so...

They don't import anaglyptas, it comes from Warrington or Widnes or Wolverhampton...

Edited September 21, 20214 yr by Youri McAnespie

Just now, Sweep said:

Did you ever assist him in the murder of a prostitute?

I was the lookout.

It was all done in a very humane way. Agreements were made beforehand and all parties were happy with the outcome.

 

1 minute ago, Youri McAnespie said:

My dad's heyday was the 70/80s, he was really excellent at his job, and some days working on posh houses he'd confess to my mam he was shitting it the night before...

These folk were like that time period's equivalent of snobby cunts on Grand Designs who visit Italian marble quarries to pick out in person the worktop they're going to spemd £35k on...

Shand-Kydd 'Murals' (2.8×4m) - prices have gone up, but not vastly so...

They don't import anaglyptas, it comes from Warrington or Widnes or Wolverhampton...

Friend of a friend is a specialist decorator. Spent the pandemic travelling between millionaires residencies in Azerbaijan, Dubai and Iran just fitting wallpaper. It’s mental the prices he charges.

A cunt, of course.

8 minutes ago, Spider said:

Aye

Dont get me wrong, for all the interesting stories that crop up, they are surrounded by hour after interminable hour of staring at a motorway.

My dad said one of the biggest lifesavers ever invented - EVER - were the rumble strips they put into the paint on the hard shoulder. The amount of truckers who would nod off in the 80’s and end up ploughed into a cortina was huge. The rumble strips genuinely woke up thousands of drivers and stopped catastrophes.

stressful job though. Did for my dad as he had a heart attack whilst out and about and that was that.

 

I can see how the rumble strips saved lives. 

The job is so devalued in my opinion and that leads to lower standards. 

I've been on the road all day in a "luxury" car, Lincoln>Bradford>Bury St Edmunds>Lincoln and I am officially fucked, not going out again this week

7 minutes ago, Spider said:

Friend of a friend is a specialist decorator. Spent the pandemic travelling between millionaires residencies in Azerbaijan, Dubai and Iran just fitting wallpaper. It’s mental the prices he charges.

A cunt, of course.

My dad used to hide wads on each side of each stair under the carpet all the way up the stairs - Ken Dodd style.

My elder (but not eldest) sister (handful) used to invent 'Saturday Jobs' at; Pennywise, Poundstretcher, WhSmith etc. But in reality she'd just be thieving her 'wages' from our dad's cash stash...

According to my eldest sister (aspirins on a ruler).

 

Edited September 21, 20214 yr by Youri McAnespie

He wasn't a cunt either, he did get summoned from afar for his skills...

Grange-Over-Sands, Torquay, Crosby, Lytham St. Annes and lots of places next to posh golf courses.

Azerbaijan was a polluted cesspit in the USSR then.

He also preferred risking life and limb doing 'outsides' - using ladders and planks on jobs everyone else had demanded scaffolding.

I think he liked cocking a snook at health & safety.

I did a few jobs on my own (well he was dead anyway) after the crash, to get back on my feet I was DelBoying it a bit.

I could feel tremors coming from Astley Bridge Cemetery when I donned a fall harness and clipped it on a line.

Edited September 21, 20214 yr by Youri McAnespie

47 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

Be nice in a while if you posted something more cheerful, I know this thread ain't meant to be cheerful, but all the same.... 😁

Fuck off you, let him carry him. He makes me look like an optimist. 😉

3 hours ago, gonzo said:

Co-op near me is fucking empty. Not a piece of meat on the shelves.

Nah, I'm not having that folk buy their meat from the Co-op

When I was a lad, I lived in Highfield and the only people who went in the Co-op were pensioners and shoplifters.

I've had it from a reliable source that @gonzo is right and even the Coop on Bromley Cross has no meat.

I would never live in Bromley Cross so can't confirm this though.

Our local coop has had no fresh meat for over a week now. It was odd as they had low amounts one morning when I went in then when I popped back in at dinner as I had forgotten something all the shelves were empty, like they had swiped them to stock a bigger store maybe?

23 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

Our local coop has had no fresh meat for over a week now. It was odd as they had low amounts one morning when I went in then when I popped back in at dinner as I had forgotten something all the shelves were empty, like they had swiped them to stock a bigger store maybe?

No meat?

Better get stocked up with pasta

Mates wife works for a distribution depot , Argos , smyths, the entertainer on the forums are majorly struggling for toys and electronics. 
They reckon Christmas could be a bit bleak and buy and order early 

My daughter went to Smyths on Middlebrook last Friday, she said folk were piling trolleys up as though it was almost Christmas

Why have we bailed out an American company worth 12 billion to make them produce Co2 again?

 

12 minutes ago, athywhite1958 said:

My daughter went to Smyths on Middlebrook last Friday, she said folk were piling trolleys up as though it was almost Christmas

Hell on earth that place. Daughter bloody loves it though. 

14 minutes ago, Spider said:

Why have we bailed out an American company worth 12 billion to make them produce Co2 again?

 

V I S I O N A R I E S

14 minutes ago, Spider said:

Why have we bailed out an American company worth 12 billion to make them produce Co2 again?

 

because they had us over a barrell, and knew they could easily fuck us over 🙂 - they know that we need them more than they need us.

 

Supply and Demand innit, if I was them, I'd be doing the same and holding the Government to ransom

Sort of related....we've just had the notification at work that shipping costs are just about to increase dramatically again, we've even got a couple of official "Peak Season Air Freight Cost Increase" notifications from our forwarders.......so expect more shortages and higher prices for Christmas.

One of our shipments, weight of just under 3000kg, was due to fly out two weeks ago and we were quoted $8K, it's been delayed at the ports, and it's getting on a plane this weekend but the freight cost is now $24K.....so that's a bot of a kick in the balls that the end customer is going to have to take

 

Not that it should need saying....but this is global issue, mainly caused by the pandemic - Brexit hasn't helped, but it can't be blamed for this

43 minutes ago, Sweep said:

because they had us over a barrell, and knew they could easily fuck us over 🙂 - they know that we need them more than they need us.

 

Supply and Demand innit, if I was them, I'd be doing the same and holding the Government to ransom

They have indeed.

Not really a bail out neither, the company is solvent, just chose to stop production for a while. 

It may well be refundable once the gas starts flowing again, who knows.

Can't blame them though, got to protect themselves ultimately. 

Surprised that there aren't more producers of food grade co2 though.

2 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

They have indeed.

Not really a bail out neither, the company is solvent, just chose to stop production for a while. 

It may well be refundable once the gas starts flowing again, who knows.

Can't blame them though, got to protect themselves ultimately. 

Surprised that there aren't more producers of food grade co2 though.

I think we all know the answer to that 🙂

4 minutes ago, Sweep said:

I think we all know the answer to that 🙂

Probably, but it's a risk giving them a financial boost with no repayment as others might be looking at events and thinking "we can do that"

20 hours ago, Spider said:

No cauliflowers in aldi

But loads of meat.

The germans are trying to give us diabetes as punishment for winning all the war

 

No wetsuits, MIG welders or sets of 1000 coloured pencils either.

As an aside I can’t believe folk off here don’t buy all veg from Bolton  or bury market. Much better produce and value. And locally produced in some cases. 
 

as you were