WotEver Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 Just now, Mike the Boilerman said: Is there a difference then? You’ll get pissed quicker with the hand sanitiser - at least 60% alcohol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 2 minutes ago, WotEver said: You’ll get pissed quicker with the hand sanitiser - at least 60% alcohol Oh so THAT'S what's been causing it then!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanD Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 For those who haven't tried it, Zealots Heart from Brewdog is the best gin we've found, in a different league from most of the other posh gins which aren't worth the money ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire cat Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 Have a few beers first. It means your less picky about the gins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanD Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 Just now, Cheshire cat said: Have a few beers first. It means your less picky about the gins Or have a few gins first, it means you're less picky about the beers ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lowe Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 1 minute ago, Cheshire cat said: Have a few beers first. It means your less picky about the gins I have just followed that advice with the whisky, a few pints of cider and the whisky grade don't matter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DandV Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 It looks as if this is going to be a long haul, a lot longer then perishable items will store. It is also looks like production of food and essentials, such as toilet paper, will carry on. So the hoarders once their pantries, bathrooms and fridges are full will have to shrink their purchasing back to the level of their consumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Movin' on Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) I'm only sharing to try to gain perspective............ Is it just me/us (UK), sitting here in semi isolation this whole thing about food is really bugging me - it seems to be the biggest thing we are all worrying about/talking about and its entirely our fault - as far as we are told by everyone there isn't a shortage of anything - our market town shops are pretty much business as normal but our one big supermarket isn't!. Is it just a "newsworthy" problem inside the M25?? How/when do others think its going to come to an end - I cant see it and yet logic says each household can only store so much - we aren't eating any more or using anything differently apart from washing products...……………. Is it just "diversion" therapy because we cant face the virus stats every day? Are other countries having the same issues France Canada Australia??? Not a rant this time - a genuine question...………………….as it feels as though we wont beat/kill this virus until that's what we talk about and not the lifestyle side effects Edited March 22, 2020 by Halsey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 11 hours ago, mark99 said: Wtf is an egg? It's what you started from.⚕️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Halsey said: Is it just me/us (UK), sitting here in semi isolation this whole thing about food is really bugging me - it seems to be the biggest thing we are all worrying about/talking about and its entirely our fault - as far as we are told by everyone there isn't a shortage of anything - our market town shops are pretty much business as normal but our one big supermarket isn't!. Same here, this is bugging me too. Around here the food situation is getting worse, not better. I too thought just wait a week or two and people's cupboards and freezers will be overflowing but no, Tesco and Waitrose are getting more sparsely stocked every time I go into one. I've not been able to buy bread, flour, eggs, bog roll, tissues in any shop here now for about two weeks or three weeks and now milk and butter have disappeared too, and none of that is showing the slightest sign of changing. Tesco here has even sold out of all brands of tonic water now and I doubt people are bulk-buying that, so I suspect something else is going on we don't know about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taslim Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 47 minutes ago, Slim said: It's what you started from.⚕️ You sure it wasn't a chicken?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotEver Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 minute ago, Taslim said: You sure it wasn't a chicken?? QI settled this one. Definitely the egg came first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 Just now, WotEver said: QI settled this one. Definitely the egg came first. Surely it was the rooster.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotEver Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 Just now, Mike the Boilerman said: Surely it was the rooster.... That question was settled over a post coital cigarette. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Todd Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Slim said: It's what you started from.⚕️ Given the abbreviation in the original quote, that's only half the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix_V Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Mike the Boilerman said: Same here, this is bugging me too. Around here the food situation is getting worse, not better. I too thought just wait a week or two and people's cupboards and freezers will be overflowing but no, Tesco and Waitrose are getting more sparsely stocked every time I go into one. I've not been able to buy bread, flour, eggs, bog roll, tissues in any shop here now for about two weeks or three weeks and now milk and butter have disappeared too, and none of that is showing the slightest sign of changing. Tesco here has even sold out of all brands of tonic water now and I doubt people are bulk-buying that, so I suspect something else is going on we don't know about. From what I read yesterday its not so much people overshopping causing these issues, (though if you are told that there is a high probability of ending up on 2 week or longer lockdown why would you have only 2 days food in the house?) The problem is more that up until a few days ago 35% of food was eaten out in restaurants and presumably came via wholesalers. Now it is not so we are all trying to buy 50% more food in Sainsburys and Tesco just to stay in the same position let alone hoard. They cant cope. (FWIW we ourselves have no more than a few days food in the house we have no room for more!) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Mack Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 4 minutes ago, Phoenix_V said: The problem is more that up until a few days ago 35% of food was eaten out in restaurants and presumably came via wholesalers. And were 35% of bowel movements done away from home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix_V Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, David Mack said: And were 35% of bowel movements done away from home? When we are on the boat 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 9 minutes ago, Phoenix_V said: The problem is more that up until a few days ago 35% of food was eaten out in restaurants and presumably came via wholesalers. Now it is not so we are all trying to buy 50% more food in Sainsburys and Tesco just to stay in the same position let alone hoard. They cant cope. Ah now that seems a rational explanation, although I rather doubt the 35% figure. I doubt even 1% of my food intake happens via restaurants and takeaways - not by quantity anyway. By price, possibly. Odd that I didn't think of this as the other day I was just musing about how the business models of the two big restaurant suppliers 3663 and <can't remember the other one> are being trashed as I sat next to one of their lorries in a traffic queue.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchcrawler Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, Halsey said: I'm only sharing to try to gain perspective............ Is it just me/us (UK), sitting here in semi isolation this whole thing about food is really bugging me - it seems to be the biggest thing we are all worrying about/talking about and its entirely our fault - as far as we are told by everyone there isn't a shortage of anything - our market town shops are pretty much business as normal but our one big supermarket isn't!. Is it just a "newsworthy" problem inside the M25?? How/when do others think its going to come to an end - I cant see it and yet logic says each household can only store so much - we aren't eating any more or using anything differently apart from washing products...……………. Is it just "diversion" therapy because we cant face the virus stats every day? Are other countries having the same issues France Canada Australia??? Not a rant this time - a genuine question...………………….as it feels as though we wont beat/kill this virus until that's what we talk about and not the lifestyle side effects Australia had problems with loo rolls before we did, just read some of the comments from Tom http://narrowboat-waiouru.blogspot.com/2020/03/another-completed-and-aussie-humour.html Edited March 22, 2020 by ditchcrawler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbfiresprite Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 (edited) At least we don't have panic buying of guns like they have in the states. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/us-sales-guns-ammunition-soar-amid-coronavirus-panic-buying https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/17/watch-queues-outside-gun-shops-americans-panic-buy-firearms/ https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-gun-sales-ammo-covid19-1493391 Edited March 22, 2020 by nbfiresprite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 4 minutes ago, nbfiresprite said: At least we don't have panic buying of guns like they have in the states. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/us-sales-guns-ammunition-soar-amid-coronavirus-panic-buying https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/17/watch-queues-outside-gun-shops-americans-panic-buy-firearms/ https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-gun-sales-ammo-covid19-1493391 Down here, either the panic buying is subsiding or Waitrose have ramped up their supply chains at last. The former I'm guessing, as the Waitrose here was spookily empty at 1pm today. I was able to buy eggs, bread, kitchen roll and milk, none of which were on the shelves when I last went in, on Friday (I think it was). Still no flour of any description, or chickens, but quite a bit of expensive fresh meat and sausages was in the chiller cabinets. But the most noticeable thing was how few shoppers were in there. Lat weekend it was rammed and stripped bare! Meybe they have all finally filled their cupboards.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire cat Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 Even in a lockdown situation people have been allowed out to buy food. At some point shares in Weightwatchers will be the way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyertribe Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Mike the Boilerman said: Down here, either the panic buying is subsiding or Waitrose have ramped up their supply chains at last. The former I'm guessing, as the Waitrose here was spookily empty at 1pm today. I was able to buy eggs, bread, kitchen roll and milk, none of which were on the shelves when I last went in, on Friday (I think it was). Still no flour of any description, or chickens, but quite a bit of expensive fresh meat and sausages was in the chiller cabinets. But the most noticeable thing was how few shoppers were in there. Lat weekend it was rammed and stripped bare! Meybe they have all finally filled their cupboards.... They were all out climbing Snowdon 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchcrawler Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 Interestingly an interview with the staff at an A&E department in a London hospital said they were quieter than normal as the "time wasters" (my words) were staying away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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