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Post by JohnV on Mar 28, 2020 6:38:02 GMT
So there will be a lot of economic pain. That's a given. I don't understand stories like this one www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52070151A high street generic Italian style restaurant chain goes belly up and claims they should get state help?? What? Surely if your business is that bad that it will fold within a couple of weeks of an economic earthquake it would be better to just let it fold. Nobody actually needs to eat or drink at "Carluccios" Is this some sort of scam or what? I would much rather see state help going to small independent companies rather than chains. The chains are so depressing. If they could all fall over like dominoes and get replaced by independent business then I'm sure it would be a better place. No, nobody needs to eat at some faux-Italian cafe. But plenty like to. And I bet that the majority of restaurants and coffee-shops are at best a month away from bankruptcy at any given time. At the end of the day it represents 2000 fewer job-seekers. And quit with the looney-tunes conspiracy theories. No, there is no point in putting cash into an ailing company to get it through the immediate situation only to have it continue down the pan afterwards. (and it was an ailing company teetering on the brink of collapse before all this) quit with the loony tunes economics |
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 28, 2020 6:55:22 GMT
No, nobody needs to eat at some faux-Italian cafe. But plenty like to. And I bet that the majority of restaurants and coffee-shops are at best a month away from bankruptcy at any given time. At the end of the day it represents 2000 fewer job-seekers. And quit with the looney-tunes conspiracy theories. No, there is no point in putting cash into an ailing company to get it through the immediate situation only to have it continue down the pan afterwards.  |
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Post by JohnV on Mar 28, 2020 7:16:16 GMT
twat
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 28, 2020 7:27:31 GMT
With HS2 they'll be able to get the next coronavirus 10 minutes quicker to Birmingham.
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Post by ianali on Mar 28, 2020 8:11:45 GMT
Except... The pub is closed. That’s because it’s early morning, it will be open soon 😀 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2020 17:40:07 GMT
I have been amazed that our economy, and the worlds in general, has coped so well with the current disruption. Thankfully the world has pulled together, the people have pulled together and I can see light at the end of the tunnel. Keep faith all, we will (mostly) survive to boat another day. How ? The tunnel has a kink in it! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2020 17:44:04 GMT
And a landslip at one end assuming we are discussing Braunston !
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Post by Clinton Cool on Mar 28, 2020 18:18:35 GMT
I also read this afternoon that Boris would pretend to be dead just to get out of claims of his mismanagement of the whole crisis. I bet he doesn't have coronavirus at all.  I predicted on here that Johnson would be declared as having the virus the other day. Trouble is at the time I thought that this sort of thing might be controversial so I deleted it. It was the obvious strategy after Charles. Get the people to listen, fuck the economy a bit more and take the money. Fact is that the only people who will survive the real zombie apocalypse are those who have enough money to get rockets to leave earth in 2037. This is what I learned from the MI6 admin e-conference earlier on anyway. We've been chatting up the aliens for years. Trouble is that escaping the earth's (bad) atmosphere carrying enough pasta and toilet rolls is very very expen$ive. Talking billions not millions. It will only be a select few who get to go. 2037? That's quite reassuring. I'll have disposed of all my assets by then and will have had a good number of pleasant years living off the state. I'll be 74 then, I've calculated this as being the age when I'll be too decrepit to go surfing. So, it's good timing. On a more sombre note: I'm just back from doing a bit of shopping at Tesco. This has given me a glimpse of our futures living in a totalitarian state. It wasn't a pleasant experience, made me feel quasi human so in an attempt to banish it from my mind, it's 14% red wine for me this evening. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2020 18:20:54 GMT
Today was the first day where the man at the beer shop donned a full hazmat suit and interacted with me via video link.
Needless to say I bought even more beer than usual.
It's quite terrifying.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Mar 28, 2020 18:24:20 GMT
Not so much terrifying for me, but I'm not sure I want to be part of it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2020 18:32:37 GMT
Not so much terrifying for me, but I'm not sure I want to be part of it. It's quite difficult to escape it though.  Anyway, I have a proposal. Foxy for PM. At least he says what he thinks. |
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Post by Clinton Cool on Mar 28, 2020 19:19:19 GMT
Not so much terrifying for me, but I'm not sure I want to be part of it. It's quite difficult to escape it though. Anyway, I have a proposal. Foxy for PM. At least he says what he thinks. Yes. 20 years ago I could have taken my money and fucked off to a choice of dozens of different countries where I could have lived out my days in relative comfort, and had freedom. Not many left now, the average Brit isn't rich any more and too many people have beaten me to it. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2020 19:28:21 GMT
It's quite difficult to escape it though. Anyway, I have a proposal. Foxy for PM. At least he says what he thinks. Yes. 20 years ago I could have taken my money and fucked off to a choice of dozens of different countries where I could have lived out my days in relative comfort, and had freedom. Not many left now, the average Brit isn't rich any more and too many people have beaten me to it. RICCO...what is your definition of the word RICH? |
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