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This week has been a disaster for my business. We've had every upcoming job cancelled for the rest of March and quite a lot in April already. I have had staff sitting about doing nothing all week and really don't know what to do now. Bloody depressing to say the least.
Going to have to make some big decisions over the weekend.

Mr & Mrs Chiswick Eagle?

Won't you recuperate that as the markets recover?

Will they recover, or is it just unravelling the shitshow we have created as humans?

Seeing Paddy McGuinness on TV

The Deliveroo ad set with the England footballers

Cringefest

They will drive. Reasonably fit people in their late fifties. I tend to agree that the risk of the trip is not materially greater, for anyone, than if they were to continue with regular life is south London

Nah, less pragmatic, and more sympathetic to poor old boracic Workshop

Well, if it takes two years to raise £10,000 for a holiday, take a £5,000 holiday instead. Otherwise, it's just putting all your eggs in one basket.

Anyway, the thing that annoys me is buying coffee where they make it extra hot, which I didn't ask for. I'm not wearing a high-vis jacket, I'm not speaking with a chippy-chappy cockney accent, and I'm not sneering some remark about bloody poncy luke-warm coffee. I expect the milk to be heated to the optimum temperature and the texture of the milk to be stretched and light. If you over-heat the milk, it turns to muddy water and it's crap, and it's certainly not worth the £2.95 I paid for it.

Please explain what this means, as I don't get it?

We are a modern couple. I let Mrs CE work.

Worksop's holiday moans now all of a sudden not looking so minor

WTF does that mean:confused:

With all that time on your hands a lovely cruise would be ideal. I imagine you’d be sat at the Captains table every night. :lux::D

For those who are interested (CE need not continue reading)...

I have woken up to an email from Celebrity Cruises this morning confirming they are cancelling all sailings for the foreseeable future, including ours. Full refund to come (or 125% credit for a future cruise)

Lol..he spends far too much time on here “correcting” people to be an employer.

Looks like, from Monday, many businesses will have to close here in Spain as we go into a 2 week "lockdown". A good friend of mine has a golf travel business and in just a week has gone from having his best year on record to staring bankruptcy in the face, the academy I work for is being forced to close for 2 weeks and my boss can't afford to pay her teachers for not teaching. The knock on in April could be disastrous for the school.

So alls well that ends well...but you are still going to be the type that goes on a cruise.

:D

It’s never interested me until now. We wanted to do something different and it was the Mrs and daughters that decided on a cruise. It did look pretty bloody good to be fair so I went with it and was looking forward to it. Not sure we will book another one any time soon though.

Portugal it is ....

All things considered, Worksop, that’s a result & I’m pleased for you. Hope you can experience a great family holiday when things are back to normal.

Thank you mate. Appreciate it

Good news.

Thanks

Excellent news. Get your cash quick. You do wonder how many cruise companies will survive.

And flights?

Thanks

Yes, already written to the travel agent and asked them to refund everything ASAP. They had already confirmed that should they cancel the cruise, everything including flights, hotels and transfers, will be refunded as they booked it as a package.

You want stretched milk for under £3...

Great news. How about staying in Nottingham instead ?

Cheers mate :p

I honestly think I’d rather be stuck on a ship in the Caribbean than Nottingham

:p

Enough of the isolation selfie videos already...

Woksop not going on his cruise is annoying me.....ffs...I was looking forward to the peace and quite.....hehe


I am joking Woksop, glad you got the money back etc

I have a choice of at least four places to get coffee from in the morning and I go to the one which makes the coffee I like best.

I suggest you do the same.

When did blokes decide that the best way to carry a bag is the straight armed approach, like a doctor arriving on call? Is it a pre/post gymnasium work out thing?

I'm still trapped in the foreign student look of putting one arm of a rucksack over my shoulder when I'm in the unfortunate situation of needing to carry a bag. I'm not going to stalk around with a stiff back & straight arms carrying a bag like I'm on my way to autopsy.

I’d paid for the WiFi mate so I’d have been posting from my sunbed (or sick bed)

:p

My friends currently are stuck on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, they arent having the best of times.

I’ve literally just read the only piece of good news I wanted to hear today.

That’s not good. We had decided we weren’t going because of that scenario. Hope they get back soon

Someone stopping moaning about their lost holiday/cash ??

Pleased for you mate. I’m sure you’ll make up for it when we get back to normality.

People that walk around supermarkets slouched against their trolley, like they are using the trolley to support their entire body weight. Grim

Maybe it is a maturity thing, ie kids have backpacks men have cases - for suits or briefs (as in papers not underwear)

The only exception is when one hikes

I often use a backpack to carry stuff to work, it so much more practical, but feel unconscionably child-like. I would never go to a client meeting with a backpack, but then I am both shallow and trapped in a wasp-etiquette that you left footers and swarthy types are happily oblivious to.

I get that last point. The rucksack does seem immature. As does turning up to meet a client in your suit and the coat that you're wearing has a hood. I always think that looks a bit rum. Maybe some of your good olde engerlish proddyism is rubbing off on me.

Cheers pal :p

People giving press conferences etc. that keep fiddling with the microphone. Pissing about and it ends up in the same place.

Junk mail for insurance companies masquerading as utility bills by using the water company's branding. Very annoying.

You sure ?

Totally illegal so certainly won’t be any kosher insurance companies doing that

Excellent news Worksop

Thank you PP

:p

Some new pet hates for my list:

a) Anyone, punters or politicians, choosing to make political capital out of the Coronavirus. FFS what is it that they don’t understand...... get some perspective

b) So called experts choosing to release videos on social media undermining the official advice.
—- put any 5 experts in a room and you will have 3 opinions.
—- The only certain fact re coronavirus is that no one knows what the right answers are and spouting in a video that your answer is better than theirs simply confuses and undermines confidence. If they really care they should/would be raising the issues directly with the appropriate authorities, not campaigning or worse still launching a career. Won’t even mention the fake ones who should be locked up.

c) the BBC news coverage. They seem to be continuing their election style and again undermining with their questions by constantly implying everything and anything is wrong in their interviews. I don’t expect them to be dumb mouthpieces but this is a very different situation and demands a more responsible and frankly grown up approach.

Like it or not, to get through this it requires us all to focus on being in it together, to look out for each other and to understand that we are dealing with unknowns and so things will evolve. Also - we have to accept that the best possible outcome here is that it’s less of a disaster. It will be a damaging, human disaster, we have to collectively mitigate the impacts of that. Not beat the s*** out of officials or each other with every bad piece of news.

Rant over.

Well, I can assure you it goes on. Very sharp practice in my view.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/ne...ipe-insurance/

Perhaps they were ill, there's a virus going round you know.

Get them all the time. Gas line insurance (You will be responsible for the cost of fixing a line in the street etc.), same with the water company.

Also get official looking letters that give the impression they are from the government or social security selling one thing or another. Usually in light brown envelopes with official looking seals on them (all eagles and Latin inscriptions).

One day I'm going to shred a tax rebate check by mistake I'm sure!

Scumbags on eBay trying to cash in on people’s fears. Just saw a listing for a 16 pack of andrex, has 2 bids and up to £200. eBay needs to start banning people.

I find if you accidentally kick the front wheel further forwards it produces some very interesting results.

People that walk around supermarkets

Dunno, if people are stupid enough to pay over the odds then that's their own choice.

I refuse to admit I don't fit in the child seat in the trolleys, my wife hates it and we get some sideways attention for sure but I fully agree with you.

I'd say that was most likely a shill bid generated by an (not very good) 'bot.

Being a peevish and irascible old chap I could list a plethora of things that really 'Raise my hackles' and get me into a lather.They include

A. Being caught at a darned 'Level Crossing' for seemingly ages.
B. Being caught in a traffic jam.
C. Getting behind a tractor or slow moving vehicle with no opportunity to overtake.
D. Motorists who don't indicate "Thanks" when one has let them pass.
E. People who do not have the manners to say "Please" and "Thank You" and generally people with no manners at all.
F. Incidents during the course of a football match either on or off the field of play.

Blah,darned blah,blah.I really could get up to "Z" in the alphabet.
My 'Good lady wife' has said that I used to be a jolly japester when I was much less ripe in years and that the passage of time has turned me into a "Moaning old git" (Her words) with a face like misery on several occasions.:wallbash:

No mate

That’s the water companies. Hence their logo

That forwards poking motion with their arm toward the set that actors do when pretending to use a TV remote control. Never seen it in real life.

That comes with a satisfying click, every time they change the channel.

Although I have to say my new tv does make ghat noise when you turn it on...

Complaining to an organisation and getting an obviously template reply which doesn't address the matter and suggests that the droid replying to me hasn't read what I wrote.

Thanks for your letter....your comments have been noted.


(Filed in bin.)

Sky sending me an email telling me my subscription has gone up by £3 a month, despite the fact there is nothing on.

**** me,you are easily annoyed! I guess my wife for a while before her health and mobility got worse would have fitted this description.Now even with the support of a trolley she couldn't walk round a supermarket,i bet you would be even more annoyed with her mobility scooter getting in your way or accidently running you over:D

You only have yourself to blame.

Peop!e who say you only have yourself to blame!

How's it my fault all the football is postponed?

Think he means subscribing to Sky in the first place!

Interesting to see people now suddenly humble bragging as to how much time and attention they are currently giving their 80 year old plus parents.

Dan Walker on the BBC news this morning, interviewing someone travelling to the airport in Tenerife asked “when you get there, what are you expecting to find”. Er, the airport.

Where there's a will.....there's a relative...

The large trolleys in Lidl Wallington.

Aisles are not wide enough for two to be parked side by side and get the smaller trolley through (that I use).

Absolutely this. On these boards, too.

Well, if your own trolley didn't itself have tons of toilet roll & pasta poking over the sides.... :p

Selco you feckin no good wankers.Supposed to deliver my ton of sand friday,no show. Will be there first thing monday(take day off)Just called em and as it's local delivery it's on the last load out,should be here by 5 the latest. Sat here with feck all to do and I'm down a days money.:veryangry:jerkit:

Haha I saw Nicholas Cage do this in an awful film I watched the other week ‘the colour of space’ and thought the same.

Watching people use spray sanitiser.

It annoys me how embarrassed I am when asking a petrol station shop assistant if they have any hand sanitizer.

I get all embarrassed as if I’m asking for condoms or a jazz mag !

Jazz mag? You disgust me ;)

You wear condoms for wanking?

People on website comments sections politicizing the current world and local health situation.

Horrible lefties the lot of them :-)

TBH whilst that is very annoying, it is not as annoying as people just posting insults. Getting bored of moving posts off that thread.

Actually it's the "righties" that annoy me.

I've posted elsewhere about our local radio station owner who is quarantined in Nebraska after being on the cruise ship in Japan.

Apparently he and his wife have been receiving numerous 4 letter word insults and worse still, death threats if they every return to our town. I'm sure it is a lot of posturing, but at the same time very scary and insane.

I suspect what will annoy me is banks and other bill providers not being at all helpful or accommodating on monthly debts. And authorities not issuing guidelines to them to be so.

Only if I run out of socks.

Smart thinking.

WTF is wrong with people? Are they really that stupid? FFS.

Erm....yeah?

What looked like perfect timing (going to be stuck in the flat for some days it seems) - the cable company have a promo: 1 week of all the Fox movie channels for free - has reminded me why I would never pay for the package.
After a promising start on Saturday with 3 movies on the trot on Fox Classics that I thoroughly enjoyed, it has been utter garbage ever since.
**** me do people actually pay for this?

I'm currently annoyed that my office isn't offering work from home yet.
Four of my mates that work in town got the email. I'll be late joining them for St Patrick's Day pints & will be late into work the following day due to a hangover. This could all be avoided.

Finally being consistent and making progress at the gym, and then corona comes along. I know BoJo hasn’t technically banned gyms yet, merely advised against them, but I’m not enough of selfish prat to continue going. Today was my last session in god knows how long.

For anyone facing the same dilemma, this is a godsend

Is that being 'Rightwing' or just being a ****? (Im sure people will say it's the same....)

What annoys me is people answering their own stupid questions.

The unprecedented number of people suddenly using the word unprecedented.

Breaking my Palace beer festival glass.

Thats unprecedented