***CoronaBonus***

[Basil]

There's a marmite shortage. Huzzah!

OMG. Panic!
*drinks bottles of Old Speckled Hen as quickly as possible *

 No bog roll I can deal with,  but marmite? 
Wibble.

[Cudzoziemiec]

IanN otp informed a day or two ago that he was reduced to buying

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Vegemite.

But it's not all bad, it makes a decent chain lube.

[Salvatore]

There's a marmite shortage. Huzzah!

Whereas in 1918  (The Globe - Tuesday 26 November 1918)

[SteveC]

I noticed that Tesco had unbranded (or at least a brand you've never heard of) pasta on special offer today. Presumably they over panic-bought when everyone else did.

[tonycollinet]

Approaching retirement - and we've found out just how little we can spend in a month.

[tonycollinet]

Approaching retirement and I'll probably spend about 3 to 4 months of the last 6 working from home.

[tonycollinet]

Approaching retirement, and we've found we can spend 24 hours a day on our own, together, for an extended period, and we still actually like each other.

[robgul]

There's a marmite shortage. Huzzah!

OMG. Panic!
*drinks bottles of Old Speckled Hen as quickly as possible *

 No bog roll I can deal with,  but marmite? 
Wibble.

Indeed, a potentially serious issue - checking our inventory we have about 2/3 of a large jar of regular and about 7/8 of a large jar of the "extra strong original"   (although even that doesn't have the tongue-twisting characteristics of Marmite when I was young)    I shall be checking that management has added a jar to the Ocado order for next week.

Rob

[Kim]

There's a marmite shortage. Huzzah!

Have the Canal and River Trust been resurfacing towpaths again?

[Giraffe]

I usually get Meridian YE from a whole-food co-operative - better consistency and taste than Smarmite. Just bought a couple of jars of Mighty from Aldi and anticipating/dreading tasting it. Still, half the price of Marmite.

[mattc]

There's a marmite shortage. Huzzah!

Whereas in 1918  (The Globe - Tuesday 26 November 1918)

I say!

[TheLurker]

No office Xmas parties and their attendant enforced participation & "jollity" this year.

[hatler]

Oh god. Of course. How brilliant. Perhaps they could convert the saved spend into a bonus.

[Sergeant Pluck]

No office Xmas parties and their attendant enforced participation & "jollity" this year.

Please let it be so.

[ian]

Bah. I like the mothership Christmas party. We'd better had ours. Or send lots of booze around my house.

[mattc]

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katie-hopkins-account-permanently-suspended_uk_5eece139c5b6e9623c8179bf?ncid=tweetlnkukhpmg00000001&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLzZlYXVUbGVkT1Q_YW1wPTE&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAF3x_oclDBAWhJMDCzF3zP4DzB1rjSOkEk06qqQWVHG1qOlJ8dUubcxGIp1ihKilTS1jZQMFfbkpLznD_mhYtVf5ikrga0HWF5imsB9OBU7MzbRek-hZiVCRsuEu6Ag2nYCrFxdctqib9t9lNsY4sC84O4tLt_HRPOWR3_zjTqRf

(sorry for the absurd URL!)

[TheLurker]

Bah. I like the mothership Christmas party. We'd better had ours. Or send lots of booze around my house.

It's not the event that one objects to.  It's the borg-like insistence that everyone wants to go and that everyone must have fun that pisses me off and, it has to be said, I'm not that impressed by management's tendency to drop the thankless task of organising the damn thing on some poor overworked admin. bod.

[rogerzilla]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53164226

It jumped the shark many years ago.

[Canardly]

I may be wrong, but for a  short while, when there was no traffic, no aircraft noise and no associated stress or polution, a lot of people seemed to be much happier.

[Regulator]

Anyone use the Village Hotels group?  They're reopening and offering rooms from £25 a night!

[Giraffe]

At least most people are still being friendlier and more co-operative than before Covid, note: this is in villages and fields - I don't go into town.
One sign that's not good is that the level of cretin cans is getting back to sub-normality.

[Mr Larrington]

Scrutiny of the weather forecast is making me less disappointed not to be in Stornoway.

[Wowbagger]

This amused me, even though I haven't been involved in corporate bollocks for over a quarter of a century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu_bGbZiiQ

[hellymedic]

I didn't appreciate that unsolicited doorbell pushers had been absent for the last three months.

They have returned.

David is Not Pleased.

Some of these callers don't do masks or social distancing.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/new-app-launched-help-drinkers-18567494

The app was created by two Manchester-based developers and follows a controversial few months for the billion-dollar pub chain.

The company's outspoken chairman Tim Martin has faced criticism for downplaying the risks involved in visiting pubs at the start of the pandemic.