Off Topic SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19

How will they sell the stock, of which I'm assuming there's a huge amount, if they haven't got any stores? And will someone's job be to take off the labels and rebrand it all?

I have no idea how it works in retail.

 

I assume that's irony

 

With many countries following different procedures, yet the period of infection following the same pattern, it looks to me like the virus phases out on it's own over 7-8 weeks.

 

Who scoffed when he said that?

 

I know there is a market for surplus stock. I imagine people buy job lots and then sell it on at auction or special one-day sales, maybe market stalls. There are often legitimate ads in papers offering branded stock at knockdown prices, next Sunday at such and such a hotel or auction room for example.

Of course I could be talking bollocks, I imagine OLM would know far better than I as he's in the trade.

 

Masks are coming.

All of a sudden they work now.

 

What level of **** is that Robert Peston. Is there a scale to accommodate him...?

 

Why?

 

All the man ever does is to try and devalue the efforts of all those involved. Every question he has asked or rather point he has attempted to make has been a side swipe, he is everything that is atrocious about the press in this country who cannot find anything at all positive to say. IMO

 

What has he been saying?

 

Him and Piers 'I wont let you answer the question' Morgan are the epitomy of the snidey know it all press that blight our society. Full of their own self importance and longing to grab a headline. That Preston irritates the fk out of me just how he talks .. annoying cnut !

 

Journalists can be very annoying and are capable of talking bollocks but then so can the people they are questioning.

 

There is a growing trend to simply take stock out of the market place store it and resell next year. I have enquires about containers and racking for one company to store their liquidated stock purchases.
One of my contacts offered 5% of cost for a million pounds luxury branded retail stock.
I am currently involved in the sale of a vintage clothing brand and we have genuine enquires, but it is very hard work to get the deals together.
If you can get hold of anyone at House of Fraser to get at your stock, you will be lucky. We have real issues.

 

I agree to a certain degree but when they clearly wont let the poor buggers answer the question before interrupting them for whatever agenda they are personally trying to achieve or to score points I find that piss poor journalism myself. Many good interviewers allow their interviewee to actually answer then will question them on that.

 

His two today were, not verbatim 'how do you feel about the UK looking like having the worst case of Covid deaths in Europe' answered by the experts who pointed out every country is reporting in different ways and its population density/ age etc... and the second about the bail out of businesses and furloughing and telling/ not asking about the austerity measures that will have to be introduced... the man is a ****.

 

Lockdown lingo - are you fully conversant with the new terminology?

*Coronacoaster*
The ups and downs of your mood during the pandemic. You’re loving lockdown one minute but suddenly weepy with anxiety the next. It truly is “an emotional coronacoaster”.

*Quarantinis*
Experimental cocktails mixed from whatever random ingredients you have left in the house. The boozy equivalent of a store cupboard supper. Southern Comfort and Ribena quarantini with a glacé cherry garnish, anyone? These are sipped at “locktail hour”, ie. wine o’clock during lockdown, which seems to be creeping earlier with each passing week.

*Blue Skype thinking*
A work brainstorming session which takes place over a videoconferencing app. Such meetings might also be termed a “Zoomposium”. Naturally, they are to be avoided if at all possible.

*Le Creuset wrist*
It’s the new “avocado hand” - an aching arm after taking one’s best saucepan outside to bang during the weekly ‘Clap For Carers.’ It might be heavy but you’re keen to impress the neighbours with your high-quality kitchenware.

*Coronials*
As opposed to millennials, this refers to the future generation of babies conceived or born during coronavirus quarantine. They might also become known as “Generation C” or, more spookily, “Children of the Quarn”.

*Furlough Merlot*
Wine consumed in an attempt to relieve the frustration of not working. Also known as “bored-eaux” or “cabernet tedium”.

*Coronadose*
An overdose of bad news from consuming too much media during a time of crisis. Can result in a panicdemic.

*The elephant in the Zoom*
The glaring issue during a videoconferencing call that nobody feels able to mention. E.g. one participant has dramatically put on weight, suddenly sprouted terrible facial hair or has a worryingly messy house visible in the background.

*Quentin Quarantino*
An attention-seeker using their time in lockdown to make amateur films which they’re convinced are funnier and cleverer than they actually are.

*Covidiot* or *Wuhan-ker*
One who ignores public health advice or behaves with reckless disregard for the safety of others can be said to display “covidiocy” or be “covidiotic”. Also called a “lockclown” or even a “Wuhan-ker”.

*Goutbreak*
The sudden fear that you’ve consumed so much wine, cheese, home-made cake and Easter chocolate in lockdown that your ankles are swelling up like a medieval king’s.

*Antisocial distancing*
Using health precautions as an excuse for snubbing neighbours and generally ignoring people you find irritating.

*Coughin’ dodger*
Someone so alarmed by an innocuous splutter or throat-clear that they back away in terror.

*Mask-ara*
Extra make-up applied to "make one's eyes pop" before venturing out in public wearing a face mask.

*Covid-10*
The 10lbs in weight that we’re all gaining from comfort-eating and comfort-drinking. Also known as “fattening the curve”.

…and finally, finally: One sentence to sum up 2020, so far: At one point this week, 1 loo roll was worth more than a barrel of crude oil!

 

We're in the middle of a hurricane at the moment which may well be showing some signs of abating.

However we need to make sure that it's not just the eye that's passing overhead.


This much we do know; when people started looking around them a couple of months ago and saying "Do you not think it's getting a bit windy?" our Government simply replied "Nah."


No getting away from that.

They must, at some point, be held accountable for their initial failures.

 

Nail on head there I believe Ernest.