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  1. LaidBack
    Member

    @iwrats - your Zimbabwean trillion dollar note made me smile.

    This has unintended consequences - expect wealth / money (whatever that is) will be hidden away off shore or converted into something else. Bitcoin is a fad - yes?

      3) Pass legislation putting a freeze on the required repayment of all bank loans, mortgages, leases, credit card obligations and similar liabilities. At the same time guarantee funding to banks to ensure their survival, but on the condition that they are nationalised immediately without compensation: every single bank is now, in any case, effectively insolvent;

    I have a mortgage due to come off covered by someone working at ski centre. If I think I might not get paid by one then not paying the other becomes attractive. Lots of people in a chain of payments will be thinking similar scenarios.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  2. chdot
    Admin

    Also from link on previous page

    “

    8) How to remake communities.

    And I mean, these are needed now: we cannot wait because nothing is ever going to be the same again. The equivalent of the thinking that created the post-war consensus is now required to create the post coronavirus consensus: I mean it when I say that not only will nothing ever be the same again, but nor should it be.

    “

    https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2020/03/18/a-plan-to-let-the-country-survive-the-economic-crisis/

    Posted 4 years ago #

  3. PS
    Member

    I had the sudden thought that no one will get a professional haircut for a year. The whole country's going to wind up shaggy or home-scalped.

    I'm just at the end of the 3 month duration of my current haircut. Suspect it's going to get a lot longer before it gets any shorter...

    Posted 4 years ago #

  4. gembo
    Member

    also the longer the hair the higher the risk?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  5. Baldcyclist
    Member

    We panic bought a haircut for the boy on Monday.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  6. gembo
    Member

    nice, I panic bought ear irrigation and micro-suction Monday (house of Hearing)

    Posted 4 years ago #

  7. AKen
    Member

    Edinburgh folk still stubbornly refusing to panic-buy couscous.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  8. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Zimbabwean trillion dollar note

    I remember something like this in my Guinness Book of Records, from (I think) 1991, when it reported inflation in Cambodia reaching such a level that great wads of paper banknotes were effectively worthless. The KR had previously abolished money completely, between 1975 and 1980.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  9. wingpig
    Member

    Anyone interested in science fiction about post-apocalyptical societal ideas might find Kim Stanley Robinson's Pacific Edge trilogy interesting, or the Three Colours Mars trilogy for similar things in slightly less achievable circumstances, or The Years of Rice and Salt for something predicated on the aftermath of a plague.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  10. minus six
    Member

    i had Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth (1964) on last night

    When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.

    quite atmospheric

    Posted 4 years ago #

  11. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    https://www.bicycleassociation.org.uk/news-press/covid-19-and-the-uk-cycle-industry-ba-position-statement/

    Posted 4 years ago #

  12. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/18/london-coronavirus-lockdown-tougher-measures

    Posted 4 years ago #

  13. unhurt
    Member

    Considering an emergency Friday AM haircut, but also feel it's socially irresponsible. Hair cutter is a one-man band, so at least there's only ever two people in the shop. But it's hard to cut hair from 2m away.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  14. Ed1
    Member

    Juniper green Iceland closed early today. I went there at 18:06 and it was closed. There is a sign up saying it has temporary change its hours to close at 6pm. Not one slice of bread in Curie co-op.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  15. LaidBack
    Member

    Jason Leitch has spent last two weeks telling people across the country why schools are better staying open, but forced to change due to rising cases.

    From Representing Borders Twitter which seems to have more info than STV oddly.

    https://twitter.com/ITVBorderRB/status/1240338111516872705?s=19

    Professor @jasonleitch explains why Scottish schools are to close: 'we're going to see a rapid #coronavirus upturn'.

    Scotland's National Clinical Director says 'these decisions are enormously complex' https://t.co/QXSokQUtuQ

    So now a complete close down except in parts of England? where 'children of key workers will still go to school' according to PM.
    Not sure how you do that and he admitted that 'details were still to be worked out'.

    Only other EU country to keep schools open is Sweden, maybe not for long.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  16. Greenroofer
    Member

    I have just the enormo-panniers back on the Elephant Bike. It seemed like a rational response to impending doom.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  17. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @unhurt

    There will be only buzzcuts and pony tails in the new order.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  18. gembo
    Member

    @ed1 I managed to grab last two loaves at SAinsbury’s garage situated between the two shops you tried? 18.30ish. Danish style which burns when you toast it and disintegrates if you spread butter on it

    Posted 4 years ago #

  19. Frenchy
    Member

    There will be only buzzcuts and pony tails in the new order.

    Are combinations allowed?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  20. fimm
    Member

    Panic buying part N: I went to Real Foods at lunchtime. They've sold out of Vitamin C and Enchinea (however you spell it).

    Posted 4 years ago #

  21. neddie
    Member

    Mullets FTW

    Posted 4 years ago #

  22. wingpig
    Member

    "But it's hard to cut hair from 2m away."

    Sounds like a parable we were told at school about chopsticks and hell.
    Mine just gets clippered monthly. Both children are currently growing theirs out. Shouldn't be a problem if they're not mixing with their own kind much as they shouldn't need delousing as regularly as when schools are open.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  23. crowriver
    Member

    Panic buying bulletin 18/3:

    Went to my lock-up garage to retrieve my supply of nitrile gloves and baby wipes. Ostensibly for bike maintenance but I thought may come in handy for excursions outside during impending peak COVID-19.

    On way back, I popped into Tesco Express Leith Walk which seemed decently stocked. No pasta, paracetamol etc. but scored some red lentils and a double pack of "King Size" Kleenex (once upon a time these would have been "Man Size" but gender rigidity is restricted to royalty these days it would appear). They have loo roll if anyone needs some, also bread and a variety of other food and non-food items.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  24. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Are combinations allowed?

    Undercut ponytail. Haircut of champions. You're laughing now but wait for autumn.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  25. unhurt
    Member

    The world seems to have flipped over. I've seen Jeffrey Donaldson and Sammy Wilson on Twitter calling for a Universal Basic Income. The DUP. I. It. What.

    (only a "temporary" one but once the genie is out the bottle, some ideas can't be shoved back in.)

    Posted 4 years ago #

  26. wee folding bike
    Member

    Total alopecia has some benefits.

    Green screen set up. Ready to record videos for my cherubs.

    Big chunk of bicycle repairs can be done too.

    Got a book about Kraftwerk.

    Management still not happy about the trumpet plan.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  27. Try Cycle
    Member

    I've been sent emails from the CEOs of Tesco, Sainsburys, the AA and others about covid.

    That's nice that those companies think I'd find an email from their CEO reassuring.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  28. chdot
    Admin

    Are they offering you free food/services or a delivery slot of your choice?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  29. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    It explains that they are providing time slots for elderly, suggesting that home delivery should be avoided by those who can get to stores (to leave more time slots for people who can't get out) and that all customers are limited to three of any one stock item.

    Plenty time to read these things as I'm on leave. Not expecting to be needed again until our service reopens. Unpaid.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  30. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Not sure DUP support is helpful given the Renewable Heat Incentive?

    Posted 4 years ago #

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