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[Gibbo103]

Since Alan’s feeling left out, we will be coming to Norfolk this weekend. You never know what we will import from Milton Keynes!

[rmgosling]

I wonder how sales of bidets are going 

Alternatively soap and water 

Cheers,

[Rog-from-Bix]

No toilet rolls in Sainsbury's today, so panic bought more pasta and pasta bake sauces.

Funnily enough they had loads of bread, milk and salt which are the things that usually go first.

A question I'd like to ask one of these so-called experts; "Does this virus give you the trots ?"

No but if one person in a room coughs 10 people *&%^$ themselves.

[oilstain]

A question I'd like to ask one of these so-called experts; "Does this virus give you the trots ?"

I went to our local Tesco super store this morning, at 11.30am only about 6 packs of toilet paper left,
so I bought one, thinking its best to be prepared

[Moogling]

No toilet rolls in Sainsbury's today, so panic bought more pasta and pasta bake sauces.

Funnily enough they had loads of bread, milk and salt which are the things that usually go first.

A question I'd like to ask one of these so-called experts; "Does this virus give you the trots ?"

It's bigger brothers, SARS and MERS definitely did, so the assumption COVID could is fair.

However, I don't think the general public are well enough informed to be making that decision en masse, and furthermore, COVID causing these symptoms is currently uncommon according the few sources  I've seen on the topic,  National Geographic being the clearest one of them!

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/here-is-what-coronavirus-does-to-the-body/

[Wittsend]

 

[Porkscratching]

^ indeed!
..tho I have just bought about 10 tins of bully beef, a few Spam, and a dozen big tins of beans, as a "reserve"... 

[Manxcat]

Up to now there have been no photos available of Corona virus carriers.
Now we have one;

[gatekrash]

I've got about 20 MOD ration packs stuck in the cupboard, they were BBE 2018, but I grew up well before we worried about that sort of thing.And they contain packs of tissues, which aren't for nose blowing...

In our local supermarket yesterday the pasta aisle was bare, along with the bog roll aisle. I make my own pasta anyway, and there were plenty of eggs and flour so all is still good in the world, other than the queue at the checkout.

Bizarrely nobody seems to be stockpiling tins of stuff (soup etc). Probably something to do with the youth of today. Maybe I should have looked to see if there was any organic quinoa left

On the positive side at least they've stopped playing wendyball for a month. Local rugby on the other hand continues as normal 

[andyjb]

All i will add to all this panic buying and the behaviour of some shoppers is

"theres nowt as strange as folk"

[Dire Straits]

UK Virus ALERT

The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent virus threat and have therefore raised their threat level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, the level may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.”

The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out.

The threat level in the North may and I do stress may raise sometime in the future to "put the kettle on".

[Porkscratching]

The threat level in the North may and I do stress may raise sometime in the future to "put the kettle on".

It may even be worthy of a .."by 'eck..! "

[Sunny Jim]

Panic buying

[bill2a]

How about this one

[w3526602]

Hi,

My own experience of this situation is not very interesting ... sorry!

Barbara has been getting worried about some huge "thingies" on my back (I can't even see them in a mirror). Are they "moles" running amok, and all that implies? Eventually, I agreed to go see the Quack. So, three weeks ago, she phoned to make an appointment. That's usually a same day affair, but this time, it was the aforementioned 3 weeks (Friday afternoon, day before yesterday).

The surgery phoned Friday morning, to cancel. Barbara "frowned" down the phone, offered to email a photo of the offending eruptions.
They declined. But a few minutes later, they phoned again ... told me to be there in twenty minutes.

"Seborrhoeic warts" ... of no paricular interest to anybody. Barbara feels better to know there is nothing to worry about ... and to tell the truth, so do I.

Sorry to go off-topic, but if the topic is "bog rolls" ..... 

I have not had 'flu, and not even a seriously runny nose, since I retired, er, 35 years ago. I always knew "work" was bad for me.

602 ... Two new eyes, a hernia (where I wouldn't show my mother), fractured femur (bicycle), clean-broken collar bone (horse), broken nose (deep end of empty swimming pool), and 3-weeks in hospital ( tuberculosis). I've been stitched up several time (usually dog bites, but one stabbing).  Oh yes, four front teeth (Land Rover steering wheel ... Landy v Arabian desert). Otherwise, I'm usually pretty healthy.