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Title: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Steve on January 28, 2019, 07:44:01 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47028748 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47028748)

"Sainsbury's, Asda and McDonald's are among those warning stockpiling fresh food is impossible  . . . "

 rubschin:  how much did you pay them to say that Mr Darwin Sir?
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Miss Demeanour on January 28, 2019, 11:41:19 PM
Did they really have to get together to write a letter that states the bleeding obvious !!!

What a waste of time  noooo:
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Steve on January 29, 2019, 12:21:22 AM
Did they really have to get together to write a letter that states the bleeding obvious !!!

What a waste of time  noooo:
Well I was going for the humporous angle that finally turnip futures might have turned a profit

However apparently it wasn't obvious to all Messrs Farage, Gove, Johnson, Mogg etc to name a few

And how dumb does May have to have been to trigger Art 50 so the 2 years expired at our peak importing time?



 
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Barman on January 29, 2019, 05:32:14 AM
Did they really have to get together to write a letter that states the bleeding obvious !!!

What a waste of time  noooo:

Not a waste of time, just Project Fear part 5836... ::)
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 29, 2019, 09:15:05 AM
 Sinister:
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Miss Demeanour on January 29, 2019, 05:00:45 PM
I will stock pile eggs ....Cadbury's ones  Thumbs:

I like to do my bit  ;D
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Steve on January 29, 2019, 05:05:34 PM
I will stick pile eggs ....Cadbury's ones  Thumbs:

I like to do my bit  ;D
:thumbsup:  but what's the half life of a creme egg mountain at Miss Demeanour Towers?
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Grumpmeister on January 29, 2019, 05:18:55 PM
I will stick pile eggs ....Cadbury's ones  Thumbs:

I like to do my bit  ;D

(https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/80000/nahled/pile-of-sticks.jpg)

Does that mean you are hiding your creme egg stash underneath?  rubschin:
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Barman on January 29, 2019, 05:52:30 PM
I will stock pile eggs ....Cadbury's ones  Thumbs:

I like to do my bit  ;D

I have a stock pile of collapso economico!  :thumbsup:


...and we're not even leaving...  redface:
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Miss Demeanour on January 29, 2019, 07:01:12 PM
It's how you prioritise what you need to get you through  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Nick on January 29, 2019, 07:21:31 PM
Do  kleenex: count?  redface:

Miss I is online a lot and I need to be ready, like.
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Steve on January 29, 2019, 07:34:54 PM
Do  kleenex: count?  redface:

Miss I is online a lot and I need to be ready, like.
Best to be safe then

turn off Skype
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Nick on January 29, 2019, 07:35:47 PM
 noooo:
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Steve on January 29, 2019, 07:49:53 PM
Well as I was told elsewhere t'other day we are Europe's biggest importer of tissue paper (http://www.tissueworldmagazine.com/departments/exitissues/as-brexit-looms-uk-domestic-tissue-suppliers-see-their-chance/)
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Nick on January 29, 2019, 07:52:22 PM
 redface:
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Grumpmeister on January 29, 2019, 08:05:06 PM
Well as I was told elsewhere t'other day we are Europe's biggest importer of tissue paper (http://www.tissueworldmagazine.com/departments/exitissues/as-brexit-looms-uk-domestic-tissue-suppliers-see-their-chance/)

We could have used that in the Brexit negotiations, give us a good deal or we will ban Nick from watching the weather...  whistle:
Title: Re: A great day for Turnip Futures?
Post by: Nick on January 29, 2019, 08:09:52 PM
 redface: