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war topic

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Samcro · 14/02/2022 11:15

any chance of a covid style war topic for all the "are we going to war " threads please.

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Parpophone · 04/03/2022 15:38

Other British supermarkets have also stopped selling vodka that markets itself as Russian this week.

So not "Russian" vodka then - vodka that markets itself as Russian.

My House of Games comment wasn't that far off the mark then!

Sparklingbrook · 04/03/2022 15:33

New just in, I am guessing they only had a picture of an empty crisp shelf. Confused

www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/uk-retailers-john-lewis-waitrose-stop-selling-russian-products-2022-03-04/

Parpophone · 04/03/2022 15:27

Also, any of the panellists who picked the Russian Dolls as a prize on House of Games are being asked to return them immediately.

Spoiler alert: I just made that up.

Sparklingbrook · 04/03/2022 15:25

I wonder what they are going to be doing with all the bottles of vodka removed from the shelves and in the warehouse. Down the sink? Do the sad face people want them to dispose of it all?

Sparklingbrook · 04/03/2022 15:23

[quote Parpophone]@Sparklingbrook

'tis real.....

www.bbc.com/news/business-60621332[/quote]
Oh the sad faces are working then. Grin That packaging of the Chicken Kiev might be being reprinted as we speak.

Parpophone · 04/03/2022 15:21

@Sparklingbrook

'tis real.....

www.bbc.com/news/business-60621332

Parpophone · 04/03/2022 15:18

@Samcro

Noooooo, it's only vodka and caviar that come from Russia.

Some of the comments are so bizarre that I can't tell whether the poster who is going to stop buying Smirnoff is being sarcastic or not.

Sparklingbrook · 04/03/2022 15:17

Twitter is awash with sad faced people holding bottles of vodka in the supermarkets and demanding they stop selling the Russian ones immediately!! Plus whining about the spelling of Kiev on Chicken Kievs. Because this can all be achieved overnight of course. Hmm

Original poster
Samcro · 04/03/2022 13:52

add in everyone will be boycotting everything. what if her gas stove has some part from russia.......

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AdobeWanKenobi · 04/03/2022 12:45

@Samcro

I don't mind the rational ones, but ones talking about leaving london just in case are just scaremongering.
My SIL, usually a reasonably level headed and rational woman, has packed an emergency bag in the boot of her car so she can leave the area quickly when they bomb the air base she lives near to. This has absolutely come on the back of reading threads on here and the frothing in the Daily Mail. It's whipped her into a frenzy.
Parpophone · 04/03/2022 12:44

@Samcro

I have just looked at the leaving London thread.

You have to wonder what goes on in people's minds?

Have they not seen any of the news coverage?

Do they imagine that the Ukrainians are loading up their cars with newly purchased camping equipment and popping off for a nice few weeks in someone's back garden? No doubt involving plenty of marshmallows and snuggling under lovely fluffy blankets.
(Obviously after having arranged with the neighbours to pop in and water the plants/feed the fish and leaving the right money for the milkman).

It beggars belief.

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Samcro · 04/03/2022 11:03

I don't mind the rational ones, but ones talking about leaving london just in case are just scaremongering.

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BIWI · 04/03/2022 10:28

I've no idea why people seem to think these posts are going to fade away. Every time something major happens (which quite frankly is pretty much every day) it sparks off more threads.

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Samcro · 04/03/2022 10:05

it did seem to be getting better, but yet again the scaremongers are out.

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Furries · 03/03/2022 14:59

Definitely Team Nee-Naw.

Whoop-Whoop sounds a bit too cheerful 😃

merrymouse · 03/03/2022 14:16

Best to just jumble them up in one big box and spend ages sorting through the whole lot every single time that you need one.

And pop out and get some more if you can’t find the one you want.

BIWI · 03/03/2022 14:07
Grin
Parpophone · 03/03/2022 13:50

@BIWI

I think we should all get badges.
The badges could be sorted and stored in their individual colours to make it easy to find the one that you want to use.

But no! That would be "hiding them away"/"sweeping them under the carpet". Best to just jumble them up in one big box and spend ages sorting through the whole lot every single time that you need one.

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BIWI · 03/03/2022 12:23

I think we should all get badges.

Sparklingbrook · 03/03/2022 12:17

[quote Parpophone]@Sparklingbrook

We could have a fiercely contested poll to see if the car should go "nee-naw, nee-naw" or "whoop-whoop".[/quote]
Grin I'm team nee-naw.

Then the poster could be tried by Judge Rinder at the thread police station and explain themselves.

Parpophone · 03/03/2022 12:15

@Sparklingbrook

We could have a fiercely contested poll to see if the car should go "nee-naw, nee-naw" or "whoop-whoop".

Sparklingbrook · 03/03/2022 12:09

If only they could go round to the offending posters house, handcuff them and get them into the thread police car eh?

AlexaShutUp · 03/03/2022 12:05

@Sparklingbrook

It would get very messy for sure.

I don't think the expression 'thread police' is appropriate the majority of the time. You can't 'police' a thread unless you can do anything about any perceived crimes to posting. Nobody has any authority around here to do anything.

No, but that doesn't stop them from acting as if they do!
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