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    Nah, Perou. This is all a plot to kill off the sick and the old with the EU as the bastards who caused it.

    And also to reduce everyone else to the status of serfs and peons ready to go back down the mines.

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      Originally posted by Pérou Flaquettes View Post
      Co-op’s artisan-ish breads are excellent, particularly their half-baked olive loaves and red Leicester & pumpkin seed bâtards. But a right bastard to get sometimes, they don’t seem to sell many per shop. M&S food is great but I find their bread range really disappointing.

      Mounting evidence of people starting to stockpile medication, so my wife tells me, she is a community pharmacist and MUR specialist – Medicine Use Review –, the latter function means that she gets to talk to a lot of clients/patients and many openly tell her that.

      All sort of medicines but particularly diabetes related (eg insulin vials), as hardly any of it is manufactured in the UK, and heart medication too, also drugs that aren’t made in the UK, so most of it (anyway, even if it’s made in the UK, it often relies on components – or whatever the exact scientific terminology is – made in the EU). Some people are trying all sorts of tricks atm to obtain more from their GP than they should, or they order online.

      I can’t blame them, I’d do the same if I were them. I would certainly never trust the Tories to be competent and deliver on this one, particular in time of crisis, even if I’m confident they’ll find an agreement with the EU by December, or I should rephrase that really, I’m confident the Tories will accept anything from the EU to avoid a no-deal. I don’t know what sort of deal, I have only superficially followed the Brexit saga (doesn’t seem to have moved on a lot since June 2016), but I'm sure they'll get "something sorted" at the 11th hour, some sort of bespoke deal that don’t threaten to deplete half of the UK population within months.
      Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post
      Nah, Perou. This is all a plot to kill off the sick and the old with the EU as the bastards who caused it.

      And also to reduce everyone else to the status of serfs and peons ready to go back down the mines.
      Oh come on Patrick, they're bad but not that bad, there's far worse than M&S speciality breads out there.

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        What a difference 10 years can make. Hobbes in 2008 on the Breed, Breed now thread that Ursus linked to:

        “I don't suppose I'd mind too much having a kid. But then I wouldn't mind having a dog.
        Thing is, children would ruin my lifestyle and I can't be arsed to walk a dog“.

        And Hobbes in 2018 on the recent Things You Love To Do thread.

        "Walking with the cub holding his hand while he chats away about whatever comes into his head. He's 5 now so I don't have too much longer to do that before he decides he doesn't want to hold my hand anymore. I think the bittersweetness of that knowledge only makes the experience more potent."

        Absolutely beautiful.

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          Oh, quite. I believe it was Uncle Ethan had me a bit misty one morning - talking about his lad growing up - when my little guy was toddling about giving away free kisses. Now my little guy is my height, calls me 'dude' and fist-bumps me goodnight. Every now and then he forgets himself and hugs me, which is nice.

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            Originally posted by dogbeak View Post
            I tell you what isn't bollocks is the theories about the etymology of pumpernickel:

            https://www.etymonline.com/word/pumpernickel


            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpernickel

            So farting devil/goblin bread, then.
            Where's Frank Muir and Robert Robinson when you need them?

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              And P-P-P-P-Patrick Campbell...

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