A thank you to Brexiteers.

[gosub]

Does anyone actually need water, anyway?

Yes it's the wet bit in beer

 

[The39thStep]

Won’t be long before robots are driving the trucks anyway. But as a fan of food and stuff, I’d quite like there to be enough human drivers to keep supplies coming in, in the meantime.

Hopefully they’ll robotise fruit picking as well .

 

[cupid_stunt]

Hopefully they’ll robotise fruit picking as well .

 

[The39thStep]

Bout time too. Always remember hod carrying for an Aussie bricklayer who told me the unions had fought for conveyor belts in Australia.

 

[MrSki]

I doubt it is most of them but it might stop food wastage if there are not the staff to serve.

 

[krtek a houby]

Oh, come off it. Poncey mineral water is absolutely not essential in a country where drinkable tap water is a thing. And the mineral water industry depletes aquifers and contributes to the plastic problem.

Unless this becomes a problem...

UK ‘flying blind’ on levels of toxic chemicals in tap water

 

[Dogsauce]

Unless this becomes a problem...

UK ‘flying blind’ on levels of toxic chemicals in tap water

You think bottled water is cleaner and has less shit in it than tap water? Used to know someone who studied this for their thesis, and it really isn’t, especially biological stuff.

 

[bimble]

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What does this mean, no more Perrier ? Now that is a proper middle class concern. I am alarmed.

 

[andysays]

I doubt it is most of them but it might stop food wastage if there are not the staff to serve.

As mentioned already, the idea that Brexit has "caused" a shortage of lorry drivers is simplistic nonsense.

 

[Loose meat]

The Guardian adds another vital theme to its middle-class narratives - pet passports, roaming charges and, for gods sake, won't someone think of the school ski trips:

UK school skiing trips to EU could be wiped out by Brexit visa rules

Extra cost of permission for British temporary staff to work in resorts likely to be prohibitive for firms

www.theguardian.com

 

[krtek a houby]

You think bottled water is cleaner and has less shit in it than tap water? Used to know someone who studied this for their thesis, and it really isn’t, especially biological stuff.

Dunno what to believe, have heard both tap and bottle water are questionable. Used to think that UK water was ok.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Dunno what to believe, have heard both tap and bottle water are questionable. Used to think that UK water was ok.

It is fine, it’s water and potable, that’s all there is to it.

 

[krtek a houby]

It is fine, it’s water and potable, that’s all there is to it.

This stage, probably never get back to the UK, anyways

If there is a UK...

 

[Yossarian]

The Guardian adds another vital theme to its middle-class narratives - pet passports, roaming charges and, for gods sake, won't someone think of the school ski trips:

UK school skiing trips to EU could be wiped out by Brexit visa rules

Extra cost of permission for British temporary staff to work in resorts likely to be prohibitive for firms

www.theguardian.com

Zero sympathy for posh people whose children's ski trips would be canceled because of Brexit, would be a bonus if they ended up being forced to spend their money on a getaway in Britain instead.

But as that badly written Guardian story eventually mentions, and another one linked to in the text makes clearer, the ski holidays will be proceeding, except with local staff hired as instructors etc. instead of the seasonal British workers traditionally hired, including bar staff and chalet cleaners.

So the downside, apart from the children of the elite experiencing the horror of having a non-British ski instructor, is an estimated 25,000 British seasonal workers losing their winter gigs, and the upside is ... ?

 

[Loose meat]

they can drive lorries and vans instead?

Or is the idea we have the wrong kinds of shortages (drivers!), and the wrong kind of unemployed (25,000 ski instructors!), and it's all the fault of bigots and racists who just want everyone to drown in the Hitler Channel.

 

[Yossarian]

I don't know if there's a lot people in the middle of the Venn diagram of "People who spend their winters as bartenders in ski resorts" and "People who should be allowed behind the wheel of an HGV."

 

[Loose meat]

Don't worry,The Guardian will tell us shortly whether there are 100,000 vacancies for testing staff.

 

[krtek a houby]

they can drive lorries and vans instead?

Or is the idea we have the wrong kinds of shortages (drivers!), and the wrong kind of unemployed (25,000 ski instructors!), and it's all the fault of bigots and racists who just want everyone to drown in the Hitler Channel.

Who's actually saying that, apart from yourself?

 

[bimble]

The Hitler Channel. i don't think thats going to catch on you know, unless as a special interest tv channel. You seem very angry all of the time loose meat why is that?

 

[Loose meat]

The Swastika Straights?

 

[Pickman's model]

they can drive lorries and vans instead?

Or is the idea we have the wrong kinds of shortages (drivers!), and the wrong kind of unemployed (25,000 ski instructors!), and it's all the fault of bigots and racists who just want everyone to drown in the Hitler Channel.

Sadly we continue to suffer from a glut of internet bores

 

[Pickman's model]

The Swastika Straights?

Dire straights

 

[brogdale]

Who's actually saying that, apart from yourself?

I'm sure the FT will be reporting structural occupational immobility supply side constraints resulting from exogenous economic shock.

 

[Loose meat]

So totally U75: won't someone think of the ski instructors!!

 

[seeformiles]

The French call chocolate teacakes "negro heads". Which I think tells you everything you need to know about Brexit.

So did the Germans (Mohrenkopf) but they haven’t been for some time now. One Swiss company is trying to retain the name but is finding itself on the wrong side of history:

Switzerland: Ok to sell sweets called "Mohrenköpfe"?

A debate has reignited in Switzerland over the use of the name 'Mohrenköpfe', which means 'Moors' heads' in English, for popular chocolate-coated marshmallow sweets.

www.eurotopics.net

 

[brogdale]

So totally U75: won't someone think of the ski instructors!!

M8 UR PFWC

 

[mojo pixy]

As mentioned upthread (and as is quite well known more generally) there are approximately fuckloads of vacancies these days for care and support staff. And while as a nation we choose to have our elderly and disabled family members cared for in facilities rather than in our family homes, there will remain many, many vacancies for anyone with patience and empathy who needs a job.

 

[brogdale]

As mentioned upthread (and as is quite well known more generally) there are approximately fuckloads of vacancies these days for care and support staff. And while as a nation we choose to have our elders cared for in facilities rather than in our family homes, there will remain many, many vacancies for anyone with patience and empathy who needs a job.

No vacancies for investment bankers.

 

[The39thStep]

Zero sympathy for posh people whose children's ski trips would be canceled because of Brexit, would be a bonus if they ended up being forced to spend their money on a getaway in Britain instead.

But as that badly written Guardian story eventually mentions, and another one linked to in the text makes clearer, the ski holidays will be proceeding, except with local staff hired as instructors etc. instead of the seasonal British workers traditionally hired, including bar staff and chalet cleaners.

So the downside, apart from the children of the elite experiencing the horror of having a non-British ski instructor, is an estimated 25,000 British seasonal workers losing their winter gigs, and the upside is ... ?

Predictably the Guardian has run the same story three times over in the past three years

 

[Pickman's model]

Predictably the Guardian has run the same story three times over in the past three years

And people think the BBC is the only institution with an issue with repeats