So Who Is Taking The Phone Off The Hook

[lankeela]

in case your boss rings tonight to tell you to get your arris back to work tomorrow?

[tonyav]

Ansells, was not the best in my area, DT. Bank's and M&B was more popular.

[Stephen_G]

Bit too late for me - I've been essential since the lockdown started. I just hope that my bosses see sense and keep to our restricted opening hours.

[DTCwordfan]

Who has not tasted of Newqee brown ale or beer
With its flavour the finest that hops ever gave?
It drives away sadness, it banishes Sunderland fear,
And imparts a glad feeling of joy to the North-Eastern grave.

Oh! to drink it at morning, or when just from Bobbie's bed
She and he rise unrefreshed, and to breakfast sit down,
The froth-crested brimmer they raised to their heads,
And in swigging off last evenings Tony's Ansell's, their sorrows they rightfully drown.

Or to drink it at tiffin, when thirsty and toasty warm,
They say to the khidmutgar* (read Midlands football fan), “bring us some beer,”
Soon, soon do Bobbi and mate feel its most magical charm,
And quickly the eatables (Greggs pies) all disappear.

Or at ev’ning, when home from their lockdown ride they return,
And jaded and weary they sit down to dine;
They ask but for Newcee, and willingly spurn
The choicest the dearest the rarest of wine.

Then hail to thee Broon! of local brewer bewail;
May you live long and happy, and when you are the head,
Thy loss we in the North-East would, foresightedly, think dead,
ABers will think of all of yer Newcees daily whilst drinking your bottled ale.

[DTCwordfan]

Banks, I have tasted. Tony....Ansell's was just a cut above Watney's - the least said the better...

[New Judge]

//Mr Johnson said anyone who cannot work from home - such as those in construction and manufacturing - should be "actively encouraged" to go to work from tomorrow.//

But they've never been discouraged or prevented (unless they work in a business that has been forced to close such as a pub or a non-essential shop). People can leave home to go to work provided it is not reasonably possible for the work to be carried out from home. So what's different?

[tonyav]

Ansell's was just a cut above Watney's - the least said the better...

Yep.

[NickorWan]

//So what's different?"//

Well, 'actively encouraged" is quite different to 'never been discouraged or prevented'.

[Cloverjo]

NJ, the difference is that people weren’t ‘actively encouraged’ to go to work. It seems that we were all too obedient and stayed at home “STAY HOME” when some of us didn’t need to.

[Cloverjo]

I don’t think you can take a phone off the hook nowadays anyway. Maybe turn the ringer off or pretend you were in the bath ;)

[New Judge]

So on another thread (can't recall which one)when it was said that 90% of the population support the lockdown and I commented that so would I if I was paid 80% of my wages to sit at home, I was about right.

[douglas9401]

Yup. Money for nothing and your chicks for free.

[Cloverjo]

I thought the furlough scheme was surprisingly generous. I don’t think the government was expecting massively rich people to take advantage of it.