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[ogr1]

Wankers.
Apparently there has been a roaring trade in used book sales, since the lockdown.
Peeps working from home & using their laptops wanted an impressive backdrop filled with books such as
Shakespear the classics and tourism guides to make them either look well educated or well travelled.
The list includes..CEO's and Members of parliament.
How feckin sad is that.

In reality the books should have been...

Farmers weekly: How to spread more bullshit.
Fornication Chronicles: A wankers guide to being a better wanker.
A secret Life: Foreward by Walter Mitty.

Feel free to add onto this list.

 

[andyBeaker]

DVDs are good as well.

Look closely...

https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2020/06/john-barnes-fake.jpg

 

[Squag1]

You lent him those then??

 

[sr71caspar]

Tch. Amateurs. The future is green screen showing a differing view of the bookshelves of the British Library each day.

 

[Cougar377]

One of our neighbours started a free lockdown library a few months back. Some local business donated a small shed and added some shelves and installed it in her front garden. Plenty of folk donated books, DVDs, jigsaw puzzles and boardgames.
The idea was, when you take something replace it with something similar.

Recently she's noticed the stock dwindling and has since found out that some selfish twats are putting the stuff on Fleabay.

 

[Squag1]

Book exchange in a village in Cork

 

[ogr1]

That's a lawn ffs.

 

[Squag1]

I'm sure similar elsewhere.
Well I cut back on lipstick anyway

 

[slim63]

Recently she's noticed the stock dwindling and has since found out that some selfish twats are putting the stuff on Fleabay.

Hang about a cotton picking minute, didn't you send me some books ............... now I am wondering

 

[Cougar377]

Hang about a cotton picking minute, didn't you send me some books ............... now I am wondering

Wanna colouring book and some jigsaws..?

 

[derek kelly]

One of our neighbours started a free lockdown library a few months back. Some local business donated a small shed and added some shelves and installed it in her front garden. Plenty of folk donated books, DVDs, jigsaw puzzles and boardgames.
The idea was, when you take something replace it with something similar.

Recently she's noticed the stock dwindling and has since found out that some selfish twats are putting the stuff on Fleabay.

People in Mapplewell (Barnsley) started a book exchange in a bus shelter, the Council banned it

 

[johnboy]

The next village down from us has a disused red telephone box which is now stuffed full of books where you can take and leave literature.

 

[JayTee]

Book exchanges are brilliant, but it only takes one selfish twat to upset the apple cart.
We had one in the works canteen and it was extremely popular, even amongst the youngsters.
I bought the missus a kindle years ago and she downloaded a book about HMS Conqueror and its antics in the Falklands for me to read while on holiday, liked so much I had to own a hard copy, much better.

 

[Pow-Lo]

The next village down from us has a disused red telephone box which is now stuffed full of books where you can take and leave literature.

London phone boxes were always the best for 'literature' back in the day.

 

[Pow-Lo]

Wankers.
Apparently there has been a roaring trade in used book sales, since the lockdown.
Peeps working from home & using their laptops wanted an impressive backdrop filled with books such as
Shakespear the classics and tourism guides to make them either look well educated or well travelled.
The list includes..CEO's and Members of parliament.
How feckin sad is that.

In reality the books should have been...

Farmers weekly: How to spread more bullshit.
Fornication Chronicles: A wankers guide to being a better wanker.
A secret Life: Foreward by Walter Mitty.

Feel free to add onto this list.

I have a proper book case in my office. Admittedly, I have my DVD collections of Buffy and X-Files in there but I have a couple of shelves of my professional books, too.

I've been in shipping for over 36 years, not sure I need to prove to anyone how well travelled I am. I'm just happy they think I can read.

 

[Malone]

I’ve never watched an episode of X files, but Buffy she could exorcise me

 

[Squag1]

That's a lawn ffs.

You're not as green as you're cabbage looking

 

[Squag1]

Antibiotics sales down 50%
Anti depressants up 35%
STD medication down 30%

 

[ogr1]

You're not as green as you're cabbage looking

We are not a patch on you.

 

[Cougar377]

Antibiotics sales down 50%
Anti depressants up 35%
STD medication down 30%

Is this based on personal experience....?