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Glenn makes friends wherever he goes. One week left of this story, new comics Monday to Thursday next week.
On another note, I think it’s important that we talk about Nescafe packets. Why is it that hotels, at all but the premium tier, only offer the base level instant coffee packet, Nescafe factory sweepings or kidney-stab Kenco red? How much more expensive would it be to offer Gold Blend sachets, I am guessing around 3p per sachet, a cost that the customer would be pleased to absorb just as a deliquescent instant coffee granule absorbs hot water.
Of course, once you enter the more gilded hotel rooms, the coffee comes from Nespresso pods, where the cost is not just to the consumer, but also the environment.
And then when you get into the Presidential Suite, there’s no free coffee at all, because you have to to order it from room service, as money is “no object”; well I object, SIR.
Next time I will talk about the objectionably small size of hotel mugs (I won’t, but only due to immense self restraint).
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Glenn continues to fascinate.
Resourceful, is our Glom.
The lady behind him looks really sad to see him go.
“Say it ain’t so, Glow!”
OMG Glem and Lottie, both leaving broken hearts behind! Maybe they are more alike than they seem…….
It’s kind of weird seeing Glym not resembling a frightened deer on a roadway.
What is Glerrn looking for in the skip? His dignity. Or possibly a hotel kettle. (for when you only need to boil 2 cups)
I was wondering if he was grabbing some old solar panels from the renovations (at least, that’s what those purple things look like to me).
Room interior walls from the remodel. Wonder what’s he up to?
Guardianships can be pretty rough, they’re generally really rundown buildings (I suspect the degrees of “rundown” don’t bottom out until it’s legally attempted murder to ask someone to live in it.) Glom is probably going to decorate their soon to be extremely shabby circumstances. Looks like his stalwart friend is already holding a picture for him, they may also be grabbing mattresses that were tossed out in the remodel.
Oh thank goodness the THF remodeling will not involve the phasing out of Nescafe Packets! (breakfast of champions)
I think he wants to take something from his old home to his new home, so he can feel more at home.
Oh, Grem. I hope you’re just dumpster diving, and not making plans to quietly compress yourself into a cube.
I think they’re part of the walls like Gump has in his room in panel one. A bit of home!
Needs some furniture for his new place.
Maybe going to build himself a little shelter down by the river that reminds him of his hotel life.
Well all right! Glam has resourceful scavenging skills!
Of all the nicknames that have been given to poor old Glumn, I think Glam is probably the least fitting.
Yes I checked. Now I know about Burnt Greave wood. Thank you for being a stealth educator. Also I am becoming suspicious that comic authors have access to some hidden Google API that allows them to choose phone numbers that aren’t simply unused, but when searched for Google actually seems to want to push you away and tell you to stop searching. Yes I did cut it to 7 digits. I wouldn’t be suprised if the numbers were associated with phones in Sheffield’s equivalent of Hugo Rune’s Forbidden Zones.
I noticed the promise of “Nescafe’ packets”. No doubt, Ygln will appreciate a far better brew under Lottie’s baristic influence.
The thf’s staff seem to be so sad that they will no longer have Glenn as a customer. For me, this is proof that he’s a human being and a very good (and practical) person..
That Trusthouse Forte logo made me very happy. #hotelgroupsofthepast
So having escaped from hotel hell, Glarn’s first step is to make his new residence as hotel-like as possible.
I suppose that “hotel-like” is better than “abandoned-factory-like”.
I recently learned that my brother has an insane amount of unused furniture and appliances (chairs, lamps, pillows, rugs, cleaning supplies, etc) that he nicks from his job which involves building inspections, and which he stores in his frat house. Reading this comic early on Patreon made me more prepared to accept this behavior as “maybe something people just do I guess”
Excellent anecdote John L. I’m going to get my own frat house, this sounds like a great wheeze, it’s almost foreign soil and you probably have diplomatic immunity.
Little known ‘fact’ – frat houses belong to small greek city states, as embassies. The city states are all three greek letters long. Coincidence? No, this is how the frat system works
We’ve outfitted a good part of our home with other people’s castoffs. Our neighbor was throwing away their large tube TV, saying it didn’t work. Our son played with the controls (unlabelled, per modern design aesthetics and discovered the picture was out of whack. Still working a decade later. We’ve also picked up Ikea furniture, a patio table and chairs, and house plants. People are so wasteful.
I have never paid money for a computer monitor.
Good thrifty work everyone, you’re singing from my preferred hymn sheet
A hymn sheet recycled from a local place of worship?
I’ve long had an advertised policy of never turning down free hardware. For the low, low price of accepting people’s broken junk, I’ve also gotten all kinds of old but still serviceable or broken but repairable hardware. I’ve literally been running a website exclusively off things people threw away for 25 years now.
The machine I’m posting this from is a fairly new i7 laptop that the original owner was having unresolvable Windows driver issues with. He replaced it and gave me the old one, which works perfectly well with Linux on it.
I think that some people regard Ikea products as the furniture equivalent of library books. It probably says something about the city where I live, but… I’m on the local Freecycle mailing list, with the e-mails set to digest mode, and every time a digest comes in with something like 10-20 items offered on it, there will be something from Ikea on it.
Well, more often than not, anyway.
Ikea; the furniture that the middle classes get before they get around to getting the furniture that they want.
When our kids were small and buying furniture for them, we went to the nice furniture shops and dropped $$$ on nice beds and bureaus that “would last a lifetime.” After repeatedly repairing drawers and tossing the unrepairable broken bed, we replaced with ikea, with the full expectation that it would fall apart, and no loss. Ironically the antique bed that is 120 years old is still perfectly fine.
It’s not so ironic. Those century-plus old furniture items weren’t planned to last a lifetime; they were expected to last until The Second Coming.
I am sitting here at mu desk, which is actually a pine table 6 feet long, that one of our neighbours back in Edinburgh some 30-odd years ago had dumped on the pavement outside, simply because one of its legs was broken. My then-teenage son and I dragged it back up to our flat, where I duly replaced the leg, and it’s done sterling work for me ever since. Our house is full of rescued things like this, though the table is definitely the biggest. (I also had a real Found Harmonium for several years, left outside on the pavement once again. When the owner noticed me trying to manhandle it into my car, he came out and helped me, as he was glad it was going to have a home. When we moved away I left it out on the pavement again, hoping someone else would find it.)
Your brother has a natural survival instinct that is making him prepare for end times. Or he is very smart and is saving for the house in his future. Either way….I commend him.
I feel sure his thrifty habits will also prepare him for his future career after someone eventually notices.
As someone that works hotels, it is a chain by chain thing.
Example, Choice Hotels uses branded coffee.
I’m impressed.. I would imagine it would be very difficult to brand coffee. Even if the coffee were thick enough to hold a brand for a few seconds, it would still quench the branding iron before it could be effective. My 10-gallon hat is off to their ingenuity.
If you apply the branding iron before brewing, it generally holds longer.
Glenn is changing jobs? To what??
He’s not. It’s just a convenient explanation for why he’s not coming back.
if his work allowed him a hotel allowance, can he keep taking it ?
Presumably he has to show receipts.
To back office robot with a computer for a mind, of course.
Mind you he may still need to take on the occasional local careers adviser gigs to keep the rent paid, just as Lottie needs to sling ginger, star anise and mint cold brew.
Coffee pods make me crazy. Humans choosing sloth over the environment, en masse.
I was just rereading “Missing Piece”, and came across this exchange, which reminded me of someone:
LOTTIE: “Look, finding Shauna’s Dad might be tricky. I think his name is Greg, or Graham maybe? She never really talks about him.”
MILDRED: “So it’s a name starting with G, living in the UK? Or perhaps elsewhere? I’m going back to bed.”
Plot twist! Gallium is secretly Shauna’s father in disguise!
Will Grim Turban find what he needs in the skip? Is Carlotta du Grote Escalier having a psychotic break? Will anyone survive once Morag shows up to annihilate all the antique shops in town with high explosives?
Find out next time, on my insane Bobbinsverse headcanon!
But what about Naomi?
John A has obviously never stayed in a Presidential Suite. Your maid and/or chef will bring your coffee machine along, or your chauffeur takes them somewhere they can buy it. I suppose if you’re really rich you can get your drinks delivered by drone.
Room service is for plebs who think they are rich.
When us actual plebs get the presidential suite because the hotel overbooked and they don’t want to pay money to put us in another hotel, we actually save money, because they tend to come with free washing machines and you can buy stuff from the supermarket and cook yourself ..
It’s always been clear to me that the whole executive board of Nestlé should be arrested and sent to Siberia. I’m sure we could get an arrangement with Vlad to keep them as cold and far away as possible for the rest of their lives.
Why do Glenn’s eyes vary between green and blue-green?