The idiocy (and selfishness) of panic buying

It really does beggar belief how fucking stupid some people are and how little they can think for themselves.
 
bluetonium said:
Embarrassing isn't it? This is what civilization is now. Take, take and take, mostly so you can show everyone else what you have. Be siphoning off parked cars at midnight next.

It's a HGV driver shortage, not a fuel shortage, although now there's going to be issues replenishing what everyone panic buys.

Hope the government get their fingers out and relax visa rules for HGV drivers, even temporarily, or we'll find Christmas even less fun with kind of attitudes we've seen today.
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So many people have lost all sense of reason.
Tne culture of me, me, me and the devil take the hindmost has taken over sadly.
 
bluejon said:
It's never their fault.
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I remember a conversation on here pre brexit. I mentioned lorry driver wages were shit, the job was shit, cheap foreign labour was making people work harder to get by. A couple of remainers actually lied and tried to claim wages were higher than they were. They will remember who they are.

After much back and forth the attitude was tough shit drivers can do something else. A nice tough shit attitude. Now for a few reasons including the above many did fuck off.

So if any of those remainers are now inconvenienced all I can say is tough shit just get where your going some other way. Karma is a bitch. Suck it up.

If you can't get fuel or avocado's or are held up by protesters blocking roads then the salty tears will fail to get much sympathy I'm afraid.
 
Eds said:
Another example of how many cockwombles inhabit this country. There is and won't be a shortage of fuel unless people go out and fill out unnecessarily. A handful of BP petrol stations are closed so the whole country rushes out and fills up like sheep.
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This is getting boring now.

I’ve got to drive to my dads birthday tomorrow a couple hours away. I’m low on petrol - am I a ‘virus’ ‘selfish prick’ and god know what else that people are spouting.

Most people need petrol in the incoming days especially for their work etc.

it’s totally understandable people are rushing to fill up as who knows how long this disruption could last.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
This is getting boring now.

I’ve got to drive to my dads birthday tomorrow a couple hours away. I’m low on petrol - am I a ‘virus’ ‘selfish prick’ and god know what else that people are spouting.

Most people need petrol in the incoming days especially for their work etc.

it’s totally understandable people are rushing to fill up as who knows how long this disruption could last.
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There are about 8,380 petrol stations in the UK, according to the Petrol Retailers Association. Of these, about 1% are believed to be closed at the moment. So anyone filling up because they have half a tank is an idiot. I haven't called you or anyone else a 'virus' or a 'selfish prick'. It's the fucking idiots putting a £10 in 'just in case'. In case of what, their isn't a shortage of petrol and there won't be unless people start filling up every day.
 
hilts said:
I remember a conversation on here pre brexit. I mentioned lorry driver wages were shit, the job was shit, cheap foreign labour was making people work harder to get by. A couple of remainers actually lied and tried to claim wages were higher than they were. They will remember who they are.

After much back and forth the attitude was tough shit drivers can do something else. A nice tough shit attitude. Now for a few reasons including the above many did fuck off.

So if any of those remainers are now inconvenienced all I can say is tough shit just get where your going some other way. Karma is a bitch. Suck it up.

If you can't get fuel or avocado's or are held up by protesters blocking roads then the salty tears will fail to get much sympathy I'm afraid.
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Again, as always, my issue with brexit was never leaving the EU, it was the shower of dicks who would be in charge of it, and yet again they have proved they are incompetent fucking idiots who haven't planned for anything which was obviously going to happen. I am a remainer, I am being inconvenienced by this shit, but it is the fault of our fucking government who I did not vote for. As for your last line about avocados, I really don't know how I'm going to survive without them. I mean, my maid has already said the pantry is nearly out of them. What do I do?
 
bluejon said:
Again, as always, my issue with brexit was never leaving the EU, it was the shower of dicks who would be in charge of it, and yet again they have proved they are incompetent fucking idiots who haven't planned for anything which was obviously going to happen. I am a remainer, I am being inconvenienced by this shit, but it is the fault of our fucking government who I did not vote for. As for your last line about avocados, I really don't know how I'm going to survive without them. I mean, my maid has already said the pantry is nearly out of them. What do I do?
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Then your irk should be in the direction of Tory voters just as a starting point. The problem is people are only concerned about their own bubbles. If that is the case then others bubbles are not going to be bothered if others suddenly pop.

As for the avocado I'm not very posh. I remember asking for a cumsquat once at tesco and the woman slapped me.

I bought an apple instead.
 
Keith Moncrieff said:
I actually need petrol, gonna look like a right twat
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I'm taking the bus to work tomorrow, just so I don't have to look like a twat.. actually I'm gonna cycle to work, hmm, that makes me look like an even bigger twat though.. I'm gonna walk, it's only 8 miles and nobody ever saw a guy walking and called him a twat. Only problem is me tools, I might have to make 2 trips
 
BlueHammer85 said:
This is getting boring now.

I’ve got to drive to my dads birthday tomorrow a couple hours away. I’m low on petrol - am I a ‘virus’ ‘selfish prick’ and god know what else that people are spouting.

Most people need petrol in the incoming days especially for their work etc.

it’s totally understandable people are rushing to fill up as who knows how long this disruption could last.
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It’s pretty straight forward isn’t it? If you need petrol get it, if you don’t then don’t.
 
hilts said:
Then your irk should be in the direction of Tory voters just as a starting point. The problem is people are only concerned about their own bubbles. If that is the case then others bubbles are not going to be bothered if others suddenly pop.

As for the avocado I'm not very posh. I remember asking for a cumsquat once at tesco and the woman slapped me.

I bought an apple instead.
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My irk is pretty much firing all over the place these days, pretty depressing days to be living through.
 
This is nothing to do with Brexit.
This is nothing to do with Covid.
This isn't to do with selfish people.

This IS to do with the press.
They latched onto a possible shortage, linked mainly to BP garages.
So they go overboard warning everybody that the fuel will run out. Forgetting to mention that only a small portion of garages would be affected.

They are doing the same with possible food shortages. Sensational headlines just to generate clicks.

They are causing these panics, and should be punished for it.
Of course they will roll out "freedom of the press" issues.

It's the same with recessions. They don't just happen unless there is a natural disaster.
They start by talk of a possible recession. That gets people nervous, so they stop spending/investing.
Before you know it, we have an actual recession.
 
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The most frustrating thing about this is that there will be some people out there who need fuel now, as a matter of urgency. But you can bet a pound to a penny of shit that the majority of these imbeciles, who are puppets to the 24-hour social media propaganda cycle, don't.
 
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