The idiocy (and selfishness) of panic buying

Called in to put 10L in just now, I was on fumes but wasn't putting more in at £1.34/L, and there were only 3 cars in the station. But then that might be something to do with there being no diesel left! Glad I traded in my oil-burner for a 1.2 Zetec a month ago.

When I came out after paying they were queuing into the main road!
 
Magicpole said:
Fuck sake. Having it but not being able to transport it is Brexit to a tee. What about empty shelves in supermarkets? Is that those pesky Russians too? Fruit and veg rotting in fields? Yep, Russians. Fishing industry on its fucking knees, Russians. Financial sector relocations, Russians. Its Brexit. It was always going to be Brexit. Away and enjoy a pint with Pint written on it and blame every other cunting thing apart from the real culprit. BREXIT. And as i said, its just the tip of the shitstrom. That useless fucking **** Boris backtracking on visas for lorry drivers proves it Brexit.

Unless your a Brexiteer obviously. Its those fucking foreign cunts fucking us up.
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Are there not any lorry drivers in UK that can step in? Surely uk govt can get the unemployed lazy cnts to get off their backsides and do the job. Curious.
 
Missus just been to the local coop in our village. Empty shelves and it was rammed. The lady on the till said they have been quing to the back of the shop all morning.

I guess people cant get to the supermarket as people are panic buying fuel causing gridlock. So people are not using the fuel they have panicked bought to go to the supermarket and using the little one in the village. Which my missus said the shelves are almost empty. Perfect storm.

So as we didnt panic buy and thought we would used the village coop and save fuel for work, the shop is almost out of everything !. The country is crap.
 
MaineDAWG2008 said:
Are there not any lorry drivers in UK that can step in? Surely uk govt can get the unemployed lazy cnts to get off their backsides and do the job. Curious.
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Too long to train and get registered , the relevant bodies to test and register them are drowning in the backlog due to covid , long term yes but right now not muchhelp
 
MaineDAWG2008 said:
Are there not any lorry drivers in UK that can step in? Surely uk govt can get the unemployed lazy cnts to get off their backsides and do the job. Curious.
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My kid brother is a HGV driver but hasnt done it for about 10 years or so.
He has applied to over ten HGV companies but with no reply. He cant get a HGV job !
Always had a clean licence has done all the legal update course. But even with over 35 years of HGV's driving than a driving instructor etc. He cant get a job !

I was thinking of getting my HGV licence back as it has lapsed. But seeing as my kid brother cant get a HGV job, I wont bother
 
Magicpole said:
Brexit really is working. If only someone had pointed out every single fucking thing that would go tits up. Still, ordered a pint the other day and it actually had pint written on it. It was flat because there was no CO2, but i still felt a rush of patriotic sovereignty wash over me.

The petrol shortages, now up there with every other one, is payback for the stupid cunts in our midst getting their way.

The lovey thing is, its only just the beginning of our journey of doing deals with places that take a 12 hour flight to get there. No gas, no petrol, no food, no fizzy water, CO2 again. But focus on the word pint on your glass. Makes you proud to be part of the stupidest country on the fucking planet. Thanks Brexiteers.
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No problem magic except I can't take credit for this fuck up. When I voted to leave the corrupt circus I did not realise that 5 petrol stations would cause an entire nation to act like half wits.
If I had known that staying with the european criminals would mean gas and CO2 would continue to come into this country despite the rest of Europe not having it I wouldn't have voted to leave.
No food, now that is a hard one to answer because I haven't seen any empty shelves, I haven't got hungry and everything seems normal to me.
Finally, had I voted to stay I suppose I could now be queueing up for a vaxine I am unlikely to get any time soon because the e.u. couldn't run an OAP's game of bingo.
 
MaineDAWG2008 said:
Are there not any lorry drivers in UK that can step in? Surely uk govt can get the unemployed lazy cnts to get off their backsides and do the job. Curious.
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It takes time to train. Something not built into the Brexit strategy. Apart from a blue passport, the word pint on your pint and no foreigners picking fruit and veg, hospitality bereft of staff, thats it. But focus on a glass telling you how much is in it and hope for returning to feet and inches of the Imperial system, currently being touted by that racist **** Farage, and there you have it. Maybe we could take a pint tumbler with us when waiting in the long non EU queues to remind us its all been a great idea. Waving our blue passports too, dont forget them. Makes you proud.
 
give it to gordon said:
Like many others we have worked though out the pandemic. And as usual it's the workers that cop it. First we had trouble getting food etc due to panic buying.
Now we are having trouble getting fuel to go to work or even to do our work.

We havent had a holiday for nearly two years now, booked up for Cornwall from the 8th of October. If this mess isnt sorted it will probably mean not going and losing our money. And boy do we need a holiday.

Large numbers of these country spent their furlough on holiday and panic buying food as we worked. Now its panic buying petrol as we work.

I am getting fed up with this country and the me me attitude brought on by Thatcher.

Thanks PB for helping the panic buying if they had kept their gobs shut non of this would be happening. Wankers.

Do City refund tickets if theres no fuel ? Our do I lose that money as well ?
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denislawsbackheel said:
Petrol lorries need specialist drivers
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They need a Hazchem cert doesn't actually take long
www.hazchem.ie

ADR DRIVER TRAINING / HAZCHEM CERT / ADR LICIENCE - HazChem Training

www.hazchem.ie www.hazchem.ie
 
So - just went to the shops. Two filling stations here - one shut as it has no fuel to see another has a long queue out onto the road that makes passing it rather hazardous if there is any oncoming traffic.

Lidl and Morrisons have no bog roll - Lidl almost out of kitchen roll. Fresh produce very limited today - can't get hold of any skimmed milk at the moment.

Just to be clear this appears to be the result of some knob heads in Hartlepool deciding that Poles who lived in Peterborough and drove HGV's adversely affected their lives so they voted and played their part in electing the most inept cabinet and PM in history?
 
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