The idiocy (and selfishness) of panic buying

LongsightM13 said:
If you honestly believe the likes of Rothermere, Murdoch and the Barclay Brothers, and the newspapers and other outlets they own, are anti-Brexit and pro-EU then I have to wonder if you have been in a coma lying in a cave cut off from the outside world for the last 30 years. Anything else is a distorted version of reality that would make Trump and Dominic Cummings blush. Madness and one of the funniest things I have read on here for ages.
Maybe, just maybe, the people who told you all this could happen before the referendum - and who the Mail, the Sun, the Times, the Telegraph and Sky News dismissed as agents of ‘Project Fear’ - might have been right all along.
Imagine the Prime Minister of this country, a former right wing Eurosceptic journalist who recently admitted he answers to The Daily Telegraph and its readership above all others, ‘cracking down’ on the famously communist fifth columnists he worked alongside
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I really shouldn't venture down here, but seeing people frame the bloody Daily Mail as some pro-EU newspaper out to get good old Brexit, and that this has been liked by others, really does put some of the more bonkers arguments in the football thread into context.
 
Coatigan said:
Whatever the actual number of petrol stations without fuel, and the actual shortage, which is clearly extensive, Brexit has caused the current problem. By rapidly speeding up an issue, of shortage of labour and in particular drivers, to a point it has become unmanageable. Which was warned of consistently. Labour, as well as goods and materials, in many other sectors as well.

I actually agree with your repeated and ongoing point, on this thread getting heavily focused on brexit arguements. As much as I'm all for leavers seeing these I told you sos and maybe even considering the outcomes, ultimately I'm on this thread for videos of muppets trying to fill extra pertol into condoms and what not.

What I don't agree with, is arguing that Brexit has nothing to do with it. Particularly when other contributing reasons get discussed and that doesn't seem to be at odds with the topic of the thread.

Saying Brexit hasn't caused this, and the other big issues we have seen all year in all sectors, is like saying shooting yourself in the foot hasn't caused your limp because that urinary infection you had some time ago was already making you walk a little sideyways.
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The shortage of fuel and the shortage of HGV drivers isn’t linked.

There’s no shortage of fuel stocks in Britain, just a shortage at the pumps because idiots in the public started panic buying because they stupidly thought the worldwide gas shortage was a petrol shortage.
It’s exactly the same as the toilet roll saga at the start of Covid. There was no toilet roll shortage in Britain, that was actually in Australia and Britain had no links whatsoever to Australia’s situation, but that didn’t stop everyone panic buying toilet roll in Britain.

Also on that worldwide gas shortage - places like Russia do not have the stocks of gas anywhere near their normal stocks ahead of the Winter so prices shot up worldwide, with many companies going out of business. This also has nothing to do with Brexit.

All three issues have all been blamed on Brexit though with lazy and unfounded bollocks from the media and those with an axe to grind (see our Politics Forum for an example of the rabid negativity spammers I’m talking about), and it’s so disappointing to see the public being drawn in and not doing their own research to learn the actual facts.
 
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Asda delivery was an hour late, they are not normally, instead of saying sorry i am late he gave me the no drivers line, i order from them twice a week, i doubt suddenly this week they have shed that many drivers
 
Tommy_Catons_Perm said:
Wow. That really is a nightmare. A shortage of gifts!. No plum pudding! Almost wish I was living in somewhere like Afghanistan so I wouldn't have to endure such a hard Christmas here.
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There likely isn’t going to be a shortage of anything at Christmas, and it’s just the media using the public to get us to panic buy stuff for Christmas while they laugh their cocks off at their Christmas parties saying “how fucking thick are the general public? we could say fucking anything and they’d believe it… idiots!”
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
There likely isn’t going to be a shortage of anything at Christmas, and it’s just the media using the public to get us to panic buy stuff for Christmas while they laugh their cocks off at their Christmas parties saying “how fucking thick are the general public? we could say fucking anything and they’d believe it… idiots!”
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mexico1970 said:
Narratives, it's all about narratives, social media the press are all to blame because they have formed echo chambers where even the most off the wall ideas and opinions gain traction because they feed a narrative of a person who looks for points to support their views.
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Correct.

Some people only, purposely, expose themselves to one way of thinking. I can’t even begin to describe how unhealthy that is.

It’s the same as eating only carrots. You might think carrots are healthy, but you aren’t getting a balanced diet which is not good for you physically. If you trap yourself into one way of thinking you aren’t getting a balanced worldview and that’s not good for you mentally.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
The shortage of fuel and the shortage of HGV drivers isn’t linked.

There’s no shortage of fuel stocks in Britain, just a shortage at the pumps because idiots in the public started panic buying because they stupidly thought the worldwide gas shortage was a petrol shortage.
It’s exactly the same as the toilet roll saga at the start of Covid. There was no toilet roll shortage in Britain, that was actually in Australia and Britain had no links whatsoever to Australia’s situation, but that didn’t stop everyone panic buying toilet roll in Britain.

Also on that worldwide gas shortage - places like Russia do not have the stocks of gas anywhere near their normal stocks ahead of the Winter so prices shot up worldwide, with many companies going out of business. This also has nothing to do with Brexit.

All three issues have all been blamed on Brexit though with lazy and unfounded bollocks from the media and those with an axe to grind (see our Politics Forum for an example of the rabid negativity spammers I’m talking about), and it’s so disappointing to see the public being drawn in and not doing their own research to learn the actual facts.
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The time for disappointment over the public not looking at facts is long past, when people decided to blindly follow rhetoric and media crap.
 
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