The idiocy (and selfishness) of panic buying

As someone who grew up in Moss Side and remembers using the outside toilet we had in the yard, there was absolutely nothing wrong with newspaper.

I ain't getting fleeced for 500 per cent mark up toilet roll, when it's not that far removed from the texture of the Daily Mail and The Sun.

In actual fact, I will take great delight in wiping my arse on some of the shit already written in them.

Embrace the early 80s, blues!

Yesterday we had fruit cocktail and carnation milk, just so the kids could try it (get used to it)

Beautiful.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
As someone who grew up in Moss Side and remembers using the outside toilet we had in the yard, there was absolutely nothing wrong with newspaper.

I ain't getting fleeced for 500 per cent mark up toilet roll, when it's not that far removed from the texture of the Daily Mail and The Sun.

In actual fact, I will take great delight in wiping my arse on some of the shit already written in them.

Embrace the early 80s, blues!

Yesterday we had fruit cocktail and carnation milk, just so the kids could try it (get used to it)

Beautiful.
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Yep true but you could have your shit then your shower ;)
 
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hello said:
I am worried about the Aldi 4 item limit on anything spreading to my local coop, if I can only buy 4 cans at a time I'll be constantly walking backwards and forwards. Unless its 4 multipacks a day in which case I should be able to manage with just the daily visit.
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I am guilty of stockpiling - every slab of Strongbow in Morrisons this last week

I did my food shopping in waves over the last 5 weeks - so whilst I would be able to isolate for a month or more - I have not being doing it all in bulk these last days.

The one tip that I would give - which I am sure must have been mentioned several times - is a £50 bread maker from Robert Dyas.

That with some basic ingredients of Bread Flour, yeast etc. and with spread and Jam you could get by for weeks!!

So simple and absolutely delicious - far better than the 'normal' stuff
 
mcfc1632 said:
I am guilty of stockpiling - every slab of Strongbow in Morrisons this last week

I did my food shopping in waves over the last 5 weeks - so whilst I would be able to isolate for a month or more - I have not being doing it all in bulk these last days.

The one tip that I would give - which I am sure must have been mentioned several times - is a £50 bread maker from Robert Dyas.

That with some basic ingredients of Bread Flour, yeast etc. and with spread and Jam you could get by for weeks!!

So simple and absolutely delicious - far better than the 'normal' stuff
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I'd rather catch corona virus than have to drink Strongbow for a day let alone a month
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
As someone who grew up in Moss Side and remembers using the outside toilet we had in the yard, there was absolutely nothing wrong with newspaper.

I ain't getting fleeced for 500 per cent mark up toilet roll, when it's not that far removed from the texture of the Daily Mail and The Sun.

In actual fact, I will take great delight in wiping my arse on some of the shit already written in them.

Embrace the early 80s, blues!

Yesterday we had fruit cocktail and carnation milk, just so the kids could try it (get used to it)

Beautiful.
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Jesus I loved that back in the day cheers for that
My next panic buy
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
As someone who grew up in Moss Side and remembers using the outside toilet we had in the yard, there was absolutely nothing wrong with newspaper.

I ain't getting fleeced for 500 per cent mark up toilet roll, when it's not that far removed from the texture of the Daily Mail and The Sun.

In actual fact, I will take great delight in wiping my arse on some of the shit already written in them.

Embrace the early 80s, blues!

Yesterday we had fruit cocktail and carnation milk, just so the kids could try it (get used to it)

Beautiful.
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Exactly. We were taught to crunch it, unroll it, crunch it, unroll it.... turns into tissue like consistency.
80s were grim but they made us what we are today.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
As someone who grew up in Moss Side and remembers using the outside toilet we had in the yard, there was absolutely nothing wrong with newspaper. I ain't getting fleeced for 500 per cent mark up toilet roll, when it's not that far removed from the texture of the Daily Mail and The Sun. In actual fact, I will take great delight in wiping my arse on some of the shit already written in them. Embrace the early 80s, blues!
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You have to be careful with newspaper. A long long time ago when I was courting, the father in law put my lunchbox up as I was on full board because we were saving for a house. A fucking decent wedge I paid him for back in the day and a Premier Inn would have been cheaper. Anyway I'm drifting, so at dinner time everyone was hungrily opening their scran and I was seated on the long table which had taken me an absolute age to migrate to as anyone who was anyone in't mill sat there. And so I also produced my dinner from a forlorn crumpled Tesco bag that took on the life-form of a neatly parceled square wrapped in .. . newspaper?. Anyway I could feel a thousand eyes pervading my meal so I continued in haste to unwrap. Inside staring at me was two rounds of flat white bread welded together with a wafer thin layer of raspberry jam but the really really bad part was that the print of the newspaper had transferred over onto my meal : / Anyway I didn't want to look back up and so I just stared it right back for what seemed like an eternity when one of the gob-shites shouted out "Bob lad - any chance of a read of your buttie" I took it home that night and told him to wipe his big fat robbing crack with it and we never spoke for weeks. So I don't use newspaper for anything now.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
As someone who grew up in Moss Side and remembers using the outside toilet we had in the yard, there was absolutely nothing wrong with newspaper.

I ain't getting fleeced for 500 per cent mark up toilet roll, when it's not that far removed from the texture of the Daily Mail and The Sun.

In actual fact, I will take great delight in wiping my arse on some of the shit already written in them.

Embrace the early 80s, blues!

Yesterday we had fruit cocktail and carnation milk, just so the kids could try it (get used to it)

Beautiful.
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Sounds like we had similar upbringings

Did you have a coal fire as well as the outside toilet? - where we had squares of the Daily Mirror or similar hanging on a nail - well at least until my older brother had been there!!

I remember carnation milk - mega sweet treat
 
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