Drago's murder deathkill slaughter massacre panic petrol buying watch!!!

[sheddy]

Another way !
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/diy-hardware-store-human-conveyor-belt-b1934619.html

 

[mjr]

It's not unbranded. It has "Hoyer" written on the nearside door of the cab. They do contract work for BP, Shell, and others...

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You've better eyesight than me, or the hack writing the article... or maybe you just knew to look at the cab door instead of the trailer.

 

[Arrowfoot]

On hindsight, I won't blame anyone for the state of panic. With so much uncertainty and mix media messaging, the human instinct is no different to animal herd instinct. You follow.

I also don't think rationality can be factored into this. We can act cool where there is some fuel left in the cars at home or cars are not part of the need. When the fuels in the cars start running low, you can't remain cool and collected. The family depends on it for various things which are essential.

But the filling plastic bags with fuel and others unsafe measures are irrational but the frenzy does make people crazy.

 

[gbb]

Filled the tank 1 or 2 days before this all started, i drive 30 miles aday for work and did put £30 in last week....but now im down to 40 miles range, got to get petrol today, got to.
Not looking forward to seeing how much its gone up.

 

[oldwheels]

No shortage yet where I am with rally cars roaring around constantly and then add on support cars, officials and assorted camp followers. There must be a conspicuous consumption of fuel this week so perhaps next week the peasants who live here will just have to manage without.

 

[DRM]

This is all down to the media creating a fear of shortages, first it was petrol and diesel, then it was turkeys and Christmas items, followed by buses not running due to a lack of drivers, now it’s school dinners that need hoarding, they really are a shower of shoot and they need to be ignored, the sooner they go bust the better for all of us, these are the worst kind of mind games.

 

[Arrowfoot]

This is all down to the media creating a fear of shortages, first it was petrol and diesel, then it was turkeys and Christmas items, followed by buses not running due to a lack of drivers, now it’s school dinners that need hoarding, they really are a shower of shoot and they need to be ignored, the sooner they go bust the better for all of us, these are the worst kind of mind games.

Isn't there a shortage? It does not matter if there is plenty of reserves but if it does not reach the end consumer, it is a shortage.

 

[Mike_P]

Certainly shortages in stores this morning; having a genuine food allergy food shopping is stressful at the best of times working out what is safe to eat so depressed to find no appropriate museli in the Co-Op this morning; it being one of the few that is not around a quarter sugar. Ended up ordering a box of 6 of a different museli from Amazon. Then Aldi had no shaving foam

 

[classic33]

Certainly shortages in stores this morning; having a genuine food allergy food shopping is stressful at the best of times working out what is safe to eat so depressed to find no appropriate museli in the Co-Op this morning; it being one of the few that is not around a quarter sugar. Ended up ordering a box of 6 of a different museli from Amazon. Then Aldi had no shaving foam

You're not supposed to use it as a substitute for cream in a can.

 

[DRM]

Isn't there a shortage? It does not matter if there is plenty of reserves but if it does not reach the end consumer, it is a shortage.

Yes, there is, it’s a self fulfilling prophecy when news outlets tell of shortages, idiots rush and buy more of the alleged shortage, thereby creating a shortage, that really wasn’t a shortage, we have all fallen into the trap of “just in time” deliveries, the sooner we kick this idea into the long grass the better it will be, it always fails at the first hurdle.

 

[DaveReading]

This is all down to the media creating a fear of shortages, first it was petrol and diesel, then it was turkeys and Christmas items, followed by buses not running due to a lack of drivers, now it’s school dinners that need hoarding, they really are a shower of shoot and they need to be ignored, the sooner they go bust the better for all of us, these are the worst kind of mind games.

If you think there is going to be a shortage of something, then stocking up is a perfectly reasonable, indeed prudent, thing to do.

"Panic buying" is simply more people than usual behaving reasonably.

 

[Drago]

Not intending any political discussion, just an observation related to the panic buying situation...I'm quite sure that were the other team in government they would be doing the same.

The government have told folk not to panic buy...yet several newspapers have today posted images of government ministers wheeling supermarket trolleys to their cars, laden with implausble amounts of stuff like big roll.

Perhaps "please don't panic buy...so we can get our digs in first" would have been more honest?

 

[gbb]

If you think there is going to be a shortage of something, then stocking up is a perfectly reasonable, indeed prudent, thing to do.

"Panic buying" is simply more people than usual behaving reasonably.

The key is being sensible while doing it.
As the first cases of covid appeared in Italy (it seems so long ago now), i started buying a bit extra, long life milk, cans, stuff that would keep. Nothing stupid (imo), just prudent shopping reacting to impending (as i saw it) problems.
Im doing the same now for Christmas, bottles of pop, pineapple juices etc etc. Mind thats partly because i hate carrying bottles and bottles of the bloody stuff during the xmas shop. Spread the load now.
The toilet roll debacle is a typical example of people losing their mind. Spending a few quid extra a week seems sensible to me, filling your trolley with enough loo roll to last a year isnt.

 

[Reynard]

I've gotten into the habit this last year and a half to have an extra spare of most things in the house above what I usually have in, and buy a replacement as soon as I open a pack of something. It really has helped, as sometimes there have been the damndest gaps on the shelves, and there has been that element of pot luck.

Mind you, I do live out in the boonies, so I've always got a very well-stocked cupboard anyways, as I'm not going to head out for just a couple of items.

 

[Ming the Merciless]