Panick Buying

no panic if you keep buying

out of toilet paper & hands cleanser

wipe my @rse & start a new plague

planting carrots here as fast as I can go

It's OK I've got a cupboard full of rice. Good old Anneka will hunt me down some food.

Spoke to a mechanic today. He’s panic bought air filters! He says supply lines from China, Italy, Slovakia etc are all slowing.

doris advisors and the Brexit loons think we can live entirely on imported food

we can  - lots of cans of apricots here

my grandmother still had them years after the war ended

never gave up the habit of keeping tins in store 

but my laying off  a garage full of beer and bully beef for brexit looks like paying off in a different way
ho ho

Go on, then. Give up your job. Stop wasting your time on here, and go out and work on a farm instead. Christmas Day, Bank Holidays, every Saturday and Sunday, all through Cheltenham. Be on call 24/7. Be poor. Be self-sufficient in food.

Or might it make more sense to keep your job, stick with the punting and pay some poor sod in a country with better climate and poverty-level wages to do the work themselves?

nasty khant

wassup smelly sock

Shortage of paracetomol
EXPECTED

I put food out for the local cats, it's like a foodbank, more and more come every day. Some have quite a lot of meat on them already.

but skinned and dried will make a nice meal?

Like Aubrey's midshipmen and their  'millers'  fed on biscuit etc

Macaroni says we have to become self-sufficient in food, where there's a will there's a way. I'm wondering where all that renewable energy that he speaks of might be, perhaps we can go carbon neutral already.
No millers around here, the cats scare them off.

Electric tractors. Combines powered by windmills. Nitrogen fertilizers without nitrogen. The imaginary list is endless.

We could at least try eating foods in season.

(I realise that’s heretical..).

Tried that once getting a burger but the bull chased me out of the field

pecker dun  wishes death on remainers

what a horrile person

I suppose he thinks its a joke   I wonder what would happen if I said the same about other groups

I don't think it would be take as a joke

peckerdunne Joined: 26 Apr 12
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virus going to bury remainers

Went to the supermarket for my weekly shop . Place was banged and shelves empty . What is wrong with people ? Couldn't even get a tin of baked beans

Just goes to show what a selfish "i'm all right Jack", society we've become.

It will be the numpty average joe that does for the older community

I mean I've seen on other forums people actually saying "its only going to kill the old and they are nearly at the grave anyway" type comments, what a pathetic spineless bunch of wancers this country has become.

There was a bit of a panic the other year when it was rumoured that there would be a courgette shortage once we left the EU.

Went to my local Tesco this morning and nothing looked different. There was even an introductory offer at a reduced price on a new "flavour" of a hand wash product! Central Somerset is probably a bit more laid back than London though. I do agree about food supplies as an ex farmer who sold up because it was not profitable in 2000. None of the 4 people who bought our land needs to make a profit from it. Home production of most food items falls every year. I do have 2 acres of grass that could be planted with vegetables if the worst happens but growing your own is more expensive than a supermarket if you value your own labour.

yes i have heard people say they're still gonna carry on as normal as it only affects the very old so not at all bothered that they could spread the virus 

very selfish

SontaranStratagem, my daughter travels quite a lot-work and leisure- and has very elderly Grandparents whom she loves and visits weekly at least. I mentioned the danger of her infecting them and it has made her think about curtailing travel for the time being.

My supermarket Morrison’s had a 2 for 1 offer on Bog Roll!

I only wanted one pack of nine but bought two packs and took the discount!

Sums up the lack of leadership in this and most countries. Pathetic!

Went on the Tube on Friday. Nobody wore latex gloves, one wore a mask. No hand sanitizer on any train station. None in any bar, none in my gym. No order to mass produce hand sanitiser and yet

We can still fly to Italy and bring back the lurgy

20,000 passengers booked flights to Rome this weekend but did the FCO issue a no flight decree? Who has shares in Insurance Companies or Airlines!

Pathetic lack of leadership and Government!

On the plus side there is plenty of Andrew left at Morrisons

Andrex

I am nearly 76 myself so probably vulnerable but the chance of catching it is about the same as backing all 28 winners at Cheltenham. Of course it is a serious illness but so is cancer which affects millions every year.

No it’s not!

But less people dying of Corona than other flu atm

I heard they have set up temporary morgue in Hyde Park. They do fear this could get out of hand and yet you can fly to Italy

Not much panic buying in the financial markets.

"...... but the chance of catching it is about the same as backing all 28 winners at Cheltenham."

It seems the most risk you have of catching it if you are within about 3-foot of anyone who has got it ! And what makes this so scary anyone who has contracted the disease can start spreading it around before they develop symptoms. And also in the early stages someone could be spreading it although they might only be feeling a bit unwell. Seems to progress in stages, and then suddenly shoots up. Hour by hour this is getting worse. Very scary stuff.

Old people are the ones who should self isolate. People with jobs need to work unless you get paid for being off sick.

Popped to Tesco Express at Brayton this morning, just for some vino, fruit, cheese, milk etc...

At the checkouts was a wall of 16 packs of Andrex.

Interestingly, no displayed price, but I bought a pack anyway!

Worryingly is the fact that, to my knowledge, it all comes from China, so I doubly washed my hands when back here!

For the past few years I've bought Andrex in bulk, via Amazon, 45 or 54 rolls. I felt a little guilty when purchasing my latest order this weekend.

Well nobody can say you don’t give a sheite Astro!

Bunzl, a British company that I own shares in is a very big producer of all use once products including loo and kitchen rolls but not sure where they make it. I did read because of the high volume, low value nature of the product, most of it is made in UK. Andrex is nearly all UK made

Mar 9, 2020 -- 4:52PM, Aspro wrote:

For the past few years I've bought Andrex in bulk, via Amazon, 45 or 54 rolls. I felt a little guilty when purchasing my latest order this weekend.

It's OK...I've got a bidet on order. Should be here before the virus ends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H04y-SKwhBg

Just back from Lidl.

Lol SFB, you got caught, you can drive a bus through a Velvet toilet roll, all "hole" and no paper, back you go.

In my area:

Toilet rolls:  shelves are sparse but still available
Liquid soap:  out of stock Friday and Saturday but some on sale today
Anti-bacterial surface wipes: totally sold out
Canned food: plenty available but stocks lower than usual
Dried pasta: very nearly sold out
Anti-bacterial gel: no chance - totally sold out and has been for about two weeks

Who says it's for me? This is for attracting a mate in the post-viral apocalypse.

"You have the kind of bottom which deserves Andrex Velvet."

The media have stoked the panic. If you tell people it’s deadly and millions will die it’s not surprising people stock up.,

The t roll is an odd one though. How much do people use?

I think it's what happens if you tell people that most will need to self-isolate for several weeks at some point. Good advice, but it requires urgently stockpiling every possible requirement for the entire household. Otherwise it won't be self-isolation.

It's people acting entirely rationally imo. If you don't have an absolute minimum of one month's worth of everything, then panic hard and, most importantly, panic first.

We're at the stage now where people are panic buying because many other people are doing the same, not directly because of the threat of COVID-19.

There are also people buying up large stocks of gel, wipes etc to sell online.

Seems to be cyclical. Recessions every 10-12 years. We are so global now, nothing happens that we don’t know about and aren’t affected by.

Time to dig up verges and plant tatties? Maybe not just yet..

Daily Mail yesterday said up to 100,000 could die. There is a sense of panic developing. I am going to keep calm and carry on. It is the British thing to do and I repeat I am reminded of the poem buy the great cake man


If you can keep your head while others around you are losing theirs....

Then I don’t think you understand the seriousness of the situation Gungadin

Just got back from ASDA. Fresh meat in abundance, but tins and pasta are definitely low on stock, especially the latter where there was no choice at all. Didn't check toilet roll or soap as not required at present.

People are totally pathetic as usual. When i went last night there was a guy loading what must of been at least 100 tins into his car. So caught up in their own little world they dont even realise everyone else is laughing at them.

The problem here is the knock-on effect. Take the pasta for example, there is even a separate thread on it, which I hadn't seen before I posted the above. The shelves were totally empty of pasta. When others see new stock they will now naturally overstock, because of the situation others are causing... and so the crisis deepens.

There is so much pasta in the world!

It will stay useable for months if not years.

So much rice stockpiled

Maybe potatoes will be worth more than oil and all the people like me who laughed when the Irish told God they would rather have potatoes than oil will be made to apologise for laughing at them!

The only people worried are the manufacturers who won't sell much for the next 3 months.

pasta is very bad for you as is too much spud  etc etc

I have three extra tins of chicken and veg soooop

pasta is very bad for you as is too much spud  etc etc

I have three extra tins of chicken and veg soooop

DIG FOR VICTORY

I have three extra tins of chicken and veg soooop

like that's good for you   TINNED CHEAP SKATE

ah but you sea   a fool like ewe  is not prepared as what like i woz - my garage full of beer and bully beef ready for brexit was not such a silly investment  was it!!!?

as usual I am way ahead of this forum and the field.

ps   we seem not to have any troubles you plebs are having   -- we simply do not have the shocking behaviour at our local Waitrose  - it is full of the English way  'after you'   No - 'after you'   etc

Woodcock breasts and Guinea fowl this week   - I like heston's prawn cocktail    - shocking I know

u is the coolest dude smelly sock

Why is it always toilet rolls? It is not as if they are packed full of Chinese electronics.