Bring it on, I say. The hysteria caused by not being able to get hold of cheap tat, turkeys and mince pies will be satisfying to watch.
Steady on - cheap tat and turkeys I can do without, but I'm going to start stockpiling mince pies right now
A failing education system, underfunded NHS, police, people using food banks – fine with me…
What, no artificial Christmas trees? BURN THEM!
Totally agree but it is the Al Capone argument - the important thing is the result, the 'how' is irrelevant.
Johnson will be tried in the court of public opinion and many of the public are morons.
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We need a thread on a self-made STW artisanal Christmas - how to bake your own mince pies with a woodburner, which trail centre forest is best to steal your Christmas tree from etc.
I'm going for the highly traditional 'three rodent roast' this year - a rat stuffed with a squirrel stuffed with a mouse.
Johnson will be tried in the court of public opinion and
manymost of the public are morons.
FTFY
which trail centre forest is best to steal your Christmas tree from etc.
The one you can walk to...
Usually, by this time of year they’ll have a trailer semi-permanently docked in the warehouse out back, full of Xmas crap
I can't be the only one thinking it might be a good thing if the general public are unable to buy the usual disposable mountains of plastic elves and plastic miniature illuminated reindeer?
Shit that’s me, I can drive. Why aren’t I taking my HGV test?
So I've got this Scania and I have questions...
The one you can walk to…
Don't forget, though, you won't be able to get petrol for a chainsaw. Luckily I have my anti-brexity-trailblocker hand chainsaw.
I'll lend it to you for 20p to put in the meter so we can have the fairy lights on for 5 minutes on Christmas night.
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I can’t be the only one thinking it might be a good thing if the general public are unable to buy the usual disposable mountains of plastic elves and plastic miniature illuminated reindeer?
Totally - even better if all the wailing brings Johnson's rabble down.
Here’s hoping a disrupted Christmas finally turns people against this government. It would seem quite likely
I fear it'll make little difference. Incompetence and venality is already priced in when you vote for a party headed by Johnson. Plus they'll have to believe Labour would have done better and then hold that thought until the next election.
which trail centre forest is best to steal your Christmas tree from etc.
The one you can walk to…
More importantly the one you can return from on foot carrying a purloined tree.
Just had the following two songs come up at random from my playlist:
Nowhere to Run - Martha Reeves and the Vandelas.
Pressure Drop - the Clash cover.
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The missus just nipped to the local large Tesco to get a few groceries. She had to bail on that and go to the Co-Op instead as the queues for the filling station mean you can't get into the supermarket itself.
It doesn't seem to be easing around here.
Usually, by this time of year they’ll have a trailer semi-permanently docked in the warehouse out back, full of Xmas crap, but it’s not due until “some time in November”, they’re struggling to keep the shelves stocked at the moment and there just isn’t the capacity in the system to handle the usual Christmas rush.
no mince pies until november! we're so screwed....
which trail centre forest is best to steal your Christmas tree from etc.
i put last years potted one in the yard after christmas and never got around to taking it to the tip. seems to have survived ok.
we bought some mince pies a couple of weeks ago... they lasted about 2 days mind 🤣no mince pies until november! we’re so screwed….
I can’t be the only one thinking it might be a good thing if the general public are unable to buy the usual disposable mountains of plastic elves and plastic miniature illuminated reindeer?
They'll have no problem buying plastic tat made the other side of the world, but they might have problems buying Brussel sprouts from Kent, Turkey from Norfolk and Silton from Derbyshire... one of the many ironies of Brexit.
I live just down the road from a patch of private woodland owned by our local loudmouth rich Brexiteer - who married into a fortune.
I'm sure he won't mind me nipping over the gate with a saw.
Finally managed to fill-up, Awsworth for anyone around that part of Nottingham, something of a relief as was on the light. All calm there too.
Must be a dumb as a rock to decant (and store) petrol into an open container.
^whaaaaat? Surely the garage should refuse sale / close pump....
which trail centre forest is best to steal your Christmas tree from etc.
IME, my old Highland village everyone collected their own tree. From under powerlines and on the access tracks - they were going to be trimmed anyway. It is theft but the rules of the game were clear.
Anyway, I still have one 'free' tree growing in a pot so smug here has his Christmas tree in hand.
no mince pies until november! we’re so screwed….
Already bought but best before is October. Will they freeze?
Our local delivery driver and confirmed anti vaxxer told me that the fuel crisis was manufactured due to having large stocks about to go ‘off’. On Facebook apparently.
He got fuel Tuesday but saw someone else had put £1.61 which is hugely ridiculous.
^ There’s a clip on YouTube of a guy filling up the back of his pickup truck with petrol. It’s from USA mind, so unrelated and different calibre of d*ckh**d.
https://twitter.com/TychoNestoris1/status/1441879746275680259
Not sure if that's real or not.
It begs the question what are they going to do with fuel in a plastic bag? If you have somewhere to safely store it then you would have taken that to the petrol station rather than filling a plastic bag.
People really are dumb
My lad filled up in Morrisons, Ilkeston spud.
Which means he can go out tonight to say his final goodbyes to his girlfriend before he goes to uni
yep, throwing a tree away every year is one of the more ridiculous Chrimbo traditions (there are many others though 😃).Anyway, I still have one ‘free’ tree growing in a pot so smug here has his Christmas tree in hand.
Chaos here (Sussex town) as the garage in the south of the town got fuel this morming so for the first time since Friday it's serving customers. The queue has gridlocked the surrounding roads completly. I cycled past this morning to be faced with an artic trying to pass the queue by driving up the wrong carriageway. At one point the whole town centre was stopped. That's all traffic out to half a mile radius that couldn't move!
I don't imagine the traffic will return to normal until the garage runs dry again....
Must be a dumb as a rock to decant (and store) petrol into an open container.
Don't pumps have a sensor in or something so you can't just whack it into a plastic bag? I thought that was why you had to give the nozzle a wiggle sometimes before you can start filling your car. Or have I just made that up?
Must be a dumb as a rock to decant (and store) petrol into an open container.
Don’t pumps have a sensor in or something so you can’t just whack it into a plastic bag? I thought that was why you had to give the nozzle a wiggle sometimes before you can start filling your car. Or have I just made that up?
The attendant must be dumb as f*ck too as they have authorise the pumps for use (maybe not in the case of pay at pump of course). That can't be real.
I remember the good old fuel crisis back in the early 00's as I was working in a petrol station at the time...oh those were the days
I was only thinking earlier how disappointed I am in the primary school generation. Enterprising kids in the third world will sell you a 2l coke bottle of petrol at every intersection. Whilst smoking a Camel they cadged off the bloke who sells sandals made from old tyres.
Where are all these budding entrepreneurs when the opportunity is there, eh? Tell you what they need - national service. How are we supposed to compete as global Britain if the young can't be bothered to do a day's work?
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69er_Gav
Free MemberNo apparent issue in South Edinburgh. Filled up with diesel last night, all pumps seemed to be in use and several other filling stations had no queues. Must be a southern thing!
Or- we're the capital city and the south of edinburgh is 30 minutes from Grangemouth.
Cardiff and RCT are showing signs of normality returning (admittedly, normality in RCT ain't that normal). Tesco in Ponty and Western Ave in Cardiff seem normal, My local Coop / Texaco is still out of fuel, but due some today.
@P-Jay I was out today on Newport road, no queues in evidence at the Texaco or Morrison's, and a few cars in Asda Pentwyn looked like they were filling up as normal.
So I’ve got this Scania and I have questions…
Snort 🙂
Enterprising kids in the third world will sell you a 2l coke bottle of petrol at every intersection.
This is true, they can't even be bothered to illegally tap the pipelines here. Broken Britain.
Johnson pretty much single handedly created most of the myths that fed growing anti-EU feeling in the UK. He didn’t just step in and use it to gain power, he fed and nourished it as a “journalist” writing jokey and inaccurate pieces about “Brussels” for money and attention long ago.
That's a really good point.
Shit that’s me, I can drive. Why aren’t I taking my HGV test?
Because you'd start a "what lorry?" thread, ignore everyone's advice and buy a clapped-out Tonka truck, then spend the next five years with it in bits before giving up and buying a hovercraft.
Here’s hoping a disrupted Christmas finally turns people against this government. It would seem quite likely.
I do however admire your optimism.
Does anyone know if Buncefield was re-opened after the explosion? My understanding is that the national petrol / diesel pipeline network means that those sort of locations should also be well supplied as well as the refineries.
Wife's Smart car almost empty. She drove in to Sutton for work, couldn't be arsed with queues. Coming home, turned into an empty station to see if they had fuel, filled up, left just as they closed it.
Happy lady. Now has petrol for 2 weeks.
How much to fill a Smart car?
£23.
Looks like our neighbour got his tesla delivered a day or two late for maximum smugness 🤣
2 local stations got diesel delivery in the past 24hrs, both ran out within 2 hrs and before I heard about it. I was very much in the stop panicking camp but now I've not even got enough to chance a station not having any. They're not picking up the phone so I now so after hearing a rumor there may be some, have to ride to the station first to check there is any before going back to get the car and hoping there is some left.
Business partner is also nearly empty and so we may have to shut production. I'm no longer pointing a laughing a headless idiots, I wish I had followed their lead.
On a more positive note I hope that the result issues will get rid of some of the ridiculous supply chain 'optimisation' that goes on and the tat becomes uneconomic to produce.
My EV should roll up on Friday...slightly too late for max smugness but ill take what i can get 🙂
I was out today on Newport road, no queues in evidence at the Texaco or Morrison’s,
That's because they're empty but the shops are open, Sainsbury's on Colchester Avenue is still empty too. Tesco Pengham Green had fuel but not for long as the school run mums have descended on it. From a neighbour who went out looking 30 mins ago.
havent actually drove one yet so I hope it has decent control weight :/
the tat becomes uneconomic to produce
“Tat” doesn’t really need reliable timely supply chains. Food and fuel does.
re there's also petrol and food shortages in europe, it's not happening here in Denmark 😉
My EV should roll up on Friday…slightly too late for max smugness but ill take what i can get 🙂
Ah assuming the next Crisis isn’t a power blackout.
