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Post by thehartshillbadger on Sept 24, 2021 22:00:49 GMT
Could you be any more condescending? I could but I doubt you'd be intelligent enough to notice Good one, I’ll give you that. Your intelligence is far superior to mine😉 How on earth you manage to find time to post on here all day, every day whilst in the midst of a full time job of sanctimonious crusading is beyond me😉
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Post by prestwichpotter on Sept 24, 2021 22:05:02 GMT
I could but I doubt you'd be intelligent enough to notice Good one, I’ll give you that. Your intelligence is far superior to mine😉 How on earth you manage to find time to post on here all day, every day whilst in the midst of a full time job of sanctimonious crusading is beyond me😉 Don't worry yourself fella, it's got literally fuck all to do with you.......
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Sept 24, 2021 22:05:50 GMT
Good one, I’ll give you that. Your intelligence is far superior to mine😉 How on earth you manage to find time to post on here all day, every day whilst in the midst of a full time job of sanctimonious crusading is beyond me😉 Don't worry yourself fella, it's got literally fuck all to do with you....... Touché
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Post by ravey123 on Sept 24, 2021 23:07:01 GMT
Even this miniscule town in mid wales has run out, they're bloody everywhere. Just said on the news that BP only have 2 stations without fuel. We must be mighty unlucky in Staffs cos I’ve seen 2 BP stations this evening closed with no fuel
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Post by scfcbiancorossi on Sept 24, 2021 23:13:57 GMT
If there is one thing this pandemic has taught me it's how fucking thick and selfish people are.... And the media feed it and revel in it Absolutely mate. You know somethings pretty fucked up with the world when the likes of the BBC (along with most newspapers) have a fake, scare mongering headline around fuel shortages, meanwhile having absolutely zero coverage of police officers firing at unarmed civilians in Australia. It's quite staggering how low the media has sank over the past 18 months.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2021 23:19:32 GMT
Queues down the road at my local , i wonder what it was in the minister's statement didn't understand Why would anyone believe a word that comes out of Grant Shapps' mouth though? He's part of Cabinet that engages in serial lying. That's part of the problem. Complete lack of trust. It would be really out of character for him to be saying something that is actually true. Or Michael Green, Corinne Stockheath and Sebastian Fox. Which apparently are the same person. Still he seems to speak some sense on the HGV driver situation
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Post by scfcbiancorossi on Sept 24, 2021 23:26:19 GMT
Queues down the road at my local , i wonder what it was in the minister's statement didn't understand Why would anyone believe a word that comes out of Grant Shapps' mouth though? He's part of Cabinet that engages in serial lying. That's part of the problem. Complete lack of trust. It would be really out of character for him to be saying something that is actually true. His incompetence in presiding over the road works crisis (despite having no cars on the road for 12 months) and his total abuse of the travel industry is unforgivable.
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Post by desman2 on Sept 25, 2021 1:06:50 GMT
My wife is one of those community key workers who uses about a tank a week at the best of times. I saw this coming and managed to fill her car this morning before she works this weekend and people were there with their cans filling up. God knows what we will do next week, I fear we will have to take our chances wherever has fuel People don't realise panic buying will create an actual shortage. The government and media are 100% responsible for this and it's frankly disgusting behaviour from them. How the fuck are the government to blame My take on this. They knew this was happening some time ago. They could have put the military into action to help out which would have probably reduced the urge to panic buy. They didn't do that. They would rather have a system where they can have queues of 100 cars waiting to go into a garage and filling to the brim thus raking in all that lovely fuel duty, rather than a steady stream of vehicles just filling up with modest amounts over time. They are the ones who benefit most from all this. The biggest losers are the most vulnerable such as those who require community care and cant get it because the carers can't get the fuel to do their rounds.
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Post by Northy on Sept 25, 2021 4:29:26 GMT
Ive got to find some today, drive home to Stevenage after work. I passed an empty Tesco garage on the way in early yesterday morning and thought I'll get some later on the way back, little did I know how many fook wits are about
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Post by EccyStokie on Sept 25, 2021 7:11:32 GMT
Came away for the weekend yesterday. Didn’t fill up as had enough to get here. What a mistake that was. Chaos at every station yesterday. Got up early this morning to try and fill and everyone’s runs out. Asked in the station and they have no idea when they’re getting topped up. Running on fumes as it is.
Why are people so selfish? Wankers
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Post by harryburrows on Sept 25, 2021 7:27:37 GMT
Came away for the weekend yesterday. Didn’t fill up as had enough to get here. What a mistake that was. Chaos at every station yesterday. Got up early this morning to try and fill and everyone’s runs out. Asked in the station and they have no idea when they’re getting topped up. Running on fumes as it is. Why are people so selfish? Wankers Totally agree but I think you've answered your own question 🤔
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2021 8:26:46 GMT
Literally creating panic so they can report on it later:
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Post by lawrieleslie on Sept 25, 2021 8:32:48 GMT
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Post by followyoudown on Sept 25, 2021 8:39:13 GMT
On the plus side I have 1/3 tank and need to fill up for a drive to Stone next saturday by wednesday or thursday garages should be empty of idiots who will be sitting on enough to make them associate members of OPEC so I should be in and out in a couple of minutes
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Sept 25, 2021 8:51:15 GMT
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Post by questionable on Sept 25, 2021 9:26:11 GMT
Heard this morning there’s going to a shortage of rubber bands, just putting it out there so I can spread mass panic resulting in a national surge in purchases,
On a side note I’ve still got a shit load of pasta I can’t get rid of if anyone is interested.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Sept 25, 2021 9:56:25 GMT
Yes he was only recruited yesterday by the BBC as one of their new group of correspondents called "make up a story where there isn’t one" department. He may get a foreign posting if he’s lucky as the BBC Make up a story Foreign Correspondent. He could end up in the USA and find there are at least 5 USA correspondents who don’t do anything because Laura Kuenssberg is the Chief Political Correspondent who appears all over the world alongside Lyse Ducet.
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Post by Seymour Beaver on Sept 25, 2021 10:05:35 GMT
During the fuel protests of 2000 panic buying like no other took hold. At the time I was working in Hemel Hempstead and at one end of the industrial estate was a forecourt - at the other a travellers camp.
It was soon reported that along the lines of cars were a couple of 'gentlemen' in hiviz telling those queuing that' All the pumps have been set to £10 max and its cash only - so if you pay now you can drive on and drive off and we can keep the queue moving"
I reckon at least 75% of the gullible bastards handed over a tenner.
Don't you just love enterprise.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Sept 25, 2021 10:27:16 GMT
The Mrs needed some petrol this morning so I decided we’d risk it,2 hours later and having passed 6 stations we managed to get £30 of super unleaded 🙄😡What an absolute joke this is
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Post by bucknall67 on Sept 25, 2021 10:39:15 GMT
I worked Thursday night and saw the headlines and thought I will be ok getting some as I go to work on Friday night.
It was bedlam.
Not much better on Saturday morning.
Managed to get 30 quid's worth on the way in last night.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Sept 25, 2021 10:53:07 GMT
I’ve not seen any queues this morning, but a great deal of the pumps have sold out signs on them.
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Post by longdistancekiddie on Sept 25, 2021 10:59:18 GMT
Ive got to find some today, drive home to Stevenage after work. I passed an empty Tesco garage on the way in early yesterday morning and thought I'll get some later on the way back, little did I know how many fook wits are about I thought that you lived in Northwich, ?
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Sept 25, 2021 11:38:23 GMT
Yes he was only recruited yesterday by the BBC as one of their new group of correspondents called "make up a story where there isn’t one" department. He may get a foreign posting if he’s lucky as the BBC Make up a story Foreign Correspondent. He could end up in the USA and find there are at least 5 USA correspondents who don’t do anything because Laura Kuenssberg is the Chief Political Correspondent who appears all over the world alongside Lyse Ducet. Bloody BBC, causing these fuel shortages and wasting our licence fees by reporting from news locations globally...
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Post by dave1 on Sept 25, 2021 12:05:08 GMT
Glad that I went electric a few months back!!!!
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Post by 3putts on Sept 25, 2021 12:15:10 GMT
Just gone past esso at hanford probably the dearest fuel in Stoke, and they are queuing! morons
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Post by dave1 on Sept 25, 2021 12:16:18 GMT
Just gone past esso at hanford probably the dearest fuel in Stoke, and they are queuing! morons Baldwins Gate filling station is queuing too. Don't think that you see much change from 1.50 p/l
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Post by Linx on Sept 25, 2021 12:35:53 GMT
Had to turn around halfway to the Stoke game because not enough fuel to get home and nowhere to fill up. Seriously pissed off.
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Post by Caerwrangonpotter on Sept 25, 2021 13:28:52 GMT
With the Worcester News doing its finest to fan the flames, plenty of queuing & empty pumps around the Faithful City today
Absolute cock wombles on the media for causing the 'panic"
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Post by shakermaker on Sept 25, 2021 13:41:05 GMT
My wife is one of those community key workers who uses about a tank a week at the best of times. I saw this coming and managed to fill her car this morning before she works this weekend and people were there with their cans filling up. God knows what we will do next week, I fear we will have to take our chances wherever has fuel People don't realise panic buying will create an actual shortage. The government and media are 100% responsible for this and it's frankly disgusting behaviour from them. The most panic buying can do is cause a temporary shortage - unlike bog rolls and pasta once people's tanks are full they can't keep buying it. What you're getting at the moment is people who would have filled up sometime over the weekend for the week ahead all filling up on a Friday and most won't use much of it. It will all have blown over by Tuesday afternoon. It has a knock on effect on so many things though. I'm in a FB group with someone who works for one of the courier companies - he's said drivers have been unable to fuel their delivery vans, and in one case, it's meant a delivery of biological products that was headed to a hospital hasn't been made and those products have perished. He didn't say what those products were, but...
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Post by questionable on Sept 25, 2021 13:42:26 GMT
Had to turn around halfway to the Stoke game because not enough fuel to get home and nowhere to fill up. Seriously pissed off. With a third of a tank it’s insane as I’d waste that gambling on finding a garage then queuing for hours, err no thanks. The media seriously want shafting for their coverage, there’s serious stuff going on in Melbourne that’s getting little if any attention, why is beyond belief. Now if there’s a few cabbages missing from Morrison’s shelves or a friggin volcano erupting in Spain or a thick as fcuk sounding assistant deputy labour leader slagging off bozzer it’s headline news. Roll on the next lockdown
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