Petrol rationing

[croyde]

Talking about it on LBC this morning. Minister says just fill up as normal.

I'll expect queues by lunchtime today

[Red9zero]

Is LBC anything to do with the Daily Mail ?

Anyone want to buy any toilet rolls ?

[croyde]

As I sit here typing I'm down to my last one

[Red9zero]

croyde said:

As I sit here typing I'm down to my last one

I have a terrible image in my head now

[nikaiyo2]

croyde said:

As I sit here typing I'm down to my last one

LOL my mum bought some toilet paper during the pandemic one of the big packs 24 rolls or whatever and I put it in the funny little cupboard at the top of her airing cupboard so it did not get in the way... fast forward Sunday, can I get down whatever is in that cupboard as she has no idea why its so full...

So I took one home with me so technically I used pandemic loo roll this morning :P

[Mr Whippy]

Fuel today, flour by summer.

[JagLover]

nikaiyo2 said:

croyde said:

As I sit here typing I'm down to my last one

LOL my mum bought some toilet paper during the pandemic one of the big packs 24 rolls or whatever and I put it in the funny little cupboard at the top of her airing cupboard so it did not get in the way... fast forward Sunday, can I get down whatever is in that cupboard as she has no idea why its so full...

So I took one home with me so technically I used pandemic loo roll this morning :P

I have kept a stash ever since the panic buying.

I currently have forty rolls of the white gold

[Hereward]

[Red9zero]

JagLover said:

I have kept a stash ever since the panic buying.

I currently have forty rolls of the white gold

Amateur. We have 92, +3 in each toilet, so 104 altogether. All bought before the current drama too. My wife likes bulk buying toilet rolls and as the last batch wasn't quite good enough, she bought some Bumboo ones. Obviously, the nice Bumboo ones are to be used in the downstairs toilet where visitors are likely to use and we have the cheaper ones in the other toilets

[Red9zero]

Mr Whippy said:

Fuel today, flour by summer.

During Covid our local village shop started pandering to the bored Mum's and getting in any obscure ingredients they wanted. They ended up selling 9 different types of flour by the time we got back to normal, and it is a very small shop !

[Mr Penguin]

I started buying packs of 72 from Amazon back in 2016 so we have plenty, and did during Covid. When the 2020-2021 pack of toilet rolls arrived in summer 2020 the driver gave me a very dirty look.

[Tankrizzo]

I fully expect us to be in a social media-driven fuel crisis by the end of April, regardless if there's a shortage or not. The mouth breathers round my way only need one hysterical Facebook post to rush out and brim off £2.86 worth in their tanks anyway.

[Slow.Patrol]

JagLover said:

I have kept a stash ever since the panic buying.

I currently have forty rolls of the white gold

Pah.

We have a bidet toilet.

So much more civilised.

[Jordan247]

Fortunately I have an electric car being delivered on Monday.

Although I haven't tested the car charger on the house so that could cause an issue

[Red9zero]

Jordan247 said:

Fortunately I have an electric car being delivered on Monday.

Although I haven't tested the car charger on the house so that could cause an issue

You just wait until the electric rationing starts

[JoshSm]

Tankrizzo said:

I fully expect us to be in a social media-driven fuel crisis by the end of April, regardless if there's a shortage or not. The mouth breathers round my way only need one hysterical Facebook post to rush out and brim off £2.86 worth in their tanks anyway.

I saw bits of this happen a couple of weeks ago, petrol stations hugely busy in one particularly area late in the evening, meanwhile the rest of the world carried on regardless.

I'd suspect the community grapevine in that case given where it was.

[Red9zero]

JoshSm said:

Tankrizzo said:

I fully expect us to be in a social media-driven fuel crisis by the end of April, regardless if there's a shortage or not. The mouth breathers round my way only need one hysterical Facebook post to rush out and brim off £2.86 worth in their tanks anyway.

I saw bits of this happen a couple of weeks ago, petrol stations hugely busy in one particularly area late in the evening, meanwhile the rest of the world carried on regardless.

I'd suspect the community grapevine in that case given where it was.

I saw that too. Queues at one petrol station then a couple of miles down the road one with no queues. I assume people just see a queue and join it.

[cirian75]

People will go stupid, I'll just top up once a week at a quiet time, instead of filling up every 3 weeks..

Edited by cirian75 on Tuesday 17th March 11:26

[motco]

Mr Penguin said:

I started buying packs of 72 from Amazon back in 2016 so we have plenty, and did during Covid. When the 2020-2021 pack of toilet rolls arrived in summer 2020 the driver gave me a very dirty look.

You should have given him a roll and told him to wipe that look off his face!

[Shooter McGavin]

Amusingly when Covid kicked off and the shelves of the local supermarket were stripped bare of bog roll I bought a job lot of these off Amazon. They came in a huge cardboard box, about 100 individual packs.



We've been slowly working through them as an emergency stash ever since, whenever normal bog roll supplies are depleted whilst waiting for the weekly online shop.

My wife hates them because without having a dispenser the sheets just bloody go everywhere once you have cracked a pack open, but I hope to have the last laugh by seeing our two global crises with the same stash!