To think the words gone mad or am I just boring?

Well this thread is now over a year old. I wonder how it's doing for Spudman now. Has the craze passed?

What annoys me now is the Tiktok generation are now telling the world they've invented hiking, so the countryside is crammed with them in their calf length white sports socks and fake eyelashes, posing for selfies every five minutes.

And it's not harmless fun because they're parking dangerously and leaving litter all over the place while making their sunrise videos.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly3387z43ro

He sees himself as a modern day Robin hood 🙄 buskers without permits are stationing themselves near him and then when they get told to move on he berates the council for people "trying to do there best". He thinks he's a very important person in Tamworth. I prefer Jason's Jackets myself.

🤣it’s because Kalani Ghost Hunter gave him a rave review and I think maybe a mini interview too. He’s an American with an appreciation for British food and history and has a HUGE British following

It's just TikTok hype potatoes are
Pre-cooked and wrapped in foil and kept warm not crispy and luke warm when consumed overrated and not value for money.

There's been so many comments on my local baked potato van about them copying spudman, not as good (they make everything from scratch) etc

They've been in the town centre since 1955 so I'm pretty sure they're not copying him

People are strange. Lots of people seem to be sheep like with tic toc trends. Posting themselves pretending to seem in snorkel gear, paying over the odds for Prime, queing for hours for a jacket pocket. Some feel it makes them 'in' with the latest whatever. It's harmless, they may look a bit stupid to some, many have to post something on social media, it's their lifeblood

Life annoys me enough, thank god i don't have tiktok

Its gotta be cheese-beans-cheese!!

Shame they're not as enthusiastic about doing something meaningful though.
To me it just shows a massive lack of imagination, the sleep walkers out in force again.
If someone had demanded they stand out in the cold for hours waiting on a jacket spud they would be up in arms. I think sheep are actually more intelligent than this gullible lot.
Spud man will now take on more staff which he will then have to dismiss in a week or two once the imbeciles have grown bored of it.

Absolutely bonkers!!!!

Especially those who travelled hours and have stayed in hotels overnight before queuing!

Also I love a good baked potato but the fact his chilli con carne and chicken curry comes from tins makes me feel sick 🤢

Heston Blumenthal could probably make THE ULTIMATE BAKED POTATO and everyone would lap it up.

It's a baked potato with cheese and beans, not Heston Blumenthal!

These tik tok bubbles just burst and then things go back to normal. I hope he can make hay while the sun shines. There was a chip shop everyone went mad for and queued for hours but then it just all went quiet.

I would never wait 4hours for a potato. YANBU

Yanbu! People are the weirdest creatures. I would never queue for food if I had a choice about it.

@fonfusedm

@Mothership4two but lots of people are daft though! Is that a surprise?

That is basically what this thread is about. Obviously I am aware that people follow trends and can be daft (it's hardly a new thing) but still am surprised that those people will actually do silly things and don't use common sense. I'm aware some people drink and drive, but find it surprising that an individual would get in a car over the limit knowing what the consequences could be.

No, it was Riley's Fish Shack.

no as i said
It was the Experience,
or as known nowadays making memories

Maybe try the potato before you judge it

I hope he makes his millions off his potato van. Make hay while the sun shines and all that.

Do you not see a difference between being desperate to read the latest installment of a huge multi-novel series and being desperate for a bog-standard baked potato? They don't feel comparable to me.

I agree, it's harmless.
Good for him selling his spuds. And if people want to queue round the block to join in with this and put it on social media.. it harms nobody. It probably marks them out as being a bit easily influenced / desperate to be part of something bigger than their own lives have to offer, but was always the way.
When you really get insightful data (we do through my job) you quickly realise the average person on the street is a bit thick in terms of their own ambitions and defaults to seeks out very simple pleasures so that they feel they fit in with others.

How many years did people used to queue from the early hours of the morning for the Next sale?

Plus there might be those people who see a queue and join it...Brits do love a queue!

me and ds queued at midnight for the latest harry potter book, how ever many years ago that was
it was the experience

It's a lot I agree but it's just a modern sort of advert for a product. Like in America when an excitable car salesman advertises his cars on a local channel. I love those adverts 😁