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To think that this place has gone completely nuts?

287 replies

WellErrr · 29/07/2018 11:04

I've had a break of a few weeks, and come back to many threads about prepping, stockpiling food and batterie so, and mass panic about the end of civilisation as we know it.

Dafuq!?

OP posts:
longwayoff · 29/07/2018 11:09

O god yes. But you might want to pick up a few extra tins of beans . .

thirstyformore · 29/07/2018 11:12

Utterly crazy. Stockpiling? Ffs....anyone me would think Armageddon was forecast (and I’m a remainder).

AlonsoTigerHeart · 29/07/2018 11:15

Crazy? Of finally woke to the apocalypse?

KC225 · 29/07/2018 11:15

Hahahaha - I laughed like a drain when I read it.

I wonder if any of them remember the millennium bug - when planes would drop out of the sky, when generators would stop and nuclear reacfora would over heat.

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 29/07/2018 11:16

Yanbu. It has gone completely nuts. Hiding many many threads at the moment.

kmc1111 · 29/07/2018 11:17

I mean, this place goes completely nuts when bad weather affects supply lines/ability to leave the house for a few days in a few pockets of the country.

If a deal isn’t made before we leave the EU, a few days of disruption nation-wide is the best case scenario, so not surprising people are freaking out.

ProfessorMoody · 29/07/2018 11:19

Yes, they're absolutely batshit.

meditrina · 29/07/2018 11:20

It's the latest part of Project Fear.

And will probably pass.

But it's sensible to have enough stuff around that you can survive a few days if something goes tits up. Think back to tanker drivers strike of 2000, or how you would manage if your banking network had a 48 hour outage, or if the local substation failed and nowhere nearby had power until it was fixed. Or you were flooded, cut off by snow or whatever.

So having a decent non-perishable food cupboard, torches, candles, batteries - list goes on - see Prepper topic; is prudent. And if you ask your parents/grandparent, you'll find it's what they do anyhow (anyone who lived through the war/rationing, or was brought up by someone whose housekeeping habits were formed then).

'just in time' supply chains, whether commercial or domestic, are not particularly shock-proof.

Roussette · 29/07/2018 11:23

Bonkers threads indeed, I agree.

I actually think it's wrong to scaremonger like this, because some sensitive souls get really alarmed.

Needless to say I'm not one of those sensitive souls

Tink1990 · 29/07/2018 11:23

It is all a bit much. And im quite a worrier but.. meh. Whatever will be will be. I cant do anything to change it so i cant worry

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 29/07/2018 11:23

Guess I’m first to perish as I’m not stockpiling...madness

gamerchick · 29/07/2018 11:23

I wonder if any of them remember the millennium bug - when planes would drop out of the sky, when generators would stop and nuclear reacfora would over heat

As has been repeatedly said on here, that took YEARS of prep to avoid Hmm do you think it just didn't happen? Grin honestly man!

Bluelady · 29/07/2018 11:24

I'm a remainer and can't believe the lunacy.

IKnowItsTIMHONKSTIMHONKS · 29/07/2018 11:24

YANBU! It does remind me of the millennium bug! So much hysteria.

IKnowItsTIMHONKSTIMHONKS · 29/07/2018 11:25

And I'm also a remainer I should add.

pennycarbonara · 29/07/2018 11:25

Even as someone who does this sort of thing and is interested in the topic, I think there are a ridiculous number of threads. Although part of that is a problem with the forum structure not making it the obvious thing to do to search for existing threads.

DeloresJaneUmbridge · 29/07/2018 11:27

It’s not Project Fear if you are a Tyoe 1 disabetic. Are you aware that the UK produces none of its own insulin?

The Govt are encouraging stockpiling.

Instead of moaning about Project Fear perhaps start pushing your MP to pile pressure on those making the decisions for a fucking deal because believe me a No Deal Brexit is going to be bloody awful.

We will dumb down our food quality standards from stringent EU ones to the US standard which is nowhere near as good for a start. That’s fine and will get stuff moving again but we will import much lower quality food which will be cheaper (great) but will probably stuff our farmers.

Look up “just in time” food supply and then tell me people are mad.

Push your MP for a deal.

The people making the decisions don’t care about you or me, they have spare cash and can get what they want. We need to make them care.

So YABU

Gretagumbo · 29/07/2018 11:27

Yup Where there is money to be made, the trade links will still exist, regardless of lines drawn on maps.

People underestimate the power of capitalism (greed)

Crunchymum · 29/07/2018 11:30

Guess you're all very lucky not to have to worry about things like daily medication for your disabled child.

Look, I know logically it's all bollocks but that doesn't mean there isn't a small part of me that is a bit concerned

I also take daily medication for a life long condition (currently x3 different types daily) and if I run out I'll be unable to walk / look after my kids properly.

Just because you don't buy into the fear and panic doesn't mean that people who do are stupid. They are just scared, uncertain and worried.

KC225 · 29/07/2018 11:30

gamerchick It did not take years to sort out the millennium bug. What a load of rubbish. But I will give you sonething, I am still laughing about all the hysteria years later.

Witchend · 29/07/2018 11:31

No I'm not stockpiling. I'm fine. I build my own Nuclear Bunker last year Grin

Storminateapot · 29/07/2018 11:31

Oh God yes! Absolute hysterical nonsense, but if people want to lumber themselves with a million tins of beans I'm sure Heinz will be very happy to take their money off them, sniggering all the way to the bank.

I was reading here yesterday and thinking how maybe I need to just go away and come back after the summer holiday batshittery ends because half the things I'm reading on here right now are either loopy or blatant trolling and it gets dull very quickly.

DeloresJaneUmbridge · 29/07/2018 11:32

Here you are OP, how EU food quality standards differ from the US ones. Which one would you prefer? I know which one I want us to be getting.

www.ecowatch.com/13-ways-the-eu-beats-the-u-s-on-food-safety-1881850175.html

Bluelady · 29/07/2018 11:34

Didn't take long for this thread to get infected, did it?

DeloresJaneUmbridge · 29/07/2018 11:34

I am not stockpiling. I am confident we have enough to last us for a few weeks anyway. I AM concerned about what our food quality will be like post Brexit though

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