To think that this place has gone completely nuts?

[WellErrr]

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!?

I didn’t get the impression the people stockpiling were all remainers.

It’s so easy for the Brexit folk to blame all this on remainer hysteria when I think that’s far from the case.

As I have said before on here, preppers are preppers because they love prepping! It’s almost a hobby. It’s something they enjoy, otherwise why do it.
We are one of the richest countries in the world, that isn’t going to change overnight

What is more worrying is the slow drip effect on the economy which will take years. But I guess that’s not as exciting

But Brian will be ok. He has beans and corned beef to look forward to for tea for the next 7 years.

I am being positive,I will buy extra wine and tea,any other shortages are an opportunity to loose weight.
Seriously though having left the EU they are not going to let us starve or die due to lack of meds.

"Yes because the world is exactly the same place as it was in 1975 isn’t it. We all eat the same foods and have the same standard of living. No products, imports or exports are different. "

More appropriate to consider 1992 when we went into the Single Market - the world has still changed, but it's more comparable.

I do think this is actually something we forget. The single market dates from 1992, not 1975 when we joined the then EEC. The eastern European countries who form the main source of migrant labour started joining in 2004, so still a fair while, but well within recent history.

'So having a decent non-perishable food cupboard, torches, candles, batteries - list goes on - see Prepper topic; is prudent.' I've always done this as I've lived in rural places where you can get cut off. Our first house was on Dartmoor, so I've made sure I've had stocks as listed above in since 1986. It's force of habit now.

When ministers admit to taking steps to secure medical supplies and to working with the food industry to ensure there's no disruption to supply, then it's no longer scare mongering.....but reality.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/24/contingencies-planned-to-ensure-uks-post-brexit-food-supply-says-raab

There are a lot of complete idiots on this thread whose definition of keeping up to date with current affairs is watching the latest episode of Love Island.

There are also a lot of idiots who believe everything the media feeds them......

For the empty headed, anything with facts and figures seems like hysteria.

Ah yes, when someone doesn't hold the same views as you let's resort to insults.

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how will you charge your phone with no electricity?
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In the car?

Boom @WellErrr wins the thread

When ministers admit to taking steps to secure medical supplies and to working with the food industry to ensure there's no disruption to supply, then it's no longer scare mongering.....but reality.

This is exactly what they should be doing, notice the words avoid and disruption before the word supply.
They are working to make the disruption non-existant to minimal.

If there’s no deal then the food we get that comes via the EU, not just food from the EU will be affected. Rotterdam are already doing loads of investment to cope with that eventuality cos they are scared of diversions direct to Felixstowe if they don't pull their fingers out.

Now have visions of Brian with a shell made of tins of beans.

Jack Munro is on an anti prepping rant on the basis it causes scarcity and raises prices which the poorest are least equipped to cope with. Suggests the worthy prep by donation to food banks which makes sense. The most commonly prepped items on her thread seem to be capers though so not sure how that helps anyone.

@BrazenHussy0

I've been reading some of these threads with my mouth literally hanging open. Talk of riots, people breaking into houses for food, electricity cutting out, water shortages etc... it's properly bonkers.

I really do think some posters have way too much time on their hands and too many preppers really, really enjoy the fantasy of an Armageddon situation. More exciting than being a SAHM I imagine.

Ba ha ha ha ha! BURN!!!

@captainkirkssparetupee

I think you are right, there are a few that really want it to happen, then followers who want it to happen just to prove people who voted out were idiots, then the people who get ripped in with the hysteria of it all.

Exactly. there are some proper bonkers folk out there stockpiling a thousand cans of ravioli! I hope they have a manual tin opener, (or those cans with ring pulls!) coz we will have no electricity you know - OR gas, or heating, or running water.

WE'RE ALL DOOMED I TELLZ YA! DOOOOOMED!

I hope they have a manual tin opener, (or those cans with ring pulls!) coz we will have no electricity

Wait... you open your cans with an electric appliance? Really?? I didn't even know such a thing existed.

Hysteria is not helpful for anyone but given the government is talking about getting food distributors to stock pile it is hardly surprising if citizens feel that doing a small amount of this might be helpful. Particularly given that supermarkets operate on small margins, have a just in time model and don't have spare warehouses sitting about. We may end up with a BINO but even if that happens a cost rise for many goods seems likely so a small surplus particulary for people on lower incomes sounds sensible. It might also be sensible to source specific items from EU that are luxury items, I guess capers might come into that category. The world is hardly ending and we may end up with nothing much happening in the short term but if it is prudent for government to plan and prepare it is also prudent for citizens to consider doing so.

PMSL @diegomadonna

If worst comes to worst I can sell my body.
My arm and leg will fetch a good price, I only need one of each anyway.

Why does all the talk of Brexit bring out the absolute worse in people?

Posters seem to get egged on by each other with who can be the coolest, wittiest most popular with their posts and end up looking like ignorant, horrible bitches.

Honestly have your opinions but don’t turn into keyboard warriors when you wouldn’t have the balls to be so rude to other people in real life.

I say this about both remain and leave threads before anyone starts with their remoaner bullshit.

People are truly worried about their future and some posters add an educated opinion that actually benefits the conversation and helps ease people’s worries or gives them a sensible plan they can follow to make them feel they have at least a little power over a situation so completely unknown and out of their hands.

Other posters just try and look cool and edgy and end up looking like twats.

Fear of the unknown is a very real thing for a huge number of people.

The fact that there is no leadership out there calming these fears is the root of all this.

Posters here saying it will all be fine will just not cut it I'm afraid.

Actually does anyone remember that kids TV show where chocolate was banned and a bunch of kids were making their own and selling it with a bunch of underground freedom fighters?
I think it may have been Australian?

A previous poster asked why we are able to cope with the recent weather disruption but paperwork is going to be such an issue.

I've lost power twice in the past 48 hours for extended periods and I live in an area with no mobile signal. There have been fires and accidents with people unable to call for help. The two supermarkets within 10 miles have been without any chilled or frozen food for 36 hours as a result of failures in the individual shop's equipment and across the country many stores are lacking fresh food due to a fire at a chilled distribution centre. We're already using our stored foods for an average Sunday.

Runs round in circles flapping at yet another thread, ahhhh you're right, YANBU.
Why do MN relegate to our own board, it's a conspiracy they're all in on behalf and it's to shut the wimmin up! (Seen both these past few days) no, no THIS is why. Board clog up of batshittery.

MN is a relatively open forum, if there are a number of posts on stockpiling this is a reflection of people's rl concerns. If you don't want to know what their concerns are, don't read the posts.

If only it were so easy. MNters seem to delight in labelling their threads in as obscure a way as possible to ensure readers can't tell its yet another thread about Brexit. Or inserting some aside about Brexit in a completely unrelated thread. A 'hide all posts about Brexit' option would be great!

Hang on, hang on, I'm a SAHM, so in defence of them we haven't all launched ourselves into the pot of hysteria

Posters seem to get egged on by each other with who can be the coolest, wittiest most popular with their posts and end up looking like ignorant, horrible bitches.

Honestly have your opinions but don’t turn into keyboard warriors when you wouldn’t have the balls to be so rude to other people in real life.

cups ginormous balls
If someone I know told me they ripped off the panels on their bathtub to stuff a load of beans or dry pasta under it, I'd give them the exact same response I gave here - it's a completely disproportionate reaction.

I absolutely will take the piss out of that kind of behaviour, because
drumming up hysteria and over-dramatising the situation does nothing but frighten people and incite panic.
There was a woman who posted a thread here yesterday about how she had been in tears with worry over what people had been saying on the prepper threads ffs.

Chattering away about crisis scenarios that are highly unlikely to happen (electricity cuts, water issues, riots over food shortages, medicine running out etc.) does not help keep people calm or give them any sense of control.

Brazenhussy0 You can't really describe it as disproportionate re medicines as there are a few posters who need unusual drugs who have been told by their own doctors that their medicines could be difficult to get, and the chairman of the medicines regulatory agency was quoted yesterday that there may be problems with getting some types of insulin. (Not all types work as well for everyone.)

The water and electricity concerns seem somewhat OTT though. The only place for which there seems to have been any substantive concern about electricity is Northern Ireland because of possible effects of no deal on the contracts for importing it from Eire.

I loved the so-called millenium bug.

Tons of overtime & no extra work! It paid for the deposit on my house.....

If society as we know it does break down into a Mad Max type dystopia, the first thing I'll be doing is stealing food and supplies from the weak.....