Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

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:
MissLingoss · 29/07/2018 15:24

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....

If someone I know told me they'd done this, I'd tell them they"d probably get mice and end up having to chuck the whole lot out. I hope everyone stocking up on dry goods is also stocking up on damp proof, rodent proof, insect proof containers. If not, I wouldn't want to live next door to you.

Munchmallow · 29/07/2018 15:37

Don't forget the 'bodies in the street' a poster on one of the batshit threads insisted there will be HmmConfusedShockGrin
Hysterical bloody nonsense

Brazenhussy0 · 29/07/2018 15:40

Don't forget the 'bodies in the street'

Come again? Confused

I must have missed that one. How on Earth do we end up with bodies in the streets?!

rainbowsandsmiles · 29/07/2018 16:09

Bodies in the street?! Missed that one lol. Brazen - maybe from battering each other over the head for the last few tins of Heinz?

OlderThanAverageforMN · 29/07/2018 16:10

Firstly we do not produce 50% of our food entirely in the UK. The UK only has enough farmland to produce 1/3 rd of the food it needs. Much of the food 'produced' in in the UK uses ingredients sourced from abroad

Yes we do and no it isn't. These are farm gate stats from ONS:

Based on the farm-gate value of unprocessed food in 2016, the UK supplied just under half (49%) of the food consumed in the UK. The leading foreign supplier of food consumed in the UK were countries from the EU (30%). Africa supplied 5%, Asia, North and South America all provided a 4% share of the food consumed in the UK.

caroldecker · 29/07/2018 16:18

The main reason we import food from the EU rather than the rest of the world is import duties. We can remove these for cheaper food.

Quietrebel · 29/07/2018 16:22

caroldecker fine, we'll get food, but how are British farmers supposed to compete with that cheaper imported food?

Davros · 29/07/2018 16:24

I do also believe that many people think the gap between comfort and shortages is bigger than it really is (understandably, given how comfortable British life has been in the last 60 years or so).
I vividly remember my teens when we had the 3 day week, power cuts, rubbish piled in the streets, genuine risk of IRA bombs, water shortages, petrol shortages, strikes, riots. We teenagers had a whale of a time and I don't remember my parents or their friends being desperate and anxious, the booze flowed in the candlelight!
I think we should eat each other's pets, it will be less traumatic

middleagedalready · 29/07/2018 16:27

As someone living in the US at present I would suggest being careful with what you wish for in terms of cheap food, you may well find you don't want it when you see what it looks like. Most food ingredients in US are a lot more expensive than the UK at present those that are cheaper are cheaper for a reason.

OlderThanAverageforMN · 29/07/2018 16:28

Quietrebel They sadly already have to compete with cheap imports, especially meat products, but in general the stuff we will need to get imported if the EU decides to be difficult, is what we can't grow here, certain types of fruit and vegetables, and those don't impact our farmers at all.

Brazenhussy0 · 29/07/2018 16:31

maybe from battering each other over the head for the last few tins of Heinz?

@rainbowsandsmiles
I suppose if I'm going to die and have my body littering up the street there are worse ways to go than being brained with a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie. Seems appropriately British somehow.

keyboardkate · 29/07/2018 16:32

rainbows. Get thee to your sofa or your bed. You seem to have been non stop posting on here for two days now. Not that I'm counting!

But I recognise rubbish when I see it. No back up, just constant shite.

Good luck to you love. I hope you will be very happy.

OlderThanAverageforMN · 29/07/2018 16:33

It just occurred to me that Aldi and Lidl will crash and burn, but Waitrose will be fine. All is well with the world Grin

Original poster
WellErrr · 29/07/2018 16:36

Yup. I read on mn someone recommended remove bath panels put provisions there. Some one else earnestly asking where else can I stockpile?

It was shortly after I saw someone suggest making a false floor with many tins and then putting plywood and carpet over the top of them that I was inspired to start this thread.

Oh and FWIW I voted leave. I also voted Tory. I only regret the second one Grin

OP posts:
Original poster
WellErrr · 29/07/2018 16:37

I suppose if I'm going to die and have my body littering up the street there are worse ways to go than being brained with a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie. Seems appropriately British somehow.

😂😂😂😂

OP posts:
BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 29/07/2018 16:45

I’ll be okay I had two cases of wine delivered yesterday.....

extinctspecies · 29/07/2018 16:46

I'm glad the threads about stockpiling seem to have overtaken the trans threads.

(Disclaimer: I have not read the whole thread and this comment is just based on the OP.)

middleagedalready · 29/07/2018 16:48

If I was still in UK I would be gently stocking up on expensive goods like olive oil and not worrying too much about other stuff. But I am lucky enough not to have to worry about paying basic bills, if I was on an income where a 10% plus rise in costs would impact me I would think it was pretty poor taste to be laughing so much. You are right Waitrose shoppers are going to be able to manage better than those who are lower income but that isn't really anything funny.

WhatIfYouFly · 29/07/2018 16:49

I suppose if I'm going to die and have my body littering up the street there are worse ways to go than being brained with a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie. Seems appropriately British somehow.

GrinGrinGrin

Think the fatalities will be worse from flying steak and kidney puddings..suet pastry is notoriously "heavy" Grin

Davros · 29/07/2018 16:50

Our local Waitrose is closing and selling the site to Aldi!

extinctspecies · 29/07/2018 16:55

My DH is travelling back from Europe right now with 2 cases of wine in the boot of the car.

So we'll be OK.

Baumederose · 29/07/2018 16:57

I also saw the tins and plywood floor post. I thought that was quite extreme.

But then...

There was also another one that said about being prepared to defend your home and mentioned buying a cross bow for this purpose.

The only thing to stockpile at this stage is tin foil.

keyboardkate · 29/07/2018 16:57

extinct,

Only two cases? I'd be considering divorce right now!

keyboardkate · 29/07/2018 16:59

Oh, and that is such a good analogy regarding the Trans threads too.

Nature abhors a vacuum. Trans has been overtaken by prepping. LOL.