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To wish people would stop being such selfish fucking bellends.

216 replies

Soapytoad · 28/03/2020 06:22

That’s it really. Everyone else has to KEEP going to the shops to try and find essentials because the fucking knobheads have bough and keep buying up everything.

How can you social distance when you have to constantly hop from shop to shop for basic food for your children?! I’m in the shops more now than I was before this shitshow started.

I couldn’t give a fuck if I got Covid-19, but I don’t want my kids getting it, ever. I have to leave them at home while I go out! I live rurally so no take away, no drliveroo, no community and only 2 towns 15 miles in opposite directions. Still no fucking toilet roll, still no basic veg oil, no hand sanitiser, no basic vegetables, no meat. My kids eat before I do do at least I’m losing weight now, and we have now discovered those birds eye chicken burgers approved by mumsnet. (They are amazing btw!)

Fuck off selfish people and stop putting everyone else at risk you fucking selfish, fucking boggely eyed cuntvid pisswesels.

OP posts:
Callcentreworker23 · 28/03/2020 08:05

My food shop has gone from around £50 to over £100 a week. There is nothing in stock except the posh stuff. I ended up with £6 oil this week! I normally don't spend a £1 on 3L!!!

Dongdingdong · 28/03/2020 08:07

I haven’t been able to get bread from the milkman all week and you can’t stockpile bread!

@Splodgetastic Of course you can - just stick it in the freezer!

SuperFurryDoggy · 28/03/2020 08:07

I’m sure there are a lot of people stockpiling. I don’t think they alone account for the empty shelves though.

I read that the UK has an extra £1 billion of food in our homes. At the last count, the population of the UK was £66.44 million. That means we have stockpiled a massive £1.50 per person worth of food. I doubt most people realise they’ve done it.

We have a food supply system designed on the basis that people will pop to the shops and top up every few days. People are being told to shop less frequently. I think that’s the root of the problem.

antipodes1 · 28/03/2020 08:08

I have to buy just a bit more we have 3 kids at home now who usually eat at school so that 15 more meals a week plus snacks and my oh who usually buys his lunch at work now takes a packed lunch so that’s another 5 meals.

We also usually have a take away or eat out once or twice a week.
In total that’s 22 more meals I have to prepare each week and I don’t want to keep popping into the shops so I have to get more than I usually do.

IceniSky · 28/03/2020 08:09

How do you know the painkillers are not for 2 households?

I only see this finger pointing on mumsnet. It's like the Salem witch trials. Can't we just have some compassion and understanding for everyone please? You have no idea why people are buying more food. If all these selfish cunts exist as according to Mumsnet then the human race is truely fucked. We need to stick together and stop with inventing imaginary scenarios or situations in our heads of what other people are doing.

Focus on your situation, and help others when you can. And Thank you for the job you are doing.

SarahInAccounts · 28/03/2020 08:10

What is the solution?

shinyredbus · 28/03/2020 08:11

Where does it say that people who have caught it have immunity?

mogloveseggs · 28/03/2020 08:12

@Amazemae that's what was reported on our local Facebook chat re Asda. I didn't mean in general sorry.

Dh has gone instead of me-wanted the walk. So for lunch this week we will be having donuts and beer Grin

okiedokieme · 28/03/2020 08:12

Can you get to a bigger city? There's no shortages here now, hasn't been since last week. Aldi has been fully stocked all week bar hand sanitizer, but you don't need it, soap is fine

Boulshired · 28/03/2020 08:12

I know many who have self isolated for 14 days, who are now shopping again but many are still preparing in case they need to. With restrictions in place and possibly a large increase in cases it’s hard to get others to get enough supplies for large families if they need to isolate. So I do think that some shoppers are still trying to prepare for isolation if needed.

BeijingBikini · 28/03/2020 08:13

Calling other people selfish cunts won't make them or you a better person.

JaceLancs · 28/03/2020 08:14

I normally shop daily which obviously I’m not doing
I have managed to get what I needed so far our local shops have been ok
Worried as to how I will cope as long as this goes on though as I’m also shopping for DM 81 and NDN 80, if I can only buy one of everything then it just means I have to go out more often which I’m trying not to do!
I did some shopping for DM on Tuesday but am going to try Sainsbury’s on Sunday for a bigger shop for us all

Weedsnseeds1 · 28/03/2020 08:16

As you are rural, check your Parish Council website. Ours have been amazingly organised.
They have organised the whole village. Each street has a coordinator who has posted a contact number through every door. We have two women baking bread ( I sourced bulk flour for them through my contacts at the mill), the farm is selling veg three days a week, another farm has a pasteuriser, so we have self collection milk, the garden centre down the road is doing hot meal deliveries for the vulnerable / people in isolation. the primary school has become a hub to sort and distribute groceries to anyone who needs them. We even have a bee keeper with honey and someone brewing mead!

Amazemae · 28/03/2020 08:16

@Beautiful3 you are losing weight because you are making sure your children and husband are fed properly? Your husband is quite happy with this?

Frouby · 28/03/2020 08:17

I normally do a big shop every 10-12 days. And 1 or 2 top ups of fresh stuff, bits I've forgotten etc in between. Obviously I can't do those top ups now so am doing a bigger shop once a week and a bread/milk run once a week.

2 dcs usually eat at school, dh at work. So an extra 15 lunches to buy, plus dcs snacks. So I have been buying extra but had zero waste tbf. Supermarkets been fairly well stocked but few missing bits.

Next week I intend to just get what I need from M and S because I can't face another morrisons shop. Have tried to avoid using the local spar as not everyone has a car and I can get to the little retail park up the road and the m and s has been well stocked.

Amazemae · 28/03/2020 08:18

@BeijingBikini totally agree.

LakieLady · 28/03/2020 08:19

@Hearhoovesthinkzebras, I'm in the SE too and things haven't been too bad.

The only things I haven't been able to get are tinned toms, tom puree and some pasta (fusilli and penne are available, but not macaroni or spaghetti). Fresh veg hasn't been brilliant though. There hasn't been much and it hasn't appeared very fresh.

I'm craving Savoy cabbage or kale!

We're also cooking and eating more because we're at home 24/7. We've been eating really well, roasts and casseroles and stuff like that, all made from scratch. We can't be arsed to do that when we're out at work, and we're not here for lunch anyway, except at weekends.

We're definitely getting through a lot more food.

Splodgetastic · 28/03/2020 08:21

@Dongdingdong, I know you can put bread in the freezer, but I would have thought people would be using their freezers for more valuable food sources such as meat, fish and vegetables, not stockpiling hundreds of loaves. It’s not like pasta and tins of things.

TabbyMumz · 28/03/2020 08:22

The hour for nhs workers is interesting because on another thread, a paediatric nurse has said she now has nothing you do because operations are cancelled and they are being asked to take leave. I suspect there are many more like her.

Unescorted · 28/03/2020 08:26

all made from scratch. We can't be arsed to do that when we're out at work

Hahaha! no one is reporting shortages of ready meals that I have seen. Grin

Panicmode1 · 28/03/2020 08:26

I was dreading going shopping yesterday but our final Ocado delivery came a week ago, and with 6 of us in the house 24/7, we are eating more than usual. I was pleasantly surprised at Sainsbury’s. We had to queue to get in (20 mins or so) but I managed to get everything bar veg oil, and far more seriously, gin Wink I think perhaps people have realised they don't need to panic....

Deathraystare · 28/03/2020 08:27

I have 3 lillte supermarkets near me - a Waitrose, Sainsbury's and Tesco. I managed. Most of the time there is nothing much I want from them. Forget loo roll, laundry stuff or bleach. I managed to get bleach from my local 24 hour shop this morning just before 6 am (on my way to work) . I was amazed! I haven't seen bleach for ages!

I don't bother buying bread. I share a kitchen so only have very very limited space and only 1 freezer drawer. So I get pitta breads when I can as I can normally fit them in the fridge or freezer at a pinch.

I also managed to get some grapes in the 24 hour shop . I haven't seem any tinned veg including tomatoes for ages.

I know there is a Lidl in Shepherds Bush but I reckon that would be a bunfight. I hate the paying machines (whatever you call them) so haven't been there for ages.

Oldhaggard · 28/03/2020 08:28

I've been to the local co-op twice in the last week and I bought more than I would on an average trip, but for valid reasons -

Not driving I'd normally go every day and pick up a few bits at a time, I don't want to do that now so I'm getting enough to last a few days at a time, probably not actually buying more than I would over those days in normal circumstances, but more in one go.

DD is at college 5 days a week, and out at least 3 nights at her dad's/my mum's/friends so I'm using extra stuff accounting for those meals and same goes for me, I eat a meal at work 5 days a week (provided) so I've got those meals to cover too.

I'm picking up stuff for elderly neighbors most days too.

So while on each trip I'm buying more, I'm going less and the only extra I'm buying is to cover the meals I don't usually cater for and for my neighbours who would be buying that anyway.

Also couldn't really stockpile much as I walk a 4 mile round trip and have to carry everything between backpack and two bags, and I'm not the Hulk!

I also did buy a bigger pack of toilet roll last week than I normally would, mainly because I'd been at work and each shop I could get to didn't have any left when I could get there for days on end. I was lucky one day and arrived just after the delivery so bought a big pack before they all vanished again. Using a dedicated flannel wasn't fun. But had that not happened I would have bought my usual amount.

Deathraystare · 28/03/2020 08:29

I tried to edit out I managed but it froze so it makes no sense now!

PumpkinPie2016 · 28/03/2020 08:33

It was crazy round here until the lockdown started. I haven't been to the supermarket this week but DH went the other day for some milk for us and a few bits for his uncle who is 93 and can't go himself.

There was a queue due to social distancing and only a certain number of people allowed in at a time. DH said it was very civilised though and managed to get the things he needed.

My parents said the queue for asda yesterday was crazy -cars queuing up the road to get in. My mum decided to go to Lidl instead and said that was absolutely fine with no queue.

Smaller shops seem to be quite good - my Aunt said her local co op has been fine and the shop attached to the petrol station near my mother in law's is apparently also well stocked.

I do think that the stockpiling has stopped but people are eating at home more and so they genuinely need to buy more. Our son usually gets his school lunch and milk/fruit there but we are now providing this. I don't usually have many cups of tea at home because I am at work 5 days a week but at the moment, I am wfh so using more milk.