Getting prepared just in case

[Olympeagal]

Is anyone else preparing or making plans, in case the situation in the Middle East escalates?
Ive filled my car up with fuel. Should i be doing more?

No.It won't. Iran doesn't have the resources to escalate, all the other Muslim states hate them, and their friend Russia is stretched to full capacity on Ukraine.

torches are safer than candles.

Whilst true, I was hoping this might be the opportunity to use up the 100's of tealights I feel compelled to buy at every trip to Ikea, I could probably fashion a makeshift landing strip if things get really lairy

This thread sounds like the OP lives in the Middle East and is trying to drive out of a war zone on one tank of fuel 😆
SLOW CLAP

Stockpile bog roll
That always helps.

Because I wipe to get drier not wetter

Erect an Anderson shelter in the back garden and always carry your Mickey Mouse gasmask. Stock up on flour, powdered egg and tins of corned beef.

@Olympeagal 💐 .

that only lasts seconds and to me is better than toilet paper

Buy loo roll

I'm pretty preppy but it didn't occur to me

This. Let’s hope that most people don’t rush out and panic buy petrol just to potentially save a few pounds. It’s behaviour like that which causes shortages unnecessarily. There are posters on here who are apparently retired and don’t use much petrol and they’ve rushed out to fill up. Why? We need people like doctors, nurses, firefighters etc to be able to get to work. They may not be able to if people have caused avoidable shortages by panic buying.

And Dubai chocolate.

Me too. And I'll bring the cricket bat, just in case.

You must be rich

The petrol stations are always busy on a Saturday, people are going out!

I don’t know anyone who is panicking about this, Iran has been bombed, they will retaliate a bit, it’ll go on for a few days / weeks and that will be it. The US aren’t interested in long campaigns, short and sharp is what they want.

Trump seems to have the attention span of a gnat so he’ll move on to something else by the middle of next week.

absolute tommyrot.

To be fair, I filled the car last week because of the tensions… but then again, I live in Tel Aviv, so it was probably not overblown…

Yes my DDs father was actually out there fighting when she was born.

Lots of people like to centre themselves in everything and threads like this is an example of that.

So you’ve saved on one tank of fuel? That’s great, but you’re not going to avoid the issue moving forwards if oil prices increase.

I responded light-heartedly to a light-hearted comment

And before you tell me there is nothing light-hearted about war, I couldn't agree more.

FFS are we going to have idiots stockpiling petrol again?

I've got to say I'm more concerned about the deaths and mass destruction than anything else, especially since Kier Starmers confirmation of our involvement.

An uneccesary side swipe at ‘retired’ people there. How do you know the demographic of who is posting on this thread? People can be dicks about hoarding and stock piling whatever their age.