Vista Posted March 20, 2020 Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 Who's been out panic buying food and supplies? Now please watch this lady's plea and think before you do it again. I know others who finish work late or work shifts and find shops with stripped shelves and no food to buy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-51966337/coronavirus-nurse-s-despair-as-panic-buyers-clear-shelves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mexican Gerbil Posted March 20, 2020 Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 Luckily Mrs Gerbil is very resourceful. Must be her Soviet training. We've always got the cat if we run out of meat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colr6 Posted March 20, 2020 Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 Well I must be guilty of bulk buying, hold my hands up to it !!!....lol went to the Farm foods shop and this is what I came out with 🤭 went all prepared, emptied the long wheel base tranny for some serious business 🤬🤬🤬 My entire spending spree, well all that was left really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pack 2000 Posted March 20, 2020 Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 I did panic but my dealer assured me that he has my nans usual quantity of smack this month and a new variety of hindu kush coming fresh off the boat next week. (Purely for medicinal purposes) Interestingly there is a shortage of eggs on the shelves but no shortage of Easter eggs however you cant boil both apparently. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vista Posted March 20, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 Having just checked the cupboards, it seems my wife has been doing a fair bit of her own panic buying....... It seems she's terrified there's going to be a sudden run on chocolate and biscuits! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katana Posted March 20, 2020 Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 All essential food groups! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vista Posted March 20, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 4 minutes ago, katana said: All essential food groups! I am being told off for eating them! So what were they for then? Bog roll substitute?? Sounds messy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pack 2000 Posted March 20, 2020 Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Vista said: I am being told off for eating them! So what were they for then? Bog roll substitute?? Sounds messy! We will all totally support you for a slice of the action? I think there is too much ambiguity in some chocolate bars to really be used as bog roll substitutes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWL81P Posted March 20, 2020 Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 4 hours ago, Vista said: Having just checked the cupboards, it seems my wife has been doing a fair bit of her own panic buying....... It seems she's terrified there's going to be a sudden run on chocolate and biscuits! so it's round to yours then for a cuppa and chocolate! i'll bring ar col! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painterman Posted March 21, 2020 Report Share Posted March 21, 2020 Iv seen "dealers" hanging round streets selling shots of calpol lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notenoughtime Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 On 20/03/2020 at 13:11, Vista said: Having just checked the cupboards, it seems my wife has been doing a fair bit of her own panic buying....... It seems she's terrified there's going to be a sudden run on chocolate and biscuits! Your Mrs must have gone shopping with mine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accord83 Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 Everyone needs a pot owl in times of crisis. (actually I've just put my plastic Eagle Owl on my garage to keep the damn starlings my neighbour feeds away, they sit on the back fence and he gets the tweety end, and I get the shitty end!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pack 2000 Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 1 hour ago, accord83 said: Everyone needs a pot owl in times of crisis. (actually I've just put my plastic Eagle Owl on my garage to keep the damn starlings my neighbour feeds away, they sit on the back fence and he gets the tweety end, and I get the shitty end!) Someone may need to tell me what a Pot owl is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accord83 Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 21 minutes ago, Rally Pack 2000 said: Someone may need to tell me what a Pot owl is? It, and pot other birds of prey are used to deter other birds from parts of, or all of dependent on size, of your garden. Some restaurants use them to deter pigeons from outdoor areas. Only shotguns work on seagulls........🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pack 2000 Posted March 22, 2020 Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 32 minutes ago, accord83 said: It, and pot other birds of prey are used to deter other birds from parts of, or all of dependent on size, of your garden. Some restaurants use them to deter pigeons from outdoor areas. Only shotguns work on seagulls........🤣 I dont think a fake eagle would work here especially not after our defeat at the great Emu Wars of 1932. I did see a Corella rip a wing off a pigeon the other day though because it didnt want to share the seed I put out in the bird house. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vista Posted March 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2020 8 hours ago, accord83 said: Everyone needs a pot owl in times of crisis. (actually I've just put my plastic Eagle Owl on my garage to keep the damn starlings my neighbour feeds away, they sit on the back fence and he gets the tweety end, and I get the shitty end!) You are observant, but it's a Hedwig owl mug........It doesn't appear to be doing much to discourage raiders on th biscuit stowage mind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeb43 Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 On 22/03/2020 at 14:49, accord83 said: It, and pot other birds of prey are used to deter other birds from parts of, or all of dependent on size, of your garden. Some restaurants use them to deter pigeons from outdoor areas. Only shotguns work on seagulls........🤣 a sandwich with bicarbonate of soda thrown to a seagull is also quite effective! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accord83 Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 18 minutes ago, eeb43 said: a sandwich with bicarbonate of soda thrown to a seagull is also quite effective! When I was a 1st year I remember exploding seagulls over the rugby pitch when the 3rd years were feeding them calcium carbide in bread from the 1st floor Chemistry lab window. Taught you to run quick and look up...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeb43 Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 14 hours ago, accord83 said: When I was a 1st year I remember exploding seagulls over the rugby pitch when the 3rd years were feeding them calcium carbide in bread from the 1st floor Chemistry lab window. Taught you to run quick and look up...... have you tried getting calcium carbide recently???????? lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accord83 Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 3 hours ago, eeb43 said: have you tried getting calcium carbide recently???????? lol I don't have a seagull problem fortunately.😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeb43 Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 1 hour ago, accord83 said: I don't have a seagull problem fortunately.😂 what about your car lights?????? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accord83 Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 15 minutes ago, eeb43 said: what about your car lights?????? Don't need them, I let my wife drive at night, after all the radiotherapy I had last year I drape myself face down over the bonnet as the sun now shines out of my arse!!😂😂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltamal Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 Calcium carbide was used to get rid of moles in the past, I've got a carbide lamp that I used to use on my hat when I was pot holing in the 60's ok till they exploded! saved up my pennies and bought an ex coal miner's knife cell from one of the mines, huge improvement! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accord83 Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 When my Old Man was an apprentice his Saturday job was to get inside the acetylene plant for the welding gear and chip it clean. He was 14 and unpaid for his first year but his Tech college fees and books were paid for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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