Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Varche on 22 March 2020, 12:45:24
-
There seems to be no let up.
Raises a lot of questions for me. E.g. where on earth are they putting it all? Especially the frozen foods?
By now , I was expecting the situation to ease but no it continues. Is this latecomers to the game panic buying because their neighbours did last week? Surely soon it will normalise?
-
I don't understand it either. :-\
I've got loads in as for nearly a month now I've been buying something extra every time I go shopping, so even if Boris gets the SAS to surround and blockade me I'll be fine for a few weeks. :y
The diet might get a bit dull mind if the apocalypse comes due to the lack of fresh fruit and veg, so I might die of scurvy rather than the China virus. :D
-
I don't understand it either. :-\
I've got loads in as for nearly a month now I've been buying something extra every time I go shopping, so even if Boris gets the SAS to surround and blockade me I'll be fine for a few weeks. :y
The diet might get a bit dull mind if the apocalypse comes due to the lack of fresh fruit and veg, so I might die of scurvy rather than the China virus. :D
There was a reasonable selection of multi vitamins in Asda last week, and I have some in because my lads diet consists of student food (you can find it in the crappy shite food aisle), so I keep on at him to at least eat a banana and take a pill.
-
What you have to remember is that some people where working in the week and shop at weekends anyway
it's getting towards the end of the month and some do a month's shopping on payday
I for one , used to (before any of this)buy bulk on UHT milk,beans,potato,etc etc to last a month and Mrs builder shops for fresh stuff on her lunch break .
now shopping for relatives in self isolation +bits for little old lady next door
so i look fit and healthy and greedy when shopping ;D
much could be said of everyone having a ration book
this is a war after all
you just don't notice the bullet holes :P
-
It seems the NHS is having to panic buy personal protection equipment (PPE) and I'm sure the shouty leftwaffe mob will be pointing the finger at Boris. ::)
I guess ultimately the buck stops with Boris, but you really have to wonder what the highly paid NHS senior management have been doing? :-\
After all it's not like the China virus has arrived on our doorstep without advance notice? ::)
-
I'm bemused by the queue of people waiting for Asda/Tesco/Sainsbury to open.
Don't panic said Corporal Jones. :)
-
I'm bemused by the queue of people waiting for Asda/Tesco/Sainsbury to open.
Don't panic said Corporal Jones. :)
not everyone can pop down the field with a shotgun and come back with a brace of pheasants and a basket of turnips ::)
-
I'm bemused by the queue of people waiting for Asda/Tesco/Sainsbury to open.
Don't panic said Corporal Jones. :)
not everyone can pop down the field with a shotgun and come back with a brace of pheasants and a basket of turnips ::)
I don't waste my time with pheasants. I bag a brace of peasants. :y
-
I'm bemused by the queue of people waiting for Asda/Tesco/Sainsbury to open.
Don't panic said Corporal Jones. :)
not everyone can pop down the field with a shotgun and come back with a brace of pheasants and a basket of turnips ::)
I don't waste my time with pheasants. I bag a brace of peasants. :y
As long as you do keep to a limit of three Opti :D :D ;)
-
I have my appropriate ppe for shopping...
NWS...
Best worn with a scowl :D (https://www.shirtcity.co.uk/i-will-not-keep-calm-and-you-can-opps-off-t-shirt-123142)
-
I have my appropriate ppe for shopping...
NWS...
Best worn with a scowl :D (https://www.shirtcity.co.uk/i-will-not-keep-calm-and-you-can-opps-off-t-shirt-123142)
Now that is funny! ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
Can you imagine the reactions when wearing one of those? ??? ??? ;D ;D ;D ;)
-
"I don't know why they bothered with the asterisks..." from one lady in her eighties ;D
I have actually owned this for three years now, and have a matching mug for work ;)
-
It seems the NHS is having to panic buy personal protection equipment (PPE) and I'm sure the shouty leftwaffe mob will be pointing the finger at Boris. ::)
I guess ultimately the buck stops with Boris, but you really have to wonder what the highly paid NHS senior management have been doing? :-\
After all it's not like the China virus has arrived on our doorstep without advance notice? ::)
Not just Britain. Spanish health service is also woefully lacking.in basic protective gear. Mrs V gave her GP a face mask from her supply for the coming pollen season. They are at least two weeks ahead of the UK.
Why would the countries making stuff sell it rather than keep it.?
-
It seems the NHS is having to panic buy personal protection equipment (PPE) and I'm sure the shouty leftwaffe mob will be pointing the finger at Boris. ::)
I guess ultimately the buck stops with Boris, but you really have to wonder what the highly paid NHS senior management have been doing? :-\
After all it's not like the China virus has arrived on our doorstep without advance notice? ::)
Not just Britain. Spanish health service is also woefully lacking.in basic protective gear. Mrs V gave her GP a face mask from her supply for the coming pollen season. They are at least two weeks ahead of the UK.
Why would the countries making stuff sell it rather than keep it.?
True, but they should have seen this coming a couple of months ago. ::)
-
I'm bemused by the queue of people waiting for Asda/Tesco/Sainsbury to open.
Don't panic said Corporal Jones. :)
not everyone can pop down the field with a shotgun and come back with a brace of pheasants and a basket of turnips ::)
I don't waste my time with pheasants. I bag a brace of peasants. :y
usually from my desk in the lounge I can see a pair of mallard (six today) on the pond 30ft away, and a couple of pheasant cocks just beyond, no need to leave the house.
loads of woodies too,
-
It seems the NHS is having to panic buy personal protection equipment (PPE) and I'm sure the shouty leftwaffe mob will be pointing the finger at Boris. ::)
I guess ultimately the buck stops with Boris, but you really have to wonder what the highly paid NHS senior management have been doing? :-\
After all it's not like the China virus has arrived on our doorstep without advance notice? ::)
The advance notice was in 2007 with this paper and others
It's very wordy, so just read the first paragraph and the last sentence of the paragraph before "ACKNOWLEDGMENTS", but read it all if you like!
https://cmr.asm.org/content/20/4/660
Have a nice day !
-
I suspect that part of it is that very many people only shop for the next couple of days, and are now suddenly buying for a week, possibly fortnight (rather then the media hysteria of stockpiling), which has meant the supermarkets had a brief run on items. Then that photo went around arsebook of a (single) supermarket with no bog roll, which caused a hysterical rush to buy more.
We will have another week of shortages following the new announcements from the government.
-
I have bought 2, yes 2 new mobile phones :-[
-
Well you've got two ears so one for each ear seems reasonable ;D ;D