Why I want to smack the Prime Minister

[Lace Neil Singer]

The madness has ended... for now. Wait til a strike is actually announced, and I predict that the psycho panic buying will begin anew. O_o

[draco664]

It's like the great Toilet Paper shortage that Johnny Carson started.

<hums to self> I fell into a burning ring of fire...

[HYHYBT]

And what is pizza, if not a delicious combination of milk (cheese) and bread (crust) with a few other items thrown in?

[Racket_Man]

The same reason people rush out and buy up all the milk and bread the moment they hear there's the slightest possibility of snow, even when they know full well the longest they won't be able to leave the house is one day and they already have a week's worth.

no no NO. they stock up on delivery pizza

[Lace Neil Singer]

I think people are/were panicking because they all have such 'fond' memories of the Petrol Crisis back in 2000.

I remember that; also, having to put super in my motorbike cuz the petrol station had just the super pump running and no unleaded or diesel. I wasn't working in the petrol station then so I didn't have to deal with any fuckery. I'm hoping it'll all have calmed down by tomorrow when I'm back to work. XD

[jackfaire]

It's like the great Toilet Paper shortage that Johnny Carson started.

[HYHYBT]

So if they have to wait seven days, why are people buying now? By the time the actual strike started, they'd be out of gas.

The same reason people rush out and buy up all the milk and bread the moment they hear there's the slightest possibility of snow, even when they know full well the longest they won't be able to leave the house is one day and they already have a week's worth.

[SongsOfDragons]

I think people are/were panicking because they all have such 'fond' memories of the Petrol Crisis back in 2000. I was only 13 back then, but I remember my dad going out to get petrol and being gone for four hours. We're a small country, and I like our rail system, but we have a lot of motorways to get to many places - my journey to do on Tuesday as an example, it's easier and cheaper for me to drive it. The Petrol Crisis, as I remember it, truly was horrific, lack of petrol going on for weeks...

Calling for Maude, was it? to resign? Oh that's a common tactic over here. You screw up on one tiny thing, your job is out the window. I think it's stupid. Politicians are politicians, not mediums.

On a happier note, I have managed to find some petrol. Applemore Tesco was empty; Hythe Shell was empty (and stupidly without a sign and full of cars still!!); but Dibden Esso still had unleaded. Yay!! And still under 140/l ^^

[Lace Neil Singer]

While I think it was irresponsible for the minister to tell people to stock jerry cans, the only person responsible for that woman's accident is herself and her own stupidity. Why must people be such sheep?

[Rapscallion]

So if they have to wait seven days, why are people buying now?

The attitude of 'Me, myself, and I'.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ng-petrol.html

The Daily Mail is sort-of calling for the minister in question to resign after someone poured fuel from one container to another next to a lit stove and received horrific burns.

People are fucking stupid. This is why there are warnings on everything.

Rapscallion

[Lace Neil Singer]

Cuz David Cameron told them to! And of course, we must always do what polititians say! -.- People, as an entity, are stoopid.

[Greenday]

So if they have to wait seven days, why are people buying now? By the time the actual strike started, they'd be out of gas.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Even if they decided to strike, it would requrie a seven-day notification in advance.

Rapscallion

This. We've been telling people that all day; we've had people coming in, seeing a tanker in our tanker bay and going, "WTF? I thought they were on strike!" *facepalm*

The really stupid thing now? Saying, "Don't panic" now and backtracking is as much use as a chocolate teapot. People are already entrenched in panic far too much to listen to someone telling them to chill.

[SongsOfDragons]

The general want to string up Cameron like a pinata comes from the dumb 'advice' that they have been clucking about...

First it was FILL UP FILL UP NOW!! Top up whenever you pass a station and full up jerrycans too!!

Then they got lambasted for that, petrol + stoves = 40% burn coverage on a poor woman in York. So they changed it to 'Fill up if you're half full!!'

Now it's 'Please go back to normal habits, please? Nothing to see here move along!'

-_-...

I'm on 3/4 a tank. Have been so since before this fiasco started. I need to get to full so I can drive 300ish miles to Epworth on Tuesday. Chances of being able to do today? Well let's hope some places got refills. There's news in the BBC of some guy in Cornwall refusing to sell petrol to non-locals. People are going bonkers.

[Rapscallion]

Even if they decided to strike, it would requrie a seven-day notification in advance.

Rapscallion