If everyone jumped off a cliff …
I reckon there’s a comparison with stock market crashes to be made.
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See also stampedes etc.
It’s that sheep tornado video, in human form. With a freshly wiped arse.
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Mate lives in Singapore. They had the run on the bum wipes about a month ago.
Supermarkets had it back on the shelves in a week.
But people tried to get refunds!
I think there should be a special martial law declared whereby anyone purchasing more than 2 family packs of bog roll should be shot as looters.
It’s funny how we all have trigger points to make us all go right wing…
Does anyone joining in the pile on about all the people joining the toilet paper hoarding realise the irony?
Are you saying that people are only criticising the BogRollers because everyone else is criticising them?
If you are then it’s a stretch
People joining in the toilet roll hoarding for the most part don’t know why they are doing it, other than everyone else is.
People joining in the criticism of those people I dare say know that their behaviour is ridiculous and abhor the herd mentality on display.
Whilst displaying heard behaviour by joining in the heard piling on criticism.
Heard behaviour means people lack the knowledge of why they are participating in said behaviour, other than everyone else is. The people doing the criticising know why they are criticising, and it’s not because everyone else is.
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Oh it is. It’s a pile on.
From the footage I saw on the news it wasn’t people buying modest two week supplies to see them through a potential quarantine, it was people (mostly boomers I might add) stacking their trolleys to the roof. These people deserve not only widespread critisicm, but they should be put on a rocket and launched into the space.
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And oh look, it’s boomers! Is another example of the heard of critiquers.
Are they over reacting? For sure.
Are they buying just for themselves or extended families? We don’t know.
Did we just have the worst summer ever? Yes.
Does anyone alive now have a living connection to something similar in our societies history? I wouldn’t think so.
Is the pile on just a chance for a bunch people to claim to be better than others? You better believe it.
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Bullshit. Those people who are distorting supplies of essential items for arse cleanliness.If you go down the shops for your weekly or fortnightly shop and can’t buy bog roll because the herd decided to stock up for 6 months because they can’t find a better outlet for their nervous anxiety, it fucks it up for everyone else.
It’s a classic case of the people picking the selfish option in a trust game, and they should be called out for it.
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I think the world war 2 vets would have something to say about that…
To borrow an old phrase from this forum and re-package it for today…
…dude, it’s Hilly…
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There’s a funny video floating around the net of this old Italian fella saying people weren’t reacting like this in WW2
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Eh, I’m pretty sceptical that there’s much “hoarding” even happening.
Most of the purchasing is probably people just responding to the media hysteria by bringing forward purchases they would’ve made in the next few days/weeks anyway, because:
- they knew were out and moved their Saturday shop up to Tuesday so that they wouldn’t miss out.
- the stories and the memes brought their own shortage to their attention, so they’re buying proactively like sensible adults instead of doing an emergency shopping run in two weeks when they hit their last roll.
- they know they’re running short-ish and in other circumstances would’ve probably waited another week or two, but are opportunistically buying now when they see stock available instead of risking there not being stock later.
- they’re recent travelers, or care for elderly relatives, or are hypochondriacs, or forever other reason are self-isolating, and therefore went out for a big shop
there are literally photos of people with 10+ packs of TP in their trollies. When I was in Coles there was people buying 20+ loafs of bread, no more bottled water left and don’t get me started on the TP situation. Remember that the stocks of TP would be fairly big and considering it looks like a minority of people are buying in bulk, i’d say it must be hoarding or sending back to China.
Our Ops Manager just told me that he had one guy in Melbourne buying a pallet of hand sanitizer to send back to China
There’s also infinitely many photos of people pouring coronas down the sink, putting masks on them, and other variations of attempted hilarity on Twitter/IG/etc. And yet global sales are reportedly down on a season adjusted basis.
It takes one instance for ten million people to see one photo of something. It takes a small number of instances for there to be enough third or fourth or fifth hand accounts to go around repackaged as second hand anecdotes.
I’m still putting my money on the bulk of temporary supply shortages to be the result of small tweaks in behaviour from Australia’s ~9 million households than for there to be a significant number of people committing whole rooms of their house to storing toilet paper.
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