I usually shop at the time that I need ingredients to cook dinner, so about every second day after work and I go home with a mostly empty reusable tote bag. Since covid I have been shopping the same amount of time but filling the empty space of the single tote bag with long life food stuffs. I had not noticed any real shortages until yesterday when I went to get toilet paper (I have one spare roll) but there were none on the shelf. I was, however, still able to get UHT and powdered milk, tinned tomatoes, tinned peaches, olive oil, pasta and lentils. If the worst happens I am happy in the thought that I will be more likely to pass on my genetic material than the guy with a pallet of toilet paper in his pantry and nothing else.
i’m not by far saying it’s the majority of the population, but imagine how many people would have had to buy pallets of toilet paper in order to empty out every single coles and woolworths in the space of a few days. Especially as people would be generally limited to 1-2 trollies rather than pallets
My wife had surgery recently and isn’t able to leave the house so I’m doing the shopping.
I’m constantly annoyed by her only buying 4 loo rolls a week when clearly it’s better to buy in bulk (cheaper, need to do it less often, less chance of running out etc) so a bit more than a week ago I bought like 60 rolls and 15 packs of tissues.
One of my mates used to work for Sorbent and he had access to the factory shop. Use to pull up outside of the Polish Club in Ashfield twice a week with his car completely packed with goods. I mean he was selling these things in such ridiculous amounts (cost price mind you). There was a point where, under our house, there was maybe 10x12 packs of toilet paper and 50 boxes of tissue paper at one point. It was a sight to behold when he’d drive up with barely enough room to sit in as he’d have piled up the front seat with sanitary pads and the like
We are a selfish society. You really do need to understand that. We. Are. Fucking. Selfish. The utter reduction of society to, at best, the family unit means that the larger, broader society can go fuck its self.
WW2 had a bit more of a ramp up than this current thing.
So Italy travel ban enacted after the Italian F1 teams are already here or on their way meaning the F1 race can go ahead this weekend… or am I just being cynical.
Iconic team with history and with an iconic brand. I love Haas and RB (new and funky) but there is something special about having a 2020 car with livery that reminds you of the 60s car. I also like having a team that isn’t British (Mercs being English is strange) and has a unique identity.
I was a guest at Mercedes a few years back in Melbourne. Got to meet Lewis and go into the pits. I don’t really have much of an interest in F1 but it blew my mind that there’s a guy in the garage whose sole purpose is to look after the driver water bottles, and that each year they commission an artist to paint something bespoke on the water bottle so it cant be tampered with.