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  • #572
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,773 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Huntergonzo wrote: »
    You always see these episodes of South Park and the likes where there's idiotic mass hysteria, with people darting around, panic buying etc.

    And you just laugh, cause it's ridiculous and you think, 'ah well that wouldn't happen in real life'.......fast forward to today!

    It happened in galway a couple of weeks ago when there was a red weather warning for a few hours (even though most of the shops were reopening in the evening). People are, for the most part, pretty thick.


  • #573
    Keyzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    dick eds


  • #574
    railer201
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 968 ✭✭✭railer201


    Seamai wrote: »
    Imagine the state of his skin (and innards) after eating all those.

    He won't need glasses any longer though.


  • #575
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    I just went into my local super value for two things and turned on my heels when I saw the lunacy. Queues of trollies down the aisles. The shops aren’t even closing ffs what are people at. There was still a lot of pasta and toilet roll left and for a second I thought will I? Before going nah fcuk it and heading out the door. No one is going to be let starve


  • #576
    LirW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    If you live rural or have a small local shop: try there, chances are they'll have more stock of everything you need and you get pretty much all essentials there.
    I went to one of my local village shops and they were as stocked as always and it was quiet. Tons of bog roll and milk.


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  • #577
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,474 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    I had to go to Lidl at lunchtime, creche closing means I now need stuff that I dont normally need.

    Could have waited until tonight/tomorrow but with that I witnessed that would have been a risky approach.


  • #578
    WrenBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,614 ✭✭✭WrenBoy


    retro:electro wrote: »
    I just went into my local super value for two things and turned on my heels when I saw the lunacy. Queues of trollies down the aisles. The shops aren’t even closing ffs what are people at. There was still a lot of pasta and toilet roll left and for a second I thought will I? Before going nah fcuk it and heading out the door. No one is going to be let starve

    Ya but I think the fear for many is if they start to feel sick, they would rather not go out to shops and risk spreading it. I was fairly relaxed about it but its getting in my head now to be honest.


  • #579
    Thoie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    Dashed down and got my litre of milk. The locals are obviously concerned that fresh fruit and veg might kill them, so there was plenty of that left. Sugar laden cereals were running low, paper products had disappeared, and for the first time ever, every till was open. Still have a good stock of wine fridges and the special offers.


  • #580
    Major Lovechild
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 492 ✭✭Major Lovechild


    TheBoyConor wrote: »
    Perhaps that is why the shops are all sold out of tissue paper. Everyone is locked up at home pulling themselves asunder. With ever increasing vigor with each day that passes.

    Ah here - they'll be stockpiling lube next. Then it'll be back to the old Kerrygold.

    Wo ist die Gemütlichkeit?



  • #581
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    WrenBoy wrote: »
    Ya but I think the fear for many is if they start to feel sick, they would rather not go out to shops and risk spreading it. I was fairly relaxed about it but its getting in my head now to be honest.

    Worst comes to the worst there’ll always be someone who can drop stuff to your door. Or you’ll be in hospital and won’t have to worry about it :pac:


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  • #582
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,947 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    There are tons of courses and tutorials on-line so you can spend your time learning most things. Whether it is the history of comic books or physics.

    Audiobooks are great as are podcasts

    Origami for kids is a really cheap thing to do.

    It is nearly like the internet was ideal for such a situation


  • #583
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,549 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Well, here in inner suburban Dublin, our local corner shop/post office was grand, got my pack of cigs and a litre of milk - but I hear Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, Dunnes and SuperValu are crazy. Even heard that it is so bad that some supermarkets have closed their doors to allow them to re-stock.

    Hmmm.I need to get some things in for dinner this evening and my freezer is on the blink.


  • #584
    Lofidelity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Lofidelity


    Here is some useful consumer advice, pick a smaller supermarket, like Supervalu, and you will find plenty of stock.


  • #585
    Wibbs
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    1882 wrote: »
    It is amazing to witness the stupidity of people Wibbs.
    It is 18, but not a surprise to me any more. Sad to say I share Mick's sentiment below.
    Mickeroo wrote: »
    People are, for the most part, pretty thick.

    +1 Now I can certainly have moron moments and regularly enough, but at least I have enough self awareness that I can see that, but good Jesus a scary percentage of the population are often unbelievable to watch. And think on this; they all can vote, the vast majority have jobs, some of which involve potentially vital/serious outcomes, they all can drive a near two tonne car down the road and the fcukers are passing on the dumb to their new generation.

    If they had two braincells to rub together these panic buyers might consider the close quarters of hundreds of other people coughing, sniffling and farting, touching trolleys and basket handles, freezer doors and sale items. It's a petri dish of possible contamination and it's a near certainty that people panic buying today will be infected by Covid and some will die and some will be left with buggered lungs. Just because they needed to stock up on five packets of bog roll? Unreal.
    CrankyHaus wrote: »
    I actually feel sorry for lower income Americans here. It's easy for us to mock when we have more or less universal health care, basic health information is much easier to come by here and there is less distrust of government. In the US the disadvantaged are putty in the hands of shysters and quacks and scared poor people who cannot access virus tests may reach for any straw.


    I know someone who went on a healthcare exchange to rural Oxycontin country and his stories of ignorance resulting from disadvantage were fairly sobering.
    Oh god yes C. The poor and squeezed middle America is not in a good place with medical care and yet they have some of the best medicine, if you can access it. If Napoleon mused - as a compliment - that the English were a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of salesmen hustling for deals. And that has stood to them in many many ways, but the flip side of that coin is that it is also a culture chock full of snake oil salesmen and the poor can be hit hard by them. I have long viewed pretty much any US based opinion on many matters through the lens of "what are they trying to sell me here?". It's a good tactic to take, but easy for a European mindset to take. American culture is steeped in the American Dream(tm) sales mindset from teh crib. I remember even spotting this as a kid when I'd read American comics, Marvel and the like, and the ads by compaines encouraging children to sell packets of seeds or whatever door to door to "win" prizes. Get them hustling early.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #586
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,966 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    I've decided to do this the Big Joe Joyce way and steep my hands in petrol.


  • #587
    WrenBoy
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    retro:electro wrote: »
    Worst comes to the worst there’ll always be someone who can drop stuff to your door. Or you’ll be in hospital and won’t have to worry about it :pac:
    I wouldn't ask anyone to risk it honestly if it gets that bad. I assume people will be riding it out at home if they contract it, hardly be enough room in Hospitals ?


  • #588
    ArnoldJRimmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,509 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    I'm gonna be working from home until the end of the month, so have already started doing stuff to pass the time

    - Spring cleaning: giving the place a proper clear out of old cr@p
    - Sleeping in
    - I've gotten back to the league I started years ago on FIFA 2015 on the XBox. Now nine points clear with 10 games to go
    - I plan on starting to play the guitar again
    - Use the exercise bike a bit more
    - Making nice meals


  • #589
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,764 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Was in Aldi about 5pm yesterday. Needed 8 items and could only get 2. Carrots, leeks, mince meat, chicken, eggs were all out of stock. Toilet rolls low and freezers looking very empty. Asked the guy at the till about panic buying and he said it started slowly on Sunday but really picked up pace through Monday and Tuesday and yesterday was as crazy as he's seen it. Women in the queue in front of me had 15 x 4 packs of white bread rolls in her trolley.

    Was fuming there was no mince as I had a huge craving for a burger after this picture was posted yesterday https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=505249&d=1583913107
    I even went back to the shelves to check a second time in the hope there would be a packet buried at the back but no joy. I had the buns and all the other ingredients but no feckin mince on the shelves, was raging :mad: So went up to 'Supervalue 'and got some from the butcher counter and it was bloody 13 euro a kilo, I got royally shafted. Was a very tasty burger though and I'll be having another one tonight ;)

    Its mad how panic buying spreads like a contagion. Even in the queue in Aldi I was asking myself should I come back and 8am tomorrow morning and stock up. Idiots start it and make everyone else frightened and then others bail in and do the same.


  • #590
    [Deleted User]
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    endacl wrote: »
    Hope they’re panic buying condoms as well to prevent the spawning of future generations of stupid.

    10 years from now

    “Corona, come in for yer dinner luv”


  • #591
    dzilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭dzilla


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    Bloke in front of me had two trolleys of food, including 20 carrot cakes. I'm trying to get my head around how long it takes to go through 20 carrot cakes, even in a place that likes them.

    They are for his Pet Rabbit.


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  • #592
    BarryD2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,732 ✭✭✭BarryD2


    We actually needed a bit of stuff and was going to leave till tomorrow morning but decided to head out. Wasn't too bad in local Aldi, car park was more or less full and people filling trolleys like zombies. But all checkouts open and I've often waited longer in a queue with only 1 or 2 checkouts open. Bog roll, spuds and dried pasta all cleared but plenty of rice & fresh pasta. Went to smaller shop after, loads bags spuds. World gone mad, reckon there'll be a lot of food thrown out in a week or so.


  • #593
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    Lads and lassies of Boards, here are a few pandemic tips:

    DO:

    Wash your hands regularly and avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth with your hands.

    Read the WHO advice

    AVOID:

    Anyone who has the COVID19 or has been in contact with someone who has it.

    Panic buying. It's stupid and helps no-one.

    Large crowds of people, especially indoors.

    Sinn Fein supporters.

    The news and media. Seriously, you're just worrying yourself. Just check the WHO site regularly.

    IF YOU GET COVID19:

    Call your GP or 112 (999 if you're old school).

    Self-isolate.

    Remember that 96.5% of people who get the COVID19 will be fine eventually. Children, young adults and those who do not have immune disorders or other serious health problems (and are under the age of 60) will be fine too.

    And remember to be nice to each other, even to strangers.


  • #594
    Apollinaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭Apollinaris


    The place to be now is a shop packed with morons. Way to stop the spread of the disease. Oh yeah baby. Humans are just pathetic species.


  • #595
    [Deleted User]
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    If they had two braincells to rub together these panic buyers might consider the close quarters of hundreds of other people coughing, sniffling and farting, touching trolleys and basket handles, freezer doors and sale items. It's a petri dish of possible contamination and it's a near certainty that people panic buying today will be infected by Covid and some will die and some will be left with buggered lungs. Just because they needed to stock up on five packets of bog roll? Unreal.
    To play devils advocate, we only have 43 confirmed cases. We know this will rise rapidly in the coming days. That's a certainty. Everything else - whether you may be able to do a meaningful shop tomorrow (or require 2-3 visits), whether stores will be quieter when you shop tomorrow etc - is an assumption.

    Weighing the assumptions against the certainties, statistically it may be safer to shop now than tomorrow, or the next day. Crowd be damned, it may be safer.

    Furthermore if your assumption is that some people panic buying today will be infected, by that token you must assume that shop workers will be infected also. Again, it may be safer to shop now than tomorrow, before the shops are riddled with infected employees.


  • #596
    Bigus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭Bigus


    I went into my local supervalue about an hour after the news broke today , car park full panic buying but at this stage tills were well manned, I thought no point in panicking as shops will still be open as they are in Italy bought so bought 2 boxes of Bulmers and rocked up to the young lad on the til and I said time to get your bleeding priorities right , we had a great laugh amidst the panick .


  • #597
    Ironicname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭Ironicname


    Peregrinus wrote:
    But it's Trump's problem. His main re-election shtick is "look how high I made the stockmarket go!"

    It's not trumps problem. It's our problem. People using this as a metric to score political points are people who aren't concerned enough. The economy will bounce back. Many people won't.


  • #598
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    I was in Aldi's just now, panic-buying chocolate (I do this most days). Noticed that they're all out of toilet paper. Loads of kitchen roll though. While it's not ideal, do people not realise that kitchen roll can be used for the same purpose? No bread either. Maybe people have started wiping their arses with it. I had to punch a woman to the ground for a Brennan's Batch. It's ok though, she was old and probably had an underlying condition.


  • #599
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,313 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Here we go, one of those doommongers pullin the skeleton outa themselves with silly conjecture and half truths...
    Deleted User wrote: »
    To play devils advocate, we only have 43 confirmed cases. We know this will rise rapidly in the coming days. That's a certainty. Everything else - whether you may be able to do a meaningful shop tomorrow (or require 2-3 visits), whether stores will be quieter when you shop tomorrow etc - is an assumption.
    No, it is not. In Wuhan, Taiwan, Singapore and now in Italy with lockdowns and empty streets, the shops are still open and nobody is close to starving(though a few in this country would be well served with going on an enforced diet) and nobody is wiping their arse with nettles crying out for quilted bog roll. These are those crazy things called facts.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #600
    seagull
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    tdf7187 wrote: »
    The time has come to crack each others' heads open and feast on the goo inside.

    The problem is that an awful lot of those heads are empty. The most you could hope to find is cobwebs.


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  • #601
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,391 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Tayto 4 × 6 packs €4 in Dunnes get to da choppa


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