Quote from: Sandinista on 21 March 2020, 10:37:24 PM
Cheers, it was fun to play the battles that developed from it.

Ian

Never fight a battle where you haven't nobbled your opponent first As a pseudo-Stuart that's my motto!

Norm, that sounds excellent - I'll be calling my Mom on the phone, closest we can get!

Quote from: Raider4 on 15 March 2020, 10:55:26 AM
Just been to my usual Sunday morning shop - 09:40 @ Tesco's, every Sunday, nice & leisurely (normally), can wander round in mostly empty aisles, nodding to a few regulars who do the same.

Today? Utter effing madness. You'd think it was Xmas week. People charging everywhere, obviously not used to this shopping lark. Everyone's got bog rolls - mostly 9 or 36 packs. I saw a couple of trolleys with 4 x 36 packs of bog rolls in them. No nappies, shortages of basic things like tins of beans & soup.

And today I couldn't even get in the car park . . .

Surely this madness has to stop soon? Hopefully people will realise that they now have 3 years worth of everything and that there's nothing left to buy?

Quote from: Raider4 on 22 March 2020, 09:57:25 AM
And today I couldn't even get in the car park . . .
Surely this madness has to stop soon? Hopefully people will realise that they now have 3 years worth of everything and that there's nothing left to buy?

Good grief. 

Without giving your location away, Martyn.......Are you shopping (or trying to) in a large town, or even a city ?

I imagine those 'locations' would be the absolute worst.

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 22 March 2020, 10:16:45 AM
Are you shopping (or trying to) in a large town, or even a city ?

The big Tesco Extra at Eastville, Bristol. Nightmare. Just wandered around to the local Morrison's, much more like a normal busy Sunday. Car park half full, plenty of everything I wanted to get except meat (next to nothing) and cat food (none at all). Didn't check on the bog rolls or pasta though. Plenty of fresh fruit & veg, plenty of booze (though I was walking and can't carry the heavy stuff back ).

Quote from: Techno on 22 March 2020, 10:16:45 AM
I imagine those 'locations' would be the absolute worst.

Yeah, looks like they are.

Quote from: John Cook on 22 March 2020, 12:44:18 AM
I heard it yesterday too, from No1 son in Australia.  Amazing how the jokes get around - faster than Corona Virus. 

Aye, saw it an email newsletter I'm subscribed to on Wednesday.

They followed it up with:

"Panic buyers have cleared the shelves of hummus and guacamole. It's a double dip recession."

and today's is:

"Panic buyers in Paris have left the supermarkets looking like bomb sites. De brie is everywhere."

They are bad !

Was out walking the dog there (keeping sensible distances from others). From the amount of cars on the roads and kids with presents being packed into cars it's clear people aren't taking things seriously. Lockdown will be inevitable at this rate.

Wife was out for a socially distanced walk with her 75 year old sister. High street was reasonable but Porty promenade was heaving.

Some folks just don't listen.

I couldn't believe the number of folk visiting Snowdonia, yesterday  ....(That's nowhere near us, fortunately.)

As Jim says, some folks just don't listen.

Cheers - Phil

From Reddit

There has been a constant stream of traffic on the ring road here on the Eastern side of Bristol. So as others have said, a lot of people are not listening to the advice .

Our local parks and coastline were packed yesterday as well, and the Tescos had a 300 yard queue circling around the inside of the shop ready for the tills to open.  We also heard that the local Farm Foods delivery truck was descended upon in their car park, with people jumping into the back of the truck and opening the delivery before it could even get taken into the store. 

Is there a version of Covid that can purely target morons?  Something to force them into a locked room for a couple of weeks would be nice for the rest of us.

Found the last two bags of plain flour in Burnley on Saturday, bought one and left the last for anyone else who bothers to look at the back of the bottom shelf in that Spa shop.
Stayed in today, painting Austrian Hussars and packing Lurkio orders

Mark

Quote from: Leon on 22 March 2020, 04:43:58 PM
Is there a version of Covid that can purely target morons?  Something to force them into a locked room for a couple of weeks would be nice for the rest of us.

Oh come on, Leon  ........They're the ones who would go and and do a shopping trip....."Because I feel fine." ..."So it doesn't apply to me"

I hope that's not true about the delivery van, and it's just a rumour....But I wouldn't be so surprised if.....................

Well done on the flour, Mark !!

(Wish me luck on my trip to Tesco's tomorrow.)

Cheers - Phil

Now awaiting to hear whether our son will be on the list who has to stay indoors and keep social distancing in the home for 12 weeks. Hard enough for us but as he has autism and learning difficulties and is very touchy feely, this could be a real challenge for him. As my wife has to go into work in school, she will have to sleep on her own etc so as to minimise any risk to us who have to stay in .