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Sep 28, 2021 - 2:31 PM
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Rameau
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It's amazing how fast these things happen. Last Thursday it was reported that there could be some shortages at petrol stations due to a shortage of delivery drivers, & as I was near empty, I went out next day & filled up. I went out about 9.30am & there was some cues, but I was back home in a quarter of an hour, but by the afternoon it was very long cues & on Saturday it was bonkers. This driver shortage has been going on for ages & the government should really have been proactive, a few tweaks here & there could have improved the situation, & it really has very little to do with Brexit. The newspapers are trying to create panic reporting empty shelves in supermarkets, which is rubbish, I shop in them all the time.
Being an old crumbly, I can remember the seventies, three day working weeks, the power (& TV) going off at 10pm, real petrol shortages. This really is a phony war, & the media is now trying to whip up panic for Christmas - nothing in the shops!! Don't fall for it.
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You don't know a crisis unless you lived thru "The Great Toilet Paper Shortage" crisis.
Made me chuckle....
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You don't know a crisis unless you lived thru "The Great Toilet Paper Shortage" crisis.
My arse!
MMC II
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You don't know a crisis unless you lived thru "The Great Toilet Paper Shortage" crisis.
Made me chuckle....
Not so funny if you have hemorrhoids!
Depends on the size .
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Went out last night at midnight but only two 24 hour petrol stations were closed, empty.
However, queued at asda, 8 cars approx at pumps every 4 ish minutes, restricted to 30 quid, took me 25 mins in queue. Not bad.
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As this is a lot of hype I'm having some fun with Muppets. I'm driving around looking for a long queue. I then queue for as long as it takes. When I'm next I drive off waving two fingers, shouting obscenities. Such fun.
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It's a pity we don't do it more often
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It's funny really. During work I walked past a petrol station with one car filing up !
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Mitch, its real now, BUT media started the nonsense in the first place with their usual scaremongering with no regard to the consequences - ergo it means theres not enuf fuel to go round because what could still be at the filling stations is in people's cars already and most of it wont be used for weeks. So its mental during the day and then closed at night because their pump tanks are empty 
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You don't know a crisis unless you lived thru "The Great Toilet Paper Shortage" crisis.
Made me chuckle....
Not so funny if you have hemorrhoids!
Depends on the size .
TMI! Both of you! 
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Went out last night at midnight but only two 24 hour petrol stations were closed, empty.
However, queued at asda, 8 cars approx at pumps every 4 ish minutes, restricted to 30 quid, took me 25 mins in queue. Not bad.
Getta horse, Carson!
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