President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Mar 19^th, 2020 at 1:58pm:



i hope you've ordered more moronic. You're so full of poo that one box won't see out the day

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Mar 19^th, 2020 at 10:34am:


They'd probably encounter the same thing as with the Toilet Paper, not enough jobs to go around, a big part in why they're unemployed in the first place, and it's only going to get worse sadly

I have a stake in a cafe, looks very much like all that money is about to go down the drain because there hasn't been enough takings to even cover the rent this week, let alone pay etc.

The business has a bit of capital behind it and I'm meeting with the other two owners to decide what to do, well "meeting", aka Zoom, tomorrow.

I have a feeling they're just going to close up and throw in the towel.  6+ months with a possible lockdown coming...

As much as I want to keep things going so the 9 staff will still have jobs, at least if we pull the pin now we can pay out all their entitlements because that's all been put aside, but we'd have to dip into that to keep trading if we can't even meet rent...

Just a total poo position to be in.

KangAnon wrote on Mar 19^th, 2020 at 12:09pm:



same here sad.. my daughter has a posting in of all place Laos..shes there with husband and 10 yr old son..govt has sent all bar essential staff back home.
son in law and grandson arrive back today and will go into a rental for 14 days...so we will do the Uber run...as you say  its bad enough shopping your yourself   now its others..if it keeps up we will surely have to bring in a form of rationing.. odds and evens was fine for equal sharing at the petrol pump...... but there is nothing equal about whats going on...went to woollies and not one POTATO in sight...I couldnt help but think it was the first time in my life where there were no potatoes for sale in a supermarket.......


what the hell is happening to us?

The prime minister of the Netherlands told citizens on Thursday there is no shortage of toilet paper.
"But there's enough in the whole country for the coming 10 years," he said. "We can all poop for 10 years."

chimera wrote on Mar 20^th, 2020 at 6:08am:


George Orwells doublethink. There is a shortage obviously.

Spot

cods wrote on Mar 20^th, 2020 at 6:02am:


I don't know about you Codsy but I feel really different now about "being an aussie" and all the tradition that supposedly carried. What I  have witnessed in supermarkets in the last 2 months has left me totally disgusted. The worst part. the majority were aussies. 

macman wrote on Mar 20^th, 2020 at 6:40am:




its bloody embarrassing.. now they talk about BUS LOADS of MORONS going grocery shopping....how true it is I dont know.... but if it is the case.. they need to be reported   filmed and shamed...

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Mar 20^th, 2020 at 6:46am:




good grief.....THERE IS NO SHORTAGE....

the MORONS do not realise that....

they havent worked it out most is produced in this country ALWAYS HAS BEEN   we have so much livestock why would you hoard meat???????...

bread even! bakeries are going full bore...

cow produce MILK 24/7...and we have an abundance of cows....

yesterday I went to woollies Western Creek and it had not 1 potato in the store...

no bread no meat no toilet paper  I expected....

but NO POTATOES   was a bit gobsmacking.


and I know it isnt because we have stopped growing them

It's semantics...

There isn't food on the shelves because people are panic buying and hoarding creating a "shortage" at the retail level.

An artificial shortage.

There is plenty of food and future food, there is no wholesale shortage.

Many people don't know the difference, nor care if they can get their hand on 10 2kg bags of potato.

Some people like to push hysteria, the sort of thing that leads people to go do more panic buying.

I know this forum is full of dickheads and morons, I just didn't realise how many who would get kicks out of doing that.  Add another fuit to the list.

I don't normally say something, but there was a line of 20 people at the Deli at Woolies.  The guy in the front of the line was taken everything.  And I mean everything.

He took all the Chicken breast, all the thigh, all the beef mince etc.  I told him that there are all these other people behind him, looked at the poor 16 year old behind the counter packing it all up for him and asked her to get her manager in a calm and friendly voice as I could.

The guy pushed me out the way, tells me to shut up, he has a family to feed and I thought I'd be on ACA or the video of what would happen next would go viral.

I don't want to throw down over bloody chicken but it almost came to that...

In the end, all his meat was taken off him, he was given enough for a family of 6 for a few nights and then there was some left for everyone else.

You could tell from the tear lines on her face, the 16-year-old behind the counter had been having a bad day and this guy had made it worse.  There are limits on what you can take, but before I got there he must have said something.

It's tough on everyone, but the selfish people like him, arsehole.

I saw him furiously driving around the car park when I was leaving, I assume looking for someone to have a confrontation with.