https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ns-will-resume
Another good one today: 'Trials and convictions were rarely public and the judiciary was weighted in favour of Islamic clerics, whose knowledge of the law was limited to religious injunctions'.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ns-will-resume
Another good one today: 'Trials and convictions were rarely public and the judiciary was weighted in favour of Islamic clerics, whose knowledge of the law was limited to religious injunctions'.
"You Taliban sure are religious people"
I'm amazed they get that old considering they've been fighting for two generations.
This petrol shortage once again demonstrates how many utter selfish morons there are in the UK.
One can only imagine the chaos if a genuine crisis hit this country.
I filled up because I was at Asda and the queue was short, but there was a few people getting shirty with each other. 'I was in there!' And yet you're not mate. Interesting.
The media and the government don't help. The second they say "there's no need to panic buy" it's like the fucking starters pistol.
Yep.
There are people filling up a load of Jerry cans in their car. Absolute twats.
Morrisons car park was completely reconfigured to cater for all the muppets queueing up to fill there cars up. By sheer luck both my cars have near full tanks as of Tuesday so lol at them.
I'm a twit
I went to BP as my tank was nearly empty, there were signs saying it was a £30 fill max and anyone trying to beat the system was scolded via the PA system
I hope it was Steve Coogan on the intercom.
The newspapers on this yesterday were a genuine disgrace. I’m tenting in Bournemouth and every single road within two miles of a petrol station yesterday was at a complete standstill.
And, of course, we will actually run out of fuel if this idiocy keeps up.
I filled up this morning myself because I know all the mongs here will start stockpiling based off your news and papers.
Just went to pick up the shopping from the Click and Collect and the scenes were beautiful. Particularly enjoyed the GAMMON shouting at the people laughing and taking photos of the queue.
I don't know why they haven't put the price up to £50 a litre for the weekend.
I went at 5:30am instead of blocking up the whole place like a spastic. Did the shopping and all while I was out so now I’m beached with a coffee and a custard tart and can lol at the plebs on the news later.
This stuff really makes you realise the far-reaching consequences of the collapse of the media industry. The desperation for clicks / to sell the last few papers leads them to abandon all standards they may once have had.
There's a gig going on for climate change. I bet half the cunts still have their Make Poverty History wristbands.
I can't hear 'Make Poverty History' without wanting to say 'cheaper drugs now' after it.
Another in the Taliban series (from BBC):
A new dawn has broken, has it not.Since taking power in Afghanistan on 15 August, the Taliban have been promising a milder form of rule than in their previous tenure.
But there have already been numerous reports of human rights abuses carried out across the country.
:d
Every petrol station I've seen today has been closed, which is annoying since I need some air in my tyres. Why don't they just put the price up when this happens?
Buy a bicycle pump mate.
Can't you get pumps that run off the car plug thing?
Using a bike pump, even a decent one, is a laborious task to say the least.
Is Howard Cox someone or just a randomer with some enemies?
He’s a lobbyist for petrol companies according to his Twitter bio.
Excellent.
A lobbyist for consumers.
The bit I don't understand in this whole thing is why does anyone give a fuck about Christmas turkeys to the point where there is specific emergency legislation for them?
I have half a tank to drive to work on, hope it lasts me long enough for this shit to be sorted out or else it's a three-train extravaganza. Time for a bit of lift and coast into roundabouts.
Are places actually running out of petrol or are there just queues at the moment?
I didn’t even think there was a petrol shortage announced. Have we gone full American and people heard there was a potential gas shortage and ran to the local Esso?
The tabloids announced it.
Some BPs have definitely shut. I'm doing my usual driving till on the last 10 miles on the fuel counter before realising I need to refill it. It's all a big Remain/Tesla/AA con.
There isn't/wasn't actually a petrol shortage. It's basically a comms disaster. BP said they were closing a couple of far flung stations briefly due to no drivers (which is an established thing), the media went huge on it (as they are desperate for clicks) and it snowballed from there into nationwide panic-buying, which in a collapsed nation with no civil society is both unstoppable and inevitable, as we saw last year.
At least half the stations in the country are dry right now.
In short: heads have well and truly gone.
Last edited by Jimmy Floyd; 26-09-2021 at 08:26 PM.
I’d blame that on bad comms policy but they got the black bloke to announce it so media were never going to listen to his actual words anyway.
Can’t remember if it was UK or USA but I’ll never get over that video of people putting petrol in plastic bags during the last shortage. A person that stupid should not be alllowed to operate a 1 ton weight that moves at 80mph.
Remember the fuel strike threat in 2012 when that woman set herself on fire decanting petrol near her oven? Hopefully we get one of those in the next few days.