Incredible. All it took was a Minister to go on TV and tell people it’s only a couple of forecourts that have been temporarily closed, no need to panic buy petrol, and 30 minutes later there’s fighting in the UK streets. I think everyone actually realises there’s no shortage, just a distribution issue, which won’t be an issue if everyone just carries on as normal and doesn’t OI BACK OF THE QUEUE YOU TOSSER! Sorry, as long as everyone doesn’t go all zombie apocalypse and spend all afternoon in a queue revving their engine a foot behind the car in front.
Fill the bunker with Andrex and hunker down, lads!
He…uh… he didn’t say anything about the supply of giant animatronic Joe Bomowski statues, did he?
God, I’ll be glad once we’re through the Winter and this nightmare is over.
Got a few left in my lockup, under the arches. Gonna cost you though..
Who the fuck is Joe Bomowski?
That’s ‘Sergeant Joseph A. “Joe” Bomowski’ to you, Rob.
Googled it. Never seen it. I remember shuddering at the time.
Ah yes, the greatly under-rated and disgracefully under-watched sequel.
Joe Bomowski, cruelly separated from his Mom, goes undercover in an international crime syndicate and undertakes a series of trials and tribulations at the hands of the Italian mafia which cut to the very heart of his being.
The film largely eschews the comic stylings of its forebear in favour of a far darker, more introspective tone. Consequently, it bombed at the box office, although it found a wide audience on DVD, and later spawned two further sequels: Being Joe Bomowski and Joe Bomowski: This Is Me, the latter an extended character monologue, delivered directly into the camera for an eyeball-watering three hours and culminating in Bomowski blowing his own brains out using the gun formerly own by his mother.
These days, Bomowski’s main cultural legacy is the outsized, lifelike animatronic statues of the character with which people in wealthy areas like to decorate their properties. The competition for the newer models of Bomowski is quite fierce as it is; god only know what will happen if the supply chain crisis starts to bite this Winter. There simply might not be enough to go around.
Actually I think you’ll find the sequel is Who! The Fuck is Joe Bomowski
Where are people putting it? Presumably in their cars which means nobody will need anything for a week or two once they have filled up
Just fought my way into Sainsbury’s (which was practically empty) past a very long petrol queue. There was a sign right at the forecourt entry saying no diesel, apologies for any inconvenience caused, etc. Struck me that less inconvenience would have been caused if the sign had been back at the end of the queue…
My two local garages? Staycationers filling right up, plus media spooked locals. FFS.
Nothing to do with Brexit… oh no… I mentioned Brexit once but I think I got away with it.
We went to Sainsbury’s yesterday for the first time in ages (family down, nothing to do with stock-piling) and whole rows of shelves were empty… nothing to do with Brexit… I mentioned Brexit twice but I think I got away with it.
“Project Fear”… why don’t we hear that phrase any more?
This country is well-and-truly Mug Central. If I was Welsh, Irish or a Scot I would hate England with a passion.
I’m Cornish, and I hate England with a passion. Trouble is, my compatriots voted to Leave, so now I feel compelled to hate Cornwall too.
Presumably you saw that UTTER TWAT called Shapps claiming that “the distribution issue is largely down to Covid”. Who the feck does he think he can kid with that line? 20,000 European HGV drivers have pissed off across the channel since before last year. Oh, hang on, of course, his lot have already fooled that lot that I feel compelled to hate about the Brexit thing. So that’s why he thinks they will swallow this latest BS. That explains it!
This morning I stopped to stick a few quid’s worth of juice in the courtesy car I’ve had today while my own gets a long overdue service – when I picked it up, it had only vapour in the tank, as is usually the case. There are two garages roughly equidistant from Foxy Towers, and I chose at random to stop at the one on the main road. The forecourt was deserted, I pumped in a fiver’s worth, paid and left. No problem. As I left I decided to extend my perambulation by a few miles and drove over to Sodding Chipbury, my nearest metropolis, in search of a few grocery essentials. As I did so, I passed the other filling station, which is on a minor road. Forecourt rammed, queue about 50 yards down the road, mayhem at the pumps.
There is no logic to this beyond the contagion of stupidity.
Those compatriots who had been in receipt of gazillions of Euro infrastructure funding because they were among the poorest people in Europe? Seems the only answer to the question posed in that bloody song (‘Well Cornish lads are fishermen And Cornish lads are miners too/But when the fish and tin are gone what are the Cornish boys to do?’) was Vote Leave. Dickheads.
Welsh voted for EU exit, my home town had one of the strongest votes in the country in favour, this despite EU funding for improved roads, a new school, train station(s), new leisure centre, new college etc after the steelworks were closed down and a huge area flattened. 10s of millions. But they didn’t like an exhibit funded by the EU placed in the town centre that cost about 10 grand.
Here I am in Hull which voted very strongly for ‘xit, despite being kept from falling into the abyss for most of the last 30 years by the European Social Fund, which is absolutely everywhere in shit towns like this. Turns out we’d rather have the abyss than “fkin forrinners”. So here we go….
Don’t really want to defend my home town’s vote, but jobs have been systematically removed from there for decades, there is nowhere to work now anywhere in the area and has some of the highest numbers on anti depressants in the country. It also rains a lot. More an anti establishment vote probably.
When I left Hull in 1980, male unemployment was 18%. It peaked at about 20%. It was 14% in 2010. The total population fell but recovered to about the same – 260,000. So bad but not getting worse.
2020 unemployment was second worst in the country at 9.8%.
So things were objectively not getting worse.
When I left there were almost no BAME in Hull, but a lot of racism. Now there are BAME.I don’t know what has happened to racism, but the Brexit vote suggests something.
A vote for Brexit was a vote for the Establishment – just not the PM in power at that time.
Maybe they believed Brexit would bring back the fishing that was gone when I left, and anyway would have been on the other side of the Humber.
Dunno.
But the people of Hull voted against their own interests.
I’m never moving back (despite it being a good place for my wife and daughter to work, and the many people who have a great experience of living or studying there).
(End rant mode)
“I don’t know what happened to racism” – it’s alive and very well indeed mate.
Unemployment? Thousands of people moved here from Europe in the noughties and got unskilled or semi-skilled jobs immediately. And yet… all this unemployment. It doesn’t help that there is a massive anti-education culture in the town – schools are regarded as, at best, something to babysit your kids while you get stoned in front of Call of Duty or whatever. There are a lot of people moaning about being skint who always have enough money for Stella or another noisy car or yet another fucking tattoo.
And yet apparently we have to listen to these people, and we’re stuck with a government that will never govern in their interests but will survive by pandering to their prejudices.
In other news, I love living here and I couldn’t be happy anywhere else. I’d miss the wife, for one thing.
I suggest we hang the DJ just to be on the safe side.
“A lean side of beef that just slips down….”
You don’t have to be Welsh, Irish or a Scot to find England pretty depressing right now. At least I won’t have to work to the light of a company hurricane lamp like I did in 1973.
The Court Of Cocktavius is a depressing place.
LEDs and rechargeable AAs nowadays. I still have a Hurricane Lamp and a couple of gallons of good paraffin in the garage though – for when the AAs can’t be recharged until the mains comes back on.
Mrs F summed it up nicely, I think (we had the wireless on at lunchtime):
“It’s fine these ministers going on the radio telling everyone not to panic, but after Brexit and Covid, nobody believes a word they say”.
She’s French and, frankly, wondering why we are still here.
I hope you told her it’s because of our superior cheeses.
We have both types of cheese in England – orange and yellow.
And Cheeses of Nazareth.
And your own personal cheeses
My other half just called from the hospital at the end of her shift, saying that she had been warned it might take up to an hour to get the couple of miles from there to here due to roadblocks caused by petrol queues. Happily all I’ve made is a pasta sauce which can sit bubbling on the hob for as long as it takes for her to get here 🙄
Pasta? I got the impression there was no food left in UK and everyone was living off Pringles made out of doilies.
They should know by now, if Grunt Shops speaks about anything it causes panic.
I queued for about five minutes and filled the car to the brim this morning. Excuse? I’m driving 370 miles to Cornwall tomorrow. The chap in the kiosk said he’d never known it busier.
Trouble is, when a Tory says “Don’t panic buy”, one always feels inclined to do the opposite because they are such a bunch of lying pigs.
I’m not a driver, but isn’t it normal to put the fuel in the tank?
All petrol sold out round my way. Panic buying lunacy has been taking place all day. All fuelled (SWIDT) by hysterical coverage in the national press, headline news on the telly, and fuckwit ministers telling the public not to panic. It’s the British public, for God’s sake, what did they all expect?
Technically Ron has the answer:
‘Currently the biggest power move in Britain is to drive to a petrol station, park at the pump, go into the shop to buy one thing, return to your car and drive off.’
I’m in my sixties, like a number of people here. My parents and their siblings were born in the ‘teens’, or whatever you call them, and the twenties. They went through the depression, the war and it’s aftermath. They’re all gone but God knows what they’d have made of the way people behave nowadays. Mind you they’d probably say nothing as they were never that keen on talking about stuff.
Is there gas in the car?
No, There isn’t fuckin’ gas in the car…
Unlike you, Donald, to have been so optimistic.
See it wasnt a daft question, was it?
(I love the bit on VHS storytellers when a taxi driver told Walter it was the “stoopidist lyric, any time any place”)
Stoopider than “not even the chair”?
Tough crowd, cab drivers…
Foolishly decided to get my essential groceries at the big Sainsbury’s on the far side of town a couple of hours ago, to see if there was anything to this petrol-panic. Had trouble getting past the filling station queue on the way in, also again on the way back out. The shop was not busy. Also observed that the lunatic/fuckwit drivers were out in force.
The End Times are here!
I should know better but I got in the car t lunchtime today and Radio 2 was still on from Popmaster earlier in the morning. Jeremy Vine time. The phone in on petrolgate was all you’d expect. Vine winding up the callers, as they shared their stories. Truck drivers, ambulance drivers and regular Joes. All with stories of cars turning up with 6 petrol cans or travelling miles to find an open garage. Sigh….
A second Winter of Discontent will be disastrous for the Government and will send their right-wing backbenchers (formerly known as Euro-sceptics) into a purple-faced flurry of disloyalty and betrayal. These bastards in their safe seats have a notable trait, which is the ability to turn on a sixpence and change tack the moment they see a crisis. They cannot be relied on when the chips are down. They have achieved everything they set out to do with Brexit and are quite neutral about whether they are in Government or not. As long as they keep their seat.
I can see the headlines now: “Now they won’t even let us gas our pigs”…
The Conservative party only serves one master; itself.
At some distant point in the future, perhaps the voting hoi-polloi will realise that. But I’m not holding my breath.
Lookit Boris’s funny hair! Lookit Dilyn! ADORRRRABLE! Stamp on my face even harder, please!
I’m starting to think we’ve got exactly the Government we deserve
Not really relevant but that puts me in mind of Going Underground “The public gets etc…”. Anyway the news was covering the opening of a new station in Battersea the other day. Khan was there looking smug as always. There was also a lovely choir doing their version of Weller’s classic. Completely out of place in a Partridge / Brent style level of awkwardness. Someone clearly just went with “Going Underground” without once considering the rest of the lyrics. Brilliant!
Could have been worse… could have been DITTSAM
Let’s be cautious about the “we”. This is the consequence of half witted electorate meeting terrible electoral system. I didn’t vote for these charlatans not their loathsome project yet I’m stuck with them.
@Twang
And given the way the Labour Party is continuing to rip itself to shreds at their annual party conference, it looks as though we’re going to be stuck with them for another five years come 2023/2024.
We have had the government we deserved for the last 12 years or how bloody long it is.
Watching all this from far away, the cynic in me wonders whether this was all engineered by the executives of BP to force the hand of the government on granting visas for foreign HGV drivers (which they have now done I see). If so, well played BP…….
Ah yes, BP, the geniuses who think that the future of charging points for electric vehicles lies in having them at existing petrol station sites.
Because they want you to enjoy the Retail Experience of their shops while you’re charging. Makes good business sense for them.
Brexiteers voted to end freedom of movement.
They finally got what they wanted.
When Patel announced an end to freedom of movement at the Conservative Party conference a few years ago – and everyone cheered – that was a bit of a moment.
Ironic that people who so easily produce so much shite want to end freedom of movement.
I’m more inclined towards the cockup after cockup after cockup after cockup view on these events.
No dastardly conspiracies, just cockups by clueless incompetents, incapable of seeing a bigger picture than their own short-term self-interest and protected from the consequences of their actions by wealth and connections.
You The Man!
Interesting review of Michel Barnier’s book in the Grauniad this morning. Confirms all our worst suspicions – add laziness, arrogance and stupidity to the mix and you’ve got it. The book’s pretty boring, it seems, good job the review makes it unnecessary to read it.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/25/my-secret-brexit-diary-by-michel-barnier-review-a-british-roasting
Cockup after cockup after cockup after Coca-Cola…. sorry.
Bit of a cockpit on the cockup front. Jimmy would have voted for Brexit, as would CJ. Reggie wouldn’t have.
He loved Europe so much he tried to swim there.
Exactly!
70s Sitcom Brexit voting intentions is endless fun. Always start with The Good Life…
Most 70s sitcom blokes, particularly George Roper and Robin, would vote remain because of the (extremely theoretical) access to exotic crumpet.
Blakey – Leave. He might get them buses out on time without meddling from Brussels.
Stan and Jack – Remain. So they can get their hands on all that euro-crumpet
Terry and June – Brexit
Everyone in Rising Damp would be Brexit except, of course, Miss Jones.
Rigsby would be pleasantly surprised at Philip, until he hears the reason: “I just think Britain’s sphere of influence should be kept as limited as possible”
Could they have voted inside Slade prison? Would have made for a great episode with Harry Grout onto a winner with a leave vote and Mr Barroclough extolling the virtue of Remain…
Collier – Leave
Ferris – Remain
….don’t even have to think about that one
@Dave-Amitri
Like members of the House of Lords, convicts don’t get a vote -people like Jeffrey Archer (deffo Brexit) are especially hard done by
JA is probably on the electoral roll under the name of Miss Gladys Quott.
I can visualise that Rising Damp exchange – brilliant.
Jerry remain.
Marge leave.
Possibly.
Edit. Margo.
Only Fools and Horses.
All of them Leave apart from Rodney.
“Think about it, Del – it’ll be disastrous for your bulk buying deals from the continent. You’ll have tariffs and border checks and everything!”
“I do appreciate that Rodders, but we’re British, ain’t we? We need to take back control! Know what I mean?” (Falls through gap in the bar)
I think this shows the views of Jimmy & Reggie – Reggie seems to give a list of Brexit supporters
Jimmy was based on some real guy, ex-army, who talked openly about taking over in the case of a national emergency (ie a government led by anyone to the left of Enoch Powell). Trumpism? We invented it!
Trending on twitter is a fact that the BBC have sent a guy to cover petrol panic-buying who delights in the name of Phil McCann.
That is priceless.
Well, good news. Here in Mid Sussex there are no queues at the filling stations. You can just wander in any time you like and buy a Finger of Fudge, A Ginsters’ Brunch Bar and a sponge if the mood takes you. Not fuel, obviously, that was all gone by 10.00am.
A litre of unleaded is just enough to give your kids a treat.
…..Apropos Lodey’s pampas inferno (TMFTL)
Only gargle and don’t swallow.
Good advice in many jobs.
….could leave a nasty taste.
Remember the VW Golf advert in the 80’s? “This is the man who put a million on black and it came up red; this is the man who moved into gold just as the smart money moved out…” Well, I think I’ve turned it round because “this is the man who bought a Renault Zoe EV on Wednesday just as the queues at the local Tesco filling station started to stretch round the carpark”. I won’t get too smug though as who knows what happens next. If any of you have any tips on EV driving, charging etc., they would be much appreciated.
There’s another thing going around about the old British Gas adverts:
“If you see Sid, tell him privatisation doesn’t work….”
Fellow smug EV wanker here. I’ve got a lockable charging point on the front of my house which sorts me out 9 times out of 10.
Most big Tesco branches have free semi-fast chargers which you can usually use for 3hrs or so before their scalpers send you a parking fine. You’ll need the Pod Point app to use them.
The most reliable network of superfast chargers is probably BP Pulse – get their app too.
The PlugShare app is well handy for planning longer journeys. It routes you to your destination via charging stations, which you can filter according to type. I recently did Berkshire to Pembrokeshire with two strategic superfast charging stops and it worked beautifully.
Once you make peace with the fact that charging is just a thing you have to do, you’ll never look back. Oh and the torque on an electric motor means you’ll leave everyone standing at the lights, too.
Well that answers the question of how Ernie was the fastest milkman in the west.
Leave everyone standing at the lights. Where are you going with that, the 70’s?
On here, aren’t we all?
Thanks for the tips. I have already checked out Tesco’s free Pod Points in Dumfries and just pop the car on there for a few % charge when I’m shopping. I have now signed up with BP Pulse too thanks. For charger location, I had got the Zap Map app which is quite helpful.
One charge point which gets good reviews and is most simple and rapid is Instavolt. It does cost though. I have ordered a home charger from Scottish Gas. I will be able to use it with my Hive app with which I can currently remotely control my central heating, lights etc.. Once I have that, I can reduce my need for the public charging points.
I have also checked out Red Dwarf’s Robert Llewellyn’s Fully Charged site which has a load of useful Youtubes. He has been an EV fan for 10 years so his knowledge is pretty sound. Check his shocked reaction at about 1:25 when reviewing the Tesla SP85D. It’s vfunny.
I’m hoping this means we still get to keep the blue passports, though?
No, we don’t have the trucks to get them over from France.
A pedant writes: Poland, not France.
Via the world-famous Gdansk Dover tunnel? The Gadunnel?
Please yerselves 🙂
Known locally as the Sally.
@slotbadger
Sorry, chief. Still stuck at Calais. So hard to find the staff these days
‘We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.’
Though it seems as if we are hurtling towards it at a rate of knots*.
*1.852 km/h
Sky News doing a vox pop “It’s terrible. I’m only queuing because everybody else is queuing”
A good old British queue. *dabs away patriotic tear* Gets you there, dunnit?
I have seen a number of posts from friends and relatives on Facebook showing them in queues for petrol stations. They explain that they are definitely not “panic buying” just filling up in case they can’t do it in the next few days. Hmmm
I know someone in exactly that position. 200 mile round trip tomorrow for work and enough fuel to get there but not all the way back. Ordinarily they would have filled up on the way back. So they sat in a queue yesterday so they could be sure they didn’t get stranded, or spend all Monday stressed about it. I would have done exactly the same.
There are apparently 4,500 petrol stations in the UK. As of last night, the BBC 10 pm news said only 1% of them – that’s 45 petrol stations across England, Scotland and Wales – are out of fuel.
Well, said person is coming to my neck of the woods and on Friday, there wasn’t a station with fuel in a 30 mile radius, according to local news. My car was in the village garage for work and the garage ran out between the time I dropped the car off and collected it. The owner said he hadn’t had to close the pumps since the tanker driver dispute.
BBC News, as of half hour ago – “Petrol Retailers Association said that “between 50% and 90%” of its members’ forecourts are dry. Forecourts which were not dry were partly dry and running out soon”.
Yes, but that is actually slightly panic buying. Anyway all petrol stations forecourts will be empty Wed to Sat as nobody will need any.
I do hope so, as I’m off to Lincoln on Weds. As it stands, I’ll be walking the last 10 miles.
Easy to say when you aren’t taking any chances. Seems common sense to me.
I drove from Folkestone to East Grinstead and back today (don’t ask). Both services on the M20 were out of fuel before 9am and were still out on the way back around 4. Huge queues at Clacket Lane on the M25, and I passed one in a small village somewhere that was at least a mile long.
On the way back I passed a petrol station that had fuel with one car at the pumps. The car was half full so I drove right past, because I didn’t want to be one of those blokes. I’m now thinking I shouldn’t have been one of those dickheads.
There’s no need to panic anyway, as the minister says none of it is his fault – it’s all the fault of the Road Haulage Association.
In other news, the Labour deputy leader calls the Tories ‘scum’ and a Tory MP says the Labour deputy leader is talking ‘crap’. This is what British politics is now reduced to.
@Boneshaker
You forgot to add the bit about how, shit scared of upsetting the transgender lobby, Starmer has just thrown one of his MPs (Rosie Duffield) to the wolves.
In doing so, he’s stupidly gone on live TV and turned thousands of years of accepted scientific thinking on its head by denying that only women have cervixes.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-trans-rights-duffield-b1927169.html
Am sure this sort of cack-handed pandering will play well in Labour’s new heartland in metropolitan London.
Not so sure why he thinks this sort of woke bollocks might win back the millions of Labour voters who deserted the party in 2019 and caused it to suffer its biggest thumping since 1935.
Despite overseeing the most incompetent government in living memory, Johnson must be laughing his socks off.
And how sad that Rosie Duffield has been forced to stay away from the labour conference for daring to mention a scientific fact.
So at the cost of placating the literally dozens of transgender activists on twitter, he’s made a rod for his back for the whole of the electorate. He really has to go.
I wouldn’t worry too much: more than half the electorate are scum anyway. Can probably do without their sort.
Aren’t they the ones who vote Tory though? It’s a minefield
The real question is whether you can vote Tory but identify as Labour.
Lord Sainsbury would if he could.
Which bathroom does he use? Asking for a friend.
The only flaw in your outrage is that Starmer (and I’m not a fan of his) did not ‘deny that only women have cervixes’.
His biggest mistake, it seems, is not to understand, when doing TV interviews, that nuance and sublety of rhetoric are seemingly lost on many people.
To be fair, “Tory Scum” is a lot easier to say than “Conservative Cockwomble”.
I thought that said “Tony Scum” at first and thought what a brilliant name for a cash-in punk rock tribute act
It sounds like a Steve Coogan character/alter-ego.
@fentonsteve
SC has apparently just been cast as Jimmy Savile in a TV drama to be screened next year.
He certainly knows how to choose unpopular characters.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/26/icelandic-pms-future-in-doubt-despite-winning-election-majority
Certainly can’t be any worse than the numpties in charge now or, perhaps even more scarily, the numpties who are more interested in kicking lumps out of each other than the fuckers they should be fighting,
I suppose I’m going to have to come round to Afterword Towers and collect my hamper, aren’t I? No point waiting for the delivery truck to show up
Do you have enough fuel?
S’pose you could always sneak out at night and siphon some from one of your neigbours.
I scored a tankful of diesel this morning so I’ve got my nine-year-old nephew on the street corner dealing baggies. £1 an ounce – I’m selling it in Imperial units as a special sovereignty bonus for my clients.
You should be charging in Guineas
Or sestertii. Oh, hang on, that’s of European origin. Scratch that idea.
@chiz
Unfortunately, said hamper will be devoid of the usual tins of Corsair Chicken* as there’s also a serious shortage of poultry workers
* No other brands are available
Poultry workers are involved in the manufacture of Corsair Chicken? Surely not.
I think Emergency Plumbers are on the visa list, too.
@mikethep
They’re apparently responsible for producing the secret sauce that gives Corsair Chicken its tangy saltiness
“Gentlemens’ Relish”
Sans paroles.
Chiz!
@Chiz
Mouldy!
Interestingly, the last time there was a fuel crisis of this scope in the UK was in the autumn of 2000.
The electorate exacted a swingeing revenge on the government of the day at the election nine months later though.
How strange that Boris Johnson has, just this once, overcome his otherwise irresistible urge to head for the dressing up box, like a malign lucy Worsley or a morbidly obese Mister Benn, and be filmed on a garage forecourt wearing a hi-viz vest and a hard-hat.
Round my way, Hoyer tanker drivers are being balloted on strike action on Friday. This could just get a whole lot worse.
Our glorious leader has been on the wireless to tell us it is all over. So that’s alright, then.
I still can’t buy enough fuel to get me all the way to Lincoln tomorrow, though. It must be my fault.
Well it’s certainly not Boris’s ..
Nothing is.
Ever.
Well what would Boris do?… Pushbike? Tube? Chauffeured car? Have you considered any of these to get to Lincoln? You just need to be flexible!!!
If you’d paid a few hundred thousand to the Conservative Party at the right time they’d have put your home and Lincoln on the HS2 route.
News update: we got some fuel north of Grantham. We nearly got rammed by a lorry as we pulled off the A1 into the service station, but a tank full of diesel is worth dying for, surely?
Not one petrol station with fuel in the town the other day. Tried 5 different places and then returned home.
I have enough fuel left in the tank for a family funeral this afternoon and going to a friend’s pub gig tomorrow night. After that I’ll be on fumes, with another gig on Sunday for which I have a ticket. May need to travel to that one by bus if I can’t score some juice on Saturday.
Apparently Dame* Dido Harding is going to jolly well sort it all out.
Hope those buses run on electric.
(*I assume she is)
I’m glad that you assumed she is a dame, and not assume she is going to sort it.
I don’t think she could sort through a sock drawer.
Why is it that when I saw the word ‘dame’ and Dido Harding in one sentence, the only other word that came to mind was ‘pantomime’?
Why is it that when I see the name Dido Harding the only other word that comes to mind is ‘dildo’?
There is nothing like a dildooooooooo!
It’s behind you.
Excellent Hubes!
Was I being very cynical when I saw the headlinea and my first thought was “What’s Gove done this time?”
I wonder if the fuel shortage could turn out to be a good thing (albeit temporarily) if it forces more people to use public transport and reduces the number of cars on the road? During lockdown the air was noticably cleaner where I live.
(Btw, I read some Government spokesman saying the shortages are not a result of Brexit, but there are no fuel or supermarket shortages whatsoever in Italy as far as I’m aware.)
I’m so pleased I cunningly phrased my post as a question rather than a statement and thus cannot be held responsible for any foolishness inherent in its hypothesis. A visible indication of my smartitudeness, I feel.
Gary, the word is smartidity *shakes head*
Dough!
When I was young, budget day fuel increases always used to produce a lengthy lines of cars whose drivers were desperate to avoid paying the 1 or 2 p fuel tax increase that became effective at midnight that night.
Never seemed to occur to the drivers that they were burning more money than they were ever likely to save.
Was gobsmacked to read earlier today of a convoy of cars that followed a tanker for many, many miles only to learn it was carrying cement and not petrol.