BRITISHES - have you started stockpiling food and medicine yet?

are there other explanations? as i say it seemed surprisingly widespread and it seemed difficult to fathom why - perhaps due to the mental image of pills in blister packs i feel that pharmaceuticals are mostly industrialised these days so you’d assume the supply/demand loop wd be fairly smooth.

Oh no, I have no reason to think that's not correct. Global supply chains are not some fantasy 'globalist agenda'. Just attempting some cheap irony or something.

lol i realised that after i did my overserious reply.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*BYagi9Wl9R9GuE-u6Pl5ag.jpeg

is that from Threads?

Yep. Bartering for rat meat.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2019/0122/1024795-brexit-survival-kit/

With just nine weeks to go until Britain is due to leave the European Union, a company is selling worried Britons a survival kit to help them prepare for the worst.

The "Brexit Box", retailing at £295, provides food rations to last 30 days, according to its producer, businessman James Blake who says he has already sold hundreds of them.

With still no deal on how Britain will trade with the EU once it leaves, retailers and manufacturers have warned a no-deal Brexit could cause food and medicine shortages due to expected chaos at ports that could paralyse supply lines.

The Brexit Box includes 60 portions of freeze-dried UK favourites - chicken tikka, chilli con carne, macaroni cheese and chicken fajitas, 48 portions of dried mince and chicken, firelighter liquid and an emergency water filter.

ffs even after seeing the mint ppl made during y2k and after 9/11 we're still letting these opportunities pass us by ppl lets hustle

Haunting ILX is generally bad for business.

Whenever he can, my dad will say with pride he still has some tinned meatballs from when he was in the army around 1970 iirc. "You can still eat those, you know!" He never will though.

nor should he, tbf

If that Brexit box doesn't include a rifle to defend yourself from passing raiders then it's not worth the cash.

*galaxy brain* the people who really need to stockpile won't be able to afford to

British stockpiling fantasies are ludicrous. At least American stockpiling fantasies have some kind of internal logic (weapons)

Sure, sensibly stocking up on dried and tinned food and medicine ahead of widely-anticipated supply chain problems is less logical than filling your basement with automatic weapons because fox news has melted your brain.

when it comes to stockpiling an englishman's home is his castle (pictured):

https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2019/01/turkish-chateau-burj-al-babas-turkey_dezeen_1704_sq_1.jpg

I love that the Brexit box includes lighter fluid. Presumably the British prepper will be stockpiling counterfeit Romanian fags so unecessary in the brexit not itself.

lighter fluid is to help start fires kindled from dismantled household furniture over which the withered corpses of grandparents/spouses/neighbours etc will be roasted iirc

idk abt medicine but the things ppl are stockpiling/in that box seem like the things that we are least likely to run out of

There’s also a deluxe box for £595!
https://www.emergencyfoodstorage.co.uk/search.php?search_query=brexit

the emergency water filter is the funniest bit

"Tesco out of tomatoes for a week" = Mad Max end times

that £595 brexit box appears to have enough food to last one person maybe a month on three meals a day

£595 spent correctly in aldi could probably last you the rest of your adult life, but tbf it doesn't come in a plastic box with a union jack printed on a sheet of a4 stuck to the side

i assume these things are designed to turn up unopened on Antiques Roadshow in 20 years time, when a cybernetically-enhanced David Barby will tell the owner that the box is now worth £50, before throttling them and draining the life essence from their corpse

the rest of your adult life,

also a month iirc

well, yeah

lol NV

oh thats a very generous prediction on what sterling is gonna be worth

RFI ebay bog roll bulk buys ;-)

I've already been doing that for years, but I'll get an extra 216 this month!

When I was in W4itrose last buying loads of beans (also something I do regularly anyway) some cock at the next checkout was making cracks about how much toilet paper I'd need. Tbf that is a consideration.

2 extra boxes of wine than I normally have in + several shelves of extras (pasta/sauces/crisps/cereals/soups/beans)
i.e. yes.
next week I will buy more wine.

I'm glad to be not the only wine-box savage on here!

i used to roll the foil bag up like a toothpaste tube to get that last half glass out :D

Looks like I quit the wrong month to quit drinking drano

picked the wrong month even

ITT: evidence you didn't yet quit

i'm surprised i haven't started seeing "Go Bag" ads popping up in my Insta feed.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59517985c534a569f9b7c635/t/5b50c8e41ae6cf0276b1c26c/1532021005488/first+reformed.gif

"i used to roll the foil bag up like a toothpaste tube to get that last half glass out :D"

AKA thursday night for me, after wednesday tesco delivery :p

i don't feel so bad about my alcoholism after reading about P Toynbee's dad in that Donald Maclean book, he used to knock back 6 bottles of vodka with the soviet agent and they'd trash flats together and be complete posh degenerates. and still he found time to go into a right wing sulk in his old age and write a piece about how he was glad everyone was over J R R Tolkien - just before the massive unstoppable global success of the hobbit et al.

i used to roll the foil bag up like a toothpaste tube to get that last half glass out :D
― Helel Cool J (Noodle Vague),

hang on, you mean there are people who don't do that !?

Indeed.

You people disgust me. I pour the drano into a tumbler at the very least

A flute if I'm feeling fancy

Flutes make anything taste classy

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/assets/photos/38/45/24-jethro-tull-rock-opera-2015-11-06-bk01_z.jpg

That's an ostentatious but still classy way to take a dainty sip of drano

Toulouse Lautrec used to have a hollow walking stick full of absinthe which would help him through his day.

I’m glad Australia’s greatest ever invention is available to see you through the dark times

you ppl worry too much

we got a jar of 300 naproxen delivered from the USA, but that was as much to do with our GPs being incompetent wankers as Brexit. that particular medicine is on an at risk list though so it's doubly important we have a stock of it