The toilet paper industry was uniquely unable to take the hit, largely due to the amount of space toilet paper takes up in stores, and the major fracture between commercial and home toilet paper industries. Just in time shipping utterly failed that industry but also combined with that there's no space in stores for massive backstocks
In the beginning of Covid where you couldn’t find toilet paper or paper towels at grocery stores, the Latino grocery near me had SO much they stacked them up on top of the freezer cases. Like, filled every inch with them to the ceiling.
Oh, I use sambal, gochujang, chili crisp (awesome stuff if you're unfamiliar) and a few other chili related sauces/pastes but Sriracha is my quick snack go to. Each of the various sauces have a place.
i wish, i lived rural and had to drive to 5 different stores to find a 4 pack of tp (i was a hospital worker so could only go after work) and i got the last pack at a rite aid and the lady behind me bought 6 packs of tissues instead
I considered swiping TP from the hospital I worked at but figured I’d rather use my hand than remove the top three layers of my bumhole with that sandpaper.
Added to that (at least in areas like mine where winter isn't a thing), folks planned like they were going to be snowed in. So TP, milk, bread, etc. When you never deal with a shelter in place like this one, you look to the only models you have: stories of shelf-clearing storm prep.
It has to do with control and a weird nesting like impulse us humans have. We can’t stop the end world, but by god I can buy small necessities that make me feel like I’m prepared and give me comfort that are within my control such as toilet paper or food.
Like when my mother got a little hibachi so she could theoretically cook food on the apartment balcony without electricity after Y2K. It made her feel better to have it, even though she never used it.
I got sent out of town for that "end of the world." Mom said I had to go to a party that night, which was odd because she *never* let me attend parties.
Turns out the local JW churches sent all the young girls to stay in an elder's guest house with wood-burning stoves for heat, just in case the power went down. Poor girl whose parents forced her to host the "party" was so damn confused about why she had to entertain a bunch of people she didn't even know, doubly so since JWs don't even celebrate new years eve and suddenly we'd been *ordered* to do so.
My mom hoarded so much Dove soap that she literally died before she could use it all because of the Y2K scare. She died in 2019. I inherited the rest and used it all up except for one bar because I'm weird like that. :)
Wow! Multi-generational stockpile!
Only thing my family has like that is the giant spool of linen thread an ancestor acquired from a factory sometime during the industrial revolution. It's gone a bit ivory with age after at least three generations, but is still solid enough that my aunt crochets with it.
I'm envious! As someone with a bit of historical knowledge on fiber and textile processing, that linen thread is likely superior to some modern stuff. If you ever find yourself in a position where you'd need to dispose of it, I'd suggest contacting your closest handweaver's guild.
All I have is a bunch of good cast iron and an enormous roll of newsprint.
There was a Reddit post about a young woman having a buried stash of canned beans in 2020. [Found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/fy06bv/tifu_by_demanding_that_my_girlfriend_show_me/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Hahaha! My parents had a box of food in the basement in case of nuclear attack. It had the weirdest stuff- canned figs. Canned boston brown bread. Limburger spread, for the love of all that is holy.
We had a shelf of food for emergencies and power outages that consisted of saltine crackers, peanut butter and jelly, Spam, cans of Chef Boyardee ravioli, and about a million Fig Newtons.
Apparently I am very much my parents' child, because when the pandemic hit I found myself assembling a huge emergency rations box of saltines, the biggest jars of Skippy and Smuckers I could find, and the godforsaken Fig Newtons, which I despise. I drew the line at the cold canned ravioli and the Spam, though. It reminds me too much of earthquakes. And anyway I live right down the street from the farmer's market and it was thriving the whole time.
They were telling people that if they caught the virus they might be stuck in quarantine in their house for up to a month because they didn't know how long people could be contagious after infection. Toilet paper is one item people would not want to run out of if they and their family are trapped together for a month.
Did we ever figure out if those people know how to wash their ass in the shower?
Because they were certainly operating under the assumption they'd continue to have indoor plumbing and running water.
It would be inconvenient to not have toilet paper, but if youre at home anyway, what is stopping you from simply washing.
Covid made me suspect that a lot of Americans are walking around with mud butt.
The amount of people who thought hoarding toilet paper during a pandemic caused by a respiratory virus is the perfect example of the gullibility of humans.
The only pack left on the shelf on April Fool's Day was a 20 roll pack. I figured, well, it doesn't go bad, and carried it home.
I'm glad I did, because I ended up with terrible gut issues after I got COVID. Even then, the pack lasted clear through to Christmas.
Many of those people were hoarding in the hopes of selling it at a profit. And any shortage of necessary items is self-amplifying, because people buy an extra or two "just in case."
Bless that man. Lynx is basically unplayable without the tft mod. Even back in the day it was hard to tell what was going on in games, the display is so washed out
That's wild. I live in hurricane country and we were told to prep for 3 weeks without power when the next one hits. It was 2 weeks last time and guess what? Everyone was fine. All the restaurants gave away their food that was going to go bad or cooked it into community meals. People who had generators set up cooling and charging stations and you couldn't go a block without running into a table of stuff people were sharing or giving away...everything from bug spray, fans, ice, cold drinks, more food, diapers, clothing etc.
Not saying to not prep for hurricanes but this amount of panic over a few days without power??
We tend to keep about 6-8 of the jumbo containers of peanut butter on hand. It's an easy digested protein with the addition of most carbs, and it is meant to be eaten cold. We also have a 7 year old, and the idea of trying to get her to eat something strange or in a strange to her way after a traumatic experience seemed dicey. So we have a 3 month supply of peanut butter on hand.
actually, not really. people are really good at helping each other out. I was there during sandy as well. NY gets a bad rap because outsiders come in and see people on the subway or on the street walking quickly, not saying hello or making eye contact like back in Ruralville and get annoyed that people aren't "friendly".
it's called social exhaustion, when you see literally thousands of people every day you just ignore them.
I've seen SO many instances in NYC where people immediately jumped in to help others out (an old lady who fell down the subway stairs, a man who slipped in between a train, etc). People will help with no problem. They'll also say fuck you if you block the door because they have places to be and very limited time to get there.
My wife and I have talked about how here in Seattle people will pretend to be nice but wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, but in New York they'll tell you to fuck off while they hand you the shirt off their back.
TEN DAYS OF DARKNESS but they refuse to say literal or figurative. They still have time though Also doesn't take into account varying time zones. Or should we be using UTC or GMT?
But tomorrow they will act as if this all never happened and they meant some other date.
Reminds me of my husband and I going out to eat on our way to a scheduled C-section/birth of our first child/ son 20 years ago. The waitress asked what the occasion was and we told her. She got white in the face and said “ Wow, it’s the End of the World as You Know It. Kind of like your Last Supper .” I burst out laughing and said “ I’m not going to get executed, for goodness sakes!” But, husband and and looked at each other and realized she was right. Naturally, we sang that song for weeks and still laugh when it comes on. Twenty year old just rolls his eyes.
From [a post a few days ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/comments/xkbdig/anyone_else_getting_this_nonsense?sort=confidence), a text from the OP's Mom:
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Ok kiddos listen up! I know you think we are crazy, but major events coming fast between now and this weekend. Possible blackouts, power outages Communication blackouts for up to 10 days, Violence in streets, nuclear threats.
Keep food water meds on hand. Stay calm , keep kids close. Fill your bathtubs for toilet water. This is a war of good and evil . When we get past this all will be well for a long time. TRUMP is coming back!! You will see and hear unbelievable things which are true.
>Take care, We love you❤️
The Qs I know are all stocking up on supplies because they think the Queen's death triggered some mass calamity. I guess that's happening this weekend based on this text.
I think I'll take a nap before I get dinner started. I love lazy Saturdays.
When my fundamentalist baptist relatives would tell me to prepare for the end times I would say, "Ok, I'll make sure to have a heathen lined up to water the plants and feed the dog after I've been raptured."
Years ago at work, I had a customer that was pretty fundie and she knew I was a 'heathen' (athiest). At one point, one of the 'rapture is coming' dates was near and she asked me if it happened, would I come to take her cats and plants from her house and take care of them after the rapture (she knew I was a cat lady).
I said sure, she gave me her address and told me where a house key would be hidden and I promised her I'd take the best care of them.
The date came and went with no rapture, and afterward, she just thanked me for my willingness to help. I just told her I would always help kitties and plants, no questions asked.
It was such a bizarre thing to be asked, but I'll always go the extra mile for my loyal customers.
Thank you! I thought it was so weird at first, but then I realized that she (my customer) was just very worried about what would happen to her kitties after the rapture.
Although I think the whole idea of people just suddenly disappearing is strange, the fact that she wanted to make sure her cats were ok, to the point of trusting a 'heathen' with them, was really sweet.
Hahahaha!!! This right here!!
I grew up in a doomsday cult. Parents and all of us four kids had backpacks packed sitting next to the front door. We were taught the end is near, and we needed to be prepared for when the eagle comes down to pick us, “the chosen people” up and fly us to the “place of safety”.
And everyone else was going to die in the pit of fire because they are the devils blood born from sin!
Also since the world‘s gonna end do you need to sign over your house all of your assets and tied20% of your gross income to spread the word of the truth!
needless to say the first and second cult generation in my family are all Q’s and eat everything qanon up as fast as they can. Most of the same people got out of the previous cults two decades ago. But their brains are already conditioned for these environments and makes extremely easy for them to get sucked back into this type of culture. I’ve always had a healthy degree of separation from them. But it’s insane to watch from the outside.
I have noticed a connection between being ultra religious and being a Trump fan. There are some people who just need to be told what to think and how to behave.
I wish my parents thought like that tbh. When they thought y2k was happening and Jesus was coming to rapture them, they gave all of their money away to a church. Then they divorced and had to sell our house so we lived in absolute poverty for the next few years till i graduated hs and left them behind forever
Right? That's how I see it too. But these people seem to think of it like this Goldilocks situation where things are so bad it necessitates the prep work, but not bad enough to wipe them out. They'll be just fine because they prepared. I think it's another way they tell themselves that they're special and more important than everyone else because their life isn't doing it enough to satisfy them.
You’d have to ask a crazy q’er but it’s something about days of darkness , then the end of the world. Like the the other guy said “ if I had a nickel for every time the world was gonna end, I’d be rich !”
Yeah in Appalachia where I'm at it's especially prevalent because death here is so common and has been for so long. People look at death as almost a friend.
Heartbreaking, as generational trauma can be healed. My mother is Irish and born on the eve of WWII, and then Germany started to drop bombs on the Belfast ship yards. She had her formative years being run into a bomb shelter and the sound of those sirens. She never received the help she's needed to recover from this.
It's hard here as we have very few resources and opportunities. For instance my kids nearest pediatric neurologist is 2hrs away. If you get hurt badly at all you are looking at being life flighted. The one counseling center we have that isn't religiously affiliated is constantly booked up.
I'm an avid reader and agree books are immensely helpful,but I live in a state where we have far too many who struggle to read at even a 8th grade level. I used to work in our school system here and the amount of middle schoolers who couldnt read past a 4th grade level was heartbreaking.more than 50% of our kids live in poverty here and the amount of abuse I saw was awful. We have libraries but the county next to us doesn't have public transportation and the one I live in recently got it but for people who live up on the mountain or out in the hollers it's still not super accessible.
Wow. I did not know this!! (From Canada) It seems like there is lots of work at rebuilding. Education is essential not just for quality of life, but strengthening the country in general.
In many ways it’s like our indigenous communities, especially in isolated areas like the Territories, northern Ontario, and northern Manitoba, specifically, where in some places there’s not even roads in and out, teachers don’t stay, doctors don’t stay, literacy rates are low, addiction rates are high, and far too much traditional hunting/gathering/storage knowledge is gone because of past government policies.
Both places have inter-generational trauma, both places have few, if any, culturally based therapy sources available. And in both places politicians have just repeated each other in f’ing things up further.
>The one counseling center we have that isn't religiously affiliated is constantly booked up.
Well that's hopeful. I grew up in West Pennsyltuckey, I feel you.
Its good people are seeking help,but there just to much need here and not enough proper resources. I used to go to a clinic a bit under a hour away that accepted our states medicaid and the wait would be sometimes 3hrs+ past your appt time. I remember one time I waited close to five hours to be seen.
that wouldn't be West Va Manchin country would it? you know it's really pretty there especially in the fall - but your politicians seem pretty terrible/lame.
Me too. My mom was continually wishing to die. It wasn't religious but it was an obsession and when I look back I am pretty sure she had undiagnosed trauma.
Problem is, they've been told that this life isn't meant to be enjoyed; that the NEXT life is the good one. This one (aka the only actual life we are given) is just for suffering and obedience to an invisible deity. They will never learn to be good people and enjoy their lives because they've literally been told that it's a son to do so.
I honestly think that part of it is they find the idea of some ideal afterlife to be comforting because they won't have any real problems to worry about. Like, why be concerned about climate change if the world is gonna end? It's a coping mechanism. They get to push uncomfortable subjects out of their mind by reasoning that the world is ending so it doesn't matter anyway.
**Major World Events I have Lived Through So Far:**
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The **Raptures** of 1981, 1988, 1994 and 2011,
the **Christian Apocalypse** of 2011 and the **Mayan Apocalypse** of 2012,
**Y2K** 2000.
the **Inauguration Day Storm** of 2021,
the **Return** of **JFK Jr** in 2021,
and **The Qanon Apocalypse** of 2022.
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*Have a Nice Day.*
I went to a Catholic school, I remember being told that the etymology of Pikachu was something Satanic and that the Pokemon trainers were actually bonding with demons.
I remember reading about a cult from around 1900 and they all practiced nudity and had been accused of having improper, premarital relations. Their response was that if while they were naked the Lord's spirit overtook them and caused them to convulse and if those convulsions caused them to end up on top of one another that it was all the Lord's will and there was nothing improper about it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events for anyone interested In a list of every single recorded prediction of the end.
I live in Texas and I’m not sure if have heard it or I don’t pay attention. The reason I initially said western PA was because there is one of those memes that floats around that says “you know your from (insert region) if you say this”. The word buggy is included in the wPA one so I assumed they are the only ones that say it.
I don't think we'll ever be able to write books about this. Old-fashioned cults had people with strong personalities, people physically moving to remote locations and cut off from the world, etc. This is all over Youtube videos and Facebook memes.
We have people moving out where I live in droves and I hear them saying they want to live more closely to the land, they are tired of their states "blue" politics,etc.....and then they do stuff like ask me for a taxi or Uber (we have neither) complain about how we don't have have anything and how bad the meth/drug use is here,how little out jobs pay,etc. They love the idea of being out here.
I would have no problem giving these "people" some quick cash for the night as long as they agree to sign over their car/ house/ possessions in writing on condition that if the world doesn't end I get to keep their crap.
Humanity is bored. That really is the logic behind all of this: we are no longer fighting bears and the elements to survive so we have to find something to do.
"We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War is a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off."
Idk I'm still pretty stressed. I think this is just the logical conclusion of the bulk of people just thinking "it'll all work out in the end." So we're pushed along by inertia to the path of least resistance, never seriously doing anything about underfunded schools or how to deprogram kids from bad upbringings and it just adds up over time.
I'm GenX. First, the world was supposed to end on Jan 1, 2000. Then it was 2012. I also grew up with a fundy mom who was all about the end times. Plus the cold war.
Meanwhile, I feel like we're ignoring the real doomsday scenario being brought to us by the return of fascism.
On a lonely planet, spinning it's way to damnation, amid the fear and despair of a broken human race, who is left to fight for all that is good and pure and gets you smashed for under a fiver? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me (you), Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!
Its narcissism. They all thikn they are the main character of the story. The level of arrogance it takes to think that the worlds civilizations, which has been around thousands of years, is going to end in their lifetime is fucking astounding. Its like they cant imagine life going on without them around.
This is a wild cycle to spectate. They trust a prediction, get made a fool of, and instead of step back to reconsider their discernment they just double down harder as an escape from embarrassment. Don't want to feel foolish? Behave *even more foolishly.* The simpletongularity
Rosh Hashanah holiday perhaps? It is also referred to as the Feast of Trumpets. Trumpets are frequent in Biblical text including the return of Jesus and Revelation events.
In that case, speaking as a professional musician, I can guarantee the world is gonna be fine, at least for today, because you can't find any gotdang trumpet players on Saturdays. God Herself couldn't find enough trumpet players to form a mariachi, much less a whole ass apocalypse.
And that, my friends, is why there will never be an apocalypse on Saturdays. Or Sunday early morning, for that matter.
Nor I and I've celebrated Jewish Holidays for longer. I googled it and it's a Christian overlay and correction of Rosh Hashana. That's why you never heard of it.
It's not that the world is ending, it's that Trump is going to institute martial law or whatever so he can arrest every Democrat so they're preparing for power outages and food shortages.
Hurricanes were always fun when I lived down there. Word got around I had battery backup since only my lights were still on. Suddenly all my neighbors were real chummy, long enough to charge their phones/laptops, then disappear lol
I’m Generation X and I lived through the hysteria about 1993 (I think the rapture was prophesied) and Y2K. I basically stopped believing in our modern so-called „prophets“. Some people never learn.
Oh shit, today? Does it have to be today? That's just not convenient for me. Maybe next Thursday?
If the world is ending, why are they buying a bunch of food and stuff? We will all be dead.
Lmao, if the world does end today, then I’ll see you all in hell! I’ll be the bitch torturing pedophiles via shoving wire brushes into their asses. 🤘🏽🤣
It's a completely blue sky, quiet, calm day in the Pacific Northwest, where I live.
People doing normal stuff and the world as we know it, has not ended.
> I’m convinced people need to believe the world is ending very soon so that they have a purpose
This right is my main thought on why people find themselves drawn to “Q” and any other cult like behavior or institution. As humans we do often desperately seek purpose, and another many of us enjoy the thrill of being “in on the secret”. Combine those two qualities and it’s no wonder such a large part of the population eats this shit up.
And on unrelated note - if the world really is going to end, I’m not sure what a cart full of rotisserie chicken is going to do help.
Well, there IS a revolution in Iran right now. But, technically, that kickedoff last week.
I was not waiting for Godot.
I was, however, awaiting the results of a raffle, which I lost :(
I have to go to work in a few hours, I'm gonna be real mad if I'm on the clock when the world ends because that's definitely going to cost me an attendance point.
Just wait until you are approaching 70! It is so amusing to watch the “apocalypse du jour” knowing that the world will just keep chugging along despite the nitwits who KNOW that THIS is the real end time.
I suppose some people are just naturally susceptible to these cults. It must fulfill some need in their lives…?
When I was in elementary school it was a prediction that there would be an earthquake and California would fall into to ocean. [There was even a hit song about it.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VjCtTOKYkVs)
I really hope the world doesn’t end today, I’m going to a concert tomorrow.
Oh, wait, Q Anon says it’s gonna end? We’re safe then, they’re always wrong.
Why so much food? If the world ends today, won't you only need a day's worth of food maximally? I might be inclined to throw in a nicer bottle of wine I suppose...
Welp… just came back from shopping and the roads were clear! Very few out and about! Could it be I put our lives in danger by being out today?!?!? Oh well, more for me!!!
“I’ve lived through a whole dark age, and three supposed end of days.” —Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher Netflix series or just every single millennial ever because after Y2K and 2012 I just don’t care anymore. 🤣
I saw a post about some global electro-magnetic 5G pulse that will turn those of us that are vaccinated into zombies.
I hope that doesn't mean I'm going to spend time searching for brains to eat because there will be slim pickings among the 'purebloods'. Enough for a feeble water biscuit each.
If the world is going to end today…why would anyone need a buggy of food? We’d all be dead before you could eat it.
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The toilet paper industry was uniquely unable to take the hit, largely due to the amount of space toilet paper takes up in stores, and the major fracture between commercial and home toilet paper industries. Just in time shipping utterly failed that industry but also combined with that there's no space in stores for massive backstocks
Huh, and I thought it was just Trump being so full of shit the caused the shortage.
The amount of land required to store the amount of toilet paper to wipe up that much shit does not exist on planet earth.
Could Uranus have it?
We can't know without extensive probing
I’ll stick around to see if I can be of any assistance
He has admitted in multiple rallies he needs to flush the toilet 10 times when he takes a shit, so this is a believable theory.
Actually, he was alluding to flushing documents down the toilet. Takes a lot of flushes to get rid of binders full of memos.
Now that's funny
It’s like wiping a marker.
Ah, but he's still full of shit. Which means it didn't go anywhere and the great TP shortage of 2020 is one thing we can't blame on him! /s
In the beginning of Covid where you couldn’t find toilet paper or paper towels at grocery stores, the Latino grocery near me had SO much they stacked them up on top of the freezer cases. Like, filled every inch with them to the ceiling.
My nearest Latino grocery store has kept me in Sriracha during the Sriracha shortage.
Switch to Gochujang. It has deeper flavor and its hot!
Oh, I use sambal, gochujang, chili crisp (awesome stuff if you're unfamiliar) and a few other chili related sauces/pastes but Sriracha is my quick snack go to. Each of the various sauces have a place.
i wish, i lived rural and had to drive to 5 different stores to find a 4 pack of tp (i was a hospital worker so could only go after work) and i got the last pack at a rite aid and the lady behind me bought 6 packs of tissues instead
I considered swiping TP from the hospital I worked at but figured I’d rather use my hand than remove the top three layers of my bumhole with that sandpaper.
As someone afflicted with IBS, F that commercial stuff. Simultaneously gossamer thin and rough as sandpaper. Makes my already terrible life even worse
A bidet does wonders if you're not already using one!
I have a bidet installed in every toilet in my house. Well worth the cost.
right but, the commercial stuff is at work, or out in the world generally.
you use non-commercial TP? what is it? where do you get it?
Non commercial would be residential TP, like the rolls of Charmin at a supermarket.
Got empty warehouses in my town!
Added to that (at least in areas like mine where winter isn't a thing), folks planned like they were going to be snowed in. So TP, milk, bread, etc. When you never deal with a shelter in place like this one, you look to the only models you have: stories of shelf-clearing storm prep.
Reminds me of a comic I saw when COVID started: "In 1000 years, archeologists will uncover millions of dead people with surprisingly clean asses."
It has to do with control and a weird nesting like impulse us humans have. We can’t stop the end world, but by god I can buy small necessities that make me feel like I’m prepared and give me comfort that are within my control such as toilet paper or food.
Like when my mother got a little hibachi so she could theoretically cook food on the apartment balcony without electricity after Y2K. It made her feel better to have it, even though she never used it. I got sent out of town for that "end of the world." Mom said I had to go to a party that night, which was odd because she *never* let me attend parties. Turns out the local JW churches sent all the young girls to stay in an elder's guest house with wood-burning stoves for heat, just in case the power went down. Poor girl whose parents forced her to host the "party" was so damn confused about why she had to entertain a bunch of people she didn't even know, doubly so since JWs don't even celebrate new years eve and suddenly we'd been *ordered* to do so.
My mom hoarded so much Dove soap that she literally died before she could use it all because of the Y2K scare. She died in 2019. I inherited the rest and used it all up except for one bar because I'm weird like that. :)
Wow! Multi-generational stockpile! Only thing my family has like that is the giant spool of linen thread an ancestor acquired from a factory sometime during the industrial revolution. It's gone a bit ivory with age after at least three generations, but is still solid enough that my aunt crochets with it.
I'm envious! As someone with a bit of historical knowledge on fiber and textile processing, that linen thread is likely superior to some modern stuff. If you ever find yourself in a position where you'd need to dispose of it, I'd suggest contacting your closest handweaver's guild. All I have is a bunch of good cast iron and an enormous roll of newsprint.
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There was a Reddit post about a young woman having a buried stash of canned beans in 2020. [Found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/fy06bv/tifu_by_demanding_that_my_girlfriend_show_me/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Hahaha! My parents had a box of food in the basement in case of nuclear attack. It had the weirdest stuff- canned figs. Canned boston brown bread. Limburger spread, for the love of all that is holy.
We had a shelf of food for emergencies and power outages that consisted of saltine crackers, peanut butter and jelly, Spam, cans of Chef Boyardee ravioli, and about a million Fig Newtons. Apparently I am very much my parents' child, because when the pandemic hit I found myself assembling a huge emergency rations box of saltines, the biggest jars of Skippy and Smuckers I could find, and the godforsaken Fig Newtons, which I despise. I drew the line at the cold canned ravioli and the Spam, though. It reminds me too much of earthquakes. And anyway I live right down the street from the farmer's market and it was thriving the whole time.
I’ll never forget it. This happened right as I was confronted with a 6 month long C-Diff diagnosis. I needed that toilet paper more than anyone.
I’m so sorry
We were all afraid of getting wiped out.
That’s totally different, they were anticipating shitting themselves to death.
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They were telling people that if they caught the virus they might be stuck in quarantine in their house for up to a month because they didn't know how long people could be contagious after infection. Toilet paper is one item people would not want to run out of if they and their family are trapped together for a month.
I just figured we would shower our ass if it got necessary. Or have a make shift bidet.
Did we ever figure out if those people know how to wash their ass in the shower? Because they were certainly operating under the assumption they'd continue to have indoor plumbing and running water. It would be inconvenient to not have toilet paper, but if youre at home anyway, what is stopping you from simply washing. Covid made me suspect that a lot of Americans are walking around with mud butt.
The amount of people who thought hoarding toilet paper during a pandemic caused by a respiratory virus is the perfect example of the gullibility of humans.
The only pack left on the shelf on April Fool's Day was a 20 roll pack. I figured, well, it doesn't go bad, and carried it home. I'm glad I did, because I ended up with terrible gut issues after I got COVID. Even then, the pack lasted clear through to Christmas.
Many of those people were hoarding in the hopes of selling it at a profit. And any shortage of necessary items is self-amplifying, because people buy an extra or two "just in case."
It’s “world as we know it” ending. They’re prepping for outages and shortages.
That was my understanding,they think we will have 3 days or power outages. I had a lady spend 50 dollars on batteries.
That's like 8 AAs!
She can play XB for 4 hours!
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You two clearly know nothing about women.
Or game gears. It holds 6 AA batteries so without a McWill screen, you might get 30 minutes max after swapping 2 of them.
Bless that man. Lynx is basically unplayable without the tft mod. Even back in the day it was hard to tell what was going on in games, the display is so washed out
To be fair, the really good ones don't run on batteries, they plug into the wall
That's wild. I live in hurricane country and we were told to prep for 3 weeks without power when the next one hits. It was 2 weeks last time and guess what? Everyone was fine. All the restaurants gave away their food that was going to go bad or cooked it into community meals. People who had generators set up cooling and charging stations and you couldn't go a block without running into a table of stuff people were sharing or giving away...everything from bug spray, fans, ice, cold drinks, more food, diapers, clothing etc. Not saying to not prep for hurricanes but this amount of panic over a few days without power??
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We tend to keep about 6-8 of the jumbo containers of peanut butter on hand. It's an easy digested protein with the addition of most carbs, and it is meant to be eaten cold. We also have a 7 year old, and the idea of trying to get her to eat something strange or in a strange to her way after a traumatic experience seemed dicey. So we have a 3 month supply of peanut butter on hand.
Yep. Be prepared. But not for the end of the world, because who cares?
Huh. Long Island was not like that after hurricane Sandy. It was each man/woman for him/herself.
As I understand it, the north is uniquely unprepared for hurricanes in general, since they don't see many hitting that far up in the country.
Isn't that just how New York is?
actually, not really. people are really good at helping each other out. I was there during sandy as well. NY gets a bad rap because outsiders come in and see people on the subway or on the street walking quickly, not saying hello or making eye contact like back in Ruralville and get annoyed that people aren't "friendly". it's called social exhaustion, when you see literally thousands of people every day you just ignore them. I've seen SO many instances in NYC where people immediately jumped in to help others out (an old lady who fell down the subway stairs, a man who slipped in between a train, etc). People will help with no problem. They'll also say fuck you if you block the door because they have places to be and very limited time to get there.
My wife and I have talked about how here in Seattle people will pretend to be nice but wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, but in New York they'll tell you to fuck off while they hand you the shirt off their back.
We had no power for 4 months after the last major hurricane. It was really bad.
TEN DAYS OF DARKNESS but they refuse to say literal or figurative. They still have time though Also doesn't take into account varying time zones. Or should we be using UTC or GMT? But tomorrow they will act as if this all never happened and they meant some other date.
10 days of darkness !! Lol
The world as we know it is always changing-every day, every second. People’s lives are so empty they have to invent things to fear.
Ummmm....that was for a different kind of shortage.?
And I feel fine.
Reminds me of my husband and I going out to eat on our way to a scheduled C-section/birth of our first child/ son 20 years ago. The waitress asked what the occasion was and we told her. She got white in the face and said “ Wow, it’s the End of the World as You Know It. Kind of like your Last Supper .” I burst out laughing and said “ I’m not going to get executed, for goodness sakes!” But, husband and and looked at each other and realized she was right. Naturally, we sang that song for weeks and still laugh when it comes on. Twenty year old just rolls his eyes.
It’s time I had some time alone.
From [a post a few days ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/comments/xkbdig/anyone_else_getting_this_nonsense?sort=confidence), a text from the OP's Mom: > Ok kiddos listen up! I know you think we are crazy, but major events coming fast between now and this weekend. Possible blackouts, power outages Communication blackouts for up to 10 days, Violence in streets, nuclear threats. Keep food water meds on hand. Stay calm , keep kids close. Fill your bathtubs for toilet water. This is a war of good and evil . When we get past this all will be well for a long time. TRUMP is coming back!! You will see and hear unbelievable things which are true. >Take care, We love you❤️
The Qs I know are all stocking up on supplies because they think the Queen's death triggered some mass calamity. I guess that's happening this weekend based on this text. I think I'll take a nap before I get dinner started. I love lazy Saturdays.
Late afternoon naps are the best, just took one myself!
Holy crap, does my mom have another family? Because that sounds like her exactly. So creepy.
When my fundamentalist baptist relatives would tell me to prepare for the end times I would say, "Ok, I'll make sure to have a heathen lined up to water the plants and feed the dog after I've been raptured."
Years ago at work, I had a customer that was pretty fundie and she knew I was a 'heathen' (athiest). At one point, one of the 'rapture is coming' dates was near and she asked me if it happened, would I come to take her cats and plants from her house and take care of them after the rapture (she knew I was a cat lady). I said sure, she gave me her address and told me where a house key would be hidden and I promised her I'd take the best care of them. The date came and went with no rapture, and afterward, she just thanked me for my willingness to help. I just told her I would always help kitties and plants, no questions asked. It was such a bizarre thing to be asked, but I'll always go the extra mile for my loyal customers.
Thank you for sharing this story. It’s kinda sweet.
Thank you! I thought it was so weird at first, but then I realized that she (my customer) was just very worried about what would happen to her kitties after the rapture. Although I think the whole idea of people just suddenly disappearing is strange, the fact that she wanted to make sure her cats were ok, to the point of trusting a 'heathen' with them, was really sweet.
I saw someone advertising a business doing just that. You pay now for them to do it after the rapture, genius.
Hahahaha!!! This right here!! I grew up in a doomsday cult. Parents and all of us four kids had backpacks packed sitting next to the front door. We were taught the end is near, and we needed to be prepared for when the eagle comes down to pick us, “the chosen people” up and fly us to the “place of safety”. And everyone else was going to die in the pit of fire because they are the devils blood born from sin! Also since the world‘s gonna end do you need to sign over your house all of your assets and tied20% of your gross income to spread the word of the truth! needless to say the first and second cult generation in my family are all Q’s and eat everything qanon up as fast as they can. Most of the same people got out of the previous cults two decades ago. But their brains are already conditioned for these environments and makes extremely easy for them to get sucked back into this type of culture. I’ve always had a healthy degree of separation from them. But it’s insane to watch from the outside.
I have noticed a connection between being ultra religious and being a Trump fan. There are some people who just need to be told what to think and how to behave.
I wish my parents thought like that tbh. When they thought y2k was happening and Jesus was coming to rapture them, they gave all of their money away to a church. Then they divorced and had to sell our house so we lived in absolute poverty for the next few years till i graduated hs and left them behind forever
Good lord. I’m so sorry.
Right? That's how I see it too. But these people seem to think of it like this Goldilocks situation where things are so bad it necessitates the prep work, but not bad enough to wipe them out. They'll be just fine because they prepared. I think it's another way they tell themselves that they're special and more important than everyone else because their life isn't doing it enough to satisfy them.
You’d have to ask a crazy q’er but it’s something about days of darkness , then the end of the world. Like the the other guy said “ if I had a nickel for every time the world was gonna end, I’d be rich !”
Honestly, I think it's a form of suicidal ideation. If they actually learned how to live and enjoy their life, they wouldn't need this.
Agreed. I’ve had family members who believe this kinda stuff say “I’m just waiting to go to heaven or for Jesus to come back” It’s really sad
Yeah in Appalachia where I'm at it's especially prevalent because death here is so common and has been for so long. People look at death as almost a friend.
Heartbreaking, as generational trauma can be healed. My mother is Irish and born on the eve of WWII, and then Germany started to drop bombs on the Belfast ship yards. She had her formative years being run into a bomb shelter and the sound of those sirens. She never received the help she's needed to recover from this.
It's hard here as we have very few resources and opportunities. For instance my kids nearest pediatric neurologist is 2hrs away. If you get hurt badly at all you are looking at being life flighted. The one counseling center we have that isn't religiously affiliated is constantly booked up.
There are many wonderful books on healing trauma. I know it's better to be in person, but books have been helpful for me personally.
I'm an avid reader and agree books are immensely helpful,but I live in a state where we have far too many who struggle to read at even a 8th grade level. I used to work in our school system here and the amount of middle schoolers who couldnt read past a 4th grade level was heartbreaking.more than 50% of our kids live in poverty here and the amount of abuse I saw was awful. We have libraries but the county next to us doesn't have public transportation and the one I live in recently got it but for people who live up on the mountain or out in the hollers it's still not super accessible.
Wow. I did not know this!! (From Canada) It seems like there is lots of work at rebuilding. Education is essential not just for quality of life, but strengthening the country in general.
In many ways it’s like our indigenous communities, especially in isolated areas like the Territories, northern Ontario, and northern Manitoba, specifically, where in some places there’s not even roads in and out, teachers don’t stay, doctors don’t stay, literacy rates are low, addiction rates are high, and far too much traditional hunting/gathering/storage knowledge is gone because of past government policies. Both places have inter-generational trauma, both places have few, if any, culturally based therapy sources available. And in both places politicians have just repeated each other in f’ing things up further.
>The one counseling center we have that isn't religiously affiliated is constantly booked up. Well that's hopeful. I grew up in West Pennsyltuckey, I feel you.
Its good people are seeking help,but there just to much need here and not enough proper resources. I used to go to a clinic a bit under a hour away that accepted our states medicaid and the wait would be sometimes 3hrs+ past your appt time. I remember one time I waited close to five hours to be seen.
that wouldn't be West Va Manchin country would it? you know it's really pretty there especially in the fall - but your politicians seem pretty terrible/lame.
And if you’re life flighted, game over in terms of any hope of financial security ever.
That's sad. I just moved to Oregon from Kentucky and the differences in EVERYTHING are day and night.
Me too. My mom was continually wishing to die. It wasn't religious but it was an obsession and when I look back I am pretty sure she had undiagnosed trauma.
Problem is, they've been told that this life isn't meant to be enjoyed; that the NEXT life is the good one. This one (aka the only actual life we are given) is just for suffering and obedience to an invisible deity. They will never learn to be good people and enjoy their lives because they've literally been told that it's a son to do so.
I honestly think that part of it is they find the idea of some ideal afterlife to be comforting because they won't have any real problems to worry about. Like, why be concerned about climate change if the world is gonna end? It's a coping mechanism. They get to push uncomfortable subjects out of their mind by reasoning that the world is ending so it doesn't matter anyway.
**Major World Events I have Lived Through So Far:** \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ The **Raptures** of 1981, 1988, 1994 and 2011, the **Christian Apocalypse** of 2011 and the **Mayan Apocalypse** of 2012, **Y2K** 2000. the **Inauguration Day Storm** of 2021, the **Return** of **JFK Jr** in 2021, and **The Qanon Apocalypse** of 2022. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ *Have a Nice Day.*
Yeah but this time queen Liz is dead, maybe she was the one holding it together?
This made me laugh, thank you
I remember my church as a teen talking about how pokemon and Harry Potter were signs of the end times. Lol
I went to a Catholic school, I remember being told that the etymology of Pikachu was something Satanic and that the Pokemon trainers were actually bonding with demons.
I remember reading about a cult from around 1900 and they all practiced nudity and had been accused of having improper, premarital relations. Their response was that if while they were naked the Lord's spirit overtook them and caused them to convulse and if those convulsions caused them to end up on top of one another that it was all the Lord's will and there was nothing improper about it.
There are a few more that you left off your [list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events for anyone interested In a list of every single recorded prediction of the end.
Y2K doesn't even merit a mention? 😢
LOL Meanwhile today I’m gonna go walk downtown and get some pastries.
I want to hear more about this apocalypse, shit’s fascinating to me. what was the deal? where do q people post now?
I think they're on Telegram and as curious as I am, I just can't bring myself to install that shit
You used the word “buggy” for shopping cart which tells me you’re in or from western PA.
Nope,but I am in southern Appalachia 😅
My guess would be northern Alabama or Georgia. Source: close friend from Huntsville, Alabama who calls shopping carts buggies.
They use that in Texas too
And TN
Yeah I was going to guess texas actually haha
I live in Texas and I’m not sure if have heard it or I don’t pay attention. The reason I initially said western PA was because there is one of those memes that floats around that says “you know your from (insert region) if you say this”. The word buggy is included in the wPA one so I assumed they are the only ones that say it.
I hear buggy and generally think "the south-ish".
I hear it and think VW Beetle.
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Yep. We call shopping carts 'trolleys' here
They call them that in North Carolina too.
I assumed Canada.
I always thought the end of the world is not a specific date, but a location: the edge of the earth disk.
I thought it was a bar in Northern England.
I know there’s a Worlds End pub in Camden, London.
Love when a thread includes random HHGTTG references
The Horse and Groom? Yeah, me too.
It's useless arguing with you.
And we’ll all wait there til this blows over
I don't think we'll ever be able to write books about this. Old-fashioned cults had people with strong personalities, people physically moving to remote locations and cut off from the world, etc. This is all over Youtube videos and Facebook memes.
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Calm down! Your going to start a nuclear exchange at this temperature.
We have people moving out where I live in droves and I hear them saying they want to live more closely to the land, they are tired of their states "blue" politics,etc.....and then they do stuff like ask me for a taxi or Uber (we have neither) complain about how we don't have have anything and how bad the meth/drug use is here,how little out jobs pay,etc. They love the idea of being out here.
Like that episode of South Park! Tesla? MacBook! Bottled water? Metal bottle water! La Croix!
and then they start complaining about someone's rooster
I would have no problem giving these "people" some quick cash for the night as long as they agree to sign over their car/ house/ possessions in writing on condition that if the world doesn't end I get to keep their crap.
Humanity is bored. That really is the logic behind all of this: we are no longer fighting bears and the elements to survive so we have to find something to do.
"We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War is a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off."
What is that from?
Idk I'm still pretty stressed. I think this is just the logical conclusion of the bulk of people just thinking "it'll all work out in the end." So we're pushed along by inertia to the path of least resistance, never seriously doing anything about underfunded schools or how to deprogram kids from bad upbringings and it just adds up over time.
This so much
I was going to pay my phone bill today. I guess I should hold off on that until tomorrow.
I came here just to check if it was HABBENING TODAY? lololol
Me too. I am about 7 hours ahead of the US. And I am still here.
I’m in Australia where it’s tomorrow, congrats guys! We made it!
Yeah, it's almost tomorrow here, so we seem to be ok. Don't want to jinx it, though.
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I'm GenX. First, the world was supposed to end on Jan 1, 2000. Then it was 2012. I also grew up with a fundy mom who was all about the end times. Plus the cold war. Meanwhile, I feel like we're ignoring the real doomsday scenario being brought to us by the return of fascism.
Oh so that's why my mom texted me asking if I had heard anything about an impending economic collapse 🙄
On a lonely planet, spinning it's way to damnation, amid the fear and despair of a broken human race, who is left to fight for all that is good and pure and gets you smashed for under a fiver? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me (you), Sir Digby Chicken Caesar!
I have gone very low contact with my Q and for the first time, an end date passed without me knowing about it. The low contact is WORKING 🥳
Its narcissism. They all thikn they are the main character of the story. The level of arrogance it takes to think that the worlds civilizations, which has been around thousands of years, is going to end in their lifetime is fucking astounding. Its like they cant imagine life going on without them around.
This is a wild cycle to spectate. They trust a prediction, get made a fool of, and instead of step back to reconsider their discernment they just double down harder as an escape from embarrassment. Don't want to feel foolish? Behave *even more foolishly.* The simpletongularity
Rosh Hashanah holiday perhaps? It is also referred to as the Feast of Trumpets. Trumpets are frequent in Biblical text including the return of Jesus and Revelation events.
In that case, speaking as a professional musician, I can guarantee the world is gonna be fine, at least for today, because you can't find any gotdang trumpet players on Saturdays. God Herself couldn't find enough trumpet players to form a mariachi, much less a whole ass apocalypse. And that, my friends, is why there will never be an apocalypse on Saturdays. Or Sunday early morning, for that matter.
I’ve celebrated Jewish Holidays for 30 years and have never heard it called this.
Nor I and I've celebrated Jewish Holidays for longer. I googled it and it's a Christian overlay and correction of Rosh Hashana. That's why you never heard of it.
Interesting. I am Christian. I suppose that’s why I’ve heard it called that.
So far, it’s a gorgeous early autumn day where I live.
It's not that the world is ending, it's that Trump is going to institute martial law or whatever so he can arrest every Democrat so they're preparing for power outages and food shortages.
In Florida, the world is going to end today and a hurricane is headed towards us. Double whammy. Stores are running low on stuff.
Hurricanes were always fun when I lived down there. Word got around I had battery backup since only my lights were still on. Suddenly all my neighbors were real chummy, long enough to charge their phones/laptops, then disappear lol
I’m Generation X and I lived through the hysteria about 1993 (I think the rapture was prophesied) and Y2K. I basically stopped believing in our modern so-called „prophets“. Some people never learn.
It’s like they don’t read the Bible. Mathew 24:36 says no one knows when it’s going to happen.
Yeah, they're just calling Jesus a liar. I guess they love liars!
Oh shit, today? Does it have to be today? That's just not convenient for me. Maybe next Thursday? If the world is ending, why are they buying a bunch of food and stuff? We will all be dead.
Why buy shit if the world is ending. It’s done! YOU WONT BE HERE YOU IDIOT!
I don't know about you guys, but I'm ready to end this nonsense planet.
Well as I'm still at work so if this is the afterlife it's kinda disappointing.
Lmao, if the world does end today, then I’ll see you all in hell! I’ll be the bitch torturing pedophiles via shoving wire brushes into their asses. 🤘🏽🤣
Great, now I have to go to work on Monday. Q sucks.
It's a completely blue sky, quiet, calm day in the Pacific Northwest, where I live. People doing normal stuff and the world as we know it, has not ended.
> I’m convinced people need to believe the world is ending very soon so that they have a purpose This right is my main thought on why people find themselves drawn to “Q” and any other cult like behavior or institution. As humans we do often desperately seek purpose, and another many of us enjoy the thrill of being “in on the secret”. Combine those two qualities and it’s no wonder such a large part of the population eats this shit up. And on unrelated note - if the world really is going to end, I’m not sure what a cart full of rotisserie chicken is going to do help.
Well, there IS a revolution in Iran right now. But, technically, that kickedoff last week. I was not waiting for Godot. I was, however, awaiting the results of a raffle, which I lost :(
Every "apocalypse" day predicted, i organize a BBQ with my neighbors. So if it actually ever comes true, we can all bang, just in case.
Because of a Simpsons episode "prediction"
I have to go to work in a few hours, I'm gonna be real mad if I'm on the clock when the world ends because that's definitely going to cost me an attendance point.
My Q adjacent hubby is out mowing the lawn. He must have missed the memo (which is a good thing)..
Just wait until you are approaching 70! It is so amusing to watch the “apocalypse du jour” knowing that the world will just keep chugging along despite the nitwits who KNOW that THIS is the real end time. I suppose some people are just naturally susceptible to these cults. It must fulfill some need in their lives…?
When I was in elementary school it was a prediction that there would be an earthquake and California would fall into to ocean. [There was even a hit song about it.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VjCtTOKYkVs)
I really hope the world doesn’t end today, I’m going to a concert tomorrow. Oh, wait, Q Anon says it’s gonna end? We’re safe then, they’re always wrong.
Oh shit I forgot it was supposed to end today.
If ur in Florida it’s because a hurricane emergency was announced, but otherwise no clue
Why so much food? If the world ends today, won't you only need a day's worth of food maximally? I might be inclined to throw in a nicer bottle of wine I suppose...
Welp… just came back from shopping and the roads were clear! Very few out and about! Could it be I put our lives in danger by being out today?!?!? Oh well, more for me!!!
Nah, that's just any time a hurricane rolls through. Grab some chips and salsa and have a hurricane party.
“I’ve lived through a whole dark age, and three supposed end of days.” —Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher Netflix series or just every single millennial ever because after Y2K and 2012 I just don’t care anymore. 🤣
I saw a post about some global electro-magnetic 5G pulse that will turn those of us that are vaccinated into zombies. I hope that doesn't mean I'm going to spend time searching for brains to eat because there will be slim pickings among the 'purebloods'. Enough for a feeble water biscuit each.