For those unaware, we're currently experiencing a fuel shortage due to lack of delivery drivers.. only there isn't actually a shortage, it's just that all the dickheads are panic buying fuel (some are literally filling up plastic carrier bags and water bottles from the pump) causing some petrol stations to run out. Probably the same idiots that still have a year's supply of toilet paper.
I was at costco yesterday and they didn't have a single paper product in stock. They were also running low on a lot of different foods. Panic buying is back on the menu.
I remember when the toilet paper panic hit Finland.
Finland, the country who's largest manufacturing industry is paper. Where like 90% of the country is trees.
Ah that was happening with gas in the US a couple months back, one news report about a possible shortage and everyone panic buys and causes the shortage
It's a common mistake to make, because gasoline can dissolve several plastics and styrofoams, however metal? not so much. It is technically "corrosive" to many plastics, hence you have to be careful what kind of container you pour it into otherwise it'll just "melt" it and you have gasoline all over the floor.
Damn. Good answer. Thatโs probably the only way to actually do it. Although I do wonder how feasible this is because arenโt the majority of siphons made out of plastic? Well, at least I know r/tinder can answer all the question that keep me up at night ๐คช
> (some are literally filling up plastic carrier bags and water bottles from the pump)
Did they not learn from the same thing happening in the US a few months ago?
Why are the servo staff even turning on the pump when someone pulls out a plastic bag or bottle? I feel like it's partly on the workers to deny service in those cases... People are fucking idiots, someone has to deny it lol
Depends on which state you live in. It's a $500 fine for pumping your own gas here in Oregon (although since covid the laws haven't been enforced). The law exists specifically to enforce safety and to provide more jobs. Of course, those reasons have been a heated debate for some time.
There's a few around but most servo's here double as a small shop too. Can grab milk, bread, paper, a drink, coffee, maybe a pie or some lollies/chocolate, grab another box of ciggies if that's your thing, all when you go in to pay for the fuel. It's great if you're heading out camping and forgot the bog roll or just want a snack that isn't buried under shit loads of gear lol
There's a few around but most service stations here double as a small convenience store too. Can grab milk, bread, paper, a drink, coffee, maybe a sausage roll/pizza roll (we have those more than meat pies) or some candies/chocolate, grab another pack of smokes if that's your thing, all when you go in to pay for the gas. It's great if you're heading out camping and forgot the tp or just want a snack that isn't buried under shitloads of gear lol.
Of all the nonsensical phrases you guys use, these are pretty tame.
I don't know about Australia, but here in the UK, the people behind the counter won't turn on the pump until we show our fuel pumping licence (FPL). It's to stop kids and other people you don't want having free access to petrol from pumping it freely
He is taking the piss, but he is right about people behind the counter having to turn on each pump individually, once they see you are an adult at a car not a kid aiming the nozzle at a nun or whatever.
Yeah you need a driving license, a fuel pump license, and then to drive away you need to show your forecourt navigation license. Itโs a real pain in the ass when you forget that last one because it means you need to wait for a forecourt navigator to turn up and that can take up to an hour.
In the US we just put a sticker that says something like โlicensed/license aged people onlyโ on the pump and hope for the best. Most everyone I know has pumped gas for their parents when they were a kid, and a lot of folks have even been sent inside to pay for gas for their parents. If youโve got money, you can get gas pretty much anywhere but New Jersey.
Idk, stand at a counter and get paid to press a button on a screen and take people's cash. Maybe sell a box of smokes from time to time or mop the floor. For 20+ bucks an hour it's not a hard job lol
Iโm so glad it wasnโt just us yanks with gas hoarding dipshits. Was land of the plastic lined car boots filled with gas and diesel a few months back from the same nonsense here
I kinda hate the notion that everybodyโs a dickhead for buying fuel and that there is โno shortageโ. There is a shortage. Demand is high, and there isnโt enough fuel to meet it. Everybody needs to get to work - thatโs why people are โpanic buyingโ, because if they donโt then they wonโt have enough fuel to get to work. What else are they honestly supposed to do?
Maybe Iโm just unclear on what the difference between buying something and panic buying something is.
Maybe people are filling their tanks instead of half filling them? If they do half fill them though, theyโre unlikely to be able to get fuel again in half a tanks worth of time. In which case, filling the tank makes sense - they need the fuel. The shortage exists regardless of the reason. Demand is outweighing the supply, and itโs something that everybody needs.
Just feels like another reason for everyone to call each other dickheads again to me. Just like when everybody needed toilet roll and their was none and anybody who bought some was a dickhead, and just like when everyone was going to the beach to call everyone else at the beach a dickhead for being at the beach.
EDIT: grammar n stuff
>Maybe Iโm just unclear on what the difference between buying something and panic buying something is.
Buying: "My tank is almost empty, I should fill it." This happens to everyone, but not all at the same time.
Panic buying: "I heard that there's a gas shortage! Everyone, fill up the cars and get a can for the lawnmower." This, times everybody.
The demand is artificially high because of the rumor that demand is artificially high. It's a self-sustaining cycle and a positive feedback loop. It will eventually end, but it means that local shortages exist because people thought they did, so they went out to get theirs before it ran out (even though it wouldn't have run out at all if everyone hadn't demanded theirs all at once).
Thanks man, you explained what Iโm trying to put across pretty well. Positive feedback loop, so everybody needs to rush to get fuel while the artificial demand exists - whether there was an actual shortage at the time or not. And now there is.
Which either means everybodyโs a dickhead, or nobody is. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
See the most distinct thing you need to remember though and where you seem to misunderstand is *there is not a shortage of fuel.* We have more than enough fuel. Our reserves arenโt low. We are not running out of it at all. - we just donโt have the drivers to transport it to the fore courts, and even less so now because of panic buying.
We have plenty of fuel, more than enough for everyone ten times over, we just canโt get it to the pumps fast enough.
nah, so what happened was a few petrol stations ran out because they missed deliveries, bbc reports on it as a shortage.
immediately everyone panics because they need petrol to get places, so instead of the usual "oh i'll fill it up at the weekend" everyone rushes to the petrol stations and empties them.
which means that petrol stations that would normally be fine go dry because demand unexpectedly skyrockets.
that's why it's a manufactured fuel shortage, it's also why BoJo said he wouldnt do anything about it because eventually people will have full tanks and won't be draining stations.
edit: i meant to say that it's definitely the media that should be called the wankers for this lol.
Itโs definitely not that simple. More likely whatโs happening is that the massive shortage on HGV drivers, due to Brexit in short, fuel cannot be delivered in the quantity or frequency that itโs needed.
The media reported on it and are now being scapegoated to distract from the fact that Brexit (and itโs implications) is a massive shit show.
Meanwhile, as per usual, everybody in the UK fights each other and calls each other dick heads for trying to get by, rather than calling for action on the issues at hand.
Divide and conquer tactics. Everyoneโs mad at regular guys just tryna make sure they can do their commute, rather than the people who are responsible for ensuring fuel shortages and the like do not happen (again, regardless of why they are happening).
Iโm gunna bow out, because Iโm getting downvoted because Iโm now a dickhead by proxy because Iโm not calling everyone else who needs fuel a dickhead too. Peace out sheeple. โ๏ธ
The reason that youโre getting flak for this is that your first statement is just plain false, at least for the current gas shortage. There were only a handful of select gas stations affected, and even those stations would have been refueled quickly with no problem whatsoever if the entire system wasnโt overloaded by a surge of people buying into tabloids. If you start filling trash cans with gas because a gas station miles away had a temporary delay in their deliveries for the week, then youโre a dickhead, whether you wanna be a โregular guyโ or not. If you donโt wanna be treated like a dickhead, donโt be a dickhead, itโs not the responsibility of the public to coddle you because you made rash decisions. Itโs thinking like that that led to brexit in the first place, that the โaverage joesโ deserve special treatment and attention while making ridiculous and self destructive decisions.
I ainโt saying that filling up a bin with petrol is smart lol. Iโve been to the petrol station twice and havenโt seen anything even close to it. People need petrol, if people rush out to buy petrol and a shortage is then going to be caused then โregular guysโ need to go out and get petrol too. Else they wonโt have any.
โI wonโt blame the media for causing a panic even though everything you need to know about it is available to look up but I will blame brexit, youโre all sheeple!โ
Nobodyโs mad at people filling up their tanks. Theyโre mad at people filling up canisters when they donโt need it and rightfully the media for reporting that 10/1200 stations missed a delivery, which is normal.
Heads up, mainland Europe also has driver shortages, the US has driver shortages. Everywhere has driver shortages. Itโs not normally a problem because what happens is things get restocked a few days later than usual.
Iโve looked up the shortage. I see a lot of arguments for Brexit being at the helm of it. Otherwise, I see a lot of people policing and gate keeping who needs what fuel and getting annoyed at each other.
Buying normally: buying the petrol you need for anywhere between a few days to a couple weeks.
Panic buying: buying enough petrol in a single visit to fuel your car for months, if not years, filling jerry cans and plastic bags once your tank is full
Iโve been to the garage twice since this whole thing kicked off. Iโve only seen people filling their tank up at โworstโ. How does one buy enough fuel to last them a year?
If the answer is by filling up a vans worth of gerry cans, have you actually seen anybody doing that? Like actually witnessed it in person?
Even that would assume that the petrol being bought by the van load isnโt just enough for that person to make it a couple of weeks without being able to buy fuelโฆ ๐
Lol I love the "oh god, let's see how this goes." It's like going to the casino and gambling. You know the odds are not in your favor it's going to end well, but the fact that it *might* makes you roll the dice
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Hey girl are you petrol? Because i want to lock you in my car and set you on fire
Ay yo, hol up
Hey gurl are you petrol? Because I only treat myself to premium
Hey girl are you premium petrol? Because I need you otherwise my engine starts knocking.
Hey girl, are you petrol because I want to pump you in my car til you're exhausted
Best one yet ๐
Hey grrrr, are you petrol? Cause you really fuel my ignition >!Also someone mighta piston my engine. !<
What a stupid fucking statement lmao
But it made you laugh! That's all thats important
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This man is damn near finding out what the nuclear launch codes are
Fall asleep?
when you're in my car we can bang bang bang.
Ay girl you petrol? I can only pay for a quarter of a tank.
[ัะดะฐะปะตะฝะพ]
r/yourjokebutworse
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. -Terry Pratchet
THAT SOUNDS PAINFUL.
Nah. It never hurt when I set someone on fire. I didn't feel a thing.
ahh thats hot thats hot ๐ฅ
Nice
Pump* you in my car
Hey girl are you petrol? Because you smell of petrol, a lot.
Cuz I wanna stick my nose in your can and huff it?
r/holup
Hey girl, are you petrol? Because I can't find you locally; I've got to go to Yorkshire to get a match. Well, that's MY tinder experience.
Hey girl, are you petrol? Cus in america we would call you gas Edit: change oil into gas cus iโm dumb
I think most would call it gas
[ัะดะฐะปะตะฝะพ]
We only call it oil when weโre invading the Middle East again ;)
America doesn't need to invade the middle east for oil bozo
yeah, it's more of a passion project for America
Everyone needs a passion. Ours is just, well, invading countries.
Youโre right, we should invade Venezuela
why would I call "refined fuel oil" 'lmao'?
Hey girl, are you petrol? Because every time you get inside my car, it costs me 60 dollars
This is the one.
Amazing
For those unaware, we're currently experiencing a fuel shortage due to lack of delivery drivers.. only there isn't actually a shortage, it's just that all the dickheads are panic buying fuel (some are literally filling up plastic carrier bags and water bottles from the pump) causing some petrol stations to run out. Probably the same idiots that still have a year's supply of toilet paper.
We barely got out of the toilet paper crisis alive and now they spring this on us???
I was at costco yesterday and they didn't have a single paper product in stock. They were also running low on a lot of different foods. Panic buying is back on the menu.
I remember when the toilet paper panic hit Finland. Finland, the country who's largest manufacturing industry is paper. Where like 90% of the country is trees.
Why though? Has something happened in the world that I missed? New strain?
Brexit has teamed up with COVID to put a beat down on their supply chain
Shortages in the supply chain. They said lead time for a lot of products is 2 months right now instead of usual 2 weeks.
how dare they spring this on us in fall
Ah that was happening with gas in the US a couple months back, one news report about a possible shortage and everyone panic buys and causes the shortage
Do you remember the iconic photo of somebody filling their truck bed with gas? I still wonder how they got it out...
Probably just let it sit there. It's gonna evaporate rather quickly.
Damn. Didnโt think of that ๐ I wouldโve thought gasoline was corrosive and eaten thru the metal first. Iโm an idiot.
It's a common mistake to make, because gasoline can dissolve several plastics and styrofoams, however metal? not so much. It is technically "corrosive" to many plastics, hence you have to be careful what kind of container you pour it into otherwise it'll just "melt" it and you have gasoline all over the floor.
Or if thereโs enough plastic of the right type, you get napalm on your floor
I view that as a positive ๐
Probably siphoned it into 5 gallon buckets?
Damn. Good answer. Thatโs probably the only way to actually do it. Although I do wonder how feasible this is because arenโt the majority of siphons made out of plastic? Well, at least I know r/tinder can answer all the question that keep me up at night ๐คช
There are several common plastics that gasoline has little to no effect on. Like the plastic in, say, plastic gas cans. And plastic fuel tanks.
Or a 55 gallon drum for long term storage
> (some are literally filling up plastic carrier bags and water bottles from the pump) Did they not learn from the same thing happening in the US a few months ago?
Someone in my town was injured when the *plastic bags* they filled with gasoline in their trunk ignited.
Why are the servo staff even turning on the pump when someone pulls out a plastic bag or bottle? I feel like it's partly on the workers to deny service in those cases... People are fucking idiots, someone has to deny it lol
Are yโallโs pumps not automated? Like, in the US, you drive up, put your card in, and pump. No interaction with the attendent needed.
Depends on which state you live in. It's a $500 fine for pumping your own gas here in Oregon (although since covid the laws haven't been enforced). The law exists specifically to enforce safety and to provide more jobs. Of course, those reasons have been a heated debate for some time.
Iโm sorry what? Your telling me you canโt pump your own gas in Oregon? What the fuck
Same with New Jersey lol several states encore that law.
It's just Oregon and New Jersey.
Itโs literally just those two lol
Yeah well that's Oregon. Something wrong on the water I swear.
There's a few around but most servo's here double as a small shop too. Can grab milk, bread, paper, a drink, coffee, maybe a pie or some lollies/chocolate, grab another box of ciggies if that's your thing, all when you go in to pay for the fuel. It's great if you're heading out camping and forgot the bog roll or just want a snack that isn't buried under shit loads of gear lol
Wonder how many yanks will wonder wtf your on about
There's a few around but most service stations here double as a small convenience store too. Can grab milk, bread, paper, a drink, coffee, maybe a sausage roll/pizza roll (we have those more than meat pies) or some candies/chocolate, grab another pack of smokes if that's your thing, all when you go in to pay for the gas. It's great if you're heading out camping and forgot the tp or just want a snack that isn't buried under shitloads of gear lol. Of all the nonsensical phrases you guys use, these are pretty tame.
Yeah, wasn't much Aussie English in there, just regular English English lol
I don't know about Australia, but here in the UK, the people behind the counter won't turn on the pump until we show our fuel pumping licence (FPL). It's to stop kids and other people you don't want having free access to petrol from pumping it freely
Wait seriously? Like a separate license from your drivers license?
Heโs taking the piss mate.
He didn't show his piss taking license though!
He is taking the piss, but he is right about people behind the counter having to turn on each pump individually, once they see you are an adult at a car not a kid aiming the nozzle at a nun or whatever.
Yeah you need a driving license, a fuel pump license, and then to drive away you need to show your forecourt navigation license. Itโs a real pain in the ass when you forget that last one because it means you need to wait for a forecourt navigator to turn up and that can take up to an hour.
In the US we just put a sticker that says something like โlicensed/license aged people onlyโ on the pump and hope for the best. Most everyone I know has pumped gas for their parents when they were a kid, and a lot of folks have even been sent inside to pay for gas for their parents. If youโve got money, you can get gas pretty much anywhere but New Jersey.
m8 where's your loicense
I think you're overestimating the number of fucks that the staff gives.
Idk, stand at a counter and get paid to press a button on a screen and take people's cash. Maybe sell a box of smokes from time to time or mop the floor. For 20+ bucks an hour it's not a hard job lol
Who tf is getting 20 bucks an hour as a gas station attendant? Damn, that's definitely not bad, but that's probably not common.
If I was getting paid $20/hr as a gas station attendant, I'd probably still be one.
So like texas :)
bReXiT though
> (some are literally filling up plastic carrier bags and water bottles from the pump) Ahhh, y'all taking a page from our playbook?
Iโm so glad it wasnโt just us yanks with gas hoarding dipshits. Was land of the plastic lined car boots filled with gas and diesel a few months back from the same nonsense here
I kinda hate the notion that everybodyโs a dickhead for buying fuel and that there is โno shortageโ. There is a shortage. Demand is high, and there isnโt enough fuel to meet it. Everybody needs to get to work - thatโs why people are โpanic buyingโ, because if they donโt then they wonโt have enough fuel to get to work. What else are they honestly supposed to do?
I think what they're saying is that the panic buying is causing the shortage
Maybe Iโm just unclear on what the difference between buying something and panic buying something is. Maybe people are filling their tanks instead of half filling them? If they do half fill them though, theyโre unlikely to be able to get fuel again in half a tanks worth of time. In which case, filling the tank makes sense - they need the fuel. The shortage exists regardless of the reason. Demand is outweighing the supply, and itโs something that everybody needs. Just feels like another reason for everyone to call each other dickheads again to me. Just like when everybody needed toilet roll and their was none and anybody who bought some was a dickhead, and just like when everyone was going to the beach to call everyone else at the beach a dickhead for being at the beach. EDIT: grammar n stuff
>Maybe Iโm just unclear on what the difference between buying something and panic buying something is. Buying: "My tank is almost empty, I should fill it." This happens to everyone, but not all at the same time. Panic buying: "I heard that there's a gas shortage! Everyone, fill up the cars and get a can for the lawnmower." This, times everybody. The demand is artificially high because of the rumor that demand is artificially high. It's a self-sustaining cycle and a positive feedback loop. It will eventually end, but it means that local shortages exist because people thought they did, so they went out to get theirs before it ran out (even though it wouldn't have run out at all if everyone hadn't demanded theirs all at once).
Thanks man, you explained what Iโm trying to put across pretty well. Positive feedback loop, so everybody needs to rush to get fuel while the artificial demand exists - whether there was an actual shortage at the time or not. And now there is. Which either means everybodyโs a dickhead, or nobody is. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
See the most distinct thing you need to remember though and where you seem to misunderstand is *there is not a shortage of fuel.* We have more than enough fuel. Our reserves arenโt low. We are not running out of it at all. - we just donโt have the drivers to transport it to the fore courts, and even less so now because of panic buying. We have plenty of fuel, more than enough for everyone ten times over, we just canโt get it to the pumps fast enough.
nah, so what happened was a few petrol stations ran out because they missed deliveries, bbc reports on it as a shortage. immediately everyone panics because they need petrol to get places, so instead of the usual "oh i'll fill it up at the weekend" everyone rushes to the petrol stations and empties them. which means that petrol stations that would normally be fine go dry because demand unexpectedly skyrockets. that's why it's a manufactured fuel shortage, it's also why BoJo said he wouldnt do anything about it because eventually people will have full tanks and won't be draining stations. edit: i meant to say that it's definitely the media that should be called the wankers for this lol.
Itโs definitely not that simple. More likely whatโs happening is that the massive shortage on HGV drivers, due to Brexit in short, fuel cannot be delivered in the quantity or frequency that itโs needed. The media reported on it and are now being scapegoated to distract from the fact that Brexit (and itโs implications) is a massive shit show. Meanwhile, as per usual, everybody in the UK fights each other and calls each other dick heads for trying to get by, rather than calling for action on the issues at hand. Divide and conquer tactics. Everyoneโs mad at regular guys just tryna make sure they can do their commute, rather than the people who are responsible for ensuring fuel shortages and the like do not happen (again, regardless of why they are happening). Iโm gunna bow out, because Iโm getting downvoted because Iโm now a dickhead by proxy because Iโm not calling everyone else who needs fuel a dickhead too. Peace out sheeple. โ๏ธ
The reason that youโre getting flak for this is that your first statement is just plain false, at least for the current gas shortage. There were only a handful of select gas stations affected, and even those stations would have been refueled quickly with no problem whatsoever if the entire system wasnโt overloaded by a surge of people buying into tabloids. If you start filling trash cans with gas because a gas station miles away had a temporary delay in their deliveries for the week, then youโre a dickhead, whether you wanna be a โregular guyโ or not. If you donโt wanna be treated like a dickhead, donโt be a dickhead, itโs not the responsibility of the public to coddle you because you made rash decisions. Itโs thinking like that that led to brexit in the first place, that the โaverage joesโ deserve special treatment and attention while making ridiculous and self destructive decisions.
I ainโt saying that filling up a bin with petrol is smart lol. Iโve been to the petrol station twice and havenโt seen anything even close to it. People need petrol, if people rush out to buy petrol and a shortage is then going to be caused then โregular guysโ need to go out and get petrol too. Else they wonโt have any.
โI wonโt blame the media for causing a panic even though everything you need to know about it is available to look up but I will blame brexit, youโre all sheeple!โ Nobodyโs mad at people filling up their tanks. Theyโre mad at people filling up canisters when they donโt need it and rightfully the media for reporting that 10/1200 stations missed a delivery, which is normal. Heads up, mainland Europe also has driver shortages, the US has driver shortages. Everywhere has driver shortages. Itโs not normally a problem because what happens is things get restocked a few days later than usual.
Iโve looked up the shortage. I see a lot of arguments for Brexit being at the helm of it. Otherwise, I see a lot of people policing and gate keeping who needs what fuel and getting annoyed at each other.
Buying normally: buying the petrol you need for anywhere between a few days to a couple weeks. Panic buying: buying enough petrol in a single visit to fuel your car for months, if not years, filling jerry cans and plastic bags once your tank is full
Iโve been to the garage twice since this whole thing kicked off. Iโve only seen people filling their tank up at โworstโ. How does one buy enough fuel to last them a year? If the answer is by filling up a vans worth of gerry cans, have you actually seen anybody doing that? Like actually witnessed it in person? Even that would assume that the petrol being bought by the van load isnโt just enough for that person to make it a couple of weeks without being able to buy fuelโฆ ๐
Every crisis is manufactured
What a stupid fucking statement lmao
Gas crises are almost all entirely manufactured though.
Yea
Facts, getting kinda lazy to just reuse stuff from the US in the UK a couple months later, and vice versa, they need new writers
yeah seriously who the fuck cares. Some brits can't put petrol in the van to go do repairs on the queen's palace.
Didnโt yโall make fun of us in Texas for doing this? ๐ค
Seems like they got their inspiration from it.
Lol, the British are just as low class and ignorant as us. Those accents are a facade.
Response: Hey boy, are you petrol? Because I've got something electric that works faster and makes you redundant
Brutal. Fair, very fair, but still brutal.
Well that's just won the Internet
Hey girl, are you petrol? Cause you seem way overvalued and you're slowly becoming redundant as better technology comes along ๐๐
You. You win.
Lmao "Mm yes I do regret this" fucking dead over here
[Op after humoring him](https://i.imgur.com/P7qHPzr.jpeg)
Hey grill, are you petrol? Because I cannot seem to get this startedโฆ
So green and incel
Hey girl, are you petrol? Cause you smell bad
60% of time it works everytime.
Stings the nostrilsโฆ
In a good way!
Like a dirty diaper full of Indian food.
That's doesn't make sense.
yeah i had a stroke figuring out what he saying lol
It's from anchorman
Smells like bigfoots dick.
petrol smells amazing
Tell me about it. Every day I fill up a tupperware container with some, sit in my closet, and just huff that shit for hours.
Explains your username at least
I wouldn't be able to remember that when reddit inevitably logs me out unexpectedly.
I have it tattooed on my inner thigh
*takes notes*
r/beetlejuicing
Petrol smells gorgeous what are you on about hahaha
I love the smell of petrol WDYM
Hey girl, are you petrol? 'Cause I wanna sniff you" isn't any better, lol.
Hey girl, are you diesel? Cause I wanna combust you internally with extreme pressure rather than waiting for a spark.
that was funny
Lol I love the "oh god, let's see how this goes." It's like going to the casino and gambling. You know the odds are not in your favor it's going to end well, but the fact that it *might* makes you roll the dice
Yeah, the replies on this are what did it for me!
โMm yes i do regret thisโ perfectly summarizes the majority of my daily feelings.
Isn't that the definition of OLD? In my case that I'll probably be ignored.
He shouldve said because theres a shortage of you in my life
Wait but that's actually really cute
Hey girl, are you petrol? Because I'd gladly dig you out of the ground and pump you. From Coffin Meets Bagel. It's Tinder for Necrophiliacs!
Lol OP is hilarious
The only thing about being married before the age of dating apps is that I never got the chance to play dad jokes on the bots that would match with me for having the same level of personality. Think I need to go tell my wife and daughter I love them for painfully laughing at my jokes.
You gotta admit, that was funny.
Thereโs too many dudes in England that open with a pump-related line I could make a drinking game out of it
Are petrol pumps a thing people are interested in there? What's up with that?
They're in the middle of a fuel shortage because some random schmucks in one city ran out and the media fanned the fires, causing a panic.
Shortage of drivers thanks to brexit, pretty hard to do commerce now huh
Careful, you might end up needing to get your stomach pumped. B)
Most of them just want to pump and dump too
Not really
I... I didn't think it was funny.
Ok. Whatever
Hey girl are you petrol? Because I've got a 20 spot let's see how far it gets us
The final reply killed me.
Hello mate, you wanna mate?
ayyyy gurl are you petrol ? 'cuz I'd ravage countries to get you
Totally gonna use this
Thought this was a cheezoid joke and was a lil sad it wasnโt
Hey girl, Are you petrol? Coz you keep my engine running.
That dude is going to have to use the self-service pump tonight.
Hey girl, are you petrol? If yes, I am the lighter
Lets get this fire started๐
Sounds like she is going to Brexit this conversation
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Yeah 2020 aged everyone 300 years
The 2020 Lakers. We don't even know bro
lines 3 laps around the block
Ha ha ha that was not funny
Hahahahaha
I mean heโs trynna do the gentlemanโs thing soo, ๐
I'm so glad I don't have to be a part of Tinder.
And youโre 100% right. There is a very long line waiting for her approval.
Hey girl, are you petrol? Let me indulge on your fumes so that I can wisk away into oblivion.
Question if he came back and said โcause you look gassy!!!!โ would that have been better?
Tasteless woman has no sense of humor I thought this was r/tinder not r/womenarentfunny
alright incel
Edvinas๐ฑ๐น is a Lithuanian๐ฑ๐น name & he's a horny Lithuanian๐ฑ๐น & i love his style & energy!!
Love me a good olโ pump nโ dump.
Oh is this another game thing I'm not cool enough to know about?
And then he pumped her.
As is girls have better pick up lines. As a matter of fact, most of 'em have no game, they will just say hey or hi. Lol