My Last Roll...a thread about survival...

[marksman]

Problem is people have forgotten how to make things from scratch. Everything even the most basic is often semi processed to help save time or something. Self Rasing flour is just plain flour with some Baking Powder added. Baking Powder still available because very few people know what to do with it.

bicarbonate of soda is another ingredient that can be used for making self raising flour but really why are people hoarding flour

[sungazer]

I havent been out hording flour. It often gets weavels in it before i use it all up. Not a big bread eater at all. But as a staple for a large portion of the world (that is bread products) it makes sense to keep a supply of it. If you cant get to the shops or the baker is closed down for instance. I am a bit surprised bread was not panic brought out as much as. It can be frozen and still good for quite a while. I id notice that wraps were all bought out. I like the occasional burrito, home grown mince, tomatoes and lettuce just add store bought cheese.

[wanneroo]

Ive managed to get a dozen rolls behind me now..thanks to a friend who left a 6 pack for me...but ironically, apart from one 4 pack i found in a supermarket, still havent seen any in the regular shops ive been in.
So people must STILL be hoarding it here....

There could still be some supply issues in the big cities in the USA, but from what I have seen, we have so much toilet paper now Wal Mart has nowhere to put it so they roll the pallets out into the big aisles and slap a price on it.

[snag]

Stix, I reckon you have just pointed to the elephant in the room about this whole covid19 emergency. The federal government has had to outlay billions of dollars to combat both the pandemic and the associated economic downturn. They are going to have to make the money back somehow and an increased GST is the obvious solution. Given that the possibility of raising the GST to 12.5% or even 15% has been floated by both sides of politics in the last decade makes it almost a certainty. Hard times ahead for everyone I reckon, but I guess it's a case of "you gotta do what you gotta do" (written in my best John Wayne drawl).

[Stix]

Hey thanks snag...yes, looking at it in all reality, i believe we have a GST rise coming. Unfortunately with resellers, this also always means an opportunity to raise profits & hide them under the guise of GST/Tax rise...
In the long run, i believe most of these profiteering grabs are usually tapered back down to the required volumes the relevant industry needs for its players to survive, but not all of them.

We see it in things like electricity but dont do anything about it.

When we have a "7%" increase in price, that term is most often used to describe the rise at a bottom or fundamental level--like RBA interest rates...but when you equate that out to an end user price, & take into consideration every player in between makes a return on investment, it inevitably results in very different % figure increase to the cost of living...easily absorbed in every day inflation, but when big hits like this happen--like weve all seen in the privatisation of our once Govt owned Utilities companies for example, things can get out of control...

We'll see call-out fees for Plumbers & Sparky's rise, just because...any service based industry will rise considerably more than the "bottom line" increase...

Ive always suspected this was/or will be some kind of ecenomic reset, & said it from the start...i honestly fear we are in for a reset of the poverty line too, & a more pronounced difference in those who will hit it & not be able to recover...
For this country its already hard enough for current generations to afford owning a home without some form of capital from previous generations, & im a firm believer that were at a point where those who dont do extra carrricular education of some sort already have little to no hope of the home ownership dream, & I think this sector of our community will grow exponentially from this...Sad for this country i rekon...!!

[Stix]

Mate, if your desperate , I can give you a few rolls..serious

Hey thanks Elmer...!!
I appreciate that...

I was nearly at a point of taking marksman up on his offer when i went digging through the bottom of shooting/camping gear box in the shed & found another roll...
Then a friend dropped off a 6 pack without me knowing, & i got a 4 pack in a supermarket too...

So thanks anyway for that, but im ok for the moment...

[Blr243]

Went shopping for milk tonight. Local supermarket has pallets of loo paper just sitin there everybody walks past looking at it to see if it’s real but nobodidy is buying any

[AussieCapitalist]

Just bought another packet.....
Capitalism all the way baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Stix]

Just bought another packet.....
Capitalism all the way baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haha...I love it...A capatilst all the way & yet you're here complaining about the SSAA & dictating to others how they should follow anti-capitalist/anti-totalitarian regimes...

I fukn love it...!!!

[Sergeant Hartman]

The irony is that the world is full of ironical things.

Like how i am awake at 5am in the morning

[Blr243]

Went food shopping again tonight. Coles Saw tons of toilet paper everywhere Sick of looking at it

[trekin]

Went food shopping again tonight. Coles Saw tons of toilet paper everywhere Sick of looking at it

Yeah, but don't try buy and sugar, even good old Aussie owned Coal, Sugar and Retrenchments. Wasn't any shortage of that a week or so ago when the loo paper was in short supply.
Also noticed a lot of new brands of loo paper on the shelfs today, with "proudly Australian" and koala's on the packaging, but with "made from imported paper" or "made in China" in small writting on the back.

[Sergeant Hartman]

Hmm Chinese ingenuity to our rescue... and made in Australia and kangaroo symbol either selling out for $$$.... or being too tame to defend their copyright being abused.

[Blr243]

I think the silliest thing an Asian tourist can buy when visiting us is a fluffy little synthetic toy kangaroo obviously mass produced in Asia or a varnished and painted boomerang also made in Asia and looking nothing like a real boomerang , or a pvc pipe didge

[Stix]

Well..well....its finally back...
Dikheads finally have enough stock...

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Funny thing is the canned baked beans etc shelves are still empty...

[Blr243]

I been sick as a dog with gastro for a few days so I may need a pallat

[Blr243]

Stix, when u get home and walk in the door from shopping and you are finally carrying a big package of loo paper , does it feel anything like a proud hunter 10 ooo years ago as he walks back to camp with a gazelle draped across your back?

[Stix]

Lol BLR...

Well i cant answer that because i wasnt trapsing over the plains with gazelle's over my shoulder 10k yrs ago...

I didnt actually buy any yet as ive got a few rolls now & my hands were full...but i will feel better knowing its available if i get a bout of gastro like you...

I doubt a pack of dunny paper even come close to matching the feeling of hoisting a fallow up on a gambrel to skin out & quarter up though...

[Sergeant Hartman]

Lol blr

[AussieCapitalist]

I saw on the news the new big ticket items are bicycles. With a lot of people at home they apparently want to ride around. One bike shop in Sydney is selling 40K on Saturday trading as opposed to the normal 10k.
I feel sad for kids today that have to grow up on tiny house blocks or in apartments. Kids need motorbikes and big yards to play around in. Shoot air rifles, 22s and bow and arrows and all the stuff that normal kids use to do.

This is why I do like big parks and state forests and stuff like that so kids can get out into the elements.

[Sergeant Hartman]

Lol i was taking to a petshop owner. Pet's is even bigger. They normally sell 50-60 chickens a month, a week ago the guy got 300 chickens sold then in 1.5 days and still had a waiting list.

Not that pet shops can sell cats or dogs anymore in Vic but they are going fully hectic.too.... ofcourse the pet shop was happy people buy pets and then they need feed... the above pet shop owner was saying cat and Dod food had become like toilet paper

[TassieTiger]

See coles increased profit margin last month by over 1 Billion dollars...but I bet their margins are going to drop this month in comparison lol

[AussieCapitalist]

All the 20000 something thousand people that coles and woolworths have hired will get the sack real soon as they are not needed anymore. Although I do like how they have a greeter that gives you some hand sanitizer.

I wish the servos would pump my fuel, put air in my tyres and fill up my wiper fluid like on back to the future and in days gone by. Hundreds of people touching that hose on a daily basis when it only needs to be one.

[wanneroo]

I saw on the news the new big ticket items are bicycles. With a lot of people at home they apparently want to ride around. One bike shop in Sydney is selling 40K on Saturday trading as opposed to the normal 10k.
I feel sad for kids today that have to grow up on tiny house blocks or in apartments. Kids need motorbikes and big yards to play around in. Shoot air rifles, 22s and bow and arrows and all the stuff that normal kids use to do.

This is why I do like big parks and state forests and stuff like that so kids can get out into the elements.

Over here in the USA, home exercise equipment sold out fast or jumped way up in price. As soon as I saw this coming I ordered a home gym on Amazon, which was fine as I wanted to get more into lifting weights anyways.

Weather over here is gradually warming up, but just had snow two nights ago and it's snowed about 7-8 times here in April, but it melts the next day. Grass is turning green and a bit of vegetation is started to bloom. Temps are starting to ease into the upper teens and I can say people are getting outside as much as they can. People are ready for this nonsense to be over. We never had one case in our town and no active cases anywhere around us.

I'm pulling the kayak out this weekend and getting my mountain bike ready.

[Stix]

Waiting in line at the checkout in coles today, i looked down & actually absorbed the distancing signs/stickers on the floor...

Call me pedantic, but i couldnt help & think that the design, layout & inparticular, the wording must have been multi-departmental briefing & heavily brainstormed exercise between the highest intellects of executive levels in marketing & health/safety teams.

With that in mind, I couldnt help but let out a wee audible giggle at the catchphrase summary across the bottom of the sticker...!!...

"TOGETHER we stop the spread"...

Here...i took a pic...

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[Stix]

Well well wad'dya know...

COVID19 is like 32 grain bullet out of a 204...rapidly loosing momentum..!!

How do i know this...

I just heard about another "study" on the wireless news report...

Climate change has made a sudden comeback & these scientists say we'll be dead in 50 yrs...

Krikey...lets bloody hope it haopens sooner so dont have to listen to this bullsh!t anymore...

Ive been hoping for a change in the media hype away from COVID...but i didnt want it to return to the brain dead climate crap again...!!!

ffs...!!!...

[wanneroo]

Well here, this Friday businesses are allowed to reopen with all these dystopian East Germany type rules for social distancing, how many people you can have in the store, mandatory masks and stuff.

For right now I'm basically ignoring all of this and not shopping.

[Stix]

Well here, this Friday businesses are allowed to reopen with all these dystopian East Germany type rules for social distancing, how many people you can have in the store, mandatory masks and stuff.

For right now I'm basically ignoring all of this and not shopping.

Gees you should see my local supermarkets...

Most people dont give a hoot...supermarkets are packed...!!...most will stand a little away from you at the checkout, but they seem to have some false sense, or is it a lack of awareness, that when your walking around, distance is no problem...

& toilet paper is back & already being discounted to shift all the excess stock...

[Sergeant Hartman]

But lots of itnow... stock up stix for later

[poid]

My Coles now has so much toilet paper, wipes etc that it is overflowing into other isles, can't wait for the half price sales!