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

[PorkEatingCrusader]

The good that will come from this when the dust settles is local manufacturing will return. Stop the buying from China. Buy local. Don't sell homes to the Chinese.

[Sergeant Hartman]

Hmm lol.. won't happen mate. If you need a reason look at kmart... they sell cheap crap from OS, and they are open while target is shut.

People will buy X if its cheaper than Y and don't care where X comes from. And unless you drop wages in manufacturing to $10/day in Australia, Chinese goods will still be heaps cheaper than Australian.

Pepper have short memories and will forget China in a couple of months...same as we have now forgotten the bushfires and the drought

[Bill]

The good that will come from this when the dust settles is local manufacturing will return. Stop the buying from China. Buy local. Don't sell homes to the Chinese.

Sorry PEC but everything thats comes out of your mouths is delusional, China won the trade war decades ago as shareholders want the best returns, its simple economics and protectionist policy leads to inflation and destruction of wealth. Clearly something you have little grasp of.

[8x57]

The good that will come from this when the dust settles is local manufacturing will return. Stop the buying from China. Buy local. Don't sell homes to the Chinese.

You’re probably half right mate, a lot of the cheap junk will still continue to come from overseas, but a lot of the stuff that we’ve been caught short of during the pandemic will no doubt make a come back in Australia, with government subsidy no doubt.
But I agree it’s been a real wake for a lot of people how reliant we’ve become on China hopefully there will be some meaningful change.

[marksman]

"I agree it’s been a real wake for a lot of people how reliant we’ve become on China hopefully there will be some meaningful change."

l totally agree

[Oldbloke]

"I agree it’s been a real wake for a lot of people how reliant we’ve become on China hopefully there will be some meaningful change."

l totally agree

+1.


Wife and I had that disscussion a fewdays ago.
Some stuff just has to be made here for best interest of the country. And sometimes that will mean tarrifs or some other type of suport.

[Stix]

Dont say that "T" word too loudly...!!!

Remember we had them for the car manufacturing indusrty we HAD here...well to the best of my knowledge they havent been lifted...!!!

Tarrifs are most often used as a means to increase tax, over & above fund the poor administration that regulates whatever the industry is...the same thing will happen if we introduce them again.

We need a different business model all together---one that firstly builds up our own core assets, & follows on with a constitutional approach to keeping those assets.
For starters, we could stop this sending our dirt over to China for a quick buck, only to fund them to melt it down & charge us a heap more for it...!!!

We are in the position we are in because of our own greed...!!!...we're not willing to pay the extra for our own checkout chicks--rather we pay the extra instead into the profits & dividend payments of the share holdersss the world, & when our entitlement driven greed outstrips our actual earnings, we sell off our assets & protect the international "rescuing" investment with guarantees of minimum profits...

Be smart about this looming economic reset...& DONT let the same thing happen again...!!!

Boycott the greed...support the welfare of the ones both next to you, & those coming after you...

Our lack of sacrifice & sickly greed over the last 20 or so years that ive noticed is shameful when we look at what the diggers gave for us...& we just sell it all off...

[Stix]

How is toilet paper in your area...?

I still haven't got any...bloody hell...!!?!?!

[Sergeant Hartman]

I think the wife just finds it I her travels... news says things are staying to get better in supermarkets

[Sergeant Hartman]

And just like that Vic is bringing in stage 3 restrictions.

Last day to buy ammo and guns

[marksman]

How is toilet paper in your area...?

I still haven't got any...bloody hell...!!?!?!

mate l might have to send you a roll

its still scarce all over and the prices are up $12 a dozen is average now

[Ricochet]

Muuuuuhhhaaahhhaaa Bwaaahhaaahhaa ..ROFLMFAO

Some douchenozzel in South Australia has been approaching stores because he bought 5400 rolls of toilet paper and was banished from selling online. Someone put a friggin match to his stash please.
Hopefully he gets screwed for attempted gouging.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/healt ... 7aa071ca82

[Sergeant Hartman]

Lol no wonder stix couldn't find any rolls

[straightshooter]

Funny, people aren't making fun of preppers like they used to.

[Ziege]

Muuuuuhhhaaahhhaaa Bwaaahhaaahhaa ..ROFLMFAO

Some douchenozzel in South Australia has been approaching stores because he bought 5400 rolls of toilet paper and was banished from selling online. Someone put a friggin match to his stash please.
Hopefully he gets screwed for attempted gouging.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/healt ... 7aa071ca82

What's the d**khead going to do when the rats and mice and silverfish and earwigs have nested and chewed all through it all?

[Blr243]

I just gout an email from Woolworths. One of the things that said was the toilet paper crisis was easing ..they also said that this weeks sales nationally in Australia is expected to be between 15 and 16 million rolls .....so u can see the effort, and trucks and staff that it takes just for one retailer to get that much product on the shelves

[Stix]

Yea its pretty sad...
They say its "un-Austrsluan" to behave like this...(all this greedy panic buying etc)
Well guess what...this IS Australia now.

I finally mansged to buy a 4 roll pack at Coles last night.
The funny thing is the pile was not on shelves in normal place...it was up front of store, to one side just before registers start..in a kibd of a dead spot where you look everywhere else as you wslk past.

I did a double-take look...walked past...walked back...i even looked around to see if i was being filmed or anyone was gonna shoot me if i touched the pile...

It must have been placed there not long ago, & no one had noticed yet.

I grabbed a pack, but couldnt believe no one else in the store had any--they probably all have their sheds full of it.

Im still unable to get flour & sugar though...

Wish i ran & lived on a farm...!!...the bulk of people in this main town are just self centred greedy kunts. I cant imagine what its like in the bigger cities... .

[Stix]

Actually, ill say this too...

The sad thing that all these (& you if you're one of the greedy kunt hoarders!!!) people carrying on like this, is the EXACT behavior that causes Govt's to mandate for tighter restrictions, & an increase in further oppressing a society.

If we cant behave like normal, empathetic people who wont steal the shirt off our neighbours back in a blizzard, just incase we might need it in the future, then you can bet your bottom dollar the Govt will want to bring in things like ID cards, rationed supplies to each household/person of essentials.

Yes thats right...Govt's will be noting how to controll all these things in the future...further controll means higher prices & being even further oppressed....!!

But for some reason we are too bloody stupid to forsee these things, because we dont want to miss out on another roll, orbag of flour.
And we have a media that act like little bloody Jonny--that is continually do the wrong thing because it invokes a reaction & gets a bigger audience...

I hope as stated above, all the hoarders toilet paper soaks up the winter atmospheric moistire & the silverfish eat the rolls, & moths infiltrate all your flour & lay eggs in it...so when you start your bread mix that youll only try once because its too easy to go buy some, your house fills with moths...!!!

[wanneroo]

Just about everything is available here, so much so farmers are dumping milk and in Florida plowing under crops due to no demand from restaurants.

The only thing I saw at the store this week lacking was the cookies and toilet paper were still being ransacked by very heavy women. Toilet paper was available, you just might not get the main brand you want.

Restaurants are dying on the vine and for many takeout is not enough to sustain them.

There has been increasing resistance here in the USA to some of the malarkey going on involving restricting civil liberties, not a big problem here locally because the cops know they need us more than we need them, but in some of these other parts of the country like California. Everyone has had enough.

I have been making productive use of my time with a weight machine home gym I had ordered, so I have a routine in the barn of reloading for a while, then doing an evolution of pumping iron and then the sauna next to it is on and back to reloading.

[Stix]

Sounds like a great little set-up wanneroo...

[marksman]

same here wanneroo
the brands have thinned down but at least we can get some groceries now

you need to give the sugar the flick Stix, its poison and no good for you mate

your right about what our society has become, self entitled

[wanneroo]

Sounds like a great little set-up wanneroo...

I am determined not to let this time go to waste so I am staying busy everyday. Sounds like I should be going back to work next month, but if I end up broke for some reason at least I'll look like Conan the Barbarian. I got Schwarzenegger's bodybuilding books delivered from Amazon and they have been very useful in how to get the most out of weight training. Weights I find have the biggest bang for the buck on time invested.

[wanneroo]

same here wanneroo
the brands have thinned down but at least we can get some groceries now

you need to give the sugar the flick Stix, its poison and no good for you mate

your right about what our society has become, self entitled

Don't be surprised if you end up with a glut of food on the market as we did. Even my local state rep is asking people to drink more milk so the farmers don't have to dump it. The restaurants, corporations and schools are not buying food as they did a month ago.

[Stix]

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....

Anyway, speaking about toilet paper & survival...
Whats the bet this is the trigger for a GST increase...?
I csnt believe i havnt thought of it previous...

Here we all are worried sbout general price of imports going up, & we msy well have to face a gst rate rise.

I just hope we dont get a double wammy--being a rise in gst, as well as a COVID19 levvy.

Im not fan of these "levvy" or "tarrif" type taxes, because they ultimately just serve to give extra expenditure & are never removed.

We gave a save the murray levvy here in SA, & its well known its not used to save the murray...& we do nothing about it...

Then there are the goods & service providers that will profiteer out of this...
My LGS has already raised prices on everything, & are doing it again as wholesale prices increase...
ASIC dont seem to do much here so no doubt this profiteering will go unchecked to a large degree.

Anyway...with capatilism being a user pays system, how do think the Govt will hit us...& what rate eill the GST rise to/by...?

[Blr243]

Aldi has a reputation for having toilet paper despite the situation......I heard about a hoarder who bought ten thousand dollars worth of stuff from supermarket with the intention of reselling it online but it backfired and he tried to get refund from the supermarket.....they told him to jam it

[Stix]

Aldi has a reputation for having toilet paper despite the situation......I heard about a hoarder who bought ten thousand dollars worth of stuff from supermarket with the intention of reselling it online but it backfired and he tried to get refund from the supermarket.....they told him to jam it

Yea BLR ive spoken to my local ALDI & they say it comes in on certain mornings, ive chatted to one of the blokes in there & get along pretty friendly & he says he cant keep any aside for me...
All the staff in there say its a free-for-all first thing in the mornings with people still lining up & making a dash for the toilet paper...
Its probably understandable at this point given the people like myself have probably let reserves run low & in need of it...but id still hazzard a guess a lot of them are just greedy fukrs getting extra because they are entitled to...

[marksman]

in my household we have actually reduced the amount we go through greta will be happy

what l see most is the cheaper brands are gone, everything is a premium price now

l conned the missus into making some scones but she couldn't get self raising flour at the supermarket there was toilet paper though

[Sergeant Hartman]

Ahh good point there... but a Levy is ok as long as it has an end point. Usually people who earn over a certain amount are the ones paying for it... so the poor people usually don't get stung.

If you ask any economist or accountant our GST rate is quite low.. should be 15 or 17%...lol. but the biggest issue here is that its actually the federal government spending the big $$$$ while the GST all goes to state and territory governments. So a levy will likely be what comes.

As a newspaper article said, we are mortgaging our kids future to save the baby boomers (older Australians).

Keep looking mate, they are around. I read i think the manager of Drakes in SA who told a guy with 250x 24 packs to "flush his rolls down the drain" as he would not be getting a refund.

[Elmer]

So...

Went into Aldi this afternoon/evening...

I need some of that soft paper...i dont care for the purfumed pretty scented overly soft stuff that is impregnated with aloe & cleverly embossed for a frictionless glide with maximum stock removal...

Nope...

I just want a pack of fuking toilet paper...

Ok...so im not getting one here...sigh..., i said to myself while staring dumbfounded at the steel shelving with a blank look on my face, wondering what the fuk is wrong with people...

Breathe...

Ok...ill go & grab a can of baked beans &/or spaghetti incase i get away on Sat night for a quick weekend warrior paddock dissecting eye-shine covert operation...
You know...quick snack...easy ramming flavour-filled tummy filler i can just find time for when im not stuck in the burbs & there are guns to shoot...

Well...its been made very apparent to me, that i cant have, nope, not even one can of baked bloody beans...!!!!!

You see, i went to 2 supermarkets & 2 Aldi stores, & those sections of shelves are empty...
They've been emptied by...well, i dont mean to stereotype here...but emptied by the likes of all the fat bastards i saw walking around in pairs, or threesome's, with at least one trolley each---yes---i said ATLEAST...!!!...filling those said trolley's with instant noodles, long life milk, all my bloody baked beans, and the weeks run from the toilet paper factory...!!!

What the fuk is wrong with you lot...???

No, i dont mean you, who've grabbed a couple extra cans of baked beans...i mean YOU---!!!---who have, as ive said above, loaded up with every fuking carton you can fit in your bloody boot...!!!

You're a buch of idiots...!!!...
If you think thats going to save you in the event of a highly infectious major pandemic while you're couped up in the burbs complaining about what the Govt ISNT doing about your poor health due to your diet, then think again...!!

And i hope when you cant get any protein because you've forced the supermarkets into ration allocations, you smell my roasting goat leg & southern fried rabbit, & stamp your feet in denial while convincing yourself you find some form of solace when 60 minutes & the Project tell you you're being hard done by ...!!!
Idiots...!!...

And you know what---i hope this is left up for all to read...i dont care if someone is offended at the "social inequity" i seem to be ranting about...
People should take a look at themselves & ask, 'what will happen if this is real...?'...

I am just flabbergasted at the utter greed & incredibly abhorrent attitudes a good number of us seem to have against one another...
We seemingly "band together" when the drama filled media storm is promoting that some experience hardship in the aftermath of the devastating bush fires, but look what happens when they promote even a hint of a spreading infection...and what does this behavior tell us...

So...now thats off my chest...can anyone spare a roll or two...seriously...im down to 2-n-a-half ro
lls & thats including my shooting stash..

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

[sungazer]

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.