Grumpy Old Man
-
Having just read all of the toilet paper posts, I have a moral dilemma. I have to go to the supermarket and we actually need loo rolls.
So do I buy some (if I can) and look like the fluffybunny who is stockpiling, or do I take the high ground and resort to something more primitive (but appropriate) like The Herald?
-
@snowy said in Grumpy Old Man:
Having just read all of the toilet paper posts, I have a moral dilemma. I have to go to the supermarket and we actually need loo rolls.
So do I buy some (if I can) and look like the fluffybunny who is stockpiling, or do I take the high ground and resort to something more primitive (but appropriate) like The Herald?
Just ask if you can buy a few sheets at a time.
-
@snowy said in Grumpy Old Man:
Having just read all of the toilet paper posts, I have a moral dilemma. I have to go to the supermarket and we actually need loo rolls.
So do I buy some (if I can) and look like the fluffybunny who is stockpiling, or do I take the high ground and resort to something more primitive (but appropriate) like The Herald?
I had the same thoughts when we were in one of our lockdowns. Needed loo paper and felt embarrassed buying some because I didn't want to look like a hoarder. I was even a bit embarrassed about going to the supermarket because I didn't want to look like I was there to panic buy. I obviously think the world revolves around me and what I am doing.
-
@crazy-horse said in Grumpy Old Man:
I obviously think the world revolves around me and what I am doing.
Well, both of us obviously.
-
@catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
@snowy said in Grumpy Old Man:
Having just read all of the toilet paper posts, I have a moral dilemma. I have to go to the supermarket and we actually need loo rolls.
So do I buy some (if I can) and look like the fluffybunny who is stockpiling, or do I take the high ground and resort to something more primitive (but appropriate) like The Herald?
Just ask if you can buy a few sheets at a time.
Dangerous in Oz.
-
@snowy said in Grumpy Old Man:
Having just read all of the toilet paper posts, I have a moral dilemma. I have to go to the supermarket and we actually need loo rolls.
So do I buy some (if I can) and look like the fluffybunny who is stockpiling, or do I take the high ground and resort to something more primitive (but appropriate) like The Herald?
I am in exactly the same situation as I should have bought some last week but forgot. I have no shame so will buy some.
-
@machpants and yet when I went out last night to get a proper essential item (Gin) the offie was empty.
People have strange priorities.
Mine host at the local craft beer place invited me in to help him finish a keg that he feels won't last a week. No charge.
4 pints later this lockdown has started well.
-
@bovidae TR Jnr is working tonight at the supermarket, he can get some for us
-
@taniwharugby A cunning plan.
-
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@machpants and yet when I went out last night to get a proper essential item (Gin) the offie was empty.
People have strange priorities.
Mine host at the local craft beer place invited me in to help him finish a keg that he feels won't last a week. No charge.
4 pints later this lockdown has started well. I saw on a Facebook grapevine that the local pizza joint was offering up free pizzas to those in need last night, presumably to use up perishable ingredients that wouldn't last a week or more in the fridge. Apparently they gave away over 100 pizzas. These things bring out as much the best in some people as they do the worst in others.
-
@aucklandwarlord said in Grumpy Old Man:
Apparently they gave away over 100 pizzas. These things bring out as much the best in some people as they do the worst in others.
Yeah and the people that got one will remember it too hopefully. A pay it forward thing. I would.
Have just had my expedition to the supermarket. Managed to get a pack of loo rolls but it was a close run thing. Had to fight off an old lady for the good stuff.
Got a dodgy look from the checkout girl when I sheepishly put toilet paper on the counter, she may have just been checking me out of course.
No queues because all of the morons went yesterday I guess, but said morons had emptied the shelves. There was more staff than customers trying to re stock.
Who the fuck does panic baking???
-
@snowy said in Grumpy Old Man:
@aucklandwarlord said in Grumpy Old Man:
Apparently they gave away over 100 pizzas. These things bring out as much the best in some people as they do the worst in others.
Yeah and the people that got one will remember it too hopefully. A pay it forward thing. I would.
Have just had my expedition to the supermarket. Managed to get a pack of loo rolls but it was a close run thing. Had to fight off an old lady for the good stuff.
Got a dodgy look from the checkout girl when I sheepishly put toilet paper on the counter, she may have just been checking me out of course.
No queues because all of the morons went yesterday I guess, but said morons had emptied the shelves. There was more staff than customers trying to re stock.
Who the fuck does panic (therapeutic) baking???
my wife, is a battle to stay at a decent weight!
-
@aucklandwarlord said in Grumpy Old Man:
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@machpants and yet when I went out last night to get a proper essential item (Gin) the offie was empty.
People have strange priorities.
Mine host at the local craft beer place invited me in to help him finish a keg that he feels won't last a week. No charge.
4 pints later this lockdown has started well. I saw on a Facebook grapevine that the local pizza joint was offering up free pizzas to those in need last night, presumably to use up perishable ingredients that wouldn't last a week or more in the fridge. Apparently they gave away over 100 pizzas. These things bring out as much the best in some people as they do the worst in others.
Meet the family cooking and delivering 2000 meals a day for Canberrans in need
They say most of the recipients are elderly people unable to shop or cook on their own.
@antipodean is younger than I imagined
-
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@aucklandwarlord said in Grumpy Old Man:
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@machpants and yet when I went out last night to get a proper essential item (Gin) the offie was empty.
People have strange priorities.
Mine host at the local craft beer place invited me in to help him finish a keg that he feels won't last a week. No charge.
4 pints later this lockdown has started well. I saw on a Facebook grapevine that the local pizza joint was offering up free pizzas to those in need last night, presumably to use up perishable ingredients that wouldn't last a week or more in the fridge. Apparently they gave away over 100 pizzas. These things bring out as much the best in some people as they do the worst in others.
Meet the family cooking and delivering 2000 meals a day for Canberrans in need
They say most of the recipients are elderly people unable to shop or cook on their own.
@antipodean is younger than I imagined
If I cooked 2000 meals in a day, the media would start talking about antipodean-21, not covid-19
-
all right, tell me im just being a grumpy old man
just nipped out for a COVID test and when we came back a woman was coming out out our property, we have a townhouse with just a car park in front so and fences all the way up either side, when i got out i asked if i could help her thinking she may have been looking for us, she said no, her dog was just peeing on our (front door) plants...and did i have a problem with that?
I said, it is a little annoying but whatever to which i got that "whats wrong with you its just dog pee etc" and i said why not take it to the park ete and argument ensued
am i out of line, i get dogs will pee on lamps posts and fences or in parks etc but i personally think its a little out of line to actually go onto someones property to let her dog piss on our plants right by the front door
-
@kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
all right, tell me im just being a grumpy old man
just nipped out for a COVID test and when we came back a woman was coming out out our property, we have a townhouse with just a car park in front so and fences all the way up either side, when i got out i asked if i could help her thinking she may have been looking for us, she said no, her dog was just peeing on our (front door) plants...and did i have a problem with that?
I said, it is a little annoying but whatever to which i got that "whats wrong with you its just dog pee etc" and i said why not take it to the park ete and argument ensued
am i out of line, i get dogs will pee on lamps posts and fences or in parks etc but i personally think its a little out of line to actually go onto someones property to let her dog piss on our plants right by the front door
wow, i get at your front gate by the footpath, but at your front door?? normally you would argue that she is clearly taking the piss
I will get my coat
-
@bayimports said in Grumpy Old Man:
normally you would argue that she is clearly taking the piss
Delivering the piss.
It is however better than someone leaving a brown paper bag full of dog poo and setting fire to it (so I'm told). I would never have done that to anybody.
-
@kiwiwomble said in Grumpy Old Man:
all right, tell me im just being a grumpy old man
just nipped out for a COVID test and when we came back a woman was coming out out our property, we have a townhouse with just a car park in front so and fences all the way up either side, when i got out i asked if i could help her thinking she may have been looking for us, she said no, her dog was just peeing on our (front door) plants...and did i have a problem with that?
I said, it is a little annoying but whatever to which i got that "whats wrong with you its just dog pee etc" and i said why not take it to the park ete and argument ensued
am i out of line, i get dogs will pee on lamps posts and fences or in parks etc but i personally think its a little out of line to actually go onto someones property to let her dog piss on our plants right by the front door
that's fucked
