The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Greenglockenspiel

Si_Clist said:

greenbee said:

We've been banned from having bonfires during the lockdown and for the foreseeable future, as reducing air quality while people have compromised lungs isn't really a good idea. 

We're hoping (but I fear in vain) that our local council bans barbeques for the same reason.  Terrible anti-social things, barbeques.  AFAIC if a bloke wants to pollute the neighbourhood by burning sausages on a barbeque in the back garden, he should first emigrate to Australia.

Probably more likely that they would ban them to prevent socialising I would have thought 

maryb

Lidl had plenty of flour on Thursday - even bread flour which was not available last week.
And eggs
That's in a city centre branch which doesn't have trolleys only hand baskets so people can't buy loads

jk0

Looks like my links to Zerohedge have been removed. I hope I did not upset anyone with them?

Si_Clist

jk0 said:

Looks like my links to Zerohedge have been removed. I hope I did not upset anyone with them?

FWIW it's very difficult to upset me so you definitely didn't do that, but I certainly wasn't happy to see this forum being used to spread conspiracy theories.

maryb

Zero Hedge has some interesting stuff and some swivel eyed stuff, it's a decidedly mixed bag.  Apart from the comments which are uniformly eyepoppingly toxic should you ever dare let your gaze drift that far down the page

jk0

Ha. Just been in Superdrug, and the lady on the door is spraying everyone's hands with sanitizer. I'm still coughing back home after washing them!

Thriftygifty

jk0 said:

Looks like my links to Zerohedge have been removed. I hope I did not upset anyone with them?

It wasn't me but I did feel uneasy by them sorry if that offends just not my cup of tea personally. 

Anyhow on another note what I have learned during this lockdown is that I actually really dislike one of my early 20s neighbours who drives like an idiot, has their music blaring when they come and go and go out a minimum of twice a day for 20mins or so in their car and therefore I can only come to the conclusion they are going to the local shop. 

Has anyone had any emails from supermarkets about priority spaces? 

-taff

I reported them because I didn't feel a prepping hread was suitable to disseminate conspiracy theory links from a website who's twitter account was removed by twitter for fake accounts and spam. I'm sure there's a more suitable thread somewhere on here where people would love to debate this. Maybe a specifically covid related thread or the Money Saver Arms would be more appropriate.

herlig

While not a fan of zerohedge, their articles have, in the past, offered an alternative view and very appropriate to preparedness threads. They, themselves, have deleted their own content of late and it is my own view that their tone is inappropriate in these times. 

jk0

-taff said:

I reported them because I didn't feel a prepping hread was suitable to disseminate conspiracy theory links from a website who's twitter account was removed by twitter for fake accounts and spam.

Err, no. It was removed because they posted suggesting where Coronavirus came from. Anyone see a pattern there?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-bans-zero-hedge-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory/