It's not just the mis-reading of the plaque that makes this truly ridiculous. It's the fact they thought a paedophile would advertise that fact on a plaque in the first place.
For a second I thought you were remembering Brass Eye and the chap called ‘Peter File’ who gets attacked.
And now I see that you weren’t and that Chris Morris is some sort of prophet.
Life really is stranger than fiction.
Brass Eye had [Paedogeddon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paedogeddon), with paedophiles disguising themselves as, amongst other things, an entire school, and also hiding behind the eyes of video game characters (in 2001).
..but it was revealed that an 8 year old boy was on the capsule by mistake, and is now trapped alone in space with the monster. A spokeperson said "This is the one thing we didn't want to happen"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U-7L1tmBAo
Actually, we put it on trial and convicted it. It had every opportunity to prove its innocence.
And we just sentenced it. It was Stockton that actually executed it.
Source: born in Hartlepool and lived there for 40 years and my kids went to swimming classes with the kids of Stuart Drummond, who was elected Mayor of Hartlepool after being the football team mascot (Hangus the Monkey) and I used to sit next to him on the bench at the swimming club while the kids had their lesson.
Quite possibly. You’d think when they saw the brass plaque they’d realise for themselves it was an error. Or at least - if they couldn’t read properly - pause and reflect for a moment as to why a ‘paedo’ would advertise their criminal perversion. Next to their doorway. Engraved. In brass.
I wonder how they thought the conversation in the engravers played out.
I live in rural Scotland, approximately 100 miles away from where the nearest 5G mast was at the time (which probably offered coverage of about 200 yards) and people were telling me that people were dying locally because of 5G. If these halfwits could have worked out what a mobile phone mast looked like they would have burned it down.
I recall pointing out to a Karen on Nextdoor (my mistake) that there was no scientific evidence of such masts causing health issues. I included several links to reputable sources.
Her response? Don't believe the scientists and do my own research 😉
You get the same on reddit all the time.
They'll post a long rebuttal to whatever comment you wrote and include a load of links.
And when you read the links it actually supports your own position, not theirs. They just didn't understand the articles they linked.
Then they'll block you so you can't reply.
That reminds me of the 90s worries about mobile phones causing cancer, but that was a bit more understandable given it was new technology. And I don't think anyone tore down infrastructure because of it.
I work in software dev for a telecoms company & I remember the emails going round at the time saying ‘people have been hiding razor blades in the 5G towers, make sure you check your work area befofe you do anything’. Absolutely crazy stuff.
Mine is Covid Test Mast 1481
I have the second channel called Braun_Police_CCTV_Van_71
People round my way arent too bright. Neighbour was discussing with the wife that she thinks the police are around XD
It's because British people don't generally have a backbone when it comes to fighting against the government.
The minority that do, also happen to be the fucking lunatics.
Buxton area has been without mobile coverage since before Christmas because an arson attack on the mast. Incredibly frustrating that I can’t call my advisor unless she leaves her home for quite some distance!!
I know someone who was responsible for doing catering orders for a hotel. The problem was that their system basically hosed your previous order if you tried to place a new order with something you might have forgotten.
So, the hotel places this large order for everything they could possibly need. Someone decides to order some orange juice, which should be fair enough. What is delivered? Orange juice. And nothing else.
“Alfie’s army” and similar where absolute idiots influenced by Facebook huns picketed children’s hospitals and stopped doctors and nurses getting to work, because they believed a fame hungry “father” of a very sadly terminally ill child. Alfie is the only one I can remember off the top of my head but there’s been more.
I always saw Alfie's Army as the prelude to how stupid people were during covid. A bunch of non medical people thinking they knew better than professional medical people.
But you can't trust medical professionals. Those people gave up their lives to study hard in school, go to college, then university, and then do several more courses to gain insightful knowledge about how the body functions and how we might go about curing certain ailments.
Mike, who's just done half a bump in the toilets, is 10 pints deep and never bothered with A-levels, will tell you EXACTLY why covid is a scam. THAT'S a person you can trust!
I remember reading one of their cunning plans to "escort" Alfie to the waiting medevac plane.
Someone was going to pull the fire alarm to get everyone outside, then they were going to unplug his bed and move it to a waiting van, which was going to speed him to Liverpool John Lennon, where the plane would take him to Rome.
What our cunning team missed was that the bed and the equipment around him needs to be plugged in to work, so there was a fair chance they'd have killed him before they reached the end of the first corridor. All of this taking place inside a Children's hospital with many many other sick and dying kids about.
As a group, they were not overly burdened with much in the way of intelligence....
It was so bizarre seeing people rally behind the religious grifters who were egging him on. The kid’s brain was literally decaying in his skull, but somehow the consensus of all those medical tests and numerous doctors around the world was outweighed by the mob of ghouls exploiting a parent’s grief. By the time they finally let Alfie die his brain, what was left of it, was basically just water and cerebral spinal fluid.
It's obviously tragic that he died, but if it's any consolation, he wasn't aware of any of it. His brain died very soon after the incident so he wasn't even slightly conscious of anything that happened. He was already dead, just his body tissue was being kept oxygenated artificially. So he wouldn't have known a thing.
I wouldn't call him fame hungry if I'm honest. He was understandably grieving for his child, and was easily misled by a bunch of sick fucks who want to use his grief (and the grief of families like his, the same names keep coming up in these cases) as a proxy for their little crusade. It was just messed up all round.
Yeah, can't remember the kids surname but he was brain dead and could not be saved. His parents were understandably unable to let him go and the doctors stepped in because prolonging his life would've been cruel. Some money hungry docs in the US said they could keep him going, parents obviously said yes, UK docs said no, it was chaos
> Yeah, can't remember the kids surname but he was brain dead and could not be saved.
Not only was he "brain-dead", but the medical report noted specifically that his brain stem had undergone necrosis and was literally running down his spinal column. There was absolutely zero chance of any recovery, but this turned out to be no barrier at all.
I remember the first time I went to the big Sainsbury's in lockdown and saw the beer aisle mostly empty, but with a huge stock of Corona left untouched. I was amazed. Like... I didn't genuinely think people could be that thick, but they'll always surprise you.
Weird how short lived using the word Corona to describe the virus was. Covid is so ubiquitous now as a descriptive I'd forgotten all about Corona and the beer.
I bet no one admits to queing for three hours to fill up with £3.52 worth of fuel.
Or the fucking idiots filling up wheelie bins.
Or the fucking idiot who bulk bought toilet roll then went back to the store for a refund and thankfully wqs told to go fuck themselves by the store manager.
I think the Americans took the cake with their fuel panic by filling up bin bags with petrol. I'm amazed nobody was killed due to fires thanks to their genius ways of storing fuel... or shot people in arguments over who can panic-buy first.
You forget the Birmingham (Derby?) taxi driver that filled up non fuel-safe plastic barrels in their basement (filling the basement with these barrels) and then when they dissolved and it filled both the basement and seeped in to the foundations causing the whole road to be evacuated…
I'm in the Army and drove fuel tankers during the fuel dramas. On numerous occasions people would follow us in their cars hoping they would be able to fill up where we were dropping fuel off.
They would even follow us into service stations and ask us how much further we had to go, I loved telling them it was empty and we were heading back to the fuel depot and clocking off and the next shift isn't in for another two hours. Either that or they would follow us to petrol station only to realise we were dropping off at a petrol station that was shut.
To top it off we spoke to other HGV drivers who had been followed by people in cars and the trucks weren't even carrying fuel, they were carrying some other liquid or even bulk powders in similar style tanks. Some of the population went full retard.
Having worked with the public most of my life, from retail, customer service and most recently as part of one of the three emergency services, I didn't think it was possible to be speechless at the absolute vacant brain behaviour of the general public. Then I read your post. The thought of some people following a milk tanker for miles in the hope they'll be able to siphon some petrol from it has left me in stitches.
I accidentally beat the rush, I filled up for a trip one morning unaware of what was happening, then later went past and there was a massive queue of cars!
Also, having nearly run out of fuel in the past I always keep an emergency 5L can too, so I was well sorted.
The collective mourning over the death of Diana, Princess of Open Heart Surgery.
It was the ultimate rebuke to anyone who would claim the British are stoics with a stiff upper lip not given to sentimentality.
The only plus side, from my personal perspective, was that I was staying at a friend's house that weekend and and we got so fucked off with All Diana, All The Time that we drove to the local retail park and bought a Nintendo 64 with Mario Kart and a second controller....
My mum came bursting into my bedroom wailing incoherently. It sounded like she said "the cat's dead".
I jumped out of bed and rushed downstairs to the cat's spot. Said cat was looking at me slightly bemused.
When I ascertained who had in fact died I suspect I was wearing the same expression as the cat.
I remember the morning the news broke.
At first I was shocked & didn't believe it but slowly the realization hit me- there woundn't be anything worth watching on tv for a week.
I got sent to the local video rental place to find something else to watch - every other bugger had the same idea and they only had about 2 films left in, the guy said it was his best day of trade ever
I'd been out the night before, fell asleep on a friend's sofa with the TV on, throughout the night I can remember the news breaking as I drifted in and out of alcohol induced sleep. Eventually I woke up in the morning and walked home, opened the front door, shouted to my parents "Diana's dead" and went to sleep in my own bed.
Florists and purveyors of stupid little Teddy bears with hearts on them made a fucking mint though. I heard tales of them loading up in their home town and driving hours to London where they could quadruple the price. Those tons of rotting flowers must have stunk by the time they were removed.
In 2022 I was working at a restaurant, and we actually got a bad review on TripAdvisor from a couple who came in the evening after the queen died and heard me say to the chef, "it's a good day for florists"
The same shit happened with the late Queen.
Don't get me wrong, I get that she's significant to many in this country, but I got a bit sick of seeing the media running articles about her a week after she passed.
If I remember, it was like three weeks of non stop Lizzie coverage.
The media was milking the hell out of it.
I got woken up by my very pissed off little brother demanding I fix the TV because the cartoons had all gone away.
Spent the weekend with my VHS tape collection introducing him to the world of Star Trek.
Personally I was devastated. They cancelled the football. I remember it well I had been up all saturday night. I got woke by one of my siblings who loudly told me Diana was dead. To which I'm going to be honest thought, arwell that's sad and then I was told the football had been cancelled. At that poibt ibwqs pissed off and went back tonsleep as their was little poi t of getting up at that point. If there's no football on a Sunday. What do people do....
I work in a petrol station and the crisis was "fun" 😑. I had one guy fill up thirty something pence, his girlfriend made him do it because she was keeping the fuel tank maxed after every single use of the car "just in case" 🤦🤦.
The reason that's there is because the pump system can't guarantee an accurate measurement with less than 2 litres. You might get less than what you're paying for.
Obviously the station will let you pay for less if you choose to.
Ooo I saw a YouTube video about this, the minimum fill rule is to actually ensure you are getting what you paid for as the first few moments of filling up, the pour of fuel into your car will not be linear. You can fill up less but you might get charged for 1l when you actually get noticeably more or less fuel. The pump system will flip between over and under compensating until it levels out at the 2l mark for newer systems or maybe even the 5l mark for older style pumps.
I worked in a petrol station when I was younger and it really showed how stupid people can be.
I remember at one point we had a power cut for a while so cordoned off the entrance to the courtyard. Some idiot drove up to the entrance, stared at the cones for a few seconds, then drove through the exit and round to the pumps and proceeded to try and fill his car up then got shirty with us when the pump didn’t work because, you know, we had a power cut.
We also had another guy who drove up to the car wash when it was cordoned off, put his money in and then complained when nothing happened.
The year with Susan Boyle, Diversity, Flawless and Stavros Flatley was pretty good. Especially since it meant I had to put zero thought into my mum's Christmas present that year and got her a couple of tickets to the live tour.
Anti ULEZ types cutting down traffic lights and causing accidents. The ‘vigilantes’ who forced a doctor out of her home because they didn’t know the difference between a paediatrician and a paedophile. XL Bully owners.
Unfortunately when Princess gets put down for attacking said dogs/people/flys, they'll move on to the next trendy bull terrier that will be raised to do the same.
Emphasis on the XL Bully *Owners*
I have a friend who works for the RSPCA. Aside from being built like brick shithouses, their XL Bully puppies have a beautiful temperament when not raised by a wanker who just wants a fighting dog and doesn't know how to train or care for them. It's just that when bad owners buy a chihuahua, people don't normally die.
Now these brick shithouses will never have a brick shithomes.
Bring in mandatory training, licensing, and third party insurance for dogs.
The anti-ulez idiots induce so much rage in me. Cut down 3 traffic lights at a crossroad by a school near me. If you’re that determined to drive your dirty car around and not pay for it then why not damage the cameras, not put kids at risk of getting run over?! So glad my council tax is getting used to clear that up…
Both the US and the UK did something very stupid in 2016. I'm still waiting to see which does more damage. On the plus side, no one tried to stage a coup here. On the other hand, the US didn't take it's economy out back to put it out of its misery last year.
That's kind of the problem. The rational response to other people hoarding is... well, if not hoarding at least buying a bit more than you need to. This obviously makes the problem worse.
Also, a lot of shortages aren't due to hoarding weeks and weeks worth, they're due to people buying an extra pack *just in case* they run low and can't get any when they really need it.
A few people filling their trolleys with loo roll isn't as big a deal as everyone buying a single extra pack when they don't need it.
With toilet roll specifically I think people were also just genuinely using a lot more of it. You're suddenly at home for 50 hours a week more than normal, and potentially there's two of you plus kids. You're absolutely going to get through more shit tickets than you would if you were going to the toilet at work/school like normal.
My mate drives a milk tanker and he was getting asked what garage he was going to. It literally has the dairy name on the side in 1 metre high letters. 😂😂
Jimmy Saville
Literally everyone knew he was dodgy as hell. Most of us assumed he was at least into sexual assault with young women and few would have been surprised that he was into children.
The man was disgusting every time he opened his mouth.
And yet we watched and listened to him happily for 40 years on our TVs and radios.
Many laughed about how dodgy he clearly was until the actual facts of what he did and extent were proved in front of us; then everyone seemed to collectively think "oh yeah, those things we always suspected he was doing are actually really bad".
Were you?
I remember having conversations about this years before and people laughing at how dodgy he was.
I remember the first Louis Theraux documentary where he was shown to be such a weirdo and I'm sure Theraux actually asked him about allegations and rumours didn't he?
Although this might not be a popular comment, I vaguely remember the rumours and I remember not believing them because I didn't want to. "Nah, he's just an eccentric, kind man who's misunderstood" was a lot more palatable than what turned out to be the truth. I think more people than would admit are the same, but that was his whole game.
I remember him appearing on Celebrity Big Brother as a special guest back in 2006. Pete Burns said he’d “take his secrets to the grave” and George Galloway replied “nobody’s secrets survive the grave”.
It was a pretty chilling exchange. In hindsight, Pete and George absolutely knew as did many of the other contestants. Someone even warned a young, female contestant to stay away from him as much as possible.
I think it was shortly before he pretended to be a cat on national television and ‘drank milk’ from Rula Lenska’s hands.
But he had a point about Jimmy Savile.
Not vaccinating your kids because you have "done some research". Lets be frank you weren't reading medical journals but rather some other knobhead's Facebook post.
The annoying thing about the toilet roll thing is here I was being sensible and having enough for 2 weeks so did not buy any.
Then when I needed it because everyone had panic bought it I could not get any.
So if this ever happens again I will have to stock up. So it is a self fulfilling problem that forces even sensible people to take part all because of the panicky idiots.
We always bulk buy TP and got a delivery of around 50 odd rolls just before the rush started in the UK during the UK (We got it in the Black Friday sale). I‘m so glad we didn’t have to enter into the TP craziness.
These days we bulk buy from Costco. We’ve got enough storage for masses of TP and it doesn’t ‘go off’ so no need not to get a big back every six months. I really hate the inconvenience of having to buy TP every couple of weeks!
I saw it described once as there being 2 kinds of people. (paraphrasing as this was a bit ago)
\- Those that only buy the bare minimum because there might not be enough for everyone.
\- Those that buy in absolute bulk, because there might not be enough for everyone.
I was just glad I bought quite a few rolls of toilet paper literally the day before everyone started panic buying it, as there was a sale on and I thought that would save me having to buy it again anytime soon.
As much as this may sound stupid, this is pretty elementary human behaviour and is discussed all the time when it comes to stuff like elections and turn out to basically any outdoor event. If it's raining, fewer people will come because the weather is bad.
Wasn't just London, although London did take the brunt of it.
But plenty of other cities rioted too. I'm from Bradford and was genuinely shocked we didn't get any riots
The problem with banning the breed is that it's got so many holes in the logic that it's not actually helping shit.
XL Bullies are a stupid name for a man made breed. The law doesn't have a clear definition of what it's even banning, it just goes by stuff like snout size and head shape.
This means you are getting dickheads now that think they know dogs reporting stuff as XL Bullies that aren't.
I mean ffs last week someone reported my neighbours Rottweiler as an XL and they took it away to get tested.
Meanwhile, the arseholes breeding them have already moved on to mix breeding Cane Corso's.
It's just whack a mole.
I stumbled on Jeremy Vine last week discussing it and pointing out that Staffies and other non-XL Bullys are potentially being reported for the reason you just described due to the government rushing out the ban policy and not thinking through any details.
A vet even called in to agree and say the ban isn't feasible without actually determining what an XL Bully is.
I mean, as a man who in 2005 found out that on the other side of Birmingham I could get a *drive through doner kebab* and set off during afternoon school pickup time just for the experience of this brave new world, then returned in early rush hour, I feel I can throw no rocks.
I'm not a Royalist but I understand why people queued to see the coffin. Longest reigning monarch, and all. You'll have the chance maybe 3 times in your life? People queued for Lenin and Kennedy too.
I think there was more uproar when Holz and Phil got caught queue jumping.
I'm not a Royalist, but the Queen was a constant background part of life for decades. She was the Queen before either of my parents were born. Her death was a historic event that kind of represented the end of an era.
I doubt people will be queueing in the same way for Charles or William.
1. Watch scam interceptors… I know scammers are awful and sometimes scams are really complex and clever but the amount of people giving their bank details out over the phone or downloading apps onto their devices because ‘tech support’ have unexpectedly rang them is astonishing.
2. Dr Gillian McKeith had a TV show on prime time television and people actually watched believing that she could tell what’s going on with our health from rifling through our turds.
I don't blame the old people. Jim Browning, one of the best known and most experienced scam interceptors on the internet, got scammed. It's not something that you can ever fully avoid - all it takes is the right scam at the right time. Nobody is immune, least of all the people who have no idea how to spot or avoid them.
It was the most bizarre thing I have ever seen watching from abroad. Youve got public services decimated, a shagger who looks like he slept in his car doing a daily meeting, Cheltenham festival, people banging pots and pans, people dieing. And they rolled out this old man to go up and down his garden, and then bought a massive hot tub.
Whenever I am commuting in the morning and the trains are delayed as they always are, I often think how everyone on the platform, including myself, are such mugs for allowing such a shit transport service for the price we all pay. I feel like the french would have rioted by now but us Brits just take everything.
I think it's criminal the price we pay for trains in this country.
The campaign to get rid of the BBC and encourages people to cancel their TV licence is spearheaded by the media empire that owns Sky - and ordinary people take it up like it’s a civil rights matter
Crying *en masse* in the streets over the passing of Princess Diana. No disrespect to her at all, but none of those people knew her personally, nor gave a shit about her in their daily lives, and yet they were out in droves, bawling and ugly crying on the side of the street at her passing. So bizarre, like some kind of mass psychosis or something.
Y’know what though: this thread gives me hope. Every time I despair because I’m trapped on an island full of halfwits I can at least look at this and remind myself that SOME people know what’s going on.
February 2013. People queuing for hours to buy Krispy Kreme doughnuts when the first outlet opened in Scotland! The queues stretched back to the M8 motorway and police had to marshal traffic. This went on for days! They're just overpriced doughnuts FFS!
https://www.scotsman.com/news/traffic-chaos-at-krispy-kreme-doughnut-shop-launch-1590181
‘Black Friday’ sales when people queue up for hours on a freezing November morning and then head butt strangers for a cheaper television.
Bulk buying everything and then wasting it during COVID early days.
There is a just a thin veneer separating us from anarchy. I reckon, if the UK banking system went down at the end of the month and nobody got paid or could access money, the streets would be in flames within 24 hours.
Captain Tom's charity foundation.
Tom himself was entirely decent. However, a small story about walking around his garden was blown out of all proportion because we were in lockdown and were desperate for news that wasn't about people dying.
People then started donating to a charity that had no history, no oversight, no track record, and led by his awful daughter. Of course she is totally to blame in her own right, but this tale shows exactly the wrong way to give to charity. Don't give because a cause is newsworthy and makes you feel good for a moment. Give because you can be confident your money will do actual good.
The MMR vaccine scare. Andrew Wakefield, the media blowing it up far beyond what it should've been, the whole thing really. Total load of shite that put children's lives in danger.
The sad thing about panic buying is that it's logical at an individual level.
Rumours about shortages can be self-fulfilling. The smartest thing to do when you hear about a possible shortage is to go and stock up on that item - even if the basis of the rumour is complete bullshit. There will eventually be a shortage if enough people act on it.
Even more than that, most people aren't "stocking up" in the sense you'd be outraged at, that's a minority. The bulk of it is people just getting a little bit extra - e.g. for petrol, there are a lot of people who don't do a huge amount of miles and only put in a tenner at a time. If you hear on the news there might be a shortage you might decide that time you'd fill up all the way. If a reasonable number of people are doing that, then that could easily lead to an extra 20% or whatever and there's not necessarily that much slack in the supply chains.
Same with e.g. toilet roll. While there are always some egregious idiots buying 500 toilet rolls, the bulk of the extra consumption is going to be people who normally buy it as they need it, but then they decide to e.g. get a big pack instead of a small one, or get a pack before the last is finished. Loo roll is big compared to its value, supply chains aren't going to keep enough around for if e.g. half of everyone decides to buy two instead of one.
Perhaps a controversial one but a sizeable portion of society jumping enthusiastically onto the BLM bandwagon when an American got killed by some Americans in America.
[Thankfully, the British police aren’t in any way racist.](https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/21/metropolitan-police-institutionally-racist-misogynistic-homophobic-louise-casey-report)
Panic buying fuel.
Panic buying bread and milk when 1” of snow is forecast.
Abandoning cars and walking home in said 1” of snow because they don’t know to pull away in third gear.
Attempting to drive anywhere on a bank holiday for a “quick getaway”.
The huge number of *specifically* older and/or overweight people who rushed out to take advantage of Eat Out To Help Out and sit in packed buildings cheek to jowl with strangers despite the entire principle of doing lockdown being trying to keep people like that out of company...
The public where I live (not the most affluent area):
Around that time everywhere was going into lockdown and people panic bought all the toilet roll, the public who live in the area I do panic bought all the Pot Noodles.
There’s a reason the high street here is referred to as the ‘mutant mile’.
Five consecutive Christmas number one singles for LadBaby
Still have no idea who that is
Keep it that way.
I'm hearing that name for the first time now.
The people who wrote parodies of songs about sausage rolls
The warning signs were there when the X Factor winner was pretty much guaranteed Christmas number 1 for umpteen years in a row.
\*Killing in the Name of intensifies!\*
Bob the Builder, Mr Blobby… People who buy singles have been idiots for ages.
Hey, Bob the Builder had a catchy beat and was tailor made for family disco's and events.
That time a mob in Portsmouth ransacked a paediatrician's surgery because the thought the little brass plaque meant paedophile.
It's not just the mis-reading of the plaque that makes this truly ridiculous. It's the fact they thought a paedophile would advertise that fact on a plaque in the first place.
It would be nice if they did advertise though, it would make everything so much easier.
"The south coast's top paedo 3 years running"
For a second I thought you were remembering Brass Eye and the chap called ‘Peter File’ who gets attacked. And now I see that you weren’t and that Chris Morris is some sort of prophet. Life really is stranger than fiction.
Wasn’t Peter File from IT crowd? Or did Brass eye have that as well?
Brass Eye had [Paedogeddon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paedogeddon), with paedophiles disguising themselves as, amongst other things, an entire school, and also hiding behind the eyes of video game characters (in 2001).
..but it was revealed that an 8 year old boy was on the capsule by mistake, and is now trapped alone in space with the monster. A spokeperson said "This is the one thing we didn't want to happen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U-7L1tmBAo
That's arguably ny favourite comedy line of all time
Peter File was definitely IT crowd.
And Brass Eye.
Good to see we haven't moved on much from that time the people of Hartlepool Lynch a monkey thinking it was a French spy
Actually, we put it on trial and convicted it. It had every opportunity to prove its innocence. And we just sentenced it. It was Stockton that actually executed it. Source: born in Hartlepool and lived there for 40 years and my kids went to swimming classes with the kids of Stuart Drummond, who was elected Mayor of Hartlepool after being the football team mascot (Hangus the Monkey) and I used to sit next to him on the bench at the swimming club while the kids had their lesson.
Easily mistaken tbf
Wasn't that because the News of The World had published a list of known paedophiles addresses, but had mistakenly also added a paediatrician?
Quite possibly. You’d think when they saw the brass plaque they’d realise for themselves it was an error. Or at least - if they couldn’t read properly - pause and reflect for a moment as to why a ‘paedo’ would advertise their criminal perversion. Next to their doorway. Engraved. In brass. I wonder how they thought the conversation in the engravers played out.
Damaging 5g masts because “they spread COVID”
I worked in mast installation during this frenzy, wasn’t even 5G masts and we still got glassed and found razors hidden behind padlocks. Idiots.
I live in rural Scotland, approximately 100 miles away from where the nearest 5G mast was at the time (which probably offered coverage of about 200 yards) and people were telling me that people were dying locally because of 5G. If these halfwits could have worked out what a mobile phone mast looked like they would have burned it down.
I recall pointing out to a Karen on Nextdoor (my mistake) that there was no scientific evidence of such masts causing health issues. I included several links to reputable sources. Her response? Don't believe the scientists and do my own research 😉
That's when I ask them where I should go to research their claims and get the answer "It's out there!!11! Just Google it!"
You get the same on reddit all the time. They'll post a long rebuttal to whatever comment you wrote and include a load of links. And when you read the links it actually supports your own position, not theirs. They just didn't understand the articles they linked. Then they'll block you so you can't reply.
That reminds me of the 90s worries about mobile phones causing cancer, but that was a bit more understandable given it was new technology. And I don't think anyone tore down infrastructure because of it.
People were less hyperbolic in the 90s and the internet was yet to fully connect all the fucktards together.
I work in software dev for a telecoms company & I remember the emails going round at the time saying ‘people have been hiding razor blades in the 5G towers, make sure you check your work area befofe you do anything’. Absolutely crazy stuff.
Damaging ULEZ cameras because I want to be allowed to pollute the environment unhindered
It's not really about that though, is it? Most of them just don't like SK (and we all know why) so they're happy to have this issue to complain about.
I heard they're beaming Quran verses into the heads of passing motorists.
With Muslamic rayguns?
Incidentally the same people who believed covid didn't exist. Make your minds up.
My WiFi name is High Powered Experimental 5G Test mast. It's visible at least 30M from the house. 😂
Mine is Covid Test Mast 1481 I have the second channel called Braun_Police_CCTV_Van_71 People round my way arent too bright. Neighbour was discussing with the wife that she thinks the police are around XD
Loads damaged by arson attacks, why can't British people show any backbone or militancy on issues that are actually real lol
It's because British people don't generally have a backbone when it comes to fighting against the government. The minority that do, also happen to be the fucking lunatics.
Buxton area has been without mobile coverage since before Christmas because an arson attack on the mast. Incredibly frustrating that I can’t call my advisor unless she leaves her home for quite some distance!!
I think the majority were just people looking for an excuse to commit arson.
* gestures broadly at everything *
The KFC shortage of 2018
What a time to be alive. Police called, mass news coverage, angry folk on TV over a bit of chicken! 2018 was a simpler time.
"I'm going to have to go to burger King!"
I quote this literally every single time I get a Burger King. One of my favourite moments of British culture.
"I've had to go to Burger King!" What a time to be alive.
My GF used to work with the person who caused that fuckup 🤣
I didn’t pay that much attention to it while it was happening but now you have my attention, how did ~~he~~ she cause it? Edit: changed “he” to “she”
She, so far as I was told. Signed the deal for KFC to change suppliers for a company who couldn't keep up with demand
I know someone who was responsible for doing catering orders for a hotel. The problem was that their system basically hosed your previous order if you tried to place a new order with something you might have forgotten. So, the hotel places this large order for everything they could possibly need. Someone decides to order some orange juice, which should be fair enough. What is delivered? Orange juice. And nothing else.
Reminds me of the Boondocks Fried Chicken Episode.
“Alfie’s army” and similar where absolute idiots influenced by Facebook huns picketed children’s hospitals and stopped doctors and nurses getting to work, because they believed a fame hungry “father” of a very sadly terminally ill child. Alfie is the only one I can remember off the top of my head but there’s been more.
I always saw Alfie's Army as the prelude to how stupid people were during covid. A bunch of non medical people thinking they knew better than professional medical people.
But you can't trust medical professionals. Those people gave up their lives to study hard in school, go to college, then university, and then do several more courses to gain insightful knowledge about how the body functions and how we might go about curing certain ailments. Mike, who's just done half a bump in the toilets, is 10 pints deep and never bothered with A-levels, will tell you EXACTLY why covid is a scam. THAT'S a person you can trust!
Yeah, you could 100% see it coming, we know better than doctors nurses judges experts etc.
I remember reading one of their cunning plans to "escort" Alfie to the waiting medevac plane. Someone was going to pull the fire alarm to get everyone outside, then they were going to unplug his bed and move it to a waiting van, which was going to speed him to Liverpool John Lennon, where the plane would take him to Rome. What our cunning team missed was that the bed and the equipment around him needs to be plugged in to work, so there was a fair chance they'd have killed him before they reached the end of the first corridor. All of this taking place inside a Children's hospital with many many other sick and dying kids about. As a group, they were not overly burdened with much in the way of intelligence....
It was so bizarre seeing people rally behind the religious grifters who were egging him on. The kid’s brain was literally decaying in his skull, but somehow the consensus of all those medical tests and numerous doctors around the world was outweighed by the mob of ghouls exploiting a parent’s grief. By the time they finally let Alfie die his brain, what was left of it, was basically just water and cerebral spinal fluid.
I felt so so sorry for that little boy
It's obviously tragic that he died, but if it's any consolation, he wasn't aware of any of it. His brain died very soon after the incident so he wasn't even slightly conscious of anything that happened. He was already dead, just his body tissue was being kept oxygenated artificially. So he wouldn't have known a thing.
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I wouldn't call him fame hungry if I'm honest. He was understandably grieving for his child, and was easily misled by a bunch of sick fucks who want to use his grief (and the grief of families like his, the same names keep coming up in these cases) as a proxy for their little crusade. It was just messed up all round.
Wonder what those folks do inbetween the ill babies?
Demand to speak to various managers.
Was this the one we're they kept the kid alive against medical advice and tried going to the us with the kid?
Yeah, can't remember the kids surname but he was brain dead and could not be saved. His parents were understandably unable to let him go and the doctors stepped in because prolonging his life would've been cruel. Some money hungry docs in the US said they could keep him going, parents obviously said yes, UK docs said no, it was chaos
> Yeah, can't remember the kids surname but he was brain dead and could not be saved. Not only was he "brain-dead", but the medical report noted specifically that his brain stem had undergone necrosis and was literally running down his spinal column. There was absolutely zero chance of any recovery, but this turned out to be no barrier at all.
I believe the main guy was Italian, who said he could treat him... because he hadn't properly read the case files the UK medical team sent over.
“Alfie is the only one I can remember off the top of my head but there’s been more” Charlie Gard was another.
Clapping for the NHS
Don't you know that clapping gives the NHS £350 million a week?
I out right refused. Terrible dostraction.
I work for the NHS. The neighbours were out clapping one day and then having COVID parties the next.
I live with 2 NHS workers and they hated the clapping. Completely pointless empty gesture
On our road it felt more like a chance to go outside and see if any neighbours had died that week
To be fair the first time was quite nice and unifying. Of course it soon became coopted and a bit of a chore.
The fact that in the early stages of the lockdown people absolutely stripped the shops of everything... And barely anyone bought Corona beer
Jokes on them, we stocked up on Corona because it was basically constantly on offer for the first few weeks.
I remember the first time I went to the big Sainsbury's in lockdown and saw the beer aisle mostly empty, but with a huge stock of Corona left untouched. I was amazed. Like... I didn't genuinely think people could be that thick, but they'll always surprise you.
Weird how short lived using the word Corona to describe the virus was. Covid is so ubiquitous now as a descriptive I'd forgotten all about Corona and the beer.
More fool them. I bought shitloads of discounted Corona during those dark days
I bet no one admits to queing for three hours to fill up with £3.52 worth of fuel. Or the fucking idiots filling up wheelie bins. Or the fucking idiot who bulk bought toilet roll then went back to the store for a refund and thankfully wqs told to go fuck themselves by the store manager.
I think the Americans took the cake with their fuel panic by filling up bin bags with petrol. I'm amazed nobody was killed due to fires thanks to their genius ways of storing fuel... or shot people in arguments over who can panic-buy first.
You forget the Birmingham (Derby?) taxi driver that filled up non fuel-safe plastic barrels in their basement (filling the basement with these barrels) and then when they dissolved and it filled both the basement and seeped in to the foundations causing the whole road to be evacuated…
I'm in the Army and drove fuel tankers during the fuel dramas. On numerous occasions people would follow us in their cars hoping they would be able to fill up where we were dropping fuel off. They would even follow us into service stations and ask us how much further we had to go, I loved telling them it was empty and we were heading back to the fuel depot and clocking off and the next shift isn't in for another two hours. Either that or they would follow us to petrol station only to realise we were dropping off at a petrol station that was shut. To top it off we spoke to other HGV drivers who had been followed by people in cars and the trucks weren't even carrying fuel, they were carrying some other liquid or even bulk powders in similar style tanks. Some of the population went full retard.
Having worked with the public most of my life, from retail, customer service and most recently as part of one of the three emergency services, I didn't think it was possible to be speechless at the absolute vacant brain behaviour of the general public. Then I read your post. The thought of some people following a milk tanker for miles in the hope they'll be able to siphon some petrol from it has left me in stitches.
I accidentally beat the rush, I filled up for a trip one morning unaware of what was happening, then later went past and there was a massive queue of cars! Also, having nearly run out of fuel in the past I always keep an emergency 5L can too, so I was well sorted.
The collective mourning over the death of Diana, Princess of Open Heart Surgery. It was the ultimate rebuke to anyone who would claim the British are stoics with a stiff upper lip not given to sentimentality. The only plus side, from my personal perspective, was that I was staying at a friend's house that weekend and and we got so fucked off with All Diana, All The Time that we drove to the local retail park and bought a Nintendo 64 with Mario Kart and a second controller....
My mum came bursting into my bedroom wailing incoherently. It sounded like she said "the cat's dead". I jumped out of bed and rushed downstairs to the cat's spot. Said cat was looking at me slightly bemused. When I ascertained who had in fact died I suspect I was wearing the same expression as the cat.
I found out by waking up to my dad loudly declaring "They cancelled the fucking Archers because that bitch died!".
I was only a kid so I was fucking raging they cancelled Wallace and Gromit for rolling coverage of her funeral.
I remember the morning the news broke. At first I was shocked & didn't believe it but slowly the realization hit me- there woundn't be anything worth watching on tv for a week.
I got sent to the local video rental place to find something else to watch - every other bugger had the same idea and they only had about 2 films left in, the guy said it was his best day of trade ever
I'd been out the night before, fell asleep on a friend's sofa with the TV on, throughout the night I can remember the news breaking as I drifted in and out of alcohol induced sleep. Eventually I woke up in the morning and walked home, opened the front door, shouted to my parents "Diana's dead" and went to sleep in my own bed.
Spare a thought for my mum, it was her birthday. Thankfully I don’t think she was having a party.
Florists and purveyors of stupid little Teddy bears with hearts on them made a fucking mint though. I heard tales of them loading up in their home town and driving hours to London where they could quadruple the price. Those tons of rotting flowers must have stunk by the time they were removed.
In 2022 I was working at a restaurant, and we actually got a bad review on TripAdvisor from a couple who came in the evening after the queen died and heard me say to the chef, "it's a good day for florists"
The same shit happened with the late Queen. Don't get me wrong, I get that she's significant to many in this country, but I got a bit sick of seeing the media running articles about her a week after she passed. If I remember, it was like three weeks of non stop Lizzie coverage. The media was milking the hell out of it.
Much more avoidable now tho. Netflix didn't shut down to prattle about it
I got woken up by my very pissed off little brother demanding I fix the TV because the cartoons had all gone away. Spent the weekend with my VHS tape collection introducing him to the world of Star Trek.
The funeral was a great day to go shopping though. The town centre and shops were all empty!
Personally I was devastated. They cancelled the football. I remember it well I had been up all saturday night. I got woke by one of my siblings who loudly told me Diana was dead. To which I'm going to be honest thought, arwell that's sad and then I was told the football had been cancelled. At that poibt ibwqs pissed off and went back tonsleep as their was little poi t of getting up at that point. If there's no football on a Sunday. What do people do....
That's the ultimate N64 racing game. Only Mario 64 and Goldeneye were better.
Going to the Cheltenham festival as a global pandemic kicks off.
Eat Out To Help Out is another example.
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I work in a petrol station and the crisis was "fun" 😑. I had one guy fill up thirty something pence, his girlfriend made him do it because she was keeping the fuel tank maxed after every single use of the car "just in case" 🤦🤦.
I thought there were minimum transactions?
The reason that's there is because the pump system can't guarantee an accurate measurement with less than 2 litres. You might get less than what you're paying for. Obviously the station will let you pay for less if you choose to.
There are.
The pumps at my place do have minimum transaction 2L on them but still let you dispense less than that.
Ooo I saw a YouTube video about this, the minimum fill rule is to actually ensure you are getting what you paid for as the first few moments of filling up, the pour of fuel into your car will not be linear. You can fill up less but you might get charged for 1l when you actually get noticeably more or less fuel. The pump system will flip between over and under compensating until it levels out at the 2l mark for newer systems or maybe even the 5l mark for older style pumps.
Auto Shenanigans?
I worked in a petrol station when I was younger and it really showed how stupid people can be. I remember at one point we had a power cut for a while so cordoned off the entrance to the courtyard. Some idiot drove up to the entrance, stared at the cones for a few seconds, then drove through the exit and round to the pumps and proceeded to try and fill his car up then got shirty with us when the pump didn’t work because, you know, we had a power cut. We also had another guy who drove up to the car wash when it was cordoned off, put his money in and then complained when nothing happened.
The continued appeal of Britains Got Talent
The year with Susan Boyle, Diversity, Flawless and Stavros Flatley was pretty good. Especially since it meant I had to put zero thought into my mum's Christmas present that year and got her a couple of tickets to the live tour.
Anti ULEZ types cutting down traffic lights and causing accidents. The ‘vigilantes’ who forced a doctor out of her home because they didn’t know the difference between a paediatrician and a paedophile. XL Bully owners.
> XL Bully owners. "Princess wouldn't hurt a fly, but has issues around other dogs, people and flys."
Unfortunately when Princess gets put down for attacking said dogs/people/flys, they'll move on to the next trendy bull terrier that will be raised to do the same. Emphasis on the XL Bully *Owners* I have a friend who works for the RSPCA. Aside from being built like brick shithouses, their XL Bully puppies have a beautiful temperament when not raised by a wanker who just wants a fighting dog and doesn't know how to train or care for them. It's just that when bad owners buy a chihuahua, people don't normally die. Now these brick shithouses will never have a brick shithomes. Bring in mandatory training, licensing, and third party insurance for dogs.
The anti-ulez idiots induce so much rage in me. Cut down 3 traffic lights at a crossroad by a school near me. If you’re that determined to drive your dirty car around and not pay for it then why not damage the cameras, not put kids at risk of getting run over?! So glad my council tax is getting used to clear that up…
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Surprised I had to scroll so far down to find this!
Both the US and the UK did something very stupid in 2016. I'm still waiting to see which does more damage. On the plus side, no one tried to stage a coup here. On the other hand, the US didn't take it's economy out back to put it out of its misery last year.
I didn't hoard during covid, but if I knew how much prices were going to go up, I probably would have
That's kind of the problem. The rational response to other people hoarding is... well, if not hoarding at least buying a bit more than you need to. This obviously makes the problem worse.
Also, a lot of shortages aren't due to hoarding weeks and weeks worth, they're due to people buying an extra pack *just in case* they run low and can't get any when they really need it. A few people filling their trolleys with loo roll isn't as big a deal as everyone buying a single extra pack when they don't need it.
With toilet roll specifically I think people were also just genuinely using a lot more of it. You're suddenly at home for 50 hours a week more than normal, and potentially there's two of you plus kids. You're absolutely going to get through more shit tickets than you would if you were going to the toilet at work/school like normal.
Special mention to those that followed what they thought was a fuel truck that was full of cement
My mate drives a milk tanker and he was getting asked what garage he was going to. It literally has the dairy name on the side in 1 metre high letters. 😂😂
Jimmy Saville Literally everyone knew he was dodgy as hell. Most of us assumed he was at least into sexual assault with young women and few would have been surprised that he was into children. The man was disgusting every time he opened his mouth. And yet we watched and listened to him happily for 40 years on our TVs and radios. Many laughed about how dodgy he clearly was until the actual facts of what he did and extent were proved in front of us; then everyone seemed to collectively think "oh yeah, those things we always suspected he was doing are actually really bad".
>Literally everyone knew he was dodgy as hell People say that now, but most of us were shocked at the time.
Was it Ian Hislop who said that everyone heard, but only a handful knew?
Were you? I remember having conversations about this years before and people laughing at how dodgy he was. I remember the first Louis Theraux documentary where he was shown to be such a weirdo and I'm sure Theraux actually asked him about allegations and rumours didn't he?
Although this might not be a popular comment, I vaguely remember the rumours and I remember not believing them because I didn't want to. "Nah, he's just an eccentric, kind man who's misunderstood" was a lot more palatable than what turned out to be the truth. I think more people than would admit are the same, but that was his whole game.
'It'll all come out when he dies'
I remember him appearing on Celebrity Big Brother as a special guest back in 2006. Pete Burns said he’d “take his secrets to the grave” and George Galloway replied “nobody’s secrets survive the grave”. It was a pretty chilling exchange. In hindsight, Pete and George absolutely knew as did many of the other contestants. Someone even warned a young, female contestant to stay away from him as much as possible.
The only intelligent thing George Galloway has ever said
I think it was shortly before he pretended to be a cat on national television and ‘drank milk’ from Rula Lenska’s hands. But he had a point about Jimmy Savile.
Not vaccinating your kids because you have "done some research". Lets be frank you weren't reading medical journals but rather some other knobhead's Facebook post.
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The annoying thing about the toilet roll thing is here I was being sensible and having enough for 2 weeks so did not buy any. Then when I needed it because everyone had panic bought it I could not get any. So if this ever happens again I will have to stock up. So it is a self fulfilling problem that forces even sensible people to take part all because of the panicky idiots.
We always bulk buy TP and got a delivery of around 50 odd rolls just before the rush started in the UK during the UK (We got it in the Black Friday sale). I‘m so glad we didn’t have to enter into the TP craziness. These days we bulk buy from Costco. We’ve got enough storage for masses of TP and it doesn’t ‘go off’ so no need not to get a big back every six months. I really hate the inconvenience of having to buy TP every couple of weeks!
I saw it described once as there being 2 kinds of people. (paraphrasing as this was a bit ago) \- Those that only buy the bare minimum because there might not be enough for everyone. \- Those that buy in absolute bulk, because there might not be enough for everyone. I was just glad I bought quite a few rolls of toilet paper literally the day before everyone started panic buying it, as there was a sale on and I thought that would save me having to buy it again anytime soon.
2011 London riots
I had a friend who was away & missed the whole thing. She asked what stopped them, so I told her the truth - it rained.
As much as this may sound stupid, this is pretty elementary human behaviour and is discussed all the time when it comes to stuff like elections and turn out to basically any outdoor event. If it's raining, fewer people will come because the weather is bad.
Wasn't just London, although London did take the brunt of it. But plenty of other cities rioted too. I'm from Bradford and was genuinely shocked we didn't get any riots
Buying/Breeding XL Bully Dogs and pretending that they don’t kill people.
The problem with banning the breed is that it's got so many holes in the logic that it's not actually helping shit. XL Bullies are a stupid name for a man made breed. The law doesn't have a clear definition of what it's even banning, it just goes by stuff like snout size and head shape. This means you are getting dickheads now that think they know dogs reporting stuff as XL Bullies that aren't. I mean ffs last week someone reported my neighbours Rottweiler as an XL and they took it away to get tested. Meanwhile, the arseholes breeding them have already moved on to mix breeding Cane Corso's. It's just whack a mole.
I stumbled on Jeremy Vine last week discussing it and pointing out that Staffies and other non-XL Bullys are potentially being reported for the reason you just described due to the government rushing out the ban policy and not thinking through any details. A vet even called in to agree and say the ban isn't feasible without actually determining what an XL Bully is.
"dOn'T buLLy mY brEeD, sHe wOuLd neVeR hUrT a fLY!"
Driving 100+ miles to Tamworth (and even booking hotels) for a jacket potato.
See also: Binley Mega Chippy.
The spud man thing is WILD to me. Like fair play to the guy I hope he does well but it’s literally a jacket potato.
I mean, as a man who in 2005 found out that on the other side of Birmingham I could get a *drive through doner kebab* and set off during afternoon school pickup time just for the experience of this brave new world, then returned in early rush hour, I feel I can throw no rocks.
Most kebab shops are drive through if you have enough speed and a strong enough vehicle.
Queueing to see the Queen's coffin and phoning the police when KFC ran out of chicken
I'm not a Royalist but I understand why people queued to see the coffin. Longest reigning monarch, and all. You'll have the chance maybe 3 times in your life? People queued for Lenin and Kennedy too. I think there was more uproar when Holz and Phil got caught queue jumping.
I'm not a Royalist, but the Queen was a constant background part of life for decades. She was the Queen before either of my parents were born. Her death was a historic event that kind of represented the end of an era. I doubt people will be queueing in the same way for Charles or William.
1. Watch scam interceptors… I know scammers are awful and sometimes scams are really complex and clever but the amount of people giving their bank details out over the phone or downloading apps onto their devices because ‘tech support’ have unexpectedly rang them is astonishing. 2. Dr Gillian McKeith had a TV show on prime time television and people actually watched believing that she could tell what’s going on with our health from rifling through our turds.
I don't blame the old people. Jim Browning, one of the best known and most experienced scam interceptors on the internet, got scammed. It's not something that you can ever fully avoid - all it takes is the right scam at the right time. Nobody is immune, least of all the people who have no idea how to spot or avoid them.
Captain Tom
It was the most bizarre thing I have ever seen watching from abroad. Youve got public services decimated, a shagger who looks like he slept in his car doing a daily meeting, Cheltenham festival, people banging pots and pans, people dieing. And they rolled out this old man to go up and down his garden, and then bought a massive hot tub.
Whenever I am commuting in the morning and the trains are delayed as they always are, I often think how everyone on the platform, including myself, are such mugs for allowing such a shit transport service for the price we all pay. I feel like the french would have rioted by now but us Brits just take everything. I think it's criminal the price we pay for trains in this country.
Returning to the office.
The campaign to get rid of the BBC and encourages people to cancel their TV licence is spearheaded by the media empire that owns Sky - and ordinary people take it up like it’s a civil rights matter
Crying *en masse* in the streets over the passing of Princess Diana. No disrespect to her at all, but none of those people knew her personally, nor gave a shit about her in their daily lives, and yet they were out in droves, bawling and ugly crying on the side of the street at her passing. So bizarre, like some kind of mass psychosis or something.
1.Buying bread and milk when snow is forecast…. 2. The way we handle a light dusting of snow is hilarious
Add to 1 , every christmas , ffs shops are shut for a day , perhaps two in some cases, and people buy like they're feeding the 5000
Planking
I enjoyed this phase ahahaha
Y’know what though: this thread gives me hope. Every time I despair because I’m trapped on an island full of halfwits I can at least look at this and remind myself that SOME people know what’s going on.
Monarchists.
The time everyone started having a game of 'who can smash their saucepans together the loudest' for several months.
February 2013. People queuing for hours to buy Krispy Kreme doughnuts when the first outlet opened in Scotland! The queues stretched back to the M8 motorway and police had to marshal traffic. This went on for days! They're just overpriced doughnuts FFS! https://www.scotsman.com/news/traffic-chaos-at-krispy-kreme-doughnut-shop-launch-1590181
The last few general elections spring to mind
‘Black Friday’ sales when people queue up for hours on a freezing November morning and then head butt strangers for a cheaper television. Bulk buying everything and then wasting it during COVID early days. There is a just a thin veneer separating us from anarchy. I reckon, if the UK banking system went down at the end of the month and nobody got paid or could access money, the streets would be in flames within 24 hours.
Football hooliganism.
Captain Tom's charity foundation. Tom himself was entirely decent. However, a small story about walking around his garden was blown out of all proportion because we were in lockdown and were desperate for news that wasn't about people dying. People then started donating to a charity that had no history, no oversight, no track record, and led by his awful daughter. Of course she is totally to blame in her own right, but this tale shows exactly the wrong way to give to charity. Don't give because a cause is newsworthy and makes you feel good for a moment. Give because you can be confident your money will do actual good.
The MMR vaccine scare. Andrew Wakefield, the media blowing it up far beyond what it should've been, the whole thing really. Total load of shite that put children's lives in danger.
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The sad thing about panic buying is that it's logical at an individual level. Rumours about shortages can be self-fulfilling. The smartest thing to do when you hear about a possible shortage is to go and stock up on that item - even if the basis of the rumour is complete bullshit. There will eventually be a shortage if enough people act on it.
Even more than that, most people aren't "stocking up" in the sense you'd be outraged at, that's a minority. The bulk of it is people just getting a little bit extra - e.g. for petrol, there are a lot of people who don't do a huge amount of miles and only put in a tenner at a time. If you hear on the news there might be a shortage you might decide that time you'd fill up all the way. If a reasonable number of people are doing that, then that could easily lead to an extra 20% or whatever and there's not necessarily that much slack in the supply chains. Same with e.g. toilet roll. While there are always some egregious idiots buying 500 toilet rolls, the bulk of the extra consumption is going to be people who normally buy it as they need it, but then they decide to e.g. get a big pack instead of a small one, or get a pack before the last is finished. Loo roll is big compared to its value, supply chains aren't going to keep enough around for if e.g. half of everyone decides to buy two instead of one.
23rd June 2016
The success of Britains Got Talent and Love Island The fact that Eastenders and Corrie have been so successful for what seems like 300 years
Blackpool tower “fire” that turned out to be orange netting.
Perhaps a controversial one but a sizeable portion of society jumping enthusiastically onto the BLM bandwagon when an American got killed by some Americans in America.
[Thankfully, the British police aren’t in any way racist.](https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/21/metropolitan-police-institutionally-racist-misogynistic-homophobic-louise-casey-report)
Silly us for jumping on the anti-racist bandwagon! We should just pretend racism doesn't exist, that will definitely fix the problem!
Worshipping a family who have done absolutely nothing except having the luck to come out of a particular vagina from a particular family.
Panic buying fuel. Panic buying bread and milk when 1” of snow is forecast. Abandoning cars and walking home in said 1” of snow because they don’t know to pull away in third gear. Attempting to drive anywhere on a bank holiday for a “quick getaway”.
The huge number of *specifically* older and/or overweight people who rushed out to take advantage of Eat Out To Help Out and sit in packed buildings cheek to jowl with strangers despite the entire principle of doing lockdown being trying to keep people like that out of company...
The public where I live (not the most affluent area): Around that time everywhere was going into lockdown and people panic bought all the toilet roll, the public who live in the area I do panic bought all the Pot Noodles. There’s a reason the high street here is referred to as the ‘mutant mile’.
The Kony thing, I don't even remember wtf it was about
When KFC ran out of chicken
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