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philw696

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On Sunday, as a van driver was driving along in London, he saw a priest by the roadside, he had run out of petrol. He thought he would do a good turn and pulled the van over. He asked the Priest,
"Where are you going, Father?"
"I'm going to say mass at the church, about two miles down the road," replied the priest.
"No problem Father! I'll give you a lift. Climb in!"
The happy priest climbed into the passenger seat and the van continued down the road. Suddenly the driver saw the PM cycling down the road and instinctively swerved to hit him. But, just in time, he remembered the bloody priest, so at the last minute he swerved back to the road, narrowly missing the PM. However, even though he was certain he missed the lying cheating scum, he still heard a loud "THUD." Not understanding where the noise came from, he glanced in his mirrors and when he didn't see anything he turned to the priest and said
"I'm sorry Father, I almost hit our country’s leader,"
"That's okay," replied the priest. "I got the fecker with the door!"
 
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philw696 said:
On Sunday, as a van driver was driving along in London, he saw a priest by the roadside, he had run out of petrol. He thought he would do a good turn and pulled the van over. He asked the Priest,
"Where are you going, Father?"
"I'm going to say mass at the church, about two miles down the road," replied the priest.
"No problem Father! I'll give you a lift. Climb in!"
The happy priest climbed into the passenger seat and the van continued down the road. Suddenly the driver saw the PM cycling down the road and instinctively swerved to hit him. But, just in time, he remembered the bloody priest, so at the last minute he swerved back to the road, narrowly missing the PM. However, even though he was certain he missed the lying cheating scum, he still heard a loud "THUD." Not understanding where the noise came from, he glanced in his mirrors and when he didn't see anything he turned to the priest and said
"I'm sorry Father, I almost hit our country’s leader,"
"That's okay," replied the priest. "I got the fecker with the door!"
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Old joke recycled, the version I know is the cycle sight on the front of a Merc
 
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zagatoes30 said:
I see the BBC are doing more to fuel the panic (no pun intended)

Army put on standby to ease UK fuel pressures
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I got to say, Im not sure I really go along with that. Im no BBC fan..but the media is right to publish current affairs and report the goings on that affect people countrywide.
Not saying all media is responsible reporting. I wouldnt waste precious accelerant snding the Mail or the Sun up in smoke...but social media has played its part; and thats dumb people stoking the flames of opanic.
At the end of the day...if you are the idiot lined up for fuel you dont have to have, after the advice is to carry on as normal...then you are the instigator. The firestarter.... Not the media.
Take responsibility.
 
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My new house that we are moving into in November has an electric boiler. We are not on the gas, or the sewage for that matter. Are we fooked? What is the best company or tariff to be on now that the world has go mad ?
 
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zagatoes30 said:
I see the BBC are doing more to fuel the panic (no pun intended)

Army put on standby to ease UK fuel pressures
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It is a bit odd as the media (including the BBC) are running stories (especially headlines) that increase the panic, while some media (the more responsible ones) are also running quite sensible stories saying that the whole shortage is just caused by panic buying.

www.bbc.co.uk

Petrol shortage: Is the fuel crisis improving?

Only 127 fuel drivers from the EU have applied for the temporary visas designed to tackle the crisis.
www.bbc.co.uk

"There isn't a shortage," Environment Secretary George Eustice said on Monday. "The most important thing is that people just buy petrol as they normally would."
"This would have been entirely manageable had we not seen lots of media coverage around the fact there were shortages - and then a public reaction to that."
 
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MILAN, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Young activists who fought to get climate change to the top of the global agenda are being challenged to help come up with the solutions ahead of next month's COP26 United Nations summit.
Thousands of young people, including Greta Thunberg, will converge on Milan this week, with some 400 from about 190 countries set to meet policymakers, either remotely or in person, to hammer out proposals to tackle global warming.

Gotta hand it to those kids, walking all the way to Milan to chat about the climate emergency sets a good example for the rest of us ;)
 
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