"Necessary" Shopping - Possible Police Basket Checks

[barrydidit]

When I was about 6 I went to a birthday party. I was sad because my sister wasn't invited, so I decided to take some sweets home for her - wasn't quite sure if it was allowed, so I put them in my pants.

So, I am in a position to advise that if you are going to smuggle foodstuffs in your pants, secrete them there at the end of the shopping trip - doing it near the beginning will mean you'll spend far longer than necessary feeling very uncomfortable.

(No, I can't remember if she ate them - I suspect not!)

So that's why you call it your 'tooti-fruity'

[mudskipper]

When I was about 6 I went to a birthday party. I was sad because my sister wasn't invited, so I decided to take some sweets home for her - wasn't quite sure if it was allowed, so I put them in my pants.

So, I am in a position to advise that if you are going to smuggle foodstuffs in your pants, secrete them there at the end of the shopping trip - doing it near the beginning will mean you'll spend far longer than necessary feeling very uncomfortable.

(No, I can't remember if she ate them - I suspect not!)

[NotAllThere]

Priti told him off for spouting nonsense anyway.

[ladymuck]

There's minimal value in kicking the chap out of his job now but when we reach the dim and distant land that is hopefully normal life again, he ought to be fired as comments like that are not even remotely helpful.

If there's riots because someone decides to implement that half baked crock of crud of an idea, it'll be his fault. Fortunately the government said it was nonsense and we all know everyone listens to them.

[BrilloPad]

Sensible souls keep 200 units of alcohol / person* in the house in these troubled times.


* This includes children, as they increase adults' alcohol intake requirements.

Indeed. Stress is inherited. You get it from your children.

[Old Greg]

Fortunately we established early doors that booze was a necessity otherwise there'd be even more panic.

Sensible souls keep 200 units of alcohol / person* in the house in these troubled times.


* This includes children, as they increase adults' alcohol intake requirements.

[BrilloPad]

Damn it. I'll have to start smuggling my digestive biscuits out in my underpants.

Is that digestive biscuits in your pants or are you pleased to see me?

Personally, I would smuggle out a yard of jaffa cakes.....

[KinooOrKinog]

So what if you're buying essential & non essential? Do you need to put the non essentials back? Who decides what's non essential? Shop staff? They will absolutely lap that up. They're already loving their little power trip, controlling who comes in & out.

[Paddy]

A bridge too far?

I agree, random browsers are still a real pain in some shops.......
Just get your, preferably listed, stuff and feck off out it PLEASE.

What is deemed a necessity exactly, I don't really know

A bigger problem seems to be that families of four or more are still shopping together. Kids should stay outside.

[WTFH]

Damn it. I'll have to start smuggling my digestive biscuits out in my underpants.

That's how I was smuggling doughnuts (I could only carry 6 at a time on a normal day, or 10 if my wife was feeling happy), until I realised that doughnuts should be in the top of your shopping bag, since they are essential cop food.

[xoggoth]

Damn it. I'll have to start smuggling my digestive biscuits out in my underpants.

[Mordac]

Fortunately we established early doors that booze was a necessity otherwise there'd be even more panic.

Maybe anyone buying organic quinoa or birdseed should fall down the steps in the back of the cops van?

Aren't they the same thing?

[Mordac]

A bridge too far?

I agree, random browsers are still a real pain in some shops.......
Just get your, preferably listed, stuff and feck off out it PLEASE.

What is deemed a necessity exactly, I don't really know

If 'they' decide that beer and wine are non-essential, they will have riots in places that usually only do 'serious tutting'...

[barrydidit]

Fortunately we established early doors that booze was a necessity otherwise there'd be even more panic.

Maybe anyone buying organic quinoa or birdseed should fall down the steps in the back of the cops van?

[MrMarkyMark]

A bridge too far?

I agree, random browsers are still a real pain in some shops.......
Just get your, preferably listed, stuff and feck off out it PLEASE.

What is deemed a necessity exactly, I don't really know

UK Police:“We will not at this stage be starting to marshal supermarkets and check-in the items in baskets and trolleys to see whether it is a legitimate necessary item but...if people do not head the warnings...we will start to do that”

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