The utter absurdity of what you can and cannot buy in shops

[Johand]

Beginning to suspect what the toilet paper panic buy was all about. It is versatile - you can roll your smokes with it. You can let your kid write out homework on it. You can cook it with pap when you are hungry. You can make fire with it to cook food. It is the quintessential essential item.

Anybody got good toilet paper recipes? My origanum-sage-thyme rolled ciggies are the best!

 

[pinball wizard]

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Does this muppet know there are other options? Ones that deliver as well? How ****ing retarded must one be?

 

[Toxxyc]

What permit? There is no such permit.

It seems like they might differ from your opinion:

 

[Johand]

Wootware got a permit to do it, apprently. That means they're doing it legit.

Yes. No. I think they are pushing their luck. The permits didn't involve the government doing an assessment to determine whether you are essential or not, you essentially self declare. And doing misleading self-declarations can lead to some serious consequences. So good luck to them, but they are playing with fire.

 

[R13...]

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80% of that is probably just the avos.

 

[pinball wizard]

What permit? There is no such permit.

There's many exceptional case permits over what is spoon fed to you in the media. Read the daily updated COGTA documents.

 

[daveza]

And so it begins.

 

[Toxxyc]

Yes. No. I think they are pushing their luck. The permits didn't involve the government doing an assessment to determine whether you are essential or not, you essentially self declare. And doing misleading self-declarations can lead to some serious consequences. So good luck to them, but they are playing with fire.

They have their permit. They're shipping laptops. That's all I said.

 

[daveza]

No slip to back it up?

 

[Crowley]

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Let's just buy overpriced veggies from the overpriced flower shop...

 

[Sinbad]

Yes. No. I think they are pushing their luck. The permits didn't involve the government doing an assessment to determine whether you are essential or not, you essentially self declare. And doing misleading self-declarations can lead to some serious consequences. So good luck to them, but they are playing with fire.

IT providers are allowed to provide goods and services to essential industries/companies.

 

[mercurial]

Makro

 

[daveza]

So you can buy multiplugs but you can't buy a light bulb ?

C'mon, get frigging real.

Edit:
Ok, I see they call them globes (?) under non-food essentials

But you can buy chlorine, but not pool acid ...

 

[pinball wizard]

Makro

What's a wifi connector? Under Telecommunications? Some are saying the can't buy network cable or routers. I'd argue both fall under that category.

 

[dualmeister]

So you can buy multiplugs but you can't buy a light bulb ?

C'mon, get frigging real.

Can get at Spar.

 

[daveza]

femcare products and batteries - that takes care of vibrators then.

 

[prod]

IT providers are allowed to provide goods and services to essential industries/companies.

But they are selling stuff to the general public not necessarily essential companies.

I also think they are bending the rules and will be stopped soon

 

[prod]

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In the year 2020 in a digital age a computer or computer parts are not classed as essential, what a joke!

 

[Jola]

In the year 2020 in a digital age a computer or computer parts are not classed as essential, what a joke!

Exactly, people are working from home, and stuff breaks.

Is this lockdown to control the virus or to punish us ? Sometimes I wonder.

 

[pinball wizard]

Exactly, people are working from home, and stuff breaks.

Is this lockdown to control the virus or to punish us ? Sometimes I wonder.

I'll give you hint, the crackdown has nothing to do with any virus.