{"id":8672,"date":"2012-03-28T19:47:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2012-03-28T19:47:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:47:15","slug":"morons-panic-buying-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8672","title":{"rendered":"Morons Panic Buying Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After that <a title=\"Francis Maude tells people to panic buy fuel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/fuel-strike-david-cameron-tells-drivers-not-to-panic-but--they-are-advised-to-top-up-cars-and-petrol-cans-7594092.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> idiot Francis Maude told everyone<\/a> to go out an panic buy fuel today \u2013 and after his so-called boss made matters worse by implying that people should only panic buy sensibly \u2013 that\u2019s <strong>exactly<\/strong> what they were doing tonight (minus the \u201csensible\u201d part).<\/p>\n<p>There were huge queues at the garages.<\/p>\n<p>They weren\u2019t putting much in, either. A stupid bitch in a white BMW X6 attempted to barge her way in front of me (and failed), and then spent literally less than 30 seconds putting diesel in the damned thing after she\u2019d pushed in front of someone else. She must have spent less than a tenner!<\/p>\n<p>If they can\u2019t afford to run the damned things properly they shouldn\u2019t have them. As I often tell my pupils, not all of the jackasses who have these big cars actually own them. They technically belong to the finance company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After that idiot Francis Maude told everyone to go out an panic buy fuel today \u2013 and after his so-called boss made matters worse by implying that people should only panic buy sensibly \u2013 that\u2019s exactly what they were doing tonight (minus the \u201csensible\u201d part). There were huge queues at the garages. 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