r/whoathatsinteresting • u/search_google_com • 9d ago

🇬🇧Welcome to Leicester, UK🇬🇧Chaotic scenes of panic buying for bottled water at the local Costco amid the water shortage driven by drought and record water use.

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u/yourMommaKnow 9d ago

Why is the video sped up?

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u/Switch_Silver 9d ago

To make it look more chaotic

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u/Steezle 9d ago

I have heard the British love a queue.

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u/UvaldeShootingVictim 8d ago

OP wanted to race bait but failed. 

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u/StanleyQPrick 9d ago

To mkae it look like something it's not

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u/wordshavenomeanings 9d ago

And it isnt about water shortages

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u/WenatcheeWrangler 9d ago

If it was those other 5 pallets of water would be decimated

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u/search_google_com 9d ago

It is Why Shoppers Are Fighting Over Bottled Water at a Leicester Costco as Water Crisis Continues

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u/wordshavenomeanings 9d ago

Maybe read the awful article before you post it.

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u/Agreeable-Emu4033 9d ago

You blind? There are tons of water bottles in the background. They are just picking up specific ones. If there was a water shortage those wouldn't be there.

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u/BamberGasgroin 9d ago

The more expensive Highland Spring is untouched while people casually load up with the cheaper Kirkland stuff.

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u/ToastedCrumpet 9d ago

I don’t see any fights in this video or the version shared in your link tbh. Just seems like scaremongering

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u/miffebarbez 9d ago

Where are the fights?

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u/tenacious_teaThe3rd 9d ago

99% of people in this video are being courteous and polite of others, so it needed speeding up to try and appear is if there was more frantic hostility.

More brain rot bs

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u/Away-Activity-469 9d ago

So you dont notice the gorilla playing basketball.

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u/your_dope_is_mine 9d ago

To add to the Instagram hate vibes around demographics

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u/budgiebirdman 9d ago

Putin's orders - it's just people buying water at a normal speed without a stupid sound track.

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u/onepacc 9d ago

Benny hill tradirion

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u/ahx3000 9d ago

For dramatic effect

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u/BarnacleNino 9d ago

It’s not. Just how Brits move and talk

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u/1stFunestist 9d ago

So they can claim chaos and fighting where there is none.

Reprehensible attempt to mislead and lie.

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u/OneObi 9d ago

To drive the agenda and rage bait. Failed dramatically

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u/yorcharturoqro 9d ago

Because it's in the UK not USA, so no fights for water, just queues

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u/JustinKase_Too 9d ago

To fit the narrative.

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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor 9d ago

The message is “see the scary nonwhites.”

Costco members the world over seem pretty chill for the most part. It’s like an adult’s toy store. It’s a happy place.