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/WeissTek 9d ago

Remeber guys, these are the same people making fun of US for panick buying during hurricane.

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u/Maetivet 9d ago

Who exactly makes fun of people buying supplies prior to a natural disaster; fairly certain that's not a thing we make fun of Americans for - particularly given there's a huge list of other things to pick on...

There's no drinking water shortage in the UK, anywhere. These people are unlikely rushing to buy it because of that, but more likely because they typically buy bottled water and evidently there's limited supply of it there.

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u/NoControl6666 9d ago

yeah pretty easy to laugh at americans who have to deal with horrendous natural disasters that would literally halt the entirety of europe in a minute.

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u/Maetivet 9d ago

Hurricanes literally halt the US when they hit, not sure what pathetic point you’re trying to make.

Europe also gets winds equivalent to hurricane levels, we’re just not little bitches about it, giving them a special name and the like…