It’s that time in Gaelgeist again where an innocuous weather “event” is used to manufacture a collective mania among the median dataset of the Irish public. These “events” come around once every few years as part of a global phenomena known as “Seasons” (More on this later). When these weather events happen they can lead to supply chain challenges meaning that the every day essentials could become scarce on the shelves as delivery trucks are wholesale ripped off the roads by tornadoes or frozen firmly to the roads by flash freezing exactly like you would see in the likes of the dramatised epic, the Day After Tomorrow. Usually Paddy and Mary would have to wait for the likes of Evelyn Cusack to shoot the starting pistol before they would set themselves at the front door like Usain Bolt but not before saying a prayer at the mantelpiece to a figurine of Saint Christopher for a safe journey. The advent of the internet, social media and the stock market of attention seeking this fostered, brought with it a new conductor of the bare essentials gold rush. The new instigator of affairs is now the social media influencer who caters for the Joe.ie reader variety. During Storm Emma in 2018, People posted videos of themselves showing off that they had slice pans in their possession as if they had struck oil. The Irish Times even wrote an article about a slice pan renaissance!
Pat The Baker and Old Mr Brennan have expressed hope that the widespread panic-buying of bread ahead of and during the so-called "Beast from the East" in Ireland last week will see a long-term resurgence in the popularity of the old-school sliced pan.
The chief executive of Longford-based Pat The Baker, Declan Fitzgerald, admitted the bakery had been taken by surprise by the panic-buying, as it started "a lot earlier than we would have expected and there were people stocking up on bread as early as Sunday evening".
He suggested that fears of a status red weather alert combined with a social media whirl had led people to start stocking up on bread days before the storm actually arrived.
“Both the traffic light warning system and Twitter are relatively new phenomena,” he said.
So, a phenomenon not seen before the advent of the traffic light warning system and social media is now a regular part of society. Isn’t that fascinating? That people can be made run out like this on command and purchase certain products based on in-group trends. I will ask the reader this, and I know you are of a higher calibre of thought than average lemming, would it not be better to get non perishables in the event of food shortages. Tinned food, sacks of rice, pasta potatoes those kinds of things? Why would the first thing to go mouldy be the thing you prioritise? The truth is, the time pressure of bread going out of date is being used as means to panic you into this mania and compel your participation in the exercise. Mass public participation events off the back of something called the “Traffic light system” is effectively a game of Simon Says with the government using influencers and FOMO to extract the desired behaviour. This brings me to the point of the article. Vaccines. Experimental DNA altering ones at that.
The images of empty bread shelves and milk fridges show the full idiocy at play. These queues of people buying up these products because they saw Tadgh Fleming or some other influencer make a joke about it are the very same people that prayed to saint Christopher at the mantle piece when the covid vaccine was rolled out using the very same traffic light style panic mechanism. They ran out the door on command, probably tripping over themselves and fumbling for keys as they attempted to beat their neighbours to the end of the road. There is no way Mr Bean inspired drag races didn’t occupy the suburban estates and country lanes the first morning of availability. Mothers handing their children their smartphones while they focused on the road, screaming at them “What is he saying now Saoirse!! What is the man in the phone saying now!??”. The same mothers and fathers probably roared at their kids for pulling down their mask to answer their maniacal demands. The absolute embarrassment of it looking back. These empty bread shelves scare me because they remind me that I am living in a society where the median subset are poised to commit the most absurd acts of lunacy on command. One curious free thinking sheep wanders across a field to more closely inspect a flower that he spied and the entirety of his fellow flock tie themselves to his thoughts by way of invisible rope and follow suit. Is it energy conservation? Is it a survival mechanic that drives the Paddy and Mary to outsource their conscience? People who do this have no conscience and it terrifies me.
There is a historical event that I attribute to my awareness of thesis phenomenon and my ability to identify it. In 1637’s Holland, the colourful flower known as the tulip was the central commodity in probably the worlds first known market bubble and crash. Tulip Mania was also one of the first and best documented incidents of mass undue panic about an everyday product. Because people became increasingly more ridiculous with their valuations of tulips largely in part due to people trying outdo each other in a game of who has the rarest tulip, people grew too many of them with A view to profiting from this artificial panic about their product. Because of the manufactured obsession with tulips, the public initially scrambled to buy them but the interest and gradually wore off when it became clear their was an abundance of these flowers. The resulting market crash caused Tulip producers to destroy whole plots of their flowers to maintain their price. During this time period people did ridiculous things to acquire these products which ultimately would perish and lose their value entirely. The term Tulip Mania is now used in modern times to describe a Mass panic event where people suddenly want a product that’s trendy or where people copy a popular social trend. Hence the term, “go away ya tulip”.
Another fine example of the mania that has taken over Paddy and Mary is the hyper satirical film, Jingle All The Way, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Before he was a woke spastic, Schwarzenegger featured in some very good films mocking the s solute state of society. In this film, a particular toy called Turbo Man occupies the role of Brennans bread or the pint of milk. Scarcity, seasonal time pressure and irrational social contagion are all on full display, no more so than in the scene I have linked above. This film was satirical in its time but fast forward to nowadays days and you can’t tell the difference such is the depth the average human has sunk in terms of discernment and self control. “Do you have any Brennans?” In a comical Austrian accent has a ring to it doesn’t it? The next time there is a Breadrush I think I might sprint around Dunnes or Lidl’s in a panic, shouting in my best Schwarzenegger impression for people to show me where the bread is. I was in Dunnes this evening, just to see were people here in a Kilkenny as thick as the rest of the country. They did not disappoint. A few of the staff were shocked at the behaviour of people. The conversation between them as I got to the till was pretty much a verbalisation of my thoughts here.
When these mania’s take hold, the government and big business use these moments of absolute retardation to push bullshit on us. The NGO complex has an infinite number of people who are willing to hold Zoom meetings on the “Current thing”. For example, during the pandemic a quaNGO called Peoples Vaccine Alliance held an online “Conference” on equity. All of these people were actually being paid throughout the pandemic to prepare content like this. If tulip mania happened in 2025 it would look something like what is happening in that video. Months of salaries paid out to USELESS spastics to produce one video and a hape of PowerPoints talking about how vaccines are not being distributed fairly enough, hence increasing their inflated value. Look at their miserable clueless faces in the video above, listen to their drivel. I swear we are this close to seeing “Bread and Milk Equity Alliance” with the way people carried on today. As it stands, there is about an inch of snow outside and it’s already melting away. The snow will be long gone before you’re halfway through that slice pan. The rest that Paddy and Mary bought will be fired out to the birds. As Paddy and Mary sit there finding any excuse to make a sandwich or a cheese toastie, 7 vaccines deep into a pandemic that never existed and wearing all of the latest fashions, just you know this. Every time I see them clear out the bread shelves it terrifies me. Simon Says and no resistance.
Bread
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Vaccine
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Excellent article.
My inner pc'ness was a tad triggered at the spastic mention but equilibrium was restored when I substituted that s word with 'self selecting retards'.