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Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?
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Oh...and a mother-in-law with meaty thighs.0
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I ate too much at christmas and put on a stone. Is that acceptable stockpiling?0
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if your panicy scaremongering shoite talk actually breaks its had its 1% chance of happening......tut....war....rations haha
I am sure that Icelanders thought the same thing, with more reason.YouGov: £50 and £50 and £5 Amazon voucher received;
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Oh Bamby, don't go there with the dogs thing - we considered and rejected them pages ago. Bears too.Reason for edit? Can spell, can't type!0
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Fokking Fokk!0
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PasturesNew wrote: »22 cubic feet. *mentally thinks that through*
Just stack it against a wall in a bedroom. Drape a sheet over it.
22 one-feet-cubes could go 5 along the skirting and stack 4 high with 2 in the middle on the 5th row.
Fair enough, I don't have that spatial awareness at all. Just sounded like a lot of stuff, to me.
I can do 2D (chess) but 3D is beyond my limited abilities....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Your immune system to fight infection is different to the one that produces the stuff for allergies.
*trust me on this one
I'm sure you are right, but I also thought that having too few germs around and not catching enough colds as a young child lead to more allergies? Or have I misunderstood?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
louiser123 wrote: »it could indeed happen!!! remember the rationing books of the war? who would have thought it would be like that 2 yrs before war broke out!!! never say never!!
Lots of people, I imagine, including all those who remembered the food shortages and rationing from the First World War?
The projections for a future war in the 1930s were terrifying, far more so than the reality. I think the govt. had an estimate of something like 100,000 civilian casulties from bombing raids in the first 24 hours of war with Germany. All the local authorities had to stockpile coffins, and there was an awareness that food would be short.
I'm reading an absolutely fascinating book my mother gave me for Christmas, called "Nella Last's War" which was a diary kept by a housewife in Barrow-in-Furness from September 1939.
Her entry from Monday 4th Sept. 1939, the day after war was declared, includes the passage:
My husband laughes at me for what he calls "raving", but he was glad to hear of a plan I made last crisis and have since polished up. It's to keep hens on half the lawn. The other half of the lawn with grow potatoes, and the cabbage will grow under the apple trees and among the currant bushes
Reading about the introduction of rationing is interesting, because of the different shopping pattens now. An adult was allowed, per week, 4oz each of bacon and butter, and 12 ounces of sugar. So a household such as Nella's, with 2 parents and 2 young adult sons was allowed 3lb of sugar per week. that seems like a hell of a lot to me!
It's a wonderful book - I've only read up to late winter 1940 so far, and I'm fascinated. She was a wonderful writer, able to really convey her world.
This passage from Nov. 1939 is great:
She says she prays God to strike Hitler dead. Cannot help thinking if God wanted to do that he would not have waited until Mrs Helm asked him
I'm sure her son will turn out to be gay - he loves flowers in his bedroom, making birthday cards, writing poetry, commenting on his mother's hair, clothes and make-up, and his best mate Jack is inconsolable when he's left at home when son is called up for army service.......much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »When I was young my uncle would go rabbiting. And we'd sometimes end up having a rabbit hanging about. I love rabbit pie. Then along came myxomatosis.
My cat, Yossie, AKA Pol Puss or Chairman Miao, has caught 3 full-size rabbits this Christmas. And a squirrel....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
kennyboy66 wrote: »What utter rubbish.
Celery is supposedly the only food that has such low calorific content that it takes more calories to digest.
Very cold drinks are good, as your body has to warm them up. That only works if the drinks aren't full of sugar, though (-:...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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