Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

The Tories will always protect the City, but will hammer the most vulnerable

LMFTFY The Tories will always protect the City, but will hammer everyone else.

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Recently bought myself a shiny new, Windows 8 Notebook.

Just turned on the Wi-Fi, and I'm amazed at the lack of care some people take, with their wireless networks.

There are at least a dozen wireless networks within range of my bedroom windowsill, three of which are unsecured.

Two of these are, I believe, meant to be unsecured (they're listed as BT WiFi with FON), but one is a simple BT WiFi.

Just about anyone could be using that last person's connection.

daz378

Britain has the 5th largest defence budget.....we are not totally toothless.....but i do wish Hague would shut up....then again could be a geo political strategy ....to boost economies through defence spending....might turn our gas off.....still against fracking? my second cousin god bless her ....died 26 years old been paralyzed most of her life, yet the few times i saw her ..was always laughing/smiling. (cousin lives 4 hours away nr stonehenge) not been the best of weeks

Butterfly_Brain

Sorry for your loss daz that is just too young

Butterfly_Brain

DawnW wrote: »

I thought that till I just saw the programme on people having to use food banks because their benefits have been sanctioned :mad:And we are supposed to be a civilised, First World country :mad::mad:

And if I hear about 'hard working taxpayers' once more I shall scream - though thinking about it, I guess I fall into that category- I am currently a higher rate tax payer (just) and also declare a little self employed income, pay 2 lots of NI etc, but if what I pay goes to keep people who are down on their luck, disabled or mentally ill housed, warm and fed, I am happy with that. If on the other hand it goes to bailing out banks, wars, MPs' expenses, ATOS, G4S and their ilk, that is quite another thing :mad:

I forgot that was on ! I will watch it on i player as it goes with this story in the Guardian doesn't it:mad:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/03/70000-job-seekers-benefits-withdrawn-unfairly-thinktank

suvla_2

I know the Russian currency has taken a right smash , would it be worth me buying two hundred pounds worth of rouble as a experiment as it's near 60 to the pound from some places can't see it kicking off if I'm honest with you. Do you reckon it's worth a dabble or not?

ginnyknit

Sorry for your loss Daz, hope you are ok.

Im sure Mr Cameron (showing him the respect that he doesnt show others) is right in not going to Sochi as he may be kidnapped but sending Hague ensures that wont happen to him as they would pay us to take him back. Mind you they could keep Cameron for a while too. I fear for the little people as they are the ones that pay if a war happens.

Have been watching the foodbank prog too and jumped up to check my stores. short on loo roll but enough food for a crisis. Need some containers to make a batch of gloop and am struggling to scrounge them :mad: usually use large cordial bottles but DGs has everything aspartamine free now so dd doesnt get the huge bottles. Edwina ( no respect either direction) Currie has no concept of real life does she. Soup noodles are one of the oldest dishes made. In tough times you eat the noodles then drink the soup to fill you up. If you are lucky you can enrich the meal with veg and meat but if not its perfectly good staple food :mad: I cried when the lady with the sick hubby said she couldnt make breast milk for the baby - bless her. When my boy was little I lived on tinned tomatoes and made him healthy hm baby food, goodness I craved a roast dinner and that was thanks to TBTB too. We survived but I was canny then and have been gaining cannyness ever since

Jumps off soap box and heads for bed with a hot water bottle......

GreyQueen

I'm sorry that your second cousin died so very young, Daz.

Sulva, I've no idea about the rouble at the moment. Yesterday I was holding a 3 inch deep stack of 1909 rouble banknotes in the shop of my curio dealer friend. They were rendered worthless a few years later after the Russian Revolution. They're in the UK because a refugee brought them with them as a store of wealth and was left in the mire when the new Russian government withdrew them as currency. They have some small value as curoisities, but pretty much on a par with Zimbabwean hyper-inflationary banknotes in the secondhand market.

Nothing exciting has happened overnight at Shoebox Towers, a neighbourhood which put the garish into colourful. Insofar as I know, anyway, I wasn't woken. Uninterrupted nights are the exception not the norm here. You become adept at identifying the source of various sounds of breakages, such as the difference between the door glass and the window glass. I feel this may be a useful skill in a completely bizarre set of circumstances.

Hmm, think I'll drop in on my bank later, my DDs for bills should all have left and I reckon that, bar a small float, what little I have should be in my paws rather than the fractional reserve banking system. After all, I might need to buy some more tinnery and misc preptastic matters, although I have told myself not to buy any more t.p, for some considerable time.:p

pineapple

daz378 wrote: »

my second cousin god bless her ....died 26 years old been paralyzed most of her life, yet the few times i saw her ..was always laughing/smiling. (cousin lives 4 hours away nr stonehenge) not been the best of weeks

Sorry to hear about that. If you are tempted to dwell on your own troubles, it's the sort of thing that makes you realise things could be a lot worse.
Talking of which it seems WW3 did not kick off overnight. Am beginning to think this might be a storm in a tea cup (hope that's not famous last words )
I think we might be into a new round of hostilities locally though. I put a splendiferous collection of daffs in my window - next day a hanging basket with spring flowers appeared on the frontage of my 'keeping up with the Joneses' neighbour. It could be coincidence of course. But I fear the first salvos have been fired in our annual turf wars

Karmacat

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

This is what has angered me the most today
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/03/nhs-england-patient-data-google-servers

Woah! The "anonymised" data contains our NHS number? Bleeping heck!

pineapple wrote: »

Sorry to hear about that. If you are tempted to dwell on your own troubles, it's the sort of thing that makes you realise things could be a lot worse.

From me too, Daz, thats very, very sad.

Talking of which it seems WW3 did not kick off overnight. Am beginning to think this might be a storm in a tea cup (hope that's not famous last words )

Yep, I was glad to wake up and find no one's declared war there overnight. Was misled into thinking it was over - Sky had a running headline saying Putin had recalled all military on "exercises" but it disappeared ...