Preparedness for when

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COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

or if it is on a cheap dvd...

HTD is available on DVD, from Amazon UK, for £3.63.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Howard-Duck-DVD-Lea-Thompson/dp/B001CD3PBK/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1394623771&sr=1-1&keywords=Howard+the+duck

There's also a Full Uncut version (I've got that one) for £8.99

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Howard-Duck-DVD-Lea-Thompson/dp/B0011UA5H6/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1394623771&sr=1-2&keywords=Howard+the+duck

You can also get a Special Edition (not sure what the extra stuff is) and various Bluray options, but the Blurays are a bit on the expensive side, as in over a tenner. :eek:

FYI. Lea Thompson really is singing those songs.

She is one very talented lady.

Here she is, singing with Belinda Carlisle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfqayuOd3aY

Also, check out the full version of Don't turn away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Byju7W_3U

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COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

do you know how much this freezer would cost to run per week?

That's going to depend on how much you pay for your electricity.

It says it uses 237kWh per year, so that would be roughly 4.56kWh per week.

Call it 5, and multiply it by what you pay per kWh.

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Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

I don't think that is right about the solar still

I got the info from Lofty Wiseman's Wilderness Survival handbook.

Given his life history, I would tend to trust what he says.

Frugalsod

Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

I'm sure you are right, but the 1% will still need consumers to sell to. Ultimately it will depend what happens to our energy supply, and if that can't be secured we may well revert to a (poorer) more equal society.

Yes they really only need the top 20%. The rest of us are on relative subsistence incomes especially when you consider that many are still struggling to pay the mortgage when interest rates are 0.5%. Something like 95% or more of the all the increases in incomes and wealth has gone to the top fraction of the 1%. Virtually everyone else is irrelevant. They rely on a sufficient number of us voting against our own self interest to maintain their power.

mardatha

Life expectancy will start to fall again soon if it hasn't already. The Big Mac and junk food generation will start to die off at a younger age.

Perplexed_Pineapple

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I got the info from Lofty Wiseman's Wilderness Survival handbook.

Given his life history, I would tend to trust what he says.

That's a venerable source, Bob, I shall do some more research and some experimentation!

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The Telegraph today has an article on the front page suggesting that interest rates are going to rise, I wonder how many people will be able to cope with mortgage repayments etc along with all the other rises we're seeing that erode our ability to live on what we have available and whether we'll see a massive amount of foreclosures and reclaimed housing stock flooding the market. Don't we live in interesting times?

fuddle

mardatha wrote: »

Life expectancy will start to fall again soon if it hasn't already. The Big Mac and junk food generation will start to die off at a younger age.

Definitely agree Mar. Not that I am religious at all but how many of the deadly sins could we attribute to living today, or rather, what is not working about living today.

We as a nation are heading rapidly, in my opinion, for a huge fall that we can only blame ourselves for - for wanting, for needing, for relying, for not taking responsibility.

The Big Mac is the issue in one little parcel of quick enjoyment - gimme it big, gimme it now, gimme it cheap, gimme it regardless.

Just my opinion

fuddle

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

The Telegraph today has an article on the front page suggesting that interest rates are going to rise, I wonder how many people will be able to cope with mortgage repayments etc along with all the other rises we're seeing that erode our ability to live on what we have available and whether we'll see a massive amount of foreclosures and reclaimed housing stock flooding the market. Don't we live in interesting times?

I will go try to find the article Lyn. Having been through reposession in the early recession I remember it being ripe. Nowadays I have not heard of it as much (maybe I am not taking an interest now?) but I have heard of re-mortgaging, extending mortgage to get bigger house while cheap or to renovate the house they have. In my eyes (having been there and done it spectacularly wrong) I see it as just another way to be a consumer, to get while the going is apparently good without much in the way of forward planning.

Yes I know Im a bit scarred by playing the game and losing, but it don't 'alf make you sit up and observe the way folk go about their affairs.



Interesting times indeed.

Frugalsod

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

The Telegraph today has an article on the front page suggesting that interest rates are going to rise, I wonder how many people will be able to cope with mortgage repayments etc along with all the other rises we're seeing that erode our ability to live on what we have available and whether we'll see a massive amount of foreclosures and reclaimed housing stock flooding the market. Don't we live in interesting times?

It is why TPTB are investing in water cannons.