Preparedness for when

jk0

This Slog post made me laugh.

I thought you guys might enjoy it, in view of the title of this thread:

http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/at-the-end-of-the-day-433/

siegemode

GreyQueen wrote: »

My mobile provider HASDA is moving to a new provider EE rather than having their service provided by V'phone. So I had thought about replacing my injured phone when I replaced the SIM to get on the new service, which has to be done by 30/04. Priced up some phones and decided not to, will just have the new SIM and carry on until the phone karks it.

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This is interesting thank you. FIL has an emergency mobile, but hardly uses it and its with HASDA too. I shall advise him to pop in and get a new sim. We had no idea of the change and its one of those phones with an emergency button that alerts us by call and text should he need urgent help so it's important to us.

QUOTE=COOLTRIKERCHICK;65033362]GQ totally agree, I an screaming foul language at the tv screen when I see the government telling people on the news the economy is recovering and is back to its pre 2008 figures.state etc do they really think that we are that stupid to believe them? it is more like 'they' are the stupid ones for thinking we will believe them..lol...[/QUOTE]

We are the same and can't believe how many people are taken in by the rubbish they spout on the news. It's the way they twist things or manipulate statistics to say what they want that really frustrates and makes me mad. It's clever marketing and selective reporting but so many people seem to be taken in by it:mad:

jk0 wrote: »

This Slog post made me laugh.

I thought you guys might enjoy it, in view of the title of this thread:

http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/at-the-end-of-the-day-433/

Brilliant :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Thanks for sharing.

Si_Clist

D&DD wrote: »

... kilners and recycled mint sauce size in this house for jams etc but I have to have straight sided ones for bottling and pickles

:huh: So you don't use Kilners for bottling and pickles because they don't have straight sides? Sorry if I'm being particularly thick here, but I can't see what you mean

D&DD wrote: »

I still use the kilner two piece lids with them though as they fit perfect and if you hit Robert Dyas at the right time..and not behing me (!!) you get packs of lids for 50p..I now have enough of them to see me out too lol..

Blimey! Which Kilner jars do those fit? Or to put it another way, what diameter are they?

mardatha

Greyqueen I just got meself a new mobile on amazon for £13 inc postage. It's a Samsung. Last one just died - I got it in 1999

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

But you do still love me, don't you?

I'm sure we'd get on like a house on fire IRL, Bob. Y'know, mass destruction of goods, lots of running about yelling and screaming and a smouldering ruin left afterwards..............:rotfl:

siegemode, I've been having texts from HASDA about this for a while now, think before even New Year, just hadn't got my arris in gear to deal. You haven't been able to put credit on these SIMS since 31/01, anyway, I'm just using what I have. Here's a linkie : https://mobile.asda.com/existing-customers/faqs.html

I spoke to them on the jellybone first thing Friday (lovely lady btw) and am getting a new SIM and top-up card sent. They'll be contacting customers nearer the 30th April to ask what they want done with existing phone credit; shop vouchers for HASDA or moved across to the new service. I'll prolly choose the latter.

If you have a 3G phone, you can get an even better deal as an emergency phone/ very light user on '3' but my old phone is as dumb as a bucket of rocks and I can't be bothered to update it. I keep a phone until it karks it, the previous one lasted about 7 years. Glad my blithering on was a useful headsup for you and FIL.

Today the sun is shining and the sky is blue and it is most charitably described as fresh out there. I am easing in to the day and will be going up to the lottie to wrestle with The Feral Strawberry Bed. This was a perfectly normal strawberry bed until I foolishly let it get infested with couch grass and docks and last year it was a case of hunt-the-berries.

I have transplanted two whole new beds and the ferals being dragged out of the grass (kicking and screaming) are being potted on and shared with friends, acquaintances and workmates. I can't abide binning a perfectly good plant just because its supurflous to requirements.

Hokay, tea and possibly even cake are calling - it is Sunday after all and I can eat cake if I wanna........... have a good day, folks. GQ xx

nuatha

Two technologies that might be worth keeping an eye on
River/Lake Heat Pumps though I'm concerned about the consequences of the resultant temperature drops.
And a more efficient solar cell tech

And NASA predicting the EOTWAWKI, with studies suggesting 15 years linked at the end of the article.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

I'm sure we'd get on like a house on fire IRL, Bob. Y'know, mass destruction of goods, lots of running about yelling and screaming and a smouldering ruin left afterwards..............:rotfl:

I like the "screaming" and "smouldering" bit. :cool:

I'm getting carried away now.

craigywv

Think you two should go get a room and play zombies and maid marien!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Frugalsod

nuatha wrote: »

Two technologies that might be worth keeping an eye on
River/Lake Heat Pumps though I'm concerned about the consequences of the resultant temperature drops.
And a more efficient solar cell tech

And NASA predicting the EOTWAWKI, with studies suggesting 15 years linked at the end of the article.

I do not think the heat transfer from lakes or ponds to homes is sufficient to cause problems. Also as it is in water it can circulate or flow downstream, where it can absorb heat from the surroundings.

I do think that the potential for collapse is all around us. Look at Ukraine. It had been struggling for decades before it collapsed at the revolt. The US median wage has been stagnant in real terms for more than 40 years now and more and more people are struggling. So it could also be very close to collapse with the right triggers. Though I suspect that it will be one of the last to collapse because things are worse nearly everywhere else.

The UK is apparently growing again but few people see things improving materially. Sure house prices are rising but that is based on a very thin market, and if a lot more people actually tried to sell
at those higher prices the emperors new clothes would be exposed as being a sham. Estate agents near me have been trying to push this story for a couple years but they are just locking up inventory and sellers are still waiting for interest at the quoted prices. I am working on what I see around me. More charity shops and empty shops are not a good sign.

GreyQueen

Control yourself!

I am nearly 50, very plain-looking, 4 stone overweight and extremely bloody-minded and happily single.

Plus several hundred miles away............ actually I'm not a real person at all, I'm just an experimental alogrithim being tried out by some canny programmers on the grounds that if you can fool MSE-ers you can fool anybody.:rotfl:

And I'm going to go offline to Get Some Stuff done. Laters, GQ.