Preparedness for when

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greenbee wrote: »

If you need to work during power outages then a UPS can keep your broadband and PC going for a few hours if necessary

To keep a laptop running, you could use a cigarette lighter adapter and a Jump Starter Pack.

My Medion laptop battery gives ~ 4.5 hours of use, and the Jump Starter Pack will give me at least 7 more hours, so we are talking 11 hours +.

Butterfly_Brain

I worked in a supermarket just after leaving school in the 70's an remember the power cuts.
We had the old SWEDA tills then and it had a handle to operate it so you had a cashier and a handle winder.
The doors were closed as soon as the lights went out, luckily we had lots of glass in the front of the store so the shop did have some daylight (unless it was a winter evening power cut)
Staff escorted customers that were in the store to the tills using torches and then the transactions were done and they were ushered out of the shop.
We stayed closed until the power came back on, all of the freezers were covered with cardboard and temperature checks were done constantly.
I also remember the food shortages that followed, bread and sugar were the worst ones.
We had an open fire at home and meals were cooked over an open flame, my mum had an old trivet that she sat pans on.
If we knew a power cut was coming, dinner was cooked (usually a stew) and put into a couple of flasks to keep warm ready for dinner time. We usually just had bread with the stew.
I am another who supported the miners strike sending in donations to keep them afloat.

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mollythewestie wrote: »

Same thing happened to me when I wanted to buy some for my DH, I was asked if he had been advised by a Dr to take them, which he had, and that seemed sufficient proof to be able to buy them.

Weird isn't it?

The pharmacy attached to the medical centre refuses to sell them to me, yet I can buy a pack of 16 tablets, for a mere 40p, off the shelf, at Boots :huh:

mardatha

My dad was a striking miner.

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Bikingbint wrote: »

as many shops use the barcode of the item to run it through the till, they wont know how much an items costs as nothing is individually priced anymore.

They'd probably have to send runners to the shelves, to check prices.

Or, maybe they already have lists of prices printed out, ready for power cuts.

Also, Tesco have these scan as you go gun things.

Perhaps, in a power cut, the till operators could use those, to scan the barcodes, or even to add up your purchases.

lobbyludd

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Weird isn't it?

The pharmacy attached to the medical centre refuses to sell them to me, yet I can buy a pack of 16 tablets, for a mere 40p, off the shelf, at Boots :huh:

what dose were you trying to buy? the ones in supermarkets are for pain relief and are a 300mg dose I think? in pharmacies you can also buy 75mg which is the dose for people who take it daily for heart disease, which should be done under dr's supervision because regular use can conflict with other medication, cause kidney stones, stomach ulcers etc. Which is why jobs-worth pharmacy assistants will ask if you pick up the 75mg, and super jobs-worth ones will ask about the normal dose ones too.

no-one needs to point out that one could simply quarter the pain relief tablet to get the same dosage ergo the utter idiocy of asking and refusing. it is well documented.

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lobbyludd wrote: »

what dose were you trying to buy? the ones in supermarkets are for pain relief and are a 300mg dose I think?

That's the ones I was after.

They're for a 1st Aid kit, and I'm hoping (fingers and toes double crossed) to never have to use them.

Weather wise, it rained heavily overnight, the cloud was so low and dense this morning, I couldn't see the Pennines from my bedroom window, and it's just started raining again.

craigywv

I think the pound shop does a couple of boxes for a quid also. the ones in Tesco don't work for me they seem too mild

Nargleblast

The 300mg aspirin is for pain relief e.g. headaches. It is also part of the "golden hour" first line treatment for a suspected heart attack (chewed not swallowed). The 75mg dose is the prophylactic dose taken by people with a history of heart problems, strokes or DVTs, and I think those are kept behind the counter. Taking aspirin frequently (also things like ibuprofen) increases your risk.of gastric ulcers and bleeding, and people on the smaller aspirin dose are usually prescribed another drug to protect their stomachs. I think this is why pharmacists ask questions, they are just doing their job.

lobbyludd

Doing their jobs would be to advise customers of the risks, offer alternatives and if they still want it sell them the OTC medication. Refusing to sell without explanation simply leads to people buying them elsewhere without discussion of risks/side-effects. there's no point using a paternalistic model of refusal to sell as if we were still in the 1950's when the same things can be bought perfectly legally elsewhere?