Preparedness for when

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GreyQueen wrote: »

I'm just one of those awkward cusses who cannot see why I should be assumed to be a criminal just because there are some people out there who are criminals.

Absolutely.

The police don't randomly knock on my door, wanting to search my home, to check if I'm breaking the law, and neither should BBC/TVL/Crapita.

No contact and no communication, ever.

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Not necessarily. An EMP attack, or, more locally, a substation failure, would have no warning.

Yes but an EMP attack will still have some escalation of tensions nationally. During the 70's when that was a risk the government still had time to print and deliver millions of copies of Protect and Survive.

A local black out will be fixed quickly, and while it would mean problems for me with no gas and only electric I can still get by for a couple of days.

greenbee

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

What stressful about ignoring letters and random door-steppers :huh:

Well plenty of people seem to get worked up about it I haven't had a TV for the best part of 20 years, and I have NEVER been harassed, doorstepped or had evidence made up against me by TVL. One letter every 2 years isn't a problem. It costs them less than sending constant letters to addresses where they get no response. If they don't know that Mr/Ms law-abiding-non-TV-watching citizen has moved house, but just that suddenly there is no TVL there, of course they are going to chase it up. Just as the utilities will chase up if someone moves out and closes there account, but no one takes over and yet the utilities keep being used.

The difference with our terrestrial TV is that they can't monitor (or prevent) use in the same way as utilities. Of course, they could change that - your TVL becomes a subscription, with an expiring code. Don't pay, can't watch.

GreyQueen

So it was jk0 wot broked it, was it?!:rotfl:And the mend just before I run out the door for the rest of the day, dammit.

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For those of you into FB and Princes pies, £world have the following in:-

Just chicken.

Steak and Kidney.

Chicken and mushroom.

Chicken balti.

Minced beef and onion.

They've also got 400g tins of Napolina Butter Beans @ 2 for £1.

Frugalsod

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

you can wee into a bucket and you can line the existing loo with a couple of black plastic sacks, you won't be able to flush and you need sawdust/sand/earth to scatter on top of the poo to keep smells down, you'd have to seal the sacks VERY tightly and store them out of the house if that was safe or in the house in the coolest, most distant place from your living quarters that you could. the wee could be tipped as far from the house as you can and is not going to give you problems as long as you aren't using an open water source which it could contaminate. You'd have to dispose of the poo sacks away from your dwelling as and when it was safe to do so, choosing somewhere that wouldn't impact on anyone else. In medieval times human poo was dug out of the pit it was deposited in when the pit was full and when it was aged it was spread on the fields as fertilizer, if you could make your earth closet you'd in time have a useable resource.

Personally I would rather get a compost toilet instead.

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greenbee wrote: »

It costs them less than sending constant letters to addresses where they get no response.

Why do I care how much it costs them :huh:

Besides, nobody forces them to send monthly Threat-O-Grams.

Anybody with half a brain, would stop sending them, once it was obvious they were being ignored.

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Frugalsod wrote: »

Yes but an EMP attack will still have some escalation of tensions nationally.

Not if it were launched by terrorists.

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

Morning all. Phew. What a relief. I thought I'd broken MSE there by posting such subversive views.

I think you did they had to spend hours doing maintenance clearing all such comments. :beer:

moneyistooshorttomention

Errr...nope...we wont blame BB there - I just took it that the site was taken down temporarily to implement some anti-spammer measure or other.

Let's hope it blimmin' works this time:cool: