Preparedness for when

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

Have been talking to some householders today who've been having shockingly close indoor encounters of the larger-caliber verminous nature.

How do you get Great White sharks indoors? Or do the rats have 12 bore shotguns? :beer:

Karmacat

GreyQueen wrote: »

Keep a good watch on the undersink cupboards, lovely peeps, the area where the pipes go through the wall is a common point of ingress for mice and sometimes even for rats. They chew on the darndest things to, like a mouse in Nan's undersink cupboard which was eating sachets of the flower food that you get with bouquets.

Until this summer, I could see daylight when I looked at the far wall under my sink :eek: spent quite a few days using filler, and its now secure ... just in time, from the sound of it!

moneyistooshorttomention

maryb wrote: »

I may be making too much of this but I was in central London last night and wanted to phone DH to pick me up from station. I could not get any network cover on my phone. It does sometimes throw a hissy fit and I find switching it off and on again sorts it out - but not this time. It came back a hundred yards out of Charing X.

I wondered if TPTB were not blocking mobile networks exactly, because everyone would notice that, but attenuating selected signals/networks enough to make contact a bit more hit and miss round obvious targets to stop certain groups being able to communicate reliably?

I think its perfectly possible that TPTB can block mobile networks in a very specific area temporarily. I'm not techno-minded enough to know how - but presume they can/would "call in favours" from the mobile networks concerned?????

Back at the time of THE Anti-Iraq war march in London - we were all being "told" by the Government of the day quite specifically that, if we all went on that March then "On your heads be it" because they were telling us quite specifically that mobile phones would not work within a specific radius of the demonstration.

That was a "battle of nerves" at the outset - which we won. We insisted that we knew what they were up to and were doing deliberately to stop us marching - but we were darn well GOING to march anyway. It was down to "who blinks first" and the Government of the day did. They didn't dare block mobile phone networks in the event on the day. So - over a million of us marched - and if the ********expletive deleted ***** had listened to us and hauled back on that = we would not be in this position right now.

It took nerve for us all to defy their telling us lies that they would "turn off the network" on the day if we did so. We knew very well that, if they did do so, then we would all (from our respective peace groups) land up with over 1 million people milling round London wondering how the heck to find our coaches to get them back again to their homes at the end of the march. I know I personally was having absolute kittens as to whether I was going to be able to gather up my 50 or so people I was personally responsible for and get them all safely back home again....but we were all determined.

We went anyway - and defied them - and took the chance the Government wouldn't dare make everyone's mobiles useless for a whole day. We knew very well that there would be a LOT of other people in that area at that time creating merry heck if they couldn't use their mobiles and they would also scream at the Government at cutting off their mobile phone access for the day in order to deter us marching.

I was one of the poor stewards in charge of a coach going up to that demonstration that day and ABSOLUTELY determined that come hell or high water we WOULD be marching regardless of if all 50 odd of us on my coach had no way of contacting me to find their way back to my coach again @foot VERY VERY firmly stamped on the ground about it.

The Government blinked first and dropped that ****idea of theirs and we all marched and I scooped up all my people I was responsible for on my coach (and so did all the other coaches from my location) and I don't think we lost one single person @proud beam.

#told the Government so...and why didn't the ********s listen to us - because, if they had, we would not be in this position now (ie ISIS etc etc).

I will admit to being absolutely blimmin' livid the Government of the day didn't listen to us (#thank you Bliar.com) - because we would not be in this position now if one egotistical little ******** had done so. Apologies - but I personally think he has a place right up there next to Hitler for the evil he has been responsible for...I do hope he is watching all the news from Paris right now and thinking "mea culpa....mea maxima culpa".

jk0

This might interest you guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXavIbOQnZw

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Frugalsod wrote: »

Living in a police state does not equate to being any safer.

To quote Benjamin Franklin:-

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

I can foresee the Hegelian Dialectic rearing its ugly head here.

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

S'OK GQ dogs are rather partial to rats so it's only a different way of reclaiming their bikkits when they catch one!!!

Buggalugs is a decent mouser/ratter.

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

This might interest you guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXavIbOQnZw

I am ignoring such comments. France has never needed an excuse to kick bottom.

This is possibly more damning but I would put it in incompetence pile rather than the conspiracy pile.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-17/turkey-warned-france-twice-about-terrorist-attacker-was-ignored

jk0

Frugalsod wrote: »

France has never needed an excuse to kick bottom.

You are right. They haven't. However, other countries did not necessarily support them. Nor did the French people. By making themselves victims, they have now got everyone else on board.

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

You are right. They haven't. However, other countries did not necessarily support them. Nor did the French people. By making themselves victims, they have now got everyone else on board.

While I do understand France's retaliation I do wonder if this does not just create more terrorists as more innocent people will become radicalised by neighbours getting killed by a drone or missile attack from the French, English, Russian or Americans.

Maybe we should look at the idea put forward by Lawrence of Arabia and change borders on a more ethnic basis and abandon the Sykes-Picot agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes–Picot_Agreement. This would possibly leave the whole region more stable.

moneyistooshorttomention

What I don't get is the sheer level of incompetence of having a known terrorist in your hands - and letting them go!!! (more than once at that). Yet - I've heard no mention of "heads will roll for doing your job so badly" about such mega-inefficiency.

I would have expected those incompetents to be hauled straight in in front of their boss and very publicly and immediately sacked. But we haven't heard a thing about that happening. If I'd been their boss - they would have found out the meaning of "Hell hath no fury" in very short order.