Discussion: UK anti-vaxx 'freedom' morons, protests and QAnon idiots

[Epona]

I tend to unplug stuff (except the internet router) when it isn't in use but this is largely due to 13 years with a cat who I suspect was half demonic and liked to stick his paws in the toaster slots to see if there was anything in there and on one particularly glorious occasion posted a toy mouse into the VCR slot, once you've seen that sort of thing you facepalm and unplug everything that doesn't absolutely need to be plugged in when you are not watching over it.

 

[8115]

We had to unplug everything because if the house got struck by lightning it would break the appliances if they were plugged in.

 

[8115]

Or power surge. Or both. I can't exactly remember. Pretty sure I remember lightning being mentioned.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

They probably had good reason - Electrical safety in the home didn't really become a major concern until the 1970s (IIRC it wasn't fully regulated until the 2000s? Workplaces got proper regulation in 1989 though) - before then, it could be very hit or miss and the "safety" of house wiring from properties built between the 1920s and 70's could be a staggering thing to behold, with all soerts of weird and wonderful arrangements of "christmas trees" of socket adaptors and strange multi-wire sprouting pipe-like arrangements out of light fittings and the like - often they could be so overloaded that they ran very hot as normal and the smell of cooking bakelite greeted you as soon as you entered a house. Things like valve radios and old TVs simply had to go off at night because the poor quality of insulation/isolation was such that they could build-up enough heat to catch fire if left-on.

i have vague memories of us doing a (late 70s primary) school assembly thing about the need to unplug stuff like the telly at night.

my parents bought a 1930s house in 1969 - it had (with one or two exceptions) square pin sockets, but at some point it turned out that the previous owner had just replaced the old round pin sockets and not re-wired properly. from memory there were one or two things we never managed to work out just what fuse circuit they were on. (the place has been properly re-wired since - although i do wish she had kept the original light switches which i think would have been ok if they had been earthed)

and on one particularly glorious occasion posted a toy mouse into the VCR slot,

at least it wasn't a real mouse...

We had to unplug everything because if the house got struck by lightning it would break the appliances if they were plugged in.

my phone / answering machine and telephone line got buggered by a lightning strike some years back - can phone lines still get this? i sometimes wonder if i ought to disconnect the modem when there's lightning about.

 

[Ground Elder]

Every night my dad would go around unplugging all electrical appliances, including the video recorder

 

[WouldBe]

We had to unplug everything because if the house got struck by lightning it would break the appliances if they were plugged in.

That can still happen. I don't bother unplugging things at night but I do switch things off when not in use apart from the router and Freesat box.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Or power surge. Or both. I can't exactly remember. Pretty sure I remember lightning being mentioned.

Expensive things like laptops are plugged into an extension lead with surge protection, so I reckon they'd be OK in a lightning strike.

 

[MillionaireMike]

Don't people understand that their rights are being taken away from them slowly. The fact people are okay with forced vaccines and forced house arrest. Sickening lack of self respect.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Fuck off loon

 

[existentialist]

Don't people understand that their rights are being taken away from them slowly. The fact people are okay with forced vaccines and forced house arrest. Sickening lack of self respect.

Sorry, your mates all fucked off. Well, they got banned. But you'll find out about that soon enough.

 

[killer b]

Ah, sweet michael. Your time here was so short, but you burned so bright.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Don't people understand that their rights are being taken away from them slowly. The fact people are okay with forced vaccines and forced house arrest. Sickening lack of self respect.

Oh, fuck, another nutter has turned-up.

 

[DaveCinzano]

So Michael, did the halving hit you bad?

 

[spitfire]

Wait guys. He may have some important information we were hitherto unaware of.

 

[two sheds]

Yes do you have any references we could consult mike? I don't tend to watch random youtube videos is one thing though, they often turn out to be a pile of shit.

 

[cupid_stunt]

And, he's gone.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Don't people understand that their rights are being taken away from them slowly. The fact people are okay with forced vaccines and forced house arrest. Sickening lack of self respect.

Jesus. Idiot.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Is this true? Tell us, Millionaire of the Mikes, forgive us our frivolous insolence! Let us not live in darkness, share with us your light!

 

[Steel Icarus]

He can't, he's been switched off

 

[farmerbarleymow]

And, he's gone.

It's sad that he didn't get the chance to state his view on the beans vs cheese debate.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Poor reason for a ban TBH.



Perhaps we could have shown him the light, and conned him out of his millions.

 

[DaveCinzano]

He can't, he's been switched off

 

[existentialist]

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I think he was going to turn out to be a cunt, TBF...

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Don't people understand that their rights are being taken away from them slowly.

It took me a minute or two to work out wtf this had to do with the merits of unplugging the telly at night...

 

[petee]

always make sure the gas was off when you left the house or went to bed.

ayup, my father did that, got the habit myself from him.

 

[rekil]

Dundalk trad group Mary Wallopers held a bring back dial-up protest which happened to coincide with the interloping loon rally.

 

[SpookyFrank]

He can't, he's been switched off

#mikedrop

 

[two sheds]

Dundalk trad group Mary Wallopers held a bring back dial-up protest which happened to coincide with the interloping loon rally.

Give us back our eleven days!!

 

[Clair De Lune]

This morning I'm thinking about how people I know (from acquaintances to friends) would fare on urban. Like how fast they'd be banned and why..it's amusing me.

 

[existentialist]

This morning I'm thinking about how people I know (from acquaintances to friends) would fare on urban. Like how fast they'd be banned and why..it's amusing me.

I wouldn't want any of my friends and acquaintances finding Urban!