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  • MarillionFan
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    Originally posted by Clippy View Post
    No, he warmed up by other means -
    Pressed naked against a slightly misted window his face contorted to look like Edvard Munch's The Scream!

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  • HairyArsedBloke
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    One New Year’s morn, before I got hitched up with ex-mrs HAB, I awoke to find no power in the condo. The first think I thought was, ‘What on earth did I do last night to cause this?’ I was completely blotto the night before down the Sea View bar so I had this terrible feeling of guilt that I had done something silly. When I got up I immediately discovered that I could not wash, or have a cup of coffee. Also no computer, phone, radio, television, or air conditioning. It makes one realise just how dependant we are on that utility.

    I walked around the complex to discover nobody had any power. I still had this guilty feeling that it was all my fault though. So I went for a walk and found that most of our end of the island was without power. I went back home and went for a dip in the pool for a bit.

    By noon I was getting a bit fed up with it all, so I went down the bar again. As people turned up most had the same story, ‘I woke up this morning to find no power and wondered what I had done the night before to cause this’.

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  • Clippy
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    Originally posted by Troll View Post
    What - you went back to sleep?
    No, he warmed up by other means -

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by Troll View Post
    What - you went back to sleep?
    Went to the office, I planned to do it later anyway - now I won't get my usual Sunday Roast Beef from good local pub and will have to use tulipy half price one next to our office.

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  • Troll
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Good thing I've got contingency plan that was immediately put to work
    What - you went back to sleep?

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  • AtW
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    Good thing I've got contingency plan that was immediately put to work

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  • Troll
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    Inconsistencies in the electrical supply grid are the hallmarks of a third world country

    We'd better get used to it...

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  • MarillionFan
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Woke up this morning much earlier than planned - feeling cold, ****** power is off - not just me whole street, apparently for 3 hours - some ****** doing some ****** work and either ****** up big time or it was always part of the plan to turn off power for whole street in early hours of Sunday.

    ******* ******!!!!

    This would have never happened in Soviet Union.
    Exactly.

    Your house in Russia used paraffin.

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  • AtW
    started a topic Power outage

    Power outage

    Woke up this morning much earlier than planned - feeling cold, ****** power is off - not just me whole street, apparently for 3 hours - some ****** doing some ****** work and either ****** up big time or it was always part of the plan to turn off power for whole street in early hours of Sunday.

    ******* ******!!!!

    This would have never happened in Soviet Union.

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