Annoying game...

hairyfish

Might solve a drink fueled 4am christmas morning row i had with my brother but:

If you had to live with either one of these and do without the other for the rest of civilisation (COMPLETELY) what would you pick over the other?

Electricity
OR
Plumbing (every conceivable kind of plumbing - taps / bath / flusher etc. )

Start your engines...

Pj!

Haha, good question.

I'd live without plumbing.

hairyfish

I had said live without plumbing too...apparantly im wrong, im also a younger brother so i was born wrong....

a life without light?? a bit too I Am Legend for me...

GhostInTheRuins

Hmm, that's a tough one. I'd probably have to choose to keep electricity. Weighing up the pros and cons, living without electricity would be far harder than living without tap water and a toilet. (Unless you live in a city, then things would get messy)

hairyfish

D.T. Jesus wrote: »

Hmm, that's a tough one. I'd probably have to choose to keep electricity. Weigh up the pros and cons, living without tap water and a toilet is far harder than living without electricity. (Unless you live in a city, then things would get messy)

So you'd keeo electricity even tho a toilet etc would be harder to live without ???

GhostInTheRuins

Oops, that's not what I meant

Fixed

Shryke

I'd keep plumbing. Light a candle ffs!

Pj!

Just sh1t in ditches and piss in swimming pools...

hairyfish

Sandor wrote: »

I'd keep plumbing. Light a candle ffs!

So no television, internet etc.

Be a lonely place just you n yer dark toilet...

hairyfish

Mr.S wrote: »

Plumbing.

i like my hot baths thanks.

Chances are it would be a cold bath being that it will be hot stones from a fire heating the water ala Fulacht Fia :-\

Shryke

hairyfish wrote: »

So no television, internet etc.

Be a lonely place just you n yer dark toilet...

Wouldn't be dark if I had a candle. Make a jigsaw, read a book, better yourself, get a life...
I honestly think the world would be a far better place without electricity.

hairyfish

Jigsaws / Books would be a rarity because the plants that make them would have no electric presses or digital printing...

If the romans had put more time and thought into finding an energy source rather than channelling **** down the street we'd be floating around on hover cars today i reckon...

Mr. CooL ICE

I'd deffo keep plumbing. Dunno about any of you lot, but I care about my arse a lot, and the prospect of having to squat over a ditch to take a dump would kill me. Sitting on the bowl for 5 mins a day is the most irreplaceable 'me' time ever.

For lighting - light a candle.
For computing - a quantum-based computer run by a hamster wheel can't be too far away. Also, TCP/IP has been proven to work by carrier pigeons.
For media - the world would be a better place without TV dumbening down the population, let alone unnecessarily scaring the bejaysus out of everyone. Also, wind-up phonographs might make a welcome return.

tolosenc

Plumbing. I'd spend my time trying to figure a way of inventing electrical plumbing...

hairyfish

LordChessington wrote: »

Also, TCP/IP has been proven to work by carrier pigeons.

haha i like it...

Senna

Electricity - couldn't live without it

Plumbing - Chamber pot. We have no shortage of rain, so i cant see washing being a problem. We have electricity so someone will just make a very big kettle thats fed from rainwater collection.

vorbis

I'd live without electricity.
You'd always find soemthing to do, you know like actually playing sport instead of watching it!

No toilets or showers? Everyone would stink!

GhostInTheRuins

vorbis wrote: »

I'd live without electricity.
You'd always find soemthing to do, you know like actually playing sport instead of watching it!

No toilets or showers? Everyone would stink!

How would you cook your food? You'd probably be making your own clothes too.

hairyfish

but you wouldnt know what stinking was becasuse everyone would be the same...

head to yer river jump in and wash yourself...easy...then spend 18 hours online ...

Shryke

D.T. Jesus wrote: »

How would you cook your food? You'd probably be making your own clothes too.

Fire tends to get things cooked. People were buying clothes in shops well before electricity came around too, don't ya know.