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No Electricity: What Can You Actually Do?

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    #32
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Tidy up, read a book, get drunk, write a list of things you like about yourself, masturbate... in that order.
    It's worse in the winter though, get a power outage at 7pm and you've got the whole night to sit in darkness. Reading by candle light sucks, but it does feel very retro.


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    #33
    bealbocht
    Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭bealbocht


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    Masturbate.

    yeah.. porno mags.. by candle light, if its night time ..


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    #34
    bealbocht
    Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭bealbocht


    actually remember a christmas (27th Dec or there abouts) a few years ago.. where the fuse box blew, and there was no way to get if fixed till after the christmas week. Seem to remember, going to the pub, drinking till late, then coming home and sleeping it off till as late as possible and then going back to the pub.

    didnt work out too bad.. ,

    But it does suck to high hell having no leckie..


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    #35
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Nintendo DS or masturbate. Both are good.


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    #36
    il gatto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭il gatto


    Get a windmill? The chances of it being shagged and the electricity supply going at the same time are slim to nil.
    Otherwise, have a camping gas and tinned food handy.
    Then maturbate:pac:


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    #37
    thefinalstage
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    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Nintendo DS or masturbate. Both are good.

    Then the ds runs out of battery. Palmela never gets tired.


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    #38
    Steve_o
    Registered Users Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    thelastangryman wrote: »
    Then the ds runs out of battery. Palmela never gets tired.

    If only you could get some sort of dynamo effect from masturbation... that'd solve everything!


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    #39
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    **** to the moon!

    Can't find the site now, but I remember reading a few years back an article by this guy where he strapped a pedometer (or something similar) around his wrist, jacked off loads and somehow worked out how many chickens you'd need to choke to get to the moon...


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    #40
    nobodythere
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    If you never had electricity you probably wouldn't be **** at guitar


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    #41
    danniemcq
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    me and my mates were watchin that viral ad for the blendtech blender and it showed glowsticks getting blended and glowing like a bulb in the blender when he was finished. My mate commented on how handy that would be if the electricity went so you could use it as a bulb. To which my mate noted that without power the blender wouldn't work


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    #42
    BaconZombie
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    Just get your friend to grind the glowstick with him teeth and make him into a walking light.
    danniemcq wrote: »
    me and my mates were watchin that viral ad for the blendtech blender and it showed glowsticks getting blended and glowing like a bulb in the blender when he was finished. My mate commented on how handy that would be if the electricity went so you could use it as a bulb. To which my mate noted that without power the blender wouldn't work


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    #43
    Steve_o
    Registered Users Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    Just thought of something... When the power goes, start a fire and you can cook the meat and chicken in the fridge on a spit. Perfect!!


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    #44
    FunkZ
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    Right, a cycle, today has been boring enough even with electricity!


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    #45
    Holsten
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    If it goes in the day, read a book.

    If it goes in the night, head to bed.


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    #46
    TeletextPear
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    make a fort!


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    #47
    MIN2511
    Registered Users Posts: 5,398 ✭✭✭MIN2511


    Seriously the modern world has pampered us!!!!


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    #48
    ART6
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    Few years ago now we had a power cut that lasted all over Christmas. No turkey, no chilled wines, no lights, no TV -- a return to less technological days. We lit the open fire in the dining room and roasted spuds on it, then topped them with cheese and ate them for Christmas dinner by candle light with a bottle of good irish whiskey to wash 'em down with. It turned out to be one of the best Christmasses we had ever had as a family. So bullocks to the ESB. We can survive:D


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    #49
    FunkZ
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    Thanks TeleTextPair, I'm gonna actually plan on making a fort! :P


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    #50
    DonkeyStyle \o/
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    I suspect it's all a conspiracy between the power companies and the major candle corporations.
    I'll be watching.


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    #51
    FunkZ
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    I feel like this thread has jinxed me now. My MSN isn't working. That's the best thing electricity gives me :(


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    #52
    Guy:Incognito
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    FunkZ wrote: »
    Right I woke up there at about nine minutes past one and there was no electricty.

    Grand right?
    NO! NOT AT ALL!

    You can't do anything without it, it's ridiculous, I tried playing guitar. I played for two minutes but I was too **** to be bothered with it!
    So I decided to make some food... ya need ****ing electricity to cook these days apparently! So I had a pint of milk.
    Then I tried to lift weights, but ya can't do that without some decent loud music. NO MUSIC bar what was coming from my phone.

    The electricity came back at 11 minutes to two!

    I would not be able to enjoy life without electricity... it would suck more than Christmas when you're older then 15.

    What would you do if you were stuck at home with NO electricity?!

    You were without electricity for 40 mins, you poor lamb. How did you survive.

    You dotn need electricity to cook "these days". People with electric cookers need electricity to cook, gas cookers will work. You dont NEED music to lift weights. Even if you did, there are things called batteries that can power stuff too.


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    #53
    Caoimhín
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    Has riding been mentioned?

    I cant be arsed reading through the whole thread.


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    #54
    FunkZ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    caoibhin wrote: »
    Has riding been mentioned?

    I cant be arsed reading through the whole thread.

    I have an electric car :(

    :cool:


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    #55
    L1011
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    Go out to the shed, find the generator, excavate the generator, find I've no diesel, drive to the garage, find they've no electricity either, drive to the next one, get diesel, get home, start generator, wait for it to sync, then notice the powers come back on.

    Thats what I did last time I had a power cut anyway. Not sure what I was going to DO with the generator considering its so dirty it can't power much more than kettles and lights reliably... make lots of tae for the entire road?


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    #56
    FunkZ
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    Get drunk, that's what I'm gonna do then :)


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    #57
    TeletextPear
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    FunkZ wrote: »
    Thanks TeleTextPair, I'm gonna actually plan on making a fort! :P

    yay! dont let anyone else in, and make a moat too! :D


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    #58
    portomar
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    yea i think if and when i have my own house/ apartment, camping gas and one of those two ring "only for use outdoors" cooking thingies would be a prerequisite, if power went in an apartment block youd be shagged for everything!


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    #59
    ronano
    Registered Users Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭ronano


    best thing about no electric was no puddle of mudd,ya loud cnut


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    #60
    FunkZ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    TeletextPear wrote: »
    yay! dont let anyone else in, and make a moat too! :D

    You want me to dig and fill a moat without using electrical devices?

    I'll try but it's not gonna be a pretty looking moat! :o


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    #61
    Loopy
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    40 mins without lecky.. You poor pet:P

    It does us all good to do without it once in a while, back to basics!!

    Talking, listening, walking, screwing... Sure what else is there...


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