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    Potential power outages this winter

    This is true. I Rember being fed up as soon as the novelty wore off, but we only had one 21-inch telly in the front room with 3 channels and a bookshelf to entertain us so weren't particularly used to being entertained. Can you imagine a generation used to a TV in every room, 200 channels on...
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    Potential power outages this winter

    My kids laughed when I told them about growing up in the late 60's, pre central heating, an outdoor lavvy with a small paraffin heater in it to stop the cistern freezing, one small coal fire to heat the whole house, cold lino on the bedroom floors and my job as the youngest was to go round the...
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    The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

    The jokes write themselves. "Musk's appointment to Twitters Board shows we need regulation of social media platforms to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication." From last week in the Washington Post. Owner Jeff Bezos
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    Have you had any damage from Storm Arwen?

    We had just gone to bed about 11 pm when we heard a huge crash. We ran downstairs to find our next door neighbour had lost all the tiles on his hip ridge, many of which had demolished a lean to pvc roof down the side of our house, but worse one tile had come through the velux window in our...
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    OcUK Dadsnet thread

    All there was when I was a kid and I grew up wiping my arse on cut up squares of news paper until I was about 10 yrs old when our financial circumstances improved.
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