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GENERAL DISCUSSIONS! => The Polling Booth! => Topic started by: Michael Alexander on January 29, 2008, 08:18:02 PM

Poll
Question: How Are You Gonna Deal With the Power Cuts?
Option 1: What Power Cuts? You guys should have emigrated when we did! votes: 3
Option 2: Can't Wait, more excuse to have a braaaaaaai! votes: 5
Option 3: I Don't use Electricity! votes: 0
Option 4: Buy A Generator! votes: 0
Option 5: Buy A Candle! votes: 1
Option 6: Get Stoned and Make my own Electricity! votes: 5
Option 7: Wait for the Full Moon to finish My Book! votes: 0
Option 8: I'm Gonna Commit Murder! votes: 0
Title: How Are You Gonna Deal With the Power Cuts?
Post by: Michael Alexander on January 29, 2008, 08:18:02 PM
How Are You Gonna Deal With the Power Cuts?
Title: Re: How Are You Gonna Deal With the Power Cuts?
Post by: Michael Alexander on January 29, 2008, 08:54:15 PM
There go those 70's people with the stoned option again!

meanpuff
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Post by: Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee) on January 29, 2008, 08:54:58 PM
Why is there no option like

I'm going to commit murder?
Title: Re: How Are You Gonna Deal With the Power Cuts?
Post by: Michael Alexander on January 29, 2008, 08:56:39 PM
Anything for my fellow Cheetah supporter..... it's almost time Again!

CHeetahs vs Sharks at bLoem this weekend, friendly warm up....
Title: Re: How Are You Gonna Deal With the Power Cuts?
Post by: Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee) on January 29, 2008, 09:09:20 PM
 abouttime  -  I need to start wearing my orange shirt again -  neon orange - so the others can still see me in the dark!
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Post by: Michael Alexander on January 30, 2008, 05:36:01 AM
 :emot19:
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Post by: Robert Bruce on January 31, 2008, 07:09:04 PM
Quote from: Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee) on January 29, 2008, 09:09:20 PM
I need to start wearing my orange shirt again -  neon orange - so the others can still see me in the dark!

Darn sensible wimmin - always spoil the fun! Nothing like a grope in the dark. But glittering neonware is a turnoff.

Makes too much rustling noise.

Heh!


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Post by: Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee) on January 31, 2008, 08:22:01 PM
In the dark -  that's maybe the only time when I am sensible.  How come men think of the unsensible when they hear that the lights are gonna be out? 

You ain't gonna spoil my dark fun by making remarks about my neon orange shirt  -  no glitters and not made of paper, so the gropin won't be noisy (ha ha ha).  It's all about team work and spirit.
Title: Re: How Are You Gonna Deal With the Power Cuts?
Post by: Diana Rudd (Boehme) on January 31, 2008, 08:55:25 PM
Wow Dalene you've got a whole team gropen there,I'll have toget one of those shirts
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Post by: Robert Bruce on February 01, 2008, 03:26:51 PM
That's just it - forget the darned shirts...! Make life easier for the ou manne!
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Post by: Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee) on February 01, 2008, 04:16:46 PM
A definite NO NO thing then...........

No lights......

No shirts........

Getting very interesting, this power topic!
Title: Re: How Are You Gonna Deal With the Power Cuts?
Post by: Donald Duck on February 01, 2008, 06:32:38 PM
I have always been a great believer in "Black Power".

Now we are in "The Darkness of Such"......

Title: Re: How Are You Gonna Deal With the Power Cuts?
Post by: Diana Rudd (Boehme) on February 02, 2008, 11:13:46 AM
Just think we can all walk around naked and not scare everybody.  e154
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Post by: Michael Alexander on February 02, 2008, 11:16:13 AM
Unless you are wearing Dalene's neon Orange top......   swink
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Post by: Diana Rudd (Boehme) on February 02, 2008, 02:36:19 PM
Didn't Bruce ban them.     :wow1:
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Post by: Florrie van Zyl (Muir) on February 23, 2008, 09:28:57 PM
I love the power cuts. Don't have to cook or listen to blaring music or TV. Put on my headlamp and peacefully read.
Title: Re: How Are You Gonna Deal With the Power Cuts?
Post by: SandyB on February 27, 2008, 02:21:28 PM
 Although   I  really   pissed  up with the  politicians  and their  political appointees  at EKSDOM that  would  not  listen  the  advice of  experts  they  hired  at  great cost many  years ago that  warned  them  and  told  them  to  start  increasing capacity   then .. I  see  Alec  Erwin    on  TV making excuses  and  trying to  shift the blame  .. I  feel like  giving   him  a   shaven  head  ripping  his  ears  off  then  maybe  he  will  look  more like  the pr;ck  he  is ..   I  get  angry  that no one  has  been fired !! etc etc ..  they   are all an  arrogant  useless  bunch .....
Despite all  this   I  see  this  as an  opportunity  for us  to  stand  back and look  how dependent  we  are  on our silent  slave  electricity ,, how dependent  we have  become ..  and  for  us  to  see  ways  in which  we  can  actually  start  conserving  and looking at  viable  alternatives ..  its a wake up  call  cos  the   now  still  abundant resources  that keep on generating   power will  not last  forever ...   Facvt is  everbody has  had  a  bit of wake up  call  and  actually  load has  steadied  and  there  are no  power cuts  here in  CT at  the  moment ...   I  installed solar  geyser  over  a year  ago  .. use  CFL's ..  am  now  looking at some  form  of wind generator   with  battery  backup  .. I  am  creative  and  fearless  to  try   something  ..  maybe  it  will  work ??   could  at  least run  lights  off  something  like that ??
Title: Re: How Are You Gonna Deal With the Power Cuts?
Post by: Michael Alexander on February 27, 2008, 03:21:44 PM
We just ordered a Genset for the shop about two weeks back at a cost of R430 000 , and ever since we ordered it, the powers been fine, there better be power cuts in the winter....   madashell
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Post by: Florrie van Zyl (Muir) on February 27, 2008, 08:21:19 PM
I nearly burnt my house down tonight. The power went off while I was cooking. Got out the gas burner put it on a thick plastic tray on the glass cooker and carried on cooking. Was busy helping Jarren with his homework when the electricity came back on. Wasn't in a hurry to  get to the stove, food was fine on gas cooker, till I heard a strange hissing sound. Went to check and the tray was in flames with the gas bottle on top of it. I had forgotton to turn the stove off after power went off. Managed to put the flames out without any real damage except black soot everywhere, but got a huge fright, luckily the gas bottle didn't explode.
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Post by: Bev Coates (Now Walker) on February 27, 2008, 09:04:32 PM
oow florrie you were lucky there.......just the sort of thing i do.......could so easily have been much worse......power cuts are a danger themselves cause of stuff getting left on......so glad no damage done.......
can i ask....do you get elec from the old power station.....what does in run on....is it solar powered ?? or hydro ??



no just thought...it cant be any really if your having power cuts......you have sun...you have water..........


and sandy.....what about the power stations in c/t....how are they fueled......
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Post by: Bev Coates (Now Walker) on February 27, 2008, 09:12:09 PM
Mike when do i get 5 STARS........gettting excited  grab
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