Is having no water facilities worse than....

Rot · Nov 22, 2017

...having no internet?

I mean... just got into work and there's no water due to a burst pipe somewhere in the local area...

...Besides from the obvious... can't flush the toilet and make yourself a coffee stuff...

...I'm pretty OK with it...

NOW... if there was no Internets... I'd be freaking out right about now

xROTx

Thierry Henry · Nov 22, 2017

For the most part I can live without the internet. Not having clean running water would be a bigger deal for me.

Takumaji · Nov 22, 2017

We have electricity at work but that's it. No water, no toilets, no heating, no phone, no innanetz, and even mobile phone connections are very shaky because our factory lies deep in the woods.

So there.

Rot · Nov 22, 2017

Thierry Henry said:
For the most part I can live without the internet. Not having clean running water would be a bigger deal for me.

.../me tells the obvious joke... "We wouldn't miss you either... if you had no nets :keke:

"... Muhahahahaha... I am on a roll here...

xROTx

PS. I am only spamming this morning cuz I seem to have lost a few War Room Post counts...

I need to get 10K posts so I can edit my own custom rank...:buttcock!:

EDIT. NEW plan... never leave chat to go get booze while Ryogeo and Tak are in there...

Thierry Henry · Nov 22, 2017

Rot said:
PS. I am only spamming this morning cuz I seem to have lost a few War Room Post counts...

I need to get 10K posts so I can edit my own custom rank...:buttcock!:

I was kinda under the impression that War Room posts don't add to the post count.

Rot · Nov 22, 2017

Thierry Henry said:
I was kinda under the impression that War Room posts don't add to the post count.

They use too.. until one drunken night when I ran out of booze and left chat for 5 FOOKIN' minutes...

...Dem' Mod funsters doing weird stuffs in chat when Rot is on a mission to get whisky

xROTx

Heinz · Nov 22, 2017

I'd like to think I'd be okay but only if there's a booze supply or I'm tied up in a tin shack somewhere... I'd rather the former.

You can edit your rank at 10k? I like mine

oliverclaude · Nov 22, 2017

So many things I take for granted... one day Shroom jokes about my pretentious self, next day he's gone. I take the water of life, fuck the internet.

Rot · Nov 22, 2017

lachlan said:
You can edit your rank at 10k? I like mine

You can edit the TEXT... but the custom avatars is a no no...

So... if you reach 10K posts... you'll see an option in your control panel to edit the text bit... HOWEVER, if you use it... you will lose any customs avatars as NO HTML is allowed on your end

xROTx

Ip Man · Nov 22, 2017

i will always pick water and heating over anything else. as long as i could use the toilet, have a shower and get heating, everything else comes second.

you can improvise for everything else. can't watch tv? go to the cinema. no internet?, go to an internet cafe.

@M · Nov 22, 2017

I'd much rather have water than internet. There have been several times over the years, in the winter, when our water pipes have frozen and broke, and we've had to go a day or two without water until they got fixed. A person really doesn't appreciate how convenient running water is until you don't have it.

LoneSage · Nov 22, 2017

M said:
I'd much rather have water than internet. There have been several times over the years, in the winter, when our water pipes have frozen and broke, and we've had to go a day or two without water until they got fixed. A person really doesn't appreciate how convenient running water is until you don't have it.

shit and not just running water, but potable water, water you can drink from. lots of countries besides america where tap water is undrinkable. america's got it good, for sure.

aha2940 · Nov 22, 2017

I think it depends on the length of the outage. For a few hours, the Internet feels a lot worse than not having running water. For a month...still the internet feels worse, but the running water should be missed a lot more

Ip Man · Nov 22, 2017

M said:
I'd much rather have water than internet. There have been several times over the years, in the winter, when our water pipes have frozen and broke, and we've had to go a day or two without water until they got fixed. A person really doesn't appreciate how convenient running water is until you don't have it.

1+

i can relate to this. i have the shittest boiler in the world. it broke down nearly fifty times in the past twelve years and many times left us without hot water or heating for months on end. i know the pain of going to a relatives house once a week to take a shower. which is why i consider it an absolute essential.

MattBlah · Nov 22, 2017

Bogard said:
1+

i can relate to this. i have the shittest boiler in the world. it broke down nearly fifty times in the past twelve years and many times left us without hot water or heating for months on end. i know the pain of going to a relatives house once a week to take a shower. which is why i consider it an absolute essential.

I know that feeling. Our boiler broke down shortly after moving in to our house, and we had no back up funds for a while to replace it.

No internet is a blessing.

Ip Man · Nov 22, 2017

MattBlah said:
I know that feeling. Our boiler broke down shortly after moving in to our house, and we had no back up funds for a while to replace it.

No internet is a blessing.

agreed.

hot running water > food

Kid Panda · Nov 22, 2017

In America, if you're a business and don't have running water, you are not allowed to be open.

Neodogg · Nov 22, 2017

Kid Panda said:
In America, if you're a business and don't have running water, you are not allowed to be open.

Those unsanitary Euro-savages!

Tripredacus · Nov 22, 2017

You don't need the internet to live. What do people do when they lose power? Read a book?

lithy · Nov 22, 2017

A couple weeks ago, we were under a boil water advisory at work (precautionary mostly, never actually found anything in testing). Then one of those days I got home and a main had burst at the end of the street and we didn't have water for the night.

Clean, readily available water is a modern miracle. I'd take that every time over internet. We use 2000-2500 gallons of water a month on average. Think about carrying 75 gallons of water every day to make your life work like it does now without a thought. Although I would be significantly more bored without the internet.

Tripredacus said:
You don't need the internet to live. What do people do when they lose power? Read a book?

Fuck, if we lost power now, I'd have to go to bed at like 5:30 when it gets dark.

Igakajook · Nov 22, 2017

Just use the internet to download the water.

Heinz · Nov 22, 2017

Igakajook said:
Just use the internet to download the water.

Can I download beer? or do I need the brewing installation suite for that? all this internetting is hurting my brain.

Cousin_Itt · Nov 23, 2017

I think you should be asking people from Flint Michigan this question.

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