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How terrible! A power cut? Imagine the horror!
Damn western-privileged pansies.
Trains ground to a halt and traffic lights were knocked out after a failure in the UK’s National Grid system left a large area of London and South East England without power, creating transport mayhem during Friday rush hour.
UK Power Networks, which controls the power lines for the British capital and the South East, confirmed the outage shortly after 5pm on Friday. The blackout was caused by “issues with two power generators” on the National Grid’s network.
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Scenes of traffic apocalypse
The blackout struck at rush-hour, leaving those heading home from work stranded on trains, in chaotic traffic jams, or on the underground.
Service on the London Underground’s Victoria Line was suspended, and trains in and out of London have been hit with delays and cancellations.
Video footage shared on social media showed a throng of passengers walking through a darkened Clapham Junction station, while staff at Vauxhall Station turned commuters away and back onto the street.
OMG! Chaos in London!
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It is nothing to do with western privilege or pansies. Being unable to operate in a world heavily reliant on power to function is disruptive. It is all about scale. It impacts more immediately and with greater force is all. If you were unable to access money, get food that hadn’t gone rancid, access fuel, contact your children to say they have to wait a few hours before they can be collected from school, contact your clients and suppliers, etc etc for a week or two, you’d be impacted.
It isn’t privilege, it’s ‘development’.
It isn’t privilege, it’s ‘development’.
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I’ve lost count of the dozens of threads there have been on 440 whining about power cuts in Phnom Penh, something you should expect in a third world country.
It’s news in the UK because it happens once in a blue moon.
It’s news in the UK because it happens once in a blue moon.
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So, the daily 4-6 hour cuts between March and June in Cambodia, a country with perhaps 15 million plus people, were on a lesser scale than a few hours in London, a city with a population of less than 9 million? Get real.violet wrote: ↑Sat Aug 10, 2019 1:24 pmIt is nothing to do with western privilege or pansies. Being unable to operate in a world heavily reliant on power to function is disruptive. It is all about scale. It impacts more immediately and with greater force is all. If you were unable to access money, get food that hadn’t gone rancid, access fuel, contact your children to say they have to wait a few hours before they can be collected from school, contact your clients and suppliers, etc etc for a week or two, you’d be impacted.
It isn’t privilege, it’s ‘development’.
Brown people are heavily reliant on power, too.
Perhaps someone can give us figures on how much the last hot season outages cost the country? I'd wager more than a few hours in London.
People died in Cambodia because of power cuts, mostly the elderly and small children. Electricity also resulted in no access to water.
The only reason this got more coverage is because the UK is spoiled rotten. Whiners.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
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Oh. I thought because you were being such a doofus about the London power cuts that YOU needed a more extreme reality for Cambodia in order for it to be understood that it's nothing to do with being a privileged pansy. *I*, of course, realise it's disruptive and difficult for those in Cambodia at such times. It's you that needed to sneer at others. I ramped it up for you.vladimir wrote: ↑Sat Aug 10, 2019 2:23 pmSo, the daily 4-6 hour cuts between March and June in Cambodia, a country with perhaps 15 million plus people, were on a lesser scale than a few hours in London, a city with a population of less than 9 million? Get real.violet wrote: ↑Sat Aug 10, 2019 1:24 pmIt is nothing to do with western privilege or pansies. Being unable to operate in a world heavily reliant on power to function is disruptive. It is all about scale. It impacts more immediately and with greater force is all. If you were unable to access money, get food that hadn’t gone rancid, access fuel, contact your children to say they have to wait a few hours before they can be collected from school, contact your clients and suppliers, etc etc for a week or two, you’d be impacted.
It isn’t privilege, it’s ‘development’.
Brown people are heavily reliant on power, too.
Perhaps someone can give us figures on how much the last hot season outages cost the country? I'd wager more than a few hours in London.
People died in Cambodia because of power cuts, mostly the elderly and small children. Electricity also resulted in no access to water.
The only reason this got more coverage is because the UK is spoiled rotten. Whiners.
Nothing else to say.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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vladimir wrote: ↑Sat Aug 10, 2019 2:23 pmSo, the daily 4-6 hour cuts between March and June in Cambodia, a country with perhaps 15 million plus people, were on a lesser scale than a few hours in London, a city with a population of less than 9 million? Get real.violet wrote: ↑Sat Aug 10, 2019 1:24 pmIt is nothing to do with western privilege or pansies. Being unable to operate in a world heavily reliant on power to function is disruptive. It is all about scale. It impacts more immediately and with greater force is all. If you were unable to access money, get food that hadn’t gone rancid, access fuel, contact your children to say they have to wait a few hours before they can be collected from school, contact your clients and suppliers, etc etc for a week or two, you’d be impacted.
It isn’t privilege, it’s ‘development’.
Brown people are heavily reliant on power, too.
Perhaps someone can give us figures on how much the last hot season outages cost the country? I'd wager more than a few hours in London.
People died in Cambodia because of power cuts, mostly the elderly and small children. Electricity also resulted in no access to water.
The only reason this got more coverage is because the UK is spoiled rotten. Whiners.
So what exactly is your point? A couple of hours affecting 5000 households in London is a very rare occasion and of no consequence at all. Regular power cuts affecting lives and the economy in Cambodia is a big deal.
Not for the first time you take a position on an issue, get it pointed out you’re talking nonsense and contradicting yourself and then change your proposition.
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So London and UK has been hit by a couple of major power failures.
Theresa May and Boris Johnson?
Theresa May and Boris Johnson?
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