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WCDT strips 3956-3960 (11th to 15th March 2019)
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: DSL on 11 Mar 2019, 06:58 ---Yep, electric heat can cost you, compared to gas or hot-water.
However, to Brun I'd say: Some of what turned out to be my best decisions were made on the spur of the moment, or in an "Oh, what the hell" moment after a period of overthinking.
My current car and the one before that. My second-to-last apartment. Taking that job offer. Walking away from that job 25 years later.
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Your first instinct is usually correct, the thing is that its not 100% reliable. A friend's father once told me that when people think about things overnight, its not to think themselves out of a situation, but rather to confirm that first instinct.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 11 Mar 2019, 09:13 ---
--- Quote from: DSL on 11 Mar 2019, 06:58 ---Yep, electric heat can cost you, compared to gas or hot-water.
However, to Brun I'd say: Some of what turned out to be my best decisions were made on the spur of the moment, or in an "Oh, what the hell" moment after a period of overthinking.
My current car and the one before that. My second-to-last apartment. Taking that job offer. Walking away from that job 25 years later.
--- End quote ---
Your first instinct is usually correct, the thing is that its not 100% reliable. A friend's father once told me that when people think about things overnight, its not to think themselves out of a situation, but rather to confirm that first instinct.
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Like "let's see whether my subconscious lets something surface overnight"?
Probably more like "let's see whether I wanted just because I'm hangry"
Drooling Iguana:
Brun has the right idea here. On my last apartment search I had to go with my third choice because the first two were snapped up between the time I looked at them and the time I finished the paperwork.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Mar 2019, 07:45 ---Then, on 5/16/1965 a gas explosion in London blew out the entire south-eastern corner of the 22-storey Ronan Point apartment building, killing five people and leaving hundreds homeless.
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Bear in mind that the injuries and damage caused at Ronan Point were down to inadequate construction and building codes, not the size of the explosion. The woman standing next to the appliance which exploded was barely injured, but the small blast was able to dislodge a wall panel which was structural so that the flats above collapsed like a building of cards - because that was how it was actually built. Even though the building was hurriedly strengthened, it was demolished less than two decades later, and some engineers believed that if it had not been, the 1987 gales would have been able to cause the same damage to the strengthened building (by sucking off an outer wall panel) as the gas explosion had.
That's not to say that there haven't been far more destructive explosions of gas, of course. And I remember smog; and the smell of burning coke at home too.
Rincewind:
In my area (South Eastern Pennsylvania, US.) more and more communities are putting requirements for solar panels in building codes for housing developments. Maybe they have some in this area?
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