Load Shedding - the all in one thread

Moederloos said:
I wonder what affect this is having on the JSE in Sandton(? are they still there - been years since I went there).

Even should they have generators - how many of their clients" do?
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They are and I would imagine they do and what clients don't have will shortly. 8 years seems an eternity for this to be happening, I sometimes wonder if they joking.
 
sandmanm34 said:
They are, and I would imagine they do, and what clients don't have, will shortly. 8 years seems an eternity for this to be happening, I sometimes wonder if they joking.
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hehe - here you dropped these.

/me hands sadmanm34 some commas.

:D

EDIT:
The power of a comma.

I helped my uncle Jack off a horse.
I helped my uncle, Jack, off a horse.



Second Edit: I am joking around. I never helped my uncle do anything.
 
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sandmanm34 said:
unlucky!!! where abouts in Kempton? Pomona?
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Nope, Birchleigh North...

Doesn't make me any more "unlucky" than most other people in the country though.. Except for the fact that I'm working on a few plans to try and get through this crap! ;)
 
Paulr said:
Nope, Birchleigh North...

Doesn't make me any more "unlucky" than most other people in the country though.. Except for the fact that I'm working on a few plans to try and get through this crap! ;)
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Aha so you immigrating? or buying a generator?:D
 
According to Kfm news, a bunch of people got stuck on Table Mountain last night - one group was in the cable car, which had just left the upper cable station when they got loadshedded.

They had to get the mountain & rescue guys to get everyone out the cable car, and I think the last group only got down from the mountain about 1:30 morning.

Link: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2256141,00.html
 
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my girlfriend and i were amongst the few hundred foreigners stuck up there too... RIP cape town tourism :)
 
Cathryn said:
That must have been either very scary, or very boring. Certainly doesn't encourage me to go up any time soon!

Go to http://www.eskomstories.co.za/ and submit your story - it's exactly the kind of thing they're looking for.
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more boring and cold than scary... i feel for the people stuck in the cable car though.. they were in there for a few hours
 
Yesterday evening I were absolutely livid. I waited for 20:00 when the power should have gone off. I waited till round about 20:10 and when nothing happened I put a big juicy steak in the frying pan.

Guess what happened at 20:14?

Guess what was the first word that came out of my mouth?
 
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How is it the Eksdom websh1te says "no loadshedding in progress", yet it is brown?
I have also heard that robots are again out today.

Please - can anyone tell me if they are currently experiencing loadshedding?
I would really like to get some idea of the bullsh1t-o-meter of their web site claims.

Appreciated.
 
Moederloos said:
How is it the Eksdom websh1te says "no loadshedding in progress", yet it is brown?
I have also heard that robots are again out today.

Please - can anyone tell me if they are currently experiencing loadshedding?
I would really like to get some idea of the bullsh1t-o-meter of their web site claims.

Appreciated.
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Is it possible that this afternoon's cabinet-meeting in Tswane concerns the following:

Changing the national anthem to:

"Hello darkeness my old friend!"
 
Mr TB said:
Is it possible that this afternoon's cabinet-meeting in Tswane concerns the following:

Changing the national anthem to:

"Hello darkeness my old friend!"
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That's a line from Simon & Garfunkel - Sound of Silence.

Sound of Silence

Hello darkness, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
A neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one deared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools said i,you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisperd in the sounds of silence
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i can't handle getting load shedding at like 8 ill 10, thats when you just want to sit relax and watch some sport or play alittle pc but noooooo, i have to just go to bed.
 
Picard said:
Yesterday evening I were absolutely livid. I waited for 20:00 when the power should have gone off. I waited till round about 20:10 and when nothing happened I put a big juicy steak in the frying pan.

Guess what happened at 20:14?

Guess what was the first word that came out of my mouth?
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eish, that's not good. :(

it's times like these when you need a gas braai :)
 
The meter on the eskom site it also in the red and it says no load sheding in progress.
 
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