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I have to work from Bristol as does my wife, and we both use one car to get from Newport - job market our side is pretty grim. Public transport by us: don't ask. If we were to use the train we would have to get the bus first, then the fares on the always-late trains increased and theres never anywhe...

Gives a whole new meaning to the term FIAT CURRENCY . . .

Interestingly, social critic Stateside James Howard Kunstler in his recent blog mentions about revitalisting waterways as freight transport in between bashing WalMart, suburbia and car culture - and steam trains making a comeback could be a possibility! If we hit Peak Coal then bear in mind a lot of...

Big Mac, ha ha ha! Now that also gives a meaning to 'animal derivatives' . . . We have a slow cooker I picked up from a boot sale for a quid(honestly), a few years ago. Dates back to the 1980s and still works a treat!! But in those days things were built to last. In a future possibility of rolling b...

Hobby shopping . . . more like plastic pumpkin shopping!! The same sheep that snap the massivce amount of so-called bargains will then moan about how high the credit card bills are . . .

Halfords have been laying people off in a big way - you can't get someone to fit a headlight bulb and a checkout woman was complaining she was overworked and they were understaffed at the Newport branch, she should be lucky she still has a job. None of this is any good for people who have lost jobs ...

And it always helps to paint your windows white to deflect the blast and hide under a mattress . . . and binbags are great for burying people who die in your fallout shelter!

[quote="clv101"]There goes zavvi

And here comes Bod

In Malta there was a TALLIRA shop we went into in 2002 when we were on a cheap holiday there - Maltese Lira Land we called it, though 1 lira was 50p or something stupid like that. In Denmark there was a chain called TIGER which might as well have been called Kronerland - everything was the equivalen...

With all this fuss about what food we should and shouldn't eat I hear the Soylent Corporation might actually be worth buying shares in . . . LOL

I'm new here and learned of PO through reading Alex Scarrow's novel LAST LIGHT. It was a brilliant conspiracy thriller which had elements of zombie movies and also apocalyptic 1970s fiction, the 'we're all doomed' era. Then having read the author's note at the end, I Googled Peak Oil, came across a ...

So how do we build environmentally friendly aircraft then? With a (recycled) washing up liquid bottle and sticky back plastic?!!

Here's a joke I made earlier . . . had to get that one in.