2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7859#Comment_7859 2007-12-14T00:01:38-08:00 2007-12-14T16:16:20-08:00 MusiM http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1297

So what would you do without it internet land?

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7860#Comment_7860 2007-12-14T00:07:22-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Ava Jarvis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=317

Sleep and write.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7863#Comment_7863 2007-12-14T00:15:02-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 ARES http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=329

Read more. Spend less.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7864#Comment_7864 2007-12-14T00:20:21-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Vespers http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=554

Get a lot more art done.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7866#Comment_7866 2007-12-14T00:29:48-08:00 2007-12-14T00:31:02-08:00 graphicartistx http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=525

Taking this to it's utmost degree, I would first celebrate not having to repay my student loans or other credit based debts. Since there's no electricity there is presumably, no more credit record ...

work. I would also make a b-line for the supermarket and stock up on canned goods, or pillage them if need be. And finally, I would live out the rest of my days fighting off neighbors who think I have a refridgerator, or a generator, and spend my free time drawing, reading, writing, opening cans, and relearning how to become a hunter/gatherer.

(Edited due to spellcheck failure...)]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7870#Comment_7870 2007-12-14T00:47:24-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Ben http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=700

Polish up my edge honing skills. Once I'm happy with that, continue doing what I do anyway, only with hand tools. People without electricity still need places to sit and live in! Possibly hunt ...

Possibly hunt and trap that damned skunk in my neighborhood. Chase the local raccoons down as well. Make them pay for crapping all over my yard every night.

Stay up way more than I do now as a city without light would give me way too many reasons to be paranoid about the people living around me. Attempt to develop night vision.

Learn to play guitar. Not the electric one.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7891#Comment_7891 2007-12-14T06:52:48-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Flabyo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1306

I'd be doomed. There's not much room for computer programmers in an electricity free society, even less for videogame programmers... Still, gives me a reason to retrain into something more ...

Still, gives me a reason to retrain into something more beneficial to society, which would at least make the parents happier...]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7897#Comment_7897 2007-12-14T08:04:51-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Scribe http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=904

Fly a kite with a key tied to it during a lightning storm.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7902#Comment_7902 2007-12-14T08:48:29-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 johnplatt http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=168

Freeze to death.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7913#Comment_7913 2007-12-14T10:17:41-08:00 2007-12-14T10:18:51-08:00 shorty_monster http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=624

Barter all my electrical goods to people who think that the power will be coming back on, then hide with all my pretty things.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7914#Comment_7914 2007-12-14T10:29:05-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Necros http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1325

Start a pottery and go into business bartering for what I need to live. I would also probably brew up some Beer and Mead to sell/barter.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7919#Comment_7919 2007-12-14T10:33:08-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 hemlock_martini http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=284

Enter state of denial. Walk around the derelict cities with my dead cell phone and an empty, tattered latte cup, saying "What? Yeah, I can hear you fine, I get great reception in this ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7928#Comment_7928 2007-12-14T10:43:44-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Paul Duffield http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6

Learn to colour traditionally.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7973#Comment_7973 2007-12-14T14:09:32-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 rfrancis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1494

Here in Oklahoma we've had a week of people answering this very question in a practical way, although my own town was quite lucky in that regard. To judge from family and friends in less lucky ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7982#Comment_7982 2007-12-14T14:32:20-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Captain Legion http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1439

There are many options. Option A) Buy a sword, start solving murders. Option B) Start a cult dedicated to the creation of candles. Become CANDLOR, LORD OF WAX AND STRING. Followers will then ...

Option A) Buy a sword, start solving murders.

Option B) Start a cult dedicated to the creation of candles. Become CANDLOR, LORD OF WAX AND STRING. Followers will then buy me swords and start solving my murders.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7987#Comment_7987 2007-12-14T14:43:11-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Stalker#1358 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=231

Be grateful that I stocked up on ammo and MREs. Then start killing everyone around me for fresh meat to supplement my diet. Erect defensible positions on my farm, take control of my area of the ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7990#Comment_7990 2007-12-14T14:47:28-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Captain Legion http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1439

Option C) Make encampment in Saskatchewan (where you can watch a man fucking your dog kilometers away) during the summer. Make annual moves to Ohio during the winter. Buy swords. Start solving ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=7993#Comment_7993 2007-12-14T15:06:52-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Unsub http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1446

I already live in Saskatchewan and collect swords and other pointy edge having things so I am pretty well set at least until I figure out how Capitan Legion is Van Eck Phreaking my brain. It ...

Van Eck Phreaking my brain.

It would depend how electricity stopped working. If it was just no more giant hydro/nuke projects I could get by quite fine with my still and generator but if it was a huge change in the laws of physics it would mean going back to 14th century life with a few major differences. The Amish would rule the world.
If it was a giant EMP pulse I have an old gas guzzling muscle car that would still run (take that hippies)and am already to paranoid to use a GPS so I am fine with a compass.

I think it is pretty unlikely just because of how many of my whack job survivalist friends are counting on it.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8006#Comment_8006 2007-12-14T15:37:30-08:00 2007-12-14T15:39:13-08:00 Ferburton http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=53

ah, the world without electricity. I get to experience a small taste of this every night at work, the way people react towards it, the unjustice of their lost of convenience. I work at a gas ...

I work at a gas station and we're currently having some electrical issues, which keeps screwing with our store's computers. So half the time the debit, credit, and gas aren't working and the ATM is down. This causes great confusion to the would-be-buyers who come in to the store. What do they do without the ability to use their plastic cards? Though they're told before hand by the lovely signs we have on the door that read, "CASH ONLY" it is still all so confusing.

"You mean I have to drive across the street to the gas station over there? Asshat clerk!"


Oh and I'd probably masturbate more if the hurricanes of the past and lack of electricity haven't shown me otherwise.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8014#Comment_8014 2007-12-14T15:58:43-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Unsub http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1446

I love how people get mad at the gas station clerks about the price of gas like Opec decided to let the guy at the pump set the price!

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8022#Comment_8022 2007-12-14T16:15:45-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Infamous Amos http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1480

I'll be forced to go back to pirating music the old fashioned way... kidnap the white stripes and lock them in my basement, firing shots at their feet like Yosemite Sam, screaming "PLAY, DAMMIT, ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8025#Comment_8025 2007-12-14T16:23:32-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Pooka http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=216

no electricity...honestly the thing I'd miss the most is readily heated water... I can deal with no tv, lights, computer, phone etc...but i would sorely hate to miss a hot shower... oh and heat in ...

I can deal with no tv, lights, computer, phone etc...but i would sorely hate to miss a hot shower...
oh and heat in general...i like heat.
and i'm fond of keeping my food unspoiled in the fridge...
longest i've gone without those comforts was camping for four days camping...
we smelled reeeaaaaal bad...]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8035#Comment_8035 2007-12-14T16:43:09-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Unsub http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1446

You can have most of the things we take for granted you just need lots of slaves or other cheap labour. Hot water is easy with someone adding water heated over a fire every few minutes.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8048#Comment_8048 2007-12-14T18:13:40-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 wingnut2600 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1190

Live life to its fullest. Go outside and exercise, taking in my surroundings and perhaps growing a burly beard. More than likely, I would read and write far more, taking occasional breaks to paint en ...

So... I would do about the opposite of what I do with electricity.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8055#Comment_8055 2007-12-14T20:33:03-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 obliterati http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=351

Laugh at my friend the laser engineer.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8063#Comment_8063 2007-12-14T21:58:10-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Exploder http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=488

Stumble in the dark more often.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8064#Comment_8064 2007-12-14T22:01:40-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 CDoring http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=493

Most likely die hideously, if the power didn't come back in fairly short order. I live in a pretty urbanized area.

I live in a pretty urbanized area.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8067#Comment_8067 2007-12-14T22:09:04-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Toga http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=78

I would spend a lot of time in the library. :-) Heck, I spent a lot of time in the library before the internet. The Internet just gave me new ways of finding information and learning. As for ...

As for electricity? Well, I live in Florida. We do without that quite a bit.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8085#Comment_8085 2007-12-15T01:30:49-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 graphicartistx http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=525

(In best Burgess Meredith voice) "It isn't fair...It...It just isn't fair... I had time now..."

fair... I had time now..."]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8086#Comment_8086 2007-12-15T01:43:56-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 cragum http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=742

without electricity, i would likely freeze to death. were i somewhere warmer, i would likely starve instead, as my primary modivation for working is no longer in existance. were i a little more ...

were i somewhere warmer, i would likely starve instead, as my primary modivation for working is no longer in existance.

were i a little more functional, i would probably travel around the continent]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8121#Comment_8121 2007-12-15T09:38:38-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 cmwich http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1161

First, I would seriously regret getting rid of the wood burning stove that was here when we moved in, particularly since there's a big-screen TV in its place now. Then I'd loot every supermarket ...

Then I'd loot every supermarket and convenience store I can find and hope my family and I can survive the first winter. If we make it through the riots and the cold, we might have a shot.

Realistically, though, we'd probably all die. By this point, we are horribly ill-equipped to survive without electricity. Oh sure, some of us think we could do it, but the simple fact is that electricity gives us everything we need to live. Unless you're already living off the grid, no power = death. If for no other reason than the off-the-grid survivalists will have fortified compounds from which to conquer the rest of us in considerably short order.

I, for one, would prefer not to lose electricity. I like electricity. Aside from the occasional blackout (which makes for a nice break from the routine), I'd prefer the juice keep flowing, please.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8128#Comment_8128 2007-12-15T10:05:40-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 lofidelity http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=969

Start wishing I'd remember to read the note saying "but more bullets" beforehand. Also, find someplace nice to squat just outside the city, and learn to make a log cabin before it get's ...

Also, find someplace nice to squat just outside the city, and learn to make a log cabin before it get's too cold. I love living in a city that's surrounded by forest and hills.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8132#Comment_8132 2007-12-15T10:24:32-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 ScottBieser http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=477

1) Clean out our fireplace, make sure the chimney isn't blocked. 2) Chop down all the aspens in my back yard for firewood. 3) Be thankful I have guns, and live in a low-population area, so I ...

2) Chop down all the aspens in my back yard for firewood.

3) Be thankful I have guns, and live in a low-population area, so I can go hunting for food.

4) Form mutual-protection pacts with my closest neighbors.

5) Go back to using traditional materials for art.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8167#Comment_8167 2007-12-15T13:57:53-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Unsub http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1446

Eat vegetarians for low fat protein. Make slaves of all the people who laughed at me spending 70% of my income on knives and guns. Send a squad of horsemen to bring me the head of Bill O Reilly.

Make slaves of all the people who laughed at me spending 70% of my income on knives and guns.

Send a squad of horsemen to bring me the head of Bill O Reilly.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8688#Comment_8688 2007-12-18T05:36:24-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 eggzoomin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1442

First I'd feel stupid for my hobby and living depending on electrickery. Thinking about my marketable skills, I think looting a music store for ACOUSTIC guitar strings would then be the next move, ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8760#Comment_8760 2007-12-18T14:37:43-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Duck http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1444

hope i was with all my friends in ACF, they can protect me then make like Scarlette in gone with the Wind and start farming/starving. Have great fun smashing the tv etc save my remaning ds battery ...

then make like Scarlette in gone with the Wind and start farming/starving.
Have great fun smashing the tv etc
save my remaning ds battery for my death bed?]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8776#Comment_8776 2007-12-18T16:11:34-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Meatgun http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=418

I had the lovely opportunity to spend 7 years without electricity or running water. Lived in a cabin located directly in the middle of fuck all, but at least it was in a nice warm state like ...

But to answer the question, read, drew and masturbated....frequently.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8815#Comment_8815 2007-12-18T22:59:05-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 graphicartistx http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=525

At least that explains your user name. :P

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8879#Comment_8879 2007-12-19T12:13:18-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Meatgun http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=418

I must say for only one brief glorious moment in my life was I able to be drunk/stupid enough to actually refer to le package as a meatgun mid coitus. Its actually from an issue of Transmet, Sadly I ...

On the topic of no electricity, I never used mechanical pencils when I would draw so I ended up having to widdle the tips of my pencils with a knife to get the points I desired. To this day I still do it , not really sure why. Force of habit I guess.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8910#Comment_8910 2007-12-19T16:33:50-08:00 2007-12-19T16:34:11-08:00 COMTE http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=627

Fortunately, the Technical Director for my theatre company has already built two bicycle-powered electrical generators for a production we're putting up in February, so we'd still have minimal ...

theatre company has already built two bicycle-powered electrical generators for a production we're putting up in February, so we'd still have minimal electrical generating capabilities. I gather we'd probably teach other people how to build similar generators, although considering about 90% of the electricity we use in this part of the world comes from hydropower, I think it would probably be unnecessary, short of a massive EMP burst in the neighborhood.

But, even in a worst-case scenario, I suppose the next step would be to start collecting prop swords, then do some plays about solving murders...]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8966#Comment_8966 2007-12-20T00:29:10-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 ravnos http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=644

Laugh maniacally for a few days, write a random note to the world government demanding 1 billion dollars to turn it back on... and then go about my life as normal, minus a computer. Seriously, I'd ...

Seriously, I'd actually be happy about it. I'd be far more productive, as only one of my hobbies requires electricity, and that's play with computers. I'd get more read, and probably be in better shape, and I'd put my time to better use.
~Ian]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=8990#Comment_8990 2007-12-20T07:51:41-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 kristinag http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1036

1.Go into an absolute state of panic: no fridge, no stove, no oven, no warm water, no lights, no heating, no television, no internet. 2.Once panic is over, I'd bury all the food outside, make sure ...

2.Once panic is over, I'd bury all the food outside, make sure the house is properly insulated, and drag all the firewood inside. Find my skis, and hope summer comes soon. I don't like thinking about not having electricity. My grandparents told me horror stories of working to survive 12 hrs a day, freezing winters and little food. I might move down south, because right now Sweden is pretty miserable. More so without heat and artificial lighting. It sounds romantic, but 5 hrs of daylight is not all it's cracked up to be. The lights keep me from getting SAD.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=9224#Comment_9224 2007-12-21T17:09:03-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 ScottBieser http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=477

We had a fairly brutal snow/ice storm rage through the midwest a few weeks ago, knocking out power for several days for millions of people spread over several thousand square miles. In the wake ...

In the wake of said storm came a phalanx of reporters, looking for some kind of Katrina II story about the failure of FEMA to help these poor souls. Instead what they got were stories about hardy, self-reliant communities banding together to work things out without any majordomos swooping down from Mount Olympus and telling them what to do.

Which is probably why so few people have heard about this.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=9494#Comment_9494 2007-12-23T07:50:57-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 Doc Ocassi http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=410

I remember a lot of years ago during Christmas and Hogmanay on Shetland, the weather knocked the power out for a couple of weeks, no TV and very few lights. It was the best Christmas I can remember, ...

I think I would enjoy a world without electricity, but I'd rather have a world without guns.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=296&Focus=10125#Comment_10125 2007-12-29T20:09:36-08:00 2013-06-19T00:21:19-07:00 ScottBieser http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=477

In a world without guns, those few who have the considerable time and brawn required to master combat with the sword, the axe, and similar instruments would dominate everyone else. A gun makes your ...