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[ffutures]

Old news, apparently, but I was in Portobello Road today and saw a box on a junk stall, and realised that Ikea are being very rude with some of their products. Meanwhile, Britain has record temperatures and a Richter 4.3 earthquake in Folkestone today - some of my friends live there, fortunately they haven't been hurt.

And here was me thinking it was going to be a boring day...

Comments

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

I guess this one (http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?topcategoryId=15597&catalogId=10103&storeId=7&productId=12945&langId=-20&chosenPartNumber=30054082) might do for the Barbara Windsor fans out there, but it doesn't look like they do the Nöb racks that they used to do and we bought to use as, sorry, helmet hangers...

[parakkum.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I assume earthquakes are fairly rare in the area, right? That would mean buildings were more prone to collapsing in bad ways from fairly minor earthquakes (such as a 4.1).

As a Cali native, I tend not to notice earthquakes in the 4ish range or less.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Pretty much - nobody in Britain builds with earthquakes in mind, and a lot of the houses in that area are very old brick buildings. Fortunately all of the evidence suggests that this is about as big as they get in the UK - we've only had a couple of people killed in quakes in the last hundred years.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Sorry - the last 500 years.