British TV Show 'Blackout' Triggers Online LOLs

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British TV Show 'Blackout' Triggers Online LOLs

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @03:28AM from the if-you-can-read-this-message-the-internet-is-down dept.

judgecorp writes "Britain's Channel 4 screened Blackout, a drama about a cyber-attack which crashes the national power grid. The show was silly enough, with a strong message about the dangers of lighting candles in such a situation, but the Twitter responses were even better. The show terrified some viewers who apparently didn't realise that their TV screen was powered by the grid."

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Kind of reminds me of a story... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-10 03:40 · Score: 5, Funny

The show terrified some viewers who apparently didn't realise that their TV screen was powered by the grid.

A friend of mine was getting ready to get in his car one day and noticed the neighbor woman was having an issue with her car. He stopped over and asked what was wrong and she said it wasn't doing anything when she turned the key. He tried and noticed she didn't have any dash lights or anything and explained that it may have been a dead battery. She said to him "I thought cars ran on gasoline?"
1. Re:Kind of reminds me of a story... by SJHillman · 2013-09-10 03:46 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I've encountered, on more than one occasion, people with the opposite misunderstanding. They don't think their cars will start because the power is out on their block. There's also a lot of people that don't realize corded phones will still work with no power (in most situations) - probably the biggest obstacle to VoIP adoption in my area.
2. Re: Kind of reminds me of a story... by Megane · 2013-09-10 05:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  But what about fresh fruit? What do I do if someone comes at me with a banana and I don't have a tiger to release at them?
  
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Re:None of those tweets are funny by SJHillman · 2013-09-10 03:43 · Score: 4, Funny

Of course they're humorless. They would much rather have humour.
Re:Fond memories of Threads by rwise2112 · 2013-09-10 04:01 · Score: 4, Funny

so I can scare myself to death whenever I want.
Surely that only works once!

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Re:People by Minwee · 2013-09-10 04:31 · Score: 3, Funny

Knock knock.
Who's there?
To.
To who?
No, "To whom".
Re:hey stupid by ciderbrew · 2013-09-10 05:23 · Score: 4, Funny

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