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This Woman Lives Every Day Like It’s 1939
Anthony Pearce Blog via Yahoo News ^
| 2/29/16
| anthony robert pearce
Posted on 02/29/2016 8:25:56 AM PST by Kartographer
For the last decade, Joanne Frances has been living life as if the Second World War has just broken out.
The 41-year-old has eschewed modern life and technology in favour an authentic wartime existence.
She no computer, washing machine, television or car – instead cycling to work on an 80-year-old pedal bike.
Living most days in an authentic Land Girl’s uniform, she sometimes spends the evening in an air-raid shelter she built in the garden.
The woman, who works as a cleaner, has committed to the austere life of the 1940s – having ditched central heating for coal fires and using an outside toilet.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: timewarp; vintage; weird; why
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To: Lazamataz
Special PING to Lazamataz!
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:26:30 AM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
She might be on to something.
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:27:11 AM PST
by
AFreeBird
To: Kartographer
People drove cars in 1939.
To: SoCal Pubbie
Only as much as you had rationed gas for.
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:28:26 AM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
She’s a “trans-era.” Recognize her rights, damn it!
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:29:03 AM PST
by
fwdude
To: Kartographer
Nice to see you, Kart. Hope you and the fam are well.
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:29:56 AM PST
by
Obadiah
To: Kartographer; SoCal Pubbie
And new tires were a no-no.
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:29:57 AM PST
by
fwdude
To: SoCal Pubbie
People drove cars in 1939. But she probably can't afford a period-correct one.
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:29:58 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: fwdude
To: Kartographer
Gas rationing didn’t start until Dec. 1 of 1942.
To: Kartographer
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:30:32 AM PST
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: Kartographer
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:30:54 AM PST
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouadsandb)
To: SoCal Pubbie
In the US she is in Britian.
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:31:10 AM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:31:17 AM PST
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouadsandb)
To: Kartographer
I’m guessing this woman is probably worth millions.
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:31:59 AM PST
by
Obadiah
To: Kartographer
I’ll take a wild guess here that she’s single and has no children. LOL
To: Kartographer
I'm a
little like this woman, as most conservatives should be.
Still wear traditional wing tips and modest clothing even when not working or going to church. And I even have a couple of >40-year-old vehicles that I keep running.
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:33:57 AM PST
by
fwdude
To: Kartographer
She should start a reenactment town. Can make pretty good money as a tourist attraction.
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:35:11 AM PST
by
discostu
(This is a different kind of flying... all together.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
02/29/2016 8:35:12 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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