Hear, hear

How’s that working so far?

Gawd, I hope you’re right, Oracle ... but his quote didn’t sound like a metaphor to me. It sounded like he was talking about something he’d actually seen.

Their computers are still using floppy discs? OMG. I haven’t seen a floppy disc in 20 years. My grandchildren would look at a floppy disc the way you and I would have looked at a buggy whip. We’re generating power with equipment that should be in a museum.

I think our only hope is to buy a massive extension cord, about the thickness of a sewer pipe, and run it across the ocean and plug it in somewhere over in Florida.

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^^^ Evidence that the power outages are beginning to eat up peoples’ brains.

Your translations are perfect.

Well said. The phrase “a collective shrug” in the story says it all.

This is what happens when holding political power is more important than supplying electrical power. Just wait ‘til word spreads on global social media that if you vacation in the Bahamas you will swelter for hours with no AC and no fridge to chill your beer. Uh-oh ...

“... told Tribune Business it had begun its probe two weeks ago when the first round of load shedding and power outages hit New Providence.”

Uh, Neil Hartnell, where do you live? Blackouts and load shedding have been going on way longer than two weeks. Why can you never notice, or ask a simple question, when somebody you are interviewing says something foolish?

Your own newspaper has been running stories about it for months. Wake up, man!

Nah ... BPL would promise the candles, fail to deliver them, then charge double, plus a “fuel surcharge.”