Doomsday nutters anyone?

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I like to think if anything like that does happen, all the idiots who stocked up crap would be around about the center of that thing ;)
 
I am not stocking up on provisions as I do not wish to see out my remaining days, if I would indeed have any, within a zombie filled apocalyptic burning hell hole.

I am going out in style, with a bottle of vodka, on OcUK. :cool::o
 
Did anyone watch the Doomsdayers 2012 program on National Geogrephic? One guy on there had a huge bomb proof underground shelter, with a years worth of food and water, and god knows how many firearms. Thats hardcore. And mental.
 
Em3bbs said:
Man, if you think thats scary you would have never gone outdoors in the 80s during the cold war. :D

Try watching the film 'Threads' and see the possibility people in the UK were facing back then. ;)
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Good point, I remember the documentary on Channel 4 about how close it all got to nuclear war. I guess there is always something to be "worried" about in the world :p
 
There will always be crazies in a world where we have access to so much information, yet restrictions on certain info (for obvious reasons). Coupled with the way the media and religions exploit events, potential events and people to make money, you're going to get people who will believe in these things. Faith and a lack of education are one of our greatest enemies. It seems that it spreads very easily between the uneducated.

Of course it's a sensible, logical precaution to have a certain amount of preparedness for a disaster, or difficult situation, but there's a very obvious line between preparing for a potential bad situation and preparing for ZOMG ZOMBIE MAYAN DEMON PLANETS.
 
Pottsey said:
The real nutters are the ones who don't have an emergency kit. Don't have photocopies of impotent paperwork, passport and change of cloths in a bag that can be picked up in an emergency, don't have any emergency supplies. They are worse than the doomsday nutters by far.
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+1.

They are the ones that will be running around like headless chickens that those of us who are properly prepared will be trying to avoid.

Or they'll sit there waiting patiently for the state to sort things out for them - rofl!
 
With all the food we have remaining in the cupboards this Christmas I don't think we will need to do any hunting for a few months.
 
NW_SKINHEAD said:
An acquaintance of mine seems to have taken all of this to heart and has taken to buying all manner of survival gear, everything from a tent, bag with hydration system to 1000 mile socks and a composite bow with which he practices in the back garden with almost daily...... just in case
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The World is not going to end just because the Mayan's calendar cycle ends and a new one begins, neither is it going to end because some hitherto unknown, and strangely unobserved, planetary body will enter our Solar System and cause chaos.

Now, would you do me a favour? Go and ask this acquaintance of yours just what use all that survival gear will be if the, as he thinks, the World ends? Oh yeah, would you also ask him to take out a few loans and forward me the money? After all, if he's right and the World ends he won't have to worry about paying them back will he?
 
amigafan2003 said:
+1.

They are the ones that will be running around like headless chickens that those of us who are properly prepared will be trying to avoid.

Or they'll sit there waiting patiently for the state to sort things out for them - rofl!
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So what do you think is going to happen that will leave everyone alive but fighting for their lives?

Its a little odd that you don't think that if such a situation should arise that I wouldn't just take your stockpile from you at any rate....
 
Pottsey said:
There is nothing wrong with taking sensible precautions in case of disaster. Its just most people are too stupid to do it and make fun of those that do.
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You're quite right, there's nothing wrong in being prepared for some natural disaster and spending a few days/weeks out of your home, like the guy above who's ready for forest fires in Santa Barbara. However, in this case, these idiots seem to think that the World will be ending because they can't grasp the concept of a calendar ending one cycle and beginning another. So, I ask you, exactly what use would a well-stocked survival kit be if the World actually did end?
 
amigafan2003 said:
I obviously don't buy into the doomsday stuff but for the last five years I've always had 3 months worth of food, fuel and batteries in the case of any event that would restrict those items (natural disaster, civil disturbance, war, severe hardship etc).
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Exactly this. I have a big bag containing the essentials. It's not designed to keep me alive during the 2012-end-of-the-world-zombie-apocolypse, but if my family had to rough it for a few days we would have what we need. We do live in a part of the world prone to extreme weather though - we could be cut off in a major Blizzard or have the neighborhood decimated by a tornado.

These are the most turbulent times we've faced in a long while though. The economy is on the brink, as is the Middle East.....it does have the potential to all "go south" rapidly. Best to be prepared and not need anything than to stick one's head in the sand and panic when TSHTF :)
 
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