This.
Seen a few posts like this on bookface. Its depressing to see people that stupid.
Doomsday nutters anyone?
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This.
Seen a few posts like this on bookface. Its depressing to see people that stupid.
most likely will be economic collapse Euro/UK/USA
globalisation collapse with failure of JIT system around the globe.
just think how many times a day your local supermaket gets deliveries and then think how long it would to be emptied if for whatever reason they stopped coming.
globalisation collapse with failure of JIT system around the globe.
just think how many times a day your local supermaket gets deliveries and then think how long it would to be emptied if for whatever reason they stopped coming.
Man, if you think thats scary you would have never gone outdoors in the 80s during the cold war.
Try watching the film 'Threads' and see the possibility people in the UK were facing back then.
OH Threads what a joyful movie !
Even if they don't have any kind of sexual dysfunction?
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Not necessarily fighting for their lives but an event making those items hard to acquire - for example I live in an area that could be flooded quite severely. The other risk that is becoming more likely is civil disturbance.
You could try
But first, how would you know I had a stockpile?
Man, if you think thats scary you would have never gone outdoors in the 80s during the cold war.
Try watching the film 'Threads' and see the possibility people in the UK were facing back then.
You think that was bad you should have been around when the Cuba crisis was on edge....said my mum when I got scared by Threads back in the day
This.
Seen a few posts like this on bookface. Its depressing to see people that stupid.
I disagree stupidity is often quite entertaining, my girlfriends sister was given an obviously fake scratch card with a winning lot of £50,000.00 plastered on it. It took her a day to realise it was fake, after painfully going on doing up her council house or putting a deposit down on a house etc...
It took her the better part of a week to start speaking to me
Easy mark but my god it was worth it!
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I just keep the address' of half a dozen people who are stocking up on stuff, should the worst happen I'll go round their house with an axe
What's your address btw?
Hit the nail on the head with this one. People who don't at least have a disaster pack with a few days worth of food/rations are the crazy ones in my view. Something to get you buy if hit by a natural disaster or something did kick off and there was mass panic buying from the supermarkets and no deliveries for a while.
In fact, if you dont have a disaster kit here in New Zealand it is seen as strange. Work bought all 300 staff a disaster kit for Xmas (we all wanted digital cameras but there we go haha!). After Christchurch was hit by the earthquake and not many people were prepared, imagine how it would have helped in the first few days if you had a stock of toilet paper, food, fresh water, etc.
The world coming to a complete nuclear style end isnt really that feasible, but localised problems happen all the time across the world. If the world came to a complete end who would want to try and "survive" daily anyway to die of nuclear poisoning?!
Along with works disaster kit, I am putting together some canned food, etc that would last a week if the volcano down the road erupts. There are only two bridges here out of town and if the volcano erupts and the flow goes down the rivers then the town is cut off until it all finishes. The food level in the shops wont last that long!
I would say building bunkers, etc is a bit extreme, but most people should think about a disaster bag with enough food for a few days just incase of localised events such as floods, war, etc.
I live in England. Why would I need those precautions?
The only plausible natural disaster here is flooding and I live on a hill on high ground. If that floods, we're all screwed anyway and I'd almost certainly be dead before then from whatever apocalyptic catastrophy could result in such immense flooding. Major asteroid impact, something like that.
The only really crucial paperwork is my deeds and they're in a bank anyway. Everything else I could get copies of.
Worst case scenario would be my house burning down or blowing up, in which case I'd either be dead in it, in a hospital or in a hotel. None of those possibilities require "photocopies of impotent paperwork, passport and change of cloths in a bag that can be picked up in an emergency [..] emergency supplies."
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
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Got him. Stanislav Petrov. He was the person in charge of the USSR's early warning system to detect a nuclear attack by the USA. This was when both sides thought that the other might nuke them and when the policy on both sides was to respond to early warning of an attack by launching their own arsenal of nukes - mutually assured destruction. He got that warning - multiple missiles from the USA, heading for the USSR and well on their way. Clear as day, wailing alarms, the works. He made a judgement call and decided that all the evidence he had was wrong and should be ignored. He was right - the "missiles" detected by the system were unusual reflections off clouds. But he had no way of knowing that.
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Next year will be a year full of pointless suicides of those who are getting in before the rapture or whatever is supposed to be coming. We could hopefully see morons joining the endangered species list by the time we get into 2013 because they would have all topped themselves in fear.
The only thing to be expected (if claims by NASA are anything to go by) are solar flares, but that isn't exactly going to mean the death of humanity.
The only thing to be expected (if claims by NASA are anything to go by) are solar flares, but that isn't exactly going to mean the death of humanity.
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Knowing my luck the world will end.. I would survive and the only thing left to eat would be tinned spam.
Heaven! Bonus if I had a pan to fry it in.
Just how many people have lived in cities with that attitude, cities, towns and villages that got wiped off the map or had to be evacuated?
Just look at our past history it's full of people having to leave there homes unexpectedly even in the UK. A more extreme example is the space storm of 1921 or storm of 1859 its only matter of time before it happens again and we lose power for a few days weeks or months. Then you have bad weather how many people got snowed in at home in the past few years? What if the weather gets a little worse like it has been in the UK's past history? What about factory problems that causehomes to be evacuated?
http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/ne...dings_evacuated_in_Croydon_town_centre_blaze/ a classic example of why it's good to have a bag you can pick up with ease in an emergency with photocopies of important paperwork.
EDIT: A better example then the ones above. Look at all the people who lost power and sometimes water for days due to severe thunderstorms in the UK. Emergency supplies make events like that far easier to live with. Do you remember the really big fuel strikes? The ones that went on for a while and people couldn't go out and get food and had to really limit driving due to station after station being empty.
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Nope, they're all a bunch of morons talking nonsense. And everyone I know seems to agree.
"Repent buy this bible or you'll go straight to hell"
Well thats where my mates are going, and it's not like fire can burn ghosts. Even if hell did exist it's not a threat, and obviously very unlikely.
"Repent buy this bible or you'll go straight to hell"
Well thats where my mates are going, and it's not like fire can burn ghosts. Even if hell did exist it's not a threat, and obviously very unlikely.
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This isn't going to end well.