Doomsday nutters anyone?

As people have already pointed out the mayan 5th cycle thing, I'll just add that Nostradamus never said in any quatrain or prophecy that the world will end in 2012.

He did say 3700 or around then, when the sun melts us all. :P
 
Stockpiling some food/fuel/emergency supplies is probably a good idea. Anyone recall the panic fuel and food buying some years back due to strikes? If something happened on a bigger scale which caused the supply chain to break (natural disasters, civil disorder) , there is nothing wrong with being prepared.
 
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harenzo said:
Stockpiling some food/fuel/emergency supplies is probably a good idea. Anyone recall the panic fuel and food buying some years back due to strikes? If something happened on a bigger scale which caused the supply chain to break (natural disasters, civil disorder) , there is nothing wrong with being prepared.
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Quite.

When you go shopping just buy an extra tin or two. Doesn't take long to build a stock pile. Just make sure you buy something you'd eat normally so you can rotate them and ensure you always have the longest use by left.

I do a lot of camping so have a fair few gas canisters for cooking stockpiled generally anyway.
 
amigafan2003 said:
When you go shopping just buy an extra tin or two. Doesn't take long to build a stock pile. Just make sure you buy something you'd eat normally so you can rotate them and ensure you always have the longest use by left.
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And next year you can throw them all away and start again because they are out of date.

I am prepared.
We have knives and I bought a new knife sharpener so if the worst comes to the worst I'll eat my neighbours dogs, cats, hamsters and then eat the neighbours.
Bloke over the road would keep me going for 6 months at least.
 
Dimple said:
And next year you can throw them all away and start again because they are out of date.
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Did you not read the bit about cycling them? :rolleyes: Say I buy two tins of beans for my weekly shopping - those "new" tins go at the back and the tins with the nearest use by date get eaten that week, thus all the food I have will always be in date as long as I'm usually eating the type of food I'm stockpiling.

Oh, and the tinned food I've got has three year use by dates.
 
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Oh, and the tinned food I've got has three year use by dates.
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I've eaten ten year old soup, it didn't look that nice or taste of much but it was edible. Stuff like tomatoes which are a bit acid probably shouldn't be kept longer than 3 years, other stuff should survive well past it's sell by date.


This is what the American preppers are buying, shelf life of 25 years, but probably more like 40.
http://www.emergencyfoodstorage.co.uk/categories/Emergency-Food-and-Survival-Freeze-Dried-Food/
 
bitslice said:
I've eaten ten year old soup, it didn't look that nice or taste of much but it was edible. Stuff like tomatoes which are a bit acid probably shouldn't be kept longer than 3 years, other stuff should survive well past it's sell by date.


This is what the American preppers are buying, shelf life of 25 years, but probably more like 40.
http://www.emergencyfoodstorage.co.uk/categories/Emergency-Food-and-Survival-Freeze-Dried-Food/
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I won't be buying that, how much would you actually need to buy and store to even get anywhere near it's use by date?
 
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amigafan2003 said:
I won't be buying that, how much would you actually need to buy and store to even get anywhere near it's use by date?
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I guess it's for those that want a one stop solution to emergencies, rather than follow some kind of cycling plan.
One years food supply, water filter, solar cell, propane generator and storage tank, guns, ammo. Stick it all in a room and that's probably all you need to survive.
 
Pottsey said:
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?
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In England, recently? None. Probably not since the Great Death of 1348-9. EDIT: No, wait. World War 2. But I think I'd notice World War 3 starting.

Just look at our past history it's full of people having to leave there homes unexpectedly even in the UK.
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I'd go to a hotel. Not a big deal.

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.
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It has happened again. We didn't. In the worst case scenario that has yet occured, with multiple cascading failure of protection systems, many people were without power for 9 hours.

Then you have bad weather how many people got snowed in at home in the past few years?
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For weeks? In the middle of a city in a more temperate part of the UK? None.

What if the weather gets a little worse like it has been in the UK's past history?
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Then I'd take a little more precaution. But that wouldn't happen overnight.

What about factory problems that causehomes to be evacuated?
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What about them? Hotel again. Or a friend's house.

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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Yes, I remember them. They had no effect on me. I did not need the sort of precautions that would make sense if I lived in an area prone to natural disasters, extreme weather or civil war.
 
Nostradamus? lol I was thinking of Nosferatu

2012 is not the end of the world, it's all just stupid people trying to get attention
 
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