Well aren't you classy. I'm stockpiling tissues for the meltdown of the frothies when project fear all becomes true.
Oh noes, there aren't going to be any tissues left on the shelves!!!
Anyone stocking up on canned food etc.. Brexit?
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Well aren't you classy. I'm stockpiling tissues for the meltdown of the frothies when project fear all becomes true.
Oh noes, there aren't going to be any tissues left on the shelves!!!
Protect and Survive!
Altought I believe that particular information campaign only had a limited release due to the negative press surrounding it. I do remember watching as a kid 'When the wind blows' - an animated story from Raymond Briggs (of Fungus the Bogeyman fame). An utterly chilling and depressing tale of the aftermath of a nuclear war, which quite deeply affected me. Of course, none of the movies produced in the 70's and 80's depicting a nuclear holocaust could ever come close to the true horror of what it would really be like. I also remember as a child growing up in the 70's, near 3 American airbases, the genuine fear I felt from my limited understanding of the world back then.
Now fast forward to today........
No doubt there will be people like yourself who will be trying their damn hardest for "project fear" to become reality (even when it's not) just so they can say "told you so".
Not at all, I hope to god that not a single thing forecast to be an issue or a problem comes to pass and the economy booms. I would love that more than anything. This is what i don;t understand, Frothies just think remainers want the world to burn and it all to be a disaster just so they can say "I told you so" when in reality we just want the opposite. we want leavers to be 100% correct. Its just that we know they won't be as they are promising unicorns and fairy dust and we currently have the most incompetent and inept government in place organising it. If we had some decent politicians in charge we might have stood a fighting chance.
My prediction is that both the leavers and remainers are both wrong.
The U.K. will not explode, sink into the Atlantic, or denegerate into a post apocalyptic landscape of squabbling feudal kingdoms. Nor are we going to sail off into a glorious sunset of economic superiority and plenty.
I suspect the result of all this will be mildly inconvenient.
The U.K. will not explode, sink into the Atlantic, or denegerate into a post apocalyptic landscape of squabbling feudal kingdoms. Nor are we going to sail off into a glorious sunset of economic superiority and plenty.
I suspect the result of all this will be mildly inconvenient.
I agree it was chilling to be confronted with the state attempting to prepare its citizens for such an outcome since if it wasn't a possibility we wouldn't have been educated about it from teachers etc. In contrast to where we are today, I would say that was much worse as it was really the unknown as to whether Armageddon would be unleashed and by today's issues we could be facing some bumps in the road whilst supply chains adjust rather than mass genocide and the earth being decimated for decades. However it was a more recent example of being prepared to stockpile since WWII.
I don't think there's anything wrong with beefing up home supplies of tinned foods since were approaching a possible event with unknown effects of the scale of change upon supply chains. These things can probably snow ball rather quickly with businesses not wanting to hold massive stocks so I don't intend to leave it until the end of October before getting about a months supply in of various tinned and dried foods.
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Vote name change to “frothie”
I vote no.
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You didn’t need to worry as the Soviets would have turned that entire part of the country into a series of glowing craters in the first 5 minutes if WW3 had kicked off.
Same for me growing up in North Herts. RAF Chicksands to the NW, a bunch of TA units nearby and British Aerospace Army Weapons division just down the road.
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Spot on!! There will be some small issues, certainly. Perhaps even some short term price rises due to opportunism, but the reality is, we will all wake up and carry on about our days much like the days before
@Greebo - how rural are you actually? You’re painting a picture you’re hundreds of miles from a shop and major road and no one is able to have any access on a semi regular basis in bad weather. Whereas I doubt that, England is not Canada...
One small local supermarket 5 miles away. Larger main supermarket 10 miles away. The big main supermarkets are all 30 miles away on minor b roads. In winter in bad weather the supermarkets don't get deliveries and ration bread and milk to one per customer so its not a case of people not being able to get to the supermarkets, its a case of they havent got their big delivery trucks there, . Hey we only got more than 512k broadband the other year! Yes there are still many places in England like this even in 2019. And I beleive we still hold the record for the most snowfall in 24 hours in england and the villages were all totally cut off for 3-4 weeks and people left their houses by their upstairs windows.
This was just last year and if if hadnt been for local people going to get provisions for the local supermarket they would have had none to sell.
https://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/n...y-thank-you-for-help-during-recent-cold-spell
Happened around here - it is somewhat rural but not properly rural though I've now moved out to more rural parts. When we had the cold snaps in March 2018 and Feb 2019 the supermarkets and stores ran out of bread and milk with deliveries delayed 2-3 days and so many people struggled just to cover those 2-3 days!
Where I am now proper shops are around 11 miles away - though there are a couple of supermarkets around 6 miles away and a small local supermarket but those tend to get cut off first if there is any real winter weather.
Little did I know at the time but recently I discovered that about 4 miles up the road was a secret installation of nuclear silos so if the commi's had known about that target we'd well and truely been crisps.
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Most of South Eastern England would have been a smoking, fizzing crater. Multi-megaton nukes aren’t exactly precision weapons.
Alternatively, none of that will happen as it's 100% fantasy.
That you could possibly believe we'll be unable to find fresh food to eat or food that we enjoy is hilarious I'm afraid
e: I'm off for a Chinese. Better get them in while I can
Alternatively, none of that will happen as it's 100% fantasy.
That you could possibly believe we'll be unable to find fresh food to eat or food that we enjoy is hilarious I'm afraid
e: I'm off for a Chinese. Better get them in while I can
Well the Government's own assessment says we might so please explain why you are more qualified than them to state a fact that we won;t?
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