doomsday prepper.

Ukadder said:
To be fair, living in Harlow it can feel like doomsday has happened. I'd stock up on weapons, but only because it's Harlow!
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A typical storford snob, we are virtually right next to you so we cant be all that differant, except you have a lot of air hostess's and we do not :(, Harlow does seem to have a bad name but I was born and raised in Harlow, never been beaten up, mugged, burgled etc and neither have most of my family.

Let me pose a question to you all, obviously if we were to have some sort of complete social and economical breakdown we would all have to do things we would never normally do to stay alive, do you think someone with children to protect and look after is more likely to go that extra mile?

I believe so, individualy I would have a survival instinct but when it come to my children I would literally go to ANY lengths to protect and feed them.
 
Colbaker said:
A typical storford snob, we are virtually right next to you so we cant be all that differant, except you have a lot of air hostess's and we do not :(, Harlow does seem to have a bad name but I was born and raised in Harlow, never been beaten up, mugged, burgled etc and neither have most of my family.

Let me pose a question to you all, obviously if we were to have some sort of complete social and economical breakdown we would all have to do things we would never normally do to stay alive, do you think someone with children to protect and look after is more likely to go that extra mile?

I believe so, individualy I would have a survival instinct but when it come to my children I would literally go to ANY lengths to protect and feed them.
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Your greatest strength but also your greatest weakness.
 
simulatorman said:
I don't prep for non events.
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Freefaller said:
Indeed.

I've got all I need to live a decent non paranoid life.
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Indeed; but if any kind of odd event did happen I can shoot, fish and fight my way through it for a reasonable length of time as long as I don't get initially badly injured that is, always been good with field-craft and all the other related stuff.

Only thing I could think of that could possibly happen is getting stranded for some reason or another, bad weather, accident, that sort of thing.
 
A couple of weeks worth of tinned food and a supply of bottled water isn't a bad idea to have in. A few batteries and a couple of torches wouldn't go amiss either. A small generator perhaps, if you want to push the boat out.

It doesn't need to take an "apocalypse" scenario to make such things worthwhile - they could be useful in the case of extreme weather (snowed in, broken / contaminated water supply etc), or even in case of some kind of global event that causes Joe Public to go panic buying and strip the supermarket shelves (we all know how little it takes to send some people into panic mode).

I think that anything much more than this is probably taking things a little too far though. Having designated meeting points for family members can be counter-productive, as a suitable meeting place will depend upon the nature of the 'apocalyptic' event.
 
The funniest one I've seen was on some documentary a few years back. This guy had stocked his bunker with all manner of tinned goods, MREs and ammo because he thought the the Earth was going to be destroyed by an asteroid.

I thought it pretty strange that nobody bothered to ask him just what use all that food and ammo he'd would be if the planet was destroyed.
 
A lot of you are taking a very immature outlook on this. Everyone should have a least some store of supplies to last out week minimum, a month even better, the zombie apocalypse may not be just over the horizon but another bank 'glitch' or fuel shortage might be and you have seen how stupid things can get so fast in this country over things that do not even seem to be an issue at first (ie the fuel 'shortages' in March). Imagine how fast the mindless idiots would clear the shelves in your local Tesco if they thought they might not be able to buy bread for a bit!

You have had the privilege of living in a stable country all your life, do not let that cloud your judgement on what people will do in hard times and do not just presume it will always be that way either.
 
I've seen one or two episodes, the guy preparing for economic meltdown is quite sensible given the current climate... but one of the others was some woman preparing for a bird flu/virus outbreak and she just came across as an OCD sufferer to me (those who are obsessed with hygiene & cleanliness).
 
i have a bag, its a hazzard4 messenger of doom bag, in that bag i have a Bear Grylls Survival Tool Pack, a mini first aid kit, BCB Ultimate Survival Kit , a 5m x 5 m tarp, de-salination tablets, anti-biotics, pain killers, compass, map, lube and pron.

in my cupboard i have 48 tins of EU issue steak, a large bag of basmati rice, 40 litres od Tesco water and a packet of pengiuns.

whos not prepped?

and heres my bag, complete with MOLLE system

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soundood said:
i have a bag, its a hazzard4 messenger of doom bag, in that bag i have a Bear Grylls Survival Tool Pack, a mini first aid kit, BCB Ultimate Survival Kit , a 5m x 5 m tarp, de-salination tablets, anti-biotics, pain killers, compass, map, lube and pron.

in my cupboard i have 48 tins of EU issue steak, a large bag of basmati rice, 40 litres od Tesco water and a packet of pengiuns.
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Brilliant :D Especially the packet of penguins - an essential post-apocalyptic item.

Given the amount of food you have I would have been tempted to go for more than 40 litres of water (I suspect you'd run out of water before you run out of food), but still - nice going!
 
Duff-Man said:
Brilliant :D Especially the packet of penguins - an essential post-apocalyptic item.

Given the amount of food you have I would have been tempted to go for more than 40 litres of water (I suspect you'd run out of water before you run out of food), but still - nice going!
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40 litres would be enough till i find water, salty of not :p
 
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