THE END IS NEAR!

Well, whenever those shows like "I Survived", or "I Shouldn't Be Alive" is on, I take mental notes so I know what to do if I'm stranded in the desert or if I get bitten by a rattle snake. Sort of.

Which apocalypse are we preparing for this time?

I found this Y2K hysteria info the other day when I was filing a bunch of old papers. I don't want to type it all out, so I hope it is readable.

It is just awesomely funny to me.

i can pitch a tent without a camp

I think I'd be able to survive. My grandpa had this shed with a machine where you would manually make your own buckshot shells.... something like that, anyway. I can hunt and fish (even though it's not a hobby), and can grow my own food if forced to (again, not a hobby of mine). I think I'm a pretty decent builder-of-things, so you're all invited to my limb-and-leaf fort when the world ends.

Like most bridges... when I get to it.

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Me too, and when I'm walking along the streets, I scan the surroundings for where I should run, should someone attempt to accost me for whatever reasons. It's always forward-diagonally in the direction of my ten or two-o-clock.

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took a brilliant survival class at the local community college. it culminated in a three day excursion during the winter - negative twenty fahrenheit - and all you could take out to the field with you was the clothing on your back and what you could fit in a small coffee tin. sort your own food and water, keep your fire lit, it was brilliant.

they also had what was supposed to be a stellar 'edible / poisonous plants course'

also, this is a brilliant primer on the topic of urban survival - and a fun read!

tom brown's guide to city and suburban survival

tom brown is excellent at how-to survival guides.

I'm as strong as this guy:

Become a zombie. Then I'll live forever!

I don't mind dying cause I dont take the time to take notes on how to survive.

I have an original Girl Scouts Handbook. It has a whole section on snakes and "other lowly creatures."

Boys?

I imagine so.

This sounds like a really excellent class. I wonder if my community college has something similar.

If anything Fallout 3-ish ever happened I'd probably die right away. I'm pretty useless. I don't even have any canned food in my house.

You don't have canned spam!?

I HATE YOU

I have other cool stuff...wait...don't run away...LIGHTRIOUS COME BACK

Maybe if you didn't Entermessage the shout box, but that's just too much in one day.

I have coffee and Oreos, you can hang out with me.

Not at doomsday. Just whenever.

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Last night I was huddled round a campfire with a bunch of school friends and I admitted I didn't know how to make a successful fire. I felt so ashamed and everyone looked at me with disdain. I suppose I should, considering that I grew up in the countryside.

I also have a Brownie Guides book (UK Girl Scouts) but all it has are diagrams for how to set the table prettily and arranging flowers in vases. I suppose it is kind of an old book (late 80s/early 90s) and therefore before gender stereotyping was seen as politically incorrect in UK.

Over the course of a wasted lifetime I have developed a particular set of skills, a set of skills that can help me survive an apocalypse, or make it very hard for hordes of zombies to survive. I can live off the land if I need to for as long as I need to. I am familiar with rifles as well as small arms and can shoot and clean them. I can drive pretty much anything with wheels and am somewhat mechanical so I can be very handy at rigging or fixing these vehicles. I like to keep in shape and keep limber. I keep up with my martial arts training even though at this point I am more self taught. I can also move very silently if needed as well as proficient at B&E. I am certified for first aid. I can run pretty well. I'm not a marathon runner but I can outrun whomever I need to for a few miles and can walk forever if needed. I have hunted and fished and have put all this info in my memory banks for a fateful day.

Nope. I honestly think I'd prefer death to a post-apocalyptic life.

No way, not for me. I actually look forward to the day that everything comes to an end. Living Mad Max Style. I'm sure it will happen one day, maybe not in our lifetime but everything we are doing is surely speeding up the process. I just hope that I get some kind of warning so that I can bunker up and get somewhere safe.

All I need is a couple gas cans and a shotgun and I can live out of my van forever if need be.

(Forever being determined by how long my van would survive constantly trying to outrun zombies, which, in reality, wouldn't be very long. But, say, all the worlds buildings were toppled, it'd make an ok shelter for however long it takes.)

If the apocalypse were to ever happen I would be content if I died during or soon after the event. I'm blissfully unaware of my environment and wouldn't stand a chance anyway.
I'm the kind of guy who flips out if an elevator gets stuck. Trust me, no one would want me around in an end of the world scenerio.

Well then - if we run out of food, we'd be more than happy to skin you alive and make a nice stew.

Sure, it'd be cool - but not after a massive nuclear explosion, a meteor deciding to collide with Earth, or some other crazy apocalyptic event. I guess I'd give it a shot if the "apocalypse" was just all electricity going down.

I'd actually welcome any of the above. Really, any end of the world scenario that doesn't involve another Republican president is good for me.

You obviesely haven't seen Independence Day.

Noway dude, those Aliens killed enough people and created enough chaos to classify it as a full blown Apocalypse.

yes, I am bumping my own thread.

I decided that it would be a good plan to have at least a good months or two supply of pure basics on hand, beans rice, barely, other stuff (I did the math on what I need!). Not so much because I think the world is ending ( I fucking don't) but because everyone else out there is effing crazy and if they get crazier before years end it just seems a good idea. I mean, there could all kinds of crap just because people want to get on the lets make shit as horrible as possible before the end bandwagon.

Or not. Maybe everyone will behave themselves.

The other thing too, is- it just seems a responsible thing to do.

No matter this crazy end of the world nonsense (Y2K anyone?) natural disaster and other problems can happen and it just seems a good idea to be prepared to face a month at any given time.

Speaking of Y2K, i had jack diddly prepared for that, I remember at the very last moment I ran out and bought about fifteen packs of diapers, a case of water, and then looked around the store at everyone else getting ready to party it up with all their party goods they were buying, and added a big ass package of condoms to my basket, in part because I was too young to buy any thing else fun, and in part because they seemed like a good thing to have if shit did hit the fan with supply sources and all.

(then I went home and wept alone)

I think right now I should stock up on lots of wine and beer between now and the end of days a week from now.

hahah.

I suppose I must have deleted the scan of the paranoia propaganda and then uploaded this and somehow it took the others place?

Sorry Timbs.

Rapey is going to end the world!