It's already bottomed out. There's nowhere for it to go but rust.Extra Medium wrote:
Stop trying to poke holes in the ship, it isn't going to sink.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
EM's plan fails to account for landsharks, which will be attracted by vehicle vibrations.
Zombies;
Guns here in NZ are restricted quite a bit more than they are in the US (1mil guns between 4.4 mil people), and (due to restrictions on pistols/military-esque guns) most of those are hunting rifles or shotguns. Also people who do own guns tend to own several of them, so the ratio of guns to owners to owners is probably even less, meaning I'd be unlikely to get one in a hurry. Until I could scavenge some guns (or even a bow/crossbow) I'd have to make do with melee weapons. Ideally a metal baseball bat, but I'd probably have to grab a shovel or a wood axe from my garage. When looking for guns I wouldn't be concerned with something that'll tear a zombie to bits, only knock them over or make a wound big enough for them to bleed out.
I'd probably try and fortify an office building. I reckon shipping containers would be the way to go, stacked two high all around the perimiter (except over the sole entrance/exit). But theres other stuff I could use, like buses with roofing iron covering the windows/doors/underneath. Stacks of wooden pallets are another option, but would have to be secured somehow, say by nailing/stacking them as I build a pile.
Then I'd have to clear every room in the place.
Food would be scavenged from supermarkets etc, and I'd start trying to grow food in pots around the windows/on the roof. A mall would be better for scavenging, but worse for growing.
If I could get one, my vehicle of choice would be something like a Terrano or a Hilux. I'd make sure to have a bicycle on the back, so that if the engine crapped out I could GTFO of dodge in a hurry if i needed to.
Other scenarios; No idea. I've got a quake survival kit, thats about it.
Guns here in NZ are restricted quite a bit more than they are in the US (1mil guns between 4.4 mil people), and (due to restrictions on pistols/military-esque guns) most of those are hunting rifles or shotguns. Also people who do own guns tend to own several of them, so the ratio of guns to owners to owners is probably even less, meaning I'd be unlikely to get one in a hurry. Until I could scavenge some guns (or even a bow/crossbow) I'd have to make do with melee weapons. Ideally a metal baseball bat, but I'd probably have to grab a shovel or a wood axe from my garage. When looking for guns I wouldn't be concerned with something that'll tear a zombie to bits, only knock them over or make a wound big enough for them to bleed out.
I'd probably try and fortify an office building. I reckon shipping containers would be the way to go, stacked two high all around the perimiter (except over the sole entrance/exit). But theres other stuff I could use, like buses with roofing iron covering the windows/doors/underneath. Stacks of wooden pallets are another option, but would have to be secured somehow, say by nailing/stacking them as I build a pile.
Then I'd have to clear every room in the place.
Food would be scavenged from supermarkets etc, and I'd start trying to grow food in pots around the windows/on the roof. A mall would be better for scavenging, but worse for growing.
If I could get one, my vehicle of choice would be something like a Terrano or a Hilux. I'd make sure to have a bicycle on the back, so that if the engine crapped out I could GTFO of dodge in a hurry if i needed to.
Other scenarios; No idea. I've got a quake survival kit, thats about it.
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Not a very wide sample of survivalists. There are those who have a great interest in helping out their community in times of disaster.Jay wrote:
The first paragraph missed it. They aren't talking about an actual disease, survivalists refer to everyone not like them as zombies. Survivalism is the ultimate expression of anti-social selfishness: "I got mine, I'll kill anyone who tries to take it away from me or who becomes a burden".
Luckily the anti-social tend to be the ones to run into the wilderness and die, or paradoxically end up scavenging on the fringes of the more sociable groups until they're hunted down to remove the annoyance.Jay wrote:
The first paragraph missed it. They aren't talking about an actual disease, survivalists refer to everyone not like them as zombies. Survivalism is the ultimate expression of anti-social selfishness: "I got mine, I'll kill anyone who tries to take it away from me or who becomes a burden".
Fuck Israel
It's a fictional comparison that parallels the difference between those who work for what they have versus those who have everything given to them versus those who take what they have.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Not a very wide sample of survivalists. There are those who have a great interest in helping out their community in times of disaster.Jay wrote:
The first paragraph missed it. They aren't talking about an actual disease, survivalists refer to everyone not like them as zombies. Survivalism is the ultimate expression of anti-social selfishness: "I got mine, I'll kill anyone who tries to take it away from me or who becomes a burden".
Survivors-Zombies-Bandits
The scenario plays out everyday, just not to the extreme you used to seeing on TV.
I'm thinking hipsters aren't going to enjoy the apocalypse.Extra Medium wrote:
versus those who have everything given to them
Fuck Israel
Dont most of them have experience living in tents from their "occupy" days?Dilbert_X wrote:
I'm thinking hipsters aren't going to enjoy the apocalypse.
Malloy must go
Yeah but they never learned hygiene. They will die of sepsis.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
only itll be ironic.Jay wrote:
Yeah but they never learned hygiene. They will die of sepsis.
You could smell zucotti park from three blocks away
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Overpowering smells in New York? Lies.