I've been telling Mrs D to stock up the garage and loft with tinned food and bottled water for 5 years now. She doesn't listen. These people have been rather more proactive: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... addComment Are you prepared?

I've been telling Mrs D to stock up the garage and loft with tinned food and bottled water for 5 years now. She doesn't listen. These people have been rather more proactive: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... addComment Are you prepared?

Does Leveson know that the Daily Mail are running a "Nutters-R-Us" page ?

We are sorted, the wife has 5 years supply of shoes and bags, no need to go out at all.

Would you want to survive if that's all that's left. Spicy Refried beans as well? No thanks!

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Doomsday Preppers is a kinda scary program, but clearly there are many thousands in the States, all with huge stocks, detailed plans, a bug-out bag and alternative routes etc. I kind of think that if it all went tits, word would soon get around that i had ten years of food and water in my basement and that would be me well and truly fscked, given that I'm not allowed to have a cabinet of weapons and a year of ammo.

If I was a prepper in the States, even if I could fight off those less prepared with their eyes on my stockpile, I doubt the fire brigade would come when they set my house on fire to flush me out so conclude they are all monumentally wasting their time.

I could not give a hoot.

I particularly loved some of the "facts" like: "Russia has built enough shelters to house their total population" and "you can't get a shelter built in the US because the government have employed all the contractors to build shelters on their behalf".

Barking doesn't even come close

People panic buy every year. Supermarkets shutting for one day forces people into freezing 17 loaves of bread, 12 beef joints, 2 chickens and a turkey whilst housing 14 bottles of milk in their fridge. What's the difference?

The difference in that instance is you know it'll open again, full of supplies. In the hypothetical 'preppers' vision, those deliveries wouldn't be coming.

Ah. Woosh.

Anyway, with the advertising revenue this place makes, perhaps RLFANS could look to get a bunker complex set up? A male and female from each subsite to be kept safe. Just to be sure that people in the post-apocalyptic future have somewhere to go for employment, health and financial advice?

I'm prepared.

Prepared to point and laugh at "survivalists" who think all they need to survive a nuclear attack/zombie apocalypse is a shedload full of Spam, a tin opener and an assault rifle.

It's easy to laugh at the Doomsday Preppers. But once you get past all the nonsense there is, I think, a serious question - how would people who have known nothing other than a life filled with internal combustion engines, electricity, an over-arching, fully-featured cradle-to-the-grave medical service etc. cope in the event of a cataclysmic catastrophe such as nuclear war, a meteorite strike or perhaps runaway global warming?

We often think of people living, say, two hundred years ago as primitive - but they at least would be able to identify edible crops, make fire, catch wild animals for food, clothing or any number of other uses. Aside from people who pursue outdoor activities seriously - who in Britain would survive one or two bad winters?