Stocking up food and water

[ASCPFC]

Well my answer to apocalypse remains the same. Forget the supermarket, get to b and q, and tool up with weapons, then kill those with the food.

I already plan to just buy myself a decent compound bow and stock of arrows.

Go full on "Home Alone".

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Go full on "Home Alone".

More Texas Chain Saw Massacre in a few cases.

 

[georgenorman]

Surely Waitrose home deliveries will still be being made?

 

[Spindle]

You’ve been watching too much walking dead……….the tv series not Millwall games

No I've always thought that tooling up was more important. You can get some serious weapons plus other essentials.

Still getting myself a compound bow. If you don't fancy that then you can try a slingshot or sling (Davids sling), or one of those semi automatic compound bow ball bearing launchers

 

[kingdowieonthewall]

It's that unelected useless c*** Burnham and his cronies talking the usual bollocks that only a fuckin MP could invent.
Treating the general public like we're all thick is against my human rights, henceforth I demand this c**** removal.

sweary sid, you are indeed correct.
Covid was a test of how high we would jump and its not stopped since then.
we are utter mugs now and quite frankly deserve what we get until we wake up ,although i think were too far gone.

 

[Foxy82]

No I've always thought that tooling up was more important. You can get some serious weapons plus other essentials.

Still getting myself a compound bow. If you don't fancy that then you can try a slingshot or sling (Davids sling), or one of those semi automatic compound bow ball bearing launchers

You'll want to get in there before they change the law

Are Crossbows Legal in the UK? | 2026 Law Changes, Licensing & Sales Ban

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www.ancientwarrior.co.uk

 

[ASCPFC]

You'll want to get in there before they change the law

Are Crossbows Legal in the UK? | 2026 Law Changes, Licensing & Sales Ban

Are crossbows legal in the UK? Yes, for now. But new legislation will ban sales and introduce mandatory licensing. Here is everything you need to know about the 2026 crossbow law changes.

www.ancientwarrior.co.uk

Compound bow is not a crossbow.

 

[Mark B]

Well my answer to apocalypse remains the same. Forget the supermarket, get to b and q, and tool up with weapons, then kill those with the food.

I already plan to just buy myself a decent compound bow and stock of arrows.

Take the boat over here and I'll let you borrow one of my wife's guns (I'm selfish, no one gets to borrow mine). Plenty of ammo to go around and since all of my neighbors are armed as well, it will be a blast!

I'm already stocked on food and water. Just none of that beans on toast nonsense or you are out.

 

[Foxy82]

Compound bow is not a crossbow.

No, but they're working their way down the list

 

[Matov]

They are clearly ramping up the hysteria for something. And I think that 'something' is drone related. That somewhere, in Whitehall, is an intelligence assessment warning of some fiendish foreign plot to unleash a drone swarm against a major target in the UK.

I am convinced this is behind the (ongoing) Thetford incident (and lets not forget that the Septics f***ed off a load of B1 bombers from that airbase within a matter of weeks).

So lets envisage that drone swarm unleashed against the national grid? There was a major IRA plot disrupted, once upon a time, that proposed to carry out an attack against the national grid that would have seen some people without electric for weeks. This Ukraine/Russia debacle already features similar (Energy ceasefire chatter a couple of weeks ago?).

Forget the food part and water part, (although its unlikely that none of us don't have a few old dusty tins of beans and peaces tucked away), its the radio bit that matters.

That is what tells me this is potentially a threat to the national grid rather than a cyber attack (there was a recent one in France in which lots of freezers in supermarkets were turned into ovens via remote instructions to heat up) because a cyber attack needs the national grid to actually function. Thats the point of it.

But lets inverse it. Why do we even face this threat? Why is our 'System' so intent on pissing off other nations who, as far as I can see, pose zero threat to this country? The real question in all of this.

So it might be worth, with gritted teeth, actually taking some of this advice. Words I will rarely ever write about what the likes of Streeting are saying.

Because drones offer a potential 'End Of The World As We Know It' possibility that people are simply not aware of. And the National Grid offers a lot of potential for bringing a slice of that about.

 

[Stirlingsays]

with no electricity how are you going to cook anything? h&s nightmare with all them candles as well

Me thinks you never went camping.

 

[Stirlingsays]

As someone who has been a prepper for years and has had undergone various levels of light ridicule for it I regard the recent developments with my own light amusement.

I could see the requirement for this years ago.

In fact I think the government are underselling it......and in truth a lot of people can't even afford to prep extra items, so there's that too.

 

[Matov]

As someone who has been a prepper for years and has had undergone various levels of light ridicule for it I regard the recent developments with my own light amusement.

I could see the requirement for this years ago.

In fact I think the government are underselling it......and in truth a lot of people can't even afford to prep extra items, so there's that too.

Not sure if the Government are 'underselling' it (I see it more as a case of the wankers waking up to the reality that if the grid is hit by a drone-swarm attack then peoples anger will switch to them) but there is a clearly a real threat in the UK at the moment. Just the US pulling those bombers out of Thetford is proof enough of that.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

As someone who has been a prepper for years and has had undergone various levels of light ridicule for it I regard the recent developments with my own light amusement.

if civilisation implodes, you need to be on a tiny isolated island with your Prepping supplies. All other people become a threat to your survival. The first place to starve & burn will be London.

The problems emerge when a load of new knackers land onto your nice little island.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

if civilisation implodes, you need to be on a tiny isolated island with your Prepping supplies. All other people become a threat to your survival. The first place to starve & burn will be London.

The problems emerge when a load of new knackers land onto your nice little island.

Christ. And there was me worrying if Dean Henderson would be fit to play today. Actually that would still be a concern even after we've gone full on feral mental.

 

[Badger11]

governments banging on about 'Prepping' and yet no mention of guns ? They probably want us to stockpile food so they can rob it back off of us.

I suppose panic buying is one way to stimulate the economy and lord knows this government needs a bump in consumer spending.

It's a bit like the double glazing salesman who throws rocks at windows

 

[Matov]

I suppose panic buying is one way to stimulate the economy and lord knows this government needs a bump in consumer spending.

It's a bit like the double glazing salesman who throws rocks at windows

I get the cynicism. Because I would not trust the bastards in charge to tell me the time of day, let alone anything else.

But the Yanks pulled those bombers out of Thetford. That has to be seen a very dramatic response to just a load of toe-rags going out to blag a bit of red diesel. The decision to pull those bombers would not have been taken lightly.

That means the threat is absolute. And the threat to planes on the ground, in supposedly safe territory, comes from drone swarms. Again, not hyperbole nor hysteria. Just a modern fact of how war-fare has changed.

The national grid would be an obvious target for similar. Again, happening in a war not so far from here.

I f***ing loathe having to pay anything that prick Streeting has to say. He represents almost any, and everything, I loathe in this modern 'Yoo-Kay'.

But I am convinced there is a very real threat at the moment.

 

[cryrst]

I get the cynicism. Because I would not trust the bastards in charge to tell me the time of day, let alone anything else.

But the Yanks pulled those bombers out of Thetford. That has to be seen a very dramatic response to just a load of toe-rags going out to blag a bit of red diesel. The decision to pull those bombers would not have been taken lightly.

That means the threat is absolute. And the threat to planes on the ground, in supposedly safe territory, comes from drone swarms. Again, not hyperbole nor hysteria. Just a modern fact of how war-fare has changed.

The national grid would be an obvious target for similar. Again, happening in a war not so far from here.

I f***ing loathe having to pay anything that prick Streeting has to say. He represents almost any, and everything, I loathe in this modern 'Yoo-Kay'.

But I am convinced there is a very real threat at the moment.

IMO the irony if it were boots coming in is that the right wouldn’t fight out of spite but the left wouldn’t fight out of fear !

 

[martin2412]

I get the cynicism. Because I would not trust the bastards in charge to tell me the time of day, let alone anything else.

But the Yanks pulled those bombers out of Thetford. That has to be seen a very dramatic response to just a load of toe-rags going out to blag a bit of red diesel. The decision to pull those bombers would not have been taken lightly.

That means the threat is absolute. And the threat to planes on the ground, in supposedly safe territory, comes from drone swarms. Again, not hyperbole nor hysteria. Just a modern fact of how war-fare has changed.

The national grid would be an obvious target for similar. Again, happening in a war not so far from here.

I f***ing loathe having to pay anything that prick Streeting has to say. He represents almost any, and everything, I loathe in this modern 'Yoo-Kay'.

But I am convinced there is a very real threat at the moment.

Matov, I usually find your posts to be very sensible, and your views generally align with mine, however this seems to be over the top, with a conspiracy theorist twang to it.
That said, if you're correct and the National Grid is wiped out, you won't be able to come back to me and say 'I told you so'.
🤣

 

[Matov]

Matov, I usually find your posts to be very sensible, and your views generally align with mine, however this seems to be over the top, with a conspiracy theorist twang to it.
That said, if you're correct and the National Grid is wiped out, you won't be able to come back to me and say 'I told you so'.
🤣

LOL.

OK. So lets go with the 'conspiracy theory' part.

The US pulled those B1 bombers out of Thetford. Fact.
Drone Swarm attacks, launched from trucks and lorries. Fact.
The IRA planned an attack against the national grid, via 'conventional' explosives that would have, had it been successful, knocked out the electric supply for a significant period of time. Fact.

Then we get this warning. From a Government Minister. Making great play of buying the battery-powered radio part.

Sorry, it would be illogical to actually NOT believe that a mass-drone swarm attack is not an actual threat.

I genuinely get the mistrust. And buy fully into the fact of a Government being more than willing to manufacture hysteria to serve its own ends.

But I refer to my first point. Those bombers are GONE.

When it comes to this sometimes ludicrous political prediction game I like to play, I try to stick to a rule that the only person I know who has ever made money from day-trading stocks and shares has. And that is trading actual news. Not charts, not reading tea-leaves, not any of the 101 other ways people try to anticipate the future. Just actual news.

One day those bombers are in Thetford.
Then we get all the theatrics of a few Sundays ago with COBRA meetings and so on, along with Trump saying they had the inside track on this all.
Then we get those bombers gone.

A potential drone swarm attack is the strongest possibility. And then this warning.

Yes, I am connecting the dots, as are many others. But those dots are big f***ing dots.