Stocking up food and water

[Stirlingsays]

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.

Do you seriously think they have only just realised this?

If a pleb like myself can look at how things are going and pick up on the need for prepping years ago I think that supposedly far smarter people have been calculating risks for far longer.

It's all coming out now because of the mess this and previous governments/civil service/institutions have put the country in and by saying this (though it's been policy for some time just not said loudly in the media) they are arse covering.

They can't then be blamed for having not raised this.

As for security threats like drones, that's just a reality of the battlefield that's coming to us due to the low cost of them due to advancing tech. Our politicians have in their irresponsible idiocy imported the third world and middle eastern foreign conflicts into our country in significant numbers to over-run our security expenditure. Also having had decades of teaching a lot of native people that it's correct to hate this country and its history means we have a huge number of disaffected and nihilistic youth.....Also, like France we have the same problem of a lot of imported or foreign heritage males who also hate this country and are only here for what they can get......Who when the rioting does start will loot and join in.

That and countries like Russia who now have a motivation to harm us as we have decided to fight a proxy war.

A war with zero benefits and only costs.

 

[Stirlingsays]

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.

When you prep, it isn't just food and drink.

I've spoken in the past about the need not to be isolated and to be networked with people who have your back......Being an island....that's also a problem.

 

[chris123]

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.

Do you think the permission to fly from here on defensive missions to Iran was a restriction?

 

[Matov]

Do you think the permission to fly from here on defensive missions to Iran was a restriction?

You don't fly to Iran on 'defensive missions'. Pure BS from the start.

B1 bombers there.
Debacle with these 'terrorists', released on bail within 24 hours. Not even held for the full period of time allowed.
B1 bombers gone.

Only hard facts.

The illogical position to take is that these events are not linked.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

anybody seen US series 'Doomsday Preppers'........at the end of each episode they would identify the 'event' that this weeks clown was afraid of. It could be Oil running out, A Carrington event, A russian invasion etc etc.
The point was that they always laughed at the clown and poo pooed their fears with a tiny percentage probability of 'the event' happening. What they failed to mention is that EVERY CIVILISATION in history got killed off......apart from maybe the Chinese.

We are dancing on the decks of the Titanic folks..........and most of us have zero awareness.

I would add that a highly sophisticated , hi tech, advanced civilisation is more likely to fail than a simple one. As a Formula One car fails far more often than an old Toyota Jeep.

When Rome fell, the farms kept producing and simple-life continued. They lost the big cities, financial system, architecture, and clever stuff. When our civilisation falls, we are back to village-farming, hill-forts, feudalism and Clans.

 

[Spindle]

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

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Yeah I'm aware of the law ATM, not sure if this will include compound bows so research required and I expect I'll end up on a watch list.

Meanwhile the cops just intercepted 4 boxes of swords, yes, SWORDS, being delivered to a migrant hotel. This video is doing the rounds.

Once the Muslims get some more strength they're going to strike.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Meanwhile the cops just intercepted 4 boxes of swords, yes, SWORDS, being delivered to a migrant hotel.

i find that utterly shocking and unbelievable. That the cops would have caught the crime.

 

[Part Time James]

If anything so bad happens my torch batteries are insufficient and my big bag of protein powder can't keep me going til Co-Op re-opens, then I'll be glad to be one of the first ones to perish.

In fact, being in a world surrounded by, and governed by, the kinds of people with bunkers and beans really isn't worth surviving for.

I will thump one of my neighbours before I die of starvation though, go out smiling.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

If anything so bad happens my torch batteries are insufficient and my big bag of protein powder can't keep me going til Co-Op re-opens, then I'll be glad to be one of the first ones to perish.

In fact, being in a world surrounded by, and governed by, the kinds of people with bunkers and beans really isn't worth surviving for.

I will thump one of my neighbours before I die of starvation though, go out smiling.

You're right. Beans and bunkers is not a combination to be cherished.

 

[Part Time James]

You're right. Beans and bunkers is not a combination to be cherished.

One of the worst smutty films I ever watched. Twice.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

One of the worst smutty films I ever watched. Twice.

Worse than bangers and mash? That was a shocker.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

you all remember the Waco standoff, the compound of David Koresh ? Post-civilisation we are all going back to cults and religious fruitcakes. All armed to the teeth and mad as fv.ck.

Monogamy will be replaced by Cult leaders and their breeding-harem. Either Gengis Khan or the fella in the link below.

Waco siege - Wikipedia

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Niall of the Nine Hostages - Wikipedia

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Approximately 1 in 50 New Yorkers of European descent share the Y-chromosome genetic signature (the M222 Y-DNA sub-clade) linked to the 5th-century Irish High King Niall of the Nine HostagesApproximately 1 in 50 New Yorkers of European descent share the Y-chromosome genetic signature (the M222 Y-DNA sub-clade) linked to the 5th-century Irish High King Niall of the Nine Hostages

 

[chris123]

If anything so bad happens my torch batteries are insufficient and my big bag of protein powder can't keep me going til Co-Op re-opens, then I'll be glad to be one of the first ones to perish.

In fact, being in a world surrounded by, and governed by, the kinds of people with bunkers and beans really isn't worth surviving for.

I will thump one of my neighbours before I die of starvation though, go out smiling.

It's what the pub is for surely?

 

[Part Time James]

It's what the pub is for surely?

Yeah, something pretty big would have to happen to prevent Wetherspoons selling microwaved chicken.

 

[Ouzo Dan]

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.

Get a crossbow, shoots like a rifle & hits harder

 

[Ouzo Dan]

A couple of years back I started a thread about prepping, it didn't really get the traction I hoped for.

If the food runs out you're 3 days from anarchy, I'd say with the low impulse control future face of Britain its probably nearer 2 days.

Canned food you actually want to eat, be sure to rotate your stored food into your monthly diet.
Buy a crossbow before it's too late, it's easier to learn how to shoot accurately & you don't have to train your arm to pull a 65/70Ilb like with a bow.
Pistol crossbows with magazines exist too
Apply for your FAC & get a shotgun, it's on the police to prove you're not entitled to one, join a clay pigeon club.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

When civilisation fails, we go back to what Thomas Hobbes called 'a State of Nature'......ie life is Nasty, Brutish and short.

Lots of violence, warlords and Cults will be the norm. Certain occupations and skills will, however, protect you from the chop. Doctors, dentists*, midwives etc......all will have a protected status.

Meanwhile every Brand-manager and HR specialist will be getting the chop.

* old school, low tech.

 

[Part Time James]

Get a crossbow, shoots like a rifle & hits harder

If people start fighting each other with crossbows then there's not really a society worth surviving for.

 

[Part Time James]

When civilisation fails, we go back to what Thomas Hobbes called 'a State of Nature'......ie life is Nasty, Brutish and short.

Lots of violence, warlords and Cults will be the norm. Certain occupations and skills will, however, protect you from the chop. Doctors, dentists*, midwives etc......all will have a protected status.

Meanwhile every Brand-manager and HR specialist will be getting the chop.

* old school, low tech.

I am hoping I am kept alive because I am a good person to have in a pub quiz team.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

If people start fighting each other with crossbows then there's not really a society worth surviving for.

as opposed to the drones and hi tech weapons we have now ? sticks and stones....or nukes. Its all about power, loot, and testosterone.