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Doomsday 'Preppers' Poo-Pooing!!!
GlennSprigg:
Wow!... i didn't know whether to laugh or cry! when i unfortunately 'witnessed' one of the 'Preppers' videos on TV the other night... :scared:
Now OCCASIONALLY they have SOME points, but in THIS episode, they were talking about 'prepping' against 'EMP's. (Electro Magnetic Pulses).
Then, some Hillbilly Hick tried to demonstrate his protection methods to 'protect' his radios/cb's etc etc. He used a VERY technical term, 'Faraday-Cage',
to describe his technique... HOWEVER, his METHOD of demonstrating it's PRACTICAL dissemination/problem was to use a ubiquitous metal garbage
can, (road side bin), with electronic equip/radios etc inside, and actually hooked up 'Jumper-Leads' from a 12v Car Battery, which he applied across
the opposite Bin Handles, (after the LID was on, of course!!).... And thus demonstrated how the equipment inside the bin was not affected!!! :palm:
I'm sorry, but although the Human Race can at times need to be prepared against a lot of things in life, I TOTALLY fail to see how these certain Hillbillies
are EVER helping themselves/family?? SOME of these people spend 10's of thousands, if not more, on such often uneducated paraphernalia/systems,
to 'protect' themselves from some microscopic possibility/event, instead of spending all that money on things like where they choose to live, and their
kids real education, and on their HOME!! I'm 'sorry' again, for daring to 'suggest' that 95% of such Families, (Wives & Kids), are just following the orders
or control of the 'Man' of the house... like sheep. Too scared to really speak up... :--
If Scientists had some meaningful and imminent real threats for 'Today', in various countries/areas, then MAYBE 'one' could further educate 'one' self...
However, if it is just being left to these Hillbilly fuck-Tards' with metal trash-cans to make the 'decisions', and brainwash their susceptible neighbors/friends,
then I think it might actually be TIME to let this 'Planet' as we know it... Go... :palm:
Stray Electron:
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on April 04, 2021, 12:15:44 pm ---Wow!... i didn't know whether to laugh or cry! when i unfortunately 'witnessed' one of the 'Preppers' videos on TV the other night...
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Relax! It's television! It's all about how much controversy and artificial DRAMA the producers can create and has nothing at all to do with the truth or reality. It's about as real of those "survivalist" shows where every week they try to vote each other off of the island.
fourfathom:
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on April 04, 2021, 12:15:44 pm ---Hillbilly Hick -- Hillbillies -- Hillbilly fuck-Tards
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There are plenty of people who speak with a more genteel accent but are still woefully ignorant of basic science. For thousands of examples just look at the Audiophools threads here. And I've known some "Hillbillies" who were brilliant engineers.
(Just so you don't get the wrong impression from a TV show...)
Cyberdragon:
They film idiots on reality TV? Wow...what a shocker! :o :wtf:
::) :-DD "RATINGS!"
PwrElectronics:
The one that made me do a :palm: was December 1999 when Y2K was pending and some folks thought the world would turn into madmax...
The local TV news interviewed this family of preppers and they gave a tour of their basement bunker and all the stashes of food/water/fuel/etc... The funny/stupidest part of all that was these people's address was either mentioned or the TV news camera showed enough of the outside of their house any of the neighbors would know.
If their fears had come to pass, you would think the last thing you would want to do is let the neighborhood know where they could raid for supplies!!! :wtf: :palm:
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