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If the shit hit the fan, what would be in your bug out bag?
FuzzyOnion:
--- Quote from: PerunNS1488 on July 23, 2016, 10:08:05 am ---
--- Quote from: Delta on July 22, 2016, 11:16:19 pm ---My bag would contain:
- One forty-five caliber automatic
- Two boxes of ammunition
- Four days' concentrated emergency rations
- One drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine,
vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills
- One miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible
- One hundred dollars in rubles
- One hundred dollars in gold
- Nine packs of chewing gum
- One issue of prophylactics
- Three lipsticks
- Three pair of nylon stockings.
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Gun, ammunition, drugs and dollars i understand but other stuff? What the hell man?
$100 in rubles would be a waste of space O0
Condoms, lipsticks and nylon stocks - are you going to become a post apocalyptic prostitute?
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As Delta noted - you need to stop worrying and watch the movie "Dr. Strangelove".
TerraHertz:
Possibly the ONE good thing about passing 60, having a few minor but very annoying health problems, and some recent major disappointments in life, is that surviving after a civilization crash doesn't much appeal. Really no point. Also I definitely don't want to be around long enough to observe all the world's nuclear installations going tits up due to failed maintenance, and the mass global radiation contamination that would develop over subsequent decades.
As an experienced bushwalker, I could survive for exactly as long as the food I could carry would last, plus maybe a couple of weeks in one place. In the bush within walking distance of my home I can't imagine how anyone could survive off the land. It's all very poor land. Fleeing the major cities (along with millions of others) would not work either. Having a long established home in a remote rural area (where you knew all the neighbors) could work, but I don't have the resources.
I think I'd prefer to just hang around at home. At least I'd get to watch a whole lot of people dealing with a situation they always denied could ever be possible.
Incidentally, since the government here (NSW Australia) sold off the electricity distribution infrastructure to private companies, there are indications these companies employ almost no maintenance crews. Would not surprise me if they are letting the system run down badly. Also a lot of coal-fired power stations and the associated coal mines are being shut down and actively dismantled (not mothballed.) It will be interesting to see the end result, especially if we really are now entering into a new solar Maunder Minimum, with all that implies for more generally cloudy weather and much colder temperatures for the next 50 to 100 years.
If things got really terminal, I suppose the most satisfying 'bug out bag' would contain a list of names and addresses, and little else.
mtdoc:
--- Quote from: TerraHertz on July 25, 2016, 05:38:51 am --- Also I definitely don't want to be around long enough to observe all the world's nuclear installations going tits up due to failed maintenance, and the mass global radiation contamination that would develop over subsequent decades.
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Yep. That's a real danger.
--- Quote --- Fleeing the major cities (along with millions of others) would not work either.
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Yep - in the event of a major SHTF event, a bug-out bag will not do the city dwellers much good.
--- Quote --- Having a long established home in a remote rural area (where you knew all the neighbors) could work, but I don't have the resources.
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Yep - being part of a small rural close knit community is the only chance for any long term survival in a major global scale societal collapse scenario. The "lone-wolf" survivalist types will not last long.
Orlov has written an interesting book that explores this concept: Communities that Abide
TerraHertz:
--- Quote from: mtdoc on July 25, 2016, 05:50:58 am ---Orlov has written an interesting book that explores this concept: Communities that Abide
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http://cluborlov.blogspot.com.au/ for those not familiar with him.
An interesting guy, and I like his writing, but he lost me when he wrote another book proposing to 'rationalize' English spelling. Meaning completely start from scratch and go entirely phonetic.. Phooey. Way to make all written history inaccessible. Besides, I like idiosyncratic. It adds flavor.
Simon:
unfortunately America has already tried to mess with spelling words and have caused enough havoc. If they don't like the way english is spelt they can go and make up their own new language.
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