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Evoluzione said:
Sorry to be pedantic, but 1.6 Sqm of wood, would be of zero height, you mean a cubic metre. Probably 1 cubic metre (1m3) looking at your pic.
I do like prepping though
You are correct, I’d normally use scientific notation but I’m a bottle of Australian Cab Sav down and panicked when I realised I didn’t know how to do superscript on PH. If I was being as pedantic as you I’d point out your non-superscript 3. I do like prepping though
I paid for 1.6 so I hope it was 1.6
Edited by paralla on Friday 1st October 23:21
paralla said:
You are correct, I’d normally use scientific notation but I’m a bottle of Australian Cab Sav down and panicked when I realised I didn’t know how to do superscript on PH. If I was being as pedantic as you I’d point out your non-superscript 3.
I paid for 1.6 so I hope it was 1.6
1.6m³?I paid for 1.6 so I hope it was 1.6
Edited by paralla on Friday 1st October 23:21
paralla said:
bobtail4x4 said:
that would last a couple of weeks in ours.
We also have a 38kW gas boiler/central heating and 9kW of electric floor heating. The fire is just because it looks nice and makes us feel cosy.My mate has had 2 vanloads so far this year,
The bit about prepping I don’t get is what would you do on the other side of a nuclear war or something? You can only prep for a fuel outage or food shortage for so long, after that you’re f
ked unless you’re prepared to loot or fight others for what resources are left? Unless you have skills that would be genuinely useful after an “end of days” type scenario, you’re just a drain on the resources that are left
ked unless you’re prepared to loot or fight others for what resources are left? Unless you have skills that would be genuinely useful after an “end of days” type scenario, you’re just a drain on the resources that are leftpablo said:
...unless you’re prepared to loot or fight others for what resources are left?
I think they are, hence also having a lot of guns and ammo (at least in the US). Personally, in the event of nuclear war I'd quite like to die ASAP rather than live the remainder of my days in a hellhole of radiation poisoning, but each to their own 
leglessAlex said:
I think they are, hence also having a lot of guns and ammo (at least in the US). Personally, in the event of nuclear war I'd quite like to die ASAP rather than live the remainder of my days in a hellhole of radiation poisoning, but each to their own
Dunno like, in all of the post apocalypse documentaries i've watched, life looks pretty interesting. Ok, us blokes have to wear clothes made of bits of old tyre, but most of the lasses are essentially wandering about in fetish wear and every 3rd one has her arse out.Also, despite petrol being very scarce and essentially the de facto currency, everyone has a v8 for some reason.
Some Gump said:
leglessAlex said:
I think they are, hence also having a lot of guns and ammo (at least in the US). Personally, in the event of nuclear war I'd quite like to die ASAP rather than live the remainder of my days in a hellhole of radiation poisoning, but each to their own
Dunno like, in all of the post apocalypse documentaries i've watched, life looks pretty interesting. Ok, us blokes have to wear clothes made of bits of old tyre, but most of the lasses are essentially wandering about in fetish wear and every 3rd one has her arse out.Also, despite petrol being very scarce and essentially the de facto currency, everyone has a v8 for some reason.
It's not really my thing, but I did enjoy 'The Road' a while ago - very 'gritty'!
DonkeyApple said:
It's at moments of extreme crisis and fear that we must do our best to survive. I doubt many people will be alive after Christmas.
In a country where a handful of tinpot fast and loose energy entities tried to sell at a loss to gain market share before the inevitable commodity spike that they were never going to survive, where on petrol vendor cut premium fuel from a few dozen shops because in the 5 years since Brexit they didn't want to pay more for non third world labour and where its become difficult to find ripe avocados in every shop in town, we are truly in the dark ages and doomed. Of course, it might just be that half the country are dim witted, easily scared bog roll fetishists.
I suspect the latter…In a country where a handful of tinpot fast and loose energy entities tried to sell at a loss to gain market share before the inevitable commodity spike that they were never going to survive, where on petrol vendor cut premium fuel from a few dozen shops because in the 5 years since Brexit they didn't want to pay more for non third world labour and where its become difficult to find ripe avocados in every shop in town, we are truly in the dark ages and doomed. Of course, it might just be that half the country are dim witted, easily scared bog roll fetishists.
Some Gump said:
Dunno like, in all of the post apocalypse documentaries i've watched, life looks pretty interesting. Ok, us blokes have to wear clothes made of bits of old tyre, but most of the lasses are essentially wandering about in fetish wear and every 3rd one has her arse out.
Also, despite petrol being very scarce and essentially the de facto currency, everyone has a v8 for some reason.
Really? I quite like the idea of being North Yorkshire's male version of Tina Turner with my own thunder dome. I'd look amazing in that outfit.+Also, despite petrol being very scarce and essentially the de facto currency, everyone has a v8 for some reason.
+full disclosure... This is not true.
pablo said:
The bit about prepping I don’t get is what would you do on the other side of a nuclear war or something? You can only prep for a fuel outage or food shortage for so long, after that you’re fked unless you’re prepared to loot or fight others for what resources are left? Unless you have skills that would be genuinely useful after an “end of days” type scenario, you’re just a drain on the resources that are left
Realistically it is a short term prep that makes sense. Local power substation gets hit by a lorry or snowed in for a few days.ked unless you’re prepared to loot or fight others for what resources are left? Unless you have skills that would be genuinely useful after an “end of days” type scenario, you’re just a drain on the resources that are leftAnything actual world ending theres not alot of point.
So for me iv'e been through 3 power cuts randomly at mine lasting no more than a few hours. After the i bought a converter thing for running the tv and internet router which has been used once since.
Have a nice supply of wood for the wood burner and rotate a spare gas canister for the kitchen hob.
Other than that good tyres on the car never less than 1/4 tank when it snows etc.
Fail to plan is to plan to fail.
Edited by vulture1 on Monday 4th October 00:24
Trouble is, the whole "prepping" thing conjures up images of mid american camo-toting nutjobs with fallout shelters buried in their garden, 5 years of canned food, automatic weapons, etc.
On the other hand, far more useful to be ready for the everyday problems. Relatively simple things,
Not leaving your car on fumes permanently (topical!)
Having a few weeks of savings, a couple of credit cards, a decent amount of actual cash to hand.
Keep your workplace skills and qualifications relevant.
Have stock of non perishable food, enough to cover a few weeks at least
Being able to carry out basic repairs and maintenance
Capability and kit to detect and put out a small fire
Stuff like that.
The zombie apocalypse \ nuclear armaggedon are fairly unlikely, but you could lose your job, a log could fall out of the fireplace, there could be a few days of terrible weather, you could get a puncture.
All of which are resolved by simple, non-nutjob prepping.
On the other hand, far more useful to be ready for the everyday problems. Relatively simple things,
Not leaving your car on fumes permanently (topical!)
Having a few weeks of savings, a couple of credit cards, a decent amount of actual cash to hand.
Keep your workplace skills and qualifications relevant.
Have stock of non perishable food, enough to cover a few weeks at least
Being able to carry out basic repairs and maintenance
Capability and kit to detect and put out a small fire
Stuff like that.
The zombie apocalypse \ nuclear armaggedon are fairly unlikely, but you could lose your job, a log could fall out of the fireplace, there could be a few days of terrible weather, you could get a puncture.
All of which are resolved by simple, non-nutjob prepping.
shtu said:
Trouble is, the whole "prepping" thing conjures up images of mid american camo-toting nutjobs with fallout shelters buried in their garden, 5 years of canned food, automatic weapons, etc.
On the other hand, far more useful to be ready for the everyday problems. Relatively simple things,
Not leaving your car on fumes permanently (topical!)
Having a few weeks of savings, a couple of credit cards, a decent amount of actual cash to hand.
Keep your workplace skills and qualifications relevant.
Have stock of non perishable food, enough to cover a few weeks at least
Being able to carry out basic repairs and maintenance
Capability and kit to detect and put out a small fire
Stuff like that.
The zombie apocalypse \ nuclear armaggedon are fairly unlikely, but you could lose your job, a log could fall out of the fireplace, there could be a few days of terrible weather, you could get a puncture.
All of which are resolved by simple, non-nutjob prepping.
That's not prepping though. That stuff is just common sense. On the other hand, far more useful to be ready for the everyday problems. Relatively simple things,
Not leaving your car on fumes permanently (topical!)
Having a few weeks of savings, a couple of credit cards, a decent amount of actual cash to hand.
Keep your workplace skills and qualifications relevant.
Have stock of non perishable food, enough to cover a few weeks at least
Being able to carry out basic repairs and maintenance
Capability and kit to detect and put out a small fire
Stuff like that.
The zombie apocalypse \ nuclear armaggedon are fairly unlikely, but you could lose your job, a log could fall out of the fireplace, there could be a few days of terrible weather, you could get a puncture.
All of which are resolved by simple, non-nutjob prepping.
But not a lot of people have common sense and since the start of this thread we have had multiple major events that have highlighted this.
You suggest that people who top up their cars with £10 each time should do this from a base of having a full tank as opposed to an empty one. This isn't something that is clever or prepping but very basic common sense. It's what many elderly people do when they are on a budget. Most people run their cars from full to half then refill. Not running one's tank to empty isn't prepping just a byproduct of a functional mind and the ability to self control.
Prepping is just the illness that lies either side of common sense and a balanced mind where people either prep in advance for fantasy scenarios, where in the US they collect guns and in the UK it's lanyards and cards that say 'key worker' or they prep in arrears, as in soil their pants on the back of every bit of news and rush to the shops to procure excessive amounts of toilet roll.
leglessAlex said:
I think they are, hence also having a lot of guns and ammo (at least in the US). Personally, in the event of nuclear war I'd quite like to die ASAP rather than live the remainder of my days in a hellhole of radiation poisoning, but each to their own
Back in the 80's when Threads came out I lived on a farm, we had livestock, large food supplies, petrol and diesel tanks, a well stocked gun cabinet....all the things people seem to think you'd need in the post apocalyptic world...that we'd never see as we lived a few miles from Greenham common so would be gone in the first strike If there were a genuinely apocalyptic event, either you find yourself some sort of underground shelter (preferably natural), with your own store of clean water for a good few years, plus air filtration and space enough to wander off from anyone else, should tensions rise, (food is a given, of course).
Or you be fked.
Or you be f
ked.Curious as to what others may be stocking up on/prepping info for a just in case.
Yes some will think it funny - but I view it as similar to house insurance. Its relatively cheap to get quite a bit of stuff.
We had basic stuff for ebola/covid with food for 2 mths and water which is on a rolling use basis
just got in potassium iodine tables enough for 30 days for the family.
Activated charcoal to make water filters etc. Charcoal is easy enough to make anyway.
Have a small informal group of families agreed for mutual support/defence etc. Inner circle.
Have good bushcraft experience and some survival training.
Yes I think it worth trying to survive or helm my or other families to survive.
Yes some will think it funny - but I view it as similar to house insurance. Its relatively cheap to get quite a bit of stuff.
We had basic stuff for ebola/covid with food for 2 mths and water which is on a rolling use basis
just got in potassium iodine tables enough for 30 days for the family.
Activated charcoal to make water filters etc. Charcoal is easy enough to make anyway.
Have a small informal group of families agreed for mutual support/defence etc. Inner circle.
Have good bushcraft experience and some survival training.
Yes I think it worth trying to survive or helm my or other families to survive.
Edited by superlightr on Friday 29th April 10:18
Edited by superlightr on Friday 29th April 10:19
Edited by superlightr on Friday 29th April 10:20
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