If you were the last person left on earth.......
Discussion
The Mad Monk said:
amancalledrob said:
As already stated, it'd be incredibly depressing. It would also be important to carry some means of ending it quickly if I ended up stuck down a deep hole/trapped in a car injured/stranded at sea, etc
Supposing the means of ending it didn't work.You might be horribly disfigured - even uglier than you are now, possibly.
Supposing you lost the use of your legs. You would have to crawl everywhere.
I mean, you think your life now is bad, it could get even worse.
No. It's no good, you will have to think of something else.
Doofus said:
dxg said:
I would go around the bookshops and libraries gathering and reading everything I could find on subsistence farming.
Then, given that I'm assuming there will be no electricity and petrol has a finite shelf life, I would gather tools and seeds and fertiliser from nearby farmer's merchants. I would then, before the fuel goes off (probably two or three years post the 'event' that caused all this), load everything up into a suitable, self-maintainable 4x4 (e.g. land rover) and head to somewhere in the western isles, skye or maybe just the scottish borders, depending on how difficult the journey was. I would then get my homestead set up using the remaining fuel in the 4x4 and whatever fuel-driven tools I'd taken with me, before they stop working. I would hope for a couple of seasons with mechanical assistance before returning to pre-industrialised life.
I would settle in for the long haul. Collecting food and fuel in the summers and sitting it out in the winters. In a croft. By myself. With beauty and bleakness to stare upon. I would be working too hard and be too tired to worry about being bored. I'm in my forties now. If I'm lucky, I'd make it to my mid-fifties...
I think, if you went somewhere with a bit of sunshine, your crops might do better Then, given that I'm assuming there will be no electricity and petrol has a finite shelf life, I would gather tools and seeds and fertiliser from nearby farmer's merchants. I would then, before the fuel goes off (probably two or three years post the 'event' that caused all this), load everything up into a suitable, self-maintainable 4x4 (e.g. land rover) and head to somewhere in the western isles, skye or maybe just the scottish borders, depending on how difficult the journey was. I would then get my homestead set up using the remaining fuel in the 4x4 and whatever fuel-driven tools I'd taken with me, before they stop working. I would hope for a couple of seasons with mechanical assistance before returning to pre-industrialised life.
I would settle in for the long haul. Collecting food and fuel in the summers and sitting it out in the winters. In a croft. By myself. With beauty and bleakness to stare upon. I would be working too hard and be too tired to worry about being bored. I'm in my forties now. If I'm lucky, I'd make it to my mid-fifties...
I seem to recall that Western Isles crofters struggled every day until they were driven out by the lairds.
dxg said:
Fastchas said:
Wacky Racer said:
Ayahuasca said:
Has anyone mentioned blow-up dolls yet, or are we all going with sheep?
Only MBH.I worry about him sometimes........
Better smelling breath, friendlier, tighter...?
dxg said:
Fastchas said:
Wacky Racer said:
Ayahuasca said:
Has anyone mentioned blow-up dolls yet, or are we all going with sheep?
Only MBH.I worry about him sometimes........
Better smelling breath, friendlier, tighter...?
It's a matter of practicality.
Cow/Horse, too high off the ground.
Donkey...liable to kick you in the nads before you've started.
Pig....not a bad choice but they make a hell of a racket, it would be worse than shagging an Essex girl.
Nope it has to be sheep by default.
Alex_225 said:
Take a drive and find myself a bigger house to basically take over and basically move in. Then I'd go on the hunt for a car collection etc.
Novelty would probably wear off quite quickly but could be fun whilst it lasted.
I think the fun could last quite a while if you worked your way from nice house to nice house using nice car after nice car AND making sure you had enough fuel for everything...Novelty would probably wear off quite quickly but could be fun whilst it lasted.
You could try and chase the seasons round the world, depending on what you wanted...
I'm guessing that in this scenario, all utilities would fail pretty quickly.
I'd migrate to somewhere like france, and find somewhere with a good water source, and farmable land. I'd free all the livestock in the surrounding areas, and search all the farms for a shotgun or two.
With a bit of luck, I could farm my own veg, fish in local river, and as long as the freed livestock didn't all succumb to feral cat infestation, meat would be just wandering around the place.
I'd then go insane within about 2 years, devoid of human contact. After a while, I'd try to teach myself how to fly. If it turns out that I was always better at X wing than real life, then meh - wtf is the point if there's no-one to talk to?
I'd migrate to somewhere like france, and find somewhere with a good water source, and farmable land. I'd free all the livestock in the surrounding areas, and search all the farms for a shotgun or two.
With a bit of luck, I could farm my own veg, fish in local river, and as long as the freed livestock didn't all succumb to feral cat infestation, meat would be just wandering around the place.
I'd then go insane within about 2 years, devoid of human contact. After a while, I'd try to teach myself how to fly. If it turns out that I was always better at X wing than real life, then meh - wtf is the point if there's no-one to talk to?
Quickmoose said:
I think the fun could last quite a while if you worked your way from nice house to nice house using nice car after nice car AND making sure you had enough fuel for everything...
You could try and chase the seasons round the world, depending on what you wanted...
Don't get me wrong, I could roll with that for a fair old while. I'd probably find a huge place and have my own fleet. You could try and chase the seasons round the world, depending on what you wanted...
Obviously there'd be more to it than just cars, if you didn't have to work then you'd have time to do loads of stuff.
I think I'd actually move into a luxury hotel.
Fresh sheets and a clean toilet every day - just move room!
Never clean anything - just move room!
Need to eat but nothing in the fridge - just move room!
Be like Hugh Hefner just wearing a dressing grown.
Big underground car park for the huge car collection.
Fresh sheets and a clean toilet every day - just move room!
Never clean anything - just move room!
Need to eat but nothing in the fridge - just move room!
Be like Hugh Hefner just wearing a dressing grown.
Big underground car park for the huge car collection.
MKnight702 said:
Ayahuasca said:
To everyone dreaming of empty roads - good luck ridding them of the millions of abandoned cars that choke them.
But most of these cars would be in the middle lane so that would leave the left hand lane for hooning.
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