on blizzards, power cuts & the apocolypse

[Queen Firey-Bou]

yeahhhh beserker, thats the spirit lad ! spose you can bring your wife, have to keep the warriors occupied somehow.

Dreddd, you are forgetting that i do live in the hills, & the rate everyone is copping out i won't have much defending my tribe lands to do, and ive got a big 130cm claymore.. so you know, venison all around boys.

still no-one can rig me up a post-apocolyptic lap top then ? sheeesh.

[judge dreddd]

you would have to kill or hide from the townies running to the hills bou !

crossbows ( archery requires practice )
samurai swords

guns are difficult to get hold of BEFORE 'end of da world'...after...kill and steal :)


venison !...wow..you sorted...

[judge dreddd]

"post-apocolyptic laptop "
why would you need a laptop ?

...electricity generator...batteries...solar power..wind power..water power... yachting / caravan gear...

pretty expensive prior to end of world but..after..you just steal stuff from da city :)

[Queen Firey-Bou]

to continue chat room antic with other surviors silly, and to communicate & barter & forwarn of incoming townies.

tho ' i don't think townies are going to be a problem frankly.. HA i laugh at their survival skills !

guns a plenty around here already boyo, could walk 200yrds & borrow a rifle anytime.

pah townies !

[Queen Firey-Bou]

oh yeah or the huge cross bow my mates got...

i told you it was red-neck central here didnt i?

[judge dreddd]

" i don't think townies are going to be a problem frankly.. "...depends how many..cities dont produce enough food, would be massive fighting, ..many would flee to the hills...maybe YOUR hills.......burn the bridges , take down the signs ?

the phone system,web would eventually stop working - no electricity from power stations..

short-wave radio....but dont reveal your location

if their are enough resources to go around then people would be ok, you are probably sitting pretty due to your remote location with a large natural food supply

sit it out...then scouting parties to the cities to nick some goodies..

main thing would be to avoid conflicts or ensure you have overwhelming fire power...

yes...bou stood on the back of a land rover with stolen machine gun...going..'you wanna argue ? or give me your sheep ?'

[Proudhuff]

Boo,
  Can I be the wizzen old Jock who says

'We're doomed Capt Boodica DOOMED I SAY'

Pte Fraserhuff

[ukdane]

Slips: Isn't that what the Volgs did (take out London first)


Do I win a prise for getting this thread ON TOPIC?

Bou: Are you quite sure the snow and ice hasn't had an effect on you???

[judge dreddd]

on the one hand bou, you would lose the web and tooth...on the other...

no more bills to pay

no more worrying about cash..as people would use barter..

you could move into big plush holiday home and say 'no tourists now !'

[Dunk!]

"guns a plenty around here already boyo, could walk 200yrds & borrow a rifle anytime.

pah townies !"

Living in birmingham and having lived in mancester I think most townies could make the same claim. Except our weapons would be semi-automatic.

Viva the new inner city wild west.

[paulvonscott]

I'm in a winter wonderland and the Ray harryhausen talk tonight is postponed till summer.  Just as well as I'd never get there.

[Wils]

the Ray harryhausen talk tonight is postponed till summer

Huzzah! I might get a chance to go to it now! Ahem...I mean, that's a real shame, Paul.

[Pyroxian]

I can fly and shoot laser-beams from my eye (left)...

OK, I lie. But if there's all that radiation flying around, we could mutate into something cool...

Umm, on the practical side of things I can write computer games (arse, not useful when there's no leccy). I'm fairly good at building things out of lego so if we do a few raids on some Toys r us's... Oh and I think I can remember how to make Thermite.

Ooh, and I've played some Post Apocalyptic role-playing games so I know what stupid things not to do...

Failing that, I'll just start memorising the entire How Stuff Works website - I reckon I know how a Flintlock pistol works now...

    Steve

Link: http://www.howstuffworks.com/" target="_blank">How Stuff Works

[Queen Firey-Bou]

Okay well we got some more useful bods, i reckon were gonna have to make own leccy, but hydro systems not too diff to build with old motors & a bycycle ...

no i'm not having a bad reaction to the fact that i was facing a day with no computer at all...

course if society is brought down my mutant giant lemming invasion, the smell of ammonia ( rats piss ) might make my hair fall out & then my status as alpha female warrioress would be threatened... spose i could always cut some off a highlan coo to make a wig.. we are remarkably alike in colour.

[DavidXBrunt]

At first I thought that I would be completley useless after the fall of society, but the more I think about it as a care support worker I know how to do all the old fashioned household skills that people generally don't have any more. My skills are domestic but that would be handy whilst the other folks are out hunting. I'd be a maid, essentially. So can I join your tribe Bou?

I would, admittedly, make a crap hunter gatherer.

BOU - Have you found any berries or caught any animals for us to eat?
DXB - No, but I found this lovely set of nesting tables.