Noisydad wrote:Dammit! Gunna have to put camo face paint on and keep watch to protect my years supply of home made tomato sauce then!
You'll be sick of it and giving it away after living on it for a week with how much you've got
Noisydad wrote:Dammit! Gunna have to put camo face paint on and keep watch to protect my years supply of home made tomato sauce then!
brett1868 wrote:Ahhh...Adelaide, The city of churches....where old people go to die
Last time I was in Adelaide I was evicted from the casino for drunk and disorderly along with a senior exec from the ANZ. I don't remember much of that night except the sight of the exec on a table with his shirt off singing along to a Kiss song, it was at this point we got booted. I may have to take up drinking again so I can remember all the fun I had when I was drunk cause buggered if I can remember it sober.
My cousin is hassling me to bury a couple of shipping containers under the slab for the shed. The only way I'd do something like that was if it could be done without anyone knowing. There's no secrets in small towns and if a local saw the containers then the whole town would know within a week and there goes the security of a secret bunker.
Admittedly I did get a few tips from the show, like vacuum packing ammo and primers though in reality it's probably not really necessary given they have massive shelf lives anyway. There's something about watching crazy people try to justify their paranoia that I find entertaining.
brett1868 wrote:I'll be joining bigfellascott as overwatch for his looting and plundering, lets hope any threats are at least 2 feet away just in case I'm a foot off
headspace wrote:I don't know what they think they are going to do when one of the 1000 tanks or 500 Blackhawks bomb the crap out of the homemade bunker.
Gwion wrote:Better set up some alarm traps and pit falls for Bigfella and Brett.... can't have them looting all my brew. Luckily Bass Strait is in the the way!!!
The Brass wrote:Gwion wrote:Better set up some alarm traps and pit falls for Bigfella and Brett.... can't have them looting all my brew. Luckily Bass Strait is in the the way!!!
Watching Castaway now for inspiration on building a raft
brett1868 wrote:The Brass wrote:Gwion wrote:Better set up some alarm traps and pit falls for Bigfella and Brett.... can't have them looting all my brew. Luckily Bass Strait is in the the way!!!
Watching Castaway now for inspiration on building a raft
A kayak with a rear facing 50BMG and a couple hundred rounds should get me across to Tassie on recoil alone, could probably get there and back on 50 rounds if I remove the brake
bigfellascott wrote:Nup, my plans to rob someone who has.
Pilch wrote:I'll admit prepared bug out kit or not I'm not going to last long when the power and supermarkets go
sarki wrote:Proof of concept
anthillinside wrote:^^^^That’s about as bad as it's going to get and enough reserves to weather a storm either natural or financial is just plain sensible.
The type of breakdown the prepers envision just isn't going to happen it doesn’t even get close to their vision of WOROL in war ravaged 3rd world countries.
Yes empires collapse but it happens over tens or hundreds of years.
How is rule of law going to break down?
You’d have to start with a citizens revolt.
Governments response, martial law, send in the home guard, military what ever.
In the unlikely event the citizens uprising doesn’t get crushed, then do they become the rulers and make the law …. I think not.
Government breakdown would result in a military takeover.
I don’t care how many AR’s AK’s or even machine guns they have or how many thousand round they have.
Control is taken by the group with the most power, and unless you’ve got 100’s of Black Hawks , 1000’s of Tanks and perhaps a NUKE or 2 it isn’t going to be you.
The prepers do give us a laugh though, I’ll bet 90% are city dwellers who wouldn’t last more than 3 days n the bush.
In the long run skills are more important than resources.
To paraphrase a well known expression, Give a man a rabbit you feed him once, teach him to hunt and you feed him forever.
on_one_wheel wrote:Some very valid points there. Its easy to forget that when you have lived 2 generations problem free.
I'm kind of lucky, living out of areas means that I am prepared without necessary needing to think about worst case scenarios.
I keep enough fuel to keep my freezer frozen for months, not that I'd need it, there's loads of livestock and game around here.
I have a lifetime supply of water, keep bulk rice, pasta and tinned fruit.
I recon that if everything went pair shaped tonight I'd be good for 4 weeks before I needed to think about finding more carbohydrates and thats for a family of 4 eating generous rations.
I would think that most Australians would be hit hard if the shops emptied and the power went out, only those in cyclone and flood prone areas have a real sense of what thats like and I would hope that most of them are reasonably prepared for that. I would bet that only some are.
on_one_wheel wrote:I recon that if everything went pair shaped tonight I'd be good for 4 weeks before I needed to think about finding more carbohydrates and thats for a family of 4 eating generous rations.
WildHunter wrote:bigfellascott wrote:Nup, my plans to rob someone who has.
Really in this country, where shooters are apparently a minority, what else do you do? You have the means to take what you need or trade it via protection, why bother prepping? I realised that eventually and sorta gave up on the whole thing. Though it does still interest me.
Gwion wrote:Title, i could be wrong here but this might be another cultural misinterpretation of the laconic Australian sense of humour.
We will tend to understate or even make contrary statements to emphasize our point in a humourous way.
Joking that your plan is to go out and rob people who have been prepping is a way of pointing out that there will be a butt load of looters, gangsters and ne'erdowells doing exactly this. That's the way i took it, anyway.
Either that, or the BigFella is actually Chief Wiggam....
brett1868 wrote:tom604 wrote:i will run the South Aussie chapter of big fellas "rob the roobs"
Ahhh...Adelaide, The city of churches....where old people go to die
Last time I was in Adelaide I was evicted from the casino for drunk and disorderly along with a senior exec from the ANZ. I don't remember much of that night except the sight of the exec on a table with his shirt off singing along to a Kiss song, it was at this point we got booted. I may have to take up drinking again so I can remember all the fun I had when I was drunk cause buggered if I can remember it sober.
My cousin is hassling me to bury a couple of shipping containers under the slab for the shed. The only way I'd do something like that was if it could be done without anyone knowing. There's no secrets in small towns and if a local saw the containers then the whole town would know within a week and there goes the security of a secret bunker.
Admittedly I did get a few tips from the show, like vacuum packing ammo and primers though in reality it's probably not really necessary given they have massive shelf lives anyway. There's something about watching crazy people try to justify their paranoia that I find entertaining.