Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

Cleaver

Asheron wrote: »

1 Year Food Supply Freeze Dried Food For Family Of 5
500 Bottles of Whiskey to trade
300 Bottles Of Red to trade
300 Bottles Of White to trade
Shotguns, Air Rifles, Crossbows, and Fishing Gear
Gold Coins
Silver Coins
Water Filters

A week ago I would have found this funny. Then I read your post which supported the idea of women having forced abortions, and now I find it difficult to even raise a smile at your 'wacky posts'.

Asheron

Cleaver wrote: »

A week ago I would have found this funny. Then I read your post which supported the idea of women having forced abortions, and now I find it difficult to even raise a smile at your 'wacky posts'.

I don't support Forced Murders, and I don't support loving and caring Murders either.

Cleaver

Asheron wrote: »

I don't support Forced Murders, and I don't support loving and caring Murders either.

Asheron wrote: »

My idea is to introduce a 2 child policy and forced abortions similar to china.

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Asheron

Cleaver, the entire thread was to highlight the globalist agenda, go back and read the entire thread.

If I decide to support forced abortions I will let you know.

Asheron

Cleaver, If I told you 3 years ago they were going to introduce naked Pedo body scanners, you would call me crazy.

Mr.Brown_4

Remember guys, on this the mother of all threads (possibly our finest work)... quirky and light, quirky and light...

fc123

Asheron wrote: »

Cleaver, the entire thread was to highlight the globalist agenda, go back and read the entire thread.

If I decide to support forced abortions I will let you know.

Maybe, just maybe it would be an idea to check out what you are actually C + P'ing when you rush to spread The Word?

Asheron and Dopestar are worlds apart as DS considers things, thinks about them and interracts with his fellow posters. They deff don't post the same views at all.

FWIW I still think Asheron is a freelance viral marketeer for a processed, long life food company that sells Survival Packs. The alcohol could be a new contract as a second income? 500 bottles of Scotch? That's a good sale.

May as well use this thread to suggest a great book (that embarrassed me on the train as I couldn't help laughing out loud at times)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/We-are-All-Made-Glue/dp/014104070X

It is written by Marina Lewycka (who wrote Tractors and 2 Caravans) and the narrator has a son who is caught up online with an end of the world/new order type sect. It also has a rogue estate agent trying to con an old woman out of her valuable home and a lot of historical refs which are always interesting.

lostinrates

Mr.Brown wrote: »

Remember guys, on this the mother of all threads (possibly our finest work)... quirky and light, quirky and light...

humph. I wasn't here. I wish I'd been part of ''our finest work''. Or does this make me part of it? will we ever stop missing NDG? I still have never sat down and read this all the way through. I laugh to much To day I found a random thank by me in it when I read it before sometime, just one...in the first few pages, on possibly the least thank worthy post??? crazy.

dopester

Thanks for not ragging on me for this. You could have done and I would have been forced to accept it, because I now realise it's pretty stupid.

Leaving food out as I did. Thinking there were no mice about, that even if there were that they couldn't smell it, and especially not when stored at a high place. That they couldn't climb very high, nor could gnaw their way through a few layers of protective plastic.

I did over-exaggerate just a little though. That food pictured was actually stored in the roof section of our garage, and not the loft. It's all boarded up above the garage, and once you get up there - need a ladder - you could walk about, if it wasn't for all the gear stored up there; previously including a secondary food cache.

Nevertheless it did shock me. Finding the pipettes chewed and later the food cache raided, with droppings to dustpan and brush sweep up (latex gloves and dust mask on). Hearing one moving about up there. A week ago I honestly did hear a rodent's feet in the loft area, or attempting to get in, cause I've not heard it since.

Fortunately the food up there hasn't been attacked yet so I intend to move it out - start cooking it up and mixing it in with the dog's granules, including the tinned Princes hot-dogs and Fray Bentos meatballs - which I'd only ever eat if I were starving.

Cleaver wrote: »

No need whatsoever to come on here and admit that you got something wrong, yet you have done and in such a nice, humble way.

Thanks Cleaver, but I did get it very wrong, been stupid, and now realise it. Serves me right.

So from responses here.. it seems properly sealed metal containers are about the only way to store food without risk of mice intrusion.. but even then, the food stored in metal containers might still attract mice into the general zone where they could go on to make their home, and damage other stuff.

I've never even seen a mouse around this area before. I'm giving up on having an emergency food stash (except for a few tins kept in the kitchen) if it means worrying about attracting mice or even rats.

dopester

nearlynew wrote: »

A couple of jack russels will sort the rats out.

As a kid I once saw a farmer give a command to his Jack Russell to attack a couple who were picking berries at the side of his land. Been a bit scared of them ever since that. Maybe that was just a particularly aggressive dog, trained to be that way by it's owner.

Nikkster wrote: »

Sorry to hear about the little nibblers, Dopester. Can I ask a question though...?

Why do you have a bag of pipettes - let alone a spare one?! Maybe I've seen too many of them in labs (I'm just finishing a PhD) to be able to 'think outside the box' and see how I would use them at home! (or maybe should start to smuggle them home and put them on ebay :rotfl:)

Don't use them for anything glamorous or even mischievous, Nikkster. I don't think you'll find your fortune in that plan. Best keep them in the lab for your work towards your PhD, and for the sake of the other students. Even if you smuggled out a hundred or so pipettes, you'd only get a few pounds on ebay.

There are probably very few people who choose to use them for the same annual testing reason I have mine for. Just a car thing really. Use a new pipette to take a sample of coolant/antifreeze/Ethylene Glycol (previously mixed with distilled/deionised water) from the car. Then use that sample on a refractometer to check it's concentration, the frost-protection-level it's providing, and the condition of the coolant.

The test is listed in the schedule in an official full service for the two family cars we run, but we service them ourselves at home to save money. Below is the pretty standard workshop information for newer Audi, VW, Skoda, SEAT (VAG) cars, using G12, G12+, G12++ coolant as I understand it.

The coolant concentration must be at least 40% (frost protection to -25°C) and should never exceed 60% (frost protection to -40°C), otherwise both frost protection and cooling efficiency will be reduced.