Preparedness for when

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Frugalsod wrote: »

I do the same especially when it comes to birthday and Christmas cards. I try and give them personally if possible.

I don't give them at all.

Nargleblast

And as long as you have a turnip and a cunning plan, the world's your lobster.....

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Well, there isn't a hell of a lot of difference between us lot and Baldrick in Blackadder, is there? We are 13th century peasants in different clothes. Keeping heads down and scraping by!

But unlike medieval peasants, most of us are irrelgious, which means harder for the evil twins of Church and State to manipulate with threats of hellfire and damnation.

I was vastly annoyed this afternoon when some nitwit shoved a religious pamphlet through my letter box, plus have had to dodge god-botherers of multiple denominations in the city this week. I expect that hard(er) times will bring an influx of religious nutters, too. They usually do.

Righty, going offline to curl up with pot of tea and some escapist fiction. If TEOTWAWKI arrives overnight, I shall be armed with a rolling pin and a plentiful supply of tinned pies to fend off the zombies.

Nargleblast - crustacean, surely? Copyright T Pratchett Esq.

Nargleblast

GreyQueen - tinned pies????? In the words of Lady Whiteadder (according to the Nargleblast alternative script) - tinned pies are Satan's frisbees!

Ellidee

Apologies if this has already been posted but I just had to share this

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

Nargleblast

Ellidee wrote: »

Apologies if this has already been posted but I just had to share this

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

I am not surprised - anyone using webcams and the like are letting themselves in for all sorts of dodgy stuff (can't you tell I'm a technophobe at heart?)

paidinchickens

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I think that we'll see lots of distractions from TPTB as the situation becomes more acute be it peak oil or debt or just plain lack of availability of food/electricity/cash etc. that causes it, it will be Circus and Carnival distraction techniques and lots of things like the Dance Marathons seen in the great 1930s depression, which I see in the glitz and glamour of programmes like Strictly Come Dancing etc. a big spectacle to take your eye off day to day problems of living in 2014 and all that entails. I think there will be a proliferation of competitive programmes offering valuable prizes and the lottery will become an attractive option to desparate people with debts they can't service. I can't get my brain round the fact that the whole world except us preppers seems still to be dashing at the cliff edge with all the other lemmings shouting 'Eat drink and be Merry for tomorrow we'll die and then we won't have to pay for what we did today!!! We may be slightly insane by other peoples standards but I see us as the only viable option this crazy world has, no one else seems to have noticed the steepness of the downhill slope or the degree of slipperiness they are accellerating down because they still have their pink tinted glasses on!!! Cynical I know as a post, but HELP!!!!! what else can we do???

I would prefer Running man to strictly, especially if Davey Cameron was the one doing the running.

PiC x

Oh and Judge Pickles............tottering off smiling to myself now

MrsAtobe

GQ, shouldn't that be 'pull one of the other ones, it's got bells on'?:D

JayneC

GreyQueen wrote: »

But unlike medieval peasants, most of us are irrelgious, which means harder for the evil twins of Church and State to manipulate with threats of hellfire and damnation.

I was vastly annoyed this afternoon when some nitwit shoved a religious pamphlet through my letter box, plus have had to dodge god-botherers of multiple denominations in the city this week. I expect that hard(er) times will bring an influx of religious nutters, too. They usually do.

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I had a visit from a lovely Jehovah's Witness (!) a couple of weeks ago. And it ended up with him saying me 'I'll have to go':rotfl::rotfl:Didn't manage to unconvert him:rotfl:

BB I did tell them to keep the car but they were charging 'storage' by the day and I would've still been charged plus then cost then of getting it crushed. I did manage to sell it for spares so got some of it back, not the point tho:(

Well DS has managed to kill my car. He borrowed it for the weekend as he's moving house, and managed to leave the lights on deadening the battery and it wouldn't jump start again, so don't know what's happened:( He was apparently distracted by squirrel which he felt the need to photograph and so ignored the beep that warns you the lights are still on - I ask you:o will have to wait till Monday to get the local garage to come out...

I've concluded that I'm something of an anarchist at heart. Prefer to call it self governance or co-operative living though. Anarchy has been successfully portrayed as total breakdown in society with violence and chaos as the only outcome, but it ain't necessarily so.

Cheapskate

Apologies if anyone's posted already, but there are a few preptastic books on this site today.

http://www.dailyfreebooks.co.uk/free_ebooks/latest/?kwfilt=Prep&offset=0

Downloaded a few more for my library, not read them yet, but they include one for prepping with children and a basic self sufficiency starter book. Hope this is of use for someone. Thanks to the poster who gave me the link, forgot who, but you know who you are!

A xo