Preparedness for when

siegemode

katep23 wrote: »

I've never understood why (some) people with children berate those of us without for being "lucky" enough not to have kids, as if they didn't have a choice in the matter.

Mostly, people have a choice.

My life is an even keel because I don't have the terrible twos or teenage tantrums to deal with, but I'll never know the sheer joy of my child climbing up on my lap to say "I love you". Each lifestyle has its own merits and drawbacks but it is (generally) down to choice and not luck.

Totally agree. I choose cats instead:) Much less hassle (except when they bring you a live rat into the bedroom and said rat bites you at stupid o clock)

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I don't think anyone of us does know how we'd behave/react in a real SHTF situation, it's all very well moralising and putting others of us into the 'bad guy' category and it's all very well taking the moral high ground and judgment making about people whose lives and personalities you know nothing of, it's impossible to do it. I think that the saying 'it's easy to be brave if you've never been really scared' holds a lot of truth and I think that UNTIL we're in a situation that requires the decisions to be made about self help versus community help we none of us would know what we'd do!

Nargleblast

I believe that in a serious SHTF situation (plague, holocaust, alien invasion etc, that kind of thing) then it will be every man or woman for him or herself, and forget the niceties of helping others. I am not saying that is the right thing to do, just what I think would happen in such a situation. I certainly think it is right and sensible to look after yourself first. If you don't take care of your own needs then you are neither use nor ornament to anyone else. After yourself then comes your immediate family/loved ones. Then after that, if you have anything left to give (food, labour, energy, whatever) you can then try and help other human beings - but not at the cost of your own safety and wellbeing.
Assuming that no such Day of the Triffids scenario happens, and life goes on as normal, what should preppers do? Carry on prepping, but be very, very discreet. Do not discuss such matters with family, friends, neighbours - anyone. If you do, word will spread along the grapevine that your house is a source of goodies if anyone needs anything. And in a SHTF scenario a lot of people will revert to feral behaviour, even those who consider themselves civilised.

Sorry to be the harbinger of doom and gloom, I am usually a fairly optimistic and cheerful sort, but this thread has opened up an interesting can of worms about human behaviour, particularly when under stress.

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D&#8517 wrote: »

Probably down the pub having a pint lol

Accompanied by Paddy Ashdown?

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mardatha wrote: »

I think we're all working class apart from tory multi-millionaires and anybody who thinks different is deluding themselves!

Are Labour multi-millionaire still working class :huh:

sorryImoved

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nuatha wrote: »

We choose not to have children, we get complaints from friends and colleagues that we don't have the ties they do

As a single man, what annoys me is the "you poor thing" attitude, you get from couples.

Has it not occurred to them that, just maybe, I choose to be single?

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My colleagues won't know what has hit them tomorrow.

My packed lunch consists of EIGHT boiled egg sandwiches. :laugh:

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

As a single man, what annoys me is the "you poor thing" attitude, from couples.

Has it not occurred to them that, just maybe, I choose to be single?

Bob, it's the same for us single females. What, I dare to be a) single b) childfree and c) happy as a pig in the proverbial?

Some couples don't seen to 'get it', insomuch as they think a single person must be desperate to hook up with a partner. If you're halfway personable they just can't understand why you're single and why you like being on your tod. And they sometimes try to matchmake, gawdelpme.

And some parents are positively pushy about the wonderfulness of their way of life. I just don't like children very much and positively loathe babies. It's a taboo behaviour if you're female, frankly. Parents can do their thing and I can do mine.

I do like kittens, tho; so much cuter than babies and none of that nastiness with nappies. I changed a nappy once, back in 1993. Hell will freeze over before that happens for the second time, believe you me. _pale_

:eek: I've just had to wallop a grasshopper in the living room. And there was one in the bathroom last week. I think I better ask the housing officer if they know which of my neighbours is keeping exotic pets and ask them to keep better control of their live food. At least it was a 'hopper not a blinking locust this time.

I walloped it with The Local Rag - regional newspapers have 1001 uses around the home, don't you find?:rotfl:

Hollyberry

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

My colleagues won't know what has hit them tomorrow.

My packed lunch consists of EIGHT boiled egg sandwiches. :laugh:

But my local weather forecast is for wind from a different direction...