Preparedness for when

D&DD

You're a rotter Bob I'm craving boiled eggs and soldiers now...

Hollyberry

For those of you looking for something new to read, I can recommend Collapse (New America Book One) by Richard Stephenson. (Just over £2.50 for Kindle, I believe.) It would be a weighty tome if it wasn't on Kindle, and I'm enjoying the way it's meshing various post-apocalyptic scenarios (weather, war, EMP) and also covering issues such as future artificial intelligence. The second part, Resistance is lined up in my reading queue.

I know that others on this thread read Snow by Ryan Clifford. Part 2 Thaw is now out, and has kept me quiet this week. It's about the first attempts at reconstruction after the snow stops, and introduces some Machiavellian political machinations.

So now you know why I've been quiet of late.

Btw, loved your bookshelf list D&DD - I have many of them already here, and some new reading on the way as a result of you typing out that list. So big thanks. :cool:

jk0

GreyQueen wrote: »

: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:

Did they come down the soil pipe duct GQ?

In the flat I'm working on, I can smell the people upstairs' cooking smell in the kitchen. I plan to seal round the pipe with some of this:

http://beta.wickes.co.uk/Expanding-Foam-Filler-300ml/p/109745

You just need to mist the inside of the duct with water, and about one quarter fill with foam.

D&DD

ooh I might start on that next then Holly I grabbed it as a freebie at xmas


The one GQ is reading ATM is a good one too full of moral dilemmas actually similar to our discussions today.


I now have 1035 kindle books...I need a holiday so I can read them all!!


Mar did you get David's bug out book its very good


P.S I'm not being rude my thanks button keeps disappearing and re-appearing..I think I broke my mse lol

katep23

GreyQueen wrote: »

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.

Lord, you admit to not liking babies, you might as well say you like slaughtering goat kids as a sacrifice to the Lord Beelzebub as that is what parents hear

armyknife

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Army knife I do believe that you are a troll, you consistently pick fault and look for an argument

You can say what you want, but it doesn't stop the author of the rant you posted coming over as a bit of a twit, to put it mildly.

Or should we just accept at face value what is sometimes posted here and not critique it?

Say I or someone else posted some neo-conservative or a libertarian non-sense defending hyper-capitalism, would the expectation be that it shouldn't be criticised, so as not to offend the poster?

I hazard that it quite rightly wouldn't and deservedly so.

armyknife

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

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

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

Isn't that chemical warfare?

You'll have the 'international community' after you before long. :-)

jk0

katep23 wrote: »

Lord, you admit to not liking babies, you might as well say you like slaughtering goat kids as a sacrifice to the Lord Beelzebub as that is what parents hear

I used to hate children. They annoyed me by making a noise outside my flat when I had a hard day at work. When I bought my present house, I asked the estate agent for a house on a busy road, so that there would not be noisy kids playing outside.

About 6 years ago, I started dating a single mother of a two year old little boy. Not having a dad, he was desperate for one, and I loved playing with him, reading him stories, cooking for them and taking him on outings with his mum.

We were together for two years. However, in the end I believe his mum came to resent how close we were. Finally, when I would not give her money, she dumped me, and it broke my heart not to see my little mate any more. I have made umpteen attempts to reconcile without success.

I still miss him, and took an Easter egg over to his granny yesterday.

In view of this, I have resolved never again to date a single mum. Not because I don't like children. I love them now. Just I could not do with the heartache when they are snatched away from me.

Life's a !!!!!, eh?

katep23

JK0, relationships are so complicated now; I can't imagine how that felt. I see a lot of people now when relationships fail left with no legal recourse with regard to children they parented during the relationship.

When OH and I got together, both aged 30, and I told my mother about him - he was 30, single, never been married, no kids. She wanted to know what was wrong with him - until I pointed out I was in the exact same position and did she think there was something wrong with me as well :rotfl:

Frugalsod

mardatha wrote: »

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

I think that the definitions are slightly different but I do see at least 80% of us in time eventually describing ourselves in that way, even with a degree you are not really any better off with all the debt that they have to take on. It is only a matter of time before the vast majority of us are working class. Wages in the UK started stagnating in 2003 and I cannot see evidence that they will ever improve.