Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

ivyleaf wrote: »

nuatha is amazing, isn't he :T

:beer: I'll second that!

[Deleted User]

Our prepping data base/encyclopaedia with such a breadth of knowledge and a phenomenal memory, it's impressive and very very useful isn't it?

NewShadow

GreyQueen wrote: »

I have no idea as to the relative strengths of the different materials against blasts.

Some of these are fairly awesome - http://gizmodo.com/5994745/the-bomb-proof-miracle-materials-that-will-make-the-future-safer

Plus, I love the (actually intelligent) comments.

*science geek*

Karmacat

ivyleaf wrote: »

nuatha is amazing, isn't he :T

GreyQueen wrote: »

:beer: I'll second that!

Thirded :j

And there are several other thoughtful people that I'd walk across hot coals to listen to :T

Karmacat

NewShadow wrote: »

Some of these are fairly awesome - http://gizmodo.com/5994745/the-bomb-proof-miracle-materials-that-will-make-the-future-safer

That research was done at Liverpool University :j
:j:j

Frugalsod

thriftwizard wrote: »

I sometimes wonder whether the disconnect between people ("consumers") and their food is being deliberately fostered; some of my friends & family are horrified that I handle raw food & regularly cook for my family. It doesn't take many of their comments/questions to make me start doubting myself & sounding defensive... fortunately I can usually talk myself out of it quite easily, and one ready-meal bought in times of desperation usually cures me altogether. But if you surround yourself with advertising, TV chefs using outrageously exotic & expensive ingredients, & TV pundits announcing that the "epidemic" of food-poisoning is down to bad food prep. & storage in the home, I can see how cooking would start to seem strange & potentially dangerous. Never mind preserving & fermenting...

I think it does not suit the food manufacturers profits if we realised these things. Not long ago I was only eating ready meals but realised that there had to be a better way and slowly switched to cooking from scratch but in a way that I could handle. I also did it in stages so from ready made curries to curries with the curry sauces in a jar, then making a curry with a can of tomatoes some curry paste, and now the next stage to make it from the spices without using a paste at all.

The advantages of doing it in stages is that you have little changes that can make big mistakes impossible and that allow you to build in confidence in what you are doing.

Overall though I have discovered that cooking from scratch has slashed my food bill considerably which initially boosted my disposable income to make other changes.

As for health concerns, it is improper cooking and storage that is the problem, and that is applicable to ready meals as much as cooked from scratch meals. I try and only get enough food for a few days when I am shopping unless it can be stored with out problems.

VJsmum

jk0 wrote: »

That reminds me, I have suggested GF takes a pair of overalls in the car for wheel changing. She already carries trainers. She is pleased with the spare wheel, and I have ordered her a bag for it from these guys: http://smartmadness.com/

Next week I'm teaching her how to change the wheel...

I know how to change a wheel :T


But I can't lift the spare out of the boot

And fourtheded re Nuatha

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Not that one wishes to boast but one won the pub quiz this evening and then one won the snowball too and even going one better, one won the tiebreaker for the snowball so one won it all!!! One is feeling smug!!!!! One can now afford the Parsons Nose on the Xmas turkey this year, one is happy!!!

Hard_Up_Hester

Mostly bulletproof, that reminds me of the Hitchhiker Guide, Earth was mostly harmless.
Was it on the thread someone was querying if academies had the same security as other schools, I can't answer for all, but I work for an academy and we have had a lockdown system and other things in place for many years now.
HTH
Hester

GreyQueen

Individual members of the public have menaced my colleagues with guns, knives and even an axe before now. I no longer man a wicket in the public office but have done several years of that, and have some un-funny war stories. Trouble could brew up incredibly quickly, as in less than five seconds, so you needed to be alert.

Those of us who work in public buidlings have some unique issues but all buildings have a degree of permeabiliity to outsiders, such as visitors, contractors, deliveries.

In my own building (a truimph of sixties architecture) I reckon the stairwells, which are concrete, would be the places least likely to catch a bullet.