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neverdespairgirl wrote: »Hot here - apparently 25.9 degrees C and 59% humidity .
18 degrees and 88% here“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
New Zealand here.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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The Black Death was a big 'un, then. We're far less socially equipped to deal with anything of that magnitude than we were then.
In many ways, modern society in this country is far more precarious than in medieval times. Population then was 2-3 million. Now it is nearly 70 m. The country could grow enough food then to feed the population. Now we cannot. If things got really bad, food would not reach the cities, and hungry mobs would roam the country. I imagine the population could very quickly and very drastically reduce in those circumstances.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
India for me.0
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In many ways, modern society in this country is far more precarious than in medieval times. Population then was 2-3 million. Now it is nearly 70 m. The country could grow enough food then to feed the population. Now we cannot. If things got really bad, food would not reach the cities, and hungry mobs would roam the country. I imagine the population could very quickly and very drastically reduce in those circumstances.
In almost every way, life is much more precarious. It's far more complicated, and specalised, so that it takes millions of people working together to keep everything running, instead of a few tens for the crucial stuff....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »New Zealand here.
Me too. I think its because I said I like hiking.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Not sure I entirely agree with that.
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Not sure what you're disagreeing with? I didn't say that having a bug-out kit isn't a good idea.
Just that with enough money the chance of ever actually needing a bug-out kit is close to none, because there's very little that you can't buy with enough money. Including passports and citizenship if you have to.
The scenarios where money doesn't matter are also the scenarios where you're very likely to end up dead anyway whatever you do...“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
Quoted as this makes me laugh. Not all will know whySomething like these:
https://www.warrenevans.com/bed_storage/
It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
I got Brazil.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0
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