THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

NewShadow

Afternoon All!

Sunday again. The weekend goes so quickly.

I was talking to mum earlier about this month, and was horrified to realise quite how much has actually happened - it doesn't seem real. In the last month (in rough chronological order) we've had:

A historic referendum and an 'out' vote
The stock market plunges then recovers, then wavers
The pound plunges then recovers, then wavers
The PM resigned
The almost entire Shadow Cabinet (and others) quit on mass
An unequivocal no confidence vote in the leader of the opposition but no resignation
A conservative leadership election over in a week
The Chilcot report finally being published
A new PM and Cabinet
The Labour leadership election ... ongoing with many dramas
A shooting in Lincolnshire
The attempted kidnap of a serviceman in Norfolk
Trident
A debate on flogging Blair in the house (wishful thinking)
And Andy Murray becomes the first person ever to win tennis twice

Each of those would normally be a week or so of news but some have barely even gotten a mention thanks to everything else thats gone on.

Plus in world news

The ongoing American leadership election (and trumpy)
The growing racial tension in america and the shooting of LEOs and civilians
The Baghdad attack
The Bangladesh attack
The Turkey attack
The Nice attack
Followed by the Turkey coup attempt and ongoing purge
The Germany attack
And whatever happened today that I've not read about yet - probably something in Russia to do with the olympics!

What did I miss?

23 separate 'headline' news stories - all in one month...

Do you think time is just speeding up?

Karmacat

Agreed, NewShadow - things are going really, really fast right now.

And you're right, I've seen a headline today about the Russian team in the Olympics - it sounds like it *won't* be a blanket ban.

ariarnia

two germany attacks if you count the axe on a train and the shopping centre shooting

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The world is a very sad and frightening place for so many people at the moment I think we all must just try to keep things in perspective and try not to stress too much.

Back in the mists of time, late 1950s early 60s we were all terrified that some looney toon would push the button and we would all be cremated into a huge hole from the threat of nuclear war. I was an idealistic teenager who march on the ban the bomb marches with all of my friends as we all wanted world peace here we are over 50 + years later still frightened and fearful of the future for our (in my case grandchildren ) At the time I never thought about getting married , having children, a mortgage or even grandchildren. But life has carried on despite all my protests and I'm sure in years to come lots of people will look back and remember how scared they were and how things seemed to be changing daily.
Remember trying to think about what you would do if the four minute warning sounded ? or maybe there are a lot of you who don't. Khrushchev banging his shoe in rage on the podium I was convinced that another WW was about to start with JFK getting stroppy with the Russians

Then in the 1970s wondering how to cook a meal for your children with only three hour slots of electricity and so many 'world shortages' going on.
The militant strikes of the 1980s with police officers and miners coming to blows

The Loadsamoney internet instant millionaires in the 90s and people thinking that debt was something you shouldn't worry about as its all 'plastic money ' and no one has to pay it back !!
every decade has its problems and we are still here.

Fretting about it won't help, just try and make the best of things that we can.The majority of us on here are sensible people who will Keep calm and carry on as that is ingrained in the British psyche I think

milasavesmoney

Jackie, when JFK got stroppy we received instructions at elementary school for getting under under our desks if a nuclear bomb dropped. I'm not sure why they thought NM would be hit where I live...in the middle of nowhere :cool: ...or how a desk cover would help in such an event, but we practiced anyway. I know it was tense in our homes as the adults thought there really might be war.

p.s. I had to look up stroppy. Where is GQ when I need translation? :rotfl:

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What does NM stand for :huh:

GreyQueen

NM = New Mexico, where mila lives.

Lol, hadn't thought about stroppy as being exclusively Brit-English. Here's a few more for the collection;

Trollied - very drunk.

Totting; verb, to retrieve rubbish for gain. Totter, one who tots. Tot is almost obsolete now, persisting in the phrase 'it's a load of old tot'.

Booter; car boot sale. Gathering of householders on a field somewhere, selling a load of old tot from the back of their cars. And some good stuff.

Yer mum; invitation to a barney in London and some other areas. Insults used to start Yer mum is a (insert vile term) and now a fight can be triggered by a simple Yer mum.

Barney - fight, brawl, noisy row.

Thousands more but time is pressing.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Trollied - very drunk.

Also, bladdered.

ivyleaf

GQ In this area we tend to say " a load of old toot" (rhymes with foot) as opposed to tot

mila I found another one you might like today; I came across the sentence "She dived into the pool" and thought "Ooh, mila would probably say she dove into the pool!" And I believe you say "snuck" when we'd usually say "sneaked", though actually "snuck" is starting to, um, sneak in over here too these days.

Which word do you use where we might use stroppy? Riled?
I remember my mother being really worried when JFK was killed because she said he was the only one brave enough to face up to Khruschev.

craigywv How nice to see you! You have been busy! Well done on the spuds. Lyn isn't posting atm as she really didn't want a new prepping thread, feeling she couldn't feel at home here, and then we got an outbreak of trolls into the bargain. Hopefully she'll come back one of these days, but she is very busy atm as well..

In more "prepping mode", I was hunting in the bottom of a cupboard for a can of kidney beans I hoped was in there. It wasn't, but hidden at the back was a four-pack of canned tomatoes :T which have now joined their friends somewhere more visible.
And I rummaged hopefully in the freezer and found some kidney beans I'd put in there several months ago, which just shows how long it is since I made chili con carne. ( I only need to use half a can of them at one time, so the other half goes in the freezer.)

thriftwizard

EEEEK!

There are a load of zombies wandering up & down our road, gazing manically at their phones and muttering, "I know it's here somewhere, I can hear it!" Some are gazing fixedly at my van!

If someone's hidden one of those dratted things in my van, there will be hell to pay! Supposing it's not house-trained?

It took me months to kill the Furby, I'm not going through all that again...