In an apocalyptic scenario, would you survive long?

I used to fantasise about how I'd survive - what to grow for food, best place to hide and protect from attack - sadly with modern tech anyone could find me using heat seeking cameras, attack with drones, they already know who I am and where I live thants to SM, They could probably do a cyber attack on my bank and nick my money.

We're stuffed I think. Maybe we'll all become characters in some artificial zombie apocalyse made by some mad multi billionaire tech geek who wants the world to himself, hmmmmm.

I can knock up a decent cake and homemade biscuits so I'd deal with the zombies by feeding them with those. Kill them with carbs and sugar....

Can't wait for a zombie apocalypse. I practice my shuffle and groan regularly and really want to show them off.

I often think about this cos I wear glasses ! If I lose or break them I'm dead !

I’d be useless on the frontline, I’m useless at foraging for food, wild camping or being anywhere where there isn’t a flushing toilet. I would overthink everything and then panic! However, if I was able to ensure DH and DD’s safety, and there was a 21st century version of Bletchley Park where I could work on breaking zombie codes, I might last longer!

Well I don't need much sleep. I'm not exactly Mrs Fit, but I am resourceful and have played enough video games to know the value of loot (aka taking everything that can be moved and may be useful), enough real life shooting and archery experience that I have a pretty good aim, enough botany knowledge to be able to forage and I am a decent enough cook to make to with what I can get.

So as long as the zombies are Shaun of the Dead slow I'll be fine 😅

I'm a schemer and fighter so like to think I could do OK but it's the lack of sleep, food and constantly running from 👽🧟‍♂️ that would get me.

They had root cellars where they kept potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, beets, etc. Also did extensive canning when crops were in season and harvested.

My plan is basically to get the kids to their Dad's house, hang on as long as I can and die fighting so my kids can escape. My XH is an arehole but he would fight to his last breath to defend our kids and between all my illnesses and needs for pharmacological products to stay alive I wouldn't last long. I get breathless and need a break in the middle of making a bed so yeah out running zombies is not going to happen. I think even the slow stupid one's like in Shaun of the dead could catch me.

Very apt

Love that this is also a Zombie thread 😂

I'll be honest, I don't think that I could be arsed.

I have often mused over how the first pioneers survived eg in the USA in places where the winter temperature was below zero. Crops wouldn't grow until the next spring and then not be harvested until late summer/autumn. So it would depend on hunting and fishing.
It demonstrates how tough the human body is that we can survive on so little for so long.
I have just started watching The Quiet Place movie where blind aliens are killing the humans, they depend on hearing to catch them - pretty scary.

I think I’d be great. I work in an NHS emergency role so I’ve got much needed medical skills as well as being calm in a crisis and used to dealing with emergencies, I’m pretty fit and don’t scare easily. I’m short and small though so wouldn’t do brilliantly in a hand to have combat scenario. I fancy leading up a roaming pack of steampunk zombie fighters (but I’d have to get my minions to do the actual fighting)

We had this exact conversation at the dinner table last week. My teens are into Walking Dead (zombie apocalypse tv). I said I don’t think I could be bothered to run. Or fight. I couldn’t stand the idea of being one of the last ones left so best that they/it/whatever took me fairly early on. Everyone acted rather disappointed in me tbh. Whereas they loved the idea of finding ways to stay alive and on the run. Couldn’t be further from my intentions. Nah.

Thanks @CantFindTheBeat Best compliment ever 😄

No. I drive dh made because any time we watch any movie or tv show with any sort of world changing/disaster scenario, I tell him which point in the movie I'd just give up and kill myself.

Honestly it's usually fairly early on.

I’d be gone pretty quick, I’d either die due to no access to insulin, or I’d do something really stupid and get killed.

See, I used to be a Guide so I can forage and make a shelter and stuff. I'm really good at playing Hide and Seek, so when the zombies turn up, I could hide until they went away. The problem is the drugs I have to take in the aftermath of breast cancer. One of the side effects is terrible wind. My farting would give me away.

Hahaha that made me laugh!

If the only available food is barley or human beings, pray you're not sharing accommodation with a hungry coeliac.

@CantFindTheBeat I don't think, after a couple of weeks living in a dark cave surviving on barley and berries, you'd be that bothered about nutrition. Just bulk!

Dh and DS are also vegetarian, so I hope I'd last a while before they resorted to devouring me. I'd take some comfort in the fact I was at least being useful in my demise.

We used to live in the lodge house of a very large stately pile. They had massive wine cellars, a priest hile, horses, and of course guns. Having had this concersation a few times our plan was always to storm the house and fell a few enormous trees to block us in and others out. Then we'd just get shitfaced until zombies or madness took us.

These days I'd settle for a nice chablis and Detectorists on repeat until the undead clunked at the door.

Back just to state that I’d be quite happy living in the Walking Dead world with Daryl Dixon 😏

ok thanks 😂😂😂

DH reckons he’d drive to the nearest shooting range, load up on weapons, drive somewhere remote, etc. He’s clearly thought it through! We’ve watched our fair share of The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, and had a chat about it, as you do. Basically I’ve said life would be shit in a post-apocalyptic world, and I wouldn’t want to live in it. He couldn’t believe it, and it made me think badly of myself that I’d give up so easily.

I don't see how anyone on here could get eaten. Everyone knows no-one on MN ever opens their front door!