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In an apocalyptic scenario, would you survive long?

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fourikeachairs · 13/02/2023 23:22

I wouldn't! At all. I cannot run fast or fight, I'd be a goner immediately the zombies or aliens or whatever descend. When I watch a movie of tv with this theme I can't ever keep up with the characters when they make a quick plan about who is going to do what where, and when they give each other silent hand signals eg going into a room they think is occupied I'm just like huh what do you mean? Grin

If you reckon you'd survive a good while if the shit hits the fan, what are your best survival skills? Are you good at going with the flow, being flexible, thinking quickly on the go?

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Plasmodesmata · 13/02/2023 23:48

I'd just accept my fate and go be a zombie. Much easier than running away from them all the time. I'm sure brains are probably quite tasty.

FatAgainItsLettuceTime · 13/02/2023 23:47

I have a hunker down and wait for the worst to sort itself out plan. I'm fat, unfit and would be fucked if I lose my glasses, so I have bugger all chance in a run and kill scenario.

If everything was to go to plan then I would rock it, of course that wouldn't be likely but still it's kind of fun to think through.

I've mentally plotted how we'd fortify our home and adapt it to self sufficiency, where we'd get supplies and how they'd be stored and preserved, what livestock would be needed to keep us in food (rabbits are top on the list, they breed quick, give meat and furs, easy to care for and feed), what fruit and veg could be planted for short and long term crops, what would make good bartering supplies.......

Big fan of zombie/dystopian movies, TV shows and books so find myself thinking about it fairly often.

BankOfDave · 13/02/2023 23:46

It really depends how bad PMT is tbh. I will either kill all of them single-handedly making Lara Croft look like David Brent, or will just have a nice sit down and wait.

boatyardblues · 13/02/2023 23:45

EmmaEmerald · 13/02/2023 23:33

I wouldn't want to. Someone on here said they wouldn't want to deal with the "tinned anchovies and anarchy" stage. Ditto.

Agree. I was about 1/3 of the way through Cormac McCarthy’s The Road when I realised the character that topped themself at the beginning made the right call. I don't want to be eaten or enslaved or starve thank you very much.

Itisbetter · 13/02/2023 23:44

In a holes up and defending a safe spot scenario I’d be excellent, but ds is disabled and I’d die trying to save him as would dh and his siblings. We’re totally fucked if it comes to running or hiding, slow and VERY noisy.🤣.

LozzaChops101 · 13/02/2023 23:43

I think I’m too much of a people pleaser to survive the apocalypse. Although I’m dead good at foraging and making fires and things so if I was alone I could probably last a solid week 😆

Tbh I’d die of complications from acid reflux or something equally sexy without the protection of Big Pharma.

NewNameForXmas · 13/02/2023 23:40

I have stored fat so could do without calories for a good while. Not good at running though!

Justmuddlingalong · 13/02/2023 23:40

I couldn't be arsed with it. Dealing with unapocalyptic life knackers me as it is. If the leccy still worked I'd just have a cuppa and accept my fate.

Forestcantrun · 13/02/2023 23:39

Zombie apocalypse is one of my distraction scenarios… I ask patients every day when I’m stitching or doing painful interventions😀

I have come to realise this is what I’ve been training for all my life🤣 Obviously lot of NHS emergency experience, can sort out injuries while on the move.

I now run, so I’m fit, not fast but can run! I’ve speedy tactical decision making skills, planning experience and more importantly, I’ve been dying for an excuse to drive like I’m escaping zombies.

Pick me🤣🤣

Lindy2 · 13/02/2023 23:37

Surviving an apocalypse seems like very hard work. I don't think I'd have the energy for it really.

EmmaEmerald · 13/02/2023 23:33

I wouldn't want to. Someone on here said they wouldn't want to deal with the "tinned anchovies and anarchy" stage. Ditto.

TheVanguardSix · 13/02/2023 23:31

Not with my weak bladder. Just imagine if the protagonist of a zombie movie, or say, Sigorney Weaver in Alien, had a weak bladder. What a sub plot!