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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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endoftheworldniteclub · 14/02/2023 08:13

How to protect your home in a zombie apocalypse.

In an apocalyptic scenario, would you survive long?
Nimbostratus100 · 14/02/2023 08:13

PoseyFlump · 14/02/2023 06:53

Maybe some of us on this thread are chatting about zombie apocalypse's to distract from what we are facing right now?

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rubbish, 10 million are facing apocalyptic conditions right now and a bunch of safe, fully dressed westerners with working toilets and drinking water on tap are thinking, "O yes, lets imagine this is us, just for fun, just to distract us from the gas bill"

It stinks

EmptyPlaces · 14/02/2023 08:08

Depressingly, I think I would survive for a very long time - for the simple reason that I have no desire to survive any apocalypse scenario. Life likes to fuck with me like that.

endoftheworldniteclub · 14/02/2023 08:08

TrinnySmith · 14/02/2023 07:19

I don't think we are far from chaos - I thought about trying to write a book called The Lights Went Out.
How long before chaos if the electricity substations were bombed. So no heating (pumps needed for radiators), cooking, phones eventually, lighting, no petrol pumped at petrol stations, so no vehicles, no delivery of food after a while, no security at supermarkets. I don't know how it works with 4G, 5G but I suspect electricity is needed in it's ability to work. Chaos!!

There already is a book called that. It’s very good. 🙂

Bunnynames101 · 14/02/2023 08:06

I think it would depend on the type of zombie...

Slow leg draggy ones that mistake lampposts for food, no problem.

Fast zombies that can hear I knocked over a glass at a mile away. I'd do myself in to save myself becoming one.

middleager · 14/02/2023 08:04

No.

Without my varifocals, I might walk up to a zombie assuming its my friend, or I might accidentally walk into a pit of zombies.

I'm vegetarian, I'm unfit, I can't stay quiet and I suit bright, winter colours, so khaki/camoflage does nothing for me. Not sure I could run in wedges either.

cravingtoblerone · 14/02/2023 08:02

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

😂 Sums up my feelings perfectly!

Morestrangethings · 14/02/2023 08:00

Thatsplentyjack · 14/02/2023 07:47

I think I would do quite well. I can be very quiet, and I have a lot of rage I would love to take out on a fee zombies 🤣 reality is my kids would get me killed in minutes coz they cant shut up or sit still, and tbh I wouldn't even try to survive through it. Who would want to? I've seen walking dead, who wants to live like that!

Can someone please explain this to me? I understood Rick going missing and not getting back to his kids, but Michonne? It made no sense. She had already lost a young child early in the apocalypse and she’s an absolute mama bear, but suddenly she decides to go and find Rick leaving her son and step daughter Judith behind. In Darryl’s care admittedly but still? I either missed a few episodes that explained it, or the writers’ room was full of child free children the day they wrote that.

SomeCommonThing · 14/02/2023 07:58

I'd honestly just kill myself.
I have no directional hearing, am vegetarian, and I can't run. I have zero interest in a fight to survive in a post apocalyptic world.

CentrifugalBumblePuppy · 14/02/2023 07:56

I’m pretty well trained in survival techniques, foraging, can make fire, know my bushcraft, first aider for years, and have a moderate stash (ideology from years ago when a shitty biz partner nicked off with £180k of my bloody money & we had to walk the streets to find change on the floor to buy a loaf, no food banks back then!). And I can handle a firearm.

But, I’ll be honest, I’m fat, 50, a disabled diabetic on crutches who piddles syrup, so I’d probably offer myself to the aliens/zombies as a dessert.

LaurieFairyCake · 14/02/2023 07:56

I'm quite good at hiding and being quiet

As long as I could just stay inside I'd be barricaded in for months reading books

Also if a zombie broke in I'm not squeamish and would cheerfully bludgeon it over the head with a hammer

But running and leaving the house, nope 👎

Summerfun54321 · 14/02/2023 07:50

My ex said to me once "if there was an apocalypse I'd be the person everyone wants to have around" which I kind of took as a compliment but i'm not sure now. I never complain about being tired or in pain, I eat absolutely anything and am happy to adapt to any scenario. I'm trained at boxing, kung-fu and construction and (was) very physically fit at the time I knew him. I also have a very high threshold for being scruffy and unclean and get on with pretty much anyone. I am VERY squeamish though so any major injuries or zombies then I'm out.

StarmanBobby · 14/02/2023 07:50

i’m very practical and resourceful, plus have young children so I’d give it a go… another one who’d be peeing all the time though!

Thatsplentyjack · 14/02/2023 07:47

I think I would do quite well. I can be very quiet, and I have a lot of rage I would love to take out on a fee zombies 🤣 reality is my kids would get me killed in minutes coz they cant shut up or sit still, and tbh I wouldn't even try to survive through it. Who would want to? I've seen walking dead, who wants to live like that!

Cherryblossoms85 · 14/02/2023 07:43

@AffIt I often think that too, but my DH is so morally upstanding I'm fairly sure he'd say "after you" to complete strangers so many times that our whole family would die within five minutes. It's actually, weirdly, something that really bugs me!

Iwantabloodypizza · 14/02/2023 07:43

Just 'surviving' instead of 'living' would be so bloody miserable. And in a world with no rules and no law, I reckon feral humans would probably be scarier than the zombies, so no thanks!

Thats pretty much my life now living on the edge of a rough estate.

We had a power cut here a few months ago. The whole area. The local shop across the road from me was looted while the power was out and they tried to do Aldi too. It’s any excuse for them round here, the place would implode within the hour if anything serious happened.

MavisFlump · 14/02/2023 07:42

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.

Me too!
I wouldn’t last 5 minutes, am a complete wimp 😀

Jimboscott0115 · 14/02/2023 07:30

I'd do well initially and could look after the family I reckon but there's absolutely no way i'd make it until some form of civilisation returned, I'd die doing something stupid - a 'there's only 200 zombies between me and that abandoned beer delivery truck, I'll be back in a minute' type rash decision!

Iwantabloodypizza · 14/02/2023 07:29

I’d like to think so.

But I’m fat and can’t run.

I’m also coeliac so looting for food would t be much fun while scouring the back of packets for ingredients that will make me vomit.

I also have a two year old who will not shut up for a second, so if we ever had to hide, we’d be done for in a second.

CantFindTheBeat · 14/02/2023 07:26

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.

Yes - glasses!!

How would we even SEE in the apocalypse!!

JustKeepSlimming · 14/02/2023 07:23

We'd have to ditch DH, because he'd inevitably get us killed by doing something stupid, and he has no useful survival skills anyway.

My friend's DH would be excellent, so I'd probably take the kids and team up with my friend and her family instead.

On my own I'd be ok at the survival aspect, but hopeless if I was attacked. I could probably live happily in an unknown corner of the woods for a fair while, and if I had books id be quite happy. But as soon as zombies came for me, I'd be a goner.

TrinnySmith · 14/02/2023 07:19

I don't think we are far from chaos - I thought about trying to write a book called The Lights Went Out.
How long before chaos if the electricity substations were bombed. So no heating (pumps needed for radiators), cooking, phones eventually, lighting, no petrol pumped at petrol stations, so no vehicles, no delivery of food after a while, no security at supermarkets. I don't know how it works with 4G, 5G but I suspect electricity is needed in it's ability to work. Chaos!!

PoseyFlump · 14/02/2023 07:19

when you die naturally you still get to turn into a zombie.

That's proper unfair.

PortiasBiscuit · 14/02/2023 07:17

I’d stick with DH, he’d look after us.

Changechangechanging · 14/02/2023 07:16

Ha! My children and I for years did car apocalypse - time in the car was spent discussing what we'd do. We have a whole plan and meet up place with strict time limits as to how long we wait for the rest....hope we never need it!