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If something HUGE was to happen ..

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MaDuggar · 03/11/2010 18:52

... how long could you survive with what you have in your house right now?

Do you have any tins/bottled water etc put away in case of a emergency?

Have been frealing myself out reading some wacky conspiray sites (all baging on about something huge happeneing in the next 2 weeks) - Im not be;lieveing it, but it has made me think that one day there could be an event and I probably would only last a week with my store cupboard!

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toddlerama · 06/11/2010 17:22

The apocalypse is going to have to happen in the next hour if I'm going to share these brownies...

Tee2072 · 06/11/2010 18:32

URGENT: Saturday Times has Presents for Men Catalogue!!

Should I buy:

Survival Kit

Happy Pee

and/or

Leatherman Torch

TandB · 06/11/2010 18:32

I was about to point out that I am actually the only one who knows where the meeting point is, and should therefore have a look-in at the leadership election, but then I realised that if I don't tell everyone else where we are meeting, it will just be me, a toddler and my TA friend sitting in a locker in the local magistrates' court.

MrsChemist · 06/11/2010 18:36

Someone needs to bring one of these along.

I'll be bringing my dad's walking stick. It contains a compass and a flask for whiskey/brandy. I think it could trump the sword walking stick.

CherryRocketMonster · 06/11/2010 18:50

ok, i have checked my cupboards and have the following:

2 giant boxes of black magic's
2 big tins of roses
1 box of orange matchmakers
and
1 big box of ferrero rocher (they are mine!)

half a litre of vodka
half a bottle of tequila

am willing to share

oh, and a load of tinned stuff of various descriptions

sarah293 · 06/11/2010 19:41

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CherryRocketMonster · 06/11/2010 19:43

yeah i know! dont worry riven, i will share with you [mwah]

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VivaLeBeaver · 06/11/2010 19:50

DH reckons that Tesco may have started this rumour in order to get you all to panic buy a load of stuff.

Either that or there's going to be a massive earthquake in the Canary islands which are on some sort of unstable shelf. Lanazarote then falls in the sea and the resulting tusnami wipes out the Eastern seaboard of the US 8 hours later. Now that would cause a dollar collapse.

VivaLeBeaver · 06/11/2010 19:52

www.cdnn.info/news/article/a010829.html

CherryRocketMonster · 06/11/2010 19:55

oh dear!

sarah293 · 06/11/2010 19:58

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TandB · 06/11/2010 20:06

Riven made it here! Parking for the Busmobile is sorted!

TandB · 06/11/2010 20:14

Time for a Shaun of the Dead style plan review:

Grab OFRS and looting stick, head to local magistrates' court (to be identified on MN when appocalyptic signs are first noted), locate my TAing, survivalist lawyer buddy in advocates' lounge (through the double doors on the right - see earlier in thread for code to the door), wait for all bus passengers to assemble (do we have a definitive list yet?), wait for polite interval before commencing looting, get on bus and carry out brief Cath Kidston re-vamp, head to Asda, park bus in two P&C spaces using Riven's badges, bash some over-zealous zombie traffic wardens with SarahStratton's polo stick, send feral children in to scavange, back on bus, off to secret base to collect warship, over to Belfast to pick up Tee, off to Geneva for quick visit and then on to Moldova before returning to East Anglia to feast on FellationNelson's supplies. Meanwhile, assign techy husbands a list of vital checks to ascertain whether the British government has been re-established via careful analysis of AIBU threads.

Did I miss anything?

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CherryRocketMonster · 06/11/2010 20:19

yes kungfu- you forgot the four horsewomen of the apocalypse in front making sure the way is safe! and the four small pony riders of the apocolypse bringing up the rear, with dd1 talking the zombies into submission

SarahStrattonsSparkler · 06/11/2010 20:21

Ace Grin

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SarahStrattonsSparkler · 06/11/2010 20:32

Looting and pillaging is easier on horseback. Horses are manouverable, fast and scary. That's why the police use them at football matches. The Pedestrian of The Apocalypse could walk behind us and loot small but valuable items.

Tee2072 · 06/11/2010 20:33

Perfect Kungfu!

nymphadora · 06/11/2010 20:36

Don't forget the garden building on board the war ships!

SarahStrattonsSparkler · 06/11/2010 20:44

I like the idea of a floating Noah's Ark warship rather a lot. As we have 2 could the other 2 decks been assigned crop growing duties. We could become vitually self sufficient if we use some of the swimming pools as orchards once suitably filled in.

Horton · 06/11/2010 20:54

OK, have done an inventory (I am bored, DH is out at the rugby) and can contribute the following:

Large box of Celebrations, several years old but I ate one the other day and it was fine

Several largish sacks of pulses, rice, lentils etc.

Shoebox filled to the brim with packets of seeds.

Two bottles of rum. I don't even like rum but maybe someone else does.

Two full wine boxes and six bottles of wine (we are having a party tomorrow so the apocalypse needs to happen before tomorrow afternoon).

Lacrosse stick.

Mrs Beeton's Household Management book.

Goats and Goatkeeping (book).

Lemon tree in full working order for supply of Vit C.

About ten cartons of longlife fruit juice.

Canned veg.

Electrician DH, also good at carrying things and following simple instructions.

Sewing skills.

Violin and ability to play it, plus large box of sheet music.

Six large tins of confit de canard.

Tins of sardines, tuna, anchovies, corned beef, spam and chicken in white sauce.

Several very sharp Sabatier knives.

Three wind up torches, one grown up one, one in the shape of a pig and another in the shape of a chicken.

Wind up radio.

10 litres of bottled water.

Three large tubs of vitamins (I keep buying them and forgetting to actually take them).

4 litres of UHT milk.

Bottle of sherry.

Enormous plait of garlic (good for if the zombies turn out to be vampires, no?)

Small annoying DD, but hey, we only have to survive for ten years before she can have a baby and become useful.

Six huge packets of crisps, good until 2012 at the latest.

I'm really quite impressed with myself.

SarahStrattonsSparkler · 06/11/2010 20:59

Bloody hell we didn't factor Vampires in, good call Horton.