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Prepping for war...

111 replies

Preppers · 24/02/2022 13:30

Does anyone have any guidance about what we should be prepping?

Do you have an escape bag? What do you keep in it?

Should we start planting some root vegetables?

OP posts:
TellMeMoreHellebore · 24/02/2022 13:31

why?

RedMozzieYellowMozzie · 24/02/2022 13:33

Isn’t there a prepper board you could post in?

Pinkbonbon · 24/02/2022 13:35

Tinned tomatoes and toilet roll, same as covid times xD

Really though, the guy has necleur weapons, not sure there's much point prepping when we're probably all going to go cablamo!

I'm thinking I might take a holiday or two though because that's what I regretted not doing more of when covid hit.

Pinkbonbon · 24/02/2022 13:35

Nuclear

Duracellbunnywannabe · 24/02/2022 13:35

Nuclear bunker?

Preppers · 24/02/2022 13:56

We dont have a bunker... i'm more about practical things...

OP posts:
TellMeMoreHellebore · 24/02/2022 13:57

gin

Wannabangbang · 24/02/2022 13:58

If it nuclear we are dead. There's no point prepping we'll all be dead in the end of radiation poisoning and only the elite in bunkers will survive it. Lets hope Boris keeps his nasal passages out of it. I feel sorry for Ukraine but its not our fight

Grantanow · 24/02/2022 13:59

Root veggies take a long time, don't they? Of course, if and it's a big if, we had a nuclear war you can be sure BJ, the Q and other nobs will be in the bunkers well-stocked with caviar ready to carry on civilisation afterwards!

Creeeper · 24/02/2022 14:05

I’m not sure why but the combo of escape bag and root vegetables made me lol

Wannabangbang · 24/02/2022 14:06

Hmm a body bag may be more appropriate Hmm

Christmas1988 · 24/02/2022 14:07

Give over!

BarbaraofSeville · 24/02/2022 14:11

If you're in Ukraine right now, sympathies, but you're probably too late.

Elsewhere, where are you looking to escape to?

You could plant some carrots and potatoes and hope they grow into edible food before we get bombed, but seeing as that's not a realistic scenario hopefully then you do that OP.

Of course, if we do get dragged into nuclear war, your root vegetables will be dangerously radioactive and hence unfit for human consumption anyway.

PlanetNormal · 24/02/2022 14:11

I would start panic buying loo roll if I were you, OP. Or do you still have a garage full of the stuff from the last outbreak of mass hysteria?

Thatsplentyjack · 24/02/2022 14:13

Go out to the shops right now and buy at least 100 bags of pasta per person and 1000 toilet rolls. Then come back home and make a bomb shelter ASAP. I'm in mine now.

PotteringAlong · 24/02/2022 14:14

If a nuclear bomb goes off then your carrots won’t save you. Gather up your loved ones and walk together into the mushroom cloud Flowers

ifonly4 · 24/02/2022 14:15

I think the main thing we can do for ourselves is prep our finances. We already know the cost of living is on it's way up, but they'll be further increases on fuels and possibly grains we get from the region, which may become difficult to grow in some areas, and export.

There might come a time when charities need more from us in terms of finances, items we have at home that might be useful for refugees - not a prep for us, but perhaps keep things for now instead of throwing out.

Prepper board might be worth checking out/posting on and people over there are usually on top of what they feel is needed.

Bakewelltart987 · 24/02/2022 14:18

@Grantanow

Root veggies take a long time, don't they? Of course, if and it's a big if, we had a nuclear war you can be sure BJ, the Q and other nobs will be in the bunkers well-stocked with caviar ready to carry on civilisation afterwards!
You forgot the wine and cheese.
Sheilablessus · 24/02/2022 14:24

We can go and plant a few veg between all the trees the eco-muppets are growing on land that used to grow edible food like wheat of greens.

cutebutstabby · 24/02/2022 14:30

The onl thing worth prepping for is what natural food sources to find if turfed from your home and how to kill or get away from someone who wants to kill you. All usless though in a nuclear attack or when facing armed forces. Not worth worrying about.

TellMeMoreHellebore · 24/02/2022 14:35

well we wont have to worry about fuel prices when there is none....

silver lining right there

Scbchl · 24/02/2022 14:37

I'm not sure carrots will save any of us

SwissCheeseRentedChildren · 24/02/2022 14:37

The growing root vegetables thing has reminded me of something…

Years ago on Alas Smith & Jones, Griff was portraying a Green Party member, announcing that their defence policy involved growing a very tall hedge!

Redglitter · 24/02/2022 14:39

Do you have an escape bag? What do you keep in it

Where do you propose to escape to

NobodysGonnaKnow · 24/02/2022 14:39

It might be a good idea to get a few torches.

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