To be disturbed by the "Prepping" board.

[TheoriginalLEM]

Is this a thing now?

Is there really a need to be stockpiling food, medicines and creating a bolt hole?

Am i missing something? Seriously (this is not a light-hearted thread), i suffer from anxiety and this is really disturbing me.

Hopefully people have just been watching too much walking dead.

Thank fuck; thought it was just me. YADNBU.

I find myself unnecessary worrying about things I really don't need to atm. I access MN on my phone and haven't worked out how to block the board (help!!!), but when I can I will. Anxiety and paranoia inducing.

I hate the thought of a group not being allowed to discuss a topic that is not illegal, inciting hatred or even grounded in reality a lot of the time, on the grounds that others might be distressed by a title.
Not even thread content, because it's your choice to read or not.
That response is far scarier to me than a zombie plague or Ebola. Mass paranoia from a majority over a minority interest. Terrifying in its torch and pitchforks mentality.
Just think of us as loveable eccentrics who are harmless and like collecting, and stop seeing preppers as one of the Signs Of The Apocalypse.

I don't think it should be banned.

I do think that giving a whole board to it legitimises he idea as something we should all be doing. Also, I think sometimes that sort of separated board can become an echo-chamber where people become more and more paranoid and egg each other on to absurdities. Everyone else hiding the board only makes it worse - having the threads in chat means a dose of 'of course you don't need 100l of water stored in an outhouse' is added, healthily I think.

I do think that giving a whole board to it legitimises he idea as something we should all be doing

I feel this about the style/beauty board to be honest. I don't buy into all the make up/fashion/expensive handbag stuff so here's what I do - I don't go to the bloody topic!

The Venn diagram of 'preppers' and 'handbag fans' would be two circles, wouldn't it

'I do think that giving a whole board to it legitimises he idea as something we should all be doing.'

Do you feel that way about The Doghouse? Creative Writing?
S&B? The sports boards?

That's silly.

I do think that giving a whole board to it legitimises he idea as something we should all be doing. Also, I think sometimes that sort of separated board can become an echo-chamber where people become more and more paranoid and egg each other on to absurdities.

The same could be said about any board on MN. Ridiculous. If you don't like it, hide the board. I don't understand how anyone thinks it's okay to say "I don't like it personally, so therefore nobody else should be able to discuss it."

They might be working themselves up a bit.

But I come from a country with natural disasters where everyone is told to have stockpiles of water, non perishable food. First aid kit, supplies for makeshift toilet. Get away bag with essential documents, medication etc

I know you don't have earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis here but it wouldn't hurt to be prepared to last a week of extreme weather.

Rather than an apocalypse.

I did say I don't think it should be banned - I think the threads should just be in chat, or wherever, rather than separated off.

Anyway, swimming lessons are finishing so I'm off.

As a rural dweller who is used to power cuts and snowdrifts I don't see any need to be doing any thing different to what I do now.
Having a camping stove, candles/torches and shovels etc.

Plus, we actually do help our neighbour's out around here.

I've not RTFT because its bloody 13 pages long now - but i think its really sensible to have supplies in as we come up to winter. there's always drama when someone can't make it to the shops because of 6ft of snow outside etc.

Why do people get so annoyed about what boards there are on here?

People asked for a board, mn agreed there was enough interest to have its own board.

If you don't like it, hide it. It doesn't effect you if it's, its own board or several threads.

We prep a little bit. We get snowed in on occasion. So like to have stock so that I don't have to worry about running out of it happens. When you have plenty of food in, being snowed in is much more pleasant.

The same as any hobby some people don't do it, some people do it a little and some people get really into it.

I haven't been on the preppers boards, it's not a big part of my life. Let them get on with it.

Asking people to not talk about it incase it makes other people anxious, is daft.

We wouldn't be able to talk about anything.

i haven't once said that:

i don't think we should have the topic

that the preppers are nutters

Just that it made me anxious.

LEM.

Same as ever, someone starts a thread & things get derailed - it alaways happens but it's the same in RL conversations.

Sorry you feel anxious - can you step away from this thread for a bit to try & stop thinking about it?

Do you know how to hide the board now op? It sounds better than hiding threads.

I'm sorry that other people's hobbies make you anxious, but that's why we recommend the 'Hide topic' option. It would be a lot harder for you to avoid if we kept talking about the subject in chat or AIBU.
I have 2 children on the autistic spectrum, one of the many lifeskills they have had to develop is knowing what to do when they find something upsetting or annoying or scary that is refgarded as perfectly normal by the majority of others. What strategies can they use to minimise the impact on them, as they can't control others.

im ok thanks :)

actually some of the posts have reassured me because preparing for the eventuality of getting snowed in or a power cut is pretty sensible. I might even go and buy some candles!!

prepping for any sort of apocalypse suggests a level of anxiety higher than mine and feeding that can't be healthy.

talking about a zombie apocalypse is mildly amusing.

When the apocalypse comes we'll be eating the weird tins of stuff that were out of date so couldn't be given to harvest festival. That's normal, right?

Yup.
It's how we get through the summer holidays when I'm not working too.
I'd prefer a vampire apocalypse TBH, George A Romero put me off zombies for life when I was a teenager.

Armchair the only things you'd need to stock pile would be
holy water (not the same as buxton spring)
garlic
crucifixes.
and not go out after dark ;)

The only thing that caused me any real concern on the preppers threads was when people started posting about stock piling food ready for benefits and tax credits cuts.

I cannot afford to lose any more money but I can't afford to stock pile food either.

We have a couple of days worth of frozen stuff but that's about it.

However once I stopped panicking I realised that my family wouldn't just sit back and watch us all starve to death. They'd help me. Most of us are in the same boat and we help each other out but my grandparents are loaded, if they stop TC etc then my gran will just have to fed us all

Power cuts, my oven is gas, it'd be a pain in the arse lighting it without the electric clicky thing but I could do it and I stock pile matches and lighters accidentally by loosing them and then buying more and then finding the first ones again.

My boss has a generator and I'm fairly sure he'd still open in light of a power cut (he'd probably open 24/7 if he was the only person with power) so we could all hang out there if it got really bad.

I'm not concerned about terrorists, disease, natural disasters or Armageddon.

The prepping stuff makes me think, but in a slightly different way. I agree with the pp that in the event of a disaster, a few bottles of water and tins of beans aren't going to make any significant difference. What I think about instead is skills - skills that my parents and grandparents had that I've lost in my comfy technologized world that would be useful or needed in a whole variety of situations from annoying to catastrophic. Like what mushrooms you can eat, how to purify water, how to treat a burn or dress a wound - these are all things I've learned in the past few years which have come in handy occasion and made me realize how totally helpless most of us would be in, say, an extended general power cut (me included). I don't worry about vague apocalyptic scenarios, and I don't stockpile, but I do think it's good for us (and dc if we have them) to re-learn basic practical survival skills.

I'll admit I got annoyed when one of the 'preppers' came onto the Walking Dead thread in order to get us to petition for their board.

It was like having a jehovah witness turn up at your front door.