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.

Dont it doesn't matter how many times you repeat that same drivel it doesn't change the fact you are willingly planning on letting a hypothetical child die.

You make it sound like you are planning for the end of the world.

In what situation would you not share your food in order to save a life when chances are pretty high that aid would arrive.

but I could have ninja'd the fucker with the hobby horse for sure

Love this!!

If you're saying it'll never happen, why do you care what someone "might" do??

Actually Silver, I'm excellent in an emergency. Very level headed. I simply like to have all bases covered, not least because we have a lot of pets, and I don't like the thought of running out of their food. Plus I hate food shopping, so I bulk buy shop for everything once a month. Less painful that way.

I have stocks of stuff in the house, as I said before. I would share with the neighbour.

He makes his own wine... Would only be sensible.

The majority of preppers do not spend time worrying about the post apocalyptic hordes.

I would bet that dont doesn't worry about it that much. She is responding to people on here who are upset that a child, who doesn't exist might starve.

Friends who lived in sarajevo during the war spoke of how they learned how valuable it was to even have a tiny patch of land to grow food on when there was nothing else around but scavenged nettles or what you could smuggle through the tunnels, how their father's foresight in getting a goat for milk was one of the things that saved them. Another had a family farm in the country and didn't seem to think there was any question that they would distribute the food they had.. also it was clear when I went more recently that even outside of the memories of wartime hardship many of those who live in the city possess many valuable life skills as a norm such as knowledge of how to survive long winters, camping in the mountains or holidaying in country cottages without electricity.

"For instance it's all very well having a stock-pile of food water and ammo, but what if you are evacuated because of an impending event, cannot take your own transport and are being put onto buses/coaches? "

That's what a go bag is for. My preference is to stay at home but I've got a go bag in case that's not possible and I need to leave. I wouldn't be getting onto the evacuation buses or coaches though.

Seriously strange thing to do.

I'm not talking about vast swathes of the entire country starving, my scenario was just about a localized situation a town where people are starting to feel the effects of starvation because they are cut off from the outside world for a short while

I'm fairly that in those situations the army and/or search rescue are deployed to evacuate people/drop off supplies long before starving becomes a possibility.

In fact living in flood prone areas I know they are deployed almost immediately to evacuate and give supplies to those who don't want to/can't evacuate and no one goes around looting their neighbours, they generally grab whatever flotation aids they have and help their neighbours with whatever support they get from local businesses.

Like another poster I am unable to envision anything that would possibly lead to starvation occurring in the UK because of a sudden disaster.

My flooding evacuation point is at the top of my road, it's a 2 mile walk to the highest point, I think we can manage that quite easily.

If you're saying it'll never happen, why do you care what someone "might" do??

Because if I knew someone in real life who would sit chewing on their tins of spam while the child from next door was crying banging on the door because mummy and daddy wouldn't wake up, they are someone I would question the moral standing of and wouldn't want to know them.

Although, those expensive signs everywhere are pretty pointless, seeing as nobody seems to know what they are for, and I only found out because my curiosity got the better of me, and I asked on MN. Googling ''out ER' road sign' proved futile.

I'm loving how some people think life is the same as it was 40 years ago brilliant

If you can't envision it then fine, crack on and go back to your life. I'm sure those of us who like the subject will muddle along quite happily without your input.

Errrr, excuse me - earlier on this thread reassured me! Fuck off with your evacuation buses and letting the neighbours children starve!!!

I genuinely can't imagine anyone really doing that Pipbin :(

I think you'll find there's a topic to discuss that sort of thing!!

"If you're saying it'll never happen, why do you care what someone "might" do??"

It could be insecurity, they think it probably won't happen but seeing others prepare forces them to confront the possibility that it might, and then they see that others will be in a better position than them if SHTF.

"Dont it doesn't matter how many times you repeat that same drivel it doesn't change the fact you are willingly planning on letting a hypothetical child die.

In what situation would you not share your food in order to save a life when chances are pretty high that aid would arrive."

If I knew for a fact that help would arrive in a certain amount of time, and also knew for a fact that sharing wouldn't have any effect on my ability to make it through the crisis, then I would share. In all other situations then no. I prepare and take responsibility for myself, I cannot and should not be expected to provide for others who should have provided for themselves. Every meal or every bottle of water I gave to someone else would be food or water out of my own mouth, which means lowering the duration that I can survive in order to increase the amount of time someone else can survive.

Well, you started this thread, what did you expect to happen?

I think we should stop indulging Dont's frankly disturbingly detailed fantasies on this subject.

Lem, there is nothing that can feasibly happen in the UK that would lead anyone to need these supplies and/or face having to watch their neighbours starve. Nothing. Ever.

If it makes you feel any better I pick you up in my stolen yacht, filled with my looted chickens and wine and we can go and kidnap Bruce Willis together?

"I'm fairly that in those situations the army and/or search rescue are deployed to evacuate people/drop off supplies long before starving becomes a possibility."

Maybe help arrives before people starve to death, but dehydration from lack of water happens a lot faster. Help took 4 or 5 days to reach most in New Orleans, you generally can't go more than 3 without water.

Yeah - lets look on the bright side. Perhaps the blitz spirit would kick in again.

Can you pop by for me on the way past All? I started off not being disturbed by the Preppers Topic but having read some bits of this thread I am feeling a bit uneasy.

I genuinely can't imagine anyone really doing that Pipbin

That's what Don't is saying she'd do.