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.

I can understand if you have a family member with some type of specific medical need that you would wish to have bag system in place for an emergency evacuation. Or perhaps live in a wilderness or place without much of an infrastructure. But wasting mental energy and financial resources on having plans and stuff for a situation not likely to happen when you are a resourceful human

And yet nobody on the board is really talking about anything other that very likely scenarios such as bad weather and power cuts. Nobody IS wasting mental energy and financial resources. But if they were, so what, it's not affecting YOU is it? I don't recognise you as a poster, Silver, so I can't tell if you are being deliberately obtuse, or goady, or simply haven't actually looked at the threads, and have no idea what you're talking about, bar what you've read on this thread.

I doubt any of us call ourselves "preppers" in RL but MN decided on the name for the board

but prepping is a shortening of being prepared....

I have thanks Iris. And I don't think it's me trying to whip something up, you're deliberately picking a couple of extreme posts, and using them for effect, knowing full well that nobody else is proposing that views like that st anything but extreme.

You are being deliberately goady.

Yeah. We didn't even choose the sodding title. Good grief.

But there are posters on this thread talking about stock piling medicines and their intent to guard/hide their hoard from their neighbours.

Those people need help, not a whole topic dedicated to validating their anxiety.

I can understand if you have a family member with some type of specific medical need that you would wish to have bag system in place for an emergency evacuation

Gas leak, house next door. Given 10 minutes to leave and not allowed back for 2 days. That happens once, you prepare for the next time.

(And Getting stuck for 9 hours on a motorway, finally leaving it at 9pm and having to find a travelodge (and food) in a town you'd never been to before and the. staying overnight makes you kick yourself for forgetting to transfer your bag from the old one to the new one)

It is very sad that in New Orleans over 1,000 people died because the state and national govt couldn't get their act together to get aid where it could be fast enough.

HOWEVER I think it's very flawed to use that one incident to justify your prepping fantasy plans whilst ignoring the more recent incidents of severe flooding IN THE UK where villages where cut off (I'm thinking of Somerset etc) for just as long if not longer than N.O and yet, no one died of starvation or thirst, neighbours did not loot each other and neighbours did not leave neighbours to die. Aid arrived, by informal means and then formal means.

Sorry but I have better things to do with my money than stock my house with more food than for say 2 weeks (which is around what I have anyway).

No, Stratters, I am commenting on the extreme end of 'prepping', which may not be the majority view of posters in that topic but it does seem to be the view of some.
If a friend in rl started talking like that I'd gently suggest a GP visit.
Again, not sure why you are picking up on posts that are not aimed at you or your reasons for preparation. Not really interested in a row with you.

So don't do it then

Enjolrass - earlier you said "Apparently preppers are fantasists" - I'm not sure if that's on the back of what I said, but can I just make it clear that that is not what I think - not at all. I just said it to try to make the shouting down and pisstaking stop a bit. I thought that if the deriders thought of preppers as fantasists they might be able to move on and stop the piss taking and unpleasantness. Oh ffs - I know what I meant! I just sound like a babbling drunk now which I am not!
But anyway - I like the preppers board and I think it has as much right to exist as any other board here or anywhere. That's what I meant!

I also have about two / three weeks of food.

However it is a free society and absolutely noone has the right to have a go at people who want to do more.

Having had a trying day involving a and e and power cuts I must make note to self to...keep working torch somewhere obvious, keep mobile charged up, carry change, water, snacks, wet wipes change of clothes for kids and small amusements eg. As if on long journey but remember take it everywhere

It's not 'prepping' (or not what I think of as prepping, anyway) to have stuff in your car in case you're stranded somewhere, or own an axe, or have well stocked cupboards. That's just normal to me. We own an axe, because we chop firewood. I suppose buying an axe and stashing it for a zombie apocolypse would be 'prepping'.

Preppers to me are those planning for the apocolypse, stockpiling food, buying those sachets of food, survival kits, and have actually thought about weapons, starving children next door etc. That, to me, is very strange - and I do think is a sign of disordered thinking/paranoia.

I honestly, honestly thought the OFRS was a joke though.

Anyone who thinks that the way we live at the moment in the main won't have to change at some point is a bit naive in my opinion. To that end, to me 'prepping' is more a move towards a self-sufficient mindset and lifestyle where possible, with supplies in the house to see us through a prolonged power cut or being snowed in.

Why does the prepping board cause more angst than any of the others that people see but don't use?

Narrow minded prejudice.

I live rurally but not quite sure what the need is for an axe. We probably have one in the garage from the days we had an open fire for cutting up logs into smaller pieces, but not quite sure why it would only be rural people that need one for that.

As I said earlier we have been cut-off by snow in the past, but cannot see why you need to be prepared all year round for this eventuality. When a cold snap is forecast just get in a bit extra food, enough prescription medicine and other stuff that is essential to your comfort. Why would you need to plan this with other people's input?

A couple of weeks ago, before I realised prepping was 'a thing', I naively posted on a thread about planning for disasters about my experience of being flooded in quite a light-hearted way. Saying stuff like I foolishly filled the bath with water like you see in the films, rather than saving all my books, and my first thought was rescuing the guinea pigs. I very quickly had to back away from the thread when I realised that humour and real life experiences were not appropriate to 'real preppers'.

The name OFRS is a joke. Born from the first Walking Dead series I think. But the concept (a simple packed overnight bag) isn't. It's just being proactive.

I'm afraid I just don't understand the "sneering" of the topic due to a few posts by more "extreme" members of what is widely regarded as a hobby activity.

Does this mean we should uniformly sneer at S&B because a small minority can spend 10k on a bag? Ban the Dog House because people have more than 1 dog?

Ban AIBU because some people clearly fucking are?

But the way we live at the moment is not going to change to self sufficiency within our life time, honestly, it's not.

Where is all this coming from about prolonged power cuts?

Snow, yes, there'll be more snow, but snow to the point that we cannot leave our house for x weeks and help won't arrive? No. That's going to happen.

I've never seen any prepping talk on mn. Now that there is a prepper topic (and why not if people want it) there is lots of prepper talk on AIBU.

And this is exactly why a joke title like The Bunker should have been used. It's nothing to do with prepping for a fucking apocalypse, or fucking zombies, or the end of the fucking world, and just provides ammo for fucking sad people with nothing better to do than poke fun at other people who feel better knowing they're OK if it fucking snows.

I'll leave you all to it. Have fun piss taking and calling people mentally ill, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

nothing no not in response to you.

I was trying to similar to you, I think