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.

No, swisscheesetony what I actually said was:

I don't think all preppers are nutters/mental health problems. Not at all.

I do think that preppers who fantasise about watching their neighbours' children starve to death have something of a problem, yes.

I prep but its more so that the months we are caught short or we have no money coming in I can still feed everyone. It's more overstock in the good times to see us through the lean times. Nothing to panic about. I think it's a good practice tbh

Hmm that's says to me that you can't back it up.

I'll repeat the general nature of my posts, since you haven't read the thread.

I don't class myself as a prepper although others do.

I live rurally and have been snowed in.

I live rurally and we had swine flu and got stuck in the house.

I prep so that being snowed in isn't a big deal and actually quite enjoyable. Rather than a panic.

I also own 'several weapons' which are axes...because I live rurally and use them to chop wood. (This is something I said after people were asking what possible reason you could have to own a weapon).

I would and have shared with neighbours.

I am not prepping or afraid of the apocalypse.

I am not prepping for a situation where I am cut off from the rest of humanity indefinitely.

I am not preparing to fight my neighbours to the death for a bottle of water.

I am prepping for things that have happened in the past to make them better if they happen again.

Last weekend my whole family were very ill. Everything coming out of all ends (sorry tmi). My parents can not come help because they have compromised immune systems. However we got through 6 days without needing to leave the house. Which made it so much easier.

"Apologies for missing your post, Enjolrass. I still think you and other preppers are implicitly normalising DontHaveAUserName's outlook. But that's just my opinion, naturally."

"A prepping topic is bound to have as many views on it as any other topic. I'm not really understanding the issue that people hold different views within it. What is wrong with that Maud? I cant speak for Dont she has her own opinions."

Yes. I am of the view that if it's a choice between me surviving, or you surviving, I pick me every time. There's other people who would save the other person, I'm not speaking on behalf of all preppers with my view nor should it be assumed that other preppers speak on my behalf. Preppers aren't a hive mind of identical clones, we come from all areas of life so we are bound to hold different views.

Oops! Board as moved on some what sorry. I just read that the OP was looking for reassurance.
TheOriginalLEM
Op I don't know more than you. I just have supplies in because it makes me feel better. I had periods of hunger growing up as my mum struggled to support us and I guess that makes me hoard food and other supplies just in case a run out. I always worry about money and make sure my family (and neighbors and their cats!) have enough to last us.

Please don't worry. It's become a hobby now (I like to look up recipes for my food store)

I like to prepare ahead in case I get stranded somewhere (which has happened) and in case power goes out.

So there you have it. Already three different takes on the the topic from normal sane people. Calling people weirdos is bang out of order and offensive.

I've already said mine, but i'll do it again

I try to prepare ahead because i am disabled and dont want resources 'wasted' on me in an emergecy when other people could need them more.

Four different takes.

We get snowed in regularly and last time we managed to get snowed in whilst the inlaws (PIL, BIL, SIL and their children) were visiting)

I NEVER want that scenario again.

Was it all a bit Shining, atticus.

I do think that preppers who fantasise about watching their neighbours' children starve to death have something of a problem, yes.

Yeah. They seem to lack understanding that parents wouldn't just sit there helplessly and watch their children starve, instead you know attacking their house and forming a lynch mob.

it could so easily have been

Bit surprised that a thread about some people selecting to send their kids to prep has caused so many posts.

Then the penny dropped.

I've started to restock wine, thanks to 25% off at Sainsburys if that counts.

Is this a new thing then?

So we are getting quite a lot of complaints about this thread, folks. We're reluctant to get rid of it, indeed we're reluctant to tamper with it particularly, as we're not seeing much if anything in the way of guideline breaking, but if everyone could just mind Ps and Qs as the thread progresses, that would be much appreciated.

atticusclaw2 I commend you for making through with a clean criminal record.

It's got a fancy new name, MFor, but it's not particularly new. Not much different to my Granny clearing the shelves before a Bread Strike. (She did have a gun but it was in many pieces locked away all around the house so she would probably be drummed out of a Prepper's Convention nowadays)

Who the hell is complaining about this thread??? The mind boggles. Can totally understand the bafflement of mnhq.

Not read the thread, except HQ message but its got me thinking I do have ooodles of space under our floor boards for water storage ( I'm alright Jack)

"They seem to lack understanding that parents wouldn't just sit there helplessly and watch their children starve, instead you know attacking their house and forming a lynch mob."

No I DO understand that, which is why I don't discuss prepping with others. A neighbhour with a starving child, who knows that one of their neighbours is a prepper would be a very big threat to that prepper. They would ask for food and water, and then try stealing it if the request was denied, and would become violent. While it may be wrong to endanger the prepper by stealing from them, you can't really expect that a parent would take any other course of action, they would move mountains or die trying to save their kid.

Goodness, you really are fantasising about it, aren't you Dont? You could just stop harping on about the starving children now.

The first sentence of your last post conveyed your opinion quite well enough - without repeating the stuff about the children yet again. You won't help anyone else. We got it.

I properly admire your patience dont

And people went running to mammy telling tales? seriously? this thread has been alright for the most part.

dont you wuld have to cut off seeing your neighbour though...as they would tell your in batter state than them

I haven't reported the thread, FWIW. Wonder who did.

why are people complaining about the thread??

LEM - I think people probably complained about the mental health insinuations - not your OP.

Come on.....own up!

It's probably someone who hasn't even been on the thread.