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.

When me and the starving kids regroup and start building a settled town, we're having as our anthem. And Christmas is being replaced with national speak like a pirate day.

Our town shall have an entire building devoted to lego. Like a library, but with fewer dull crime thrillers and more fucking lego. This isn't relevant to the thread, I just like lego.

This isn't just any Spam. It's middle class organic unicorn Spam.

The road is not really an inspiration for anything. Who would want to live in that world that is completely dead? I certainly wouldn't.

I would like to see someone call themself a vegan in that scenario though

I keep meaning to pick up The Road, as it gets mentioned quite often as being really well written, and quite harrowing in places (and I'm a glutten for punishment with fiction). I'll get round to it. I don't imagine it inspires prepping (as in the doomsday kind, where the world is ending) any more than the Walking Dead does though. I'm sure a tiny group of people are heavily influenced by popular fiction of any media- but for the very vast majority it's nowt more than the entertainment it was created to be.

Though if you want some really scary 'view of the future' type fiction then ignore the apocalyptic stuff out there, check out the likes of Nini Holmqvist's The Unit. I shed fucking buckets over that book.

I just watched the film instead. The books probably better though.

There's a topic devoted to prepping?

WTAF?

I hate all this nihilistic rubbish, so depressing.

Ah I ain't seen the film either, though I remember it being advertised. I think the book is pretty hefty, so the film I'm assuming would be a pretty heavily cut and dried version?

I'm not the biggest fan of films-from-books tbh. They always seem a bit too chopped up/overly edited.

Love a trip to the cinema though in general! Went and caught a late night showing of Ex Machina a couple of months back, we had the entire screen to ourselves and the film was really good. Win

Borderterrier - you get my vote for the best username on mnet!

Well I found the film pretty harrowing so can only guess what the books like.

I don't like it either, the abominations of some Stephen King books gets right on my norks.

LEM

I'm sacking Tina Turner and getting Trent Reznor in to supply the soundtrack to my part of the apocalypse. It's nothing but beans, beans and The Fragile on loop at chez Border

(and thanks for the vote of confidence re: the username. It was borne of wine. Most things I do are borne of wine though, tbf )

"I think that the error of Dont's ways is the 'each man for himself' view."

It's not every man for himself in the literal sense of the word, I'd be more than happy to group up with other preppers and help each other out, that would be mutual help and is not a problem. My objection only kicks in if the "sharing" is one sided. Because it's not really sharing if all that's happening is me giving you some supplies, that's called a donation. Sharing means I get some of your stuff and you get some of mine, so if you want a tin of beans from me, what supplies of yours can I take in return?

I appreciate that the hypothetical starving toddler (my point isn't specific to a toddler, I would feel the same about a starving adult to) is an emotional subject and there will be different opinions on what would be the best thing to do. My own belief is that I'm not there to provide for for them. I don't prep to feed the entire neighbhorhood, I prep to feed me, so any food I gave to someone else is basically food out of my own mouth, I'm not willing to do that at least not until I know for sure I'll still have enough to last me. If there's only enough overall supplies for one person to last, and my neighbhour is starving, I wouldn't share anything with them. Because I wouldn't be saving them - there's not enough preps for both me and him to survive, only one of us and I'd chose me.

My posting tonight may well be borne of wine

I can't afford and don't have the space to prep. It's not something I worry about.

But what if you're the only one left??? what then?

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I found The Road terrifyingly bleak when I watched the movie- despite the horrors and brutality of the world perhaps the greatest tragedy and lesson was how the protagonist failed not through lack of survival skills or determination but through his complete inability to trust anyone or any place, so he couldn't ever reach any kind of security..

Gamer I know what you mean! One of the best selling authors on the sodding planet, but so many of his books are twisted into terrible straight-to-daytime-tv-movies that it's almost physically painful at this point.

"But what if you're the only one left??? what then?"

I wouldn't be the only one left - I'm not preparing for a apocalypse/end of the world type of disaster LEM. If that happens then I'll be dead too, I just prep for short term emergencies, where normality returns quite quickly.

I agree totally border when I heard they were making the long walk at some point my heart sank. I haven't been able to re read the mist after the film

Ooh, I liked the Mist - but I've only seen the film. I should probably read the book then.

If you read the book first, you rarely like the film.

Bathsheba One of the reasons I 'prep' is because I'm almost always skint, and live a right long walk to the nearest supermarket where own brands can be found. I recently went through a 6 week period of getting no money in, and other than £15 I needed the money I already had to pay rent and keep the roof over my head (always my number one priority, no matter what). I used the £15 to get the odd bit of bread, eggs etc., but other than that mostly lived from what I had stocked. I didn't have a choice.

It doesn't have to be costly, a couple of extra own/saver brand tins of beans, peas, carrots or whatever you'll use added on to your shop is around 50p a time. Value pasta (usually sold as 500g pasta shapes) are pennies again, about 33p. You don't need to get it all in in one fell swoop and worry about zombies, but if you're regularly skint like I often am then it pays to put a little of the basics aside for those days when the cash you really need doesn't come through.

I don't have much space either, I live in an outbuilding about the size of a garage, and laid out like a bedsit. I yearn for a house with different rooms for different stuff, and proper storage, and a proper bed, and bedroom to sleep in, and a washing machine, but you make do with what you have

I hate all this nihilistic rubbish, so depressing.

Getting snowed in, or getting through a 3 day power cut isn't exactly nihilistic. Why don't you try seeing what's actually on the board before either listening to the arsehats here, or jumping to conclusions.

The only people who are going on about apocalypses are the ones on this thread who are just looking for cheap laughs at the expense of others. Same old posters every time.