Should we be Prepping in case there's WW3?

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It wouldn't hurt to get a few extra food supplies in (of the non perishable sort). Would it?
Or is it being ott.

I bet the shops love people like me

What would Rick Grimes do?

Meh, what's the point?

You have a stock load of water. Your neighbour has a gun. They are not the one going thirsty.

What medical supplies do you have?

An old icecream container with a couple of odd assorted bandaids, a triangular bandage from a first aid course and a box of ibuprofen

Rick Grimes would gather his "stuff and thangs" and kick ass. And not hide away eating tinned shit.

I wonder if there's a prepping app?

off to look on Google Play

Skills to hunt and forage might be useful if most of the world's population is wiped out by flu but for a nuclear winter - not so much.

Who is Rick Grimes and how easy is his house to break into? And how easy will he be to seduce with my womanly wiles? (presuming the nuclear kerfuffle hasn't taken the bloom from my looks)

Skills to hunt and forage might be useful

Nah, I hate mushrooms.

I hadn't really thought about that! I don't really have anywhere to store much plus we don't even have double glazing, so we'd be effectively stuffed right?

I'll be gutted if it's a nuclear apocalypse. I've been planning to be Patient Zero in a zombie apocalypse for years, I'll be damned if those bitches are going to steal my glory.

The awful thing is, the fuckers who start it will be the few (and their families) who are able to survive it.

What would Rick Grimes do?

Cry a lot, judging from the past few seasons

I'm with ChasedByBees

We are insulating against the declining GBP.

Otherwise we have enough pills and alcohol to see us out quickly and in good fashion. I always have too much food in stock so at least we could party for a couple of days before ending it all.

Seeing as I live right between two USAF bases I'm fucked so what's the point!

You mean having a rocket to take you to another planet? I hear Pluto is back to being one.

Well, queenie that's your prepping sorted then!

alltouchedout "Who the fuck wants to survive ww3?!"

That's exactly what I thought.

So... I can hunt, know a little about foraging, fish (my father taught all of us) and shoot a gun (but I don't have a gun in the UK).

We also have medical supplies, I did Samaritans training, like Martial arts and DH is really good at DIY stuff.

Plus, we have a food supply, water, and water purifiers. So... Idk. I think that makes us sound crazy! :=0

However, we have a baby and I'm pregnant. So... Not exactly awesome odds I suppose...

Or making sure you've confessed your sins, and prayed for your soul, just in case.

I'm collecting bottle tops and Bobby pins

Once read an account by someone who lived through the siege of Sarajevo, who thought prepping was kind of ridiculous. She made the very good point that supplies run out fast, and what had got them through the siege was working together to survive, psychologically as well as physically - not stockpiling tinned tuna and dreaming up fantasies of how to fight off next door's eight-year-olds.

They'll have the last laugh until their last tin of nectarines has been scoffed. Then they'll just be sitting there awaiting their doom. With sticky nectarine juice on their chins.

I always imagine the preppers thinking that they are going to be some kind of post apocalyptic heroes who go on to refashion the world to their liking.
Still it beats collecting stamps I suppose.
Our prepping plans involve sturdy ropes and a solid beam.

53rdAndBird yes, I remember that - I must have read a similar or same book. It was very compelling.

53rd

Good point.

I just grew up with it. It was kind of a family activity... (putting noodles in pet bottles, learning how to purify water etc.) My parents weren't crazy, btw.
The stockpiling was strongly recommended by the governement back then (actually still is? But it's not really a thing anymore, I think?)