In an apocalyptic scenario, would you survive long?

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I wouldn't! At all. I cannot run fast or fight, I'd be a goner immediately the zombies or aliens or whatever descend. When I watch a movie of tv with this theme I can't ever keep up with the characters when they make a quick plan about who is going to do what where, and when they give each other silent hand signals eg going into a room they think is occupied I'm just like huh what do you mean?

If you reckon you'd survive a good while if the shit hits the fan, what are your best survival skills? Are you good at going with the flow, being flexible, thinking quickly on the go?

I think I would just tell 'HANDS, FACE, SPACE' and confuse the hell out of the zombies.

I’m fairly good at shopping so could probably reenact the scene in Station Eleven. And silver tape my doors and just stay in there.

I think I'd be OK. I'm VERY resourceful. I have a horse who would be useful although eating her would be a very last resort. I'd head for the moors and hunker down somewhere. I'd eat deer and rabbits and grow some vegetables. I have nerves of steel, I wouldn't give a shit about anyone except my family, and I'm not afraid of gore. I'm not a violent person at all but it wouldn't phase me to knock someone's head off if I had to. I also have some decent medical knowledge and would be good for patching up wounds etc.

No, I couldn't kill an animal and I'd be killed by my comrades for moaning about the cold and missing hot baths.

I'm very practical, ice cool in a crisis, good instincts, have an excellent first aid kit and medicine cabinet, a high pain threshold and tactical, strategic brain. I am, however, a massive porker.

DH and DS are nimble, fit, fearless and impulsive.

We'd all hole up in a nearby cave, surviving on my excellent planning, resourceful cooking and medical skills. Then when the food ran out and it was rime to run for it, they can eat me and take their chances. Best chance for keeping little'un going until DH can find a gun.

I don't want to be a zombie , they have to walk everywhere.

Glad to find so many other people who worry about breaking their glasses in an apocalyptic scenario!

You wouldn’t just stand a chance - you’d be queen o’ the north!!

I'd hope adrenaline would kick in, otherwise I'm a gonner early on!

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Apparently, the porkier you are, the less nutritious you are to eat.

I take personal comfort in that!!!

@endoftheworldniteclub - you could probably do LOADS better than Jeevan on that shop. There is tonnes more room in those trollies!

Apparently, the porkier you are, the less nutritious you are to eat.

@CantFindTheBeat having done some reading about starvation survival open boat type scenarios, being a short fat woman is best. Lots of <ahem> energy stores, and smaller caloric needs.

Bring on the zombies, I say.

I don't see how anyone on here could get eaten. Everyone knows no-one on MN ever opens their front door!

DH reckons he’d drive to the nearest shooting range, load up on weapons, drive somewhere remote, etc. He’s clearly thought it through! We’ve watched our fair share of The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, and had a chat about it, as you do. Basically I’ve said life would be shit in a post-apocalyptic world, and I wouldn’t want to live in it. He couldn’t believe it, and it made me think badly of myself that I’d give up so easily.

Back just to state that I’d be quite happy living in the Walking Dead world with Daryl Dixon 😏

ok thanks 😂😂😂

@CantFindTheBeat I don't think, after a couple of weeks living in a dark cave surviving on barley and berries, you'd be that bothered about nutrition. Just bulk!

Dh and DS are also vegetarian, so I hope I'd last a while before they resorted to devouring me. I'd take some comfort in the fact I was at least being useful in my demise.

We used to live in the lodge house of a very large stately pile. They had massive wine cellars, a priest hile, horses, and of course guns. Having had this concersation a few times our plan was always to storm the house and fell a few enormous trees to block us in and others out. Then we'd just get shitfaced until zombies or madness took us.

These days I'd settle for a nice chablis and Detectorists on repeat until the undead clunked at the door.

If the only available food is barley or human beings, pray you're not sharing accommodation with a hungry coeliac.

Hahaha that made me laugh!

See, I used to be a Guide so I can forage and make a shelter and stuff. I'm really good at playing Hide and Seek, so when the zombies turn up, I could hide until they went away. The problem is the drugs I have to take in the aftermath of breast cancer. One of the side effects is terrible wind. My farting would give me away.

I’d be gone pretty quick, I’d either die due to no access to insulin, or I’d do something really stupid and get killed.

No. I drive dh made because any time we watch any movie or tv show with any sort of world changing/disaster scenario, I tell him which point in the movie I'd just give up and kill myself.

Honestly it's usually fairly early on.

Thanks @CantFindTheBeat Best compliment ever 😄

We had this exact conversation at the dinner table last week. My teens are into Walking Dead (zombie apocalypse tv). I said I don’t think I could be bothered to run. Or fight. I couldn’t stand the idea of being one of the last ones left so best that they/it/whatever took me fairly early on. Everyone acted rather disappointed in me tbh. Whereas they loved the idea of finding ways to stay alive and on the run. Couldn’t be further from my intentions. Nah.

I think I’d be great. I work in an NHS emergency role so I’ve got much needed medical skills as well as being calm in a crisis and used to dealing with emergencies, I’m pretty fit and don’t scare easily. I’m short and small though so wouldn’t do brilliantly in a hand to have combat scenario. I fancy leading up a roaming pack of steampunk zombie fighters (but I’d have to get my minions to do the actual fighting)

I have often mused over how the first pioneers survived eg in the USA in places where the winter temperature was below zero. Crops wouldn't grow until the next spring and then not be harvested until late summer/autumn. So it would depend on hunting and fishing.
It demonstrates how tough the human body is that we can survive on so little for so long.
I have just started watching The Quiet Place movie where blind aliens are killing the humans, they depend on hearing to catch them - pretty scary.