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Only 11% of us have made plans for the Zombie apocalypse @YouGov finds. https://t.co/Ppv9qUU1fh pic.twitter.com/2jY8FNOFJD
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I have some fine wines which I wouldn't want the zombies to get to first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp6Hg_XFdTs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41174659
One in nine, surely?
Get to the Royal Armouries. Zombie can't bite through chainmail.
We and our friends are the zombies.
I think a correction may well arrive in tandem with Brexit (Probably when I need it least) though. Or I will be renting perhaps, and prices will soar as interest rates head negative or something.
I'm sure whichever of those is worst for me will probably occur.
the zombies are British
the zombies are from the EU
the zombies are from outside the EU.
My hardest task is surely having to travel around getting the lads from university or whatever girl's house they find themselves at.
After that it's fairly straightforward. Steal our neighbour's crewcab Defender, head over to granddad's house and his cache of shotguns and air rifles, get on his boat then anchor in the middle of Trent Lock while we figure out our next step. Easy.
http://vip.politicsmeanspolitics.com/2017/09/06/extending-full-eu-citizenship-to-uk-nationals-especially-after-brexit/
Not seeing options for "stumble around, arms extended" etc.
Mr. Andrew, I once had burst fibres in my arms which meant I couldn't bend them. My parents were astounded I'd managed to pretty much dress myself (I was about 10 and certainly didn't want to be dressed by someone else at that age). Naturally, this happened on Saturday and was fine by the time school came around.
At home we use the zombie apocalypse meme as a jokey cover for a more serious issue. Would we be able to survive if there was something like a Carrington event or some other disaster that caused a temporary breakdown in civil society and the supply chain. In my house we have indeed taken some steps to be prepared for this. We certainly couldn't survive any of the more apocalyptic scenarios like a nuclear attack or some big rock from space nor even probably a nasty virus as we are not set up for long term. Nor am I sure we would want to.
But we are in a position where we have made sure we have enough food, water, medical supplies etc to last a few weeks or a month. Large scale civil disorder would be more problematic as we have no guns in the house - although I do shoot we made a decision not to have guns in the house whilst our children were of an age where accidents or idiocy could cause something tragic. But otherwise the cost of stocking up and being able to survive a few weeks of no essential services or supplies seemed so slight that it was daft not to do it.
The main reason for mentioning this is because the Coronal Mass Ejection that was associated with the event should be hitting us around now and lasting to tomorrow night so there is a good chance of some spectacular Northern Lights if you have clear skies tonight.
I did a lot of Urban Search and Rescue/Disaster relief stuff during my early career. Never went on deployment (did do a very nice December EU exercise in Venice a few years ago, though!), but it did make me appreciate that it is a wise move to have a week or so's basic life support in case of bad weather or other minor disaster.
Wouldn't a shotgun and a few hundred shells offer you a better chance of survival?
My father did some disaster planning in his job in the NHS, my friend worked out in California and Florida for earthquake preparedness, it all sank in.
We've got enough meds for 3 months, enough food and perishables for a few months, a wind up radio, a portable stove, lots of matches in an airtight, waterpoof bag, among other things.
I do hope you've waterproofed the matches.
TSE probably has polling that proves Leavers believe in a Zombie apocalypse, and that The Walking Dead is a documentary.
Talking of Zombies has anyone checked out the Windies Keeper recently?
A jolly thread for a Friday afternoon. I know some Councils have been asked about their plans for a zombie apocalypse via Freedom of Information. One Council was asked what it would do if Santa's sleigh crash-landed in their area.
I'm conscious how much I depend on electricity and its availability. Ignoring pandemics, zombies and nuclear war, my main worry would be a substantial electricity blackout lasting not just minutes but days. A midwinter failure of supply lasting a week was documented on C4 but just thinking about how reliant I am on that power forced me to do some stocking up as well but am I prepared ? Not really.
The thought of sitting for days in the dark and increasing cold nursing the last of the candles and the torches and the tinned food while Theresa May and Michael Fallon assure me everything is all right and I can hear the looters up East Ham High Street having another evening's "fun" - not pleasant.
The Sun is now shining so perhaps all is not yet lost even for the cricket.
I wish Broady was showing similar restraint.
https://www.ft.com/content/266e996a-948f-11e7-a9e6-11d2f0ebb7f0
I suppose if you were sitting for days in the dark and increasing cold nursing the last of the candles and the torches and the tinned food while Vince Cable and (insert random Lib Dem) assure you everything is all right and you can hear the looters up East Ham High Street having another evening's "fun" -
would be a barrel of laughs, I guess?
Plus I've always wanted to a thread on the Zombie apocalypse.
Electricity would be free, plentiful and green - Vince himself would reveal the secret of everlasting free energy and all will sing, dance and be happy in the glorious new age.
The Evil Witch Theresa and the Hobgoblin Jeremy along with their followers would be banished to the land of eternal unpleasantness (Kent probably or maybe Essex) and the rest of us would frolic (tax deductable but irrelevant as all taxes would be abolished) for ever or until we got tired and needed to sit down.
None more British.
Poles demanding billions in war reparations, German saying nothing to do with us
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/polens-kriegsreparationen-forderung-bundesregierung-erteilt-absage-15189315.html
Oval Pigeon: Broad throws it away, leaving Jimmy a tantalizing 92 short of his maiden Test century.
Poles started it, Germans just fired back
My vote goes to the excellent Korean effort Train to Busan.
(edit... which apart from anything else demonstrates the superior ethos of their public transport system.)
"Government sources in Washington DC suggested Mr Trump has a fear of stairs or slopes."
Never mind zombies, he is obv a dalek.
Is this also the zombie-repellent strategy... ?
I see Hamilton has actually volunteered to tyre test for Pirelli this week. He's clearly very serious indeed about winning this season, given his intense dislike of such activity.
A classic indeed, Mr Dancer. I hoped someone would here would realise where I was...
Now, in all seriousness, this zombie business, if you're worried about being surrounded by murmuring, groaning, soulless beings whose very humanity has been erased, you've obviously never traveled on the Piccadilly Line.
Although... isn't asafoetida supposed to be a carminative ?
2) Gather all available food, toiletries, misc. supplies
3) Locate suitable weapons (spades, knives, cricket bats)
4) Move items from 1-3 upstairs
5) Destroy staircase
6) Wait
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/09/david-davis-is-heading-for-a-tragic-failure-of-his-own-making/
Mirthtastic.
Not.
The game's graphics are fairly basic but do the job, and loading screens are too frequent, but the gameplay, lore, choices and music are all good.
Angel's Truth is a somewhat grim fantasy, moves along at a good pace, with a nice cast of bickering characters, only most of whom are murderers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-13713798
When Fox Jr was younger we decided the best refuge was Hambleton Hall on Rutland water. It has a narrow necked defensible perimeter, and as well as the Michelin starred restaurant and wine celler, the access to freshwater, and trout in the lake. A dinghy as escape vessel would be easy too for moments of last resort.
The Isle of Wight has advantages too, not least that the Zombies there would be a lot slower with their zimmer frames...