Commiserating with Ripple
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Get a room you 2
Says the man with his own love thread......
Uncle, you are such a great dude, I was ROFLMAO after your last PM, you are such a cool sonofagun......
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Pwyll very intelligent and interesting posts as usual
I agree Wal Mart has some pretty shady business practices and should be ashamed of the way they treat employees and vendors. I stopped dealing with them professionally years ago - long story short they don't pay their billsI always find it ironic too when I see people with carts full of Chinese crap complaining to each other how they're laid off and their factory closed. How can people be so stupid - complain your job went over seas while your buying Chinese crap because it's cheaper.
Unfortunately in a small town like ours once they've driven out mom and pop your forced to go there for certain things. For me it's strictly prescriptions. They're less than half what the other pharmacies charge. Jazz will tell you my monthly trip pisses me off to no end.
Soon the only jobs in the USA will be fast food workers and Wal Mart employees.
Not compleatly--there will always be a call for sit-down/full-service restaurants, hand-crafted items, and on-call/emergency repair services. But yeah, for the most part (and generally speaking) you're right.
'sokay for me, though. I've been gathering the knowledge and skills to remain viable in a semi-tribal society since I read Alas, Babylon in the 10th grade. The same knowledge and skills will work in the coming shadow economy as well...
Not compleatly--there will always be a call for sit-down/full-service restaurants, hand-crafted items, and on-call/emergency repair services. But yeah, for the most part (and generally speaking) you're right.
'sokay for me, though. I've been gathering the knowledge and skills to remain viable in a semi-tribal society since I read Alas, Babylon in the 10th grade. The same knowledge and skills will work in the coming shadow economy as well...
I learned how to survive by reading Little House on the Prairie books when I was 8. Lots of survival and how to do things in those books too.
I was almost an Eagle Scout, I never finished my project because I got a job.......
"Rip" - 
Hey - besides being a cub scout for a year - Does surviving living on your own and on the "streets" a few times since the age of 14 count ? ? ?
Hey - besides being a cub scout for a year - Does surviving living on your own and on the "streets" a few times since the age of 14 count ? ? ?
Not compleatly--there will always be a call for sit-down/full-service restaurants, hand-crafted items, and on-call/emergency repair services. But yeah, for the most part (and generally speaking) you're right.
'sokay for me, though. I've been gathering the knowledge and skills to remain viable in a semi-tribal society since I read Alas, Babylon in the 10th grade. The same knowledge and skills will work in the coming shadow economy as well...
A good updated version of Alas, Babylon is One Second After. The whole USA gets hit with an EMP weapon. It is about a small North Carolina town and its fight to survive.
Maybe not as good as the original, but a good read.
"Rip" -
Hey - besides being a cub scout for a year - Does surviving living on your own and on the "streets" a few times since the age of 14 count ? ? ?
Yes, real life survival tactics count!!!
I was also an altar boy for 3 years, I am a man of many facets.......
And, no, they were not molesters but just ordinary alkys!!!
Drop me in the woods and I can find my way out--as long as I live long enough. Too much of a pansy to clean animals and too stupid to tell edible berries from poison.
But give me fruits, vegetables and/or grains and I can make alcohol. I can make blackpowder from scratch. I can make explosives from urine. I can build a dam. I can build a suspension bridge. I can build a hydroponics system from trash and distill, refine or process whatever you grow in it (tomatoes, grapes, medicianal plants, whatever). I can make lethal slingshots, build a compound bow, knap flint, man-trap a perimeter and maufacture clorine gas. I can make a stove from plastic bag, tin can or pile of rocks. I can build a kiln, a forge, or both. And I can make the boards and pieces for close to a hundred board games thoughout history.
My personal survival tactics are "avoid needing personal survival skills." I've concentrated on a breakdown in society and becoming indespensible to a community--give me a handful of people and we'll have a stable community with medical facilities, recreational means and viable defenses.
Yes, my values are strangely skewed. Why do you ask?
Drop me in the woods and I can find my way out--as long as I live long enough. Too much of a pansy to clean animals and too stupid to tell edible berries from poison.
But give me fruits, vegetables and/or grains and I can make alcohol. I can make blackpowder from scratch. I can make explosives from urine. I can build a dam. I can build a suspension bridge. I can build a hydroponics system from trash and distill, refine or process whatever you grow in it (tomatoes, grapes, medicianal plants, whatever). I can make lethal slingshots, build a compound bow, knap flint, man-trap a perimeter and maufacture clorine gas. I can make a stove from plastic bag, tin can or pile of rocks. I can build a kiln, a forge, or both. And I can make the boards and pieces for close to a hundred board games thoughout history.
My personal survival tactics are "avoid needing personal survival skills." I've concentrated on a breakdown in society and becoming indespensible to a community--give me a handful of people and we'll have a stable community with medical facilities, recreational means and viable defenses.
Yes, my values are strangely skewed. Why do you ask?
When the inevitable war happens between the haves and have-nots, I and the rest of us commiserators should all head to pwyll's -- we can defend an encampment in those thar hills, especially with the right people on our side!!!
When the inevitable war happens between the haves and have-nots, I and the rest of us commiserators should all head to pwyll's -- we can defend an encampment in those thar hills, especially with the right people on our side!!!
Yep. At one time we had family land that had an artesian spring, a river running through it and was outside of all the fallout maps the CD has ever published. Dad ended up selling it to buy a house in FLA, but I still know where it is.
Yep. At one time we had family land that had an artesian spring, a river running through it and was outside of all the fallout maps the CD has ever published. Dad ended up selling it to buy a house in FLA, but I still know where it is.
When's the lexington meet again, buddy? No time like the present to start our preparations -- who's with us?!?!?
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