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zakdingel

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Just Thinking about the latest stuff that's going on not just in the country but world wide --i saw on the internet that it's been mentioned to prepare to fight on uk home soil!!! Is this just scaremongering? or should we be sticking a few things in place just in case? --bottled water-tinned food- dried food--pet food-matches-candles-camping stove-spare batteries--small radio-fm and am--knifes-etc just a thought or do we not need to take it that far? i feel more scared than we did in the cold war to be honest--with all the above on the list -how many would stick a crossbow on there --but where to buy one?--i no this type of thing is the norm for many in the USA
 
Honestly, don't buy into the hype. Keeping folk permanently worried about something is part of the strategy of governance these days. Relax, go for a walk, nod at the folk you know. It'll feel better.
 
JAA7 said:
Honestly, don't buy into the hype. Keeping folk permanently worried about something is part of the strategy of governance these days. Relax, go for a walk, nod at the folk you know. It'll feel better.
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Problem is that in many areas now when you go out you see more immigrants than people you know. Then you read all the reports about how 'stabby' and 'rapey' the endless stream of foreign fighting age males we are importing can be once they've arrived.
 
zakdingel said:
Just Thinking about the latest stuff that's going on not just in the country but world wide --i saw on the internet that it's been mentioned to prepare to fight on uk home soil!!! Is this just scaremongering? or should we be sticking a few things in place just in case? --bottled water-tinned food- dried food--pet food-matches-candles-camping stove-spare batteries--small radio-fm and am--knifes-etc just a thought or do we not need to take it that far? i feel more scared than we did in the cold war to be honest--with all the above on the list -how many would stick a crossbow on there --but where to buy one?--i no this type of thing is the norm for many in the USA
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Keeping extra shelf stable food & supplies around is always a good idea, even in the best of times... That said, don't t get yourself all worked up into a lather over recent events & pay no heed to the devil that is the internet.
 
Keeping food stocks is a great way to live on out of date, plastic infused rubbish.
Unless you have known safe glass containerised stuff, or dried materials, and some safe water, it's BPA hell.
I tried to keep a bit of a cache but now have enough to bait a rat perm for a year or two.

It does sound like madness, they need something to meet those Deagel numbers, what was it 77% reduction by 2025?
 
OldStock said:
Keeping food stocks is a great way to live on out of date, plastic infused rubbish.
Unless you have known safe glass containerised stuff, or dried materials, and some safe water, it's BPA hell.
I tried to keep a bit of a cache but now have enough to bait a rat perm for a year or two.

It does sound like madness, they need something to meet those Deagel numbers, what was it 77% reduction by 2025?
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Keeping good stocks need not involve plastic infusion. I grew up in the sticks.
Buy your beans/ rice/ lentils/grains etc. in bulk in fabric bags & store in lidded buckets
Air dry garden produce in season & pack in glass jars. We made a deer's worth of jerky, wrapped in waxed paper & put into muslin bags. Save your cardboard milk cartons - rinsed out well, pack whole fish( trout, for example) into carton neatly, fill carton with water to full & freeze - fresh as fresh fish 6 months or longer later. Learn to dry rub salt/ sugar cure & smoke hams/ bacons/ briskets - hung in cheesecloth, they keep near forever. Pressure cooker can your garden bounty of fruit & veg. Learn the old ways & don't rely on supermarket stuff.
 
I have always had stock of certain things. Even a 48 hr interruption of the water supply can make modern living uncomfortable. I have about 200 litres of stored drinking water in a shed along with a couple of paraffin lamps and fuel, water purification tablets, lighters, camping stove etc and emergency food.
Doesn't have to be a nuclear war threat or anything. There are many innocent things that can go wrong and cause inconvenience.
I think it's also a good idea to have a small battery powered analogue radio tuned into the emergency broadcast channel, just to keep your mind at rest should the grid go down.
 
I personally wouldn't bother taking it that far. Not arsed about that kind of thing in the slightest. Especially not worried about some kind of invasion or attack from migrants or 'fighting age' (yawn) males.

Always handy to have some bottled water about and stuff in the cupboard but that's more incase we get snowed in or car breaks down etc.
 
All this 'prepping' nonesense has been mainly propagated by outdoor gear sellers and a small number of people who somehow seem to relish the idea of societal breakdown. Sad to say it's mainly Americans. (Self fulfilling prophecy?)
Forget the sponsored knobheads on youtube with their silly bunkers and mountain of ammo. They'll never get chance to use it if the sh*t really hits the fan anyway.
What's that? You stocked your shelter with dried and tinned food just after the financial crash of 2008 and it's now gone out of date? Best buy a shedload more then and hope the apocalypse happens before it too perishes. The groundwater and soil are poisoned so how many thousand litres have you kept stored? Do you know how to grow food if you had to? What about simple medicine because that cut on your leg looks infected? That bunker could just as well be a tomb.
Back in the real world, it looks very much like a Hollywood fantasy which as we know, is indistinguishable from reality to certain people.
To badly paraphrase T.S. Eliot, 'not with a bang but with a whimper'.
 
Danthepainter said:
All this 'prepping' nonesense has been mainly propagated by outdoor gear sellers and a small number of people who somehow seem to relish the idea of societal breakdown. Sad to say it's mainly Americans. (Self fulfilling prophecy?)
Forget the sponsored knobheads on youtube with their silly bunkers and mountain of ammo. They'll never get chance to use it if the sh*t really hits the fan anyway.
What's that? You stocked your shelter with dried and tinned food just after the financial crash of 2008 and it's now gone out of date? Best buy a shedload more then and hope the apocalypse happens before it too perishes. The groundwater and soil are poisoned so how many thousand litres have you kept stored? Do you know how to grow food if you had to? What about simple medicine because that cut on your leg looks infected? That bunker could just as well be a tomb.
Back in the real world, it looks very much like a Hollywood fantasy which as we know, is indistinguishable from reality to certain people.
To badly paraphrase T.S. Eliot, 'not with a bang but with a whimper'.
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Prepping up a bit isn't all about zombie apocalypse, nor nuclear gifts exchanged... You get a good gullywasher of a rain storm, a blizzard that puts you arse deep in snow, impassable roads etc. ... Don't be the fairweather idiot type, like so many, that thinks he'll be O.K. & just pop to the market in a day or so's time ... Not directed at you Dan. A whole lot of ill prepared folk go tits up simply because living in a bubble has lulled them into false security & city life softened them.
 
zakdingel said:
Just Thinking about the latest stuff that's going on not just in the country but world wide --i saw on the internet that it's been mentioned to prepare to fight on uk home soil!!! Is this just scaremongering? or should we be sticking a few things in place just in case? --bottled water-tinned food- dried food--pet food-matches-candles-camping stove-spare batteries--small radio-fm and am--knifes-etc just a thought or do we not need to take it that far? i feel more scared than we did in the cold war to be honest--with all the above on the list -how many would stick a crossbow on there --but where to buy one?--i no this type of thing is the norm for many in the USA
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I think the biggest threat is not an armed invasion but a state sponsored attack on infrastructure, we seem to be importing potential terrorist cell members, with the right training (maybe they have already had it), direction and motive, it doesn't need a great deal of imagination what a pickle they could cause in fairly short order. There have already been numerous infrastructure failures across europe , suspected Russian sponsored practice runs.... maybe the heathrow power outage was another?... it would cause wide spread disruption and chaos if several things were hit at once, just the distraction a rampant Russia would want before actually invading parts of Europe, I dont see an actual invasion of the uk as being particularly workable but repeated terrorist attacks is the most likely. And to do real damage, infrastructure would be the most effective. Consider power, communications, water, transport etc
 
chouchin66 said:
Prepping up a bit isn't all about zombie apocalypse, nor nuclear gifts exchanged... You get a good gullywasher of a rain storm, a blizzard that puts you arse deep in snow, impassable roads etc. ... Don't be the fairweather idiot type, like so many, that thinks he'll be O.K. & just pop to the market in a day or so's time ... Not directed at you Dan. A whole lot of ill prepared folk go tits up simply because living in a bubble has lulled them into false security & city life softened them.
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Exactly, and probably the first people turning up at your door to borrow some fuel or water.
 
My teenage grandson told me he was worried about a war breaking out and us being dragged into it..I served so i think he felt better talking to me rather than his mum or dad.
I told him the truth,dont worry about a war breaking out.Worry about the war about to break out in the UK
The younger ones can not see it. we have seen the gradual change and now the near peak.
 
I won't be stocking up on anything, if it happens it happens, but I don't expect it to. If your going to prep, the first thing on your list should be a house miles from anywhere, your more likely to get robbed by the local CHAVS than Mr Putins boys ;)
 
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