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So you're the last person in the Universe.

  • 30-09-2012 6:21pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭


    What do you do? Everyone just disappeared. There's no bodies or anything, they all just vanished. Would you kill yourself? Have a grand time trying to do all the crap you wanted but couldn't because of the law / society or whatever? Animals are still around, so you could kill and eat what you can once all the frozen stuff thaws out. No electricity unless you can haul a generator home. It might be a really miserable existence, or it could be deadly depending on your outlook, and you could definitely survive for a long time, possibly until you just die of old age or something.

    Me, I'd probably do a whole lot of nothing. I don't have much interest in going mental. Maybe smash a few things, but that would get boring. I think I'd explore for a while, maybe try to boat over the sea, get to mainland Europe and walk about there. There's a ton of places I've always wanted to go to but will never be able to afford. Best to avoid places with bears and other shit that could eat me. In the end, though, I think I'd just get terribly lonely one day and jump off the highest thing I can find around me, or drive off a cliff. I've always romanticised the idea of blowing my head off, but I'd feel bad for whoever has to clean it up, but without anyone around to care, why not?

    I'm not sure I'd feel good about killing animals, but I suppose I could get used to it if I had to. I probably wouldn't be very good at it. Getting around would be really hard, I wouldn't want to walk everywhere, and if I wanted to haul some stuff around with me it would be easiest to stick with one vehicle and grab any fuel from other cars. But, I have no idea how to tell the difference between the different types of fuel and would most likely just end up killing the car or van.

    How about you, AH?

    EDIT: Bolded no electricity because without the people around to make it, there is none, so the vast majority of electrical stuff is just not going to work.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Masturbate furiously.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    lol, I didn't read that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭OU812


    Masturbate furiously.

    Outside


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Masturbate furiously.

    Oh yeah, I'll totally jerk off a whole lot, but I'll masturbate happily.

    EDIT: Maybe masturbate despondently once in a while, you never know.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Fast cars and empty roads?

    Bliss.

    Jesus.. aircraft too. Imagine taking a jet fighter for a spin?

    I'd love it.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    is there still asian porn?

    that would affect my activities greatly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    I'd have a highly evolved cat, a service droid, a hologram as my friends, and float endlessly through space on a mining ship.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sounds like a Will Smith movie.. I'd like it for a while. The fact knowing no one was left behind would let me do mad things I could never do now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Have a game 5-a-side of soccer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    What do you do? Everyone just disappeared. There's no bodies or anything, they all just vanished. Would you kill yourself? Have a grand time trying to do all the crap you wanted but couldn't because of the law / society or whatever? Animals are still around, so you could kill and eat what you can once all the frozen stuff thaws out. No electricity unless you can haul a generator home. It might be a really miserable existence, or it could be deadly depending on your outlook, and you could definitely survive for a long time, possibly until you just die of old age or something.

    Me, I'd probably do a whole lot of nothing. I don't have much interest in going mental. Maybe smash a few things, but that would get boring. I think I'd explore for a while, maybe try to boat over the sea, get to mainland Europe and walk about there. There's a ton of places I've always wanted to go to but will never be able to afford. Best to avoid places with bears and other shit that could eat me. In the end, though, I think I'd just get terribly lonely one day and jump off the highest thing I can find around me, or drive off a cliff. I've always romanticised the idea of blowing my head off, but I'd feel bad for whoever has to clean it up, but without anyone around to care, why not?

    I'm not sure I'd feel good about killing animals, but I suppose I could get used to it if I had to. I probably wouldn't be very good at it. Getting around would be really hard, I wouldn't want to walk everywhere, and if I wanted to haul some stuff around with me it would be easiest to stick with one vehicle and grab any fuel from other cars. But, I have no idea how to tell the difference between the different types of fuel and would most likely just end up killing the car or van.

    How about you, AH?

    Whoa! You just kinda slipped that little nugget in there, didnt ya? I'm gonna have to resist the urge to use the 'thinly veiled' gag here.....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Whoa! You just kinda slipped that little nugget in there, didnt ya? I'm gonna have to resist the urge to use the 'thinly veiled' gag here.....

    I'm fairly confident everyone thinks about that sort of crap once in a while, so it's no big deal. I'm realistic, sure!

    Also, unless you invent stuff, you can't have service droids and shit. You're still you, not Professor Frink.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Fast cars and empty roads?

    Bliss.

    Jesus.. aircraft too. Imagine taking a jet fighter for a spin?

    I'd love it.

    Spend a few days in a simultor first!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 901 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover_53


    Probably look at lolcats on the Internet...a lot...so no change really.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    Necrophilia.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    I would keep talking to myself as normal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    Would fcuking bask in it for as long as possable tbh, obviously I would rather a miniscul amount of people to me survived too ideally-the bf, family etc, but if they were there and the majority of people were just gone, woohoo! :D free stuff, supplies, and free to just be me! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Probably look at lolcats on the Internet...a lot...so no change really.

    How would you access the Internet? Unless you manage to get a bunch of power stations up and running by yourself so that the servers ICHC hosted on remain on, the Internet is dead.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Finally get the courage to talk with that foxy mannequin down at the shopping centre.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Please tell me there would still be sheep or at the very least, camels?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Please tell me there would still be sheep or at the very least, camels?

    Yup, just people disappeared. If they were holding something, the thing they were holding would just drop to the floor. If they were driving, the car would crash. Planes would fall.


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  • Site Banned Posts: 104 ✭✭boiledsweets


    Necrophilia.
    necrophilia?thats disgusting daveysil15

    anyway i would probably break into a sweet shop just for the old school thrill of it..or drive around in a crazy looking car just for the hell of it,live in a different house everyday,just random stuff like that..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Yup, just people disappeared. If they were holding something, the thing they were holding would just drop to the floor. If they were driving, the car would crash. Planes would fall.


    What about clothes or false teeth?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭noxqs


    Go check out Area 51 and other off limits areas, to see whats there.

    Press all the buttons at NORAD, especially the red ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    necrophilia?thats disgusting davey

    Who doesn't like cracking open a cold one?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    What about clothes or false teeth?

    They also just drop. For the sake of it, let's say poop and pee also disappear, because science.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    What about boob implants ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    Id go about researching and assembling numerous 'black box' type devices. They would be multi media with sound, vision, touch...maybe even some sonar and infra-red system too.

    ....taste and smell ...well ...i dunno, id figure something out.

    Basically these devices would be conclusive proof of previous existence and would hold loads of information.

    The core message would instruct the finder to build similar devices and to wipe out its own species because life is ultimately futile. wmd instructions would be included.

    There'd also be an instruction that conned them into inserting solid objects with my name inscribed on them into their anuses.

    Knowing that I possibly made a future species do that would comfort me greatly when dying alone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    necrophilia?thats disgusting daveysil15

    Ahh I was only joking... ahem. No I'd settle for the mannequins. Plus I wouldn't have to feel embarrassed about going into the sex shops. :D


  • Site Banned Posts: 104 ✭✭boiledsweets


    thats always a plus when nobodys around you can do what you want i suppose


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Well first of all I'd get on me knees and say a prayer that Amanda Brunker and her singing is no longer around.

    Then I'd go read a book without having to worry about the phone going off disturbing me.

    Next up would be to pack-up and try to get and see all the places in the world I would love to visit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    I'd steal a boat and sail over to America. Then I'd steal a Ferrari and drive to Area 51. I'd then mate with the aliens to create a cross breed of humaliens and then live like a king.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 800 ✭✭✭a fat guy


    I'd attempt to learn the piano and spend most of my time in libraries around the country...

    Honestly, I think it'd be kinda fun!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Daveysil15 wrote: »
    ...drive to Area 51...

    I'd be careful where you drive exactly as you get near to it! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,069 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I'd steal lottery tickets

    ...all of them


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    I've absolutely no survival skills so I'd probably be royally fooked! I'd not even be able to get off the island, I don't think. Other than raiding shops for survival, I'd probably spend my free time reading (not much other entertainment around if there's no electricity). I'd despair quite quickly though and I'd probably topple myself within the year.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I'd get up.
    Make myself some coffee.
    Set the fire.
    Sit in my favourite chair.
    Light a cigarette. (I'm off them years)
    And listen to this:



    And then I would cry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I head for the nearest Ferrari dealer and 'take' whatever one takes my fancy and drive it as hard as it will go everywhere.

    I guess I'd probably get stupidly drink most nights and watch stuff I sky plused or got from xtravision.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭stampydmonkey


    prob would get enough berrocca to keep me ticking over..then rob a load of scratch cards and scratch them. blow up a petrol station, drive a train around for a while, hit some golf balls at windows, push something really heavy off a cliff, get a bow and arrow and walk/cycle around in speedos..then get serious and get up to a big ship, like a cruise liner and go on tour!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    it depends what part of the universe I was in.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭vitani


    Beanbag chair from Ikea, chocolate from the nearest shop, and the library. Utter bliss.

    Only thing missing would be tea.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,136 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    I'd probably start blowing shît up for the crack...

    The moon would be first on the list I'd send a couple of hundred Trident II Nuclear Missiles to it and sit back and watch the fireworks


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭mconigol


    It depends....will there be iphones?


  • Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    mconigol wrote: »
    It depends....will there be iphones?

    You could build your own iphone6 with the equipment from the iphone factories.

    That way you could have it first and it would NEVER become mainstream.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    vitani wrote: »
    Beanbag chair from Ikea, chocolate from the nearest shop, and the library. Utter bliss.

    Only thing missing would be tea.

    I'm sure the Ikea Cafe would have some.


  • Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭CallMeFlo


    I would go exploring first to see where everyone went.. Then I would stock up on supplies for my house like food, water, weapons, more clothes and some form of giant bin I could start a fire in..

    I'd then go to all the animal shelters and set all of the animals free bar the sick and injured, I would try take care of them as best I could..

    I'd go to the library and learn how to fend for myself like how to grow crops and get the electricity going again and such.

    I most definitely wouldn't go doing anything mad or visiting places, my main aim would be survival, I don't think it'd be all that fun though.. Always living in fear that something else might happen and always wondering where everyone else went and why your the only one left? :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Sarn


    You need to watch The Quiet Earth for ideas.

    Apart from picking up a few survival books, diesel generators, solar panels, gas cannisters, food and medication, I'd learn how to drive a car ferry and do a few road trips. I don't think I'd ever accept I was the last person and would keep looking for others.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Get somewhere with a better climate for a start, as a previous poster said get to library and educate yourself on survival, with no google you would have to take care of sickness and injuries yourself. Also if you got a toothache you would have to go home dentist on yourself like Tom Hanks in Cast Away!
    Think you would lose your mind with lonliness after a few years though, we are social creatures after all.


  • Registered Users Posts: 466 ✭✭imfml


    I'd probably spend my time looking for another human, refusing to believe I was the only one left.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    I'd go to pharmacies/hospitals and take loads of drugs, then I'd steal really expensive cars, then I'd get the guns and walk the streets naked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    I'd go to pharmacies/hospitals and take loads of drugs, then I'd steal really expensive cars, then I'd get the guns and walk the streets naked.

    Why would you need guns if your walking around Ireland?:)


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