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Are you prepped?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    But everyone else will have died or have become catamites in that month, as long as you outlive them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,468 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    I still have some tinned meatballs from when i stocked up in March 2020. I'd say they're horrid. At the time I got in enough tins, mostly baked beans to keep me going for a month but have eaten most of them and lapsed back to old habits. I'd have no more than 3 days of food in the house at any given time.

    Have a nice petrol generator for power cuts but have never used it except to test it, it'll run the central heating burner and pump + fridge or a microwave plus other small bits and pieces. For dealing with zombies, I have a 70 lb compound bow, spare string and the equipment to change it.



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,461 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    Not true. We (Switzerland) have a three to six months supply, depending on that product capable of sustaining 8 million people! It is a legal requirement for all manufacturers and imports in Switzerland that they maintain a six months reserve and this is regularly audited by the state. The biggest big issue during COVID was getting it out of storage and distributed. This was solved to a large extend by using the army and the postal service.

    So it is possible. The real issue is getting the population and business to commit to it. This was done in Switzerland after the war and the requirements to include a bunker in new builds during the early stages of the cold war when it was much easier to convince people.

    The funny part was that there were talks of abolishing these requirements just before COVID and the war came along… so that idea is now very dead. Although I doubt the army will ever be brought up to those levels again 300k men, with every male citizen going through full training and reputation courses between between the ages of 18 and 50. These days it's 18 to 35 and many of the local shooting ranges are no longer maintained.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,175 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    I know where you live- I’ll just steal your potatoes and other stuff when I need it- thanks!



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I used to drink coffee but gave that up recently too, ngl I'd love a cup.

    (I stopped drinking/socialising when I realised the people I shared company with were not very nice and libel to use alcohol or drugs to sexually abuse you given the chance.)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,741 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    It'd help pass the time, I suppose.

    In ancient Greece and Rome, a catamite (Latin: catamītus) was a pubescent boy who was the intimate companion of an older male, usually in a pederastic relationship.

    Scrap the cap!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭taxAHcruel


    I do not intentionally prep. I think I am probably in the group of people who if civilisation ends and the world turns into something like from "The Road" or "The walking Dead" I would probably prefer to be among the dead.

    But a lot of the things I do just for fun are things the OP lists as prepping. A lot of my own farming (vegetables herbs and live animals) and hunting (fishing, snaring, trapping, bow) and combat (Jujitsu and other martial arts) and weaponry (Bow, crossbow, rifle training), DIY, building, horse riding, camping, and survival training - are all things that would probably turn out useful.

    But aside from being able to handle myself in unforeseen fights or attacks - nothing I do is to prep for anything. It is just my own health, fitness and mental well being.

    Probably even have quite a lot of food stored and on cycle that would last months. But again not for prepping. I just have a habit of buying in bulk when things are on cheap - or when my dad is using the Wholesaler card he has for a club he is in I go along and buy a lot of stuff in bulk at cost. I'm not on a huge salary but I do well at saving a packet by buying in bulk and buying ahead.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,461 ✭✭✭✭zell12




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,332 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    The lads in your Telegram group aren't the people of Ireland.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 675 ✭✭✭SVI40


    You do know it's an offence to hunt with a bow in Ireland (assuming you are here), and a crossbow is classed as a restricted firearm, and needs a restricted firearm licence?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭taxAHcruel


    Well aware of all of the above. As such I probably will not list publicly which all of the above I possess or not - and which I train with through alternative means (such as people who own them and provide training in and out of Ireland) - or what licenses I do or do not hold at this time. :)

    But for example I have been shooting and learning maintenance of rifles with my daughter since she was 10ish through a friend. We technically do not "own" a rifle though there is one I paid for - held for my daughter by said friend - which no one but she uses. So in a way it's "hers" but not officially in any way.

    As for bow hunting - I have travelled for this a couple of times for the most part. So I was not talking about within Ireland. Mostly America direction.

    The entire interest in all such weaponry is traceable to my friends who pitched together and bought me a really nice version of the Oneida Kestrel. Fell in love with it and have been exploring and experimenting since.

    But yea mostly staying on the side of the law by using various means in and out of Ireland. Mostly.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,741 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    If you don't post for a while we can probaby figure out why 😶

    Scrap the cap!



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    When I posted first I was thinking given the state of US politics how it wouldn't be unforeseeable for things to go tits up if the election didn't pan out in some parts, prepping in America is probably more understandable for that reason alone.

    As it happened a day or two later there was a global IT outage which affected us here and while not to the extent of needing to have a two week food supply in store, it's not difficult to see how it makes sense to be prepared in the event of an emergency run on goods. I know that the pandemic gave me an education in self reliance and I think it's something we've all probably benefited from in someway or another.

    Hopefully you won't be needing a crossbow anytime soon ;)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,582 ✭✭✭Ezeoul




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 675 ✭✭✭SVI40




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭taxAHcruel


    Hah that's original. I like it. Normally people ask me if I want to be "Green Arrow" or something. Especially as the particular bow I own is the one directly from the more recent incarnation of that TV show.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,412 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    I think he means using it when the zombies are roaming around, sorta like that night last year when the wildlife were burning buses and the Luas.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,526 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    I think it's hilarious in a thread of literal dooms day preppers you think I'm the mad one.

    Ya ok. Keep stacking your tinned beans pal. And for the record, I don't have any socials.



  • Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    ive a swiss army knife…does that count…?


    "They gave me an impossible task,one which they said I wouldnt return from...."

    ps wheres my free,fancy rte flip-flops...?

    pps wheres my wheres my rte macaroons,kevin?

    "You are him…the one they call the "Baba Yaga"…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,168 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Of course it does. You are one SAK more prepared that that guy that doesn't have one.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    grand so im ready for the zombie apocolypse!!

    on the subject of swiss army knives…wonder do the swiss army do a drill with their knives? with a drill sergeant barking out orders…?


    "They gave me an impossible task,one which they said I wouldnt return from...."

    ps wheres my free,fancy rte flip-flops...?

    pps wheres my wheres my rte macaroons,kevin?

    "You are him…the one they call the "Baba Yaga"…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭taxAHcruel


    They are fun if you get imaginative with them. Most people know how to cut or stab a little with the sharp bits and maybe loosen a screw or remove a cork from a wine bottle. But it has quite a number of fun little functions. Like using it as a miniature sewing machine.

    I remember quite some time ago now hearing a guy on a podcast talking about a survival camp which was centred around training multiple uses of it. A (very) quick google did not show it up for me though. So either I am searching the wrong thing - or the idea never took off. I can't find anything about it now. But the guy did make it sound like a lot of fun on the podcast I remember.



  • Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga



    "They gave me an impossible task,one which they said I wouldnt return from...."

    ps wheres my free,fancy rte flip-flops...?

    pps wheres my wheres my rte macaroons,kevin?

    "You are him…the one they call the "Baba Yaga"…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,888 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    I'm not even prepped for my holiday next month.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,741 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Scrap the cap!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,168 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    But he should leave out the Machete for decapitating Zombies if he's flying.

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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