So we have arrived at 21/12/2012, the end of the Mayan calendar and the beginning of the apocalyse right? Well the answer is yes if you know what the word apocalypse actually means. It actually means "the revealing of the truth". So what are the doomsday preppers going to do with all those lentils now? Lol
lentil soup, lentil patties ,lentil a la carte , lentil burgers ,lentil smoothies .....lentils eewwww erk ...erk ...erk i wonder if they will keep for another 2012 years ? :lol: To be fair a lot of preppers arent prepping for the end of the mayan calender . Theres a hundred different reasons some of them have some merit ....some dont
My wife's friend laughed at my stockpile of drinking water. She thought it was a right hoot telling everyone she knew about it. Forget for a moment the fact that in order to see that stockpile she had to have gone into my cupboards (how very RUDE). Anyway, she married a Kiwi lad and moved to Christchurch. No need to tell you who she thought of when the earthquake hit and they lost all utilities and the realisation that perhaps, just perhaps she'd have to make do with just the food she had in her cupboard and the water she had in the water jug in her fridge.
& that would be one with merit : I think EVERYBODY should have a stock of food & water batteries etc for emergencies like floods, blackouts, public holidays or just because you cbf going to the shops .
One prediction that still may happen is that on the third day, the night may be longer than usual. The predicted 3 days of darkness was misinterpreted. Oh well, we will know soon.
I keep two weeks of food and water on hand as well as other necessities (space blankets, matches, batteries, etc). I didn't spend $200 and it's worth every penny. When the power goes out due to a bad storm, it can be out for a few days and I have a small child. Better to hunker down than to risk leaving and go where? As for looters... CLICKITY BOOM! Anyways, back to topic: Mayan Word For 'Apocalypse' Actually Translates More Accurately As 'Time Of Pale Obese Gun Monsters' http://www.theonion.com/video/mayan-word-for-apocalypse-actually-translates-more,30781/
It's cyclone season. My cyclone kit is just a bit more well-stocked than average. It's also for stress management, you ever seen crazy panicked people fighting over torch batteries and tin soup :-/
During the recent QLD floods I know what I saw in Brisbane shops and on Brisbane streets. Far, far easier and smarter to set aside a few things for a rainy day now than to join the mob and panic buy with no plan in place.
It's funny how words get twisted; Apocalypse simply means revealing of the truth Armageddon is mearly the location of a battle on the plains of Meggido Arnarchy is only a society without a violently enforced government Surplus is a just a term Waynke Swan heard the older boys using behind the bike shed
Yep, have seen them in woolies scratching kicking and biting over bread and milk too - oh the humanity Seeing the "ladies" scrapping in the supermarket even surpasses the fistfights at the servo over dwindling petrol supplies - and this was only a short term event, flooded in for a couple of days :/
oh i read this and thought you was talkin bout the christmas shopping for food i see the isles empty then go look at the dunny roll isle see if they got what they will need
I realised a few months back when we had a blackout that we werent that well prepared. Have since bought a few cheap multi torches, a bit like this sort of style, except they also have a 3 led light in front as a torch and have a magnet or hook for positioning. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NARVA-71...=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item2c655aa604 Tried them out the other night and they work brilliantly to light a room - not bad at $5 a pop and came with batteries Luckily down here we dont have the risk of cyclone/flooding, but blackouts/bushfires are highly probable. As others have said better to be prepared beforehand than rush to the shops with everyone else. Always makes me laugh when I see the pre-easter rush on the supermarkets and people overloading their trolleys like its the apocalypse (not just a couple of days without the shops open).
At least you have a magnet to show the person you are trading with, that your silver is real! You Australians, cracking a beer while playing a good ol' game of footie when a storm is heading their way. "Same sh*t, different bucket." Isn't it? Beautiful people.
