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Post by ziggysdad on Mar 8, 2017 6:21:00 GMT 10
BIC lighter, a couple power bars (or equivalent) and a few Nescafé sachets and/or tea bags
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Post by ziggysdad on Mar 6, 2017 10:49:55 GMT 10
paranoia - did you ever enlist? If not, what have you been doing for the past 2 months since your company wound up?
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Post by ziggysdad on Feb 24, 2017 17:29:42 GMT 10
Some of my preps are hiding in plain sight, but you'd still have to be under my house to see them. Even still, the pails don't look like they would contain food.
That said, we did hide a cache of alcohol. Don't want people realising how much we have.
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Post by ziggysdad on Feb 23, 2017 16:48:59 GMT 10
The Kiwi immigration website collapsed within a couple of hours of Trump getting in The Canada immigration website went down before they even made the official call that Trump had won!
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Post by ziggysdad on Feb 23, 2017 16:47:00 GMT 10
Great article in the New Yorker - damn it's long!
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Post by ziggysdad on Feb 17, 2017 9:59:43 GMT 10
I've been on the receiving end of his attacks many times - great to know he is actually 5'9", not 6'4"+ and build like a brick shit house - makes it even more funny picturing him trolling all of us with so much hatred and bigotry.
When it comes to envy, a little bit of being nice can come back to bite you in the ass. Figure out who you want to help and help. If they've been a good neighbor and a little help can get them to a better place, great. If you aren't sure, trust your instincts and tell them to piss off.
Sadly, at the end of the day, I think Morgo will be right...those that have will need to defend what they have against those who don't. If you have enough, you can choose who to let in and share with you, but once they are in, they'll never leave.
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Post by ziggysdad on Feb 17, 2017 9:51:39 GMT 10
You're my hero, Rob!
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Post by ziggysdad on Feb 16, 2017 15:43:00 GMT 10
I know this is a few weeks old a this point, but I've got a little of everything...
Rice, Pasta, Flour, Cornmeal, Grits, Cereals, Instant Mashed Potatoes, Beans (dry and canned), Canned Veg/Fruit, Canned Tuna, Canned Chicken Breast, Canned Butter (cases of this wonderful product), UHT Milk (enough to open a new one every week for 18 months), Sauces, Stews, Lollies, Peanut M&Ms (my BoB is loaded with bags of these), Gatorade, Freeze Dried Fruits and Peas.
That is the bulk of it that I can think of off the top of my head.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jan 27, 2017 3:25:52 GMT 10
It might seem odd, but anything short of months (plural) just doesn't worry me any more.
I'm even letting my wife shop from the stockpile without replacing...think I went a bit overboard laying in 12-18 months of food for three last year.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jan 1, 2017 7:03:59 GMT 10
Like any of this would ever make it into storage...you prepare a kilo of bacon, I eat a kilo of bacon. You'd have to start with like 20kg of pork to yield 6-8kg of bacon jerky and that just means I'm eating 6-8 kilos of bacon jerky over the span of a few days!
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Post by ziggysdad on Jan 1, 2017 6:50:38 GMT 10
I think you need more biscuits to make the ratios work.
More like 750g of something like an Arnott's Plain Scotch Fingers.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jan 1, 2017 5:07:26 GMT 10
Happy new year!
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Post by ziggysdad on Dec 14, 2016 9:46:13 GMT 10
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Post by ziggysdad on Nov 17, 2016 8:16:36 GMT 10
A baby bush turkey appears to have taken up residency in our front garden. My wife and daughter are enjoying his presence, so they planted new tomato plants around him.
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Post by ziggysdad on Nov 15, 2016 19:43:31 GMT 10
Scenario- having a swim in a lake, some distance away a person clearly in trouble. One swims over to investigate/ help. Person totally hysterical climbing all over and seems super strong pushing one under. We could try to knock them out and drag to shore. In this circumstance the rescuer feels they only have enough strength to untangle oneself and get to shore. Drawing a conclusion, person receiving help in a particular circumstance depends largely on them. The rescuer assesses the risk. This is fictitious, but I have heard of people usually family members drowning in similar circumstances. Just felt the philosophy of the choices is somewhat similar to a well prepared individual or group. You've just described a typical 'aquatic victim instead of rescuer syndrome'. I'm a strong swimmer, so I would try to offer assistance, but I know from past experience that a much smaller person can drag a bigger/stronger person underwater in this type of scenario. If at all possible I would be trying to grab a buoy or some kind of float on the way to the victim. That failing, try to talk to the victim before you get within arms length. I wear a long sleeve rash guard whenever I swim. By removing it and tossing one end to the victim you buy yourself six feet of buffer space. Playing water polo, I've found the best way to get someone to let go of you who is trying to push you under is to dunk them a few times Knocking the person out carries risk - if anything happens to them at that point you could be held liable. Plus, it is hard to knock someone out when you are being pushed underwater. At that point you are better off extricating yourself and swimming away to try to get help.
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Post by ziggysdad on Nov 11, 2016 22:12:35 GMT 10
Might sound ridiculous, but I could use a multi-day blackout to reinforce the benefits of being prepared.
The problem is that it would take a considerable amount of time to kill the fridges and freezers, then we'd need to work through all of the open stuff in the pantry (cereals, pasta, crackers, biscuits, etc.), so short of a SHTF scenario we'd never make it to the food preps.
Sure, the BBQ might get a good workout and I'd get to use some candles and batteries, but not much else.
My stockpiling is definitely geared to a TEOTWAWKI event...moving all this stuff is going to be a giant pain in my ass if/when we move to a new house.
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Post by ziggysdad on Nov 10, 2016 16:20:07 GMT 10
www.courant.com/opinion/letters/hc-ugc-article-another-tick-on-doomsday-clock-2016-11-03-story.htmlAnother Tick On Doomsday Clock?
I pray that on Nov. 8, voters will realize what is at stake in this presidential election. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has set its doomsday clock to three minutes before midnight to signal the undeniable threats to civilization posed by global nuclear weapons and unchecked climate change. In a similar vein, 375 prominent scientists, including Stephen Hawking and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Stephan Chu, published an open letter severely criticizing Donald Trump for threatening to dismantle the Paris Accord signed by 197 countries to decelerate the devastating effects of global warming. So what will happen on Nov. 9? Will there be another tick on the doomsday clock because of Trump's ignorance of science and emotional unpredictability? Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung famously said that "the world hangs by a thin thread, and that thread is the psyche of man." If Trump is elected president, that thread will be perilously thinner. James C. Malley, Farmington
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Post by ziggysdad on Nov 8, 2016 11:10:05 GMT 10
I'm all for Castle Law. The fact that the intruder turns away from me and starts to run when I emerge from my front door and find him trying to break in shouldn't prohibit me from catching him and tossing him over the railing and off the deck. The fact that he is fleeing shouldn't matter, especially when the local police can't even be bothered to investigate most thefts.
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Post by ziggysdad on Nov 8, 2016 6:16:53 GMT 10
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Post by ziggysdad on Nov 8, 2016 5:20:13 GMT 10
Ordered nearly $500 in groceries- over half of which will go into the stockpile.
My father, a staunch Republican, informed me last night that if Trump wins he is moving to Canada 🇨🇦.
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