Thread: PREPPERS - Those who plan to survive

Being quite confident of being able to survive in the bush or especially on an island, I have made no preps.
I did advise my kids, though, if civil war or invasion occurred in NZ that we should try to rendezvous on a particular island on the Hauraki Gulf. It's the only time I have told my kids to steal... a boat. Desperate times, desperate measures.

I guess survivalisim is different in cold climates with cold winters and one would want to stock up on the essentials. Much easier in the tropics (albeit the Hauraki Gulf isn't tropical but at least it doesn't snow and the sea is bountiful).

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Being quite confident of being able to survive in the bush or especially on an island, I have made no preps.

Just finished binge watching all 3 seasons of Alone.

There is nothing better than curling up on the sofa with a fried egg sandwich and some ice cream to follow and watching 4 miserable souls starving to death for $500,000



Looks tougher than you might imagine although they are put in quite hostile terrain and have no guns. Just tarps, sleeping bags, bits of string and a firestarter and a knife.

Doesn't look like much fun. Count me out of the post-apocalypse 'It's a Knockout'

Originally Posted by Looper

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Being quite confident of being able to survive in the bush or especially on an island, I have made no preps.

Just finished binge watching all 3 seasons of Alone.

There is nothing better than curling up on the sofa with a fried egg sandwich and some ice cream to follow and watching 4 miserable souls starving to death for $500,000



Looks tougher than you might imagine although they are put in quite hostile terrain and have no guns. Just tarps, sleeping bags, bits of string and a firestarter and a knife.

Doesn't look like much fun. Count me out of the post-apocalypse 'It's a Knockout'

Please have a read of my fishing thread in Pacific Islands sub forum. I would do ok, if not thrive (if it was tropical). Those city slickers have no idea. Tarps, string and sleeping bags are for wimps (if tropical; my constant caveat. Coconut trees, warm weather and sea have all life needs), but a knife would be indispensable.
Mind you, a fried egg sandwich per day would be very welcome, as would a flask of brandy.

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Originally Posted by Maanaam

Originally Posted by Looper

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Being quite confident of being able to survive in the bush or especially on an island, I have made no preps.

Just finished binge watching all 3 seasons of Alone.

There is nothing better than curling up on the sofa with a fried egg sandwich and some ice cream to follow and watching 4 miserable souls starving to death for $500,000



Looks tougher than you might imagine although they are put in quite hostile terrain and have no guns. Just tarps, sleeping bags, bits of string and a firestarter and a knife.

Doesn't look like much fun. Count me out of the post-apocalypse 'It's a Knockout'

Please have a read of my fishing thread in Pacific Islands sub forum. I would do ok, if not thrive (if it was tropical). Those city slickers have no idea. Tarps, string and sleeping bags are for wimps (if tropical; my constant caveat. Coconut trees, warm weather and sea have all life needs), but a knife would be indispensable.
Mind you, a fried egg sandwich per day would be very welcome, as would a flask of brandy.

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Sound like an interesting thread Maanaam.

To be fair to the Alone starvers they are stranded in a seasonal zone just before winter so that the conditions get worse by the week and one by one they drop like flies...

Try reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy...

The feeling of hopelessness comes early...

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

Try reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy...

The feeling of hopelessness comes early...

It did make the idea of surviving pretty unattractive. I work with a guy who is kind of a prepper I suggested he read the book too.

*preparing*

I think I would just rather die. Its been a pretty good run or whatever

Originally Posted by Maanaam

as would a flask of brandy.

Toddy from palm sap?

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Originally Posted by Maanaam

as would a flask of brandy.

Toddy from palm sap?

Don't get me started...I used to tap the coconut flowers for sugary fluid and alcohol.
Long story...I'll get around to telling it on the fishing thread.

A bottle of distilled liquor is easier, though, as is an egg sandwich

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Don't get me started...I used to tap the coconut flowers for sugary fluid and alcohol.
Long story...I'll get around to telling it on the fishing thread.

Don't forget to Google it before starting on a tall tale this time.

Originally Posted by ENT

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Don't get me started...I used to tap the coconut flowers for sugary fluid and alcohol.
Long story...I'll get around to telling it on the fishing thread.

Don't forget to Google it before starting on a tall tale this time.

You're projecting again.
Yes, I google when I don't know stuff. It's a great tool. I happen to know quite a bit about toddy/kaleve, so no need to google it. Actually, I'd be surprised if there was any useful detail to be gleaned from google as it's not a widely practiced craft in the Pacific and the detail is very important.
Unlike you who doesn't know anything at all, furiously googles, miscomprehends what he reads, and spouts it off as if he was all-knowledgeable and makes a fool of himself. Time and time again.
Like free electricity from cars and animal hair doesn't burn but acts as a wick to draw out fat.
Stop showing your Dunning-Kruger syndrome and piss off.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Originally Posted by ENT

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Don't get me started...I used to tap the coconut flowers for sugary fluid and alcohol.
Long story...I'll get around to telling it on the fishing thread.

Don't forget to Google it before starting on a tall tale this time.

Yes, I google when I don't know stuff. It's a great tool. I happen to know quite a bit about toddy/kaleve

Very possible if you grew up in Fiji.

so no need to google it. Actually, I'd be surprised if there was any useful detail to be gleaned from google as it's not a widely practiced craft in the Pacific and the detail is very important.

You're kidding!.....10 pages of hits for toddy on Google!
Toddy (Sanskrit/Hindi tadi) brewing's an old craft, originating in S.India/Srilanka and spread to Melanesia and Micronesia most likely by Indians brought to Fiji by the British in the late 1850s.

Eastern Polynesia also has an archaic history of coconut migration from Peru, but no evidence of toddy brewing. Fossilized coconuts have been found in NZ, while Maori oral history talks of Ni, a big seed that was once eaten by their forbears from their traditional homeland of Hawaiki

Kava use predates toddy brewing in Fiji. It was the traditional Polynesian knockout juice, originating in India along with the areca nut (erroneously called betel nut) and the piper betel leaf, kava, ( Piperaceae family including peppers), used by early Lapita people in Papua NG, then spread from Melanesia to Micronesia and further across Polynesia from Samoa and Tonga across to as far as the Marqesas.

Unlike you who doesn't know anything at all, furiously googles, miscomprehends what he reads, and spouts it off as if he was all-knowledgeable and makes a fool of himself. Time and time again.

Envy will get you nowhere.
The problem with your point of view is that those of little real comprehension of anthropology, and of limited educational background, such as yourself, no matter what your claims to tertiary education, display pure ignorance of how academic discipline works.

You're regularly gobsmacked by what and how anthropologists do indeed study and know in the field of human behaviour and how it developed.

Like free electricity from cars

That little wow-ism of yours displays your lack of comprehension skills. Nowhere was the claim made of "free electricity from cars".

and animal hair doesn't burn but acts as a wick to draw out fat.

It burns alright, mostly to a black char in the initial conflagration, before complete combustion consumes the lot, leaving grey ash. The charred hair acts as a wick to allow fat to burn during open cremation, of both man and beast.

Deny that as much as you like, science speaks against you. Your anecdotal "knowledge" that you claimed as facts drawn from your personal experience, have been shown to be pure bunkum, as displayed in the cremation thread.

https://teakdoor.com/world-news/17531...ml#post3521526

Originally Posted by redhaze

I think I would just rather die. Its been a pretty good run or whatever

This.

If it comes down to that type of scenario why would anyone want to prolong the shitfest?

Originally Posted by Maanaam

knife would be indispensable

A true survivalist would make a weapon from the jaw bone of an ass. A guy with long hair once killed a thousand enemies with one of those ass bones.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

fried egg sandwich per day would be very welcome

Seagull egg cooked on a hot rock. Delicious.

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Quote:
Originally Posted by Maanaam
as would a flask of brandy.
Toddy from palm sap?

Wot he said.

Odd.
Delusional.


The deepest mindset of said preppers is certainly akin to those whom designed the cause and effect.

Very Occidental.
A family of nutters.


What's wrong with you people?

Originally Posted by thaimeme

What's wrong with you people?

I think its kind of sad that people spend their life worrying about low probability events. Pretty pathetic way to live your life really.

Of course when they're holed up in their bunker eating cat food mixed with powered milk while I'm out there starving or burning from radiation I'm sure they'll have a good laugh

Originally Posted by redhaze

I think its kind of sad that people spend their life worrying about low probability events. Pretty pathetic way to live your life really.

Of course when they're holed up in their bunker eating cat food mixed with powered milk while I'm out there starving or burning from radiation I'm sure they'll have a good laugh

All very 'merkan, in extended character.
Fabricated cycles of nonsense.

Must be proud.

Come the burning season in Chiangmai prepping is certainly a very good idea.

Originally Posted by redhaze

I think its kind of sad that people spend their life worrying about low probability events. Pretty pathetic way to live your life really.

Of course when they're holed up in their bunker eating cat food mixed with powered milk while I'm out there starving or burning from radiation I'm sure they'll have a good laugh

When I was visited my home area back in Ohio around August last year got to visit my cousin who retired from the Navy a few years before me. He had bought about 40 acres and built a huge house, developed a small fruit orchard of some type and and turned about 3-5 acres into a small lake that he stocked with some kind of fish. Anyway, he said he was told there were city people flush with money looking for "self-sustaining" properties in the event of some huge catastrophe. Sure enough somebody plonked down $500K.

I just have a bunch of guns & ammunition. Figure that will get me & the family whatever is needed.

However, I'll probably be somewhere other than the US if the end of the world happens, so I'll prolly suffer like everyone else.

Originally Posted by Slick

I just have a bunch of guns & ammunition. Figure that will get me & the family whatever is needed.

However, I'll probably be somewhere other than the US if the end of the world happens, so I'll prolly suffer like everyone else.

Move to North Korea, they have brilliant bomb shelters suitable for nuclear fallout.

Trump is gunnar test them, let us know how ya go.

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