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How would you fare in a post-apocalyptic wasteland?

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    #32
    HLecter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭HLecter


    No laughing matter.
    Exactly what kind of post apocalyptic wasteland are we talking about here.
    Your post was very nondescript. It leaves the reader without boundaries.
    Frankly I take your vagueness within this academic topic to be outside the bounds of professionalism.
    Irresponsible.


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    #33
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    I would gladly and bravely, do my bit to help repopulate.


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    #34
    John Doe1
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    irish-stew wrote: »
    I would gladly and bravely, do my bit to help repopulate.

    Please dont:P


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    #35
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    HLecter wrote: »
    No laughing matter.
    Exactly what kind of post apocalyptic wasteland are we talking about here.
    Your post was very nondescript. It leaves the reader without boundaries.
    Frankly I take your vagueness within this academic topic to be outside the bounds of professionalism.
    Irresponsible.

    Sorry, I should have been more specific.

    It'd be a wasteland after an apocalypse.


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    #36
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    I'd join the Authority and terrorise local towns with my modern day weaponry.

    Being honest, given the effectiveness of those Authority Machine Guns, i'd be right there with ya.


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    #37
    Fantasia1
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    Oranage2 wrote: »
    But Fr. O'brien was a vegetarian?

    lol


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    #38
    Where To
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    I'd carry on as normal


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    #39
    Mankyspuds
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭Mankyspuds


    Get:
    Lots of tinned food
    Bog Roll
    small selection of dirty mags
    .22 semi automatic with scope and bipod. (hunting)
    Pump Action Shotgun with shít load of ammo (close quarters)
    Barrett .50 cal Rifle (defence)
    Camo gear
    Boat with engine and oars.
    Fishing Rod and lures
    Icelandic Tent
    Large plastic sheets
    Lots of meds
    Raingear
    Good Boots
    Plenty of clothes
    Women with good child bearing hips

    Then:

    Use boat to get to Lambay island.

    Make Lambay into my hareem.:cool:

    Defend Lambay from heights with Barrett.

    Become King of Lambay. :cool:

    If all of this happens I will be fare quite well. ;)







    In Reality...

    I will panic and run to my Ma's gaff :o


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    #40
    Tonyandthewhale
    Registered Users Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    Most people seem to be saying they'd be dead pretty much instantly or else they'd be the leader of some sort of rag-tag band/last bastion of society/isolationist homesteader community/big budget holywood block-buster thing.

    Me, I think I'd do about average. Might be ok, might not, probably mostly down to luck. Looting would be fun though.


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    #41
    BBDBB
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    Id probably not bother to return my library books


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    #42
    rainbowdrop
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    Mankyspuds wrote: »
    Get:
    Lots of tinned food
    Bog Roll
    small selection of dirty mags
    .22 semi automatic with scope and bipod. (hunting)
    Pump Action Shotgun with shít load of ammo (close quarters)
    Barrett .50 cal Rifle (defence)
    Camo gear
    Boat with engine and oars.
    Fishing Rod and lures
    Icelandic Tent
    Large plastic sheets
    Lots of meds
    Raingear
    Good Boots
    Plenty of clothes
    Women with good child bearing hips

    Reads like a checklist for Oxegen, all your missing is 48cans of Dutch and a litre of Vodka........:D


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    #43
    Latchy
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    The King of Moo wrote: »
    Sorry, I should have been more specific.

    It'd be a wasteland after an apocalypse.
    It will be full of the wasted after we find the warehouse full of the Dutch gold and Vodka


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    #44
    Mint Sauce
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    John Doe1 wrote: »
    Please dont:P

    You'll be happy when my super genetically perfect army turn up 20 years later to fight the impending zombies.

    :D


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    #45
    Tar.Aldarion
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    you would be mad not to prepare adequately for such a scenario.


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    #46
    BrokenArrows
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    I think I'd suck as a team player but I'd be very good by myself.


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    #47
    Naos
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    Become a Postman.

    In time I would rule all.


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    #48
    galwayrush
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    No worries here, i've been to Roscommon, survived ok, got out safely.


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    #49
    Mint Sauce
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    galwayrush wrote: »
    No worries here, i've been to Roscommon, survived ok, got out safely.

    Yeah, but its Leitrim that you have to look out for.


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    #50
    galwayrush
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    irish-stew wrote: »
    Yeah, but its Leitrim that you have to look out for.

    Now i'm scared......:eek:


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    #51
    recylingbin
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    I'd go to a games arcade and set all the top scores.
    me > you.


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    #52
    psychward
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    I'd start repopulating the planet ASAP . I'd also have a cool fortified digs like the Omega Man . Eventually I'd train Zombies to build a huge statue of myself for posterity and as a symbol of my awesomeness.


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    #53
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Domo230 wrote: »
    Loot the hardware store down the road for supplies, grab some seeds and the necessary tools needed to grow.

    I'd grab my bicycle and get out of Dublin ASAP (Staying away from population density is a must) and start heading towards the wesht. Try get to one of the islands off shore or maybe hole up in one of the historic castles along the way.(trying to loot as much food/medical supplies as I can along the way)

    If I got to the island I would dig a large trench around my shelter to keep zombies out (big pits eventually filled with wooden spikes hopefully with a plank to cross over when I need to). I'd expland the defences over time while I started to plant my crops.

    (Edit) Oh I thought it was if we were facing zombies :(

    Well there would be radioactive mutants, probably evil ones at that.


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    #54
    psychward
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    Domo230 wrote: »

    I'd grab my bicycle and get out of Dublin ASAP (Staying away from population density is a must) and start heading towards the wesht. Try get to one of the islands off shore or maybe hole up in one of the historic castles along the way.

    Why grab a bicycle when you can probably pick up a Harley for free in the chaos ? Fuel would be easily siphoned from abandoned vehicles e.g using one of these

    http://www.walmart.com/ip/Performance-W1145-Multi-Use-Transfer-Pump/14698313

    People spend a fortune on Warcraft etc then when they get a chance of some real adventure they run and hide :confused:
    I'd stay in Dublin with a shotgun, a leather jacket and a Harley :D


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    #55
    bnt
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    See also this previous thread. My answer here is the same as there: water is the #1 priority. Without a good supply of clean water, human beings are roadkill.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #56
    cruiser178
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    The King of Moo wrote: »
    I think that at first I'd be involved with efforts to rebuild society, but I'd eventually get too frustrated with people not doing things properly (ie. how I think they should be done) and go off in a huff.

    I'd then become a hermit living in a cave and subsisting on whatever I could hunt/forage.
    Over time, I'd attract a rag-tag bunch of followers consisting mostly of the weak-willed and mentally-scarred.
    We'd struggle on with difficulty just about managing to survive.

    Then one day a group would come along in cars made of wood and string or something and reveal to us that everyone else had actually made great progress in reconstructing society.

    I'd still have my principles though. So I don't think I'd be much of a team player, but I'd hopefully be savvy enough to be able to carve out a solitary existence at least.

    How would you do?


    Jaysus and I thought I was mad :rolleyes:


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    #57
    Bobby Baccala
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    I'd probably just cause another apocalypse.


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    #58
    Kasabian
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    I'd walk for 30 years to get a copy of St.John's Bible to a place that it can be reproduced and brought to the masses.
    Religion cannot be allowed to die.

    I would kill alot of people on the way and at least make an effort to get into Mila Kunis knickers.


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    #59
    Gummy Panda
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    Kasabian wrote: »
    I'd walk for 30 years to get a copy of St.John's Bible to a place that it can be reproduced and brought to the masses.
    Religion cannot be allowed to die.

    I would kill alot of people on the way and at least make an effort to get into Mila Kunis knickers.

    Would you listen to an ipod along the way?


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    #60
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Would you listen to an ipod along the way?

    Yeah with "Smack my Pitch Up" on repeat.


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    #61
    Mr Benevolent
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    I'd brew beer and become the Beer Baron.


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