Doomsday Preppers, are they nuts or wise?

HellFireClub

Just caught a glimpse of this the other night on Discovery Channel, these guys, for what are different reasons, believe that society is basically gonna collapse, law & order will break down, the ATM's will not dispense cash, the police and those who work for the government will not be paid, etc and basically they are preparing/prepping, for a situation they believe to be imminent over the next few years, where it'll be every man & woman for themselves...

It's not that hard to see why they (or us) should be worried, for example, if Greece defaulted, who's to say capital controls wouldn't be introduced on our banking system, in order to "firewall" the problem, prevent further contagion, movement of money out of the Eurozone, etc.

So do we have any preppers on boards.ie???

EDIT, Yeah I know, "yore ma's a prepper", now that we have that out of the way...

FatherLen

nuts.
yep nuts.

kylith

Those guys are nuts.

I like the idea of survivalism, and lurk on the forum here sometimes. I like to think I've got the (admittedly; book) smarts to not die of starvation if I survived the fall of civilisation.

Spread

Yeah! I prepped my way out here last year

TheFruitarian

Time Is Running Out!

HellFireClub

kylith wrote: »

Those guys are nuts.

I like the idea of survivalism, and lurk on the forum here sometimes. I like to think I've got the (admittedly; book) smarts to not die of starvation if I survived the fall of civilisation.

If you look at how this EU thing though has been unfolding for the last few years, it's certainly not outside the bounds of possibility that we'd wake up in the morning and some big mad crazy even like a sovereign default would have taken place over night and the ATM's and the banks would be all shut in the morning, under government instruction.

Prepping might not look so fúcking crazy then, would it?!?

//Note, am NOT a prepper//

EDIT: YET!

Birneybau

Everyone needs a hobby I guess.

TURRICAN

They're nuts.
Seen the episode with a couple who had a shed full of food etc,enough for months.
What happens if a bomb lands on the shed.

kylith

HellFireClub wrote: »

If you look at how this EU thing though has been unfolding for the last few years, it's certainly not outside the bounds of possibility that we'd wake up in the morning and some big mad crazy even like a sovereign default would have taken place over night and the ATM's and the banks would be all shut in the morning, under government instruction.

Prepping might not look so fúcking crazy then, would it?!?

//Note, am NOT a prepper//

EDIT: YET!

I should be very surprised if that were to happen. Honestly, I think there's more chance of an Irish politician saying "Ah no, lads. You're paying me too much money" than there is of anything worthy of 'prepping' happening in the forseeable future.

That's not to say I don't occasionally think of fecking off to live in the woods and survive on mushrooms and dried worms, though. But that's more the fact that people piss me off.

bodice ripper

nuts.


but, not a bad or stupid hobby, and better chance of lucking out than the lottery....

martomcg

I think its worth nothing that most of these "Preppers" are from southern US states and seem to have questionable levels of intelligence.

Not to mention the couple of them that i saw were all overweight/obese. I'd love to know what good loads of food is going to do when your health is already in doubt.

Theres a difference between survivalism and stupidity.

Ya dont see Bear Grylls filling his shed up with jars of food!!

TURRICAN

TURRICAN wrote: »

They're nuts.
Seen the episode with a couple who had a shed full of food etc,enough for months.
What happens if a bomb lands on the shed.

Then they eat whats stored in the underground Nuclear bunker of course

no harm in being prepared. if I had the money Id like to store a load of stuff.
But more from a fantasy point of view than survival. Id love to roll up every weekend on my homestead and count jars of preserved meat

Spread

TURRICAN wrote: »

They're nuts.
Seen the episode with a couple who had a shed full of food etc,enough for months.
What happens if a bomb lands on the shed.

Chef's Surprise will top the Menu Board

9959

TURRICAN wrote: »

They're nuts.
Seen the episode with a couple who had a shed full of food etc,enough for months.
What happens if a bomb lands on the shed.

They eat the bomb. Simple.

Emeraldy Pebbles

Oh, they're nuts. Completely nuts. As nutty as well-fed squirrel in a nuts and bolts factory.

HellFireClub

kylith wrote: »

I should be very surprised if that were to happen. Honestly, I think there's more chance of an Irish politician saying "Ah no, lads. You're paying me too much money" than there is of anything worthy of 'prepping' happening in the forseeable future.

That's not to say I don't occasionally think of fecking off to live in the woods and survive on mushrooms and dried worms, though. But that's more the fact that people piss me off.

It's only a few months ago we were all saying give us back the Euro. I know a friend of mine who has a business and he went up the north and opened up a UK bank account for his money in case the shít hit the fan, sure isn't that a form of prepping!?!?!?!

Ellis Dee

I've seen a few documentaries about those preppers and their ultra-regimented lives and the privations they impose on themselves make me wonder what the hell for?:rolleyes:

The apocalypse they expect hasn't even happened and presumably life will be even harder after it.:eek:

In other words, they are so obsessed with survival that they fail to recognise they haven't got what they seriously need to get.

A life!:):):)

Shivers26

Nuts, absolutely nuts

I do find that show quite entertaining all the same. Only in America and all that.

The husband was on a survival course in work and last week he was dumped in the ar$ehole of Connemara with only the clothes on his back and a small survial tin (about the size of a lunch box that would only hold 1 sandwich). He didn't eat for a week. Just realistically if some disaster did occur, all the home jarred peaches in the world won't save you.

Auldloon

Your ma's a fluffer.

DyldeBrill

Nuts!

Nothing they make will ever cover them for doomsday...feckin eejits!

Temptamperu

Its nuts, as soon as disorder decends they will be sitting on big stacks of stuff and will run out of bullets sooner than later.





I have full wasteland training thanks to the fallout games so im good.

My name is URL

For some of them it just seems like a hobby more than anything but yeah, the majority appear to be batshit crazy. The fact that they force their kids to live under such strict and illogical rules should be classed as an abuse too.

justsomebloke

I think some of the ideas behind it are sound and some of what they do is ingenious. However the people in the programme are bat shit crazy

loobylou

They're mostly harmless, although they do seem to have an unhealthy interest in guns.

Remmy

martomcg wrote: »

Ya dont see Bear Grylls filling his shed up with jars of food!!

Why would he need to? He can just order room service

GrahamThomas

Thought the thread title was "Doomsday Peppers".
Mmm, sounds spicy.

Chuck Stone

I must admit that I wouldn't mind having a little bunker with a good supply of non perishable foodstuffs and an assault rifle with loads of ammo.

But yes, it's nuts.

sheesh

was considering doing something there when the euro looked like it was going to collapse I had read a book on life in argentina after their currency collapsed and it freaked me out.

I wanted to have a 1-2 weeks supply of food in the house so that I would be able to eat once the currency change over happened. I assumed that there might be chaos for a few days and then things would eventually settle down
as eventually everyone would have to go back to work. if it had happened Ireland would have become a low cost manufacturing destination overnight so it would not have been all bad.

I also meant to open a german bank acc too but never got round to doing that either.

Larbre34

I wouldve thought senile Soviet leaders (or american for that matter) with a very efficient nuclear arsenal at the touch of a button had us far closer to doomsday than an intelligent but politically cornered middle aged German woman with a cheque book.

In a word these preppers are fruitcakes. The world always muddles through its crises and sometimes even learns the odd lesson without civilisation falling apart!

The show I saw had a family with something like 70 assault weapons in their bunker along with all their non perishables. All your man did all day was target practice on a swamp. I loved the bit where the survival expert appraised it and said maybe you should replace some of the guns with water, you havent got nearly enough!

I dont know why they even make these documentaries any more, by now everyone knows that there exists in the more sleepy parts of the USA a significant minority who are devolving and regressing in terms of education and enlightenment and who would follow Ant and Dec if they had a bible in their hand. Shortly they will declare the (young) earth to be flat and to exist only between the Alabama gulf coast and the Arkansas river. In other words batsh!t crazy

My name is URL

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I must admit that I wouldn't mind having a little bunker with a good supply of non perishable foodstuffs and an assault rifle with loads of ammo.

But yes, it's nuts.

I think I'd rather face the music and whatever apocalyptic scenario is happening at the time than spend the rest of my life in a hole.

Bunkers are big business in the US atm. Companies are claiming to be building huge underground compounds and are actively selling spaces to those gullible enough to buy them before they're even completed.

Larbre34

sheesh wrote: »

if it had happened Ireland would have become a low cost manufacturing destination overnight so it would not have been all bad.

Not all bad??? Just 96% bad! I think Ill take my chances with our high value manufacturing and massive trade surplus thanks! The rest will come right after quite a bit less heartache than a national bankruptcy!!

du Maurier

Those people have given up on life a long time ago. They just crave attention. They can't function in any semblance of reality, so just find an outlet to garner attention. There are differing gradations on the scale of their witterings, but essentially it's a hope to be listened to by anyone at all.

Pottler

Can you imagine being on your deathbed, apocalypse not having shown up, reflecting on your d.prepper life and going "Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt".

Chuck Stone

My name is URL wrote: »

I think I'd rather face the music and whatever apocalyptic scenario is happening at the time than spend the rest of my life in a hole.

But, but... the bunker would only be used until the initial extinction event was over and then you could set up a community with the other bunkerinos.


I've said too much..

minidazzler

Some are nuts, there is no harm in preparing for it, since technically it could happen.

Littlehorny

If "doomsday" does come, then we will be wiped out so all the preping in the world will count for fup all. These yanks are only using this theory as an excuse to collect as much guns as possible.

SEPT 23 1989

I feel sorry for the children caught up in all the madness

who_me

The biggest problem with being a Doomsday Prepper, is that if you're ever proven right, there'll be no one left to say "I told you so!" to...

smash

Have to say I love this series. Some of the scenarios are hilarious... "The world is going to run out of water and zombies will eat us so I'm stockpiling water and 12gauge shotguns. I also have a bug out location a quarter of a mile underground!"

Well they're not that bad but you get the idea.

Knasher

They are nuts, even if they were right about society I'd very much doubt their preparations would count for much.

But everybody needs a hobby, the subset from whom that's all it is, well as hobbies go it isn't a bad one.

1ZRed

Absolutely crazy.

I was watching a bit if it, and shock horror, they all happened to be God fearing bible bashers with an arsenal of guns.
They'd spend hundreds of dollars on food supplies and have a hidden room to store it all in. And on the door of the hidden entrance was a sign that said "I keep guns to protect my religion" or something along those lines. Absolutely mental people who believe in their right to hold guns on them by right of their constitution, which he and his wife did at all times, as well as keep dozens around the house. Even in their recliner.

I don't just think they're nuts, I think their behaviour is dangerous.

deelite

Funniest show ever - one guy had the full survival kit you know the type anyway he brought his sons out to the dessert to practice shoot balloons and he shot through his own thumb, blood everywhere, and what did he not have in his survival bag - a decent first aid kit.:D

sheesh

Larbre34 wrote: »

Not all bad??? Just 96% bad! I think Ill take my chances with our high value manufacturing and massive trade surplus thanks! The rest will come right after quite a bit less heartache than a national bankruptcy!!

thats what i said yes.

loobylou

deelite wrote: »

Funniest show ever - one guy had the full survival kit you know the type anyway he brought his sons out to the dessert to practice shoot balloons and he shot through his own thumb, blood everywhere, and what did he not have in his survival bag - a decent first aid kit.:D

And the film crew had to arrange his evacuation to hospital by helicopter:D

smash

deelite wrote: »

Funniest show ever - one guy had the full survival kit you know the type anyway he brought his sons out to the dessert to practice shoot balloons and he shot through his own thumb, blood everywhere, and what did he not have in his survival bag - a decent first aid kit.:D

That was genuinely one of the funniest things I'd seen. When it happened I doubled over. Then he fainted

btard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZT6YpCsapg

Pottler

I have to admit, right after the twin towers were hit I assumed a major sh1tfest would ensue and filled a trolley with tinned stuff in Lidl that eve. I may also have stocked up on a fair few cartridges. In hindsight, I was over-reacting, but we ate the tinned stuff and still have the ammo, so it was all good. Then again, I do tend to buy up all the smokes in my brand from the local shops the eve before the budget, so I may be a closeted prepper.. the smokes have never gone to waste either though...

TheBegotten

Has anyone else noticed they mostly seem to be fat, middle-aged, upper-middle class Caucasian Americans? I hear there's good eating on one of them....

3ndahalfof6

I love peppers, my fav are the blue ones.

minidazzler

Pottler wrote: »

I have to admit, right after the twin towers were hit I assumed a major sh1tfest would ensue and filled a trolley with tinned stuff in Lidl that eve. I may also have stocked up on a fair few cartridges. In hindsight, I was over-reacting, but we ate the tinned stuff and still have the ammo, so it was all good. Then again, I do tend to buy up all the smokes in my brand from the local shops the eve before the budget, so I may be a closeted prepper.. the smokes have never gone to waste either though...

Wouldn't the ammo be out of date by now? Most non-military rifle/pistol rounds have an expiration date, not sure about shotty shells.

Pottler

minidazzler wrote: »

Wouldn't the ammo be out of date by now? Most non-military rifle/pistol rounds have an expiration date, not sure about shotty shells.

Nah, but if I see any Zombies, I'll test them and get back to you. Shotty shells btw, 00 buckshot - make a mess of ya, sadly I managed to break the gun a few weeks back, which makes me a Doomsday Un-preppeered:D