Hunger Games scenario - Do you have any survival skills?

kowloon · 23-11-2015 02:50PM

I have a wide range of combat skills that I've learnt from the internet, I've also seen Castaway.

bodice ripper · 23-11-2015 02:54PM

I'll take a good while to starve

Turtyturd · 23-11-2015 02:58PM

Always find myself thinking this when I watch The Walking Dead...i think I could be pretty ruthless in a kill or be killed situation.

Menas · 23-11-2015 03:06PM

I have never seen the Hunger games series, but will add it to the list OP.

But you know when you watch those reality shows where they dump a group of people on a desert island with nothing more than a rusty spoon and tell them to survive for a month? Bear Grylls had one last year.

And one the group always gets eaten alive by mossies, gets sick from drinking stagnant water and then cant do any hunting and depends on the good nature of the others to survive?

I think that would be me.

osarusan · 23-11-2015 03:20PM

We can use strawman arguments to make shelters.

Medusa22 · 23-11-2015 03:36PM

bodice ripper wrote: »

I'll take a good while to starve

I was thinking that too, that I could spend quite a few weeks living off my body fat alone

connundrum · 23-11-2015 04:43PM

I have the distinct ability to:
a) find the weakest/slowest/unhealthiest person in a group setting
b) ensure that I remain one step ahead of this person

23-11-2015 05:27PM

I'd be fecked anyway

Skoop · 23-11-2015 05:37PM

I can open a bottle of beer with many everyday items that aren't intended for the purpose.

I'm also pretty good at getting pens to write again when they've been left sitting with the top off.

I'm presuming this is enough to make me an indispensable part of any group, so they can do the killing and dying for me. I'll be in charge of beer and pens.

corner of hells · 23-11-2015 06:14PM

Medusa22 wrote: »

My OH fixes everything in the house with duct tape, everything. We saw a car recently that had duct tape all over the bumper and she says to me, ''oh look, I must have fixed that car''.

That's my friends car.

Also I can use a spud gun , older people will remember these.

kowloon · 23-11-2015 06:47PM

Menas wrote: »

... Bear Grylls had one last year...

That's a mistake right there, Ray Mears is the one you need to watch. Bear will survive by drinking his own piss and eating maggots, Ray eats like a king and comes off that desert island in need of a diet.

ScumLord · 23-11-2015 06:58PM

It would be some laugh to see a hunger games style thing. I only managed 40 minutes of the film but it seems they send regular joes off to kill each other in the woods. Hollywood would have us believe the human is one of the easiest animals in the world to kill, and that put in the situation we'd all turn into crack shot SAS survivalists. Humans aren't easy to kill, especially without a gun. Humans are crap at everything unless they spend months training. Your average modern person probably wouldn't be able to throw a spear straight, nevermind hard enough to kill something. There would be a lot of boo boos, and the one person that did manage to kill someone would be sitting under a tree crying while the rest of the group consoled him.

Even someone who likes spending time in the wilderness, camping and the likes. First goes to a shop, stocks up on everything they need and then some, spends a relaxing few days appreciating wildlife, then buggers off home before they start to run out of toilet paper.

I have no doubt many modern people would learn to survive, but that life would suck, every second of it would suck, and you would no longer be able to appreciate the wonderfulness of the nature you're in because everything sucks so bad.

Diamond Doll · 23-11-2015 07:02PM

I'd be terrible. I'm a very picky eater, can't see me eating leaves and bugs etc. I'd be too squeamish to kill an animal, let alone a person. I'm not very practical, wouldn't be able to fashion my own tools or anything. I'm also unfit, so wouldn't even be able to run away.

Yeah I'd be pretty disastrous!

ScumLord · 23-11-2015 07:05PM

Diamond Doll wrote: »

I'd be terrible. I'm a very picky eater, can't see me eating leaves and bugs etc. I'd be too squeamish to kill an animal,

Once you're hungry you will eat anything. It takes a long time to starve to death, your belly has time to convince your head that a slug might taste nice.

23-11-2015 07:07PM

It took me two days to shoo a bat out of my flat, I'm a danger to myself just crossing the room, I've the physique of a 12 year old, and I couldn't navigate myself out of a doorway, I can confidently state that I'd be the first one to get killed at the cornucopia.

I have a pilots license, that's all I have to offer.

TeaBagMania · 23-11-2015 07:22PM

i have patience

circadian · 23-11-2015 08:03PM

If Fallout 4 is anything to go by, I'll rank up my sneak skills then operate on a bullet to the face sneak attack, loot and don't bother with questions basis.

mr_edge_to_you · 23-11-2015 08:42PM

I'm fairly handy with Excel. I could rustle up some spreadsheets and a few graphs.

WinnyThePoo · 23-11-2015 09:04PM

Just don't piss off Takeshi Kitano OP

TheNobleKipper · 23-11-2015 11:40PM

I'd struggle to find food if I wasn't allowed to eat my killed off contestants. If they're out to kill you...I am very sure I could kill them first. I bet it'd be fun!

Son Of A Vidic · 23-11-2015 11:44PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I recently spent a month in Canada on a wilderness course. There we built a log cabin from scratch. 8 complete strangers came together and learned wood working, fishing, hunting and foraging skills.

Suffice to say I excelled in all areas, and quickly took on the role as informal leader of the group. While I primarily took the month off as a well-earned R&R break from work, I also wanted to challenge myself.

I’d now have no issue with setting up a shelter, making a fire, setting a rabbit trap, catching and preparing a fish, and foraging for fruit and seeds.

Ah come on now Aongus, getting your butler to do it doesn't count.

mattP · 23-11-2015 11:48PM

Hate to brag but... im an expert at hide and seek. I remember my friends would get so thick at never being able to find me

24-11-2015 12:04AM

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Ah come on now Aongus, getting your butler to do it doesn't count.

Plus he's not gonna have his fancy coffee machine or suits in the wild, is he

jimgoose · 24-11-2015 12:48AM

I'm not bad with a rifle. But to be perfectly straight, I'm the sort of quiet megalomaniac who'd convince the whole group to form up behind me so we could have a creditable crack at that Carbuncle Snow fella and take his stuff. Because running around with a bow-and-arrow with a bunch of other losers trying to kill each other for the gratification of a slack-jawed, decadent TV audience ranks as a career choice somewhere up there alongside Joan Burton's nipple-tweaker.

Ave Sodalis · 24-11-2015 01:18AM

cronin_j wrote:

Any time I've gone doing Archery as a day trip or whatever I've done very well.

In fairness, not trying to belittle you here but them type of things tend to have a bow with low poundage (easy to draw back) and short ranges (easier to get right). I know we don't let beginners shoot the length of the hall in target archery, and field archers usually start at the closest mark. It's too dangerous to let someone who has only shot a few times use a heavy bow at long range. These things tend to be built towards. Any time we have set up public shooting days, we use the biggest targets and have them the closest we can without ruining the board behind.

As for the OP, I'd be pretty screwed based on the fact I couldn't kill a earwig, let alone a person who is as unwilling to be in the situation as I am. I think I could kill someone if they were genuinely trying to kill me though. I have zero fighting skills though except stubborness, and I've dodgy hands and wrists so although I've done archery for years, I can't use heavier and more accurate bows for fear of my wrists failing or my hands seizing. I do love being outside so I suppose that would help but if I were taken out of my house right now, I most likely wouldn't survive. If it counts for anything, it would be a dream of mine to learn to survive in the wild.

Tefral · 24-11-2015 02:27AM

sup_dude wrote: »

In fairness, not trying to belittle you here but them type of things tend to have a bow with low poundage (easy to draw back) and short ranges (easier to get right)..

Don't worry any bow I'd make on the fly would be made out of a tree sapling. Not exactly gonna be running major power there ha ha

My missus is into target archery, has her own bow and all the gear, know exactly what's required! Ive a 30" draw length and a 37pound draw weight on a recurve!

I'd love to get a compound bow, couldn't justify the money when I hardly do it. Shotgun is more fun

whatdoicare · 24-11-2015 02:50AM

My asthma would kill me quicker than any career with an axe or sword. TBH I probably wouldn't have made it past childhood in district 12. If I did somehow manage to not have asthma, I reckon Id do alright for a while just hiding by the river and keeping to myself.

My husband would be worse than Peeta, not only would he have found those poison berries, hed insist on eating them no matter what rather than admit he wasted his time picking them or that he didn't know they were poison....on the other hand, he has the stomach of a Russian goat so hed probably survive eating them....

Ave Sodalis · 24-11-2015 12:18PM

cronin_j wrote:

My missus is into target archery, has her own bow and all the gear, know exactly what's required! Ive a 30" draw length and a 37pound draw weight on a recurve!

Cool! 37 pounds isn't entirely a tree sapling!

Again, sorry. It's just from teaching archery, if people come in saying they've done archery before on those type of trips, they're usually as dangerous as those who are terrified of the bow. I can't help be filled with a little bit of dread when people say they've done a bit of archery before and they were great at it. Obviously, this doesn't apply to you when your partner shoots! Just in general. I didn't want you thinking I was some sort of bigheaded prick going "pfft that's not archery so it doesn't count", it's just habit to get a little bit scared when people say something like that

mad muffin · 24-11-2015 01:53PM

Of course… I watch the walking dead.

Menas · 24-11-2015 02:04PM

Thats a good point about Guns. About the only thing I would be good at is shooting things.
I could shoot anything from a distance....provided it looks like a clay Pigeon or has a target circle on it.

Hunger Games scenario - Do you have any survival skills?

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