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Topic: Terrifying TV drama on BBC in UK |
SoothSayer
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:09 pm Subject: Re: Terrifying TV drama on BBC in UK |
the screen panned out at the end you heard reports of oil price increases, people being evacuated to emergency shelters etc. so I guess the British released the data to the world....
That bit could ... |
Topic: Connect? With Preppers or Talkers? |
SoothSayer
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:08 am Subject: Re: Connect? With Preppers or Talkers? |
| As a non-American it seems to me that a key American approach to surviving anything is to have a stack of guns and ammunition. This might indeed get you through the first few months of a collapse, bu ... |
Topic: Terrifying TV drama on BBC in UK |
SoothSayer
Replies: 27
Views: 2634
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:35 am Subject: Re: Terrifying TV drama on BBC in UK |
OT: White space is not a crime as far as I know.
OK, double or triple blank lines is overdoing it - but breaking up key points with single blank lines is helpful IMHO.
Do we want even long posts ... |
Topic: Time management and preparations |
SoothSayer
Replies: 20
Views: 1596
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:52 am Subject: Re: Time management and preparations |
I'm considering quitting my job so I can spend every waking moment digging a bunker under my house.
That was a joke, right? |
Topic: Why Sweden will be One of the Worse EU nations Post Peak |
SoothSayer
Replies: 85
Views: 5317
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Forum: Europe Discussion Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:14 am Subject: Re: Why Sweden will be One of the Worse EU nations Post Peak |
Got the hell out of the UK!!!! That place is the SS Titanic!
Oh dear, why are we in the UK sooooo doomed? |
Topic: Dealing with Fleas |
SoothSayer
Replies: 17
Views: 1073
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:04 am Subject: Re: Dealing with Fleas |
We once bought a house which had been standing empty for several weeks.
Apparently several cats used to live in the carpeted attic room.
After several weeks of no cats being around the fleas in ... |
Topic: Big city dwellers...what's your plan? |
SoothSayer
Replies: 81
Views: 4520
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:03 am Subject: Re: Big city dwellers...what's your plan? |
Bugged out to a rural village, changed career and bought 5 acres of (sadly low-grade) land.
The key point is that all this takes YEARS not weeks to carry out ... unless you are rich I suppose.
W ... |
Topic: Big city dwellers...what's your plan? |
SoothSayer
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Views: 4520
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:43 am Subject: Re: Big city dwellers...what's your plan? |
Bugged out to a rural village, changed career and bought 5 acres of (sadly low-grade) land.
The key point is that all this takes YEARS not weeks to carry out ... unless you are rich I suppose. |
Topic: Nothing Wrong With A Gas Guzzler |
SoothSayer
Replies: 111
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 3:59 pm Subject: Re: Nothing Wrong With A Gas Guzzler |
We've just bought a piece of land to act as our food source when the bad times arrive. (Next Thursday at this rate ...).
How the heck can you operate a smallholding with a Prius or small Fiat?
O ... |
Topic: Gasoline and Diesel Thefts Thread |
SoothSayer
Replies: 63
Views: 4874
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 12:41 pm Subject: Re: Gasoline thefts thread |
| They have a trapdoor in the bottom of the van, and drill a hole through the tank access hatch fitted in the ground below them. |
Topic: Optimum size of viable community |
SoothSayer
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:09 am Subject: Re: Optimum size of viable community |
Business text books suggest companies change in nature at around 100-150 staff.
I worked for a startup which rapidly grew from about 18 to 450+ staff in under 2 years.
As the headcount reached 1 ... |
Topic: Low energy LED bulbs to last 100 years |
SoothSayer
Replies: 17
Views: 1532
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:46 am Subject: Re: Low energy LED bulbs to last 100 years |
The "long-lasting" LEDs used in traffic signals these days ain't werf crap.
Very few (<20%) of the lights I've seen are 100% lit; many have banks of 20-30 LEDs that aren't working at all, and this ... |
Topic: RAF jets intercept eight Russian bombers |
SoothSayer
Replies: 31
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Forum: Geopolitics Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:46 pm Subject: Re: RAF jets intercept eight Russian bombers |
| Should be in Geopolitics, and anyway it doesn't matter. These are big fat commercial airliner sized turboprops from the 1950s. Like the B-52, they will never see use without complete air superiority b ... |
Topic: UK government invites public comment on nuclear reactors |
SoothSayer
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:46 am Subject: Re: UK government invites public comment on nuclear reactors |
| Note that this consultation is purely about the reactors, and not about waste/fuel management, except how these processes would be influenced by the choice of one reactor design over another. Can I as ... |
Topic: I might have trouble with butchery. |
SoothSayer
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Views: 2674
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:01 am Subject: Re: I might have trouble with butchery. |
I would strongly recommend not raising goats for meat.
Very true.
Goats are too friendly/bright/sociable to make killing them a pleasant task. |
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