Posted on 11/30/2012 10:34:52 AM PST by dennisw
Britons are stockpiling arms, food, and even condoms Some have secret hideaways away from towns and cities for when the apocalypse strikes They all appear in a documentary on people preparing for disaster Mayan calendar has predicted the apocalypse on December 21, 2012
The Mayan calendar predicts that the end of the world is less than a month away - but there are some Britons who are taking the doomsday prophecy more seriously than mos
Meet the UK's 'preppers'- people who are preparing for Armageddon behind closed doors. Between them they fear a new dark age, natural disasters, a solar flare, and a world without law and order.
They spend their entire lives and thousands of pounds preparing for disaster.
Retired soldier Michael Sanderson lives with his wife and two young daughters in Hertfordshire but has a trailer ready for them to escape to a secret Welsh hideaway at 15 minutes' notice.
Mr Sanderson, who served in the Falklands and Northern Ireland, said: 'I’m preparing for a natural disaster.
'Bad things do happen, people’s homes do get burned down, there are floods, there are catastrophic events that affect people completely.
'If you go too late, you’re dead. People say to me "why are you a prepper?" And I’m always baffled by it, because what I say to people is, I don’t understand why you’re not.
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I’m willing to bet that the *last* thing these folks are worried about is some “Mayan calendar”.
Well, there’s spam egg sausage and spam, that’s not got much spam in it
I saw Vienna Sausages on someone’s prepper list or comment a couple weeks ago, so I bought a can to try (hadn’t had any in YEARS). No thanks, those are NASTY.
Glad to see big-mouthing about your preps isn’t just an American thing...
Alleged Mayan astronomical astrological geniuses >>>
So for me I am not spooked at all by these idiots
Forget the spotted kind. I don't want to be looking at any kind of dick. Presentable women are all invited.
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“Britons are stockpiling...condoms”
Too late. The UK is already f*cked.
:-P
“Why are the Brits so vile?”
Because the French called dibs on ‘revolting’.
Hussein is buying up ammo, dehydrated meals, armored Homeland Security vehicles, bullet proof guard booths, coffins, etc. He's taking notes on how stupid people were during Katrina and Sandy. You can bet he'll do some trial runs of outages on the grid and internet soon. Very soon.
Plus, when I was little, I stayed on the farm with the grandparents. They had gardens, chickens, small dairy herd, a pig and piglets, wood stove, no phone, out house, hand pumped well, and a pond.
They almost never went to town, so most necessities were all provided from our labor. My chores were to milk 1 cow by hand, collect eggs, and nurse the runt of the litter of piglets.
Guess we were preppers and didn't know it. After I got married, we always have prepped for storms and electrical outages-a little more each year, while we have bought our share of modern playthings, we have opted more often for practical things that are useful in emergencies too.
We built our house with 2 fireplaces and a woodstove. We have generators for our house and daughter's, a kerosene heater(useful on my husband's sideline business too). We have a couple of window air-conditioners that we can use to cool a room or two in case the central air fails, or electricity goes out.
After living through the 70’s oil shocks and double digit inflation, I increased the amount of purchases on sale and size of pantry on hand.
Beginning end of 2008, I went out and bought even more food-largely due to anticipated price increases. For example, bought 2 years of peanut butter at $1.00 a jar(it now costs $2.25 a jar). Have replenished it at every sale opportunity.
Started gardening in earnest in 2009 with indoor plants and 4 season gardening. Main reason to have pesticide free food, but also to get back to canning and having my own food on hand. Plus I don't like being charged $3.00 for a bag of spinach in the winter(which could have E-coli)so now I just grow my own all year round.
I have a treadle sewing machine which I kept for sentimental reasons, but it still works, as do my more modern electric machines.
That's not a whole list, but anyway we are pretty well set for bug in situations. Bug out plan still needs work, but is not the most likely scenario anyway(earthquake and storms are more likely). We are about 3/4 mile outside a small rural town on a 1 acre plot in a pretty nice subdivision with almost no restrictions and no neighborhood housing association.
We are 1/2 tank of gas from St. Louis. Not the best for teotwawki situation, but better than being in a big city, so I am not convinced we need a bug out plan unless, the entire state of Missouri goes under water overnight with prior warning.
LOL. Thanks for that post; I really did LOL!
How many jars is 2 years of peanut butter?
Isn't he that rapper from Thailand?
Considering that you'd probably be "bound up" for a year after downing a jar of PB, I'd say that a 2-year supply would be 2 jars.
About 40 jars for us.
Sorry my post got a little long too much nostalgia.
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