What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller Have you seen it in the tv series?
I just don't get the logic applied.
If IT people were stuck in a zombie wasteland, we would immediately end it with logic. I swear Michonne was an IT person before this all went belly up.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Have you seen it in the tv series?
No
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Just got a complete set of professional lock picks in the mail! Very excited.
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@DustinB3403 said
The one thing I never got was, if you're taking up residence in a prison, why wouldn't you find the keys to all of the locks, and lock the iron doors at night.
Because then you'd be absolutely swarmed with zombies and never be able to get back out.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said
The one thing I never got was, if you're taking up residence in a prison, why wouldn't you find the keys to all of the locks, and lock the iron doors at night.
Because then you'd be absolutely swarmed with zombies and never be able to get back out.
No food, no water, no private bathrooms. You'd starve or disease would spread like crazy.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got a complete set of professional lock picks in the mail! Very excited.
Need some supplementary income?
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got a complete set of professional lock picks in the mail! Very excited.
Need some supplementary income?
Yes.... but no
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Have you seen it in the tv series?
I just don't get the logic applied.
If IT people were stuck in a zombie wasteland, we would immediately end it with logic. I swear Michonne was an IT person before this all went belly up.
Most IT people I've known would be dead, rarely ever do they think with logic. It's the only outcome of a thought process such as "I changed my grandma's video card, therefore I'm a computer expert now because she says I am." In other words, people who think they're smart, rarely ever are and will be the first to die because they think their decisions are informed and infallible. I can tell you having lived through an actual war myself, "smart" people tend to be those who move around a lot, know how to hide well, and don't take sides. I imagine a zombie situation wouldn't be that much different. Additionally because I did take sides in said war and had close calls, I can assure you I am not smart.
Additionally still being smart has no bearing on one's ability to properly dispose of human waste or find good drinking water. I learned how to do that in the military, I sure as hell didn't learn it in any of my Computer Science courses whilst I was studying for something completely unrelated I couldn't find a job in. On that thought, side note, most of the people on that Preppers show would die too, they're all really, really stupid, and the fact they'd go on the show is the #1 reason.
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@tonyshowoff Change it one more time while I'm reading it, I dare you!
And I agree that preppers show / people who go on it are insanely stupid.
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The real thing here: Unless you have actually used survival skills in a real setting (reading about them doesn't count 99% of the time) the chances of you actually being able to survive a stressful situation are pretty slim. Book smarts will not do you a whole lot of good in bad situations where you have to react quickly.
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@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The real thing here: Unless you have actually used survival skills in a real setting (reading about them doesn't count 99% of the time) the chances of you actually being able to survive a stressful situation are pretty slim. Book smarts will not do you a whole lot of good in bad situations where you have to react quickly.
Yup, pretty much the military will be who survive. Only people trained AND experienced in anything even remotely similar. A few others will survive, but the first hours will wipe out essentially everyone. No matter how many great ideas you have, those first hours will kill you almost certainly so no amount of "you know what would work well" will help.
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@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Additionally still being smart has no bearing on one's ability to properly dispose of human waste or find good drinking water. I learned how to do that in the military, I sure as hell didn't learn it in any of my Computer Science courses whilst I was studying for something completely unrelated I couldn't find a job in. On that thought, side note, most of the people on that Preppers should would die too, they're all really, really stupid, and the fact they'd go on the show is the #1 reason.
That's the strange problem that we are faced with in the real world... people who are preparing for zombies are illogical and irrational. So even though they are preparing, the mental process that makes them prepare for something so silly is itself what will get them killed. Being prepared in a general sense (healthy, have food, know what to do) would increase your chances of survival. But being prepared specifically thinking that zombies are coming (and will behave as you assume that they will) will be what makes you the first ones eaten.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The real thing here: Unless you have actually used survival skills in a real setting (reading about them doesn't count 99% of the time) the chances of you actually being able to survive a stressful situation are pretty slim. Book smarts will not do you a whole lot of good in bad situations where you have to react quickly.
Yup, pretty much the military will be who survive. Only people trained AND experienced in anything even remotely similar. A few others will survive, but the first hours will wipe out essentially everyone. No matter how many great ideas you have, those first hours will kill you almost certainly so no amount of "you know what would work well" will help.
I was in the military. All of your meals are provided. It's not like they really teach your survival in the traditional sense. My AIT wasnt mountain man
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The real thing here: Unless you have actually used survival skills in a real setting (reading about them doesn't count 99% of the time) the chances of you actually being able to survive a stressful situation are pretty slim. Book smarts will not do you a whole lot of good in bad situations where you have to react quickly.
Yup, pretty much the military will be who survive. Only people trained AND experienced in anything even remotely similar. A few others will survive, but the first hours will wipe out essentially everyone. No matter how many great ideas you have, those first hours will kill you almost certainly so no amount of "you know what would work well" will help.
I was in the military. All of your meals are provided. It's not like they really teach your survival in the traditional sense. My AIT wasnt mountain man
I imagine it also depends on which military, I came from a newly formed country which was extremely poor, but the Americans did drop some MREs from time to time. That's how I discovered the other love of my life, Tabasco sauce.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The real thing here: Unless you have actually used survival skills in a real setting (reading about them doesn't count 99% of the time) the chances of you actually being able to survive a stressful situation are pretty slim. Book smarts will not do you a whole lot of good in bad situations where you have to react quickly.
Yup, pretty much the military will be who survive. Only people trained AND experienced in anything even remotely similar. A few others will survive, but the first hours will wipe out essentially everyone. No matter how many great ideas you have, those first hours will kill you almost certainly so no amount of "you know what would work well" will help.
I was in the military. All of your meals are provided. It's not like they really teach your survival in the traditional sense. My AIT wasnt mountain man
Sure, but there's more what you should've learned. Discipline, spirit of comradeship, how to handle a gun (properly), how to take shelter (or build something that will do for at least some time), some basic tactics, recon, ...
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@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The real thing here: Unless you have actually used survival skills in a real setting (reading about them doesn't count 99% of the time) the chances of you actually being able to survive a stressful situation are pretty slim. Book smarts will not do you a whole lot of good in bad situations where you have to react quickly.
Yup, pretty much the military will be who survive. Only people trained AND experienced in anything even remotely similar. A few others will survive, but the first hours will wipe out essentially everyone. No matter how many great ideas you have, those first hours will kill you almost certainly so no amount of "you know what would work well" will help.
I was in the military. All of your meals are provided. It's not like they really teach your survival in the traditional sense. My AIT wasnt mountain man
I imagine it also depends on which military, I came from a newly formed country which was extremely poor, but the Americans did drop some MREs from time to time. That's how I discovered the other love of my life, Tabasco sauce.
Yeah. If Tabasco Sauce can make an MRE edible then that is really a testament to it. I'm American
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The real thing here: Unless you have actually used survival skills in a real setting (reading about them doesn't count 99% of the time) the chances of you actually being able to survive a stressful situation are pretty slim. Book smarts will not do you a whole lot of good in bad situations where you have to react quickly.
Yup, pretty much the military will be who survive. Only people trained AND experienced in anything even remotely similar. A few others will survive, but the first hours will wipe out essentially everyone. No matter how many great ideas you have, those first hours will kill you almost certainly so no amount of "you know what would work well" will help.
I was in the military. All of your meals are provided. It's not like they really teach your survival in the traditional sense. My AIT wasnt mountain man
Sure, but there's more what you should've learned. Discipline, spirit of comradeship, how to handle a gun (properly), how to take shelter (or build something that will do for at least some time), some basic tactics, recon, ...
It's really less involved unless you are active duty infantry or a sniper. The hand to hand combat training was pathetic as an example. I learned so much more just fighting kids in my neighborhood when I was a little kid in a rough area.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The real thing here: Unless you have actually used survival skills in a real setting (reading about them doesn't count 99% of the time) the chances of you actually being able to survive a stressful situation are pretty slim. Book smarts will not do you a whole lot of good in bad situations where you have to react quickly.
Yup, pretty much the military will be who survive. Only people trained AND experienced in anything even remotely similar. A few others will survive, but the first hours will wipe out essentially everyone. No matter how many great ideas you have, those first hours will kill you almost certainly so no amount of "you know what would work well" will help.
I was in the military. All of your meals are provided. It's not like they really teach your survival in the traditional sense. My AIT wasnt mountain man
I imagine it also depends on which military, I came from a newly formed country which was extremely poor, but the Americans did drop some MREs from time to time. That's how I discovered the other love of my life, Tabasco sauce.
Yeah. If Tabasco Sauce can make an MRE edible then that is really a testament to it. I'm American
Are your MREs as bad as ours? http://www.mreinfo.com/international-rations/german-epa/
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The real thing here: Unless you have actually used survival skills in a real setting (reading about them doesn't count 99% of the time) the chances of you actually being able to survive a stressful situation are pretty slim. Book smarts will not do you a whole lot of good in bad situations where you have to react quickly.
Yup, pretty much the military will be who survive. Only people trained AND experienced in anything even remotely similar. A few others will survive, but the first hours will wipe out essentially everyone. No matter how many great ideas you have, those first hours will kill you almost certainly so no amount of "you know what would work well" will help.
I was in the military. All of your meals are provided. It's not like they really teach your survival in the traditional sense. My AIT wasnt mountain man
Sure, but there's more what you should've learned. Discipline, spirit of comradeship, how to handle a gun (properly), how to take shelter (or build something that will do for at least some time), some basic tactics, recon, ...
It's really less involved unless you are active duty infantry or a sniper. The hand to hand combat training was pathetic as an example. I learned so much more just fighting kids in my neighborhood when I was a little kid in a rough area.
I've been in the navy and we didn't care much about the "green stuff". There's no wood on the water (maybe below, but that's another story). But we learned at least the basics like the army or airforce guys.
