Pog
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« Reply #25 on: December 16, 2009, 11:55:52 am » |
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Beer, and my dog.
A hand-in-hand combination I'm sure. |
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I want to live in a Dieselpunk world reading Steampunk books
I want to see how a nuclear family looks
I want to live in the 40s era
But instead I'm stuck down here-a
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« Reply #26 on: December 16, 2009, 06:05:12 pm » |
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Air, water, food.
The rest is just luxuries.
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So when times are hard and life is rough, you can stick the kettle on and find me a cup... You can find me at facebook Here |
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Maj. Clive Hathaway
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« Reply #27 on: December 16, 2009, 08:47:24 pm » |
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Basic self-defense tools. I never had to resort to the .45 (thankfully) but a hand on a sheathed belt-knife, or leaning on a fireman's axe can have a salutory effect on even the most stupidly-inebriated.
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"Death is the last Great adventure."
Lurk the Good Lurk.
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« Reply #28 on: December 16, 2009, 08:56:02 pm » |
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What's left of my sanity, with a little luck.... Surely in such dire straits, anything else is a bonus?
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Pog
Gunner
Crankshaft Cruncher
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« Reply #29 on: December 17, 2009, 04:59:17 am » |
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Pah! Sanity, I could live without it, in fact I am!
Tassled wobbegong, bananan hammock, toothpick, frog cake, bang, crash, fizz, Rowley Birkin QC, Dangermouse, air conditioning, bottom
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« Reply #30 on: December 17, 2009, 10:23:49 am » |
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Pah! Sanity, I could live without it, in fact I am!
Tassled wobbegong, bananan hammock, toothpick, frog cake, bang, crash, fizz, Rowley Birkin QC, Dangermouse, air conditioning, bottom
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I say, Joe it's jolly frightening out here.
Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
Shaking? You silly goose! I'm just doing the Watusi
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Acid Varrakin
Gunner
 Australia
Aestheticism Negates Practicality
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« Reply #32 on: December 17, 2009, 01:45:34 pm » |
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Some kind of clothing would be nice. Preferably featuring a waistcoat and a trilby, but as long as it keeps the cold winds off my skin I'm not choosy. I can live without the other stuff, except maybe the food part. Clean water, perhaps. Love I can do without.
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Sgt.Major Thistlewaite
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« Reply #33 on: December 17, 2009, 03:44:14 pm » |
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Given the parameters of the postulated scenario, I believe I'd do alright...it presupposes that there would still be a structure in place, albeit a depraved and dictatorial one. Even so, structure is structure, and any government can be subverted. Officials can be bribed, or assassinated. Secret societies and black markets can be established. Eventually, a guerrilla underground can be formed, and the ruling despot deposed and eliminated, along with all his cronies and toadies.
So, the tool I would choose would be....charisma.
~Thistlewaite
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Yet well thy soul hath brooked the turning tide, with that innate, untaught philosophy,Which, be it wisdom, coldness, or deep pride, is gall and wormwood to an enemy.
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« Reply #34 on: December 17, 2009, 04:17:21 pm » |
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... So, the tool I would choose would be....charisma.
~Thistlewaite
Excellent choice sir! markf |
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Pog
Gunner
Crankshaft Cruncher
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« Reply #35 on: December 18, 2009, 02:49:39 am » |
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Pah! Sanity, I could live without it, in fact I am!
Tassled wobbegong, bananan hammock, toothpick, frog cake, bang, crash, fizz, Rowley Birkin QC, Dangermouse, air conditioning, bottom
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mr fun
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 United States
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« Reply #36 on: December 18, 2009, 03:58:59 pm » |
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hmmmmmmmmmm......................
my airship.
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Miles (a sailor)Martin
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« Reply #37 on: December 19, 2009, 07:02:49 am » |
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1. my lathe
2. my mill
3. my foundry
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Who you calling old, Sonny boy? Just because my birth certificate is on birch bark there isn't any reason to be calling names.
machinist for hire/ mechanic at large
Warning : minstrel with a five string banjo
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zpyder
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« Reply #38 on: December 19, 2009, 11:05:26 am » |
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Computer
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Eyes
Everything else is kind of secondary, bar the essentials (food, water, air)
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Pog
Gunner
Crankshaft Cruncher
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« Reply #39 on: December 19, 2009, 01:55:27 pm » |
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Computer
Hands
Eyes
Everything else is kind of secondary, bar the essentials (food, water, air)
So you reckon you could live as a pair of hands and eyes, no heart, brain, digestive tract (inclusive of mouth), liver, kidneys and "other". |
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« Reply #40 on: December 19, 2009, 05:48:33 pm » |
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Maybe I could live as a brain in a jar kept alive indefinately as a complete polar opposite of what I previously posted?
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ulfnir
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 United Kingdom
Because the undead won't kill themselves.
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« Reply #41 on: December 20, 2009, 01:14:10 am » |
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at the moment.......tramadol, diazipan, and coedine.
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 You may be smarter than me, but can YOU shoot four rounds a minute? |
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Cubinoid
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« Reply #42 on: December 20, 2009, 02:20:55 am » |
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...if living is without you.
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« Reply #43 on: December 20, 2009, 03:33:38 am » |
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Oh no...modegreen and a half there. |
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« Reply #44 on: December 20, 2009, 03:56:57 am » |
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Springfield .45 auto
Major Hathaway, my good sir, where would you get the ammo? Firearms are dead weight without a reliable supply of something for them to fire... On topic, though, what would I keep? My knowledge and memories. Friends would be nice to have, and a knife would be a luxury. If 'twas a dictatorial regime rather than mere anarchy, the uniform and keys,passwords, etc. of a high-ranking police officer would be an absolute indulgence. I should, however, hope to be able to remain alive with simply what I know. I would most likely die within a week or two, and the last sound to escape my lips would be laughter at my own overconfidence. |
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« Reply #45 on: December 20, 2009, 04:18:12 am » |
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Aside from the usual survival necessities, I require a pencil and paper.
Because I constantly have strange ideas and if I don't get them out of my head I'd go mad.
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Nikola Tesla
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« Reply #46 on: December 20, 2009, 07:43:07 pm » |
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Nothing. If it ever came down to that, I'd be one of the ones who got shot trying to cross the border, or I'd do myself in.
I've got no one depending on me...no kids, no "significant other", no pets...I wouldn't even need to worry about someone to water the plants. But I do know that someone of my personality in such an environment would be on the short list to get sent to some "camp". I'm not living that way. I don't suppose that answers the question of what can I not live without, though, unless the answer is "not living in a fascist dictatorship".
If the question is more generally "which of my possessions (other than bare necessities, which ought to be obvious) can I not do without?", I've gotten attached to the Internet and air conditioning. That last only applies if I have to remain in a warm climate for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, there's a lot of stuff out there suggesting that in fact, people like me should be asked to do without it, fascist dictatorship or no.
I might have thought of weird gadgets and projects but when I think about it, I've "gone through" quite a few of those: this year's weird project I can't live without becomes next year's piece of junk taking up space, and it gets sold or given away as a whimsical gift.
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"Yankee, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unkown. See Damyank." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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Nightin
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United Kingdom
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« Reply #47 on: December 20, 2009, 08:02:53 pm » |
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My young persons railcard, a good pair of shoes, passport, money, and a suitcase full of random stuff. So long suckers, I'm going to France!
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Ylva Gamall
Gunner
 Canada
Do to because...
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« Reply #48 on: December 20, 2009, 09:02:57 pm » |
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I must keep my partner. I don't know what I would do without him.
Bare essentials of course. This includes all my books. I must have my books.
Everything else would be nice to have but I don't need it. My laptop and my Zune along with internet would be nice to have but I can easily live without it if I have a roof over my head, food, my partner, and my books.
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Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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« Reply #49 on: December 20, 2009, 11:35:50 pm » |
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Springfield .45 auto
Major Hathaway, my good sir, where would you get the ammo? Firearms are dead weight without a reliable supply of something for them to fire... I have a .45 automatic, a good one, as well as five .45 long Colt revolvers, and about 30 other guns...and I already have stockpiled ammunition for every one of them, in excess. Come on, people! How do you expect to survive the Apocalypse if you're not willing to do a little basic preparation? By the way, Tesla, if the SHTF, you make your way up here, you seem like a good sort...none of that drivel about doing yourself in, eh? They may take us down, my friend, but it won't be without knowing that By God they've been in a fight! Nightin, I personally would rather be dead than to have to live in France. Ylva, I, too, must have my loved ones...the Lady Nancy and our dogs are not my possessions, however, but companions...our lives are intertwined. I believe the "end" is going to come a lot more subtly than most think it will...not with a bang, or even with a whimper, but with a slow erosion of everything that makes life worth living. It's already happening. ~Thistlewaite |
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