http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2760373The primitives have been light-hearted and gay as of the past several hours, perhaps to take away from their utter discouragement at recent news, including the collapse of the left-wing government in Italy yesterday, among other things.
Anyway.
Mike03 (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-24-08 08:13 PM
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Disaster: Your Survival is at Stake. You have 15 minutes in a grocery store.
Something awful has happened in your state and you are lucky enough to have been entering a supermarket when you heard about it on the radio prior to your entrance.
You have ten or fifteen minutes to buy what you need and get out of the store before everyone else gets there.
What do you buy?
It's a very large campfire, at least 700 feet into the atmosphere.
Most of the primitive comments are primitive, but whatever.
canoeist52 (34 posts) Thu Jan-24-08 08:19 PM
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7. emergency shopping
Mega-pack of TP!
debbierlus (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-24-08 09:41 PM
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100. Lol. My husband has been stockpiling for a disaster
We have a huge store of TP in the closet under our stairs. He has also stockpiled about thirty gallons of tide.
Several huge bags of rice. He has a crank flashlight/combo radio.
We invested in a down comforter (the obscenely high fill kind, so we can go without heat at night). I like that investment.
We have drawers & drawers of vintage wool & cashmere sweaters, blankets, & a huge stockpile of old church candles.
We also have a big house, so we are guessing if things got really bad, we could be headquarters.
The primitive obsession with bathroom tissue is interesting, but one wonders; in case of a disaster, natural or man-made, one suspects the plumbing is going to be gone, or about to go in a short time, so what's the deal about preparing for a disaster as if one's always going to have operating plumbing?
Obviously the primitives who place much value on bathroom tissue have never been to any of the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants.
There's a debate between a gun-owning primitive, and a delusional primitive.
The primitives later in the campfire get semi-civilized, but really offer no practical suggestions, their view of a "disaster" (natural or man-made) being similar with their distorted and unimaginative and sharply limited view of all else that is in the world.