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Jan 19, 2013 23:35:42 GMT -6
Post by scamp on Jan 19, 2013 23:35:42 GMT -6
Wow - I'd forgotten about this one. Darn tooting! (Or shootin.) I'm aware of the argument that 9MM does as much damage to flesh as 40MM, but I'm not convinced, so... 40MM on the Glock (love a woman who packs and doesn't flinch) - and I'll stick with the MREs for the calories. I like your choices. You can have your MREs. For .05oz more, I'll take food with equal calories and, for me, much better taste. Actually, Stepper, much of my list was made possible by yours. Since you are bringing the shotgun to the party, I figured we could have the luxury of the Rem 700, I like its flat trajectory and stopping power. Though I admit that the weapons are really transitional tools: I believe that we’d eventually become mostly vegans: it is easier and if you got the heirloom seeds, you are a huge step closer to successful agriculture. I did forget the seed corn: wheat is a pain to grow and cornmeal is easy. Snares sound good but are not easy to deploy. How about a crossbow? Since you brought two hand chain saws, I could bring the sven saw, and so on. Okay 40cal it is. But I’m bringing my favorite, an H & K USP. Mine came out of the box with a 2.5lb trigger pull. Most accurate polymer gun I’ve ever short in 40 cal. And it’s a sweet carry gun. Step, instead of a Pur filter system, how about colloidal silver instead? Since Pur was bought out by Katadyn, their quality has gone way down. And Stepper, given the wide variance in knowledge amongst us, how is our community to be organized?
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Jan 20, 2013 21:37:23 GMT -6
Post by stepper on Jan 20, 2013 21:37:23 GMT -6
Community is an interesting question - one we never fully breached. We didn't decide if we were going as a community or separately. (I'm not sure community was an option. The original question inferred solitude.) What to take would be influenced by where we intend to settle - a factor we did not resolve.
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Jan 24, 2013 13:50:02 GMT -6
Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jan 24, 2013 13:50:02 GMT -6
I'd forgotten about this thread. Thanks for bringing it up again; always fun to read through old stuff. Shoot, it's been over two years - I wonder if we survived? I wonder if we ran out of coffee...which for me, would greatly reduce my chance of survival. Yes we survived and are now the proud dictators of a thriving new city. Complete with magic fish and sticks with turtle shells attached.
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Jan 24, 2013 17:53:50 GMT -6
Post by stepper on Jan 24, 2013 17:53:50 GMT -6
But my sticks are nice and pointy 'cause I brung a k-nife! I wonder how long it would take language skills to atrophy?
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Jan 25, 2013 14:29:07 GMT -6
Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jan 25, 2013 14:29:07 GMT -6
As evidenced by the people I deal with everyday......not long. Unless we let Gams take over.
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Jan 25, 2013 17:06:13 GMT -6
Post by stepper on Jan 25, 2013 17:06:13 GMT -6
Let Gams take over??!! But, but, she doesn't share anything! I know! I was only drooling a little bit back at Thanksgiving and what'd she do? She switched to the plastic thigh high thingy - and no chewing allowed!
I suspect that verbal expression would deteriorate rather quickly – but that’s just IMHO.
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Jan 26, 2013 8:41:44 GMT -6
Post by Phalon on Jan 26, 2013 8:41:44 GMT -6
Oh-my-gosh!!! We have magic fish?!!!!
I'm ordering one up now, and wishing for a life-time supply of coffee.
Oh! Oh! Can I? Just on Tuesday nights between six and eight. We can play word games! Change a few letters here and there. Oh, wait, I know - I'll pack "Taboo"; I love that game, and although it's against the rules, we can use hand-motions so our 'talk with our hands' speech doesn't atrophy either.
Would you let someone slobber all over your leg, and take chunks out of it?
I'm not so sure. We're all adults; our speech is pretty well developed (Some of us, anyway. Myself excluded). And we have each other to talk to - I don't think we'd lose the ability to communicate to each other using the language we use now. Unless of course....
Is there a teenager in the bunch?
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Jan 26, 2013 12:20:50 GMT -6
Post by stepper on Jan 26, 2013 12:20:50 GMT -6
Like, would you, like, let someone, like, chew on your leg, like? Plastic can be chewy, but the slobber thing, I have an answer for that but not one that will enjoy publication.
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Jan 26, 2013 15:14:37 GMT -6
Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jan 26, 2013 15:14:37 GMT -6
pfft....I get slobbered on on a daily basis. Hazards of the animal shelter.
Totally....for reals.
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Jan 26, 2013 17:24:38 GMT -6
Post by Phalon on Jan 26, 2013 17:24:38 GMT -6
Slight update: Totes...for reals.
Letting someone chew on your leg....that's ratchet.
And teenage slang? Well, that's just cray-cray.
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Jan 26, 2013 19:20:07 GMT -6
Post by stepper on Jan 26, 2013 19:20:07 GMT -6
And teenage slang? Well, that's just cray-cray. Totally.
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Jan 27, 2013 10:35:28 GMT -6
Post by Scrappy Amazon on Jan 27, 2013 10:35:28 GMT -6
Fer Sure.
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Jan 27, 2013 20:13:13 GMT -6
Post by scamp on Jan 27, 2013 20:13:13 GMT -6
Community is an interesting question - one we never fully breached. We didn't decide if we were going as a community or separately. (I'm not sure community was an option. The original question inferred solitude.) What to take would be influenced by where we intend to settle - a factor we did not resolve. But Stepper, without a community and, eventually, someone who produces offspring, what would be the point in bothering to eke out a living? Just to prove one could do it? To feel smug that I was one of the last humans? None of that makes sense to me. Unless there is a future, I can't see any point in even trying to survive. Dang, I'm really confused now...
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Jan 27, 2013 20:19:42 GMT -6
Post by scamp on Jan 27, 2013 20:19:42 GMT -6
But my sticks are nice and pointy 'cause I brung a k-nife! I wonder how long it would take language skills to atrophy? Ever go either on a really long canoe trip or been on an extended climb with only one other person? It seems to take about 3 days for conversations to become mainly a series of body motions with perhaps a couple of words such as "stop here." Fortunately, talking isn't that easy to unlearn...
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Jan 27, 2013 22:37:19 GMT -6
Post by scamp on Jan 27, 2013 22:37:19 GMT -6
pfft....I get slobbered on on a daily basis. Hazards of the animal shelter. Totally....for reals. *That* gives me the skeeves. Course one of my feral cats (yes, all are now asexual) insists on grooming my hair... now that's one perv cat. Hello Scrappy, thanks for the pumpkin... scamp
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Jan 28, 2013 22:23:45 GMT -6
Post by stepper on Jan 28, 2013 22:23:45 GMT -6
Just proving it to oneself would be sufficient for some. In my case, giving up isn't in my nature. But I agree that without propagation on a scale that ensures continuation of the species, there is no real point to the exercise.
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