Posts by Sam F
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Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment. Best illogical Vietnam flashbacks ever.
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BenWilson:
"Sam F, the army will take over in that situation, not gangs. But dude, if it pans out the way you say, it's a world of shit anyway. You'll want a shooter, sure, but you won't last long either way."All that stuff was quoted from Kyle Chapman's essay on the Survival Club website, and it wasn't exactly admiring quotage on my part either...
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Survival Club eh? Going to Articles -> General leads you to "Talking to the Dead", by one Kyle Chapman.
"There are 30,000 gang members in this country who will not be asking for help or seeking to plant their next crop. They are too busy running their drug labs to get busy storing food or water. But they have guns and manpower. Anyone who is alone will be a victim of these nomadic clansmen. Even groups of people who have some supplies will fall prey to the survival need of those who are in stronger numbers and well armed.
Dare we talk about Firearms in this country? Dare we talk about ammunition storage? These things have been demonised in this country. This is sad because they will be needed items. They are essential for defence (“you don’t bring a knife to a gun fight”) and they are a primary item for gaining food. Secondary items are bows and arrows and cross bows. These simple machines are powerful for hunting and or defence.
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Anyone who is already prepared I commend you. As you are the living amongst the dead. The sad fact is most people will not be ready, they will wonder around scavenging like the refugees you see on TV in Africa, being picked off by nomadic criminal groups or other hungry dieing scavengers. If you last longer then a few days, you may already have seen those you love 'die, starting with the weakest and smallest of your family. Some men would see their women as a liability. Leaving them to be plundered instead of protecting them. In the survival setting there is no more equal rights, it will fall back to primitive instincts and the natural order of existence. Women will be hunted by the men who feel like they have awoken to their internal calling as barbarian plunderers."
Crikey indeed.
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Local body elections, cyclists and gun raids in the Ureweras... I think this is now officially the most interesting thread on PAS ever.
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Well this turned out well. I can imagine a lot of people wishing they hadn't voted for Swney or Hinchcliff right about now...
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Sign me up for Bjork and Dizzee Rascal. Rage could be alright... then again they might be a pallid shadow of their former greatness, and I might be better off in the Boiler Room. We shall see.
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I find your lack of faith disturbing
Well played!
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When I was about 13 my dad's mother suffered a fairly severe stroke and went into a nursing home in Howick. We went out to visit her most Sundays, and we'd stay there for an hour or so and talk to her about what had been happening in the family. She was quite alert, and for quite a while it looked as though she might gradually regain her power of speech; she certainly recognised us, and seemed to be listening to us with interest. (I'm not entirely sure she was, but it feels right to me eight years later to think she did, and I think she deserves to be remembered that way.)
This pattern of Sunday trips went on for about half a year, until on one visit in mid-1999 we went out to the back of the station-wagon to get some things for lunch and I sat down on the tailgate and started to cry. Initially I didn't know why but later on I realised it had suddenly struck me that she wasn't going to get better and that she probably wasn't going to live much longer. I don't know how long I sat crying on the back of that bloody car, but eventually I calmed down and we went back to share some lunch with Grandma.
As endings go it sticks in my mind because it came several months before Grandma died, and yet the grief seemed to come early, in one complete parcel that suddenly struck and left me more or less at peace.
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Bloody hell but that was a good night out. Many thanks to Russell and co.
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Good to see the Street is still as I remember it, and still failing really hard at getting jiggy with a younger audience. Opener tonight featured intergenerational argument over music - the song in question is apparently "number 3 on the charts with a bullet" - the stereo's turned up to fuel the discussion and the song is revealed as Slim's 'Bullet In My Hand' from about 2001... Kind of endearing, really.