Doomsday Preppers funny

So I guess there's a marathon today. Interesting stuff, but chock fulla nuts. There was this one guy who was practicing his mad tactical combat gunfighting skills, then allasudden it got all serious. His hand was all fucked up. He was yelling something about a "missfire". Turns out he blew his thumb off. He explained later that he had one of those malfunctions where his thumb got in front of the barrel, and the gun went off.

I hate it when that happens.

That show is crazy.

I saw one episode where the guy built a safe room/bunker under the garage. Did he not think about what would happen if the house collapsed onto the entrance?

I'll give him credit though in that he knew that the bunker wasn't a long term solution and he had a plan for getting to his boat but I don't think in a real SHTF scenario his boat would be there.

As is usual they show the people who are the fringe of prepping. And of course no doubt they help those people "look better" on TV.

Yeah, only full-on retard idiots think that the people featured in that show (or most any "reality" show) represent typical people.

There's a reality show on tv called Doomsday Preppers?

Damn ... and I just cancelled my cable.

Is the show any good? or does it just highlight what most people think of preppers?

It's pretty good, but it doesn't hold a candle to the stupid in "Finding Bigfoot."

For the speech class I took over the summer, I wrote a speech on How to a Leader in a Post Apocalyptic World.

Then I had to keep removing things because it was waaayyy longer than 10 minutes.

And once you were naked, the speech was shorter?

I did not get naked. Actually, never gave the speech. Work and personal issues demanded I drop the class. I kept the speech, tho - for next time.

That's what she said!

Anyway, Finding Bigfoot is a hoot. No matter what happens, it just has to be a "squatch". Can't be a bear, deer, wild hog or anything else that runs rampart over half the country these days. And when the cast give examples of the Sasquatch "yells" I pray for our planet.

And at this point in time we now have more reality shows about Alaska than we have residents of Alaska. As if ice fishing isn't boring enough (when the fish aren't cooperating) but they work not catching fish into the story!

At least on outdoor fishing shows people catch fish. When we watch people not catching them on reality shows......that's pretty messed up.

I think you're missing a verb in the title, but that just makes it more entertaining because we can imagine what the verb might have been...

Damn. and here I was mocking the introduction forum description.

IMHO it's not very good at all. It's commercial and they want ratings and viewers, so they show mostly fringe nutcases.

Yeah, the idiot blew his own thumb off because he was such a tard he put his thumb over the barrel opening. Sadly, he was a one of the smarter ones on the show as just about all of them were cuckoo for coco puffs. We're talking should be on medication and regularly seeing a shrink like the lady who refused to leave her home because she was afraid to go outside because "welfare or union thugs might get me", the nutter who was convinced he'd die of radiation poisoning if he ate any food which didn't grow in his indoor green house (which used tap water from... Wait for it... OUTSIDE), or the crazy old couple who cashed out there 401k and spent their every penny they had on prepper junk but then got foreclosed on because the dumbshits didn't bother to pay their mortgage ("I thought for sure the world would end before this happened!").

We're talking howling at the moon bonkers. A bunch of them spoke about how they loved Glen Beck and got into prepping because he told them to; that should tell you all you need to know about the idiots who watch Beck.

Yeah...most of them are pretty out there. That one 14 year old Klepto/pyromaniac was just scary.

But there is some interesting nuggets. They had this one guy who stood out because he wasn't about hoarding or stockpiling. He was a botanist and could live off the land. He was going around LA picking various "weeds" that were either edible or medicinal or both. I would love to learn how to do that. Barring nuclear fallout, a person with those skills would never starve.

Also interesting is some of the construction techniques for the hideaways. I almost want one of those buried bunkers just as a cool play thing.

Yeah! I had no idea shipping containers were so cheap! What was it...like $1500?

While the people on the show are generally nuts and I haven't seen all the episodes I can't for the life of me remember how a bunch of them spoke how they loved Glenn Beck.

You sure you're not just pushing your usual shit?

The show does have some useful nuggets of information in it.

And yeah shipping containers, used ones, are pretty cheap depending on where you are.

And of course the cheaper it is you may have to refurbish it. These things get sold off because they wear out over time.

You might be better off buying a new one which may be between $5,000 and $10,000 depending on size.

Oh I don't realistically plan on building a doomsday bunker. I was just surprised they were as cheap as they are.

That brings up another point. It seems like a lot of these people have "bug out locations" that are hundreds, if not thousands of miles away from where they live. That doesn't seem terribly usefull unless you get a 24 hour or more heads up before anything actually happens. I mean, we've got 180 acres in TheMiddleOfNowheresville in Middle Tennessee that would be just about perfect for riding out the Mutant Zombie Apocalypse...but that's over 400 miles away.

I certainly don't plan on investing that kind of money into something I'll never need...and probably couldn't use if I did.

OTOH, I actually live in a not too terribly bad spot for "bugging in" if something happens...as long as it doesn't happen to the two sorta-kinda nearby nuclear power stations.

Yeah I've never understood the people who have to bug out to a long distance location. For something like that you really need a good heads up that the shit is getting ready to hit the fan.

Shipping containers are really cheap, at the ports. You're paying for the mileage to get them where ever you are. I just bought a 20' in good condition, it ran about $3K, there were some cheaper, but in poorer condition.

There are pitfalls if you go burying them, they're made to stack, with the corners carrying the weight, if you put weight on the non reinforced sides or the top, expect Darwin to be in play.

As for the show, I lulzed when the fat geezer on the rascal scooter bragged that he'd be eating steak during the apocalypse.

depending on the nature of the apocalypse, you might need to bug out. If Yellowstone blows, I'd have to head south in a huge hurry or be stuck in the fallout zone - and for that, I'd need a specially equipped fallout shelter with ventilation and running water and ... hydroponics or some other underground growing set up ...

Yeah, I remember the survivalist. The problem is berries aren't always in season and even native hunter gatherers who did that for a living had to move every week or two because food sources would get exhausted. Modern day gathering is neat for a weekend and maybe finding a bit extra here or there but I doubt even someone fully informed on the plant species could survive long term on it. It's still a nice skill which can help in a pinch or during a camping trip but that's about it unless doomsday happens in the right season.

I did like the hippy couple from New England who just really liked organic farming and had gotten most of the people in their small town into it as well. They did seem to be nutjobs planning for the end of the world and instead just wanted to return to a simpler way of life surrounded by a community of like minded people. I honestly see their odds of survival to be better than most of the people on the show. Heck most of the people on the show seemed to be seriously over weight (including one guy who was so fat he had one of those medicare scooters but kept talking like he was a bad ass; he reminded me of skinofrazorcastle) with mental issues like hypervigiliance or hoarding.

If Yellowstone blows you're going to look like a Bukkaka girl.

You won't be able to head south once it blows because everything south of you will be in the same situation.

Reality is if Yellowstone starts rumbling your best bet is too leave for Mexico or Canada before it blows its wad.

Yeah, Conex containers are pretty cheap. My dad bought a couple of them a few years ago to store his horse-drawn buggies/wagons (he took up that hobby a few years ago).

Well, yea. Going by the "just in case" documentaries and stuff, I figure, from the first news reports that "Yes, it's going to blow", I've got a 12 to 24 hour window to gather loved ones, pack and get south of Cairo, IL.

Naturally, my own bug out time frame is much shorter. The problem would be if everyone in Chicago has those same plans, then getting to the south side of Chicago might take me the entire 6 hours I have planned to get to Cairo.

I didn't see him picking berries. It was pretty much all leafy greens...and there was a shit ton of it all over the place. And this was in a thoroughly urbanized area.

He did seem to be picking up green weeds walking through those drainage canals? Is that what they are? I half expected to see the T1000 drive at him in a truck!