another doomsday thread - Nine meals from anarchy?

[Arwon]

I haven't checked today but there was indeed a lot of emptiness in the supermarkets here yesterday. No bread, no milk, no fresh food. Kind of unsettling.

 

[RedRalph]

I'm so ready for total anarchy, I wish it would happen right now. And I don't even own a gun.

you could still make money as a hair model

 

[Ecofarm]

you could still make money as a hair model

While being pretty is a huge benefit, I think that (outside of being yummy) I am more qualified than any other CFCer for total anarchy.

Perhaps we need a thread "How are you prepared for total anarchy?"

 

[JerichoHill]

Yeah.

Unless there's another CFCer with a home on a really small island that they can run off to if sh*t hits the fan, I got you beat by far Eco

 

[holy king]

and you are looking forward to that... why?

because there's nothing better than winning with a 10 percent chance.

 

[RedRalph]

Yeah.

Unless there's another CFCer with a home on a really small island that they can run off to if sh*t hits the fan, I got you beat by far Eco

Two right-wing Americans fighting over who would be the best survivalist... man what a stereotype!!! this would be like me and a red haired leprechaun fighting an English bloke while drinking whiskey out of a potato

 

[holy king]

Two right-wing Americans fighting over who would be the best survivalist... man what a stereotype!!! this would be like me and a red haired leprechaun fighting an English bloke while drinking whiskey out of a potato

i just read in an austrian newspaper that the leprechaun (a goblin that likes to mess up people's well thought-through plans) is inside all of you irishmen and that's why you could veto the eu-treaty.

 

[RedRalph]

i just read in an austrian newspaper that the leprechaun (a goblin that likes to mess up people's well thought-through plans) is inside all of you irishmen and that's why you could veto the eu-treaty.

Yeah well inside each Austrian is a cellar with a teenage girl in it

 

[Ecofarm]

Yeah.

Unless there's another CFCer with a home on a really small island that they can run off to if sh*t hits the fan, I got you beat by far Eco

1) You are presuming that escape from one's immediate local is possible, but we can overlook that.

2) I think experience is most valuable. Two things are required: security and food production. I have extensive experience in both. I was a security guard and worked at Publix

We should make a thread and throw down the gauntlet to all.

We could count things like ownership of private/friendly islands and other goods, musical ability, literary ability, etc. I would certainly want a few writers and musicians in my village. Perhaps a painter as well. Anyone judged to be nothing more than a mere internet-nerd-kid becomes meat.

Better yet, we put it in the games forum and once you get judged 'meat' you are not allowed to post in the thread anymore. We'd need a 'political officer' and court to insure people are not discriminated against. Game/thread = Apocalpyse Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjWDCX1Bdw

 

[joycem10]

...this would be like me and a red haired leprechaun fighting an English bloke while drinking whiskey out of a potato

If you wanna embrace the stereotype, get beat up and dominated by the Englishman for 600 years or so.

The OP reminds me of that SM Stirling (The End of the Fire?)book about a change in the laws of physics leading to the end of oil, steam and gunpowder and the resultant chaos. Witches, Cannibals, Tolkienesque Dunedain and Lord Protectors come to dominate Oregon.

 

[RedRalph]

If you wanna embrace the stereotype, get beat up and dominated by the Englishman for 600 years or so.

More like 800 years. but then in 6 short years we send him home with his tail between his legs

 

[cybrxkhan]

if our ancestors could live without oil, some of us probably would be able to live without it.

 

[Arwon]

More like 800 years. but then in 6 short years we send him home with his tail between his legs

I think you mean "sent him north".

Ooooooooh I went there!

 

[jessiecat]

More like 800 years. but then in 6 short years we send him home with his tail between his legs

And then replaced British rule with EU subsidies.

 

[lovett]

Perhaps we need a thread "How are you prepared for total anarchy?"

Done.

 

[Ansar]

What have we all said about taking the Daily Mail's scaremongering at face value?

Remember, remember, the 5th of November?

 

[GinandTonic]

Two right-wing Americans fighting over who would be the best survivalist... man what a stereotype!!! this would be like me and a red haired leprechaun fighting an English bloke while drinking whiskey out of a potato

Oh, oh! Can I volunteer? It'll be fun, I'll dress as a morris dancer and we can get a frog to giggle hysterically watching the fun!

Remember, remember, the 5th of November?

Close, but no Havanah. Soz.

 

[Elrohir]

Gradual decline of oil? Sure. Gradual increase of price? Hell no. So while everything isn't going to just stop, it's going to be pretty bad.

Gradual is a relative term. In the short term, yes, it's going to seem very expensive, and it will get expensive. But it's not going to go to $10 a gallon tomorrow, and it certainly won't disappear. The price will increase (And decrease at times) with a definite overall upward direction. I'm not disputing that. What I'm disputing is that we're going to suddenly run out of oil, or that it will suddenly become too expensive to haul food around. We have food, and we have oil. We're just going to need to pay more to get it, as we move towards alternatives.

I haven't checked today but there was indeed a lot of emptiness in the supermarkets here yesterday. No bread, no milk, no fresh food. Kind of unsettling.

This is in Spain? Strange. No such problem here in the US....

 

[aelf]

There is no need for us to start killing each other to rake up the toll. More deaths among the poor majority of the world's inhabitants is enough. I think that is kind of bad and will have bad ramifications, even if it doesn't seem to matter to people who can afford to hang out on a webforum all day long.

 

[aelf]

Gradual is a relative term. In the short term, yes, it's going to seem very expensive, and it will get expensive. But it's not going to go to $10 a gallon tomorrow, and it certainly won't disappear. The price will increase (And decrease at times) with a definite overall upward direction. I'm not disputing that. What I'm disputing is that we're going to suddenly run out of oil, or that it will suddenly become too expensive to haul food around. We have food, and we have oil. We're just going to need to pay more to get it, as we move towards alternatives.

I think this is a likely (but not by any means the only possible) scenario: The optimistic economists of the world continue talking about supply being infinitely elastic in the long run or about human ingenuity being an assured fact. Not enough people bother to actually do anything since there is so much optimistic feel-good talk, and countries don't generally feel very threatened. Things get really bad. People still believe it is a temporary thing that market forces would sort out. Things get even worse and start to affect developed countries quite nastily. People start thinking twice. People eventually decide it's time to do something. Not enough time to avert some catastrophic events. The world is not ended but is the worse for it. Profit???