so the bbc has started what appears to be a rather interesting new drama seriel survivors
It looks as the country and the world in general is going to hell in a handbasket due a global flu pandemic (actually predicted as due too... doomsayer, me?)
something similar was made many years ago... I remember watching and being fascinated as a nipper, and have always soaked up with a melancholy joy any novels/films/documentaries that have come along since.
so... society has completely collapsed... the numbers of those surviving id few.. theres a terible mess... and no milk in the supermarket.
what would you do?
I have had dark fantasies in the past of heading for the hills and surviving alone on wild foodstuffs... improvised shelters and generally keeping myself to myself.
There would be trouble for sure. Would you attempt to avoid it all... form an organised and protective band of people and defend yourselves?
Attempt to rebuild?
is this all a little dark?
sorry
lp
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Well I wouldn't be starring in it I don't think. I rely too much on the structures of society and it'd be a different sort of person to me that would survive.
I remember the previous series - it had a Japanese fella keeling over in an airport in the opening credits didn't it?
Oh yes - and dark it is and also not too far beyond the realms of possibility.
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I remember the previous series - it had a Japanese fella keeling over in an airport in the opening credits didn't it?
Oh yes - and dark it is and also not too far beyond the realms of possibility.
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Arrgghhh I can remember the seventies and the bread strikes!! Actually.... were they bread strikes or electricity power strikes? I can remember queuing for hours and I mean................................ h.........o........u........r.......s lol. A family of eight we were, 6 males and 2 girls who needed their carbs, 'cept I didn't know what carbs were and what bread was in the energy context back thenI just queued a lot
What was the question again ;)
there is NO BREAD!
everyone (nearly) is brown bread... what would you do?
lp
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toon... survival may not be an option or choice with this pandemic idea. you may survive through no choice of your own... what would you do with that 'survival' though?
That's what I meant really. I wouldn't survive long in the aftermath even if I did survive the disease.
Besides it looks like if I headed fer the hills it'd be overpopulated with half of SH!! :giggle:
We could all have a gangstarve. :shock:
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aren't there rabbits in the hills?
or was it gold in them thar hills?
so... a nice wooded hillside... babbling brook... defensive position. rabbits. Mears... and spontaneous combustion.
actually... one of the old points houses on a railway line, out in the country might be a good spot...
oh I dunno, what am I thinking?
lp
or was it gold in them thar hills?
so... a nice wooded hillside... babbling brook... defensive position. rabbits. Mears... and spontaneous combustion.
actually... one of the old points houses on a railway line, out in the country might be a good spot...
oh I dunno, what am I thinking?
lp
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Just to refresh the memories of folk old enough
and no Random not unless you can do it by candlelight
Jeez, I can remember what went on in 1975! Shame I can't remember what happened yesterday innit!
Thank you FL
LP - them rabbits'd be OK as long as they don't get Mixaemaflusis.
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as long as you pack a fire blanket/extinguisher thingy when you run for those hills lp... 
I would be petrified to stay in the city for too long.
not merely for the thought of all the dead doing thier dead-thing, you know, the 'returning to the earth' thing.
The city is mad enough as it is, and Im suspecting that the population ratio would be high enough for there to be a fair few survivors... and they wouldnt all be from the local Temperance Society or the WI.
Scary thought indeed... all that knitting
I'd have to do some serious looting I think, just to feel safe enough as an individual to go ahead and get outta town safely.
Sorry to say I would no doubt attempt to arm myself... purely self defence mind you...
strooth... just think of all the accidental killings there would be with all the over anxious and edgy folk wandering about with everything from baseball bats to bows to shotguns!!
Push bike and laden panniers... nice and quiet.. wheel out of town for the clean air.... avoiding everything and everyone.
maybe I should get my driving licence now? Just in case?
Have just been talking about boats.. having seen the barge on this programme... the canals could well be navigable couldnt they?
maybe head for the coast?
lp
not merely for the thought of all the dead doing thier dead-thing, you know, the 'returning to the earth' thing.
The city is mad enough as it is, and Im suspecting that the population ratio would be high enough for there to be a fair few survivors... and they wouldnt all be from the local Temperance Society or the WI.
Scary thought indeed... all that knitting
I'd have to do some serious looting I think, just to feel safe enough as an individual to go ahead and get outta town safely.
Sorry to say I would no doubt attempt to arm myself... purely self defence mind you...
strooth... just think of all the accidental killings there would be with all the over anxious and edgy folk wandering about with everything from baseball bats to bows to shotguns!!
Push bike and laden panniers... nice and quiet.. wheel out of town for the clean air.... avoiding everything and everyone.
maybe I should get my driving licence now? Just in case?
Have just been talking about boats.. having seen the barge on this programme... the canals could well be navigable couldnt they?
maybe head for the coast?
lp
Quote by Bonedigger
remeber the one about the nuclear bomb going off, think it was in the 80's called 'Threads'
scared the willies right out of me that did cos i was only around 13 :shock:
indeed Boney, that was another one that caught my attention... a real horror. That, as well as the fact of all the destruction to life and infrastructure, had the ongoing terror of radiation sickness etc.
Have I started something good and cheery for a sunday evening?
lp
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There was a similar drama on some years ago
The Last Train I think it was called....
I enjoyed the episode tonight and look forward to Tuesday nights episode...
It's nice to see good new drama on the BBC...
The Last Train I think it was called....
I enjoyed the episode tonight and look forward to Tuesday nights episode...
It's nice to see good new drama on the BBC...
Quote by Steve
There was a similar drama on some years ago
The Last Train I think it was called....
I enjoyed the episode tonight and look forward to Tuesday nights episode...
It's nice to see good new drama on the BBC...
here here (hear hear?) Steve... and not just another 'period' drama... or Dickens reworking.
(those darned scientists eh?... might have known theyd be behind all this malarky... just let them wait until I get my bicycle & baseball bat down to Portland Down... I'll sort them out, don't you worry)
lp
Quote by Bonedigger
remeber the one about the nuclear bomb going off, think it was in the 80's called 'Threads'
scared the willies right out of me that did cos i was only around 13 :shock:
That scared the crap out of me as well and don't think I could watch it even now
As for survival now I think I would do what they did in one of the zombie films and hide out in a huge shopping mall..lakeside or bluewater would do me fine...enough food clothes and shoes to last a while
Sex God
I think i'd hate every bit of the being alone thing :-( Mind you the survival bit I think I could manage quite well. I would hope to meet up with a small group of varied skilled people to start a small self sustaining community with ambitions on growing too encompass more and more people. The hardest thing to cope with would be the memories of the lost :-(.
I would be happy to stay local to where I am now though as it is ideal for self sustainabilty.
I would be happy to stay local to where I am now though as it is ideal for self sustainabilty.
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i have horses, will travel. find a really nice farm and bury the dead. then i'll find the nearest place to sell seeds and grow me some veg.
i may join lp to sit on a hill and watch things burn though.
whips
sell seeds?
are you mad?
build a wall...big, spikie.. high wall... guns.
can I wear joddies?
hang on... this is serious!
lp
