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  • How would you survive a zombie apocalypse?

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  • Which part is fantasy, pray tell? Ask and I'll prove it.

  • How would you survive a zombie apocalypse?

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  • Oh and depending on the pop culture mythology you're using, also fire.

  • How would you survive a zombie apocalypse?

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  • I actually live on the outskirts of a city, in the intersection of major motorways and a walking distance from the small but interactions airport we have. As in I regularly take walks which go within a stones throw of the airport area and I've been in the back buildings they have there, fucking around with old lockers and the airplane stairs they'd use to use and whatnot. (Free clay balls for my gardening hobby as well dumped in a pile there, clearly abandoned.)

    And I'm pretty sure I could manage to get Cessna sized plane up, I've played enough simulators.

    Everyone here is so negative about all of this. I'd have much better chances at a life worth living than I do in this bureaucratic hellscape. Not really, probably, because once the convenience of everything gets taken away, it seems way less fun. But yeah not everyone is in the same situation. One of the other commenters was a trucker in, I assume, the US. That's a mobile apartment with torque enough to drive through any zombies. That guy isn't stuck in a city.

  • How would you survive a zombie apocalypse?

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  • How would you survive a zombie apocalypse?

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  • Mountains. I've never even seen one in real life. :( (It always fucking gets me when Bilbo goes "MOUNTAINS I want to see mountains again" so wistful looking)

    I'd probably have to go on an island.

    We've got the most in the world, iirc, 50 000 - 80 000 small islands.

  • How would you survive a zombie apocalypse?

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  • ... because what follows after is like the end of night out at a club when they turn the lights on.

    I always loved that bit when I used to go to the clubs, because I was aces at swimming between all the drunks.

    Not all us are helpless.

    Infections are a real risk, yeah, but I've literally some antibiotics in my fridge, don't even remember where from. Sure they're expired and for specifically I think ear/nose/mouth infections, but they'd be of some help. Also I have the basics of mycology down, so making my own antibiotics wouldn't be out of the question. Would it be risky, and entail lots of shitting my guts out? Probably. But if it was an apocalypse scenario and I had a bad infection, I'd take my chances. Penicillin is quite common.

    I've also other medical supplies like large expensive-ish covers/pads for surgery wounds from my elbow surgery, they gave me extra ones as I had to keep it clean at home (and by extra I mean extra not ones I was supposed to use but in case I fucked it up etc) and general first aid kit ofc.

    I've also 25 liters of fresh water, just in case, and a car with a full tank of gas, a freezer full of food, would last me months, plus the dry stuff in the pantry. Weapons, not really. Lots of knives ofc, not kitchen knives, but puukko, Finnish knives. From a pretty much pvp version that's almost a small sword, to small whittling ones. (Got my first one at four from my grandpa, proper puukko from Lappi.) Got some mace, a foldable shovel that also functions as an ax. And a very small poundage bow. (You could perhaps hurt people with it with good arrows but honestly it's a teenagers practice bow, more for the psychological factor I think.)

    Besides all that, I also served a year in the military, where I went to officer training for supply logistics. Meaning everything you need to keep fighting fit, aside from medical assistance. Supplies, guns, bullets, clothing, water and especially food. So we were also taught how to slaughter and butcher various animals, and how to be relatively sure that what you're eating and drinking isn't going to kill you. (We also drilled a well in -20c by hand when the ground was literally frozen solid. Had to 6m deep iirc or was it even 8.) Also how warm you need to be, how much water you need daily. From all the basics from "don't shit near where you make food" to more complex shit, like which bacteria live in which temp and what it takes to kill them.

    So you know. You might let go, but I wouldn't. I'm no prepper, and in fact find them rather comical. However I do live about 300km from the Russian border, so I don't think any of this is in any way fantastical or even highly improbable.

    I mean I don't plan to crash a car when I'm in one, but I (almost) always use a seatbelt. Doesn't mean I'm fantasising about crashes. But I have survived several though, so.

  • Slopaganda: Coordinated network of inauthentic YouTube channels are pushing secession to Canadians at Alberta and even U.S. annexation.

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  • I still have more beef for that hack

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  • Viktor Krum might still be in school, but I'm talking about the Quidditch world cup that the Weasleys take Harry to.

    In a school match at Hogwarts it might make sense for someone to not take it that seriously. Just like you get people surrendering in games like league and dota and whatnot. But can you ever imagine having professionals play for the world championship and just be like "nah I'm just gonna take this 1v5 because I can dive a kill there to improve my stats, ofc we'll lose but the game is already lost so why even try"

    Most of the people in Krums team were proper adult professional sports wizards and witches I think. Krum was just so good he made pro even while at still school. Similarly as how Harry just gets to be the actionhero I mean "seeker" for the Gryffindors literally the first minute he flies a broom.

  • I still have more beef for that hack

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  • Iirc quadball had to quite radically alter the scoring and other rules?

    As it makes no sense that the seeker just straight wins the game if they catch the snitch within an hour or two no matter how badly their team is losing.

    Also also, the world cup. Viktor Krum ending the game on purpose "because he wanted to do it on his own terms"...!? Imagine a professional videogame player throwing a world cup because they want to get a frag, even though it's still completely possible for them to win if he doesn't throw and end the game. No matter how behind pro teams are they try.

    But no Rowling has a chosen one in all matches as well and the sport makes zero sense in a sports sense in the books. Only there to serve to show how special some are.

  • 'Beautiful joke': The Onion finally reaches another deal to take over Infowars - Raw Story

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  • 'Beautiful joke': The Onion finally reaches another deal to take over Infowars - Raw Story

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  • If the Trial of Tim Heidecker hadn’t came out first, you would have sworn it was a parody of Alex.

    To be honest, I still can't tell the difference.

    Probably because those two links are exactly the same. (Happens to the best of us.)

  • 'Beautiful joke': The Onion finally reaches another deal to take over Infowars - Raw Story

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  • What's the best piece of advice you were ever given?

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  • I did actually.

    "Helibacon" made me chuckle lol.

    But....

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    Doesn't really assuade me from my point too much... Especially when those are in Texas, where the annoying undergrowth, that hogs have an easy time hiding in, doesn't exist to the extent it does in other places.

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  • Good luck spotting and hitting boar from a helicopter without like extensive thermal vision and and some massive minigun and even then it's gonna be hard.

    Sneaky fuckers running in the undergrowth.

    Remember they got Bobby as well

  • What's the best piece of advice you were ever given?

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  • I don't get it

  • What is the difference between an asshole, a jackass, and a dick head?

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  • Trump apparently thinks soda kills cancer cells because ‘it kills grass’

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  • More eloquent, trustworthy, handsome. Not a pedophile or a convicted criminal. What's not to like?

  • Trump apparently thinks soda kills cancer cells because ‘it kills grass’

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