Boy scouts, always be prepared. If you are not an immediate casualty, what are you going to do to stay alive? Bunker already dug and stocked?

1985 called .. they want you to return.

If indeed it's a nuclear winter approaching instead of a global warming occuring I suppose we are well-positioned here in Thailand. I suspect as things heat up politically and nukes are lobbed about, a cool breeze may settle in. Always best to think positively in matters you can do nothing about!

How very, very sad

1985 called .. they want you to return.

I would love to. And wasn't it 1984?

Based on the actions in your moving avatar, I can guess how you would react to a war that was in your own backyard and not in a distant land, Simmo. Wanna go for a beer and chat about it?

Not much point in worrying about it. When the hysteria about bird flu was at its peak around 18 months ago, I started a bird flu cupboard- this was stocked with essentials, long life milk, coffee, olives, weetabix, tinned veg, slabs of chang etc. Then as we ran out of the stuff I normally buy I would raid the cubboard. It didn't take long to have nothing left in it (aside from a can of olives stuffed with anchovies what was I thinking? ) I estimate we could have lasted at least three days without having to leave our flat - the biggest problem would have been fresh drinking water. We normally have four big bottles delivered every fortnight, imagine if the water deliverers couldn't get through. Carnage. Given up on the nightmare scenarion now, que sera sera

What a choice!!

Stay in Scotland, get nuked!

Stay in LOS, get killed by avian flu!

I'm stockpiling tins of food. Mostly baked beans, as I plan to launch a gas warfare counter-offensive.

Soi Yodsak rather appeals, given this apocalyptic scenario.

Fish is the answer, dead or whipped.

What is this about?I have got my own problems to worry about then things that may be!And what I think:"It will never happen!"Just live in the here and now not in the future!

1985 called .. they want you to return.

I would love to. And wasn't it 1984?

I wasn't referring to the book actually, though that works.

Just trying to point out that nuclear fearmongering hysteria that peaked around then is long dead. I do miss the cool Cold war movies though.. Red Dawn, War Games .

What a choice!!

Stay in Scotland, get nuked!

Stay in LOS, get killed by avian flu!

My Nana has a slight cold. Shall I pistol whip the bitch...yes ...thats the right thing do

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Jackie Chan was ...owww...chaaaaa... crap..chai..choo...ha..you dead..ah charlie one is dead...keep the tree growing Uncle..

Win Choooooo Haaaa

I love you guys. Try to talk about something serious and Harry, Curly and Moe show up. Shystermongers.

Why is it that the US always has to have some "world threat" to contend with? Why can't they just be like the rest of the world and get on with life?

I suppose it makes the populace easier to rule if the whole country is paranoid

Boy scouts, always be prepared. If you are not an immediate casualty, what are you going to do to stay alive? Bunker already dug and stocked?

You gotta stop watching Fox Jet.

PS Re. your signature, New friends are far better than old, they haven't heard all the dirt on you yet.

Why is it that the US always has to have some "world threat" to contend with? Why can't they just be like the rest of the world and get on with life?

I suppose it makes the populace easier to rule if the whole country is paranoid

"Duck & Cover" is still in there, somewhere. Oh, and war is always great news for the economy!

Nukes are old news. No problem anymore. My anti-matter ray will sort that out. And lopburi's whipped dead fish.

Whipped fish?? What's up with lopburi? They have adsl in the nuthouse now? Is he dangerous?

Remember when the good scientists of the 1970's predicted, in their infinite wisdom, that oil was quickly running out and everyone envisioned a "Mad Max" scenario? Well, now the problem is we have way too much oil and more is being discovered everyday and if we use all this oil "global warming" is going to wreak havoc. It's good to remember that most "scientists" are academics. Those that can't do, teach. The only thing predictable is that whatever is going to happen in the future will be far different than any scenario we can predict now. The earth is full of suprises...

As a child of the 70s and 80s, I agree with the "live in the moment" comments.

If radioactive fallout reached Bangkok, I'd expect to die a painful death from radiation poisoning as my mother-in-law compulsively threw open the each and every window, and started a frenzy of sweeping and dusting.

At dusk, the mutant mosquitos would come.

Those that can't do, teach.

I hear GWB will be starting a school for diplomats once he's finished playing 'I'm better than Papa'.

Those that can't do, teach.

I hear GWB will be starting a school for diplomats once he's finished playing 'I'm better than Papa'.

Hey, where I come from we eat Bush-loving scum for breakfast!

Remember when the good scientists of the 1970's predicted, in their infinite wisdom, that oil was quickly running out and everyone envisioned a "Mad Max" scenario? Well, now the problem is we have way too much oil and more is being discovered everyday and if we use all this oil "global warming" is going to wreak havoc. It's good to remember that most "scientists" are academics. Those that can't do, teach. The only thing predictable is that whatever is going to happen in the future will be far different than any scenario we can predict now. The earth is full of suprises...

The Academics aren't the ones who worry me, it's the "scientists" who work for companies like Shell and ExxonMobil that frighten the daylights out of people.

That 'those that can't do teach' has to be the greatest crap quote of all time, it's like saying the best football coaches are the ones who never played the game.

Nuclear war... not much I can do about that. But for things closer to civil war, civil unrest.... stocked bass pond and two water wells on our property. Plenty of storage room to do a Carrefour or Makro run and stock enough dry food goods to stay put for months and perhaps years. I'd be comfortable with more ammo... but figure if I get the first 2,000 or so bandits, I've put up a good fight.

Can't anyone here take a bit of self-deprecating criticism. "Those that can't do, teach." is like all quotes, to be used in context, as I did. I'm not saying that none of us who teach can do anything. Recently, a farang woman who teaches public health came into a meeting with 20 people and sneezed all over everyone and insisted on shaking everyone's hand when she left. Another fairly well known finance professor friend of mine loses on every stock he picks and can't keep a baht in his personal bank account. Lots of funny stories to tell, not to be taken too seriously!

Can't anyone here take a bit of self-deprecating criticism. "Those that can't do, teach." is like all quotes, to be used in context, as I did. I'm not saying that none of us who teach can do anything. Recently, a farang woman who teaches public health came into a meeting with 20 people and sneezed all over everyone and insisted on shaking everyone's hand when she left. Another fairly well known finance professor friend of mine loses on every stock he picks and can't keep a baht in his personal bank account. Lots of funny stories to tell, not to be taken too seriously!

No problem mdeland (why do people have such funny names on this forum? ) I'm well used to taking all types of criticism, my 3 ex wifes were experts at it. Maybe I should teach marriage guidance counselling!

A lot of academics go into teaching after years, often decades, in private enterprise. Pointing out a few incompetent eccentrics doesn't change that. The idea of education is to give students a good grounding in theory before they go on to acquire practical experience in their chosen field.

I still believe that the soundest theories are developed by academics with a good practical background, not by people who's pay packet depends on what they say.

Nuclear war? Who said anything about a nuclear war?? Possible???

Suggest stocking for a "popular uprising" instead. Very very possible..

Soundman.

In the event of a nulear war, there is only one thing you need to do.

Put your head between your knees and kiss your @ss good-bye !

Duck & Cover ? Fall-out shelters ? Dehydrated foods ? Waste of time, money and effort.

There are only couple of realistic nuclear scenarios that may happen.

A solitary terrorist strike using an improvised "dirty" bomb. Little chance of any real effect on 99.99% of the world's population, aside from some short term panic ala 9/11.

A calculated prescision strike (by a major nuclear power) against a specific target (say, a centrifuge facility in Iran). Again, little chance of any real effect on 99.99% of the world's population.

An "all-out" nuclear war with everyone firing missiles at everyone else. Not likely to happen, but if it did, most of the world's population would be effected eventually. There's enough nukes stockpiled right now to wipe out the earth's population at least 10 times over. Between the immediate blasts and the radioactive fallout (not to mention the "nuclear winters" to follow), civilisation as we know it would come to an abrupt halt. Some would survive, for awhile at least, until the mutant cockroaches, ducks and wabbits came for them.

Most people wouldn't even know it had happened until it was too late. That little hide-away in the mountains where you left a box of food and a couple of candles for "emergencies ? Forget about it. Chances are you'd never make it more than a couple miles from your home (assuming your survived the inital attacks.

So what do you do ? Unless you are already in your hidden bunker in the remotest part of the world, bend over, put your head between your knees and kiss your @ass good-bye.

I've been told i'm a cockroach so i've got nothing to worry about.

I was paddling peacefully round my pond the other day Jet..

Saw Chicken Liken walking bye so I ask her about the very same thing..

She said you got more chance of being hit by a Kamikaze M/Cycle in LOS

Than the Sky Falling on you...