Forum search & shortcuts

Which country to se...
 

Which country to see out the nuclear apocalypse/ asteroid strike?

Posts: 8424
Free Member
 

Less Mad Max leather and guns, and more G&T and infidelity.)

There isn’t any infidelity in the original Nevill Shute book. Lots of gin and brandy though.

Yeah, as I typed it I was questioning myself.


 
Posted : 10/02/2023 3:26 pm
Posts: 3625
Full Member
 

The least populated place I can find. Lest my rage at stupid people means I make an early start on bringing the population numbers down.

Remember how everyone acted when they thought they might not have paper to wipe their arses?


 
Posted : 10/02/2023 3:53 pm
Posts: 9283
Full Member
 

Survivors will probably starve to death reasonably quickly, or lack of hydration.


 
Posted : 10/02/2023 4:06 pm
Posts: 18039
Full Member
 

 
Posted : 10/02/2023 5:02 pm
Posts: 794
Free Member
 

Much as I like living, having watched 'The Day After' I'm not sure that I'd want to see the aftermath.


 
Posted : 10/02/2023 6:49 pm
Posts: 33983
Full Member
 

Somewhere in the southern hemisphere.


 
Posted : 10/02/2023 7:35 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Meh I've had a good innings. Nothing interesting has happened since the 90's anyway. I suppose the ketamine/minimal techno thing in the mid noughties was mildly amusing for a while.


 
Posted : 10/02/2023 7:47 pm
Posts: 7203
Full Member
 

I remember being worried about this as a kid when we watched When the Wind Blows.

My mum cheerfully said not to - we live near to Northolt, and even closer to a fairly big army base. If the first wave of missiles don't get us, the second certainly will.


 
Posted : 10/02/2023 7:54 pm
Posts: 206
Free Member
 

Outside of a limited strike the bunkers aren’t there to ensure the survival of those employees in some sort of magic long term repopulate the earth manner, they’re there to ensure someone can still launch the nuclear arsenal.

What a wonderful species we've evolved into.


 
Posted : 10/02/2023 9:44 pm
Posts: 5855
Full Member
 

<div id="post-12719716" class="bbp-reply-header d-flex justify-content-between w-100">
<div class="bbp-reply-author d-flex align-items-center flex-wrap"></div>
</div>
<div class="p-0 loop-item-12 user-id-67505 bbp-parent-forum-180317 bbp-parent-topic-12718631 bbp-reply-position-53 odd post-12719716 reply type-reply status-publish hentry">
<div class="bbp-reply-content">

I remember being worried about this as a kid when we watched When the Wind Blows.

</div>
TBH we also had the helpful ‘protect and survive’leaflets the goverment posted thru our  letterbox as well and the tv adverts.

</div>
<div class="p-0 loop-item-12 user-id-67505 bbp-parent-forum-180317 bbp-parent-topic-12718631 bbp-reply-position-53 odd post-12719716 reply type-reply status-publish hentry">

That quaint film was pretty grim thou.

</div>
(it’s funny thou how people sort of forget that behind the scenes we still have the nasty toys skulking in the darkness and the threat never really went away and we’ve been living with it for all our lives and Ukraine is an uneasy reminder of this to a generation who haven’t really had to think about it before.)


 
Posted : 11/02/2023 8:57 am
Posts: 6985
Free Member
 

its going to be tight on a four minute warning, but the landlord has agreed that it will be pour your own, there is break glass cabinet on the wall with Marlboro Reds and Hamlet....

pour your own pint, get out the front and look in the right direction.... bonus points for lighting your final smoke from the blast, before your face melts off.

friends went to check out Madiera recently, but declared it so boringly middle class, they'd rather fry.


 
Posted : 11/02/2023 12:39 pm
Posts: 308
Full Member
 

Grew up in the 80s - there nowt wrong with hiding behind the back of your settee - it will be fine the government have told us so - or a cupboard, hide in a cupboard.


 
Posted : 11/02/2023 8:30 pm
Posts: 20680
Full Member
 

there nowt wrong with hiding behind the back of your settee – it will be fine the government have told us so – or a cupboard, hide in a cupboard.

Indiana Jones survived a nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge. But that has shades of Boris Johnson about it. And also, that film was shit anyway.

🤷🏻‍♂️


 
Posted : 11/02/2023 9:05 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

its going to be tight on a four minute warning, but the landlord has agreed that it will be pour your own, there is break glass cabinet on the wall with Marlboro Reds and Hamlet….

pour your own pint, get out the front and look in the right direction…. bonus points for lighting your final smoke from the blast, before your face melts off.

This sounds ideal 🙂


 
Posted : 11/02/2023 9:11 pm
Posts: 9283
Full Member
 

We'll be fine, we'll have our umbrellas.


 
Posted : 11/02/2023 9:45 pm
Page 2 / 2