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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by Troll View Post
    1. Making and repairing tools - Yup
    2. Preserving food - Yup
    3. Making a chemical substance - Yup
    4. Making things from wood - Yup
    5. Basic first aid - Yup
    6. Growing crops or rearing animals - Ish
    7. Making your own clothes - I'd go naked in the summer
    8. Getting engines and machines - Very Yup

    It omits

    9. Using firearms - Yup
    10. Being able to defend to death your turf - Yup
    11. Swapping food and protection for female sexual favours - Oh yus
    Not near aggressive enough

    In the event of apocalypse one must aspire to rule the wasteland and if you don't like it then just walk away...

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by Troll View Post
    1. Making and repairing tools - Yup
    2. Preserving food - Yup
    3. Making a chemical substance - Yup ...
    Urine doesn't count!

    ( although isn't that useful for jellyfish stings or something? )

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  • AtW
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    The real problem will be for those who've got accustomed to great free advice in the General - how would they cope without CUK?

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  • FatLazyContractor
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    I'm awesome, my mum said so. So there.
    Are you AndyW's brother?

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    yep you are feckless in the virtual world so you have a good idea of your abilities.
    I'm awesome, my mum said so. So there.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    Some people are surprised to learn how feckless they'd be in the real world.

    Nothing surprise me.
    yep you are feckless in the virtual world so you have a good idea of your abilities.

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  • scooterscot
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    Some people are surprised to learn how feckless they'd be in the real world.

    Nothing surprise me.

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Yes.

    It's because you lot are the products of the Golgafrinsham Ark Fleet.

    I'm amazed you haven't all died from a dirty telephone yet.
    I had to google that :-

    Golgafrincham - Hitchhikers - Wikia

    Golgafrincham was a planet, once home to the Great Circling Poets of Arium. The descendants of these poets made up tales of impending doom about the planet. The tales varied; some said it was going to crash into the sun, or the moon was going to crash into the planet. Others said the planet was to be invaded by twelve-foot piranha bees and still others said it was in danger of being eaten by an enormous mutant star-goat.

    These tales of impending doom allowed the Golgafrinchans to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their population. The story was that they would build three Ark ships. Into the A ship would go all the leaders, scientists and other high achievers. The C ship would contain all the people who made things and did things, and the B ark would hold everyone else, such as hairdressers and telephone sanitizers. They sent the B ship off first, but of course the other two-thirds of the population stayed on the planet and lived full, rich and happy lives until they were all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

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  • MicrosoftBob
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    Didn't THHGTTG say the same in the 70s

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  • Troll
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    1. Making and repairing tools - Yup
    2. Preserving food - Yup
    3. Making a chemical substance - Yup
    4. Making things from wood - Yup
    5. Basic first aid - Yup
    6. Growing crops or rearing animals - Ish
    7. Making your own clothes - I'd go naked in the summer
    8. Getting engines and machines - Very Yup

    It omits

    9. Using firearms - Yup
    10. Being able to defend to death your turf - Yup
    11. Swapping food and protection for female sexual favours - Oh yus

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    In a crisis I will just use Majestic12 to find out where the squirrels and Automatic rifles are Simples.
    FTFY

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  • BrilloPad
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    In a crisis I will just use google to find out what I need to know. Simples.

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  • DimPrawn
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    This refers to the inability of 90% of the permies to do anything useful in a crisis.
    FTFY

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  • zeitghost
    started a topic Proper Doom(tm).

    Proper Doom(tm).

    You're all doomed.

    Apart from us engineers.

    So there.

    You probably won't survive the apocalypse because you don't have the right kind of skills | City A.M.

    For dear old freako of immortal memory, this refers to the inability of 90% of the population to do anything useful in a crisis.

    But you could survive for 55 years on the contents of a supermarket.

    http://www.itv.com/news/2016-02-22/o...lypse/?ref=yfp
    Last edited by zeitghost; 23 February 2016, 11:53.

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