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[Porcupine]

The following is from an interview with Lt. Col Dave Grossman, a retired army ranger who was nominated for the Pullitzer Prize for his book 'On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society':

A: What is truly the biggest threat to our safety, and what would be the single best thing we could do to protect our families?

Q: You know, the biggest threat to our safety statistically speaking is automobile accidents... But you have airbags in your car and you have seat belts in your car and you drive responsibility! One of the things we prepare for is fire. I pulled the fire extinguisher off the wall here, and we have fire exits over there and fire sprinklers over head. We prepare, prepare, prepare for fire. How many kids killed by school fire in all of North America in the last 50 years? Zero! How many kids killed by violence in our schools? Hundreds! The area where we are deficient is preparation for violence. The thing you need to do is turn yourself into a life-saving force, and the thing that threatens the lives of your loved ones is violence. And so as sheep dogs we prepare to confront violence. The area which represents the greatest threat for which we have done the least preparation, in most people's lives because most people are in denial, is violence. And that denial kills you once because you're caught without the tools, you're caught without the training, you die like any other sheep. But it kills you twice because, even if you physically survive, you're psychologically shattered because you know there's things you could and should have done: You should have carried a gun, you could have prepared yourself, you failed to do it, and you'll have trouble living with yourself from that point on because loved ones died and there's things you could and should have done.

[Christel]

It is human mentality, people in general do not have the ability nor the inclination to prepare for something that may never come. Lazy yes, however also too busy with their lives. Go to work and on the way there drop the kids off or make sure they catch the bus, come home and on the way do the shopping, make sure the kids are home or pick them up. Cook dinner, help with the home work, sort out stuff for the next day...and so on and on life goes.

When exactly are we supposed to prepare for ...violence, zombie attacks, build that nuclear bunker, survival cellar....

Phew, need a cup of tea after all that. :lol:

[meles meles]

We have plenty of tea stockpiled in Helm's Deep, right alongside the bullets...

[Christel]

When the zombies come, might join you if that is ok?

[Dave 101]

Well Iam still working on my safe room [ panic room ] armoury , comms centre , bolt hole escape route etc .

Dave

[Christel]

Tea?

[meles meles]

When the zombies come, might join you if that is ok?

Hmmm, we think oomans might be to blame for the rise of the zombies in the first place. We refer to the learned article on our website, http://www.badgercorporation.com, reproduced below...


iLife: the ‘ooman zombies

Researchers at the Badgerkadamy have to admit to being impressed by the latest developments in miniaturisation shown by ‘oomans. It has long been known that ‘oomans have had to change their definition of death from “cessation of cardiac function” to “cessation of brain activity” after they invented life support machines capable of keeping the heart and lungs functioning. However, David Attenbadger, one of the keenest and most observent naturalists at the Badgerkadamy, has published a startling new paper detailing his latest findings.

In his paper, “iLife: the ‘ooman zombies”, Attenbadger has noted that ‘oomans have now miniaturised life support technology to an almost unimaginable extent. It seems that ‘oomans have managed to create a new generation of life support systems that can now keep the ‘ooman brain functioning well enough to allow corpses to walk. As evidence, Attenbadger cites the huge number of clearly brain dead ‘oomans that can be observed walking around with little white boxes of electronics tucked into their pockets delivering cerebral stimuli through a set of small jump leads connected across the wearer’s ears. These ‘oomans are clearly not aware of their surroundings, and attempts to engage them in conversation always fail, but this is presumably still an early stage in the development of technology designed to shift the definition of death yet further into the realms of decomposition…

[Christel]

I know all that, just did not think it applied to me

[meles meles]

I know all that, just did not think it applied to me

You're a nice ooman, so it doesn't apply. We were thinking of oomans in general, the ones that don't post here: Vauxhall drivers, farmers, that sort...

[Christel]

Vauxhall drivers :lol: