second aid, post apocalyptic diversions

**canid** · 12-31-2007, 11:41 AM

ok, so the sh-tuff hit the fan, the zombie day of reckoning came and went and you're still here. you've managed to chase off the worst of the biker gangs, mended the broken bones, gashes and other boo-boos and you're settlin' in for a nice hot cup of cocoa congratulating yourself on a hard week done right.

what do you see yourself doing in the new sosciety? land is suddenly available in places you might never have afforded, people suddenly have more respect for the staples of life than for electronic gizmos that organize their office meetings or automaticaly clean their floors. what now?

how will you make yourselves free? what will you do with your time?

**FVR** · 12-31-2007, 11:59 AM

Canid,

Do you have a problem with those that indulge in mass motorcyle get togethers and choose to wear leather?

I was sitting around a fire with some "Old" old timers, they started talking about a midwest early 70's rendezvous where they were doing an 1840's encampment. About the third night in, a biker club showed up. Diff. kind of leather. Well, the bikers thought they would do as they wished. End result, many stuck bikers, Harleys in a big fire, and the local police that just turned the other cheek. Seems they felt that the bikers got what they deserved.

What's funny is years back, we did a rendezvous way back in Pine Log. I set a coord. and invited buckskinners, trekkers, and trad. archery shooters for three days of chasing hogs.

The second late afternoon, we were all just finishing up eating, when we heard 2 or 3, 4x4 trucks. We look over, about 15 of us, in buckskins, our guns were in the typical mil. tripod, we had set up a throwing block where we had stuck our hawks and a few knives.

Those trucks came barreling in, stopped. These rednecks must of thought they had driven into hell, their jaws dropped, and the look on their faces, not a word and they left real fast.

**canid** · 12-31-2007, 12:02 PM

actualy referencing mad max, but meh. i ride a spirit.

**wareagle69** · 12-31-2007, 07:36 PM

remy you ok dude? lol
second what's wrong with guys who wear a patch and i aint talking over my eye.

**Rick** · 12-31-2007, 07:44 PM

Okay, I looked. What patch?

**nell67** · 12-31-2007, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by Rick

Okay, I looked. What patch?

Dude,you're not supposed to look!

**Rick** · 12-31-2007, 07:47 PM

I swear to Hanna. This thread needs a map.

**wareagle69** · 12-31-2007, 08:22 PM

look at remys post thats gotta be a record he let me down i always enjoy reding his posts now what am i to do

**Rick** · 12-31-2007, 08:29 PM

Hey. Every great orator has to have an off night.

**canid** · 01-01-2008, 04:42 AM

wow, this thread has been quite skillfully and completely derailed.

wareagle: actualy i only dislike MCs that derail my threads man.

**Smok** · 01-01-2008, 05:22 AM

OK I have one on the Hell's Angels ... I worked for a paving crew of about 20 guys we all stead in the same camp ground that the Angels stead in the manager said he had less trouble with the Angels then with a paving crew I will not go in to all of what happened but let it be know that the Angels are not that bad of guys... compared to a Paving crew

**canid** · 01-01-2008, 05:50 AM

ok, seriously, the biker reference was a mad max joke. i ride a cruiser, i know bikers, including a few one percenters, i'm not a vehicle-biggot

truce...

**canid** · 01-01-2008, 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by remy

Canid,

Why wait until..."then"...?
How will you make yourself "free" now ?

i actualy live that way often but it is offset now by the demands of a family with differing goals, needs and desires. my lady does not take for example to living nomadicaly or semi-nomadicaly as well as i do, and is trying to finish school.

the point of this thread was a light hearted diversion to see if people would share their views of what a post shtf lifestyle could or should be, as many survival minded people seem look romanticaly foreward to such a scenario as much as fear one.

**Rick** · 01-01-2008, 09:04 AM

Ahem. Moving right along and variables aside.

I guess hunter/farmer. So many on here already live a primitive life style and could more easily fill the thread with "things to do". I think I would stay more than busy trying to keep food on the table both hunting and farming. The thing I've always wondered about is where all the firewood would come from. So many societies have outpaced their ability to acquire wood they had to either move to find more or their society collapsed as individuals moved on their own. And these were groups known to have started with an "unlimited" supply. Between our own agricultural use of land and the now leveling of forested land by super fires I think that might be our greater short term weakness. Hard to stay warm if you don't have two sticks to rub together and you can't adjust the thermostat.

**canid** · 01-01-2008, 09:10 AM

i couldn't agree more, and i think a great may people would have to learn in a hurry how to heat and cook efficently. i fear much of this wouldn't occurr untill much damage had been done.

**Rick** · 01-01-2008, 09:14 AM

If you think about even the simple stuff. How many folks today would know how to build an outhouse or even where to build one?

**wareagle69** · 01-01-2008, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by canid

wow, this thread has been quite skillfully and completely derailed.

wareagle: actualy i only dislike MCs that derail my threads man.

why thank you.

**woodwose** · 01-01-2008, 06:12 PM

In a shtf scenario... despite biker gangs.. rest assured that your government will survive.. in underground bunkers and shelters until it is all over.. and then come out and provide all that is needed ... to those that are left... someday. So, we all should just pay our taxes... eat, drink and be merry until that day..

Seriously though... we would need those who can assist in rebuilding society in all ways.