View Full Version : zombie apocalypse
Can some one please explain what the zombie apocalypse is all about? No one really believes it is really going to happen do they? I only ask cause I see stuff pertaining to it all over the place.
blacklabel
10-11-2011, 20:31
For a lot of people its a light hearted excuse to think about preparing for SHTF in a serious way.
I don't believe it will happen but a part of me wouldn't mind it at all.
Best way I've heard it explained is: It's a cover all for the end of the world type stuff. It's also a little more PC to prep for Zombies than an actual event.
Of course there are some forums where I think they really do believe in it.
From what I have read it has to do with a drug the Government is experimenting with. They used it on a mouse test with a cat and cheese. Now I do not know how true this is but supposedly they injected the mouse with this drug fed the cat the cheese and the mouse allowed the cat to eat it so the mouse could get to the cheese. So basicly it is a drug that takes the well to survive away and can make a human do some crazy stuff, but like I said it is just something I read I do not know how true it is.
mevshooter
10-11-2011, 20:42
Any excuse to potentially double tap that long laundry list of individuals most people have with the excuse of "they were TOTALLY a zombie" sounds appealing to many people.
blacklabel
10-11-2011, 20:43
From what I have read it has to do with a drug the Government is experimenting with. They used it on a mouse test with a cat and cheese. Now I do not know how true this is but supposedly they injected the mouse with this drug fed the cat the cheese and the mouse allowed the cat to eat it so the mouse could get to the cheese. So basicly it is a drug that takes the well to survive away and can make a human do some crazy stuff, but like I said it is just something I read I do not know how true it is.
http://www.cityofmadera.org/image/image_gallery?uuid=8fb8a4d7-2da4-4dc7-bb50-c7c55b9baab0&groupId=10128&t=1240586173633
I love how you say easily one of the craziest things I've ever heard and then include that you don't know how true it is.
NitroxBoss
10-11-2011, 20:44
Have you guys lost it?
Will there be ZOMBIES?
Ah YES!
They are probably right outside the city limits right now!
[UZI]
[UZI]
[UZI]
[UZI]
[UZI]
[Rant2]Don't say I didn't warn you! [LOL]
Bailey Guns
10-11-2011, 20:46
Any excuse to potentially double tap that long laundry list of individuals most people have with the excuse of "they were TOTALLY a zombie" sounds appealing to many people.
Imagine...if only it were real:
Police Officer: "Sir, why did you shoot your neighbor in the head?"
Suspect: "Duh... He was totally a zombie."
PO: "OH! Well, then. Sorry to have bothered you. Have a nice day!"
More like the "barackalypse".................
ChunkyMonkey
10-11-2011, 21:23
From what I have read it has to do with a drug the Government is experimenting with. They used it on a mouse test with a cat and cheese. Now I do not know how true this is but supposedly they injected the mouse with this drug fed the cat the cheese and the mouse allowed the cat to eat it so the mouse could get to the cheese. So basicly it is a drug that takes the well to survive away and can make a human do some crazy stuff, but like I said it is just something I read I do not know how true it is.
Yep!
http://imageplay.net/img/m7Gbd230612/6xpv6o.gif
http://www.cityofmadera.org/image/image_gallery?uuid=8fb8a4d7-2da4-4dc7-bb50-c7c55b9baab0&groupId=10128&t=1240586173633
I love how you say easily one of the craziest things I've ever heard and then include that you don't know how true it is. That is because I read it I dont believe it, but the Government does like to play with drugs so you never know. If in fact they do have such a drug and administer it to a Human it could have some pretty crazy affects.
[QUOTE=MB888;441661]Yep!
my cat loves cheese..... he must already be infected
[M2]
Zombies can be easily identified...they are the ones shambling around, mumbling nonsense, and carrying signs that say...
We are the 99%
That zombie stuff is something I completely don't understand. I don't watch TV or keep up with many current events, but I just assumed it came from some sort of movie. To a large degree it seems retarded to me.
My second guess was it was a tribute to Michael Jackson's thriller. :D
Zombies can be easily identified...they are the ones shambling around, mumbling nonsense, and carrying sings that say...
We are the 99%
only cuz typos have been brought up...
that would be *signs [Tooth]
only cuz typos have been brought up...
that would be *signs [Tooth]
Dang fat fingers
mumble muddy trucker, mumble sunny beach...profanity filters mumble grumble
Dang fat fingers
mumble muddy trucker, mumble sunny beach...profanity filters mumble grumble
Haha just blame wrenching for the dexterity loss
Well train, on a serious note, nature has already done your whole cat and mouse thing. There is a parasite that needs birds to multiply itself (uses their organs), anyway, it gets into worms and makes them climb to the end of branches so birds eat them. Then the parasite multiplies, gets its young pooped out, and then the life cycle starts all over. There was also a company that was testing the flesh eating bacteria as a weight loss supplement... Both are very real things.
Because shooting rampaging zombies somehow sounds better than shooting rampaging criminals, gangsters, druggies and others of societies parasites that will go wild in the event of societal crisis/breakdown. Zombies don't worry me, but when the parasites stop getting their freebies, the ripple effect will be swift and violent as they take to the streets to try and take what they think they're "entitled to" from the rest of us.
If this country, say, loses electricity on a large scale for a critical amount of time, it would be ugly. No power = no anything, everything we know in daily life needs electricity. Normal folks will freak out enough, but the scum will quickly go on the offensive and attack everyone, including their peers, to get everything they can. Those are the "zombies", IMO.
mcantar18c
10-11-2011, 23:29
Have you guys lost it?
Will there be ZOMBIES?
Ah YES!
They are probably right outside the city limits right now!
[UZI]
[UZI]
[UZI]
[UZI]
[UZI]
[Rant2]Don't say I didn't warn you! [LOL]
You're narc'd aren't you [Scuba]
[Tooth]
Because shooting rampaging zombies somehow sounds better than shooting rampaging criminals, gangsters, druggies and others of societies parasites that will go wild in the event of societal crisis/breakdown. Zombies don't worry me, but when the parasites stop getting their freebies, the ripple effect will be swift and violent as they take to the streets to try and take what they think they're "entitled to" from the rest of us.
If this country, say, loses electricity on a large scale for a critical amount of time, it would be ugly. No power = no anything, everything we know in daily life needs electricity. Normal folks will freak out enough, but the scum will quickly go on the offensive and attack everyone, including their peers, to get everything they can. Those are the "zombies", IMO.
You guys are my biggest worry. No power = no COAR and we saw how quickly we went into withdrawals after being cut off for only a few hours.
That zombie stuff is something I completely don't understand. I don't watch TV or keep up with many current events, but I just assumed it came from some sort of movie. To a large degree it seems retarded to me.
Are you familiar with the term "pop culture?"
SA Friday
10-11-2011, 23:30
Seriously, I work at walmart. I saw at least 6 zombies in that place tonight alone. They live around us, every day.
mcantar18c
10-11-2011, 23:42
The Zombie Crawl is coming up....
Well train, on a serious note, nature has already done your whole cat and mouse thing. There is a parasite that needs birds to multiply itself (uses their organs), anyway, it gets into worms and makes them climb to the end of branches so birds eat them. Then the parasite multiplies, gets its young pooped out, and then the life cycle starts all over. There was also a company that was testing the flesh eating bacteria as a weight loss supplement... Both are very real things. I am familiar with tape worms. I am talking about a drug that takes away the Human will to live and pretty much reprogrames the Brain and essentially turns people into your Zombies that you hear about.
Are you familiar with the term "pop culture?"
Nope.
Atrain, the situation you described with the cat and mouse is the opposite of the removal of the will to live. The mouse was so determined to eat the cheese (to live) that it would let the cat eat it.
Of course whom ever told you that story was high on meth when they told you. Mice can't form complex thoughts like, "I can smell cheese on that cat's breath, so it must have recently eaten cheese. I assume that if the cat eats me, then I'll end up in the same place as the cheese. Therefore, I can then eat the cheese myself."
If they were able to form complex thoughts like that, then surely they'd be able to realize that being eaten would completely destroy themselves, and would not then be able to eat the cheese. Well, I guess maybe if they were on drugs they wouldn't catch that important part. I don't know though, I don't use mouse.
Nope.
I'm sure you're being sarcastic here, which I appreciate (really). Just in case you aren't though, here is the Wikipedia article on popular culture, which I think does a pretty good job of pigeon holing the Zombie fad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_culture
Popular culture (commonly known as pop culture) is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes,[1] images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society.
Popular culture is often viewed as being trivial and dumbed-down in order to find consensual acceptance throughout the mainstream. As a result, it comes under heavy criticism from various non-mainstream sources (most notably religious groups and countercultural groups) which deem it superficial, consumerist, sensationalist, and corrupted.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
The term "popular culture" was coined in the 19th century or earlier[11] to refer to the education and general "culturedness" of the lower classes, as was delivered in an address at the Birmingham Town Hall, England.[12] The term began to assume the meaning of a culture of the lower classes separate from (and sometimes opposed) to "true education" towards the end of the century,[13] a usage that became established by the interbellum period.[14] The current meaning of the term, culture for mass consumption, especially originating in the United States, is established by the end of World War II.[15] The abbreviated form "pop culture" dates to the 1960s.
haven't you guys seen zombieland? that is REAL. coming to a state near you. could happen any time. you just never know!
I would make sure you are prepared. doesn't have to be zombies, could be a natural disaster where people lose all self control and try to steal everything you have and kill you for it, cops are nowhere to be found.
you just never know!
You guys are my biggest worry. No power = no COAR and we saw how quickly we went into withdrawals after being cut off for only a few hours.
And now we can't cuss and vent here anymore, so the pressure will just keep building until we explode!
I think preparing for huge riot is more than enough.
TO some, Riot can be SHTF.
68Charger
10-12-2011, 07:27
There was the CDC "Zombie preparedness" blog:
http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/
Yes, it's real, the CDC really did it as a publicity stunt, for the same reason as described by others- preparing for such an event is also preparing for natural disasters, pandemic outbreak, etc..
Then there's this:
http://i.imgur.com/q5Ppw.jpg
The Zombie Crawl is coming up....
So would I get in trouble if I totally freaked out when seeing it on the news- locked and loaded and went shooting them? Would that work as a defense in court?
"Your honor, there were zombies everywhere downtown! I had to protect my fellow humans from them otherwise we'd be in some serious hot water!"
ghettodub
10-12-2011, 10:44
The Zombie Crawl is coming up....
I'll be there taking photos again this year. It was a lot of fun last year
mcantar18c
10-12-2011, 10:48
So would I get in trouble if I totally freaked out when seeing it on the news- locked and loaded and went shooting them? Would that work as a defense in court?
"Your honor, there were zombies everywhere downtown! I had to protect my fellow humans from them otherwise we'd be in some serious hot water!"
My buddy invited me to it, he's all excited about it and whatnot. I told him not unless I get to shooting zombies. Apparently he doesn't understand the 3S rule.
My buddy invited me to it, he's all excited about it and whatnot. I told him not unless I get to shooting zombies. Apparently he doesn't understand the 3S rule.
3S rule? Remind me which one this is...
mcantar18c
10-12-2011, 11:07
3S rule? Remind me which one this is...
Don't go Stupid places to do Stupid things with Stupid people.
Downtown = stupid place.
Walking around with a big crowd of people in disguises that hide there identity = stupid thing for lots of reasons.
Stupid people = do I really need to get into this one?
Its amazing how much conflict you avoid by following the 3S rule.
Don't go Stupid places to do Stupid things with Stupid people.
Downtown = stupid place.
Walking around with a big crowd of people in disguises that hide there identity = stupid thing for lots of reasons.
Stupid people = do I really need to get into this one?
Its amazing how much conflict you avoid by following the 3S rule.
Huh, I've tried to live by that philosophy for years.....didn't know it was a "rule"! And a good one at that. I sure broke that rule a lot in my youth though.
http://memearchive.net/memerial.net/page/3279.jpg
Atrain, the situation you described with the cat and mouse is the opposite of the removal of the will to live. The mouse was so determined to eat the cheese (to live) that it would let the cat eat it.
Of course whom ever told you that story was high on meth when they told you. Mice can't form complex thoughts like, "I can smell cheese on that cat's breath, so it must have recently eaten cheese. I assume that if the cat eats me, then I'll end up in the same place as the cheese. Therefore, I can then eat the cheese myself."
If they were able to form complex thoughts like that, then surely they'd be able to realize that being eaten would completely destroy themselves, and would not then be able to eat the cheese. Well, I guess maybe if they were on drugs they wouldn't catch that important part. I don't know though, I don't use mouse.
I'm sure you're being sarcastic here, which I appreciate (really). Just in case you aren't though, here is the Wikipedia article on popular culture, which I think does a pretty good job of pigeon holing the Zombie fad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_culture I was just curious to the whole zombie thing so I typed it in and that is one of the things I read. I just want to know why alot of people actually think zombies are going to attack us, I have come by some people who really think it is going to happen.
If liberals in their hybrids can sit around fantasizing about global warming and how their car is going to be the answer to it all.
I can sit around and think that my guns are going to save the planet from brain dead cannibals wanting my sweet sweet flesh.
Society could break down and zombies just want to mooch off me is a possible outcome.
CO2 being emitted by people and cars (cars were made to emit CO2 by the same hippy pukes that are claiming its causing global warming via emission devices hanging off your car wasting gas and robbing it of power) has the same outcome as zombies. Just the people get shot before they are already dead. (ask Stalin what happen to 50 million of his countrymen that were just as equal has him) Good cars get something poored into them to make the engine not function anymore. (e.g. Cash for clunkers)
But I digress, zombies would be just to fun to shoot. We like zombie movies too and movies have the escapist quality to them. And if you fantasize about shooting zombies you might have come to the realization that people suck and you just want to shoot them. But can't unless they are zombies.
Someone beat me to it.
There was the CDC "Zombie preparedness" blog:
http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/
Yes, it's real, the CDC really did it as a publicity stunt, for the same reason as described by others- preparing for such an event is also preparing for natural disasters, pandemic outbreak, etc..
Then there's this:
http://i.imgur.com/q5Ppw.jpg
(cars were made to emit CO2 by the same hippy pukes that are claiming its causing global warming via emission devices hanging off your car wasting gas and robbing it of power)
This made me lol.
Edit, I know you're talking about the Catalytic Converter, and I do know that it converts more harmful gasses into CO2... just hilarious to see it chalked up this way.
H.
This made me lol.
Edit, I know you're talking about the Catalytic Converter, and I do know that it converts more harmful gasses into CO2... just hilarious to see it chalked up this way.
H.
That and about 30 other things that came from it. Its the wrong thread to get into it but I will say this I would love to hang a catalitic converter from my car if that is all it was and all that was needed. But it would have to be one of the first designs with big ball barrings in there with the catalist stuff sprayed to it. That allowed air to flow freely and thoroughly over the catalyst to burn up the CO and HC. But it didn't work that way so they added air to the thing and O2 sensors to lean out the fuel mixture so that cat can burn the fuel up and restricted the air flow through the whole engine so that's where the power loss comes from.
When in reality my a well maintained engine with no emmission stuff has lower outputs than a choked up engine with a bad catalytic converter. With very little CO2 I might add. But like all government ideas if it doesn't work one way keep doing the same way and expect different results.
ETA: I drive a 66 mustang with no emissions crap on it and I haven't had it tested at envirotest but when I pass the sniffer thingy on 8th avenue it says I'm doing good. This is with the new 5.0 that I put in there. With the tired old 6 banger that was in there with a full tune up and no tricks used it had lower emissions than my 85 blazer with every dirty air fixer that the .gov could saddle GM with back in the 80's. And if one goes bad your whole truck will stop or emit some bad emissions. Bad gas is what got me last time. Made the NOS to high. And nobody fails for that one. And the dip**** kid working there blew up my starter and pushed my truck out of the building like sorry it must have been your fault. And I had to get towed home. Did everything they could to blow off responsibility for it too. The whole thing is a scam IMHO.
I can't believe I hijacked a thread about zombies. I'm going to hell for this one. Anyone see the walking dead internet only short films? It has a great ending about one zombies struggle to become a zombie.
mevshooter
10-12-2011, 16:22
I am familiar with tape worms. I am talking about a drug that takes away the Human will to live and pretty much reprogrames the Brain and essentially turns people into your Zombies that you hear about.
... I believe you just described the plot to the movie The Happening.
Which, unlike most people, I actually enjoyed.
SouthPaw
10-12-2011, 16:30
The Zombie Bible:
http://zombiehunters.org/forum/ (http://zombiehunters.org/forum/)
SuperiorDG
10-12-2011, 16:47
8955
blacklabel
10-12-2011, 17:29
The Zombie Bible:
http://zombiehunters.org/forum/ (http://zombiehunters.org/forum/)
You can swear there too.
3S rule? Remind me which one this is...
It's the way he over exaggerates normal events so he doesn't have to go to them. He used the same excuse to not go to a haunted house.
mcantar18c
10-12-2011, 18:28
It's the way he over exaggerates normal events so he doesn't have to go to them. He used the same excuse to not go to a haunted house.
Lots of people... lots of hiding places.... lots of reasons for a BG to do BG things there. Add that to the stories my buddy's got about crap he's seen (he's working at a haunted house this season), and it just doesn't sound like a good idea.
... I believe you just described the plot to the movie The Happening.
Which, unlike most people, I actually enjoyed.
Wasn't the happening where the plants were releasing some sort of toxin?
Wasn't the happening where the plants were releasing some sort of toxin?
Ya, it was. Good flick I thought, sorta the same...
Ya, it was. Good flick I thought, sorta the same...
Yeah I liked it right till they started walking through the field so they weren't detected... that just reminded me of like a mine field! [ROFL1]
i liked the old ladies in gas masks
onedeadpirate
10-12-2011, 21:36
The Zombie Crawl is coming up....
I wonder if they would be pissed if we met them down there with airsoft and paintball guns?
If they break character they are out of the crawl. lol
mcantar18c
10-13-2011, 01:58
I wonder if they would be pissed if we met them down there with airsoft and paintball guns?
I'm in [Tooth]
I heard about a study one time that a university conducted where they created a complicated computer model where a virus broke out and turned poeple to zombies. Every simmulation they ran all ended up with no one surviving because it spread to quickly to get ahead of.
I'm sure you're being sarcastic here, which I appreciate (really). Just in case you aren't though, here is the Wikipedia article on popular culture, which I think does a pretty good job of pigeon holing the Zombie fad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_culture
Yes and no.
I know that a pop culture exists, but no, I don't keep up with it. Years ago I stopped watching TV. Unless I see something on a Yahoo ticker that catches my eye, I typically don't know, or care about most current events or fads.
I still don't get the whole zombie thing.
It's just popular pop culture right now.
KevDen2005
10-18-2011, 00:09
Speaking of the upcoming and undeniable zombie apocalypse...I like these. Little expensive, but neat.
http://zombietools.net/tools/
Let me get this straight....
Was there some really convincing movie, verse in the bible, or....?
Grown ass men are buying weapons to defend themselves against people who are dead, that are going to become undead? My mind does not comprehend this.
KevDen2005
10-18-2011, 00:26
Let me get this straight....
Was there some really convincing movie, verse in the bible, or....?
Grown ass men are buying weapons to defend themselves against people who are dead, that are going to become undead? My mind does not comprehend this.
Well I see the Outlaw1 house is a no fun zone...
It's just pop culture and entertaining
No one is buying anything because they really think that zombies are real. It allows people to live out fantasies, tie them to popular culture, and not have other people think you're a crazy.
KevDen2005
10-18-2011, 00:28
No one is buying anything because they really think that zombies are real. It allows people to live out fantasies, tie them to popular culture, and not have other people think you're a crazy.
Speak for yourself...it's gonna happen
World War Z was pretty convincing.
KevDen2005
10-18-2011, 00:33
i really want to read that, i heard it was good
ChunkyMonkey
10-18-2011, 01:20
i really want to read that, i heard it was good
It's a bunch of short stories... I was lost after reading few chapters. Perhaps the movie will be better.
It's a bunch of short stories... I was lost after reading few chapters. Perhaps the movie will be better.
Kind of. It is told through the perspective of several characters all over the world, and their own experiences of the war. At first they seem unrelated, but the book does a good job patching it all together.
Well I see the Outlaw1 house is a no fun zone...
It's just pop culture and entertaining
We have tons of fun, just not with zombies. :D
No one is buying anything because they really think that zombies are real. It allows people to live out fantasies, tie them to popular culture, and not have other people think you're a crazy.
After thinking about it, I realized I've seen weapons with Zombies on them, not to mention the new Hornady ammo. To me that's along the same lines of stashing away some wooden stakes and silver bullets.
Y'all have some weird fantasies. [Tooth]
Zombies win over vampires because a stake has a difficult time doubling as a survival tool. As mentioned earlier, zombies allow for people to prepare for an actual disaster situation, and have fun doing it at the same time.
Zombies win over vampires because a stake has a difficult time doubling as a survival tool. As mentioned earlier, zombies allow for people to prepare for an actual disaster situation, and have fun doing it at the same time.
What kind of disasters are you preparing for?
I'm not. I'm working on getting married and buying a house and having more kids. When I can, I'll working on getting set up to live comfortably with no power, water, and food for as long as possible.
Who needs lights when you're making kids.
Speaking of the upcoming and undeniable zombie apocalypse...I like these. Little expensive, but neat.
http://zombietools.net/tools/
Some of those are so pretty I would be happy to hang them on the wall like a coat of arms. And they are functional (I think) so I wouldn't feel like a tool for buying them.
Wow that's a lot of mula for those blades, I think I'll stick to my 12g and Louisville sluger.
I heard about a study one time that a university conducted where they created a complicated computer model where a virus broke out and turned poeple to zombies. Every simmulation they ran all ended up with no one surviving because it spread to quickly to get ahead of.
I would like to read that study. I bet they didn't include variables like guns or people that knew how to use them.
If the virus was only transferred by ingestion or through the skin like most zombie movies are I don't see it lasting more than a few days and never making it out of a single city. But if was in the water or air or just gods will like in the movie "The Stand" where everyone but the chosen few die. I could see how it would be a total loss.
Wow that's a lot of mula for those blades, I think I'll stick to my 12g and Louisville sluger.
I bought a 'cold steel' kukri from the gun show for $23. It is as solid or more solid that some of those display knives are.
I bought a Highlander sword once and it was so cheap I don't know why they bothered to make it out of metal at all?
I use the kukri for camping and while I wouldn't want to cut a tree down with it... it could. I used it for clearing branches off the log and worked as good as a hatchet.
That gerber set they had in the last walking dead episodes was really nice too.
CMP_5.56
10-18-2011, 11:03
I bought a 'cold steel' vakra from the gun show for $23. It is as solid or more solid that some of those display knives are.
I bought a Highlander sword once and it was so cheap I don't know why they bothered to make it out of metal at all?
I use the vakra for camping and while I wouldn't want to cut a tree down with it... it could. I used it for clearing branches off the log and worked as good as a hatchet.
Do you mean a cold steel vaquero? Because I know their entire line and have never seen a blade called the vakra...
Byte Stryke
10-18-2011, 12:47
everyone has an image of the zombie apocalypse and what it is...
I think of it as a metaphor to "re-manufacture" the reality of the worst possible SHTF scenario into a popular fantasy story to prevent sending the libtards into a legislative frenzy.
mcantar18c
10-18-2011, 13:17
Taken from another site....
Zombies have been a part of people's youth and adult life. I’ve slayed hundreds of them playing _____ (insert video game here) as a kid. We’ve all drilled our fair share of holes in zombie targets at the firing range. Please, name a video game purchased in the past five years that hasn’t somehow included zombies in it.
Many people ask each other, why are zombies the “in” thing? The answer is pretty simple: they are the ultimate politically and morally correct bad guy.
A zombie is not technically a living breathing person. There is no moral condemnation when beheading a nameless moaning drone intent on devouring your brains (and other delectableinnards). If you want to, you can even convince yourself that you’re simply aiding them to find proper rest from this frightful existence. When a corpse becomes a zombie it loses all nationality, all character traits, all morals and values. It becomes a walking meat target. You’ll feel more concern over running over a squirrel in the drive way than you will lopping heads off of grey-skinned nasties.
There are no support groups, no rights groups for these animated undead fiends. You won’t receive complaint letters or hate emails from groups rallying in support of zombie rights. You won’t strike up an awkward conversation at dinner when you realize your date’s uncle was once a zombie. You don’t fret when the house next door is vacated, that a pack of walking dead will occupy it.
On top of this, when a zombie is encountered, you’re excused for using mindless violence against them. Running over a pack of people in a bus with flame-throwers may seem a bit overzealous. Doing the same to a street full of zombies is good television. It allows people, movies, books, tv-shows to explore the natural violent nature of people. Grotesque (borderline absurd) amounts of blood, gore, and ichor are par the course. This lets people get their violent fix without concerned human rights groups complaining.
So, they make good guilt-free killing. But that’s not all.
FOR WHEN THE ZOMBIES COME…
How many people do you know who own survival equipment? How about firearms, hand to hand weapons, stores of food and water? Diesel generators andthe like? When you ask them why, you’re likely to hear the answer, "just for when the zombies come."
Now we all realize that short of some massive biological breakthrough… zombies aren’t coming. This is a sad truth, and I understand half of the readers will now punch their monitors and condemn me to the bowels of hell. The question remains though, why do people say this? I myself have heard and/or read it hundredsof times.
The answer is about as simple as the previous statement. While zombies make the perfect bad guy, they also make the perfect excuse. The response is a tongue-in-cheek answer which is a form of politically correct catch-all. It covers a vast majority of legitimate reasons, masqueraded behind a laughable jest. The zombies picked up where the Cold War left off. No longer are we concerned with “… for when the commies come.”
When someone uses this phrase as an answer to a question regarding their property or practices it can mean just about anything...
A) It can mean that they are serious. They live in a constant state of fear regarding the possibility of a life and death struggle with re-animated human corpses. This is the least likely of the reasons.
B) They have genuine doubts about the continuation of our country. Be it through war or other means, they fear that the country will not remain as it is for the foreseeable future. However they don’t want to sound like a tin-hat conspiracy theorist, so they use the zombie excuse.
C) They are concerned with defense or survival given their current living conditions. They could live in a bad neighborhood, a bad part of town, etc. When the wife or friends ask why they own a firearm, they use zombies – because open discussion about having to defend yourself will alienate someone and cause an issue.
D) They simply enjoy gathering equipment, and it is a hobby, but if they face the financial sum of what they’ve purchased… they’ll commit suicide. It is simple justification for what is more a hobby than a necessity (in their minds).
E) They are full blown nut jobs. They firmly believe that the CIA is currently observing them, wire-tapping their phones, poisoning their water, and that even their own family members are government plants while they were unconscious in a laboratory in Nevada in 1975. They’ll use zombies as an excuse because they don’t want to use any key words which will get picked up on their phone and give them away.
F) They just genuinely enjoy shooting, hiking, hunting, etc. They for some reason feel though that a conversation is moved along quickly by simply using the "z" word.
The zombie excuse covers all reasons and possibilities. It prevents uncomfortable conversations, and normally gets a laugh and the subject is forgotten. Sometimes when a touchy subject comes up, discretion is the best idea. If you perceive or recognize a threat, or potential threat, sometimes you don’t need to announce it loudly and proudly. Some people are not worth getting into a political or cultural conversation with.
If you’re on a first date and a young lady sees some firearms in your house – will you use the zombie excuse, or launch into a discussion on crime statistics of the local area and why you feel the need to be armed for your own safety?
In the past, our culture was not so averse to identifying or naming our enemies. We had "Jerries" and “Japs,” “Gooks” and “Commies.” There was always a suitable enemy, and a bevy of enjoyable nicknames and stereotypes to go along with them. There were threats in the world, and we recognized them, identified them, and scorned them. Now for those concerned with international threats, the zombie excuse is also plausible.
Look at companies who make products which are serious, lethal, or training products. Hornady just announced Z-MAX ammunition, intended for use on zombies. However, this is quality defensive ammunition. It’s easier and more fun to advertise and sell quality ammunition to someone under the guise of zombies than it is to sell it to them under the real intension of using it to save your life or the lives of your loved ones.
Many firing ranges in the US restrict the use of “human shaped” targets… but I bet you could slip in some zombie targets and people would laugh (all the while getting proper training in). The zombie excuse puts people at ease. It takes the edge of those who oppose the use of violence in self-defense. It’s a gentler, kinder threat than those that really face people in today’s world.
In the end you’ll find that zombies are the perfect bad guy, and the perfect excuse.
I always say I'm preparing for zombies so people don't think I'm a crazy guy hoarding guns and ammo lol.
Taken from another site....
...
In the end you’ll find that zombies are the perfect bad guy, and the perfect excuse.
+1.4 TRILLION!
Good find, well stated!
"Sir, why do you have so much ammo? Do you go shooting every day? And what's with all this food, water, camping gear, and other stuff you don't need unless you're trekking into the Yukon?"
"For when the zombies come..."
"Haha, I always liked your sense of humor, let's go get a beer!"
Do you mean a cold steel vaquero? Because I know their entire line and have never seen a blade called the vakra...
http://www.coldsteel.com/kukrimachetes.html
Kukri machete. The littler one. Which is still about a foot long. Should go through zombies all day long NP.
<object width="640" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uaTbOGcsXoE&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uaTbOGcsXoE&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></embed></object>
KevDen2005
10-18-2011, 18:06
I don't really want to spend the money on the Zombie Tools knives, but they appear really well built. I like their support for small businesses around them too (according to their website). If I had the money I would definitely get the kukri (sp?).
soldier-of-the-apocalypse
10-18-2011, 20:09
zombies are already here IMHO in fact I think i work with one its actually pretty sad. I do beleive that a zomibie outbreak is not as far fetched as it may seem there are alot of viruses the can exibit zombie like behavior such as rabies or the mad cow disease, now if these diseases mutated we could have a zombie problem.
Byte Stryke
10-18-2011, 20:34
zombies are already here IMHO in fact I think i work with one its actually pretty sad. I do beleive that a zomibie outbreak is not as far fetched as it may seem there are alot of viruses the can exibit zombie like behavior such as rabies or the mad cow disease, now if these diseases mutated we could have a zombie problem.
HECK YEAH!!!
Thats a positive attitude!
[Beer]
it could happen!
soldier-of-the-apocalypse
10-18-2011, 20:57
Sleeping sickness "At first it will cause headaches, aching muscles and maybe itching. But in the late stages, when the parasites have invaded the brain, the signs become more obvious and ominous. Victims find it hard to concentrate. They become irritable, their speech is slurred and they stop eating. Their daily rhythm becomes disrupted to such an extent that they can't sleep at night and find it almost impossible to stay awake during the day. It even becomes very hard for them to do simple mental tasks, such as drawing a straight line. This is an infection that carries nightmarish qualities, reducing many of its victims to a zombie-like state before they go into a coma and die. Those that do survive can be left with irreparable brain damage."
Rabies, rabies can, under certain conditions, approximate some of the conditions of the zombie lust for brains. The rabies virus causes massive inflammation, or swelling, of the brain, and it's most often transmitted by bites from infected animals. About 55,000 people die annually from rabies, with almost all of these deaths occurring in Asia and Africa. Although vaccines do exist (indeed, it was Louis Pasteur's successful treatment of a rabies-infected child that brought us into the modern age of vaccinations), they have to be administered before the onset of symptoms if the patient is to survive.
Necrosis = rotting flesh very nasty see picturehttp://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/06/340x_necrosis-snakebite.jpg
Dysarthria,
This in turn causes difficulty in articulation, which can take the form (among many possible manifestations) of an inability to communicate in more than unintelligible noises. The condition can be brought on by traumatic brain injury, metabolic diseases like Lou Gehrig's or Parkinson's, or a stroke, all of which lead to a loss of control over the vocal muscles. Possible affected areas include the ability to regulate the volume of speech, the ability to create the proper inflection, and, most importantly for our purposes, the ability to create the correct sounds of speech.
LeprosyWell...sort of. The truth is (as usual) rather more complicated. First of all, it's a myth that leprosy causes body parts to rot away and fall off - indeed, there really aren't any diseases that can actually make limbs fall off (although, as discussed earlier, necrosis can necessitate the amputation of dead limbs). Leprosy can cause damage and numbness in its victims, which could cause a slow, shuffling walk that might have inspired the gait that we associate with zombies. The main external symptom of leprosy is the outbreak of extensive skin lesions, which gives the skin a diseased, decaying appearance not unlike that of the common conceptions of zombies.
Robert217
10-18-2011, 23:16
Heck yah! I have one at my work also!
Robert217
10-20-2011, 07:14
http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp
The CDC knows they are coming. They don't mention zombie killin bullets in there preparedness plan though. Guess FEMA will take care of you!
I assumed the Zombie apocalypse would be in 2012 if the Obamination gets in for a second term?
Democrats and Zombies have the same vacant expression!
I assumed the Zombie apocalypse would be in 2012 if the Obamination gets in for a second term?
Democrats and Zombies have the same vacant expression!
If that's the case I only have 13 months to prepare! Crap! That's not enough time to build my bugout shack up near Conifer!
Robert217
10-20-2011, 09:56
I assumed the Zombie apocalypse would be in 2012 if the Obamination gets in for a second term?
Democrats and Zombies have the same vacant expression!
I agree but there all puppets. Except for Ron Paul, but the establishment won't let that happen. Why would we want to investigate the fed? Everyone loves these dollars.
http://www.coldsteel.com/kukrimachetes.html
Kukri machete. The littler one. Which is still about a foot long. Should go through zombies all day long NP.
<object width="640" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uaTbOGcsXoE&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uaTbOGcsXoE&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></embed></object>
Wow! I'm not really a "blade man", but I'd like to have one of those! Only $26.99, with the sheath? Dang. Now, WTH would I use it for.....
Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.2.3 Copyright © 2025 vBulletin Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.