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.
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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.
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.
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.
http://www.cityofmadera.org/image/im...=1240586173633Quote:
Originally Posted by Atrain1
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.
Have you guys lost it?
Will there be ZOMBIES?
Ah YES!
They are probably right outside the city limits right now!
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[Rant2]Don't say I didn't warn you! [LOL]
Imagine...if only it were real:Quote:
Originally Posted by mevshooter
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".................
Yep!Quote:
Originally Posted by Atrain1
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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:
Originally Posted by dropped_71chevy
[QUOTE=MB888;441661]Yep!
my cat loves cheese..... he must already be infected
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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
only cuz typos have been brought up...Quote:
Originally Posted by TFOGGER
that would be *signs [Tooth]
Dang fat fingersQuote:
Originally Posted by DFBrews
mumble muddy trucker, mumble sunny beach...profanity filters mumble grumble
Haha just blame wrenching for the dexterity lossQuote:
Originally Posted by TFOGGER
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.
You're narc'd aren't you [Scuba]Quote:
Originally Posted by NitroxBoss
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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by rondog
Are you familiar with the term "pop culture?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Outlaw1
Seriously, I work at walmart. I saw at least 6 zombies in that place tonight alone. They live around us, every day.
The Zombie Crawl is coming up....
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by spyder
Nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Outlaw1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_culture
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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!
And now we can't cuss and vent here anymore, so the pressure will just keep building until we explode!Quote:
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.
I think preparing for huge riot is more than enough.
TO some, Riot can be SHTF.
There was the CDC "Zombie preparedness" blog:
http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmat...ie-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
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by mcantar18c
"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!"
I'll be there taking photos again this year. It was a lot of fun last yearQuote:
Originally Posted by mcantar18c
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
3S rule? Remind me which one this is...Quote:
Originally Posted by mcantar18c
Don't go Stupid places to do Stupid things with Stupid people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcantar18c
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
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.
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Originally Posted by 68Charger
This made me lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by DOC
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.
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