Have You Ever Thought About..............

OH THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Finally someone responded! LOL! Did you see Enemy Mine? I love that movie, I know it's cheesy, but the message is great. Similiar to what you are decribing in Hell on The Pacific. I'll have to look into that one. Thanks plunk dear, for stopping by! You're the best!

No I haven't seen Enemy Mine and now you have me curious about it.

I see you jumped the gun on us/me...i already gave you h*ll in your other post.
Women, gotta love 'em but there isn't a one who knows the word patience..

I waited 2 HOURS, how's that for patience?

Actually, 2 hours is pretty commendable, love. Of course we have already established that you're far from the norm haven't we?

Whew, thanks I was afraid I was regressing to one of those "bad" women!

Ok. I'd do 1a, 2b and 3a, pretty much, with some variations.

I don't think you'd do 1a. Your 3a reinforces that.
While I haven't known you very long IF, you sure don't strike me as any kind of quitter.
And i can put a period behind that..

Wellll...I've read and watched alot about radiation sickness. NOT something I would want to endure, and then think of the devastation of plant and animal life. I'm not sure I could endure all the dead everything. Might be a long winter and I hate winter. I'm a sunny gal. I'm just not sure my sunny disposition could take all the hits it would take. I know my limitations and I'm just not real sure I could do that one. I KNOW I could do the others, no problemo, might be tough, but if I have my faith, people, animals and the sun, I'd get by.

Now if I lost all my family.....I'm afraid I might turn into some kind of warrior woman. I just wouldn't care until I found someone new to care about...IF I did!

Ya know, this discussion reminds me of one by another friend almost a year ago. And I forget who just now. But I gave a fairly detailed response in that one. If i find it, I'll PM you the link. That'll give you an idea the mind-set I might be in if faced with such a dilemma.

Ok, good. It wasn't the Zombie Apocolyps one was it? LOL! That was Darkjedi's and it was too funny.

Ok, I'd do 1a with gusto! I'd throw my arms wide and scream, "come and get me sucker"! There, does that make you feel better?

I love enemy mine, never heard of Hell on the pacific, will have to find that.

I read it Plunk and I can definately relate. Though married I have NO desire to be the last person on earth by any means. I've no desire to be alone or to be away from my daily life and family. My husband is my best friend, confidant and advisor, what would I do without all that. I cherish it too highly maybe. Being the last on earth....hhmm....I don't know if I could take my own life, but I would probably find a very safe spot and live it out quietly with many many animals around me.

Oh..and I'm interested, plunk ma dear, to know if your username has a meaning.

No, no meaning Friendly. I'd edit it if I could.
It started off being plunkithere (as in; for chat) but because of sort of a long story that won't make a whole lot of sense to you, it became what it is and was too late to go back. You know when you hit that 'send' or 'agree' or whatever it was....Zoooooommmmm, it's gone and that's what you are.. If they ever ban me I might be back reincarnated with a different choice...no I better not tell just yet..

There ya are, I was getting bored!

Ok, that does make more sense. I can see it now! Thanks!

Pretty good answers, fireheart. Welcome to myLot btw.

Ahh gal after my own heart. Although I wouldn't even try on the first one. I'd throw my arms wide and stand in the blast. I just don't want to suffer what I know of radiation sickness and poisoning.{{shudder}} Specifically because of that movie.

Welcome to mylot, very nice answers.

Ha, I knew you did! LOL! Yea, I'd just give it up in the nuclear one. I don't want to live through radiation poisoning.{{shudder}}

I'm like you in the 2nd one. I'd want to stay put and try to form my own, unless there was a better area that could be developed more efficiently. I just watched a documentary on the Hoover Dam facility. It will most likely be the only available electricity after something like this. That plant can run for, possibly, 2 years without human intervention. So surely we could keep it going. It gave quite a bit of info. So that area is a definate possibility.

I'll be one of your GoRillas!

The radiation scenario instantly made me think of Indiana Jones 4, I won't say anything in case you haven't seen it. I haven't heard anything documentary wise on the hoover dam but if it can be run without human intervention for two years that would be the best bet. I don't like moving to far so I guess I would want to stay in the same place, stubborn as a mule.

Do you get Netflix? The documentary was called Life After People, quite interesting!

I wonder how many other people would want to get to the hoover dam too though, and how many would get there and not want others to get there and then you would have to fight.

Shhhh.. don't tell em Darth Pear!

Oh dont worry I wont.

LOL, ok..so yir a loner? Not me, if I find you would you be my friend?

You know you're most likely immune because...YOU'RE still alive!

just because I am still alive doesnt mean that I am immune
it may just be festering and that same would apply to everyone else

;thwaks zu; OK, I told you you were immune so's yir IMMUNE, ok?

OW!!!!
alright alright! I am immune
lets go
we need to get moving so we can find that camp before we lose sunlight

Finally she listens! Ok, so I get to be yir friend then? I can cook and clean and all that jazz! Oh and I can shoot a gun too...and actually HIT something!

cool we can take turns cooking
i can shoot too so I got your back if you got mine

Cool just like Bandidas!

And you two are definetly part of my group, or well im part of yours lol.

Ok,;grabs tess too; Now, we're cooking with gas!

Yeah definetly tess too. My girlfriend too, hopefully by that time we would be together, would be dangerous and a pain the asss to go up and get her lol, but well she loves plants and knows about ALL kinds of plants and always has a garden.

Yip, we'll need to learn wild forgaging. I have some but am still learning plant identification, not as easy as it sounds. LOL! But I know alot of what IS edible.

Yeah I dont know to much about plants lol.

are there any animals left around here?
or did they all die with the rest of the human population?
if so i can hunt, skin and butcher as well as cook just about any critter

It would probably depend on what happened. Nuclear war, well lots of animals in areas with fallout and where the bombs hit would be dead, but others wouldnt be. With the plague, it would depend if it went cross species or not. Like with the stand it killed dogs also, but not other animals. With being invaded, there would be lots of animals around still.

well I will be the hunter
tess can be the gatherer
what you gonna do jedi?
we can just make our own civilization

Ok good, cause I do NOT like the skinning part although I can process it afterwards. The eyes still get to me.

Well I can learn to hunt and skin and all that, and I can learn to garden, and well Ill definetly be one of the defenders, and go out and get stuff we need.

Can you shoot?
better question - can you hit the broad side of a barn when you shoot? LOL

If not...little practice and we'll have him up to snuff. We'd also need those proficient with bow and arrow or throwing knives, neither of which I have the skill for. There's always another weapon du jour! LOL!

if he can at least hit the broad side of a barn we will just find him some grenades or something that you dont have to be 100% precise with LOL

See...there ya go!

Lol rifles I can, never shot a handgun. Its been awhile though, and I used to have a .22 rifle, and shot, and hit, crawdads a few years ago. Hmmm 6 out 10 times I hit, and well animals and humans are a lot bigger then a crawdad lol. Ive also shot a bow before, but that was long long long long long time ago.

Rifles....SWWEEETTTT!

oops i got ahead of myself there i forgot the third. . and now i forget the senario and i can't see it. LOL i'm a smart one today!! oh the invaders.. i would RUN AWAY TO CANADA. wait. i live in canada now.. no one would ever invade canada. .!!

LOL, WHY is that? Are you mean up there or sumpin?

Allow me sissy...

Nope, cuz we are everybody's friend!

Altho...i suspect there are more than a couple nations with their sights on us for our resources. And space.
Thank goodness for our -45 degree weather..
Keep's 'em at bay..

Yea...that'd keep me at bay!{{shudder}}

lol. go snow go go snow go! We are so friendly no one wants to attack us!! we welcome everyone into our country even if they shouldnt be here.. we're jsut so darn generous.

I thought you were in Canada? Not Switzerland!

But our hearts are warm, IF! And if you were standing next to me, I'm a furnace. Besides, warming up digits later can be fun in it's own right. "Slip that foot over here for rub, love..."

Ya the -45 isn't very common. Far more common is 0. Last night was cold though, got down to -12 or so. And today never broke +12.
This is pretty normal for this time of year. We have had it way colder and way milder. We haven't even had our Jan thaw yet...unless it was that one back in Dec.

OMgosh......bbrrrrr. It's nearing 80 here today, which is NOT helping this stupid hot flash I am having! LOL! But hey....

So how long does winter last there? Do you GET a spring and summer?{{shivers}}. I can handle cold, if there's vera little wind and the sun shines at least every 2 days!

This has been one of the sunniest winters I can ever remember. Especially for Non Dec and Jan so far. USually we don't get the sun until late Feb Mar.
Winter here goes Nov 1st to April 1st. Our winter,while way colder, is a lot easier to take than winter in TOR, for example. There it is way milder, but dirty, wet with cold humidity and windy. Just miserable. Our summers are HOT. 75 to 95 as a rule for June July Aug. And often pretty humid, but not as humid as TOR or nearly as humid as New York or Baltimore.
We never get hurricanes, rarely get a tornado and flooding is not a large scale problem here. Many call it God's country..but those are usually the ones who live in TO, haha

5 MONTHS of winter? Ok, now give me what all the little initials mean! LOL!

How maNY montha of winter do you get?
I recall seeing snow on the ground in the very very early episodes of Dallas.
Which shortforms? TO and TOR both is Toronto. Were there others?

Hey Plunk,
Were you born in Canada? How does one handle such cold weather? If it's a dry cold I could do it.
And Irish, does texas get as humid as Florida? I hate the humidity here.

I hate tononto.. and ontario in general i lived there 5 years and came back to nova scotia, we have had hurricanes and giant blizzards, but its all good. its worth it to live here.

Uh...plunk.....that was TV man! LOL! They can MAKE snow ya know! Besides it was probably smog fallout in DALLAS! Let's see...we got snow when my son was 2 I think it was. He's 4 1/2 now. It lasted 2 days...if I remember correctly. Vive La Tejas!

Well i thought it was pretty unusual too, but it was no set stage of snow believe me. I recall the scene cuz it was on about 3 months ago as repeat. Shows a car driving up their long driveway and into the front yard and there was at least a heavy wet 5" of snow everywhere. It was pretty unique cuz never did they show snow in any other episode.
So i guess it was a rare one-off and they went ahead and shot the scene anyway.

leenie, TO is a humid cold. But a few hours north of there it is a dry cold. And usually not as windy. But if it does get windy when the temps are low, then there is significant wind chill and that can make it so you have to wear a scarf so you don't get frost bite. But those are only pretty rare times.

Friendly can confirm, but I'm pretty sure TX is not nearly as humid as FL. I'm curious about that as well.
What about the Rocky Mtn area. It is quite humid in summer there too isn't it?

You mentioned it was 80 the other day. That did surprise me. Is that a normal temp day for there in Jan?
It would be so cool to be able to bike year round down there. What about mosquitos, are they bad where you are?

OH yea..sure...mosquitoes are bad but you can usually get them with a .22, they're a bit big for a BB gun though! Sometimes we just sit out on the porch and watch them try to carry the cats off.

Well 80 isn't normal...no. We've actually had colder winters than I remember in the past, and I was wondering if Global warming just skipped Texas all together.

Oh, just so you know. We do NOT talk like the folks on Dallas. Hollywood just can't get a Texas accent right. Matthew McConaughy's normal accent is pretty close. For some reason Hollywood thinks we all sound like we are from Alabama or Georgia.

LOL,you rock Howard! Brains and humor! See I'm thinking all you cityfolk need to get OUT of there fast. I'm thinking us country folk can help you survive! So head yir train towards Texas and...we'll leave a light on for ya!

Hubba Howie say thanks!

How about if I get ya thinking?

You have small children to protect and your man was away at the time of each scenario so you don't know if he's alive or not and no way to contact him. Now...what would you do?

Or..if it's too much..I understand...some people just don't like to think of this type of thing.

And these types will be the first to die irish.

I disagree, they just need to get the mindset and you'd be quite suprised! LOL!

we probably would be the first to die
But one of my fears is dying so I would probably run like hell!
But then again my kids do come first so I would probably die trying to protect them.
There you got my mind working!

Damn right, and you would do anything to get your kids and family to survive right?

Yes I would!

See..just have to get them in the right frame of mind. As a mum it's threats to the children that do it. LOL!

Yeah lol.

;nods; there's my warrior sistah! heh!

/fleX

;ROAR;

;hands tess a sword; But..dannnng girl...you're gonna have to put on some jeans or get yir legs all scratched up in the lil leather skirt!

add to the other battle scars baby im good in the leather.. more mobility

Ok...but if I run out of plaintain doctoring ya up I'm making ya some Leiderhosen!

ok ewww.. hows leather pants sound then hmmm?

Uh..that's what leiderhosen means! Ain't you german? LOL!

german? o.O dear innocent lass.. imma celt of the finest accord.;stands proud & defiant;

Im half german, but I sure wont ever wear any Leiderhosen lol.

I'm Irish, German and Cherokee.;stand proud too!;

irish/scot with a teensy bit of english, and just enough french to make it so i can tan without incident. gods i cant waitll warm weather..my tan lines are beginnin to fade;cries;

oh yea, tell me about it! Sun sun sun, please I'm so tired of winter already! LOL!

i knowwwww!! and we are under another snowfall over here

F|AI|S!!

hands tess her woolie blankie; I'm SO sorry! It was near 70 here today! But the nights have been cold at below 30 or so.

its 24 degrees right now.. and didnt get above 35 all day. im in need of warm breezes and to lay half nekked in my yard under a blazing sun to thaw out the marrow of mah bones.

;sighs and gives tess my rice sock too; Poor Tess! Come visit!

;tosses rice sock in the microwave, than sits on it; but.. to come visit.. id hafta leave my house and go out into the .. snow;gasp;

Ahh, there's my man! Whew! Ok, in the first I've already explained that to Plunk above. You can see where I'm coming from.

Ha, you've watched ALL the movies and documentaries I've watched. I can tell by your answers. I LOVE Red Dawn! Awesome movie! Crowbar...great input there! Ok, we're with you!

LOl yeah can definetly understand that, but well even if I had radiation poisoning I wouldnt just give up, I would probably keep moving until I couldnt.


Well not all I havent seen the Hoover dam one yet. Havent seen it on, I should probably download it lol, whats the name of it again?


WOLVERINES!!!!!

Hell yeah it is, unfortunetly they are talking about making a remake, ugh. This time not with russians but with, get this, terrorists. Um what? Terrorists? And they have the resources, and all that to actually invade and parachute in or whatever? I think not.


Yep a crowbar, it will open almost anything, and if you have to you can use it as a weapon.

Check this link out, and well site, one of the ones I love.


http://www.zombiesurvivalwiki.com/page/Crowbar+vs+Prybar+(and+Forcible+Entry+Tools)?t=anon

Oh you and your zombies! LOL! I knew you'd fit them in somehow.

It's called Life After People. I got it from Netflix but it was done by the History Channel. Pretty good. What I thought was very interesting was that they went back to the Chernobyl(sp) incident..what was that 20-25 yrs. Anyways, the animals and plants have all come back so that was encouraging in the wake of nuclear holocaust. Radiation was very tolerable too, no suits on those that went back to visit it.

Well of course lol, always have to get that in.


Cool thanks, the download just stopped lol, but its an hour and a half, so dont have time to watch it right now, well all of it anyway.

Wow great show, ive watched about 48 minutes of it, now I must go to work, I will finish it tonight.

Ok, have a good night, see ya later dear!

That was really good.

Glad you liked it!

My reasoning is I've read about radiation poisoning....not pretty to live through it, most likely you won't anyway. Rather make it quick than slow, miserable, ill, messy and painful!