Looks like civilization finally caught up with us.

Mal ,'Bushwhacked'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Trudy Booth - Aug 30, 2005 1:47:56 pm PDT #2748 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I wouldn't fail to stoop to the level that rugby team in Alive did. I'd eat someone to survive, I just wouldn't steal from them.

Oh, ftr, go ahead and eat me if I'm dead in such a circumstance. I'd TOTALLY understand.


Allyson - Aug 30, 2005 1:48:07 pm PDT #2749 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I wouldn't fail to stoop to the level that rugby team in Alive did. I'd eat someone to survive, I just wouldn't steal from them.

You'd eat someone's asscheek but not take his boots?


bon bon - Aug 30, 2005 1:49:13 pm PDT #2750 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I'd eat someone to survive, I just wouldn't steal from them.

I'd steal to survive. I'd maim to survive. These grocery stores-- everything in it is a loss. They will not have customers in the near future. There's no benefit to salvaging any of the merchandise, since it will be covered by insurance and a salvage will be expensive. These people travelling through water to get into grocery stores? They need it.


§ ita § - Aug 30, 2005 1:49:46 pm PDT #2751 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You'd eat someone's asscheek but not take his boots?

Well, is he using the asscheek? The boots?


Allyson - Aug 30, 2005 1:50:16 pm PDT #2752 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Not to get any more morbid, but isnt the water they're traveling through essentially a lake of poison?


Allyson - Aug 30, 2005 1:51:01 pm PDT #2753 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

ita, if he's dead, I'm thinking the only thing he's using is space.


Cashmere - Aug 30, 2005 1:51:12 pm PDT #2754 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.

Well, is he using the asscheek? The boots?

The asscheek is probaby easier to digest than boot leather.


dw - Aug 30, 2005 1:51:25 pm PDT #2755 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval

Info that may be useful to Dana:

A friend of mine from the Jackson area just e-mailed. He still has no power, but he was able to charge up his computer at a local Applebee's. Restaurants and businesses have power.

The problem is gas. He's seeing long lines at the pump and some stations completely out of fuel.


DavidS - Aug 30, 2005 1:51:45 pm PDT #2756 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

After Hurricane Andrew it was complete anarchy through south Florida where my Dad lived for at least five days. They went out on nightly patrol (jeeps, big lights on top, guns) to fend of the looters from their homes. It was creepy and fucked up.

Similar thing happened in SF after the earthquake. Not the looting (very minor here), but with the police pulled away to deal with the emergencies you felt - almost immediately - on the streets a kind of threatening, grab and bully lawlessness emerge. All the lights were out and you suddenly realized that while a good portion of society exists by social contract, there is a substantial portion which is law abiding only because the police are right there.


Cashmere - Aug 30, 2005 1:52:02 pm PDT #2757 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.

He's seeing long lines at the pump and some stations completely out of fuel.

It won't take long for that to get up here.