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I know if I started questioning slugs, I'd start wondering.

Indeed, don't take chances, people. Although with an obesity epidemic at least we can expect some of them to be very slow.

I'd steer clear of anything witha built in battery, if your lifetsyle is anything like mine. Unlike the hipster d-bags these things are designed for I roam about the country for extended periods of more than four or five hours. Meaning my new dinky 4 gig machine, while small enough to swallow whole, runs out of battery long before time. Yet again, a mobile machine which isn't really mobile.

Tale, you are the wave of the future, and I intend to surf you. Chainlink over all graveyards.

I need to get on with my redecorating. Good luck with yours, and remember to try books on tape. Keeps you amused, but lets you concentrate on the work.

Sorry, framerate. I'm Queenside so can't help with Orange County. Anyoen else help out? Surely Obsidian should have a company sponsored scheme of sorts? Krookie, the minimart might be a liability. Looters would be sure to head there. Speaking of which I've been wondering how to camouflage/hide my stash of food. One thought I had was to store some of the tinned goods inside tins of paint. Also, I was thinking of using the papered over fireplaces. Not for the main stash, you understand, but for the latter stages. It also occurred to me that if anyone does get the upper hand it might be wise to let them find at least one decent stash of stuff, to placate them. Weapons wise I must say I'm against firearms on the grounds that they need ammunition. I like theslug's idea of an improvised spear. Except, you know, not improvised. I'm also rather nervous about theslug.

The stupidness is not how the mistake Lara as a perp with a gun, but arresting the guy for over it. Gotta love stupid moderators.

As you know, as a responsible community, Obsidian fora are committed to supporting and encouraging the preparation and use of zombie survival schemes.* For those of you new to the forum this means we encourage members to think about, train for, and be supportive of survival in the face of a zombie holocaust. Speaking for myself, I have two negatives to own up to. 1. My store of emergency foodstuffs has been eaten, and needs to be replaced. I keep meaning to do something about it, but failing miserably. 2. One reason I have not done much recently is that being a member of the Territorial Army it is now my obligation to be called up in the event of a zombie outbreak, and witness the progressive disintegration of my unit, finally fleeing crosscountry in commandeered transport while smoking a looted cigar. On the positive side I can report being fit enough to pass the ZET fitness test, and am also in possession of a sharpened entrenching tool. *Can anyone do us a logo?

1. That's just not born out by the facts. Most natural disasters don't seriously affect population. Exception with be meteorites, and the odd volcanic eruption.

I think that's just the minimum entry requirement. For alcoholism, or for the military? (On my 3rd gin&tonic) I sthere a difference?

I don't see how that's stupid. The cops get a call telling them about someone with a gun, and they mistake a lifesized model of someone holding a gun for someone with a gun.

1. Comparing who did what Granted we (US & UK) did topple Mossadeq. In fact I'd remind you that Britain is considered far more dubious by Iranians than the USA. But we are talking about NOW. I mean, statute of limitations, for heaven's sake. What's next? France placing sanctions on Great Britain for our dishonourable conduct at Agincourt? How about the seizure of embassy staff by revolutionary cadres in 1979 violating every principle of peaceful democracy. 2. Iran being singled out instead of Israel You conveniently forget that Pakistan also has nuclear weapons. Which I can understand since they are next door to Iran. More importantly there is a difference between who has a weapon and what they intend to do with it. Iran is an aggressive power locally whose support of terrorism in Iraq is killing thousands of people. Hell, they cheerfully consigned millions of their own men to death in the war with Iraq. Or I should say the ruling mullahs did. The people of course were and still are scarred by the experience. Which is kinda the point. Dictatorships are militarily aggressive by their nature. Particularly when they are divided at home. Further, Iran has the largest conventional military in the region. Including the basij you're looking at two million men. Factor in the geography (predeominantly mountainous), and there's really little plausible reason to aim for a nuclear deterrent. 3. You clearly follow mid-eastern politics. I hardly think you can be ignorant of the way policy statements are over-egged. You just said as much in your defence of Ahmedinejad (which was interesting nonetheless).

I agree it's important to point out to the naive that South Africans who are black suffered deliberate destruction of their social and cultural structures under apartheid. Education was specifically aimed at producing 'worker drones'. Minimal English, mathematics, and so on. Just enough to make servants you could order around without learning their language. The resistance movements ordered people to disrupt this 'Bantu' education with violence and non-attendance. This further weakened teh education of several generations. As a consequence many neighbourhoods in South Africa can be better regarded as post-apocalyptic. However, as Homer Simpson says, just because we understand doesn't mean we care.* A history of white oppression explains, but cannot morally excuse the current meltdown. Which I know is harsh, considering the extremity of the damage white rule did. However, until we begin to take responsibility for how things are - instead of blaming others - progress it quite simply impossible. The New South Africa is smart enough, moral enough, and rich enough to be making headway on these issues if only it would face the challenges. *Before anyone complains, it is LISA, crying: "You don't understand!" HOMER: "Lisa, honey, just because I don't CARE doesn't mean I don't understand..."

I've heard this one before and it has never seemed a reasonable argument to me. I would be more willing to believe that conspiracy people tend to attack Israel because it is easy and because it fits well into their already laid out line of atacking their own or any other relevant government. Edit: For direction. I agree it seems a wee bit harsh to accuse all conspiracists of being anti-semites. I mean, what about those subterranean lizard guys? Are the lizards Jewish? *briefly considers drawing a lizard with a monocle saying 'mazeltov' behind the Queen.*

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7418885.stm The conference has ended with the Junta graciously accepting a plea for 5.5 bn UKP. I'm sorry

John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos. More resonant than ever. One of those classics that deserves its chops.

If memory serves it's an old Israeli joke. They have it on T-shirts. "Don't worry America, Israel's behind you."

I quite liked France's entry, and am in fact listening to it again.

Something to keep in mind is the ethnic diversity of Iran. They need foreign bogie men to hold their country together.

Happy to oblige Not sure if it allows direct linking... I see.... *saves before re-entering mazelike statement* Aiiiieeee! A subjunctive spinning blade trap!

While your making the tea could someone please draw me a map of Brdavs last two statements? I'm struggling to find my way around them, like a fat man in a hallway designed for narrow dwarves. EDIT: I see in the Presidency thread that Yuusha has suggested America should use peaceful negotiation before force with Iran. 1) Full military restraint has been observed with Iran, including over numerous provocative 'mock' attacks by fast boats in the Gulf (Stratfor reported) 2) Iran's pasdaran continue to train, finance, and support insurgents in Iraq. 3) The USA has accepted and participated in numerous talks over the last 10 months with Iran. This suggests to me that it is Iran who is proceeding in bad faith, not the USA.

Mnyaaaah... what's up, Doc?

I think that's just the minimum entry requirement.

Please send photos. I need to make a small bronze statuette of you and worship you as my Lord. 'Lol' would be an insulting underestimate. *shock and awe* Anyway... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...oldiers%27.html And yes, I'd kind of like some facts to support the notion that we've been fanning sectarian violence. You know, besides our servicemen and women dying in peacekeeping roles in places like Sierra Leone, Kosovo, and Ireland. Never mind Iraq and Afghanistan, which would be laughably easy to 'win' if we were able to pick a side the way Iran has. There are no damn troops free to invade Iran. There haven't been for years. It's not an option. The only possible conclusion is that far from an Iranian invasion being a conspiracy by neocons, it's a conspiracy by 'peace' buffs and anti-americanists.

I'd like to be completely tasteless, and say that I genuinely thought for a second that this was about Kurt Cobain.