These threads crack me up.

[Sgt Nambu]

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I feel your pain Sarge! We ALL get old and have to make a choice: lay down and quit or make those adjustments as required. Even through my 40's I stayed ripped and strong, but past 50 it seemed every month I would wake up with something new going south. A man just has to work with what he's got. I try to climb Spencer's Butte every day, helps keep the weight down and the wind up. I don't try to push around 300+ pounds on the bench any more, too hard on the old joints... so I put 150 or so on there and bang out long sets instead (endurance strength). I stay careful about what I eat and drink. I'm still a mess, but it's the best mess I can be.

Just do your best, that's what I do! It is pretty danged pathetic sometimes though! LOL!!!

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Yep, most people that are going to go after your stuff usually are looking for easy pickens.
The low lives want defenseless and those that appear weak.
If you appears well armed, and prepared that may help the uneducated derelict types away.

If SHTF, those over 40 should be aware of limitation and act accordingly. I think any firearms owner over 40 whom does not CC is making and error. CC allows a much quicker response, I am over the 1/2 century mark. But always worked and worked out so for a few more years I should be ok. But I also can not avoid the creaks and groans that seems to appear outta know where.

I guess in short, think about your age, like talking with you doctors about ED. LOL you would never want have that talk whom would. But the choice is yours . No special blue pill no fund for you. And Not realizing you are not whom you were 30 years ago is mentally important to know what you can do and not.

In a few short years you will alter your plans completely but that's ok, there still is a plan!

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Burt, that's the same mentality that ended with people jumping out of tall buildings when the first depression stock crash came

Exactly! When paper became paper again these people couldn't deal with it intelectually or emotionally. Going to be seeing this again!

 

[Sgt Nambu]

The same guy brought this thread back. Changed name maybe.

That possibility occurred to me also. Maybe it's the fat "marauder" from " Doomsday Preppers" a few weeks ago! He was hilarious!!!

 

[U201491]

Your typical guy who's prepping is so out of shape, doesn't practice shooting, he's just buying this crap to make himself feel like he's doing something...... and even if he is a closet IPSC Ninja master, he's hardly heading for the hills with wife and kids in tow.

If another Katrina happens, your giving up your guns just like the tough guys in New Orleans. Probably quicker.

ROFLMAO the turdtroll is loose. Who left the door open.

 

[U201491]

Flicker-of-boogeries is just bored with no comic con or Star Trek convention on the horizon. Put this guy on your ignore list.

SF-

Ya don't have to, looks like he was booted. What a butthead.

 

[U201491]

You sure about that? Be ahead of the line coming after them, we’ll compare notes afterwards.

ohhh yes, please do. fickle fugger. Will welcome you well.

 

[U201491]

You got it GOG, meaner too! Pain will do that to you. Some days I get up, leave the house and go where I won't encounter people until I can be a little bit civil!

A little adrenalin makes pain disappear anyway

 

[Trailboss]

Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.

 

[U201491]

Most scumbags won't even see it coming when the hammer comes down

Precisely. Most will still pulling their head out of their gameboy.

 

[U201491]

We can sure see that your typing finger is well exercised.. you should do well when the power goes out. lol

Don't shake with the turd, I have a feeling he uses that finger for other things.

 

[U201491]

Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.

And without wasting time with thought about it.

 

[308]

Re: What Burt said about prepping. Anyone not smart enough to head over to Bob's Red Mill in Milwaukie, Oregon and buy a $30 bag of rice and a $6 food grade storage bucket at least once a month deserves to starve. That place is the perfect place to put together a long-term storage plan. Once you get the carbs stored up, then you can focus in on buying the stuff to make it taste better like spices, gravy mixes, etc. They have all kinds of dry goods. Go get some you guys!!

 

[U201491]

Re: What Burt said about prepping. Anyone not smart enough to head over to Bob's Red Mill in Milwaukie, Oregon and buy a $30 bag of rice and a $6 food grade storage bucket at least once a month deserves to starve. That place is the perfect place to put together a long-term storage plan. Once you get the carbs stored up, then you can focus in on buying the stuff to make it taste better like spices, gravy mixes, etc. They have all kinds of dry goods. Go get some you guys!!

Vacume seal stuff before you put it in those buckets. We cycle things every few years to put up fresh. If it hasn't been vacume sealed it really gets stale tasting. Edible but tastes like hell. Almost any dry goods get like that.
About the only thing that doesn't is salt.
Pastas get really old tasting.
Honey never spoils, but may crystalize.
You can damn near survive on honey and oats alone. Molasses is another good one.
In a pinch non medicated sweet oats from the feed store is very edible also. Boil it up and eat like oatmeal.

 

[stratbastard]

Just one... and I don't think it's a finger. Try a splint. Eugene? Same as ever - LooterTown USA - a fabulously absurd social experiment likely unmatched nationwide in it's epic failure. Now that I'm retired, I'm looking at getting a little mini farm far from here LOL! The altruistic/socialist/parasitic/quasi-intellectuals in this town will look up from their drum circles and cry "how could this happen?!" and promptly begin eating each other.

How many fingers am I holding up.. and how's Eugene?

 

[erudne]

Bobs Red Mill Online At Vitacost.com

But Costco is much cheaper

 

[BigStick]

I wanted to write a snarky comment about people making assumptions, but you guys seem to have it pretty well covered. And in a sittuation where your prepping (or lack there of) matters it won't just make you look stupid, making assumptions will get you dead.

 

[erudne]

Post picture of assault-O-lounger here

 

[Burt Gummer]

When I think prepping I visualize water, food, tools more than I do guns and ammo.

I'll only live five days w/o water, two weeks w/o food. I might be able last months w/o guns/ammo. I know how important defense is, but even in a SHTF scenario I don't see guns/ammo as an immediate concern as much as water/food.

Hostiles are not going to magically teleport themselves to my door the day after SHTF, but my stomach will be growling.

 

[U201491]

One thing about the human mind.
Many of us think we are ready for anything. When it happens we'll discover pretty fast what we forgot, but will learn to adapt without or we will modify and create. Get to 80% prepared and the rest will be doable.