Bonekickers .. gets kicked

[m300572]

Gorilla, I suspect if the end of civilisation came in a "Survivors" type scenario (out of interest who remembers the original series?) your last choice would be the most likely one for the few that got away - personally if I survived I would be looking for as many people as possible with useful skills, taking over a small village somewhere as a base for a community and tooling up with enough hardware that if anyone tried to take it away I could kill them without any real difficulty. I suspectthat the willingness to be absolutely brutal in defence of your own set up would be the key to long term survival - the scenarios always show groups of raiders taking from the surviving groups who have set up communities.

[Oxbeast]

Groups of raiders only appear because they are essential to the plot. Otherwise it would just be booze, veggies, and shagging. and who would want to watch that? It would just be that Castaway programme all over again.
My bolthole of choice in a last surviors/zombie situation would be Wroughton Airfield. There is a secure perimeter, its own herd of deer and all the agricultural machinery/old technology from the science museum's storage hangars that you could want. Even steam powered cars.

[Sith]

quote:Originally posted by m300572

I suspectthat the willingness to be absolutely brutal in defence of your own set up would be the key to long term survival

That's probably true but it doesn't sound like much fun. For set up read 'individual', all being absolutely brutal to one another. And that's probably just the arguements over attitudes to IfSA (Instituite for Surviving Archaeologists).

D. Vader
Senior Consultant

Vader Maull & Palpatine
Archaeological Consultants

Your lack of archaeological imagination disappoints me Curator

[Windbag]

I suspect we would see a change in settlement pattern- back to those windy old hilltops where you can see people coming from a long way away, much loved by people during troubled times.

[Curator Kid]

I'd quickly find as many people as I could (hopefully one of them would be Ray Mears!), and go and form a new country on the Isle of Wight.

[BAJR Host]

I'll stay put, and defend my veg plot to the death!

"Gie's a Job.."
Prof. 'Dolly' Parton

[Curator Kid]

I hope your veg patch has a high wall Mr. Hosty, or else if it's a Zombie situation, you'd soon find yourself shuffling mindlessly off to the nearest shopping mall to scrabble pointlessly against the windows methinks...[xx(]

[mercenary]

I reckon we'd do just fine (used to co-operative work, practical skills, used to adversity and all that), until anyone a bit more predatory found us. Then we'd roll over and do whatever they told us, even if we knew better. Not a lot of backbone in us collectively I suspect; how else can you explain our industry pay and conditions.

[angi]

OH NO! Someone just pointed out on Britarch that it's the end of the Bonekickers Drinking Game!

[BAJR Host]

... hmmm perhaps the DVD does have more use than a coaster after all. ?

[:I]

"Gie's a Job.."
Prof. 'Dolly' Parton