General / Off-Topic The safest place

[WeComeInPeace]

Bruce was able to stop the gun bullets with his Nunchaku !

Sounds like you haven't seen the original "Django" (1966) movie yet. In that case it's highly recommended. Perhaps the best non-Leone spaghetti western I've seen, and I've seen "a few". I also loved Keoma, but Django was more bad to the bone.

 

[lysan]

I remember when I was a kid at school.

In the canteen sometimes there was pudding for dessert.

We were 8 children per table and the flan arrived in a large container to share in 8 parts.

Once, the first of the table spat in the flan. Nobody wanted the dessert that day.

IF YOU DONT EAT YOUR MEAT, YOU CANT HAVE YOUR PUDDING!

 

[[PS4] Filthymick420]

I feel pretty safe in Pennsylvania with things like good doctors and affordable insurance and medications and vaccines. I don't know how you guys can take your chances in crazy places with ridiculous animals and spiders that will try to eat your children, I'll pass on all that. the worst thing we got here is drug addicts

 

[lysan]

Many years ago I worked with two guys. One was a high ranked taekwondo youth champion, and the other had learned to fight on the streets while he grew up in a rather bad hood. The taekwondo guy was always bragging that taekwondo was sublime to any other martial art and that any street fighter would lose a fight against him (this was way before MMA). One day the streetfighter said "Ok, if you're that good, prove it !".

Then we all went outside, and watched the "fight". The taekwondo guy did some very impressive roundhouse kicks, while he was saying strange noises, but every time he kicked, the street fighter just took a step backwards. He ended up with his back towards a wall, and everyone held their breath, waiting for the final kick. Then the street fighter took a deep breath, stepped forwards, grabbed the leg coming towards him, and with one single punch broke the nose of the taekwondo guy. Then we all went back inside

That somehow lowered my respect for martial arts slightly, until I saw Royce Gracie in the first couple of UFCs.

Taekwondo is mostly legs, not very effective in a real fight.
however if you combine it with different styles there are good moves.
I prefer a mix of kyokushin karate, Krav Maga, jiu jitsu and boxing.

But as I get older my trusted wheelie 357 S&W is the preferred choice

 

[lysan]

I feel pretty safe in Pennsylvania with things like good doctors and affordable insurance and medications and vaccines. I don't know how you guys can take your chances in crazy places with ridiculous animals and spiders that will try to eat your children, I'll pass on all that. the worst thing we got here is drug addicts

I would say the usual NPC drones are the worst, I take dangerous spiders and such any day compared to those.

 

[jasonbarron]

Taekwondo is mostly legs, not very effective in a real fight.
however if you combine it with different styles there are good moves.
I prefer a mix of kyokushin karate, Krav Maga, jiu jitsu and boxing.

But as I get older my trusted wheelie 357 S&W is the preferred choice

I appreciate the sentiment. For comparison, there's a sign at the locked gate of the long winding driveway up to my house: Trespassers Will Be Shot. Survivors Will Be Shot Again.

 

[[PS4] Filthymick420]

Trespassers will be taken captive and eaten. Simple as that

 

[Speedcuffs]

I appreciate the sentiment. For comparison, there's a sign at the locked gate of the long winding driveway up to my house: Trespassers Will Be Shot. Survivors Will Be Shot Again.

Seems very clear to me.

 

[askavir]

I would say the usual NPC drones are the worst, I take dangerous spiders and such any day compared to those.

At least spiders are reasonable.

 

[Synkreto]

Taekwondo is mostly legs, not very effective in a real fight.
however if you combine it with different styles there are good moves.
I prefer a mix of kyokushin karate, Krav Maga, jiu jitsu and boxing.

But as I get older my trusted wheelie 357 S&W is the preferred choice

Anyone who thinks opening their legs wide to bring a foot up to the opponent's ear is a good Idea in a real fight ....does not know what they are doing .

True Story . If in doubt, Jack Reacher can show you .

 

[Patrick_68000]

Seems very clear to me.

Difficult to make clearer !

 

[jasonbarron]

It's interesting to consider that most states in America don't even have the ability to check for the virus, and the ones that do start testing a handful of the most critical and lo and behold begin finding positive.

Now that more information has come in to sort of demystify the outbreak, I'm arriving at the conclusion that it's been circulating in America (and globally) for far longer than we've previously thought, probably for months, and numerous people have contracted it and either gotten over it without knowing it was anything other than the flu or a cold, or perished and were chalked up to the common flu.

In other words: we aren't seeing the "beginning" of the outbreak, we're just now getting around to looking for it.

 

[Patrick_68000]

In France the former director general of health and epidemiologist, said that the worst is not to be excluded.

According to him in the worst, between 5 and 10 million people could be infected in France.

 

[babelfisch]

I am mildly concerned about hysterical and irrational people, which currently seems to be the most dangerous thing.

 

[Northpin]

Scientists rank safest spots to run to if apocalyptic outbreak begins to wipe out humanity

SCIENTISTS have worked out the safest places for you to be if a sudden global pandemic threatens to wipe out humanity. They focused on islands because they are naturally isolated from the spread of…

www.thesun.co.uk

Australia
New Zealand
Iceland
Malta
... are the top 4.

Suddenly remembers that old, post-apocalyptic movie... what was its name? Oh yea, "On the Beach"

 

[LanceLord]

Scientists rank safest spots to run to if apocalyptic outbreak begins to wipe out humanity

SCIENTISTS have worked out the safest places for you to be if a sudden global pandemic threatens to wipe out humanity. They focused on islands because they are naturally isolated from the spread of…

www.thesun.co.uk

Australia
New Zealand
Iceland
Malta
... are the top 4.

Damn. Looks like Fiji and the Solomon Islands got left out the top 5 again.....

BTW: an island isn't necessary the defacto "safe" haven. It only takes the outbreak of a new strain of the flu to wipe out the entire population on the island in TWD style.

IMO Antartica and Greenland should be at the top of that list.

 

[Cmdr Nemo]

Mate we're a nation of beach goers if you do live on a coastal seaboard. You don't swim with sharks. They come inshore following school fish during warm currents because that's their feed stock; not humans despite t\heir reputation as ruthless killers.

Not all sharks are killers but, thanks to Steven Spielberg, some sharks have gotten a bad reputation.

Sharks in general don't feed on human's, that is to say that they don't deliberately target us to eat. That said, with only a mouth which contains a lot of teeth, they can only inspect just what we are by tasting; And that's were the issue is. Sharks generally will taste a human only once, on occasion there will be more than one shark and thus multiple taste, it's not like one does and tells the rest we taste like . In the the tasting process which comes in the form of a bite, will cause major damage and or death because of the bite causing one to bleed out first.

One must never forget that unlike on land where everything has major and some minor preferences.EVERYTHING in the ocean's is ready willing and able to eat everything in the oceans. Ironically the most dangerous thing in the ocean to us and other life forms is actually the Box Jellyfish (Chironex Fleckeri). They are so small and almost invisible. There tentacles can cause death in a matter of a few minutes. Though mostly present in tropical water's, they are adapting to more frigid water's and thus have extended to other area's where we enter the water.

I retired and moved to Mazatlan Mexico, though I did a lot of research prior to moving here, I somehow over looked the fact that the Box Jellyfish is a very prevalent and constant issue to the area's water. The water off Mazatlan are a constant is never changing 72 degree's and the box Jellyfish seem to prefer it here vs over anywhere else. One can walk along the beach and see them washed up on shore sometimes in great numbers, all of which are still deadly until such time as the sun completely cooks them. At a couple of weeks shy of 71, and not wanting to die until the total solar eclipse in a couple of year (last thing on bucket list) I never go in the ocean!

 

[lysan]

No virus in Greenland as of yet.

 

[Patrick_68000]

No virus in Greenland as of yet.

And the global warming ?



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[Schembri]

Malta I'm from there, I don't know where to start to tell you how wrong is that!
let's see.... food produciton does not cover a fraction of the population, 50% of the water (if not mroe that is infor of 10 years ago) is made by RO plants, no power = no water.
Country is corrupt from the top to the bottom - if ships stop coming here there will be chaos and terror and nowhere to run to. I should be leaving here but I can't - don't have accessible options available. Once I tried to go australia but they rejected me.