Hillbillies and guns.

[Blind groper]

To Lak Lak

The word 'hillbilly' means less to me than to an American. I found it interesting that my American visitor used it as a synonym for 'idiot'. She described the kind of person we all know about as a 'redneck hillbilly'. You can argue that the gun totin', right wing, survivalist type is not an idiot if you like, though I will not believe you.

[Seth]

Interesting how my description of my American visitor attracted a focus on Oregon. Her state of origin is the least important thing about her. Much more important was the fact that she was well read, well educated, very intelligent, and knew what she was talking about.

Those who focus on irrelevancies like which state someone comes from are usually people who do not know what they are talking about.

One can be well-read, well-educated, and give the appearance of being very intelligent and still be mentally deranged, which happens to be the case with liberals, who suffer from delusions and errors of logic originating in a malformed and infantile personality disorder. This particularly applies to Oregonian liberals, who sadly reinforce the delusions they suffer by associating exclusively with other mentally ill liberals (which is something of a redundant term, "liberal" being an adequate definition of deep-seated mental illness).

Just remember Ted Bundy was well-read, well-educated and very intelligent...and a psychopathic killer.

[Seth]

To Lak Lak

The word 'hillbilly' means less to me than to an American. I found it interesting that my American visitor used it as a synonym for 'idiot'. She described the kind of person we all know about as a 'redneck hillbilly'. You can argue that the gun totin', right wing, survivalist type is not an idiot if you like, though I will not believe you.

Problem is, her bigoted opinion fails to account for all the upper-class and middle-class white-collar suburban and urban residents who are also "preppers" who cling to their guns and bibles and store supplies (and build million-dollar bunkers if they have the cumshaw). There's way more of them than there are "redneck hillbillies," it's just neither you nor your jackass friend know about them because A&E doesn't make "reality" shows about them because they are not stupid enough to trade their family's security and safety for 15 minutes of fame, so they practice the first rule of prepping: Shut the fuck up about your disaster preparations.

Ignorant liberal cunts from Oregon are the idiots in this discussion I'm afraid. The good news is that this sort of ignorant liberal won't last long at all if and when the Zombie Apocalypse occurs, and those of us with a modicum of intelligence and rational understanding of the risks of life won't have to put up with their bilge and bigotry any more.

[laklak]

I'm hardly surprised, BG. Like I said, people who have never been closer to the Appalachians than a rerun of The Beverly Hillbillies just know what the over 25 million people who live in those 420 counties across 13 states are like. Yep, inbred, gun totin' morons, the lot of them, I saw it on MSNBC. But that's OK, they have their opinions of us and I have my opinions of them. Plus, if they come here we'll just kill them and feed what we don't eat to the bears. The Sheriff is one of us'uns, so no worries.

[piscator]

[Blind groper]

To Seth

You still do not realise that this idea of apocalypse is just paranoia.

Paranoia, in case you had not realised, is classified as a mental illness.

[klr]

I'm hardly surprised, BG. Like I said, people who have never been closer to the Appalachians than a rerun of The Beverly Hillbillies just know what the over 25 million people who live in those 420 counties across 13 states are like. Yep, inbred, gun totin' morons, the lot of them, I saw it on MSNBC. But that's OK, they have their opinions of us and I have my opinions of them. Plus, if they come here we'll just kill them and feed what we don't eat to the bears. The Sheriff is one of us'uns, so no worries.

You have bears? I'm jealous.

[laklak]

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

To Seth

You still do not realise that this idea of apocalypse is just paranoia.

Paranoia, in case you had not realised, is classified as a mental illness.

It doesn't take a zombie apocalypse to create an emergency.
Bad shit can (and does) happen any time. I think it short-sighted to pretend otherwise.

How likely are you to need the first-aid kit in your car?
Is it paranoia to keep one there?

[piscator]

[Blind groper]

How likely are you to need the first-aid kit in your car?
Is it paranoia to keep one there?

I think we can all distinguish between a harmless, but potentially life saving first aid kit, and the accumulation of lethal arsenals in assorted bomb shelters. The first is prudence. The second is insanity.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Did I mention arsenals and bomb shelters? I don't think I did.

I was thinking more about food and drinking water stockpiles. But, for the record, I see nothing wrong in arming oneself to guard said stockpile from those who might want to deprive you of them in an emergency...You know...The short-sighted people who didn't have the good sense to make contingency plans themselves, etc. and complain on forums about those that might.

And what's so harmful about a survival shelter, anyway? I think you'll find that most government and military leaders have some sort of bunker to retreat to if need arises. Why the fuck shouldn't the civilian population?

Seriously, man. If you see no need to prep then that's fine, but do you really have to piss, whinge and issue insults incessantly about anyone in possession of anything more dangerous than blunt-ended scissors? It's tedious and offensive and you're the one who sounds paranoid to me.

'ZOMFG!! SOMEONE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET HAS A GUN!!!1!!'

[pErvinalia]

Yep. I see no problem with people being prepared. BG lives in fantasy land of unicorns and pink ponies and doesn't understand the precarious state civilisation is in at the moment.

I also have no problem if people in the US want to kill each other in the thousands with their guns. It has no effect on me. I think it's stupid, but that's about all that I could be bothered saying on the subject. Shoot yourselves as much as you want. There's far bigger things in the world to worry about than firearms in the US.

[Seth]

To Seth

You still do not realise that this idea of apocalypse is just paranoia.

Paranoia, in case you had not realised, is classified as a mental illness.

Actually it's just humorous sarcasm, which seems beyond your ken.

It's merely prepperspeak which means "any natural or man-made disaster that results in chaos, anarchy and/or civil disorder where individuals will be left without government support, aid or protection and will be required to fend for themselves."

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

"any natural or man-made disaster that results in chaos, anarchy and/or civil disorder where individuals will be left without government support, aid or protection and will be required to fend for themselves."

I would argue that any man-made disaster is most likely to have been caused by government in the first place. - A small and perhaps irrelevant point, I know...