If it all went wrong in the UK...

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    I'm off to the Winchester if it get's too bad.

    That's OK for the movies. But for real Zombie attack you need to get somewhere like this. Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel. Take that undead losers.

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  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    What about the swimming Nazi soldier ones though?
  • Buggered if the crew of the Black Pearl decide your number is up too!

    They walk under water and sail on it.
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    My local city is already full of zombies, about 2am on a sunday morning is the best time to spot them....
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    What about the swimming Nazi soldier ones though?


    Oh, please. You take me for an amateur. Flat Holm has four gun positions ready made. As you can see in the illustration. While Nazi Zombies are amongst the most feared zombies, they are few and far between. And mostly based in Argentina. Any threat can be annulled by a carefully placed sand wedge (other better weapons will be available).

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  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Lol,just testing the waters,excellent work Rich.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Lol,just testing the waters,excellent work Rich.

    Reading that Max Brooks book made me think what I would do.

    Mind you, look at films set in Britain:

    Volcano films: 0
    Earthquake films: 0
    Nuclear attack: Threads and several in the 80s
    Zombie films: Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later (not strictly zombies), Dead Set (TV), for example. They're all from the last ten years - a more present threat.

    I'm just playing the odds.
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    We survived a tornado just a couple of years ago. My colleague's flat was damaged and she had to move. Funny (but not to her face) coincidence that we work in a local authorities temporary accommodation dept. If NW London was hit by this imaginary disaster then I would have to go to work, bum. :x
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Pross wrote:
    The worst environmental disaster we are likely to suffer in the UK is major tidal flooding from a storm surge but it would be nothing like that sort of scale.

    Don't be such a naysayer - there's always the possibility of meteorite strikes and maybe a large slab of a Norwegian mountain will fall into the sea causing a tsunami.

    Think big, real big.
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    I'm off to the Winchester if it get's too bad.

    I'm off to Midsomer.
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  • unixnerd
    unixnerd Posts: 2,864
    there's always the possibility of meteorite strikes and maybe a large slab of a Norwegian mountain will fall into the sea causing a tsunami.

    Mate of mine was at a very dull risk assessment for an upcoming offshore trip. He asked, "what happens if a meteorite hits the back deck"? It all had to be looked into, he was never asked to another :-)
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    johnfinch wrote:
    Don't be such a naysayer - there's always the possibility of meteorite strikes and maybe a large slab of a Norwegian mountain will fall into the sea causing a tsunami.

    Think big, real big.

    Isn't it somewhere in the Canaries that's a real threat (for the same reason)?
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  • Oi RichN95, get your hands off Flatholm. Its part of Somerset, England not Wales.

    Oh no civilisation has fallen apart already :cry:
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    RichN95 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Don't be such a naysayer - there's always the possibility of meteorite strikes and maybe a large slab of a Norwegian mountain will fall into the sea causing a tsunami.

    Think big, real big.

    Isn't it somewhere in the Canaries that's a real threat (for the same reason)?

    Norway's more of a threat to us. And it has happened before - I think in 8000BC.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Oi RichN95, get your hands off Flatholm. Its part of Somerset, England not Wales.

    Oh no civilisation has fallen apart already :cry:

    P!ss off Scrumpy. It's Welsh. Look it up. If you try and take it we'll defeat you with our love spoons and daffodils (but mostly with our secret weapon, Craig Bellamy)
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  • Andywyre
    Andywyre Posts: 73
    What are you all going on about?????????????

    Just go out and buy a bike, you won't have time to watch telly nor any interest in doing so and i haven't bought a newspaper in 10 years.

    Just find some sand put your head in and join the rest of us.


    Good luck all ye worries.
  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
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  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    Pedal!!! wrote:
    Head to dartmoor with a tent and some canned food :D

    and wait for Gazza to turn up
  • Slapshot
    Slapshot Posts: 211
    The Cumbre Vieja in the Canaries......that slips then the eastern seaboard of the US has had it.

    There were sub sea landslips in the Norwegian sea; the Storrega Slides between 8150 and 6000BC the most investigated
  • Oi RichN95, get your hands off Flatholm. Its part of Somerset, England not Wales.

    Oh no civilisation has fallen apart already :cry:
    Somerset has but sold stepholm.
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    Ain't going to get flooded, too far from the sea or a major river.
    Not close enough to a nuclear power plant to worry about a large enough dose of radiation to bother me.
    The next ice age won't be in my lifetime.
    Only worry is that enough idiots will vote Labour at the next election, for them to get back in power & shovel more money out of the pockets of those who work to earn it, into those who either don't or pretend to on Government payrolls.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    You could loot your local Evans and get some nice new kit?
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    johnfinch wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Don't be such a naysayer - there's always the possibility of meteorite strikes and maybe a large slab of a Norwegian mountain will fall into the sea causing a tsunami.

    Think big, real big.

    Isn't it somewhere in the Canaries that's a real threat (for the same reason)?

    Norway's more of a threat to us. And it has happened before - I think in 8000BC.

    So what about the tidal wave that hit the Bristol Channel in 1607?
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  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    Ain't going to get flooded, too far from the sea or a major river.
    Not close enough to a nuclear power plant to worry about a large enough dose of radiation to bother me.
    The next ice age won't be in my lifetime.
    Only worry is that enough idiots will vote Labour at the next election, for them to get back in power & shovel more money out of the pockets of those who work to earn it, into those who either don't or pretend to on Government payrolls.

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  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    Sirius631 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Don't be such a naysayer - there's always the possibility of meteorite strikes and maybe a large slab of a Norwegian mountain will fall into the sea causing a tsunami.

    Think big, real big.

    Isn't it somewhere in the Canaries that's a real threat (for the same reason)?

    Norway's more of a threat to us. And it has happened before - I think in 8000BC.

    So what about the tidal wave that hit the Bristol Channel in 1607?

    I think I remember that that was perhaps an underwater landslide off the southern Irish coast. Maybe. If the Canaries go then would we get hit by the wave as it bounced back off what was left of the East Coast of the US?
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    ynyswen24 wrote:
    Sirius631 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Don't be such a naysayer - there's always the possibility of meteorite strikes and maybe a large slab of a Norwegian mountain will fall into the sea causing a tsunami.

    Think big, real big.

    Isn't it somewhere in the Canaries that's a real threat (for the same reason)?

    Norway's more of a threat to us. And it has happened before - I think in 8000BC.

    So what about the tidal wave that hit the Bristol Channel in 1607?

    I think I remember that that was perhaps an underwater landslide off the southern Irish coast. Maybe. If the Canaries go then would we get hit by the wave as it bounced back off what was left of the East Coast of the US?

    Outstanding memory sir! :wink:
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Sirius631 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Don't be such a naysayer - there's always the possibility of meteorite strikes and maybe a large slab of a Norwegian mountain will fall into the sea causing a tsunami.

    Think big, real big.

    Isn't it somewhere in the Canaries that's a real threat (for the same reason)?

    Norway's more of a threat to us. And it has happened before - I think in 8000BC.

    So what about the tidal wave that hit the Bristol Channel in 1607?

    That wasn't from the Canary Islands. And Norway would still create a bigger wave. Besides, I live in the East of England. Couldn't give a f**k about Bristol. :wink:
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    If a giant wave hit Bristol and wiped everyone out it wouldn't be too drastic. It'd only be one family afterall.
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  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    Aggieboy wrote:
    If a giant wave hit Bristol and wiped everyone out it wouldn't be too drastic. It'd only be one family afterall.

    yeah but with the gills and 6 webbed toes they'll be fine in a tsunami and what can radiation do to the genetics that not being able to run as fast as your cousin hasn't already :wink:
  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    johnfinch wrote:
    Sirius631 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Don't be such a naysayer - there's always the possibility of meteorite strikes and maybe a large slab of a Norwegian mountain will fall into the sea causing a tsunami.

    Think big, real big.

    Isn't it somewhere in the Canaries that's a real threat (for the same reason)?

    Norway's more of a threat to us. And it has happened before - I think in 8000BC.

    So what about the tidal wave that hit the Bristol Channel in 1607?

    That wasn't from the Canary Islands. And Norway would still create a bigger wave. Besides, I live in the East of England. Couldn't give a f**k about Bristol. :wink:
    so you've got 50 years or so tops before your back garden is part of the north sea bed then

    and Norway falling in the sea might be more of a threat to you, forget this us mallarkey I'm safe from tsunamis in the pennines :wink: