What would you do if dead starts to walk

[wiltsu16]

So what you would do?

I got 2 shotguns so i would take them with me, and them i would, go to shop (this is that time when only few zombies has been seen) and get all baked bean cans, and then i would go back to home and then i would take my friends and family to my upstairs and lock windows, doors and everything up... then i would make a backup plan so if zombie over-run would get really bad, then i can do what my backup plan says.
( Oh yes, i would go local gun store and take the all shotgun shells what i can carry, because i only got 4 shotgun shell boxes here right now :rolleyes: )

[MaximusIncredulous]

Consumption of baked beans combined with locked windows and doors.

The living dead may not be your only problem. :barf:

[Marie]

What is it with guys and baked beans anyway? If there was a food I'd have to be starving to eat at all, it would be those oversweetened mass produced favorite of all guys, baked beans.

First, I'm assuming the dead are rising and trying to eat the living. If all they're doing is getting up and taking the bus somewhere then they're the busdriver's union's problem. I get what bottled water and stored water I can, get what food I can after the guys have taken all the baked beans, and get more ammo. I also try and get my little butt outta town, because it's real obvious if you stay in one place long enough, they WILL come. Everglades probably. Let the 'gators thin out the dead so I don't have to shoot so many.

Since this is the four hundred and thirty third time this question has been asked, as you can see I've thought about it a bit.

M_

[Bubdotd]

id get all can goods and the water jugs maybe some soda.i would also get them freeze dried food you get in the army. stock up in medical supplies and such.

read the zombie survival guide. tells you everything you need to know.:rolleyes:

:D

[wiltsu16]

baked been are just the right food if zombies would come, because food in cans doesnt get old so fast as some other food

[Adrenochrome]

Since this is the four hundred and thirty third time this question has been asked, as you can see I've thought about it a bit.

M_
LOL :lol: :lol: :lol:

My answer stays the same.
I'd freak the f*ck out and then run to the hills and live off the land.
My girlfriend and I LOVE to fish and she's damned spiffy with a bow. (she had a good teacher [this , of course was before the vegetarianism took us over] :D) Nobody would be raiding the seed supply because they are panicking too much, so I'd grab all those I could for growing (they're light to carry and we could survive on roots and wild game until the crops started coming in)...there's all kinds of places to hide out in the forests and plains in my area that would be uninhabited by both Zeds and crazy survivalist humans.:D

But, until we have to go through all that mess.....Veggies all the way!!!!! (with a little fish now and then, of course!)

[Philly_SWAT]

Consumption of baked beans combined with locked windows and doors.

The living dead may not be your only problem. :barf:

LMMFAO!

[Maitreya]

I'd just train a bunch of attack lions...

Zombies aren't gonna **** with lions...

Lions will **** them up...

Seriously

http://www.travelsinparadise.com/australia/sydney/pictures/zoo-lion-02.jpg

You can't **** with that

Now the first step is to get these lions...

[Eyebiter]

Great idea, until they turn into ZOMBIE LIONS!

http://fanart.lionking.org/Artists/Timali/MiLechuckAsLion02.jpg

[Danny]

get ontop of a large multistory building with a deckchair, some cans of dr.pepper (not a beer guy and coke tastes how cat pee smells) a cd player playing "reign in blood" full blast and a large variety of fire works:D

hell itd be a fun day of the dead.

just add a few bouncy castles and a barbeque.

[AssassinFromHell]

I would hole up in my Uncle's house. He has so many guns it ain't even funny. His house is an armory. I'd feel safe. :D

[KingStoph]

i think i would just go join Hellsing :lol: Sounds good to me! Besides the DrPepper... ill have PEPSI.. Can i bring swords and ****??

[Deadman_Deluxe]

I would get all the guns and food and water and helicopters and baked beans and tanks and flamethrowers and pencils and also a whole army of kickboxing androids and then lock myself in the bathroom (with fish in the bath) and put my fingers in my ears so i can't hear the dead zombies making the scratching noise outside of the door.

I would look out of the window one time and shoot the one with blood on it's hat which is standing by a car.

I would also buy stilts what the circus clowns and professional painters use so i could write all stuff on the ceiling and draw some cool pictures after i had looked out of the window that one time.

Oh ... and destroy all the stairs for sure and get some rope ... and borrow all these guys swords from eBay so i can cut my big piece of cheese :lol:

[zombiegirl]

Consumption of baked beans combined with locked windows and doors.

The living dead may not be your only problem.

Hmm if you smell like something crawled up there and died it could be a good defense machanism. :lol:

[Danny]

i think i would just go join Hellsing :lol: Sounds good to me! Besides the DrPepper... ill have PEPSI.. Can i bring swords and ****??

sure and bring paintball guns for the further away zombies:lol:

[Dommm]

hmmm

stock up on weapons (knives swords gun if i can get hold of one), steal a camper van, get tents and stuf, stock up on medical supplies and canned goods (by raiding pharmacies and hospitals supermarkets cornershops) grab my girl a few of her friends and family and mine. Big ass tv, generator and some fuel ( would restock as I travelled) games consoles and radios, sat nav system (though this will probs stop working shortly thereafter. plenty of batteries and porn. and if I have time raid HMV for dvds and cds. then just keep on moving keeping out of city areas and avoiding contact with other groups where possible (your gonna get some sick f***s out there). Where I have to meet and great people and try and strike freindships with them. After about 2-3 years head to a mountinaous area and create my own City. Wait till the dead rot away and come back to civilisation or the ruins of it.

[AcesandEights]

Before the lights went out and the internet went down I'd hop online, come to HPotD (both the old boards and the new boards), I'd search, and then read all--every single of the umpteen--threads that have been done on this topic to date.

Then, I'd throw out every single one of the ideas that includes the words Humvee, mall or Home Depot. I'd grab a sensible weapon, food, water and any unexpired general purpose antibiotics I could steal and head out.

[wiltsu16]

If dead starts to walk, i invite you all to my house in Finland (Many people think that here is winter all the time, but its not true, is hot summer now)
bring all your guns and food here, but if airports will be closed then.... then you gotta stay there... well im lucky because i have big house and heavy doors and few guns :) lets wait those zombies to show up

[advent]

I would steal a boat and head towards france and hopfully beat the spread of infection and head down south as fast as i could
x

[tju1973]

:eek:
So what you would do?

I got 2 shotguns so i would take them with me, and them i would, go to shop (this is that time when only few zombies has been seen) and get all baked bean cans, and then i would go back to home and then i would take my friends and family to my upstairs and lock windows, doors and everything up... then i would make a backup plan so if zombie over-run would get really bad, then i can do what my backup plan says.
( Oh yes, i would go local gun store and take the all shotgun shells what i can carry, because i only got 4 shotgun shell boxes here right now :rolleyes: )

I would touch myself in an inappropriate manner.

several times...

[wiltsu16]

Thanks for the info :barf:

[Brubaker]

What is it with guys and baked beans anyway? If there was a food I'd have to be starving to eat at all, it would be those oversweetened mass produced favorite of all guys, baked beans.

First, I'm assuming the dead are rising and trying to eat the living. If all they're doing is getting up and taking the bus somewhere then they're the busdriver's union's problem. I get what bottled water and stored water I can, get what food I can after the guys have taken all the baked beans, and get more ammo. I also try and get my little butt outta town, because it's real obvious if you stay in one place long enough, they WILL come. Everglades probably. Let the 'gators thin out the dead so I don't have to shoot so many.

Since this is the four hundred and thirty third time this question has been asked, as you can see I've thought about it a bit.

M_

It may have been asked 433 times but you haven't answered it 433 times. We have your post count to prove it :D

Seriously, though......round up a small army of hearty souls and start stockpiling weapons and ammunition. Create an unstoppable wall of humanity that no number of zombies could stop. Travel the countryside shooting every last zombie that is seen. Reduce the number of undead, little by little, in the area. Once that is done, try to find some more survivors to join the group. Locate some more guns and ammo and then make way for the next town, then the next. Maybe eventually make it into a legitimate city weeks/months into it. :cool:

That would be what I would want to do. Out there in the thick of things fighting the "enemy", rather than hiding in a cave, mall, basement, underground or on an island.

The hard part would be finding the guns and ammo, uniting a group of survivors who get along (too many chiefs) and then dealing with the fact some of them might not be able to shoot worth a damn.

[Deadman_Deluxe]

:eek:

I would touch myself in an inappropriate manner.

several times...


HAHAHAHAH ... Good call!!!! Can i watch? :lol:

[Danny]

If dead starts to walk, i invite you all to my house in Finland

hey they got the best badns over there, heh, you could pit zombie lordi vs the zombie dudesons, now theres a celebrity deathmatch idea!:cool:

[general tbag]

yea im with hellsing an adrenochrome on this one. head for the hills and find survivors while blaring some cannibal corpse or slipknot. im not to worried about stockpiling, been there done that.

take me 5 mins to get ready for a shtf scenario. change to vc black camos , grab a ak47, a satchel full of clips, and my trusty side arm , and my night of the living dead hat, and mp3 player for a soundtrack. also need to make some molotov cocktails before i left.

btw a good ninja sword is a good idea, never kno when you need that .

we could always rally to nebraska , one of the lowest population density counties in the country. also wyoming is nice big, lots of wildlife and has the lowest state population.

btw i have intention of just sitting round pickin my nose, or holed up in a house somewhere. my first priority would be people and securing a perimeter.

[Danny]

take me 5 mins to get ready for a shtf scenario. change to vc black camos , grab a ak47, a satchel full of clips, and my trusty side arm , and my night of the living dead hat, and mp3 player for a soundtrack.

no doubt playing the theme music from apocalypse now:lol:

[DVW5150]

I would get all the guns and food and water and helicopters and baked beans and tanks and flamethrowers and pencils and also a whole army of kickboxing androids and then lock myself in the bathroom (with fish in the bath) and put my fingers in my ears so i can't hear the dead zombies making the scratching noise outside of the door.

I would look out of the window one time and shoot the one with blood on it's hat which is standing by a car.

I would also buy stilts what the circus clowns and professional painters use so i could write all stuff on the ceiling and draw some cool pictures after i had looked out of the window that one time.

Oh ... and destroy all the stairs for sure and get some rope ... and borrow all these guys swords from eBay so i can cut my big piece of cheese :lol: Man you have a talent for atomosphere and feeling . I read your journal DELUXE , its some of the best horror I've ever read , no s**t... I wish I knew George Romero so I could introduce you , the mood is something I'm sure he could evoke in his film-making ...-I would do everything I could to survive , I cant begin to guess ...I have firearms , but I'd have wait and see ... like its really going to happen ... Hello , is someone there ? At the door ? Hello ... hey ! aaarrrggghh ! HALP !!

[Rottedfreak]

If the dead started walking, I'd start pinching myself asking if it was real and wondering if watching those movies made me snap.

[Deadman_Deluxe]

Man you have a talent for atomosphere and feeling . I read your journal DELUXE , its some of the best horror I've ever read , no s**t... I wish I knew George Romero so I could introduce you , the mood is something I'm sure he could evoke in his film-making ...-I would do everything I could to survive , I cant begin to guess ...I have firearms , but I'd have wait and see ... like its really going to happen ... Hello , is someone there ? At the door ? Hello ... hey ! aaarrrggghh ! HALP !!


Thanks man, i appreciate that big time!!!

[Wooley]

Anyone whose plan involves looting a store is likely to get shot/stabbed/beaten/arrested by the store owner/other panic buyers/looters/law enforcement/military troops.

Seriously.

Any type of emergency event sees everyone and their mother run down to the store to stock up and it always turns into a Chinese fire drill as shelves are stripped bare, people get ugly, and the situation just deteriorates. Watch any footage shot during the lead up to a hurricane.

Anyone whose plan involves tossing a bunch of stuff into their car and heading for the woods, is likely to find themselves stuff in the parking lot the freeway became when everyone else had the same plan.

Seriously.

Watch the other staple of hurricane newsfootage of massive freeway parking lots, people out of gas, broken down cars, and everything else that went with the "I gotta be somewhere else than here" panic mentality of people.

If by some miracle you get to the woods, you'll be sure to find them a lot more crowded as the people from the freeway parking lots carry what few supplies they had to start with and hump it into the woods. Good luck with that "Daniel Boone live off the land fantasy".

The woods will be stripped bare of game, the lakes and streams stripped of fish, and fouled as people with no clue about sanitation dump waste in tothem for the peopel downstream to become infected with, and I'm sure more than a few campfires will get away, causing really impressive forest fires that will really thin out the hordes of human 'survivors' living there.

Within a few weeks, the crime and fire problem in the woods will be as bad it was in the cities the refugees had fled.

[general tbag]

that why population density is a big thing wooley, people will be able to go so far in a car. it a fact not everyone would make it out.

[Dommm]

Anyone whose plan involves looting a store is likely to get shot/stabbed/beaten/arrested by the store owner/other panic buyers/looters/law enforcement/military troops.

Seriously.

Any type of emergency event sees everyone and their mother run down to the store to stock up and it always turns into a Chinese fire drill as shelves are stripped bare, people get ugly, and the situation just deteriorates. Watch any footage shot during the lead up to a hurricane.

Anyone whose plan involves tossing a bunch of stuff into their car and heading for the woods, is likely to find themselves stuff in the parking lot the freeway became when everyone else had the same plan.

Seriously.

Watch the other staple of hurricane newsfootage of massive freeway parking lots, people out of gas, broken down cars, and everything else that went with the "I gotta be somewhere else than here" panic mentality of people.

If by some miracle you get to the woods, you'll be sure to find them a lot more crowded as the people from the freeway parking lots carry what few supplies they had to start with and hump it into the woods. Good luck with that "Daniel Boone live off the land fantasy".

The woods will be stripped bare of game, the lakes and streams stripped of fish, and fouled as people with no clue about sanitation dump waste in tothem for the peopel downstream to become infected with, and I'm sure more than a few campfires will get away, causing really impressive forest fires that will really thin out the hordes of human 'survivors' living there.

Within a few weeks, the crime and fire problem in the woods will be as bad it was in the cities the refugees had fled.

hmmm... never thought of that have to agree ahhh welll back to my underground bunker plan

[EvilNed]

Ninja swords? What are you gonna do with those, stab two or three zombies and then watch as your fantasy sword goes to pieces?

If you want to play swordmaster, you need to get something of european steel, which is much tougher. Germans were some of the best swordsmiths in the whole world, but I'm pretty sure spanish were good too.

You'd need a long reachsword and a short reach sword. A claymore would be devestating for humans, and could probably cut a zombie in two with ease if you're good with it. But it's so much simpler to just take a bat and hit him in the head with it. Short swords, again, you need something for cutting. Like a falcata, which is bended and designed to cause maximum amount of slashing damage! Machete works with the same principle, and is easier to get ahold off.

Forget about thrusting, which is the most effective way against humans. A gladius may be good for cutting down looters, but a zombie just won't give a damn if he recieves a stab to the gut.

In all actuality... Swords were good for fighting other people. But for zombies, you want something blunt and durable. Like a basebal bat. Or several.

Uhm... So back to my survival scenario.

I wouldn't be that bad off. I live in sweden, suburbia. 16,000 in my little town. Population density is so low in Sweden, that the zombie plague would probably be the least of our problems. It'd be devestating for the big cities at first (and I use the term big cities loosely, since our largest city has around 1 mil, and the second largest 500,000). But after that there wouldn't be much for the zombies to actually do except stumble around and be knocked dead by the citizens who've figured out that striking them to the head would be lethal. It's another thing in, say New York, where's there's almost an endless supply of people and chaos would ensure everyone would want out of the city. But none of Swedens cities are simply that big! It'd take almost a miracle for the zombies to actually win the fight! And us being somewhat of a lonely peninsula, there's no risk of zombies wandering in from more populated areas, like Germany. Zombies wouldn't ever bother crossing the water.

No, the biggest problem would be food supply. Alot of major countries will far, that's for sure. And all of our food imports would cease. There would be heavy hoarding of food from many people, and it would generally be in short supply. So in order to survive you'd have to A) Grow your own food or B) Hunt your own food. I don't really know how to do either, so that'd be a problem for me.

[Dommm]

Ninja swords? What are you gonna do with those, stab two or three zombies and then watch as your fantasy sword goes to pieces?

If you want to play swordmaster, you need to get something of european steel, which is much tougher. Germans were some of the best swordsmiths in the whole world, but I'm pretty sure spanish were good too.

You'd need a long reachsword and a short reach sword. A claymore would be devestating for humans, and could probably cut a zombie in two with ease if you're good with it. But it's so much simpler to just take a bat and hit him in the head with it. Short swords, again, you need something for cutting. Like a falcata, which is bended and designed to cause maximum amount of slashing damage! Machete works with the same principle, and is easier to get ahold off.

Forget about thrusting, which is the most effective way against humans. A gladius may be good for cutting down looters, but a zombie just won't give a damn if he recieves a stab to the gut.

In all actuality... Swords were good for fighting other people. But for zombies, you want something blunt and durable. Like a basebal bat. Or several.

Uhm... So back to my survival scenario.

I wouldn't be that bad off. I live in sweden, suburbia. 16,000 in my little town. Population density is so low in Sweden, that the zombie plague would probably be the least of our problems. It'd be devestating for the big cities at first (and I use the term big cities loosely, since our largest city has around 1 mil, and the second largest 500,000). But after that there wouldn't be much for the zombies to actually do except stumble around and be knocked dead by the citizens who've figured out that striking them to the head would be lethal. It's another thing in, say New York, where's there's almost an endless supply of people and chaos would ensure everyone would want out of the city. But none of Swedens cities are simply that big! It'd take almost a miracle for the zombies to actually win the fight! And us being somewhat of a lonely peninsula, there's no risk of zombies wandering in from more populated areas, like Germany. Zombies wouldn't ever bother crossing the water.

No, the biggest problem would be food supply. Alot of major countries will far, that's for sure. And all of our food imports would cease. There would be heavy hoarding of food from many people, and it would generally be in short supply. So in order to survive you'd have to A) Grow your own food or B) Hunt your own food. I don't really know how to do either, so that'd be a problem for me.

very eurocentric

samurai swords actully the toughest if you know how to use them, yes they will go to pieces if used wrong as they have extreamly weak points but if used in the correct manner they can cut through wood. We arn't talking about the weak ripoffs that you get from most shops but the real folded steal jobs. also the technology is far more advanced in the manufacturing of these most European swordsmiths of the time had no idea on how to develop these. Much as in gunpowder, the dying of cloth, the proper use of hemp fibres, etc...

[EvilNed]

very eurocentric

samurai swords actully the toughest if you know how to use them, yes they will go to pieces if used wrong as they have extreamly weak points but if used in the correct manner they can cut through wood. We arn't talking about the weak ripoffs that you get from most shops but the real folded steal jobs. also the technology is far more advanced in the manufacturing of these most European swordsmiths of the time had no idea on how to develop these. Much as in gunpowder, the dying of cloth, the proper use of hemp fibres, etc...

Samurai swords were sharp, yes. But sharp swords break easily. I know a great deal about swords and I've even trained with katanas so don't think I'm some ignorant jerk who hates the japanese. Please. But fact is that european steal was much tougher, and as a result their swords were as well. You know why they folded their steel for the katanas? To make it tougher. Europeans didn't need to do this, because their steel was tough as it was.

And what do you mean "actually the toughest if you know how to use them"? I'd like you to explain this part to me, because I've trained with them, know how to use them yet... I don't know what you mean. I'm just wondering what makes you think that samurai swords were superior to all other swords.

As soon as I say anything negative about samurai, I'm always labelled as eurocentric. Well, in that case, you're very japanocentric. Stop believing all the myths you hear sorrounding samurai and katanas. I bet you believe knights were huge, hulking beasts with no agility or finesse as well.

Oh, and another thing... Are machetes from Europe?

[general tbag]

fine ill get a conan the librarian sword so i can chop them in half.

http://www.lanecc.edu/library/LIB127/images/conan.gif
"Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System?" — Conan the Librarian

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Dommm]

fine ill get a conan the librarian sword so i can chop them in half.

http://www.lanecc.edu/library/LIB127/images/conan.gif
"Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System?" — Conan the Librarian

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
:lol: :eek:

How would you lift that thing


Samurai swords were sharp, yes. But sharp swords break easily. I know a great deal about swords and I've even trained with katanas so don't think I'm some ignorant jerk who hates the japanese. Please. But fact is that european steal was much tougher, and as a result their swords were as well. You know why they folded their steel for the katanas? To make it tougher. Europeans didn't need to do this, because their steel was tough as it was.

And what do you mean "actually the toughest if you know how to use them"? I'd like you to explain this part to me, because I've trained with them, know how to use them yet... I don't know what you mean. I'm just wondering what makes you think that samurai swords were superior to all other swords.

As soon as I say anything negative about samurai, I'm always labelled as eurocentric. Well, in that case, you're very japanocentric. Stop believing all the myths you hear sorrounding samurai and katanas. I bet you believe knights were huge, hulking beasts with no agility or finesse as well.

Oh, and another thing... Are machetes from Europe?

lol point taken There are many myths surrounding the blades are true for one thing you can not do is cut down a tree using one, I would love to see someone try. I also do not believe that the knights were all muscle and no finesse, as they had to have many skills ingrained into them not just power, but endurance, balance, anyone that hefts any type of weapon without a strong sense of centring will probably end up falling on the damn thing. And to top that everyone thinks of the japenese and chinese when they think of martial arts (many of these martial arts where developed using yoga breathing techniques to develop popwer and endurance and orignated north of india), martial arts is actully an system of close quarters combat which can be attributed to the knights, and is in brazil, Korea, etc.... etc....

I also am not totally untrained as I have trained i Tae-Kwon-do, Ju-Jitsu, archery, and used the shortsword and the foil. Though I claim no great level of proficancy in any of these I have some understanding in all the above. As far as labeling you Eurocentric my apologies maybe a harsh term but I enjoy playing devils advocate and see the arguments that people return with.

oops almost missed your asking my humblest opionion on how to use it, well if you go in there swinging it like a steroid mad punk yep it will definatly end up being a very weak weapon and more then likley end up snapping in half as the tensile stregnth is not very high on these blades as you noted these are sharp cutting tools and have to be used as such hack and slash as shown i many games and movies just would not work. the strongest part of the blade is at the keen edge and this part only should be used in any form of attack, it is very much an art form. A rather macabre art form but none the less an art form.

No idea were the machete orignated from please do advise me

[Brubaker]

Anyone whose plan involves looting a store is likely to get shot/stabbed/beaten/arrested by the store owner/other panic buyers/looters/law enforcement/military troops.

Seriously.

Any type of emergency event sees everyone and their mother run down to the store to stock up and it always turns into a Chinese fire drill as shelves are stripped bare, people get ugly, and the situation just deteriorates. Watch any footage shot during the lead up to a hurricane.

Anyone whose plan involves tossing a bunch of stuff into their car and heading for the woods, is likely to find themselves stuff in the parking lot the freeway became when everyone else had the same plan.

Seriously.

Watch the other staple of hurricane newsfootage of massive freeway parking lots, people out of gas, broken down cars, and everything else that went with the "I gotta be somewhere else than here" panic mentality of people.

If by some miracle you get to the woods, you'll be sure to find them a lot more crowded as the people from the freeway parking lots carry what few supplies they had to start with and hump it into the woods. Good luck with that "Daniel Boone live off the land fantasy".

The woods will be stripped bare of game, the lakes and streams stripped of fish, and fouled as people with no clue about sanitation dump waste in tothem for the peopel downstream to become infected with, and I'm sure more than a few campfires will get away, causing really impressive forest fires that will really thin out the hordes of human 'survivors' living there.

Within a few weeks, the crime and fire problem in the woods will be as bad it was in the cities the refugees had fled.

There would be a good number of "dead" in the woods. Scenes throughout the four movies confirm this.

The lot of you will make good zombies, though, once you get the hang of it :D

[EvilNed]

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That's alright, I'm glad we can keep this civil. I am sorry for anything I said that might have offended you. I'm also happy to meet a fellow martial artist, but I'm not really a master either. I've trained Tae-Kwon-Do and Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu (which has alot of swordplay in it). I didn't really like any of them, but I trained Bujinkan for a few years still. Next up I'm looking for something completly different and that involves more sparring and actual fighting rather than just techniques. Currently I'm a bit disabled, tho, since I have this medical operation wound that needs to heal before I can go on, tho...

Anyway. Martial Arts, like the modern asian arts, existed back in Europe as well. Only difference is that people went all out guns in Europe, and the only traces we have left of the swordplay and such are writings and some military instruction books from the middle ages. Knights were trained from childbirth, and would regularly train in their armor. So they were both strong and nimble and of course, master swordsmen (well, not all of them of course... Some probably sucked ass).

Infact the first recorded martial art, Pankration, comes from Greece. It included stances and different breathing methods/techniques to enhance your inner strength, much like chi in chinese martial arts today. One theory is that Pankration was the influence for Indian martial arts, which would then influence chinese and japanese martial arts. While I find it likely that Pankration influenced indian martial arts, I don't agree with those who say that it's the sole reason for their existance...

Pankration was not like any traditional martial art we have today, however, as duels were regular part of the training and it involved alot of practical experience. During the olympic games of Pankration, it was not unusual for the loser to die yet this was accepted.

Uhm... So back to zombies and swords.

I'm certain that swords in general would be very ineffective against zombies. Because against a human, you can stab him anywhere and he will react to that pain. But a zombie won't, making swordplay against a zombie very tricky. That's why a bat would be better, I think. It's much more durable for headknocking. A sword is hard to find and can break easily if mishandled or overused.

Machetes are from all over the place, really. South America primarily I believe. That's one "sword" I think might be useful against zombies because you can easily deliver maiming cuts with it. Chopping off a zombie arm to get yourself out of stick situations might be a useful tactic.

[ngm231]

if theliving dead attacked id be ****ed because
1. my family is lazy as hell
2. the best weaponn we have is a cleaver

but if i were to leave i would go to the local gun store get a light handgun as much ammo as i could carry. then i would go to the store get some food and pop. and go to sam goody get a boom box, batteries, and some quiet riot cds. then go hold up on a tall building and wait for the whole thing to end.

[radiokill]

I'd have to grab my glock (.40) and ride my truck up to the barn and get all of our seeds and the old hand plow. I'd get out that huge ford cabbed tractor and bind as many rolls of barbed wire and t-posts as I could to the hay-fork and wherever else they'll sit. Hopefully, someone would be there to cover me with the AR-15 while I threw whatever wood and 55-gallon drums I could get my hands on into the truck. We'd run the truck back to the house and get the 12-gauge, 16-gauge, .32, .22 pistol, .22 rifle, saturday night special, 30-30, 30-06,
.270, even the benjamin pump air rifle (it's got scope and would definitely send a pellet through an eyeball), ammo (only have 30 rounds per weapon, though) all canned goods, canning supplies, clothes, coffee filters, knives, machetes, forks, spoons, pots, pans, cooking oil, propane cooker, fishing poles, reels, and tackle, axes, mauls, shovels, post-hole diggers, hammers, nails, rope, chains, tool kits, cheap-ass walkie talkies, matches, lighters, batteries, soap, and everything in the medicine cabinet. I'd hop on the 4-wheeler and run down to the pond and grab hold of the john boat and drag it back to the house and throw it in the truck, tie everything down, grab my loved ones and head down to the lake bottom riding side by side with that massive tractor. We'd get down there and fasten the wood to the barrels to make a raft and load it down. We'd hop in the boat and float it and the raft for about a day's float down the bay' and make it to a 10-acre island just north of here (not huge but big enough for a garden. We'd build a fence to cover as much of the island as we could and dig pits on the opposite banks. We'd eat what we could until it's time to plant again. In the mean time, we might make a trip back to the house every now and then to kill a cow. Maybe we could figure out how to make jerky without a dehydrator. I think if we got word quick enough we could accomplish this. Sorry for rambling like a child, but I'm in child-like fantasy mode!:)

[Dommm]

[QUOTE=EvilNed;32118]That's alright, I'm glad we can keep this civil. I am sorry for anything I said that might have offended you. I'm also happy to meet a fellow martial artist, but I'm not really a master either. I've trained Tae-Kwon-Do and Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu (which has alot of swordplay in it). I didn't really like any of them, but I trained Bujinkan for a few years still. Next up I'm looking for something completly different and that involves more sparring and actual fighting rather than just techniques. Currently I'm a bit disabled, tho, since I have this medical operation wound that needs to heal before I can go on, tho...

Anyway. Martial Arts, like the modern asian arts, existed back in Europe as well. Only difference is that people went all out guns in Europe, and the only traces we have left of the swordplay and such are writings and some military instruction books from the middle ages. Knights were trained from childbirth, and would regularly train in their armor. So they were both strong and nimble and of course, master swordsmen (well, not all of them of course... Some probably sucked ass).
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What came first the chicken or the egg....

many arguments come down to the fact that eurocentric books claim almost all things were discovered by the west, asiocentric (for want of a better word) claim all creations were theres first...

Who do you beleive, I think that this comes down to what you want to beleive. Mother of all languages is genrally accepted as sanscript (think thats the right spelling) though many argue it was latin, though if you trace it back more likly that sanscript was developed firt and helped to create latin which then created english german french etc.. And these texts allowed the formation of meditation with teachings being passed around in written form, meditation was the beginnings of breath control and chi energy which was then developed into martial arts so thoretically this is the beginning of the martial arts, but again this depends on your personal view and what books you read.


Now the real question is Jesus Christ black or white or chinese

[CivilDefense]

Maybe we could figure out how to make jerky without a dehydrator.

Fiberglass furnace filters and a box fan, set the box horizontal, slice the meat thinly, then lay the meat onto the filters in the ridges provided, then put on another clean filter, load, and repeat, bungie cord the filters to the fan and just let it run till its dry.. I would not recommend jerky created from the living dead..

And I am already in Canada, where the hell am I supposed to flee to?

PEI I suppose.

[Geophyrd]

would be very very surprised.

[TheWalkingDude]

Well first of all find a big truck. One with a plow on it lol. Then throw in guns and ammo and food and water. Then drive to the country. Go to all the farm houses and pick up more supplies...gas, hose to take gas out of other cars, ammo, weapons, women, maybe a few more men to help shoot lol. Then try and make it to a slightly bigger town that might have the National Guard. See if anyone is alive or if there are better weapons to pick up. Then start driving all over the zombies clearing out a town. Keep repeating and rinse lol. :elol:

Bend over and kiss my Butt goodbye lmao

[Brubaker]

if theliving dead attacked id be ****ed because
1. my family is lazy as hell
2. the best weaponn we have is a cleaver

but if i were to leave i would go to the local gun store get a light handgun as much ammo as i could carry. then i would go to the store get some food and pop. and go to sam goody get a boom box, batteries, and some quiet riot cds. then go hold up on a tall building and wait for the whole thing to end.

Of all bands, why Quiet Riot? :D

[hseiken]

What would you do if dead starts to walk?

I probably wouldn't notice as I don't go out much. However, seeing as though I'm in the military, I'd probably have no choice but to do what I'm told, sadly. Sucks to be me, I guess.

[panic]

I think I would block off the street where my apartment is with a couple of old cars, then go house to house in the neighborhood looking for supplies. At some point I'd set up a webcam so I can keep an eye on stuff outside the apartment without opening the blinds. I might go driving around a bit if I could boost a car, but I'd always come back. In the end, I think I'd just write strange poetry as I slowly went mad.

/p

[placebo]

Marie, you are a funny girl!!

Just to let you know, baked beans are not a favorite of this guy!
I'd eat zombie testicles before I even consider even one slimy little baked friggin bean!!!

Baked beans are the bain of human existance!!
Except for "boston baked beans", the candy ones not real beans.

Yeah the lion plan sounds like a solid one. Never thought of it before.

The first thing I would do is start collecting breast implants from dead zombie chicks and sell them on eBay.
2nd thing would be to hit every porn shop in the midwest and round up all the black fist dildos I could find, and of course, sell them on eBay.
3rd would be to hunt down Micheal Jackson, stuff a black fist dildo down his throat, rip one of his cheeks off of his face, and yeah you got it, sell it on eBay.
Then I'd draw a hot and horny cartoon about incestuous Rabbis high on formeldahyde and rice pudding and send a copy to Dick Cheney, then sell a copy on ebay.
4th I'd stock up on 55 gallon drums of that orange powder they put on puke in grade school and continuously snort lines of it off a dead zombie chicks navel.
5th........man,,,,whatever.......you get the idea...

[Svengoolie]

I'd get myself a shovel...'cause we'd all be in deep sh!t.:D

[T-Fizzle]

Though I hate Walmart with a passion, it'd the Ideal place to be. (Super Walmart) Think about it. They have metal gates at both front entrances where the old people welcome you. There is plenty of food, water, sporting goods, and guns. Plus you could hook up an xbox 360, pop in Dead Rising, and use it for research.

[Wooley]

Though I hate Walmart with a passion, it'd the Ideal place to be. (Super Walmart) Think about it. They have metal gates at both front entrances where the old people welcome you. There is plenty of food, water, sporting goods, and guns. Plus you could hook up an xbox 360, pop in Dead Rising, and use it for research.

I think I completely covered why this plan was a bad idea on page three.

[Mister Chrome]

Well, the last time I answered one of these prompts I was living in a small community 50 miles west of the city, so my answer was much different.
Now that I've moved back to the much-closer suburbs, I think I'd have to change my survival strategy. Here goes:

1.) Gather all family members (conveniently, everyone lives within 1 mile of each) and their vehicles at my apartment complex. Invite my friend who is a police officer in town to join us (with his family, all of his guns, and his squad car, of course).

2.) Stock up on food and supplies at the grocery store which is one block away. Stock up on ammunition and guns from the gun shop 1 mile away.

3.) Secure the empty apartments next to me and above me, and make an alliance with the young couple on the 3rd floor. This will basically allow everyone in my family to have their own apartment, but we collectively will control the building.

4.) Park vans in the front and back, blocking off those entrances at ground level, but allowing us to use the exterior and interior stairs to reach each other AND the basement.

5.) Park a line of cars (approximately 5) connecting the van blocking the back entrance to the row of brick garages. This will allow for a quick car-roof escape path through a horde of zombies to the roof of the garages. The garages (approximately 50 connected garage units) form a brick barrier between the apartment complex and the nearby railroad tracks. Escapees can jump from the garage roof down onto the tracks or to nearby train cars for further escapes.

6.) Wait for Svengoolie to show up with a convoy of badass bikers, then take over the whole town.

7.) Amass further power once the town is secured, then begin liberating other nearby towns, working our way towards Cicero.

8.) Liberate Cicero, appoint Svengoolie as Baron of Berwyn and Count of Cicero.

9.) Host the 1st annual Real Zombie Flashback Weekend in Cicero at the newly rehabbed DCBurny Drive-In Theatre (formerly the Bel-Air). Special guests include local Chicago filmmakers Rusty Nails (http://neweyefilms.com/), Kris Velasquez (http://www.deadscapes.com), and John Borowski (http://www.johnborowski.com/).

10.) Open up a private gentlemen's club in Berwyn called The Sunset Inn, featuring strippers, a gentlemen's dress code of leisure suits, and a bar stocked with only the finest martini ingredients and Old Style beer (in a can).


Well, I hope this answers the question about what I would do if the dead walked.


M.C.

[TheWalkingDude]

Ok new idea from me. First i would get me a big tractor. Something like an IH or John Deere. Then i would put a snow blower on the back. Yes they make big ones. My neighbor growing up had one. The blades where 6 feet so that would slice and dice thru any horde of zombies. Put spikes on the side so they couldnt climb up very easilyt and keep pistols and shotguns in the cab. Sure might be slow moving but i could wipe out alot of them and just keep doing it over and ove and over

[Angry312]

1.) Go to the French Quarter's biggest bar.
2.) Seal in myself and a contortionist nympho behind the barricades.
3.) Cook breakfast.
4.) Drink through lunch.
5.) Find the new ticklish spot on the contortionist.
6.) Drop empty bottles on zombie heads from balcony.
7.) Repeat.

:evil: Angry312; "I Am Not Dying in a Damned Wal-Mart.":evil:

[EvilNed]

What came first the chicken or the egg....

many arguments come down to the fact that eurocentric books claim almost all things were discovered by the west, asiocentric (for want of a better word) claim all creations were theres first...

Who do you beleive, I think that this comes down to what you want to beleive. Mother of all languages is genrally accepted as sanscript (think thats the right spelling) though many argue it was latin, though if you trace it back more likly that sanscript was developed firt and helped to create latin which then created english german french etc.. And these texts allowed the formation of meditation with teachings being passed around in written form, meditation was the beginnings of breath control and chi energy which was then developed into martial arts so thoretically this is the beginning of the martial arts, but again this depends on your personal view and what books you read.


Now the real question is Jesus Christ black or white or chinese

Ancient Egyptian existed before Latin and Sanskrit, and I'm sure there were many languages way before that. European languages mostly derive from a Indo-European language, which is like thousands of years old. Sanskrit and Latin are relatively new languages compared to the old ones!

As for Jesus, he was arameic.

[Brubaker]

I think I completely covered why this plan was a bad idea on page three.

Yeah, he should at least go to K-Mart since nobody ever shops there ;)