16 thoughts on “You see me now a veteran of a thousand EOTWAWKIs”
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don’t forget murder hornets.
Thinking out of the box here, given the massive increase of the national debt with stimulus and infrastructure bills, why not beat the rush and order the “Financial Collapse” tab and beat the rush while prices are low and they are still available?
Which one? 1986/87,1999/2000,2008,Great Reset?
Don’t forget Y2K
I’m really disappointed that one wasn’t on the campaign ribbon sleeve. that’s a must have
Please do!
And everyone of them, according to TPTB are gonna skill us unless we do exactly as they say.
OK, we have two and only two choices in this life, we can get old, or we can get dead. Whatever choice we make, no matter how careful we are with our lives, we are all going to succumb to the dead part…… SO I suggest TPTB shove it where the sun don’t shine and leave me the hell alone….. BFYTW
There, that told em din it…..
Gonna need a longer sleeve…..
All of these are priceless. May I suggest a Trump 2016 patch? They did predict it would be the Mother of all EOTWAWKI events.
Ordered patch and inquired regarding financial collapse patch.
also might want to get a couple others ready, Border Invasion and Kamala’s Presidency.
Meh. Anybody who concluded any of those events were TEOTWAWKI wasn’t very bright. Most of them barely qualify as moderate concerns. But they all had a lot of potential.
But scattered throughout the ruins of Pompeii, there are dozens of ashen lumps reproduced in concrete whose former inhabitants assured all and sundry in September 79 A.D. “Hogwash! Vesuvius has been smoking and rumbling for ages, and nothing ever happens!”
The number of Jews in Europe who did nothing, certain they’d emerge from the 1930s rise of Germany largely unscathed, is legendary as well.
Suppose you’re 34 steps from the edge of the South Rim at the Grand Canyon.
A mob approaches.
Purely hypothetically, how many times does one let them push oneself a step closer to the edge before deciding at least one of the parties isn’t playing, and perhaps it’s past time to GTFO?
Show all work.
Be somewhere else applies, always.
Aesop, as usual you make some good points and then contradict yourself.
First paragraph – The words “But they all had a lot of potential.” clearly means that most of them DO qualify as concerns.
Second p – The eruption of Vesuvius is known to have been so rapid and of such magnitude that anyone who left even a full day before the eruption probably couldn’t have escaped it with the slow transportation available at the time. They might not have been preserved as ashen lumps but they would still have asphyxiated from the gas cloud. By the time the rumblings intensified it was already too late to reach a safe distance.
Third p – Very few of the Jews in Europe “chose” to do nothing, rather by the time the danger was known there was no place else to go that was willing to accept them. Even the good ol’ USA turned boatloads of Jewish refugees away. Although one boatload found temporary refuge in the Caribbean, the other boats were forced to return to Europe. With nowhere else to go, most of those turned away were killed upon their return to Europe.
Also, after centuries of pogroms, none of them had any expectation of emerging “largely unscathed”, they simply had few other options available.
Fourth p – Although I certainly haven’t walked the whole south rim, in the places I’ve been, 34 steps away would be on the other side of the access road from the canyon. No easy way for a mob to approach from that side, they would most likely be between me and the cliff. Corollary then is that if a mob is between me and the access road, there’s no easy way to GTFO.
Showed all my work. What did I win?
1) I contradicted nothing.
Concern ╪ TEOTWAWKI. That’s precisely the central point.
IOW, a broken leg is bad, but it isn’t Stage IV cancer, let alone the Black Death hitting Europe.
And just because Fukushima was bad up the street, or even up the coast, it doesn’t make it a global catastrophe.
For reference, the day Hiroshima got nuked, people were partying in London, and continued so for days and days afterward. You could look it up.
2) The distance an average person can walk in a day is 15-20 miles. (Let’s remember too, we’re talking about Roman roads in this case, which are there to this day.) Salerno, 20 miles from Vesuvius, and only 16 miles from Pompei, was unscathed by the eruption, and an easy day’s stroll away from danger. The gas cloud was not 20 miles across. Nor did it wipe out all life on the planet. Someone who waited until the eruption, in its very shadow, was screwed, as always. Someone who prudently decamped before that day laughed about it the rest of their days. As noted.
3) Mein Kampf was published in 1925. Hitler took over Germany in 1933. The danger was known then. The fact that most Jews anywhere on the continent waited 5 more years until Kristallnacht rubbed their noses in what was coming was precisely the problem. “They’ll never do something unbelievably monstrous” was the reason. (This despite the examples of Pharoah, Haman of Persia, and Titus of Rome, all from within their own history.) Trying to palm that amount of inertia and self-delusion off on closed immigration doors is weak sauce.
This is not a new phenomenon. Johann David Wyss wrote of monkeys caught by natives, by putting nuts inside a hollow coconut shell, tethered to the ground. The monkeys won’t let go of the nuts, even though the resultant fist makes their mitts too big to pull out of the hole and escape, which makes them easy prey for native hunters. That was from Swiss Family Robinson 1812.
As always in nature, there are victims, and there are volunteers.
4) You’ve out-clevered yourself. 34 paces from the South Rim at the Grand Canyon Skywalk (roughly 36.0119308 N, 113.811222 W if you’re playing the Google Earth home game), for but one example, puts you on the patio, far from the road. While you were busy trying to concoct a scenario where you could avoid answering the question as given, that mob surrounded you and pushed you over the cliff, unimpressed by your rhetorical attempts. Like most mobs.
You get a great (albeit brief) view of the Canyon, enjoying the trip down at the speed of Wile E. Coyote on his way to the next puff of smoke at the bottom.
You win the second place trophy at the TEOTWAWKI vs. You elimination trials. And a Darwin Award, Honorable Mention.
You should have been making a hasty retreat from the edge of the cliff when first you saw the approaching mob.
Trouble:
Option 1: Be. Somewhere. Else.
Option 2: Cash, cache, or relocating like the Flash.
y’all are in the cart ahead of me…(notice the Russian collusion again..Ready to ship in 3–5 business days from Rostov-on-Don, Russia)
I put in for – Y2k-1999; Swine Flu-1976 and Hong Kong Flu-1968 – I’m sure there are more…
Really, I should track that patch and those tabs down and get a bunch….
available from ETSY $26.00-ish
don’t forget murder hornets.
Thinking out of the box here, given the massive increase of the national debt with stimulus and infrastructure bills, why not beat the rush and order the “Financial Collapse” tab and beat the rush while prices are low and they are still available?
Which one? 1986/87,1999/2000,2008,Great Reset?
Don’t forget Y2K
I’m really disappointed that one wasn’t on the campaign ribbon sleeve. that’s a must have
Please do!
And everyone of them, according to TPTB are gonna skill us unless we do exactly as they say.
OK, we have two and only two choices in this life, we can get old, or we can get dead. Whatever choice we make, no matter how careful we are with our lives, we are all going to succumb to the dead part…… SO I suggest TPTB shove it where the sun don’t shine and leave me the hell alone….. BFYTW
There, that told em din it…..
Gonna need a longer sleeve…..
All of these are priceless. May I suggest a Trump 2016 patch? They did predict it would be the Mother of all EOTWAWKI events.
Ordered patch and inquired regarding financial collapse patch.
also might want to get a couple others ready, Border Invasion and Kamala’s Presidency.
Meh. Anybody who concluded any of those events were TEOTWAWKI wasn’t very bright. Most of them barely qualify as moderate concerns. But they all had a lot of potential.
But scattered throughout the ruins of Pompeii, there are dozens of ashen lumps reproduced in concrete whose former inhabitants assured all and sundry in September 79 A.D. “Hogwash! Vesuvius has been smoking and rumbling for ages, and nothing ever happens!”
The number of Jews in Europe who did nothing, certain they’d emerge from the 1930s rise of Germany largely unscathed, is legendary as well.
Suppose you’re 34 steps from the edge of the South Rim at the Grand Canyon.
A mob approaches.
Purely hypothetically, how many times does one let them push oneself a step closer to the edge before deciding at least one of the parties isn’t playing, and perhaps it’s past time to GTFO?
Show all work.
Be somewhere else applies, always.
Aesop, as usual you make some good points and then contradict yourself.
First paragraph – The words “But they all had a lot of potential.” clearly means that most of them DO qualify as concerns.
Second p – The eruption of Vesuvius is known to have been so rapid and of such magnitude that anyone who left even a full day before the eruption probably couldn’t have escaped it with the slow transportation available at the time. They might not have been preserved as ashen lumps but they would still have asphyxiated from the gas cloud. By the time the rumblings intensified it was already too late to reach a safe distance.
Third p – Very few of the Jews in Europe “chose” to do nothing, rather by the time the danger was known there was no place else to go that was willing to accept them. Even the good ol’ USA turned boatloads of Jewish refugees away. Although one boatload found temporary refuge in the Caribbean, the other boats were forced to return to Europe. With nowhere else to go, most of those turned away were killed upon their return to Europe.
Also, after centuries of pogroms, none of them had any expectation of emerging “largely unscathed”, they simply had few other options available.
Fourth p – Although I certainly haven’t walked the whole south rim, in the places I’ve been, 34 steps away would be on the other side of the access road from the canyon. No easy way for a mob to approach from that side, they would most likely be between me and the cliff. Corollary then is that if a mob is between me and the access road, there’s no easy way to GTFO.
Showed all my work. What did I win?
1) I contradicted nothing.
Concern ╪ TEOTWAWKI. That’s precisely the central point.
IOW, a broken leg is bad, but it isn’t Stage IV cancer, let alone the Black Death hitting Europe.
And just because Fukushima was bad up the street, or even up the coast, it doesn’t make it a global catastrophe.
For reference, the day Hiroshima got nuked, people were partying in London, and continued so for days and days afterward. You could look it up.
2) The distance an average person can walk in a day is 15-20 miles. (Let’s remember too, we’re talking about Roman roads in this case, which are there to this day.) Salerno, 20 miles from Vesuvius, and only 16 miles from Pompei, was unscathed by the eruption, and an easy day’s stroll away from danger. The gas cloud was not 20 miles across. Nor did it wipe out all life on the planet. Someone who waited until the eruption, in its very shadow, was screwed, as always. Someone who prudently decamped before that day laughed about it the rest of their days. As noted.
3) Mein Kampf was published in 1925. Hitler took over Germany in 1933. The danger was known then. The fact that most Jews anywhere on the continent waited 5 more years until Kristallnacht rubbed their noses in what was coming was precisely the problem. “They’ll never do something unbelievably monstrous” was the reason. (This despite the examples of Pharoah, Haman of Persia, and Titus of Rome, all from within their own history.) Trying to palm that amount of inertia and self-delusion off on closed immigration doors is weak sauce.
This is not a new phenomenon. Johann David Wyss wrote of monkeys caught by natives, by putting nuts inside a hollow coconut shell, tethered to the ground. The monkeys won’t let go of the nuts, even though the resultant fist makes their mitts too big to pull out of the hole and escape, which makes them easy prey for native hunters. That was from Swiss Family Robinson 1812.
As always in nature, there are victims, and there are volunteers.
4) You’ve out-clevered yourself. 34 paces from the South Rim at the Grand Canyon Skywalk (roughly 36.0119308 N, 113.811222 W if you’re playing the Google Earth home game), for but one example, puts you on the patio, far from the road. While you were busy trying to concoct a scenario where you could avoid answering the question as given, that mob surrounded you and pushed you over the cliff, unimpressed by your rhetorical attempts. Like most mobs.
You get a great (albeit brief) view of the Canyon, enjoying the trip down at the speed of Wile E. Coyote on his way to the next puff of smoke at the bottom.
You win the second place trophy at the TEOTWAWKI vs. You elimination trials. And a Darwin Award, Honorable Mention.
You should have been making a hasty retreat from the edge of the cliff when first you saw the approaching mob.
Trouble:
Option 1: Be. Somewhere. Else.
Option 2: Cash, cache, or relocating like the Flash.
y’all are in the cart ahead of me…(notice the Russian collusion again..Ready to ship in 3–5 business days from Rostov-on-Don, Russia)
I put in for – Y2k-1999; Swine Flu-1976 and Hong Kong Flu-1968 – I’m sure there are more…