A serious question

[Butterflyaway]

If you believed you had just one hour to leave your home in North Cyprus, what preparations would you make so you we’re ready?

A similar situation would arise if a lady was pregnant and had her “go to” bag ready in advance.

In case you wonder, I do not have advance knowledge of the Frogs/Bubbles arriving this week, but on a previous thread I mentioned “Failing to Plan” or “Planning to Fail”.

Another scenario are the wildfires we saw in Australia and now in the USA.



To start this off I think the following is important.

1. Keeping cars full of fuel.
2. Keeping cash/credit cards/jewellery in a safe place, but check your safe is working and you know where the key/combination is.
3. As above but for passports/other important documents. Possibly take digital photos of everything and either email them to yourself, someone you trust or that cloud thing up in the sky.
4. Have up do date wills in place wherever you have assets.
5. Keep medicines stocked up.

That’s my initial input, no scaremongering intended.

Please pm me if you want to criticise this, or ask a mod privately to close it down.

After reading my post, I googled my own question. The link below is pretty informative.

https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/1-hour-2-get-ready/

[PoshinDevon]

Agree with what you have listed.

Presume you mean if the situation were similar to the “wild fires” in Australia and the USA.

Ensure mobile devices were “topped” up if required and important contact numbers were up to date. In addition I would likely have some food essentials to last a couple of days. Plus I would gather together any small sentimental items such as photos etc. Of course if your a pet owner like us we would be also thinking what we would need for them.

Of course the challenge would be to try and not take the whole house with you!

[Keithcaley]

A fully charged Battery pack to replenish your 'Phone and a solar charger to keep the battery pack topped up.

[frontalman]

I think the boy scouts motto "Be prepared" is one of the sickest things I've ever heard. Live life as it comes.

[Hedge-fund]

Food
Water
Gold
A gun

[Brinsley]

And passport for a quick getaway!!

[sausage and pash]

I got thrown out of brownies. So I am taking notes. Cold box and Efes. Go brownies, go brownies. (Stuff brownies)!!!!!

[Groucho]

I think the boy scouts motto "Be prepared" is one of the sickest things I've ever heard. Live life as it comes.

Fat lot of use you'd be at a jamboree! No food, no tent, nothing to light a fire with and no skills.... I suppose your parents were never prepared to have you?

[Brinsley]

I got thrown out of brownies. So I am taking notes. Cold box and Efes. Go brownies, go brownies. (Stuff brownies)!!!!!

Really depends what you baked your brownies with, could make for a rather enlightening, mind changing journey for you!!!!!!!!!

[sausage and pash]

Been there, done it. Now I stick to Efes.xxx

[Keithcaley]

A good supply of penknives with two blades and a thing for taking stones out of horses' hooves, Because...

[Groucho]

A good supply of penknives with two blades and a thing for taking stones out of horses' hooves, Because...

The marlin spike is for ropework not hooves...

[EnjoyingTheSun]

Food
Water
Gold
A gun

I think if we are talking the breakdown of civilisation then the main thing you need is a gun.
You could get everything you needed with a gun and more importantly if you had everything you needed then you'll probably need a gun to keep it. I can see where you are going with gold but trading it might be a problem

[Hedge-fund]

Food
Water
Gold
A gun

I think if we are talking the breakdown of civilisation then the main thing you need is a gun.
You could get everything you needed with a gun and more importantly if you had everything you needed then you'll probably need a gun to keep it. I can see where you are going with gold but trading it might be a problem

A good stash of gold sovereigns will get you most things you need.

[EnjoyingTheSun]

A good stash of gold sovereigns will get you most things you need.

If we are talking zombie apocalypse i'd trade millions of gold sovereigns for a secure shelter, transport and a gun

[Chriswright03]

Looking at the thread title and the responses on here................who would have thought it?

[Soner]

An egg cup, can't eat soft boiled eggs any other way. Sorry.

Chriswright03 - I think they are all serious answers, based on Kibkom Forum members' individual needs.

Hedge-fund obviously did well with his investments, he will buy his way to safety.
EnjoyingTheSun has been watching too many episodes of The Walking Dead, so is preparing for the worst.
Brinsley will be flying away, providing he has had a negative PCR test.
Frontalman, a man of steel, can take anything on empty handed.
sausage and pash's wings were lost long ago, so will result to staggering away.
Keithcaley will make his get away on horseback. Oh, and answering questions on Kibkom via fully charged mobile phone.

Just make sure you can all access Kibkom to stay informed.

[EnjoyingTheSun]

An egg cup, can't eat soft boiled eggs any other way. Sorry.

Chriswright03 - I think they are all serious answers, based on Kibkom Forum members' individual needs.

Hedge-fund obviously did well with his investments, he will buy his way to safety.
EnjoyingTheSun has been watching too many episodes of The Walking Dead, so is preparing for the worst.
Brinsley will be flying away, providing he has had a negative PCR test.
Frontalman, a man of steel, can take anything on empty handed.
sausage and pash's wings were lost long ago, so will result to staggering away.
Keithcaley will make his get away on horseback. Oh, and answering questions on Kibkom via fully charged mobile phone.

Just make sure you can all access Kibkom to stay informed.

If anyone can convince me how my trading/negotiating position would be weakened by pointing a gun at someone, I'm all ears!

[erol]

If anyone can convince me how my trading/negotiating position would be weakened by pointing a gun at someone, I'm all ears!

If anyone can convince me that pointing a gun at someone is either trading or negotiating, I am all ears !

[EnjoyingTheSun]

If anyone can convince me how my trading/negotiating position would be weakened by pointing a gun at someone, I'm all ears!

If anyone can convince me that pointing a gun at someone is either trading or negotiating, I am all ears !

At what point did I say it would be a fair trade or negotiation?

[Chriswright03]

An egg cup, can't eat soft boiled eggs any other way. Sorry.

Chriswright03 - I think they are all serious answers, based on Kibkom Forum members' individual needs.

Hedge-fund obviously did well with his investments, he will buy his way to safety.
EnjoyingTheSun has been watching too many episodes of The Walking Dead, so is preparing for the worst.
Brinsley will be flying away, providing he has had a negative PCR test.
Frontalman, a man of steel, can take anything on empty handed.
sausage and pash's wings were lost long ago, so will result to staggering away.
Keithcaley will make his get away on horseback. Oh, and answering questions on Kibkom via fully charged mobile phone.

Just make sure you can all access Kibkom to stay informed.

[Hedge-fund]

An egg cup, can't eat soft boiled eggs any other way. Sorry.

Chriswright03 - I think they are all serious answers, based on Kibkom Forum members' individual needs.

Hedge-fund obviously did well with his investments, he will buy his way to safety.
EnjoyingTheSun has been watching too many episodes of The Walking Dead, so is preparing for the worst.
Brinsley will be flying away, providing he has had a negative PCR test.
Frontalman, a man of steel, can take anything on empty handed.
sausage and pash's wings were lost long ago, so will result to staggering away.
Keithcaley will make his get away on horseback. Oh, and answering questions on Kibkom via fully charged mobile phone.

Just make sure you can all access Kibkom to stay informed.

[Keithcaley]

No one actually completed the phrase "A good supply of penknives with two blades and a thing for taking stones out of horses' hooves, Because..."

[Brinsley]

Soner
PCR acronym, Prisoner Criminals Released

The sky's would be full of occupied airplanes arriving at Ercan!

[frontalman]

I think the boy scouts motto "Be prepared" is one of the sickest things I've ever heard. Live life as it comes.

Fat lot of use you'd be at a jamboree! No food, no tent, nothing to light a fire with and no skills.... I suppose your parents were never prepared to have you?

I was the reason they had to get married. Not a good start, Gavin. What's your excuse

[Groucho]

I think the boy scouts motto "Be prepared" is one of the sickest things I've ever heard. Live life as it comes.

Fat lot of use you'd be at a jamboree! No food, no tent, nothing to light a fire with and no skills.... I suppose your parents were never prepared to have you?

I was the reason they had to get married. Not a good start, Gavin. What's your excuse

I'm not sure why you think I would need an excuse for being prepared.

[Soner]

No one actually completed the phrase "A good supply of penknives with two blades and a thing for taking stones out of horses' hooves, Because..."

We're waiting....

[Groucho]

No one actually completed the phrase "A good supply of penknives with two blades and a thing for taking stones out of horses' hooves, Because..."

We're waiting....

I can't bring myself to complete the sentence being as it and as I've already pointed out, based on a factual error. That is the definition of the spike as a tool for something other than ropework.

[Keithcaley]

No No No - not one of Those spikes! -

Like I said 'A thing for taking stones out of horses' hooves' - that's a different type of thing altogether

[Kanonier]

A hoof pick - as opposed to a toof pick.

[waddo]

"If you believed you had just one hour to leave your home in North Cyprus, what preparations would you make so you we’re ready?"

Infinite variations on an impossible question raise even more questions before even attempting an answer! Insufficient information provided in the question in the first place.

Only answer I can possibly give is - set my alarm to ensure I leave on time!

[Groucho]

No No No - not one of Those spikes! -

Like I said 'A thing for taking stones out of horses' hooves' - that's a different type of thing altogether

Ah, that's because you obviously were misled by the forerunner of the internet.... silly lies told by boys. There is no spike on multi-blade pocket knives that was actually intended for horses hoof use. It was a myth, it's still a myth. I was also told this lie as a boy. It still doesn't make it true.

It was and is actually called a Marlin and you could use it to do all sorts of things it was never designed for - but that doesn't mean that's what it is meant to be for.... does it? You might as well label the other blades 'butter and jam'...

[Keithcaley]

...You might as well label the other blades 'butter and jam'...

But that's what they are called - isn't it?

[sophie]

Picking up jam with a "marlin" would be like drinking soup with a fork ( pointless) Get it!??

[Groucho]

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A yachting knife... Only white horses at sea - with no stones in hooves...

[erol]

[Kanonier]

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A yachting knife... Only white horses at sea - with no stones in hooves...

When I joined the Army in 1962 I was issued with one of those, albeit not as posh. Being an inquisitive sort I asked what the spikey bit was for and informed, together with a few expletives, that it was for removing stones from horses hooves. Everywhere I went I carried the knife with me just incase I could rush to someone's aid and remove a foreign object from their lame horses' hoof, alas it was never required and at the end of my service I handed it back, unopened. At the risk of going slightly off topic I was also issued with a Housewife.

[Keithcaley]

Yay! That's the one Erol, not that manky thing that Groucho posted with only one blade!

[Mowgli597]

.... At the risk of going slightly off topic I was also issued with a Housewife.

I got one of those too when I joined in ‘67 (I know - sprog!)

But I also got another one from the army in Hong Kong which I ended up marrying (ex WRAC!)

I also got this wash kit which made a brilliant tool holder!

(Seriously )