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Who Remembers This?
Basically it was a leaflet that said,'if the worst happens kiss your backside goodbye'.
:D Protect and Survive Though I must admit, in the original leaflet pushed through the door, there was information saying not to expect buses to be running once you came out of your shelter, but, joy of Joy's, full time employment, squads of us would be assigned to fly swatting duties. Weren't you glad when this leaflet dropped through your letterbox? At least you'd have an extra piece of paper to wipe your arse on during the fortnight you were entombed, ha, a fortnight? They just wanted us to dig our own graves! |
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One officer (a right clever beggar) was telling us how we would be deployed in the event of a nuclear attack, he saw me shaking my head, and said what would you do then, I told him I would sod off home & protect my own as long as I could. every thing else would be a waste of time and effort. |
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Luckily the late wife used to bin all the garbage,before i came home from work, so never even was aware of it.:alright:
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I don't remember anyone worrying about a nuclear attack or even discussing it.
And yet it was a very real possibility! Did we just accept that if it came we were all dead but what could we do about it? As for living behind two sloping doors for 14 days- how hopelessly unprepared we were. |
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I think I still have a copy somewhere - I could probably sell it on ebay :D.
...not that I had any intention of using the advice in it - just kept it for nostalgic reasons. That doom cartoon 'When the Wind Blows' had some of its animators commit suicide. When the Wind Blows Protect and Survive |
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One house we lived in had a cellar. The previous owners had bricked it up at one end and stored gallons of water behind the wall. I can only presume it was for such an attack. The water's probably still there because I couldn't be bothered to move it.
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Marvellous innit? Considering you'd only get a 4 minute warning of an imminent attack. It wouldn't give you much time to schlepp all the gubbins you need into place really.
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You are relieved because the worst you do nowadays is glow slightly in the permanent winter. However, as soon as civilization takes a hold once more, you get an envelope through the hole were the door with the letterbox used to be, telling you you are being prosecuted for damaging his property! :eek: |
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Spent many hours every day in them during Gulf 1, bit of a problem when the temp was in the 40s |
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Me, I'd load my guns, and hang out for a bit, see how bad things were; and if it got too bad I'd off my critters, drink all my booze, smoke all my dope, and blow out what's left of my brain cells.:alright: As a species, we ain't really all that important. We won't be missed. In fact, the planet, once it has recovered from the mess we have made of it, will probably be better off without us. Since the end of the Cold War, we seem to have forgotten the threat of nuclear war ... I'm sorry folks, but it's still there, and so are most of the nukes. Think of this: many of the yanks in the missile silos are probably wacked out on some kind of dope .... many of their Russian counterparts are already into their second bottle of vodka when they show up for work. Let's ponder that as we worry about Iran, North Korea, India, Pakistan, Israel .................. :dflam: |
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