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That kid is BACK on the escalator!
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*points to Psycho's grenades* I call that a reliable and useful skill, ma'am. This. |
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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...Yeah, I just wanted to say that.
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Doing Pirate things...
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: ...on my pirate ship.
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I heard somewhere that only 16% of the US population knows how to drive a stick (I vaguely remember hearing this, so it must be true, right?), and I'm not teaching someone during the zombie invasion. Finding them the hill to practice on will be hard enough without zombies surrounding us.
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Dreams of Dragons
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Colorado
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And I'm not sure how much help I'd be during the Z Apocalypse. I'm an aggressive driver and pretty good with bats/clubs. Otherwise, I just know people, like my dad. I swear, every time I talk to my parents they've bought another gun. I'm sure their inventory has tripled in the last 6 months.
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That kid is BACK on the escalator!
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Everytime I offer to teach CobraMrsFit how to drive a stick, she responds, "I know it well enough that I could figure it out in an emergency." Um, no. During an emergency (zombie apoxylips, Mayan Ragnorak, B1eber concert, etc), you want those skills to be second nature so you can drive with one hand and operate the "boom stick" with the other. |
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Doing Pirate things...
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Just a Fairy Princess
Join Date: Apr 2009
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now, can't we just get automatics to run from the zombies? I mean, come on - I have my own car to drive!
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word-slinger
Join Date: Dec 2007
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And bound and determined it wasn't going to be me. For a chnage.
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Waltzing with fae. Slowly.
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Join Date: Dec 2011
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So what I really want to know is: where are all these zombies escaping from and why do we have to run away? We can't all be in the firing zone and why don't we stand and fight (or do I mean write?)
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That kid is BACK on the escalator!
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Kuh-wote Buuked!
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Surely rolling would be fine. It would be the collision with something else at the bottom that would be the problem.
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Well, considering the plot of almost every zombie movie, there's a tipping point when the heroes and heroines make a valiant stand before the big escape. Personally, I'd prefer to make my stand in a place with plenty of supplies and a lot of difficult-for-them-to-negotiate terrain. If/when things go down, we might have to travel to that ideal kill-zone.
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Gametrovert
Join Date: May 2010
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Well count me in on the stick driving crew (along with tractors, large trucks with trailers, and some heavy machinery)
B's dad has a housefull of guns, knives, and assorted weapons (maybe some real grenades somewhere) Other useful skills include: EMT training - advanced first aid- some idea of what kinds of plants are edible or medicinal, able to make own clothing and supplies from the rough.... so do I get the job?
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This is fun. It's like building an uber Away Team. Medic, Security, Operations, etc.... And no Red Shirts allowed... |
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Join Date: Dec 2011
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Call me picky, but didn't you say earlier that if the balloon went UP. Are we prepping for both types of emergency or just the one and then we stand on our heads if required?
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Bad things can happen from every direction. I like to be prepared for all of them. |
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going through the hay to your home
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Why do you need a hill for learning to drive stick?
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Gametrovert
Join Date: May 2010
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several reasons
1) to teach driver how to let off clutch smoothly. (easiest down hill) 2) how to teach driver how to get car to moving at bottom of hill from a start (can be complicated) 3 how to start vehicle without need of key
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Just a Fairy Princess
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ALL CONTINGENCIES, 10!!
ALL OF THEM!
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Yup.
Although, learning to drive a stick underwater is a really pain.... |
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