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**FITZZ**

So,here's a question that arose from a conversation between a buddy and myself.
In case of a global castastrophy ( ie: no helps coming and your on your own bub),could you survive,what skills do you posess to insure that you will get to continue to cheerfully wander through the wastelands?

Bare in mind that there are others out in the rubble,and they want to survive as much,if not more,than you.

As for myself, I have a fair ammount of guns and ammo,I know how to hunt (including cleaning and preping kills),I know how to fish,I have a better than average understanding of construction and engine repair and I can be pretty damn ruthless when needed.

**theocd**

Given a gun I'm a pretty dead eye shot but I don't own one, I am getting medically trained at a St John Ambulance thing, I know basic survival skills and can navigate quite well. I also have a good deal of common sense and have good leadership in the right situations.

The OC-D

**Kilkrazy**

I'm a trained medic and first aider.

I speak Japanese, French and German.

I can navigate well using map and compass.

I have a fair bit of practical mechanical and electrical knowledge.

I can drive.

I can shoot with rifle, pistol and bow.

**Lord-Loss**

I have learnt all my wasteland survival skills from FallOut 3!

**warpcrafter**

I would prefer not to live through the collapse, I'm too keen on the comforts of civilization. Besides, I would probably snap and become a cannibal.

**Golden Eyed Scout**

I'm know how to perform several submission locks and can take someone apart with my hands.
I'm not too shabby in a knife fight.
I know a good bit of cold weather and wilderness survival skills.
I know a good bit of how to construct shelters.
I can make molotov cocktails and a few homemade explosives..
I can speak some French, Spanish, Latin, and German.
I know how to hydroponic garden.
I can go for a while without sleep.
I'm a skilled actor/liar, so I can cover my ass.
I am full of the energy of my youth.
I know a little of how to use herbs for medicinal purposes.
I know first aid, and can set a broken bone, as well as relocate dislocated shoulders (comes from having seen it done to myself and my brother.)
I am competent with bolt action rifles and handguns.
I can scale tall trees/buildings.
I know how to use SCUBA, if I ever need to.
Can weld a little bit.

Wow, I sound like I'm a Green Beret, cool.

**IvanTih**

After the collapse I could defend myself with homemade explosives,I know how to shoot from a bow ,be sneaky....
Ride a mutated giant rat.

**Relapse**

Lord-Loss wrote:I have learnt all my wasteland survival skills from FallOut 3!

There is a contraversy if people such as yourself are being properly prepared, though.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/are_violent_video_games

**Lukus83**

I live next to a supermarket...

**BrookM**

I can crack off horrible remarks at the worst possible times.

**Relapse**

Lukus83 wrote:I live next to a suermarket...

Is living next to a sewer market really an advantage?

**Lukus83**

corrected, thanks Relapse.

**Cryonicleech**

Only weapons I could use right now are Bow/Knife.

I would just live out my days as a hermit.

However, were I more trained in the use of weapons, I'd hope to become a mercenary.

**Relapse**

Lukus83 wrote:corrected, thanks Relapse.

No thanks needed, citizen, just doing my smart ass duty!

**Lord of battles**

Im smater than the average bear

and im a gun toting psycho engineer!

**Cheesepie**

Ive played enough zombie games to know what to do.

Heres the plan we raid home depot for all their gardening tools like chain saws

second we make barricades out of chairs and and fallen furniture

third we buy rpgs off the black market.com and get someone to create rocket propelled chainsaws

and then we find frazzled and stick him on a cross so he cant move using him to scare a way the zombies
into a dark room with the Jonas brothers and green day and simple plan and any other god forsaken band
and wait for the exploding heads if that fails then we unleash the power of frazzled armed with a rocket propelled
chainsaw. and pray to god that he doesn't get pissed at us for nailing him on a cross.

not even the dead can survive that.

**Cheese Elemental**

I'd kill myself.

**Persephone 66**

I've got mad mechanic skills.
I can weld.
I have a degree in electronics engineering.
I'm a human calculator.

**OverbossGhurzubMoga**

I know how to hunt, fish and survive without the comforts at electricty.

And, a skill that will make me invaluable to everyone in the world, I am learning to brew alcohol.

**Albatross**

I'm know how to perform several submission locks and can take someone apart with my hands.
I'm not too shabby in a knife fight.

You are ADORABLE!

Erm, speaking for my self... I have considerable fat reserves, due to moderate beer-gut. Ship of the desert, baby!

Plus I know mattyrm - he's my insurance policy.

**Relapse**

I grew up living and working on my family farm and other farms, so I know how to grow things and raise animals. I also know how to hunt, fish and find plants to eat in the woods and other places, I think I'll do alright.
I know construction, and have put up some fairly solid buildings on my own.

**Lord-Loss**

Relapse wrote:
Lord-Loss wrote:I have learnt all my wasteland survival skills from FallOut 3!

There is a contraversy if people such as yourself are being properly prepared, though.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/are_violent_video_games

The women is a liar she said "Fallout 3 has taught my son, thats its better to kill a cyborg with a grenade, then a machine gun" There are no grenades in Fallout 3!

**Golden Eyed Scout**

Albatross wrote:
I'm know how to perform several submission locks and can take someone apart with my hands.
I'm not too shabby in a knife fight.

You are ADORABLE!

Never doubt the pain of being put in an ankle lock.

I have had it done to me more times then I care to count.

Also, a knife is so much more personal then a gun. You get to see all the emotions on a person's face. You find out who's really a coward.
Do you want to know how many of your friends were cowards?

**Albatross**

I don't doubt it GES, I used to study Brasilian Jiu-Jitsu when I lived in Spain. I was just teasing.

I don't get the knife quote, though.

**mattyrm**

Scout i thought you were 15? You sound like a grizzled war veteran mate! Do you live in Mogadishu?

**Albatross**

Afghan Warlords don't behead their captives - they just get GES to chew their heads off!

**mattyrm**

I like Lukus's answer.

**Orkeosaurus**

Lord-Loss wrote:The women is a liar she said "Fallout 3 has taught my son, thats its better to kill a cyborg with a grenade, then a machine gun" There are no grenades in Fallout 3!

Eh? Yes there are.

**Golden Eyed Scout**

Albatross wrote:I don't doubt it GES, I used to study Brasilian Jiu-Jitsu when I lived in Spain. I was just teasing.

I don't get the knife quote, though.

I wasn't sure if you were making fun of me, didn't see the smiley.
One of my hobbies is training with the KABAR i got from my grandfather. I keep it sheathed while training though, as I know my luck.
My fingertips are scarred from many modeling accidents.

mattyrm wrote:Scout i thought you were 15? You sound like a grizzled war veteran mate! Do you live in Mogadishu?

I have a lot of time on my hands. Plenty to spend studying different ways to learn to make the human body fall apart.

Ghost kicks, chain punches, finger jabs, knife edge chops, elbow throws, running knee strike, a thousand dirty tricks one can pick up by reading a
few books or watching a few videos.
Course, seeing something done is easier then doing it. So I train alot.

**mattyrm**

Wow, thats impressive for a kid your age, are you aspiring to join the military? I think it sounds a good idea for you, i earned my green beret and i have to say, you seem more passionate about it than any spec ops guy i ever met!

All i will say though, is that practicing knife fighting is not the same as actually having a knife fight.

Once your looking into the eyes of someone that is absolutely determined to kill you, then your ass starts twitching, and no amount of training truly prepares you for the feeling.

Not that i have ever killed anyone in a knife fight, i always had a rifle, a sidearm and some grenades, but i know what it feels like when someone is trying very hard to kill you, and i think few people can remain entirely unaffected by it.

Anyway, keep training and join the Delta Force or something, i think you would be a natural.