Is your shop prepared for the upcoming barter system?

[DL Signs]

I'll use all the stuff we have for signs to build a big ol' thunder dome cage. Charge everyone a pig for admission because, well... I like bacon.

 

[Gino]

But, are you a good butcher ?? Or do you hafta barter that, too.

 

[Signarama Jockey]

No, we've heard the same thing from people on here who were dead serious... Quite a few people. With your beliefs in other threads, it wasn't beyond reach you were one of them.

Well, it is a fact that some day the paradigm that we live in will crumble. Perhaps not like Mad Max, and perhaps not in your lifetime, but a collapse is inevitable. And you would really have to have your head in the sand to not see current national and global events as alarming. I personally do believe that dark times are imminent, so I guess that puts me in the "dead serious" category - so be it.

 

[Boudica]

I personally do believe that dark times are imminent, so I guess that puts me in the "dead serious" category - so be it.

 

[DL Signs]

But, are you a good butcher ?? Or do you hafta barter that, too.

I'd probably need a little assistance breaking down a whole animal at my age. Don't like to share, but who wouldn't help out for a cut of the bacon, or good smoked pork?
Convert a tanker truck into a smoker, a refer for storage, mmmmmm.

 

[Gino]

Yep, now ya hafta barter for protection against stealing the stuff.

 

[Signarama Jockey]

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Hey, I guess we'll find out, eh? I hope you're right!

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Yep, now ya hafta barter for protection against stealing the stuff.

This is the first thought that comes to mind when the doomsday preppers start talking about their stockpiles of supplies. Sure, you can shoot them but you aren't taking out a mob of desperate starving people that are also likely armed. It's delusional. Plus, that'd be pretty dickish. Even in war torn countries, people band together to help each other, not sure what's up with some people in this country but I couldn't watch people starve while I sat on 10 years worth of food.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

Well, it is a fact that some day the paradigm that we live in will crumble. Perhaps not like Mad Max, and perhaps not in your lifetime, but a collapse is inevitable. And you would really have to have your head in the sand to not see current national and global events as alarming. I personally do believe that dark times are imminent, so I guess that puts me in the "dead serious" category - so be it.

My head is in the sand... What are these dark times? I've been though the "uncertain times" ... made it out OK.

 

[Gino]

It's long, but so true.

 

[VizualVoice]

trade some signs for some guns.

ooh, I'ma be able to get a LOT of signs!
......er.....wait.....am I doing it right?

 

[VizualVoice]

Let's not forget an alien invasions. I think that their spaceships run on gold and silver, so that will be the most valuable currency when they get here.

you might be on to something there. I think even NASA uses gold wiring in spacecraft!

 

[Gino]

Let's not forget an alien invasions. I think that their spaceships run on gold and silver, so that will be the most valuable currency when they get here.

Won't matter much what they use, if they're gonna eat you.

 

[Signarama Jockey]

This is the first thought that comes to mind when the doomsday preppers start talking about their stockpiles of supplies. Sure, you can shoot them but you aren't taking out a mob of desperate starving people that are also likely armed. It's delusional. Plus, that'd be pretty dickish. Even in war torn countries, people band together to help each other, not sure what's up with some people in this country but I couldn't watch people starve while I sat on 10 years worth of food.

But, if you gave up your stockpile to keep them alive, doesn't that just mean you'll be starving alongside them once they eat through your supplies?

In a situation like that, you have got to prioritize yourself and your family. Sure, banding together is good, but it has got to be a mutually beneficial arrangement. If you band together with people who don't want to work and who offer you no value, then you're being taken advantage of, right?

 

[Patrick Farrell]

But, if you gave up your stockpile to keep them alive, doesn't that just mean you'll be starving alongside them once they eat through your supplies?

In a situation like that, you have got to prioritize yourself and your family. Sure, banding together is good, but it has got to be a mutually beneficial arrangement. If you band together with people who don't want to work and who offer you no value, then you're being taken advantage of, right?

Literally the only rule good for any situation.

 

[DL Signs]

Yep, now ya hafta barter for protection against stealing the stuff.

You wouldn't come protect me for free bacon?Well, I never...

 

[Boudica]

You wouldn't come protect me for free bacon?Well, I never...

He would, but you would have to trade your bacon for his protection.

 

[JBurton]

He would, but you would have to trade your bacon for his protection.

See, even gino can get in on this.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

But, if you gave up your stockpile to keep them alive, doesn't that just mean you'll be starving alongside them once they eat through your supplies?

In a situation like that, you have got to prioritize yourself and your family. Sure, banding together is good, but it has got to be a mutually beneficial arrangement. If you band together with people who don't want to work and who offer you no value, then you're being taken advantage of, right?

You're comparing someone's life to a shitty worker. Sounds you don't value other people unless they have something to give you.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

Sounds you don't value other people unless they have something to give you.

Aint that the only reason we talk to women?