i have a printed checklist... and when i can afford it i stock up on some items... ive considered hiding spots and thought of many scenarios and the different strategies required to survive each situation... ive also made a list of tasty and long lasting food items.

although im not narrowing the possibility to just zombies... i consider aliens... robots... and alien robots... and zombie alien robots
also nuclear holocaust or just plain resource exaustment. or a global weather crisis.

i daydream about owning a secret laboratory... like dexter... that could double for bomb shelter, or any other apocalyptic scenario.

but i live in michigan... in the middle of the great lakes... so a weather disaster could put me in the worst spot for flooding and whatnot... in which case id have to consider migrating either north or south. the upper peninsula has more scattered competetition and more wilderness... theres a specific area of woods my dad hunted when i was young, and i know well. that would be spot 1. then again the winters are colder to the north, and if animals are effected by this event also, id have to consider that too... i could go south... but i have less of an idea of where to go if i do. but if im able to stay here... i know exactly what im doing.

i think of it lightly... and jokingly... with most people

but if something were to happen, the people who giggle at my paranoia now, will beg me to save them... "...and ill whisper no" hahahaha

i daydream about owning a secret laboratory... like dexter... that could double for bomb shelter, or any other apocalyptic scenario.

I suggest that if you want to chat about such topics as this that a different forum might be more suitable for more enthusiastic replies.

Perhaps, I Am Legend Forum - Discussion Boards at MovieTome ?

Even though this is under general discussion, I just don't see how this belongs here.

Maybe there should be some sort of philosophical message in here, but heck... when it comes to zombies... why not. Maybe we could chalk it up as some sort of existential critique or something like that. And if zombies are good enough for Jane Austen, they are good enough for the general discussion board I suppose.

Honestly, If I heard that Zombies were roaming the earth, I would seriously consider hiding in my fall-out shelter I nervously made during the 50's (which was ironically very secure but not strong enough to withstand a nuclear blast), stock it up with food and wait it out for a year or so. Seriously, if the dead really roamed the earth, would you really want to go looking for them? Not I sir... not I. Besides, if the dead did walk the earth, one would assume that they have to decay at some point... so bam... there's your solution. I would wait it out, let them fall apart, and emerge victorious. Time and Nature are equivalent to the worlds most effective shotgun and elephant bullet.

It's funny, I had this kind of "what would you do" conversation with a friend of mine a long time ago about that movie The Ring. You know, the one with the little girl and the video where if you see it you have seven days to live? Personally, I hate horror movies, but I found the whole context of the movie amusing. Think about it, if that little girl can come back from the dead and haunt you, whats to keep you from haunting her? It's just logical, right? If she did it, I can do it too... and way better I might add. I told my friend that if I ever got a call saying "7 days," I would simply reply "7 minutes." That's all it would take to get my message through. LOL! Maybe I should use that on telemarketers.



I curse cartoon network everyday since they canceled that show. Why must DeeDee constantly push the button? How cuuuuud she?

If my my family were dead i'd move on first then weep purely for survival reasons. Zombies are easy to kill especially if you've got the right weapons, that would be my first port of call then i'd be happy, and off i go on a killing spree, shame im on my own or I'd have a competition who could kill the most. Then, (if I've managed to stay alive), i'd secure shelter and security, stock up on supplies, then i'd become a warrior, master killer of the zombie race!!!! Heh heh.

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Dont Zombies smell blood or something, they know where you are? no use hiding then. When I was secure i'd set up a perimeter, probably electrical or something equally as fun.

Did you really build a bomb shelter?
PROS: You apparently have a bomb shelter to hide in, with enough food, you would probably outlast the horde.
CONS: Wait by yourself in a room for a year, I imagine you would develop some sort of psychological problems like paranoia and stuff like that. I mean convicts in solitary know that they are getting out sometime and there are people outside, but you have no one. The people who chose to kill zombies at least have something fun to do. So maybe 6-8 months into it, you may be suicidal.

PROS: Your confident in your apparent zombie killing abilities so you could potentially kill a lot more of them before they manage, and they WILL, to bite or scratch you.
CONS: Your plan seems a lot more short sighted, what happens when you run out of bullets. Because you may not be able to take on a horde of, oh lets say 100, and walk away unscathed.

It's really hard to get a weapon in sweden, so I'd through knives at them and quickly pack some belongings and snorkling equipment, rob a weapon store, hijack a plane and fly to a tropical island and just chill out, and occasionly kill some zombies. But on the other hand... there are 6000 0000 000 zombies and I am 1 living. I'd just give up.

I'd get away first before I was overcome with too many, (in any vehicle I'd could get my hands on), then I'd get some serious weapons and some serious ammo and I'd think I'd have alot of fun because zombies are not very bright, you can lay all sorts of booby traps. I'd probably live in a castle with a moat and a draw bride.

This info would have been useful in your first post.
People, lets try to be as detailed as possible when explaining our situation.
And unless your a skilled mason, I don't think you could build a whole castle.

Sorry I was late, didn't see your post before.:whistling:
PROS: First idea of going to an island were there would be little zombies, nice.
CONS: Assuming you could get through an airport where there were lots of people before, now all of them are zombies, and unless you're a trained pilot, I'd imagine you somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific with a whole new threat, ZOMBIE SHARKS:eek:. LOL
And lets say you get to said island, what happens if you don't have enough fuel to go back and your running out of food. Then you would be like Tom Hanks in cast away except with zombies.

Lol no I'd hijack one, one that is already built, might need a hand in lifting the drawbridge though. For fun on a sunday you could drop the drawbridge and pick them off from the towers!

I'd chose an island where I can get food from the nature, which would be, IMO, the only reason for living. And flying a plane is a piece of cake, I mean, how difficult could it be:shifty:.

well i didnt go into details about killing zombies because i left that under the whole "situational" summing up... because true zombie might not be slow and dull... and it might not be a blood pathogen to wear biting and scratching turns you... its more likely to be either venom so that a bite does kill you... or i imagine zombies being more along the line of mutants... to you are severly threatened by them but it would take direct contact with the mutational substance like the t-virus... not secondary contact through the zombie itself... it wouldnt take long after finding out the nature of the zombie condition to formulate strategies... in which my video game experience is what i rely on to be a good shot, and all the plastic sword battles as a child to chop off heads if need be... although i doubt the standard take the head off and it be done with will not be the case... if cells are reanimated the cells of the arms and legs can be active even without a brain.... in which i imagine stealth and intelligence will be a greater weapon than a gun or sword.

depends on how smart the zombies, or robots or mutants, or alien robot mutants are.

just like i didnt bother going into long term plans either, like if i successfully survive, how to cleanse the planet and begin a new civilization

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hmmm... i wonder if rolling wire cages would be practical... like shark cages... but modified...

First I would write and NSF grant, that would allow me to raid a supermax prison and kill some death row inmates so that I could practice cannibalism. If the zombies were prevalent at that time there shouldn't be too much of a problem getting human rights.subjects approval. The grant would also contract Paula Dean and Bobby Flay as cannibal cuisine consultants. I would practice eating human flesh as well.

I would then attempt to infiltrate a zombie community using gourmet tex mex grilled kidney, and deep fried butter and balls as a bartering/trust building mechanism. If that didn't work I'd just give them Paula Dean and Bobby Flay. I would then document their social structure and language.

I think I'd first try to document their phonetic inventory because linguists for generations have had trouble distinguishing aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarg from aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. I would then create a unique character set that is aesthetically pleasing to the community. I might call the font blood streak serif bold. Of course dictionaries grammmars and ethnographies would follow.

The I would tell the zombie community that the NSF and faculty of MIT were tastier than normal people. That would secure me the Dean of non-undead studies and school of culinary arts chair at MIT with automatic tenure.

Well sadly I live in Australia, where we are not allowed weapons, the government says so. And just to be sure, we couldn't even find an outlet that could provide us with more than a five shot pump action and perhaps a sidearm. So we are going to go balistic, Mad Max style. Thing about that is I don't like driving at the best of times, so I am out of that one. I supose if they are after human brains, we stand a chance. Being that we are all sheep. Please, don't talk to loud about this, there are a lot of hypocondriacts here and if they get wind of this there will be an epidemic of symtoms flowing around.

You know if I had given another post earlier, this would have been my 303rd post, which would have been enough for me to convert from word to form and hence I could have armed myself. But alas 302 is an engine block for a Ford. Just my luck.