Doomsday preppers/ the survivalist types.
I think this is more of an American thing, but seems to be slowly creeping over here.
The survivalist thing has been around for some time, but it seemed to increase in the late 90s/early 00s whether that was due to 9/11 and the Y2K thing I don’t know. These lot have been preparing for an “I am legend” or “The Road” type scenario for years. The worlds been going to end for the last 40 years. I don’t know if they think one day they’ll be right and have the last laugh and be able to say I told you so. Right before they end up carking it with the rest of us.
They seem to spend all of their time focussing on buying equipment and accumulating weird and wonderful gadgets and gear, but they’re generally fat fucks, who don’t look like they’d be capable of walking upstairs without having a stroke, never mind trekking across country for 100s of miles. There seem to be a lot of what I call “neckbeards” that have adopted this “hobby”.
Many of them look like they couldn’t go a day without a couple of packs of Mars Bars and several 3 litre bottles of cola, never mind forage for food and water in the wilderness.
Always seem to have a bit of a weird Josef Fritzl/Jeffrey Dahmer vibe about them too.
(There’s actually a TV show about these loons. Click here for the deets. – NA)
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