Preparing for Emergencies.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Some of our British Members may remember that a few years ago our very wonderful government sent everyone in the mail a 'Preparing for Emergencies' booklet. They also set up an official website (http://www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk/). Well, just looking through my old emails from last year, i found one with a link to the Parody website. It's worth having a look at, as it is quite funny.

Anyway, thank you for paying attention to my pitiful attempts to lighten up the back room.

[Mikeus Caesar]

It helps to post the damned link doesn't it? Oh well, post count +1!

Parody site (http://www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk/index.htm)

[Marcellus]

I didn't get one of those leaflets, but I heard that they all just contained an awful lot of common sense. The link doesn't seem to be working for me at the moment, unfortunately. Private Eye (magazine) did a very good parody of it, by the way.

[English assassin]

I and no doubt everyone else over a certain age was reminded of "Protect and Survive", which was the Governments civil defence information for surviving nuclear war in the 1980s.

IIRC it had useful tips like make sure you have plenty of tea bags (as tea may become scarce as civilisation comes to an end, which I think that is confusing cause and effect myself), and have plenty of bin liners ready for the dead bodies of your relatives.

I seem to remember it recommended taking doors off their hinges and making a sort of wendy hut to live in for two weeks. I never quite understood how a few doors propped up against a wall was going to resist a 100 metatonne nuclear blast (or indeed how you were supposed to unscrew the doors and get them into wendy hut configuration within the four minutes warning that we would have had of impending soviet nuclear incineration.)

Having grown up with this nonsense no doubt partly explains a certain relaxation with AQ's comparatively rather pathetic efforts.