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Preppers gonna prep.

Lynx

I’m over in Spain so only just heard the news, this was so good

https://x.com/scottygb/status/1793315621662290087?s=61&t=B5PsHMFKGNZzt6Z5g-D2mg

But....she has lost her job as a priest over this....

Used to telling lies in all walks of life

Imagine the relief Simon Case is experiencing right now.

Impending unemployment may take the edge off it.

I am so naive that I'd hope that going in to the religious order makes you better than the average.

Even though my dad trained to be a Catholic priest!

Pro tip on residential emergency food stores: instead of buying MREs and military rations, buy an extra few meals worth of non-refrigerated food that you’d eat anyway. Use a First in - First out system to ensure food doesn’t go out of date, and don’t let he cupboard empty before replenishing.

Few things make a crisis more subjectively miserable than unnecessarily crappy food.

That's called doing the weekly shop, isn't it?

Sure if you’re making sure to always keep more than a week’s worth of food in the house, and it seems that loads of people aren’t, hence the above mentioned govt campaign.

https://www.bicycling.com/health-nutrition/a60412469/cycling-saddle-pain-women-surgery/

Women cyclists are having severe issues with their external genitalia due to the design of bike saddles. Sometimes it’s so severe that they need surgery to remove parts of their labia: half the women on one UCI world tour team have had labioplasty surgery or have tissue damage severe enough to change how they can sit on a bike. As a majority male sport, it’s an issue that doesn’t get enough attention.

Food is fine, assuming you have the cash to fill your cupboards. Water is awkward as who buys bottled water for use in the home? Canned water lasts a lot longer but isn't widely available in the same way.

Don't forget big roll, loads of bog roll!

My mum.

I used to have a massive bottle, but my OH has a fear about water that's been in plastic bottles too long, so it got thrown.

Did he move to the house I grew up in as a kid? It has a nuclear bunker in the garden.

Water is awkward as who buys bottled water for use in the home?

Loads of people. All the Turkish shops near me have six packs of 1.5l bottles stacked up by the door and you see plenty of people buying them. God knows why.

God knows why.

I know right! Our water systems are the best in the world and without fault.

The taste of the water in some parts of London or even in some buildings might be unpleasant. Some folks might find comfort in knowing they won’t suddenly be left without water (eg old folks with limited mobility, rather than preppers). There also seems to be various cultural elements related to it: snobbery, distrust of water companies, beliefs about cleanliness.

It’s a real shame that so much plastic is being used for disposable bottles in a city that has potable water everywhere.

Habits from growing up somewhere with unsafe tapwater, like Devon.

God knows why

Perhaps they grew up when/where the tap water wasn't great. Or they believe that London water has been through six people. Or that it has cocaine in it.

London water has been through six people

And the rest, and dinosaurs.

London tap water does taste shit, not a patch on what you get up north. But you can just buy a filter jug rather than never-ending bottles of water.

Just filter* it, FFS, and stop contributing to plastic waste.

I think "it's my culture" stops being a satisfactory excuse when it comes at a cost to society.

*eco-friendly filter is cheaper p/a.

London water is awesome. I'm delighted to have brought up a child/young adult that might be going to university in the autumn (subject to exams...) and one of their big concerns about moving away from home is the water will taste awful.