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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Started conversation Oct 11, 2005
It was only last week that myself and SLG walked the length of Southend Pier, all 1 1/3 mile of it. The longest pleasure pier in the world. And I suppose it will be again. This isn't the first time it's burned down.
I don't know what made us decide to walk down the pier. I've not done it for years, in fact it seems like a different lifetime when I did.
But I'm glad we did walk down it, as I guess we won't have the chance for a bit. I just hope the Council use the opportunity to do some much needed sprucing up, not least of the trains that run up and down it every ten minutes, though I do think Sir John Betjeman would love the idea of a train at Southend Pier being named after him.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Oct 12, 2005
Well, you'd have a point, but neither of us smoke these days. 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 13, 2005
Oddly enough, stopping carrying a lighter is one thing I haven't done, despite quitting smoking.
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Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted Oct 13, 2005
Perhaps it is a psycological crutch. Giving up your lighter means accepting that smoking is really gone 
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Oct 13, 2005
When SLG tried to give up earlier in the year, she tried carrying a pack of ciggies with her. This time (and successfully), she's gone competely cold turkey.
The psychological crutch thing doesn't really appear to work.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 13, 2005
I don't think it is that. It's more the paranoid 'there might be a national emergency' bit of me that makes me carry knife, fishing line, torch and various other bits and pieces at all times. A lighter kinda fits in with that little lot.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Oct 13, 2005
So it's a crutch for your paranoia, then?
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 13, 2005
Err, yes, I suppose so. On the plus side, I'm never stuck for sharpening a pencil, or cleaning my nails.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Oct 13, 2005
What, with a cigarette lighter? 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 13, 2005
No, with the knife. Do keep up, people.
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Oct 13, 2005
You should really carry a pump action shotgun too, I mean, you don't want to be caught out when the inevitable zombie infestation occurs do you? 
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Oct 13, 2005
Ah no, not a pump action. In the initial stages of a breakout, by far the best weapons are silent. Bows, axes and other weapons whose noise will not attract further zombies are essential if you are to survive.
I refer you to Max Brooks invaluable 'Zombie Survival Guide' for further details.
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Oct 13, 2005
Ahh, but the problem with Axs, or any edged weapon, which needs to be diploied at close range, is blood, spreadage, and potential infectivity the pump action has the capibability to do sufficient dammage to take out the zombies, and can be used from sufficiently far off to help avoid infectivity 
True, at early stages of zombie infestation, the noise can be a problem, but then again, at the end of the day, when the inevetable zombie infestation does happen, we're all going to end up dead 
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Oct 13, 2005
Speak for yourself, ghoul-fodder.
I think pump-actions also tend to lack accuracy, which is needed to ensure the ceasation of cerebral activity, a necessity in render the zombie inert.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 13, 2005
Trouble is, people tend to notice you carrying sodding great axes in public. This way I'm only in shxte if I get asked to turn out my pockets.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 13, 2005
*any* sort of shotgun lacks accuracy. Packs a punch, mind you.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Oct 13, 2005
In fairness, Brooks does mention that the UK, with it's highly restrictive laws on guns and weaponry is likely to be overun by the zombie hordes very quickly.
True, shotguns can clear a space, thus buying some time, but it only delays the zombie. It won't stop one.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 13, 2005
You'd have to be bloody accurate with a crossbow to take one out, which is probably the best our household could do...
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