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In the UK, we're told to wrap burns in cling film (which is what it's called over here) before we take someone to the hospital (after running cold water over it for 20 minutes). To prevent infection no doubt. Do you put anything between the burn and the cling wrap? Nope. Everytime I've been taught ...

crypto wrote:Every advanced piece of electronics other than the stereo is located in front of the firewall, under the hood. Cooked.

... and the stereo has an antenna that sticks outside the car body - it has to otherwise the radio wouldn't work. So it's toast too.

magnus wrote:Descent into the Bottomlands

That's a good write-up with some nice photos!

I must get around to doing some stove comparisons ...

If you fancy an Optimus but the 111 Hiker seems too big for you, there's a Russian clone of the smaller 8R Hunter available for $40 from A&H Packstoves.

edited for the usual.

I understand that most of y'all are prepared to bug in, thats my plan as well. Yep, I'm planning to bug in unless my home becomes untenable. My answer applies to me; Mrs Sheddi seems to take 4x longer to pack even when it's planned, and the one time we had to get out of the house in a hurry in the ...

czechnology wrote:ROAST BEEF FLAVORED CHIPS??

God, I love Europe sometimes.

Heh. There's not that many flavours of Monster Munch.

Try the list on the left-hand side of this page for the flavours offered by one of the big names in the UK.

From the (limited) news coverage I've seen in the UK, it seems like the evac centres are all working well. Is the story the same in the US media?

Brash wrote:I'd like to see some of the LEO's post correct technique for using spray.

Here's how not to do it, from a local newspaper report.

I must admit the article made me giggle ...

Encona original hot pepper sauce.



A friend of mine spent 8 months in South Carolina and I had to ship Encona sauce to him as he couldn't find a suitable local alternative ...

Lunch for me goes through phases. Eg. I got a case of HDRs from the US so for the next week or so I had half a HDR for lunch. (The others went in the cupboard or were traded out to my co-workers.) And similarly with 24h ORPs, although one of them lasts 3 days or more. Most recently, lunch was a hun...

The rationale, however flawed, of putting granulated sugar on a wound would be that because it is a solute, and by creating an area of hypertonicity (high solute concentration) you increase the osmotic gradient. Here is a report discussing the use of honey as an antibiotic for topical wound treatme...

Fleece is good... +1. I remember when fleece first hit the shelves in the UK, in the mid 80s. Malden Mills Polarplus cut a swathe through the previous-generation fibrepile garments. I've still got a (rather well worn) Polarlite jacket here. I've got some fleece trousers that it's rarely cold enough...

I'm not going to post how to make jam as that is beyond the scope of this thread and really deserves it's own. That was a hint. My jam recipe. http://zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21845 9th post. (Sorry, don't know how to link straight to a specific post :( ) And a hint on apples: in the ...

Lunch for me goes through phases. Eg. I got a case of HDRs from the US so for the next week or so I had half a HDR for lunch. (The others went in the cupboard or were traded out to my co-workers.) And similarly with 24h ORPs, although one of them lasts 3 days or more. Most recently, lunch was a hunk...

Don't you think its strange that this media blitz about staph awareness comes right about the same time that medicaid and medicare both are going to stop paying for care related to hospital caused infections and that the hospitals will have to eat the cost as it is not legal to charge the person fo...

quazi wrote:Another option is what they call "shelf milk." Actually, I hear it called a lot of things, and I'm not sure what the correct term is.

This stuff? Just like Wikipedia says, it's ubiquitous here in the UK (although, unlike the French, it's not our principal variety of milk).

I occasionally see these in the UK.

Brash wrote:You guys get all the best surplus shit.

Get someone in the US to buy you one, then pick it up at Z-Con

Erik wrote:I'd stick with one gallon of water. That should be enough, along with some kind of water purification. That'll cut 15-20 pounds off your pack instantly.

OK, I know I live in metric-land, but doesn't 24 x 8oz bottles of water makes 12 pounds total?

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nfa wrote:Whenever I get worried about MRSA, I just take a 3 day series of whatever antibiotics are lying around the house from previous prescriptions that I never bothered to finish...

NFA, that is a very bad way to go about things.

I think nfa was kidding ...

Meh. They've been saying that Peak Oil is gonna happen Real Soon Now since the end of WWII. Too true. When I was at school - back in the neolithic (OK, 1985) - I had a a project on oil supply. All the big multinationals had confirmed reserves for the next 10 years or so. My all-too-predictable conc...

I'm not buying that at all. What kind of "response mechanisms" do we have now that they didn't have back then? How could health officials have responded that would have made things better back then? I can't speak for your neck of the woods, but I was reading this earlier today: Exercise Gold Snap -...

Doc Simon wrote:You also need to get a card in french that teaches you to say:
"I accept your surrender."

En français:
"J'accepte votre reddition".

BloodLust wrote:It's a Unimog.

It's not a Unimog. The truck's a MAN, a different German marque.

The reason it looks bigger inside than out, is that the sides both slide out and the roof pops up!

For trucks in this vein, try http://www.allrad-christ.com/ and try not to look at the prices ...