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Zombie Apocalypse
I know this is going to sound stupid.
Or like I'm joking, or maybe a little crazy.
But...
Am I the only one who has seriously considered/planned for the zombies?
No, I'm serious.
It isn't as unlikely as one might think. There are truly a number of ways by which humans truly could turn into zombies. Given, not all of these would truly turn us into shambling, cannibalistic corpses... but there are parasites, for example, that can control one's actions. Research looking into bringing life back into a body, which would result in brain functions being limited to the "reptilian" brain, which controls only basic functions like hunger. (So that would REALLY be a hungry, re-animated corpse.)
I'm not making myself sound any saner here, I know... but really, I'm not trying to say I have a bunch of complex theories. I'm just saying I think about this pretty often. Like, once or twice a week. And I have plans for what I would do if there was a sudden zombie take-over.
I know the first househould items I would grab as weapons.
How I'd manage to get gas for the car without being eaten.
Who I'd check on first; who I'd try to get to.
Where we would go to be safe.
How bad-a** it would be to be able to kick some zombie face in without fear of infection.
And at least every month, I get scared that it's happening. Not severely scared, but just a little freaked out. Not enough to scream or run around telling people or anything.
So, uh...
Anyone else?
Or like I'm joking, or maybe a little crazy.
But...
Am I the only one who has seriously considered/planned for the zombies?
No, I'm serious.
It isn't as unlikely as one might think. There are truly a number of ways by which humans truly could turn into zombies. Given, not all of these would truly turn us into shambling, cannibalistic corpses... but there are parasites, for example, that can control one's actions. Research looking into bringing life back into a body, which would result in brain functions being limited to the "reptilian" brain, which controls only basic functions like hunger. (So that would REALLY be a hungry, re-animated corpse.)
I'm not making myself sound any saner here, I know... but really, I'm not trying to say I have a bunch of complex theories. I'm just saying I think about this pretty often. Like, once or twice a week. And I have plans for what I would do if there was a sudden zombie take-over.
I know the first househould items I would grab as weapons.
How I'd manage to get gas for the car without being eaten.
Who I'd check on first; who I'd try to get to.
Where we would go to be safe.
How bad-a** it would be to be able to kick some zombie face in without fear of infection.
And at least every month, I get scared that it's happening. Not severely scared, but just a little freaked out. Not enough to scream or run around telling people or anything.
So, uh...
Anyone else?
Do you think it's normal?
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I get so f*cking excited about the actual KICKING ZOMBIE ASS part, it's like a fantasy, haha.
Except, I would want to be able to do it without having to fear being infected myself, you know? That would kind of put a damper on it for me.
Which is cool, because a lot of the ways it could really happen wouldn't be transmittable through something like a bite. So I could kick ass without fear of turning into one of the undead! :D
Zombies are one of the main reasons I sleep with a large knife by my head. heh.
And the zombies will eventually make it to remote places too, so eventually you'd have to keep moving around anyway. :/ Frightening.
Have you read World War Z?
Amazing.
And also, I'm addicted to Left4Dead.
That game is not even that effing good.
But yeah, dude even the Mormons are prepared, you know that's why they have so many cans of soup and stuff.
And no, I haven't read it. I've wanted to, though! I just have yet to get my hands on a copy. And I'm not sure precisely what's in it, but I'm also not sure if I need to make myself any more paranoid.
I've gotten pretty tweaked out from shit like Resident Evil and 28 Days Later, though. So maybe that's a moot point.
I have no soup. ;_; I now feel inadequate in my preparedness. Stupid Mormons, always coming around to make me feel bad.
I've been thinking about the 2012 thing too. Definite zombie possibilities.
But I more feel like people are just going to THINK that something bad is going to happen, and therefore all freak out. Which will cause chaos. At least not zombie chaos, though. :D Hopefully.
And yes, I know it's the movies and all. But now it's too late >.
So we got home (we orginally lived here) and I am sitting around with my little brother (hes 22) and we were talking, and his fiance and my husband were there and he asks me jokingly "do you have a zombie attack plan?" and dead pan I looked at him and said "yes, yes I do." He thought I was kidding but quickly realized I wasn't and freaked out because he was so excited he could share that with me. And he quickly ran to his office (hes a programmer) and shared this great detail with all his friends who also have zombie attack plans.
So we began to talk strategies and where we would camp out and what places would be bad (Wal-mart, airport, mall, etc..) and what would be good (local pizza joint only two ways in and no windows and made of concrete) and then we started talking who was expendable and who wasn't; and who we would take that could be used as expendable bait. I know we are horrible people, but when it comes to a zombie attack you're going to need a a couple doctors, a few people with fire arms and know how, people who can cook, those who can pro-create, those who can teach, children and those with technological experience. So if you don't fall into ANY of these categories, sorry your expendable.
And I do think about this a couple times a week, and there are nights that I lay awake (when it's just myself and my son home and husband is out of town) and just lay there, jumping at every noise. I worry more now because of my son I think, sometimes when I think about what I would have to do if we were trapped so that neither of us would have to go through the horrible situation, it makes me sick to my stomach. I don't know if any of you have kids, but imagine a world of zombies and trying to save them! Talk about messed up.
By zombies.
'sides, everyone knows that zombies don't have to be dead, silly!
And I bet they wouldn't appreciate the smell comment. :/
Kids these days just have no consideration for the feelings of cannibalistic monsters...
i have a friend and like 2 dasya go city power went off... and i wondered... if i could kill a 6 year old zombie... and the result was:
if its a girl not, only if she looks funny or crappy but if you can tell it was a pretty girl no, maybe kick her but not kill her you know..
it ifs a boy, yes... he should be a man by the age of 7 hahahaha
They'd also be wicked scary though, so I probably wouldn't hesitate. O.o
we irish have no weapons at all to fight them off....
oh... and for any americans reading this... when the first wave comes... send a rescue plane to ireland and SAVE ME!!! also the swine flu thing might cause a zombie invasion... i feel sorry for those poor mexicans...
And I don't have a gun! Which ordinarily I'm cool with, you know. But I'll regret if zombie shit goes down.
I would love to send you a rescue plane, though. :] I might even be on it to escape zombified America. I'll bring guns.
You sound like the most prepared person ever. ._.
And man, it would suck so hard if zombies were completely different and, like, destroying their heads didn't kill them or something.
lol that was my ld acount lol but yea.. Hit me up anyone if they need help...I forgot my password to my email for that acount LMAO
hmmmm.......
zombies r evil dont trust them
Ok...it wasn't the main reason.
But I will be much safer than the rest of you poor bastards when the zombies rise up!
if they run, we are all doomed
btw, my weapon of choice would be my xbox (xbox 1) i would go on a melee rampage with it, i would even hit regular humans with it if they looked even slightly zoned out
I think about zombies a lot.
I dream up scenarios about my city being quarantined because it would get infected first. And I imagine the people I'd try to find and contact first and where I'd crash and what weapon I'd use. I'd probably stop by by the nearest 7-Eleven and drink a couple of Monsters or something.
You should stop watching it,and about your theories on mind control and stuff...I think its just bullshit ,,no living creature or life form have ever been scientificly or even naturally modified to be controlled by other organisms ,thats just the way it is..
YOU must be crazy to think it will actually happen to man kind.......
And those weren't my theories, man, they were just examples I wanted to add for those people who feel like this idea could only be considered from a completely fictional direction.
I'm not crazy, dude. I just have m'self an actual imagination
i constantly have dreams about zombie invasions, sometimes i get killed, sometimes i become infected, sometimes i survive
but i never really plan for them, it's probably never gonna happen . but sometimes i might catch myself thinking (or discussing!) what would happen if zombies attacked !
I'd love to kick some zombie booty too.^^ Can I join your party? lol
I think this is normal. You're just being prepared if ever an outbreak suddenly occured. honestly, I'm terrified of zombies, but when they're out to get my loved ones, that's a different story... No-mercy-to-the-zombie-style! lol
I hope I survive if ever this happens. :p
Always with the dreams, really. I've had so many zombie dreams... and it's odd, because I don't really play any zombie video games or watch a lot of horror flicks at all.
You sound like you'd survive to me. ^-^
I mean if your prepared for a zombie invasion then your prepared for just about everything. You should have your stockpile of food and water which can be good for any survival situation and your guns or other weapons which could obviously help with hunting, defending, or many other uses if something other than zombies happened (like 2012 or the economy crashing).
But it seems as though you havent thought out your plan thouroughly enough yet. You didn't mention food, water, or defence. You might need to stay at your place for a while to wait for all the havoc to die down before you can get up and go, which would be a bad idea in the first place unless you live in a metropolis. The point is you need to plan out everything that could happen because we have no idea what will happen.
P.S. Don't try to be a bad-a$$ it will just get you killed, stick with the phrase "better safe than sorry"
It is plausible.
Resident Evil is a very good movie, let's hope we will never face that shit.
Those type of zombies which will never die without eating isn't plausible. But yes, you can transform an entire country into zombies by just introducing a parasite in the water or air.
You need to stop watching zombie movies.
Perhaps you need to stop being such a killjoy.
but yeah I think it's normal. If it did happen then what would you do. It's safe to be prepared even if it doesn't happen you still will always know you were ready for it. :D
The hot sauce is a given. Keep some on me at all times. Even right now. As I type this.
you could release your anger by killing whatever you wanted, without the pigs!
Yes i have a detailed plan on how to survive a zombie apocalypse, including a ross noble style special ops room with maps on who to get and the quickest and safest ways to do that. Weapons id get, a place to hide out and a place id go to after a few days. Places id go to to get the things id need, escape plans on the places id go, who id sacrafic and how long it would take me to get there, from my house to my uncles specially modofied toyoto hilux and to everywhere else as i have done several dry runs.
But thats just me and 1 can only hope it pays off 1 day.......
By the way am i the only english person here?
i live in england, so not much ready access to guns. homemade stuff will have to do. i recently went to kenya and i toyed with the idea of buying a machete, but then i realised i wouldn't get it through customs...
i have 2 sets of golf clubs though (not just for zombies, i play golf as well) which can be used. sharpen the end of the putter to a point and it can be used like an ice pick to pierce skulls, or just as a badass blunt weapon.
max brooks' zombie survival guide is THE best book ever. definately run every single available item, be it a sink, a bathtub or a bucket with water, because that's going to shut off soon. move all essential supplies upstairs and destroy the staircase, but i've still got an escape route from my bedroom window which is a short jump to my neighbour's roof if i need to leave quickly.
......i actually really want a zombie apocalypse now!
Golf clubs are on my list of A weapons too! :D Only I own none... D:
I love the obliterating-of-the-stairs plan. Too bad my house is a one-story. And don't worry, I don't have any guns either. Just spirit and determination! And maybe a little bit of crazy.
lolol, Reading your response made me want a zombie apocalypse too. That's powerful stuff.
1.As it normally said in the movies, that zombies raise from the dead. So first of all in a dead body there is a damaged nervous system that would not let it move even a finger.
2. Even if it hadn't been dead ever, no virus or anything can make such vast changes in the human brain and its nervous system without completely destructing it. to make a complete zombie, it will take months of time to keep it alive.
3. Still if a zombie is successfully made, a human brain has a complete backup as your computer does of essential data... Which will be restored curing that person(Not completely but he will not harm anyone then.) The same happens wen someone loses his memory in an accident or some other reason, and is cured.
3. Human anatomy does not support eating raw flesh. if any human body does so, it will be destructed in an infection which includes the bacterias that feed on human intestine and kills it in about 5 to 6 hours if not cured. Thus if a so called zombie is made up of a human body, the same will happen to it.
Thats why I know a zombie will never exist. But there is something that resembles to a zombie existed in my country years ago... if u are interested to know about it you may e mail me at abhishek.87t@gmail.com or abhishek_t87@yahoo.com and i will provide a detailed description about it.
1.girlfriend
2.Shelter. I hafta find a place to stay safely. Away from civilization, but i'd need to venture out and get food. so it'd be one hell of a journey. i'm kinda winging it for shelter because i don't know what will be available. barricade a home. a grocery store would be retarded because it's not secure and there are too many people there on a regular basis.
But even if you entertain the possibility of a post-apocalyptic future, surely you must know that most people are average, not above-average. And when you take a sample size in numbers equivalent to the population anywhere, it will fall into a Gaussian distribution. If you don't know statistics that means that about 7 out of 10 people reading this are "average," and average people don't last long in extraordinary circumstances. So don't fear the zombie apocalypse. Chances are, if you're reading this, you won't last long anyway. Now go enjoy the sunshine.
Give us something to do (: well at least me lol.
you're awesome and yes my brain has been eaten by too many video games matter a fact lol the have a game on xbox called zombie apocalypse its AWESOME :D
If it helps, almost every apocolyptic prediction especually in religion have included zombies in some form. Even the bible mentions the dead rising during end times.
I sometimes think about zombies becoming real, but then thinking about crazy stuff is normal for me. I find it entertaining. But your plans sound too obsessed and detailed. You should try playing different types of video games maybe? I don't know. But I think it would be a good idea to diversify what you do, even if only a tiny bit.
Way to assume you're smarter than everyone else, buddy.
And I love me some sunshine. :D
there's a two story building with no windows on the first floor and small windows on the second floor is where im running to first
I am sort of at a loss so far as a zombie attack goes. I probably won't last long, but I AM ready and am better suited than most to survive insofar as where I live (One indoor elevator to the seond floor, no stairs. Equal comforts of home all Upstairs) So I might be able to last until rescue comes.
If they turn out to be those fast (smarter) suckers though, I am in trouble.
October - The Returning Princess
This is all hypothetical. :]
no just kidding, i already have my plan for a zombie invasion, ever since last hallow'een my mate setup an elaberate prank on me. after the partys he started like coughing and stuff, said he was bitten by some kinda creature. week later he didnt turn up to school, i asked his mum, she said he was sick. more and more people went missing until all my freindds were sick. so im walking through town, kicking cans, all my friends are ill, its gone 10pm, its dark. i fucking turn around to find my bloodstained best freind clawing and biting at me. I was scared, i really was, i turned and ran but just found like 12 others around the corner, i went back but i was trapped and i thought i was gunna cry but they all just laughed at me... 1 day ill getum back...
well first id go to friend brians house cuz he has a but load of guns, and then head to my moms work, she works at some government place wer they make ammunition and what not, the whole place is gated and all the buildings are bricks with barred windows
p.s. and i have a ltl bag with a bunch of ltl neccesties and stuff stored in it so i can grab it and go :]
i bought a book about that last month.
And remember, the best weapon is a sword
Sir. I look forward to fighting with you.
id grab a juggernaught, speed cola, root beer and quick revive, some bouncing bettys, upgrade a wonderwaffle and ray gun and keep them at bay as long as possible!!!
after saing all of my loved ones of course, i just worry if it happens while im saleep and ill be like HOLY SHIT
and na i dont think u crazy or stupid.
i use my basement as a sort of studio where i paint and spend most time when i am not at school or at work.
last year one night i was too tired to go up to my room that i decided to sleep in the basement..i dreamt that, when i woke up and went upstairs, every thing, every house was all ruined..the whole world was like corroded from some kind of virus..and everyone was a zombie but me.
of course, before i woke up, they were munching on my legs already.
i then took all my things to the basement and made a plan: plenty of metal artifacts to be used as weapons and my pair of doc marten's to prevent my feet from getting munched.
i now have a supply of food that would last, for ten people, at least a month.
i am looking for warriors that bring automatic weapons,inexchange of shelter and food.
i am portuguese, i am sure that zombies wouldnt like it here, and since half the country is empty, we'd easily find new shelters.
2012 is near.
i am waiting for news.