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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Diane CBPFC on October 21, 2012, 10:05:36 PM

Title: Zombies
Post by: Diane CBPFC on October 21, 2012, 10:05:36 PM
Do you guys get "The Walking Dead" on TV? Season three has started; the survivors have just broken into a prison for a secure place to hide out.

What would be your weapon of choice against zombies? 
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on October 21, 2012, 10:13:35 PM
I'd throw fat people at them. They're slower to get away and more to munch on. Win win.  ;D
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Diane CBPFC on October 21, 2012, 10:50:34 PM
I'd throw fat people at them. They're slower to get away and more to munch on. Win win.  ;D

As a fat person myself, I hope you'd pull your back out picking up the fat people and the zombies get you instead.
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on October 21, 2012, 10:55:22 PM
Can I maybe just roll them then? If all the zombies are downhill, I think I'm in with a chance of escape.  ;D
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Roger Kettle on October 22, 2012, 09:31:20 AM
Is it possible to kill zombies? I know you can bump off vampires with a wooden stake through the heart but I'm not sure about zombies. Would a steamroller work?
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on October 22, 2012, 09:48:42 AM
Only if it was driven by a salad-dodger.
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Egg on October 22, 2012, 12:44:01 PM
Napalm!  :o

Just like the word really and don't get to use it much!
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Diane CBPFC on October 22, 2012, 02:44:21 PM
Is it possible to kill zombies? I know you can bump off vampires with a wooden stake through the heart but I'm not sure about zombies. Would a steamroller work?

It seems very easy to kill zombies as shown in The Walking Dead - they are running low on bullets on that show, so now poke them through the eye socket with ready-rod, trying to avoid getting scratched is the trouble.
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on October 22, 2012, 03:40:44 PM
Why is it zombies don't go after each other?  I really think programme makers should address this before their programmes become unbelievable.
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Vulture on October 22, 2012, 09:08:39 PM
Why is it zombies don't go after each other?  I really think programme makers should address this before their programmes become unbelievable.

Thank God I don't have a television if that's the kind of programme you have to put up with!
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Bilthehut on October 22, 2012, 11:00:02 PM
Decapitation works wonders every time.
Can I also remind forum members of that highly useful book 'Dr Dale's Zombie Dictionary: The A-Z Guide to Staying Alive'.  Available as an e-book on Kindle. 
I have a copy on my iPhone just in case...
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on October 23, 2012, 10:17:14 PM
Why is it zombies don't go after each other?  I really think programme makers should address this before their programmes become unbelievable.

Thank God I don't have a television if that's the kind of programme you have to put up with!

If there's ever a Government warning film put out about how to deal with zombies, you'll be sorry.
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Diane CBPFC on October 24, 2012, 12:41:32 AM
 ;D
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Vulture on October 24, 2012, 01:24:27 PM
Why is it zombies don't go after each other?  I really think programme makers should address this before their programmes become unbelievable.

Thank God I don't have a television if that's the kind of programme you have to put up with!

If there's ever a Government warning film put out about how to deal with zombies, you'll be sorry.

I doubt it. There are no government warnings on dealing with 'humans', and they're a lot worse than Zombies!
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Diane CBPFC on October 24, 2012, 03:55:33 PM
One of my Mormon friends invited me to a home survival sales party this Friday. (They are required to keep several years worth of food on hand for their families as part of their religion) - after watching the Zombie shows I am very tempted to get some freeze dried food packages and stock up on bullets.

Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on October 24, 2012, 11:01:44 PM
One of my Mormon friends invited me to a home survival sales party this Friday. (They are required to keep several years worth of food on hand for their families as part of their religion) - after watching the Zombie shows I am very tempted to get some freeze dried food packages and stock up on bullets.

Seriously? What do they sell at the party? Is it one of those "latest thing on the market" type gigs where they show new products?
That could be quite a lot of food given the size of some families. Didn't realise Mormons took zombies so seriously...good for them.
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Diane CBPFC on October 25, 2012, 12:29:08 AM
They don’t believe in zombies but they do want to have nutritionally balanced, gourmet meals when they are bunkered in for the duration when the rest of the world is going to hell.

It is a homes sales product line much like Tupperware, candles, spices and all the other things that people try to sell at home sales parties these days. Here is the link to this the freeze dried food website: http://canada.shelfreliance.com/home (http://canada.shelfreliance.com/home)

The trouble with all the home sales items is that they are priced so high because of the pyramid pay structure of the people selling. Of course, should there be a zombie attack I will wish I had invested in food with a 25 year shelf life.  :-\
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on October 25, 2012, 05:43:01 PM
This is brilliant ! Bring on zombies, world pestilence, or a bad run of TV series...I'll be in my bunker, rotating my cans. Best of all, they sell cans of Mince. Who wouldn't want Mince in a can?

(I'm sure Egon could make use of some of this stuff).
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Diane CBPFC on October 25, 2012, 07:30:58 PM
It would be handy for a lot of things realy - being light it would be good to take on backpacking trips to the woods or climbing up K2.
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on October 25, 2012, 08:54:21 PM
It would be handy for a lot of things realy - being light it would be good to take on backpacking trips to the woods or climbing up K2.

Or you could throw them at zombies and hope to knock their heads off.
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Malc on October 26, 2012, 12:22:59 AM
Apart from The Mummy, I find zombies to be the most ridiculous monsters. I realise the new series (ain't seen it) may portray them as much more mobile, but in any zombie film I've seen, they merely tend to shuffle around.

I've also never figured out what brings them back from the dead. Nor how they got out of their coffins under a ton of earth, some weeks after they've been interred, nor (bearing in mind the phenomenal strength required to achieve their resurrection) how they subsequently can only shuffle about. Maybe they're puffed out.
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: The Peepmaster on October 26, 2012, 02:22:08 AM
Probably just have ill-fitting slippers.
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Mince on October 26, 2012, 12:08:27 PM
I've also never figured out what brings them back from the dead. Nor how they got out of their coffins under a ton of earth, some weeks after they've been interred, nor (bearing in mind the phenomenal strength required to achieve their resurrection) how they subsequently can only shuffle about. Maybe they're puffed out.

You're assuming that every buried zombie gets out. But it's only the shallow-buried ones.

Next objection?
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Egg on October 26, 2012, 02:22:28 PM
Probably just have ill-fitting slippers.

 ;D ;D ;D Painting pictures with words......Classic!  ;D
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on October 26, 2012, 09:14:23 PM
They also always seem to wear rags. Why? Surely funeral parlours don't steal the good clothes people get buried in and swap them for all the charity shop throw-aways? 
Actually, maybe that's the secret to non-zombification...make sure your buried by a quality funeral parlour who lets you keep on your Sunday best.
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Diane CBPFC on October 26, 2012, 10:45:41 PM
Apart from The Mummy, I find zombies to be the most ridiculous monsters. I realise the new series (ain't seen it) may portray them as much more mobile, but in any zombie film I've seen, they merely tend to shuffle around.

I've also never figured out what brings them back from the dead. Nor how they got out of their coffins under a ton of earth, some weeks after they've been interred, nor (bearing in mind the phenomenal strength required to achieve their resurrection) how they subsequently can only shuffle about. Maybe they're puffed out.

The zombie movies I’ve seen are the current Walking Dead TV series now in its 3rd year. I watched the first year on Netflix when I had high speed briefly last winter – the other was Shaun of the Dead. These are not buried dead people but people who have been bitten or scratched by other zombies as the virus spreads from person to person by blood contact. The virus re-activates the brain once the body is dead – which makes giving mouth-to-mouth on the perishing quite risky.

Really thinking about, it we could have ancestral memories of the black plague which brings rise to the fear and the believability of half dead people walking about and our need to avoid them.

Or maybe it is just a nerd thing.
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Egg on October 26, 2012, 10:46:55 PM
They also always seem to wear rags. Why? Surely funeral parlours don't steal the good clothes people get buried in and swap them for all the charity shop throw-aways? 
Actually, maybe that's the secret to non-zombification...make sure your buried by a quality funeral parlour who lets you keep on your Sunday best.

Does anyone still actually have Sunday Best!  ..0
Title: Re: Zombies
Post by: Sandy Buttcheeks on October 27, 2012, 12:11:33 AM
If anyone hasn't seen Zombieland with Woody Harrelson, I can totally recommend it. It is hilarious, with a tremendous Bill Murray cameo.

The zombies all pretty much wear rags. I'm not trying to make a point, I'm just saying.