what is up with zombies?

[venomballistics]

Long before it became a marketing gimmick, the zombie gun was a rising justification for all the cool new toys.
If you are married, you will hear "what do you need THAT for"
For zombies of course.

In the spring, we have the easter egg hunt.
works in similar ways.
In fact, this has earned me something akin to sainthood at church, where the easter egg hunt has become the defacto reason and season for all us guys to buy new guns, since I brought it up at a meeting.

 

[NZshooter]

I think it's #3. It's not PC to use the thing(s) people are worried about fighting en mass so zombies makes a good substitute. In the 50s it was aliens standing in for the Commies (50s Red Scare and all those cheesy alien invasion movies and whatnot). Last few years it's been zombies standing in for... take your pick... terrorists, rioters and looters, the blue helmets, rabid Republicans, out of control Democrats, ... whatever keeps you up at night.

At least that's my take on it. It is an interesting aspect to current pop culture.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Don't know bout the rest of younz but I am sick and tired of hearng about zombies and vampires.
IL State U in Normal IL a few years ago even an "awareness" weekend for whatever they were told to believe in. So what did they do?

Dressed and walked around campus like zombies. GET A LIFE!!!!

 

[finesse_r]

Improved Community Relations are Needed

You would think an enterprising group would come up with a decent Zombie make up kit to improve their looks. I mean a little make up would go a long way in improving the relations between Zombies and the living.

Of course then there is still the whole eating of the living thing to deal with. That might take a real good public relations company to smooth that little aspect over.

However if Hollyweird can create movies that make vampires likeable characters, certainly they can do the same for Zombies. Maybe a movie about Zombies that only eat bad people and anti-gun people.

I sure some enterprising young Hollyweird writer is working on such a script.

 

[LL617]

I haven't been on the forum in a few months, but I have referred to zombies in the past--especially zombie squirrels.

Originally, the story of the zombie squirrels was a joke experiment to see how urban legends grow and circulate. But with the wolf/coyote and dog/coyote hybrids and some other "critters" that have been popping up, I wonder, if there might be something similar developing somewhere.

Other references to zombies were strictly used as examples for scenarios that I wished to discussed. For example, "During an electrical blackout what would be the best way to stop zombies...." That takes the emotion out of discussion what to do if your neighbors, whom you've know for years, attacked you during an electrical blackout because they had no food or water. Others have pointed out that this usage avoids insulting any specific group by referring to a mythical one as a substitute villain.

But I have heard that zombie squirrels have eaten all the strawberry bushes....

 

[model70hunter]

Deep down most folks fear the guvment. It is easy to substitute a room full of zombies for the IRS or when you see a group of zombies coming down the street towards you one might fear that the guvment is actually here to help you.

Given a choice of seeing a movie about group of Fed Tax agents eating up your paycheck or one that has you running from bloodsucking zombies that are really mindless and fun loving folk, which might sell the most tickets.

 

[chud333]

They keep bringing people into the States with Ebola
and you never know what might happen........


Chuck

 

[speedyquad]

Living in Oil City, PA, it is "commonly known" that the government has an underground bunker south of us, somewhere near Mercer, PA that they are keeping zombies in.

I have been told this rumor by a few people that do not know each other, so that makes it true.

 

[Hamster65]

I did not believe in Zombies----Until I visited Wal-mart after sun down.

LMAO!.............those aren't zombies, they're wal-martians.

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

I have bad mouthed all the "zombie" stuff see on this foru

...over the years. I now tend to ignore all the stupid marketing.
I figured that all the government "training" put out about fighting zombies was merely a waste of taxpayer dollars for a joke.
Unfortunately, since that time...and not using the tin foil hat in the basement...there is a serious component to it.

In the context of "zombie apocalypse", these are actually scenarios where the zombies are real intermixed with nonsense, but the message is still there.

Zombies= mobs in a collapse of society. Take the recent case of Ferguson, Mo. I think that there is a method to the madness and as usually the case, the method IS madness.

 

[Arik]

Anyone watch World War Z? Do you remember what the Mossad director said about the "10th man"?

" In the '30s, Jews refused to believe they could be sent to concentration camps. In '72, we refused to be massacred in the Olympics. In the month before October 1973 we saw Arab troop movements, and we unanimously agreed that they didn't pose a threat. Now, a month later, the Arab attack almost drove us into the sea. So, we decided to make a change. The tenth man." If nine of us with the same information arrived at the exact same conclusion, it's the duty of the tenth man to disagree. No matter how improbable it may seem, the tenth man has to start thinking with the assumption that the other nine were wrong. Since everyone assumed that this talk of zombies was cover for something else, I began my investigation on the assumption, that when they said, zombies they meant zombies."

while it's a movie I kinda like that quote. As weird as it may sound, there is no harm in being prepared. While there are no zombies, being prepared for a zombie like happening is not a bad thing.

And btw, in nature there is a zombie like bug. It effects ants but it's still real

 

[mc1911]

Zombies

There are about the only politically correct opponent left in the world.

 

[therevjay]

I actually read that; as a example of applying the Joint Operational Planning Process in a fictitious scenario, it was quite good, and much better than the usual. It was also far more entertaining than most...

That reminds me a great deal of a little paperback handed out at NCO academy. Called "The defence of Duffers Drift" by Maj. Gen. Sir Ernest Swinton. About very good, good, not so good and bloody awful ways of defending a river crossing.

Not only instructive, but some of the funniest short stories I've ever read. Who says the Brits have no sense of humor

 

[snubbyfan]

 

[LL617]

A thinking brain.

In any emergency, it is great to be prepared with water, foodstuffs, shelter, clothing, tools, and weapons. However, none of this will be of much use unless someone wise and who is thinking clearly carrying out wise plans.

You might be caught away from your supplies. Your mind and what you have been taught, along with the experiences of those around you to draw upon, may be all you have.

 

[bigride]

When I read this, the finger was pointing directly at my ruger sp101. Only five shots. Apparently, I am not prepared for the hordes of the zombie apocalypse. It is a snubby though, snubbyfan.

 

[snubbyfan]

When I read this, the finger was pointing directly at my ruger sp101. Only five shots. Apparently, I am not prepared for the hordes of the zombie apocalypse. It is a snubby though, snubbyfan.

Mine was pointing at my wife. Ya ever see an angry Italian?
Those zombies are in trouble!

 

[jlrhiner]

They better not have mud on their shoes when they come in the house, that's for dang sure!

 

[finesse_r]

They keep bringing people into the States with Ebola
and you never know what might happen........


Chuck

I think that is only one of the 10 contagious diseases a person must have to immigrate to the USA these days. The other qualities required for immigration are not politically correct to discuss.

 

[bushmaster1313]

I find the term "Zombie Apocalypse" remarkably refreshing compared to other common terms like: Benghazi, ISIS, Syria, Congress, Ferguson, Ebola and Fingernail Fungus.