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posted 16 years ago by tgs333
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When you hear the Attack Warning get pissed out of your mind and strait underneath it (the bomb) when it happens

YOU CANNOT WIN A NUCLEAR WAR

Jimmy’s Daughter inherited most of his genes – neither can speak understandable English and both attract less than desirable mates

Don't make a song and dance of it (nuclear war) – just get on with it.

Headphones will ruin your hearing

Packing a Bird Watchers book will ensure your survival for at least 13 years after a nuclear attack

SHEIFIELD HAS GOT NO INDUSTRY!!

Panic buying is unnecessary

National Emergencies are a good way to line your pockets

Steam Irons exploded during an EMP

Morning sickness only last a week or two.

It’s bloody ridiculous to stop people like “that”

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] NewYorkGrove 16 years ago

Don't Paint the doors on the eve of a international crisis, your husband may want to use them for a leantoo shelter in the inner refuge of the fallout room

aslo don't foreget to bring a blanket or ocver in case the grandmother dies

aboe all make surey our bucket has a lid and can fit a rig up a chiar with a whole in it

[–] clacton0 16 years ago

Try to get some were like lands end the day before it hits.
Would you be save there?

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[–] dav_1990 15 years ago

Skynet didnt do it

The Weekend Has Landed

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[–] tgs333 15 years ago

When planning "the essentials" for a municipal bomb shelter forget the first aid kit, bring plenty of bin-liners.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

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[–] agnosticbear 14 years ago

I love showing people the ET doll scene. Though it is supposed to be poor Michael Kemp (I guess), many people get freaked out by it. As a health care professional, I laugh at my nephews when I show them that and they freak out. I tell them that the human body looks nothing like that. Now if it were to really happen, please note that I would not laugh, and would be one of the nurses trying to help take care of people.

By the way, did you know that nurses can stay clean as a whistle after a nuclear strike? I can't stay that clean some times now!

[–] GurningChimpII 15 years ago

Nope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Square_leg.gif

John O'Groats would be safe though.

Who can take you higher than a twin peak mountain blue?

[–] Spiny_Norman 15 years ago

Beachy Head wouldn't be by the look of it!

"Everybody in the WORLD, is bent"

[–] GurningChimpII 15 years ago

The Soviets have thought about those who'll commit suicide it seems!

Who can take you higher than a twin peak mountain blue?

[–] sauron846 15 years ago

Cheating on your fiance with a barfly in the back of your car while parked in a secluded field will result in an Army convoy interrupting your back seat coitus.

At least one bloke will find it necessary to take a perfectly fine dump in the toilet during a nuclear exchange.

British actors are much more believable at puking onscreen than any others in the world.

A child's hand-held video game will be much less susceptible to EMP than most other electronics.

Any reasonable man's first audible response to a nuclear explosion will be "Bloody Hell!".

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[–] varrdy 10 years ago

"Any reasonable man's first audible response to a nuclear explosion will be "Bloody Hell!"."

Well I dunno if anyone else would say any different! Back then they didn't have access to the media we do now. The TV would have warned them of the flash, sure, but it would still have been a shock. It would probably also have been very confusing considering the noise and shockwave hadn't hit yet so here you have a chap who is on the throne and all of a sudden everything lights up to an alarming degree.

I think I would say something pretty much the same!

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 6 years ago

LMFAO eight years later!

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[–] marktayloruk (2502) a year ago

People must be going to the bog all the time so ..

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 6 years ago

Still LMFAO nine years later!

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[–] WilliamUK 15 years ago

Gravity is much harsher for cats (see scene where parents are meeting and Ruth drops the cat - THUMP!).

Tin openers aren't very quiet.

G is not silent in the word, 'Wrong'.

[–] djkinney 15 years ago

I learned that in a postapocalyptic hellscape,

1) 1 cigarette = 1 bottle of scotch. This seems to me a good exchange rate.
2) A bicycle helmet will not help if you are hung up in a burning tree.
3) When it's time for babby, it's time for babby. Whether you have time for babby, or not.

[–] martin-barney1 15 years ago

A quick fumble in a barn will get you up the duff, in spite of 13 years of exposure to radioactive fallout.

Post apolcalyptic rabbits are massive.

[–] WilliamUK 15 years ago

"All over" is a universe consisting of upstairs, along street and the next door neighbour's garden.

[–] djkinney 15 years ago

Oh, that's a good one. It's, dare I say, "bloody ridiculous." Very funny. You know, this film really messed me up as a child, but the more I watch it, the funnier it gets. Sort of.

[–] twelvepointnine 15 years ago

When there's no room left in hell the dead will walk the earth… erm… hold on…

[–] WilliamUK 15 years ago

Woot! Don't get me started on my second fave film of all time :)

[–] tstallw1987 15 years ago

Always keep a can opener with you.

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[–] Crake101 15 years ago

BHS and Woolworths are the Soviet's Target #1

Bob Loblaw's Law Blog.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 6 years ago

LMFAO eight years later!

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[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

wait a minute! Both of them are now out of business!
damn sneaky russkies!

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 6 years ago

I always thought there was some funny business going on when Woolworth's went out of business.

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