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  They now have a family version. It looks like something they'd sell in the back room of Hustler.   http://www.amazon.com/LifeStraw-Family-1-0-Water-Purifier/dp/B00FM9OBQS/ref=sr_1_3?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1424703136&sr=1-3

  This, though I'm not sure SS109 is the NATO code or not. It may be, but I thought the NATO code is 5.56NATO. The round started life as the Belgian SS109 and it was submitted in the 1970s for testing to become the second standard NATO round (alongside the 7.62x51NATO). I don't know if SS109 was just its original name, or if that was adopted by NATO as the official code.   M855 is indeed the US code for the same round.

Meanwhile......back at The Walking Dead......   I thought it was a good episode. They brought back the fear I've been looking for. That night-time car scene was excellent. When the flare went off and Aaron tripped out, I thought it was because he wanted to get away because something super bad was coming their way. Way to amp up the tension. :up:  I thought it was a solid episode.   Toss in "flare to the face" zombie and we have a winner!   The whole Aaron and other dude (can't recall his name) story makes me think about our discussions about Carl never getting any now that Beth's gone. Noah's not much older than Carl....... :stir: :stir: :stir:

Poor Carl doesn't even get Internet porn. Good luck finding a magazine out in the boonies where they've been travelling. Maybe he'll get lucky and find a Magpul calendar on the back of a door in a gas station repair shop.

It really is a matter of time when preparing. I don't mean "when it will happen." I mean "how long it will last." RED333 is right about long-term prepping. That takes a lot of effort and time spent learning skills. The payoff is invaluable if you're faced with a long-term scenario. If your only concern is a week or two, you can store enough food, fuel, and water to make do just fine.   If your home has natural gas, chances are good that it will stay on following a power outage (major earthquake aside). If you have a genset that can power your HVAC blower motor, you can keep the central heat going just fine with gas heat. It's the compressor for the A/C that draws a boatload of power. Add in a natural gas grill and you're pretty set to make it through from a heat and cooking perspective.   You could pickup a propane heater and a couple of grill-sized propane tanks if not. This one is indoor safe and should give about 4-5 hours of heat on a 1# canister. Two 25# grill tanks would keep it going for 8 to 10 days. It's only rated for 400 sq. feet, but if you consolidate your family into a small area of your home, that should be enough.  http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Heater-MH18B-Portable-Propane/dp/B0002WRHE8/ref=lp_516188_1_7?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1424439152&sr=1-7   Filling the bathtubs with water is a good idea on city water too. Water mains break in winter. For a somewhat cleaner solution and one that won't drain out slowly over time, you could get a few water Bobs. It won't help much in a sudden emergency, but for storms and such it works just fine. http://www.amazon.com/waterBOB-Emergency-Drinking-Storage-Gallons/dp/B001AXLUX2   Stock up on water and a few weeks worth of food and you'll be good for this sort of thing.

Flexible, tough, lightweight, and easy to obtain. Good choice!

  I don't see why. IIRC, the Ayatollah, Khadafi, and Saddam were there too. Kim Jong Il gave the keynote address.

  They've been there for years. Nothing has come of them. Every so often another "BREAKING NEWS!" story hits the pseudo-news sites about how they're Al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS, Flavor-Of-The-Month training camps. Forgive me if I'm skeptical.

Yep, or skip the phone books and rig up some football pads, some soccer shin guards on your arms and legs, and you're good to go. Kind of like Glenn's riot gear, but lighter. No need to stop heavy impacts, just teeth. Toss in a hockey neck-guard and you're pretty much zombie proof. Hot in the summer, sure, but you could kit up when you have to face them if you keep good sight lines.

Good thing there was only a run on milk and bread this week. Kroger still has plenty of tin foil.

They're not burning it in protest. The dude towards the right with the Michael Jackson glove was playing the solo from Hot For Teacher and , well, this is what happened.

I can't say I'm surprised. I've seen those before and always thought it was a bad design. I'm somewhat surprised someone shot herself in the head before someone shot herself in the ribs/heart.

IIRC, they said stuff about Ft. Benning in S1 or S2. Seems like they came across someone who said it was gone, but I can't recall. However, that was a long time ago at this point in the time line. Atlanta was overrun too, but now it's a ghost town. Maybe Benning is the same way. If so, it's likely a place to score some beans and bullets unless it has already been picked over, which is also likely.

I'm hopeful that having them on the road again will bring about more of those fear moments.   What I'm not quite understanding is what their goal is. I know they're going to Washington, but why? What do they expect to find? Other than it being the nation's capitol and home to bunkers for VIPs, what makes it special? I know right now they're desperate to find any hope of civilization, but I would think that Atlanta, Woodbury and Terminus would make them think at this point that they'd be better off setting up something on their own like they had at the prison for a while and at the farm before that (though that was more dumb luck than planning). I'd think they'd be better off looking for a military installation than another big city. Kings Bay is close'ish to Atlanta (closer than DC) with plenty of secure areas and hardened buildings, plus food, fuel, and military grade vehicles, weapons, and comm gear.    Obviously military bases would be popular with refugees so there'd be plenty of Zs. Also popular with surviviors so it could be a busy place. They could instead go low-tech and find an old fort like Fort Pulaski near Tybee Island. Something like that would be more compact and easier for a small group to secure and hold. Similar to the prison but without being, you know, a prison. Then farm the courtyard and fish the channel. Bonus.....it's on an island! Or better yet, try for Fort Clinch on Amelia Island in Florida which provides a short boat ride to Kings Bay. Short enough that it could be done in kayaks if needed. Nice and quiet and no fuel required. Plenty of fresh water near either fort for filtering.   I guess I'm thinking they should be looking for a good place to setup their own society again instead of searching for one already made. The prison was a good idea and it worked. It would have kept working if it wasn't for the governor. Maybe we're far enough past Patient Zero that there aren't any more good secure locations still intact, not overrun with Zs and not claimed by unfriendly survivors.

  Yes. For the last 5 seasons and there's no end in sight.

The big draw in season 1 and in the sporadic "good" episodes ever since then is fear. The viewer experiences that when a character in whom we're invested or the group as a whole is in danger. The bridge scene in this week's episode had the zombies, but I felt no fear. It's just rote skull-stabbing, not unlike clearing the fences at the prison. Even when Sasha went rogue I didn't really feel drawn in to any kind of fear. They set up some fear well with the Zs attacking the barn door during the storm. That was cool. I thought they were going to bust through the door and start a big melee brawl for survival, so imagine my let down when we instantly go from "OMG! I'm slipping in the dirt trying to hold this door closed against the wind and an army of the undead!" to everyone's asleep with early morning light streaming in and birds chirping. WTH? It was a good setup, but only 10 seconds of potential fear. I say potential because they keep doing crap like that so even when they do a good setup for what should make me be afraid for them, I'm not because it all has a reasonably high chance of turning out to be much ado about nothing.   That fear is what made Breaking Bad such a good show. The viewer is in fear for someone important in nearly every episode. Often times that tension ran the entire episode with only a few pressure-reliefs with some dark comedy but the tension overall mounted as the episode went one, then left you wanting for more. TWD writers need to figure out how to do that again. They did it in S1 and I think they can do it again. Right now I get to the end of a TWD episode and think that overall it was alright and I'll watch next week too, but I don't want to watch next week's show the way I used to.

Yamaha says the dimensions are 78.5 x 43.0 x 44.1 in. That's just a shade over 6.5' long, so it won't fit without leaving the tailgate down. Bring some ratchet straps to secure it. It will fit between the wheel wells as those will be right at 4' apart. That's all assuming the dimensions at Yamaha's site are accurate.

  I prefer mine wrapped in a quality jacquard fabric, or maybe a paisley print. I've been known to use a nice corduroy in a pinch.

They may get into that next week. So far Sasha and Maggie are the only ones who have seen the downed trees, but I suspect they'll be preoccupied with the L.L. Bean cannibal.

They had a good run in the late 80s/early 90s with cast members like Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, and Chris Farley. Other time spans have had a good one or two cast members plus a bunch of mediocre ones. Billy Crystal, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, etc.

I now get all of mine direct from China. If my jeans don't have charming lool, I don't want them.

  I've never owned a pair of 34 inseams that fit like a pair of 32s quite like Lucky.

I'm with OS on this one. I kind of liked the flashbacks and the humanity of Tyreese coming to terms with who he was, who he is, and the end of his life.

I find the 34" inseam  "Wrangler Originals" at Target to be longer than most 34's, which is what I need too. They're thinner, and obviously not real Wranglers, but they fit.

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