How far would you go to survive?

[waynetta]

Danny Boyle has a new film out about a bloke who was stranded and trapped under a boulder who cut his own arm off to escape.

The Andes lot ate each other to survive.

I wonder if anyone on this forum would eat their own arm to survive?

[HAL9000]

Well, Christians eat the body and drink the blood of their Saviour - albeit, in order to survive post-mortem - does that count?

[*Bob*]

I used to decant a 1.5 pint Bachelors packet soup mix into three equal portions and eat with two slices of bread and a one inch-cubed square of cheddar ('number two') - every day - for two years.

And I wasn't even in a plane crash.

[RosieH]

I'd eat some of the people on the forum.

And that's Catholics HAL, not Christians per se.

[felt-tip]

I like the scene in Mad Max where Mel hands over the hacksaw to the guy he has handcuffed to the ready to explode car.

10 minutes to hack through the chain. 5 minutes to hack through your arm. Your choice.

Mel. What a man.

[*Bob*]

Shame Mel had to go and ruin it all by revealing himself to be a complete tosser in real life.. frequently..

[felt-tip]

Got to love his films though!

"FREEDOM!!!!"

In that scene of course he is actually eschewing survival in order to hopefully spark a continued revolution against the English.

[*Bob*]

But of course... even I can temporarily put aside his hatred of Jews, Women, Blacks, Browns, Yellows and The English whilst he swings that claymore around, pretending to be Scottish.

[HAL9000]

RosieH Wrote:

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> I'd eat some of the people on the forum.

Now that you mention it, I rather fancy your liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

> And that's Catholics HAL, not Christians per se.

No - I don't think so. All Christians (even vegans) are supposed to take communion - even if only symbolically. Otherwise they're not true Christians. What sort of Christians were you thinking of?

[RosieH]

My point is that it's only symbolic if you're not Catholic - it's still just bread and wine. Only Catholics suppose themselves to be eating the actual body and blood of Christ through the magic of transubstantiation.

[HAL9000]

Ah, yes - the miracle of transubstantiation. Point taken.

I shall transubstantiate a nice piece of steak into your liver tonight ? consider yourself vicariously cannibalised :)

[DJKillaQueen]

If it took my life to save ten I'd happily give it.......so I wouldn't do absolutely 'anything' to survive. We are nothing important at the end of the day. The world will not stop turning because anyone of us lives or dies.

[RosieH]

Funnily enough, I can believe that HAL.

[ianr]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> I used to decant a 1.5 pint Bachelors packet soup mix into three equal portions and eat with two

> slices of bread and a one inch-cubed square of cheddar ('number two') - every day - for two years.

Is that what brought on the asterisks?

[????]

Next time your travelling in a plane over the Andes or hiking in mountains take along a few dead people's arms in case of emergencies

[Pearson]

DJKillaQueen Wrote:

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> If it took my life to save ten I'd happily give

> it.......so I wouldn't do absolutely 'anything' to

> survive. We are nothing important at the end of

> the day. The world will not stop turning because

> anyone of us lives or dies.

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I TOTALLY agree!

I mean if it were like 8 or 9 people there is no way I'd do myself in for that!!

Anything over ten is cool though.

;-)

[KidKruger]

I think when push comes to shove most people would do anything to survive.

We live in a very insulated society and most people seriously believe that events like genocide happen to 'other people and not us'.

I'm not so certain how far we really are from all that.

We just kid ourselves.

[woofmarkthedog]

RosieH Wrote:

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> My point is that it's only symbolic if you're not

> Catholic - it's still just bread and wine. Only

> Catholics suppose themselves to be eating the

> actual body and blood of Christ through the magic

> of transubstantiation.

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Add some cheese & a few "hail bloody marys" for a Sunday hangover picnic

[RosieH]

These days I think it behoves us all to take along some Ryvita breakfast biscuits when travelling by plane over the Andes or hiking in the mountains, so that we don't HAVE to eat each other. That said, I don't think you can slit the jugular and drink the still-warm blood of a biscuit.

[waynetta]

Bear Grylls could survive in the Andes if he was stranded.That pillock will eat anything.I saw one where he ate a live octopus and all it's gooey bits squirted out of his mounth as he chomped on it.I reckon he'd eat his own testicles if he had to.

[Nero]

Only if it had been drizzled in biodynamic walnut oil and sprinkled with Himalayan salt, obviously.

[SteveT]

I would go as far as Ray Mears, he appears on his show to live on dandelions and nettle soup,

he has a substantial girth,

which suggests he ain't starving beneath his fly sheet.

[steveo]

In the 1985 Manchester plane disaster, a bloke stood on his own girlfriend's head trying to get to the exit. I don't think they are still together

[Applespider]

Hmmm...how far would you go if alone, if with a loved one or with strangers...

If I knew there was no other option, I might consider cutting my arm off but being an optimistic type usually, I think I'd probably hope that someone did come along to my godforsaken spot and wait until I was too weak to actually survive cutting off my arm and die anyhow...

Plane-wise - I do count the seats to the emergency exit and if in a window seat with people who don't look like good survival candidates in the aisle rows, I have amused myself by figuring out the best route over the top of the seats to avoid being stuck behind them. :-$

[SteveT]

Usually in an air crash they are sweeping up tiny bits and pieces from a three mile radius, and in the case of the Lockerby crash it left a crater deep enough to drop a four storey block of flats.

The idea of hopping across the backs of seats to beat everyone to safety is unlikely.

When there is an investigation following a crash, most of the time is spent working out who died first and what the order of death came to the travellers for the sake of insurance companies.