Did you buy your duct tape?

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Did you buy your duct tape

  • yes.

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • no.

    Votes: 18 94.7%
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It seems as though people are stock pilling duct tape, in case there is a war with iraq, and they use chem/bio weapons.

People are gonna use duct tape to seal off the outside of the house/aprtment/condo, whatever from bio/chem weapons.

so are you gonna buy duct tape, or take your chances?

[edit] my answer was yes, but i got it left over from my "stint" as a construction worker
 
Sadly, no. I don't find the extreme southern suburbs of Chicago to be a likely target on a terrorist's wish list.
 
I stock duct tape under normal circumstances. Come the attack, people will be begging me for a roll.

"Can't fix it? Duck it!"
 
"duct tape is like the Force. It has a dark side and a light side, and it's the stuff that holds the universe together"

:D
 
Buy it? Hell no!

We already have some rolls. :)

We also have a lot of packing tape...you never know when people will need MX-6/Probe parts, and a war could be a hum dinger on the parts trade we run here.

Could be real bad, really really bad.

;) Honestly, I live in the middle of the continuous USA, they won't bomb us. They probably won't bomb any of the US.
 
Originally posted by MazKid

;) Honestly, I live in the middle of the continuous USA, they won't bomb us. They probably won't bomb any of the US.
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nah, their missiles will home aside the target, and hit us instead... :rolleyes: :p

i've got dozens of rolls of duct tape. But i'm not using it on windows... If they bomb the US with "them nukes" (if those so called weapons of mass destruction are powerful enough), Mexico and Canada are probably gonna become defenseless and unplanned victims anyway...
 
I already had some spare rolls of 100mph tape laying around the house. Plastic though... :odd: Might have to pick some of that up. (Not really)
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
I stock duct tape under normal circumstances. Come the attack, people will be begging me for a roll.

"Can't fix it? Duck it!"
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And if you've owned a Neon like I had before, you need it!

I actually boughta a 60ft. roll last month, I've gotten some plastic sheets/tarp from painting my home, so I'm covered. Even though hurricane season ended on Dec. 1st, I already checked out whay was good and what was bad; Kathy and I ate what was not going to last until June 1st, so we're okay for another year.

But what gets me is this "dirty bomb" ignorance. This morning, I changed the channel to Good Morning America, and there was an official telling people "What To Do If You've Been In The Path Of A Dirty Bomb" (a.k.a. Dirty Bomb 101)

1. Get inside.
2. Take off your clothes and throw them out.
3. Take a hot, soapy shower (as opposed to a shower w/o soap?).
4. Wait for instructions.

Here's where things get wierd. Most chameical/biological/radioactive warfare is going to consists of a bomb that has largely invisible, or microscopic, material. You won't see it in the air. You probably won't smell it. You won't really know it's there until someone with a Geiger-Müller counter and a hood has come to your door.

How in the heck are you going to know if a "dirty bomb" has struck if it doens't look like the typical H-bomb explosion?

Questions, questions, questions?
 
Yeah I mis-spelled chemical, too. I must have been thinking "chimeara" or chimerical, which just about sums up this Dirty Bomb problem.
 
It's much more important to have a properly-placed umlaut. It shows a bit of savoir-faire and other French words I can't spell.

Plus, I have to give credit to Herr Müller and Geiger, they probably died of something related to radiocativity when it was all said and done.
 
[Meow.] Radio-cavity?

Radioactivity.
Are-aye-dee-eye-oh-aye-see-tee-aye-vee-aye-tee-why
radioactivity.


Whew!
 
Originally posted by pupik
[Meow.] Radio-cavity?

Radioactivity.
Are-aye-dee-eye-oh-aye-see-tee-aye-vee-aye-tee-why
radioactivity.


Whew!
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I'm sorry, you didnt phrase it in the form of a question,... no points awarded :lol:
 
When you wake up and your hair stays on the pillow, you'll know it's time to get out the duct tape and take a shower... a soapy shower, that is.
 
I dunno, but all the government can say is "buy duct tape and plastic sheeting". Sounds a little weird, doesn't it? We all have glass on our window openings by now, don't we?

I know beta and gamma-particles can go through glass and skin, but there's little a sheet of plastic will do against that, right? Even a gamma particle can penetrate lead, so what's the point?

Other than raising The Home Depot's stock value?
 
Exactly. Duct tape and plastic won't help. If it happens we're screwed. Period.

*edit*

It's times like this I'm glad I live in a lesser American City.
 
What ever they can do to stimulate the economy.

Does anyone know anything about the resolution presented about giving African American's money because of the slavery issue from a century and a half ago? I saw something on the Dave CHeppel show last night that refered to this,.... is there any truth to it?
 
Originally posted by Red Eye Racer
What ever they can do to stimulate the economy.

Does anyone know anything about the resolution presented about giving African American's money because of the slavery issue from a century and a half ago? I saw something on the Dave CHeppel show last night that refered to this,.... is there any truth to it?
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Sounds a little off topic to me... Go make a new thread in Opinions and call it "Slavery Reparations."
 

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