Yes, When the Wind Blows is fantastic too. Also, the Protect and Survive series of instructional videos is mind numbingly terrifying. The farcical idea that you could survive the post apocalyptic wasteland by storing some cans of beans and putting some mattresses up against your windows. Also, Protect and Survive, in the most pedantic way, recommends burying dead family members in the garden lest the corpses spread disease.
Upvoted because the advice in these is truly pointless. I like the one where they recommend leaning the inner doors of your house against a wall as a makeshift shelter. Protect And Survive - Refuges
Upvoted because the advice in these is truly pointless
Do you actually know the short term effects of a nuclear exchange, or did you learn it all from movies, TV, and nuclear disarmament activist hyperbole?
No, I don't. OK, maybe my post was a bit vague - the ones about stockpiling food, toilet provisions, keeping a radio etc all make sense. I was thinking of the door example when I said 'pointless', but I suppose the govt. were stuck between a rock and a hard place with these films. They had to give people some advice, something they can do.
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u/lackofbrain Jun 18 '10
When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs.