# This damn civilization thing is too complicated! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 15, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856 "2009-06-15T17:44:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/61 "2009-06-17T17:35:01Z")
You can pry my diva cup from my cold dead hands. As a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction, I have to say, things are never nice for women. If ya’ll plan to do this, allow me time to GTFA from wherever you beasts will be. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/62 "2009-06-17T17:38:16Z")
You want to leave Earth? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/63 "2009-06-17T19:13:54Z")
[QUOTE=Auntbeast] As a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction, I have to say, things are never nice for women. [/QUOTE] Try the Dies the Fire series…things worked out pretty well for most of the women in there. Or, at least as well as it did for most of the men (who survived). -XT ---
**Author:** ![goodie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@goodie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goodie)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/64 "2009-06-17T19:34:49Z")
I have been waiting SO LONG for a thread like this!!! Now we’re talkin! OK, here is my 2 cents; The VERY first thing we do is stockpile solar panels. Dogs, we need all the specialty/worker breeds. Go north, as far as there is farmable land, once the pesticides run out the bugs are going to be unbearable. No mass ass fucking! If that’s all you want the end of civilization as we know it for then you have serious problems, friend. I am in it for the betterment of our species, not sexual gratification. Or, not only, anyway… And think sheep, not cows. We will need the wool. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/65 "2009-06-17T19:55:48Z")
> [@goodie](#): > > … > > And think sheep, not cows. We will need the wool. Sheep would be good for the ass fucking too. Anyway, if you want mass ass fuckings, no need to end civilization. Haven’t you heard of bath houses? ---
**Author:** ![ajdebosco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@ajdebosco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ajdebosco)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/66 "2009-06-17T20:10:03Z")
“He waxes desperate with imagination.” “Let’s follow. 'Tis not fit thus to obey him.” “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (an unweeded garden of things rank and gross in nature.)” Fortunately, my army surplus flamethrower and 550 gallon tank full of petroleum naphtha might come in pretty handy for killing and cooking in one felled swoop ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/67 "2009-06-17T20:29:40Z")
Save it to take care of the assfuckers. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/68 "2009-06-17T20:34:15Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > take care of the assfuckers Every 10 seconds, an assfucker somewhere in our Post-Apocalyptic America goes without an orifice to stuff. Please, won’t you help? Donate your old, gently worn sphincters, and you can make the difference in the life of an assfucker. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/69 "2009-06-17T20:59:29Z")
Gently Worn Sphincters would be a great name for a rock band. Er, make that a rock-sticks-bone band. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/70 "2009-06-17T21:26:30Z")
Would not go see. Even if they were Japanese or Swedish. ---
**Author:** ![goodie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@goodie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goodie)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/71 "2009-06-17T21:58:41Z")
Boyo Jim, that’s a good question you raise…Are we going to keep bath houses in our post apocalypse? I guess we could just have “bath areas” out in the forest somewhere…I just wrote the next M. Night Shyamalan movie… ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/72 "2009-06-18T00:21:23Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Would not go see. > > Even if they were Japanese or Swedish. Ah, but what if they were Japanese _ **and** _ Swedish? > [@Malleus](#): > > Er, make that a rock-sticks-bone band. Music with rocks in! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/73 "2009-06-18T03:16:15Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > We just need to keep up enough of modern society to produce and distribute decent pornography. You don’t even need much technology for pornography. Believe me, I know. I’m in Thailand. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/74 "2009-06-18T05:28:17Z")
[There is a solution, but it requires the intervention of Alien Space Bats.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emberverse) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/75 "2009-06-18T05:29:38Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > You don’t even need much technology for pornography. Believe me, I know. I’m in Thailand. 😕 With all its real-flesh whores and ladyboys, what need has **Thailand** for pornography?! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/76 "2009-06-18T11:20:08Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > 😕 With all its real-flesh whores and ladyboys, what need has **Thailand** for pornography?! Thats crazy talk! ---
**Author:** ![goodie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@goodie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goodie)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/77 "2009-06-18T12:10:39Z")
I find I am becoming more and more interested in what Boyo Jim’s definition of the word “decent” might be… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/78 "2009-06-18T12:22:11Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Thats crazy talk! Yea utopia is impossible! ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/79 "2009-06-18T12:46:58Z")
> [@Auntbeast](#): > > You can pry my diva cup from my cold dead hands. . Could you make a cup from wood and leather? It may not be very comfortable to walk with but at least better than _sand_ :eek:. Another possibility is rags from woven or felted wool or if you go naked I suppose you could just wash. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856/80 "2009-06-18T12:52:26Z")
> [@goodie](#): > > I find I am becoming more and more interested in what Boyo Jim’s definition of the word “decent” might be… I am referring to a qualitative, not a moral, standard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-damn-civilization-thing-is-too-complicated/499856.md?page=5)