# What post apocalyptic skills do you have?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 4, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-post-apocalyptic-skills-do-you-have/670352 "2013-10-04T14:10:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-post-apocalyptic-skills-do-you-have/670352/101 "2013-10-08T00:56:52Z")

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> [@Capt\_Kirk](#):
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> We need at least two of everything, including bookkeepers, can’t have the wheels fall off if someone has an accident.
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> I realized something about Cecilville, since we are already a community of sorts, we may have an easier go at it. Of course there would be conflicts but I think we might be better at group cohesiveness than a random group of folks getting together post Apocalypse.
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> So I think the question now is where?
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> **Capt**

Well, this is an enormously fun topic but I think we’ve all been tiptoeing around the potentially divisive problem of how to organize the governance of the tribe. Perhaps another thread…

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**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-post-apocalyptic-skills-do-you-have/670352/102 "2013-10-08T04:55:21Z")

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Making fire (easier way is with a glass of some sort, I can also make a fire bow and fire drill.)  
Fishing (line and hook and spear fishing)  
Gardening  
Basic mechanics (can probably fix a bicycle)  
First Aid (General expired, CPR certified)

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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-post-apocalyptic-skills-do-you-have/670352/103 "2013-10-08T20:56:02Z")

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> [@Red\_Wiggler](#):
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> Well, this is an enormously fun topic but I think we’ve all been tiptoeing around the potentially divisive problem of how to organize the governance of the tribe. Perhaps another thread…

Isn’t it obvious, as the OP, I get to be the Benevolent(ish) dictator 😉  
Unless Cecil wants the job…

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**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-post-apocalyptic-skills-do-you-have/670352/104 "2013-10-08T21:13:15Z")

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> [@MacTech](#):
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> Isn’t it obvious, as the OP, I get to be the Benevolent(ish) dictator 😉  
> Unless Cecil wants the job…

I dunno, do you outrank me? :eek:😃

**Capt**

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**Author:** ![NVME702-redux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@NVME702-redux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NVME702-redux)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-post-apocalyptic-skills-do-you-have/670352/105 "2013-10-09T18:50:14Z")

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> [@Rhiannon8404](#):
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> I can take wool directly from sheep to wearable item or blanket or whatever.

DAMN!! that was going to be my contribution…

Guess I will have to revert to woman of comfort, hahaha…

Or

Eva Peron of Cecilville

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