" Tagging" fellow Preppers & Prepettes, Preplings etc

[NorthernRaider]

OK, for at least 5 year and up to 7 years I and other members of the survivalist / prepper community have discussed, complained, whinged, sulked, badgered and begged for a simple bog sodding standard method of identifying fellow preppers at shows, events, rendezvous, gatherings, courses and rallies.

And in all that time we have pissed around with all sorts of ideas that fall apart for many a useless reason, and often simply because someone from a different forum suggested it.

Ladies and Gents we are pissing into the wind, every day goes by more government agencies, more mega media companies, more extrewme socialists, more religous nutters campaign for closing down, censoring or closely regulating the WWW, and we piss about trying to outcool each other. Its madness.

Look, please just for 5 bloody seconds stop and think how would you gather information, gossip, skills, news, contacts etc if you got up tomorrow and someone had turned off the web, or forums, or news groups or anything not approved by censors?

All the UK forums and clubs frequently raise the issue of staying in touch with each other if TSHTF for whatever sodding reason, your choice you decide the " what if" but nothing solid or simple ever materialises. Heck even the leading lights in our community DV, Scooby, DD, SD, etc rarely communicate with each other, but then again why should they its their chosen vocation to provide us with priceless forums, but its not their job to make us interact or get on sorting our community.

What I am going to do, (I leave it up to yourselves to choose for yourself what steps if any you take) Is when I attend events like RZs, Gatherings or events like the Bushcraft show or Wilderness Gathering and I want contact with other preppers, I will wear pinned to my daysack just a simple piece of cloth with the following initials on it, in black permenant marker

SUK UKP
BCUK LSG
P2S UKSG

Thats it, simple as that. I will wear a patch that identifys me at that time with a simple bit of cloth pinned to my EDC bag if I seek to contact other preppers.

If you dont want to do the same thats fine, its your choice but until the folks who run all the forums, clubs, groups, chapters etc come up with something else that is simple, workable, cheap etc I'll stick with a scrat end of cloth with the initials of the major UK groups.

Maybe one day someone will come up with a simple, cheap detachable logo that we can all recognise??, who knows, is their the will?

Secondly I intend where possible to attend the Bushcraft show in Kendal and the WG in West Knoyle, each year, as is I believe BP is going to do the WG and the Green Scythe event. So if TSHTF or the net gets turned off and you wish to touch base with other survivalists and preppers at l;east you know you have a chance if you go to one of the events.

Cheers m'dears
NR