Most important American household items:
- Gun
- Couch
- Bed
- Toilet
They still need to work on how to get the car into the bunker though. How will people get to work and how will there be any freedom after the apocalypse if they can't drive?
Couch
Bed
Toilethard to believe Mike Pillow hasn't patented a product that combines these three into one convenient and comfortable home appliance.
Americans:
2002: We need to bring Saddam to justice!
2022: :saddam-hussein:
Ah yes, a rifle near the hatch, so intruders can enter and shoot you with unparalleled convenience!
Lmao that generic white family won't last one day without killing each other.
Fuckers can't even handle covid quarantine
The American "bunker culture" is definitely one of those cultural thing that people in the far future will highlight as an example of how weird people in the past were, like trepanation, skullbinding or Europeans throwing cats into the bonfire for entertainment.
I think "bunker culture" is unironically real and is an exclusively American thing as you legitimately can't find parallel of it in other countries. The optimism of "better living underground", the image of the nuclear WASP family surviving through the collapse of human civilization hiding in a hole underground like a prolonged underground.
It is a display of the supreme arrogance of American individualism, a defiance to the maxim of "no man is an island" by semi-literally constructing tiny "islands" of civilization that are supposed to weather through disasters and atrocities all their lonesomes without outside support, just surviving by poor bootstraps and canned foods alone.
I think the lack of parallel in other countries is partly explained by the lack of civil defense spending and nuclear/natural disaster preparedness funding. I read in a nuclear survival manual that the Soviets and Eastern Europe outspent the USA on civil defense (i.e. public bunkers and shelters) by several orders of a magnitude. The Soviets prioritized the survival of people, and the US nuclear preparedness strategy relied on creating a private industry that preyed on paranoia and fear as their major selling point, regardless of the fact that there is a real basis for shelters and bunkers, it makes much more sense for it to be public. The investment in civil defense came in handy for people in Ukraine and Donbas, who had bomb shelters all over the place that were often turned into restaurants etc. If a war came to the the US, the public would largely be fucked, just like they are during a natural disaster, save for a few paranoid, well off people, or people who happened to live near a public building that may or may not still have a working shelter in its basement. You can still see some signage for nuclear shelters in US cities, but they are generally housed in courthouses, government buildings, or other public, but relatively inaccessible places.
"Brian, please, let the children go"
"Dad, why is the car running? I feel drowsy"
The tornado comes and the family heads into the bunker. It's a F 4, and the dad feels vindicated. What's a "stupid idea" now, Barb? The winds are strong, you can still hear them beneath the steel and cement. Strong enough to pull off the roof of the garage. Strong enough, even to shimmy and nudge Keith's GMC Yukon Denali Ultimate over on the bunkers hatch.
Not disregarding the absolute absurdity of the illustration - chemical and composting toilets are used instead of plumbed versions because they take up less space and have little or no installation. Plumbing requires a water supply and if that is blocked or cut off your toilet is going to get ripe pretty quickly.
My favourite part is the stove - so either they die from carbon monoxide poisoning or smoke inhalation because sure as shit, if there's a disaster the outlet is going to get wrecked.
Why is nobody talking about the couch lmao.
Like what utility does it serve?!
they should really take a cue from how ships are designed internally
yeah except you don't need to worry about lower gravity here
So you can gun down the firefighters when they come to dig you out of the wreckage of your home.
So all I need to do to trap you in the hole is move your car a foot ahead and a foot to the right?
I like how the family looks pissed off and alienated from the dad. But that dad's like "see, I told you this would be better than vacation".
"we've locked ourselves in a pit with no food and water, here is some gasoline there are matches in the kitchen, please feed the cat bye"
