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An information campaign created by the British government during the cold war, designed to inform people of what to do in the event of a nuclear strike. Consisting of a leaflet and public information film (which was to be broadcast on national television during a national emergency), the campaign was heavily criticised for being fatalistic and bleak in tone. Especially in the instructions given on what to do if someone dies while sheltering from fallout, for example:
“If anyone dies while you are kept in your fallout room, move the body to another room in the house. Label the body with name and address and cover it as tightly as possible in polythene, paper, sheets or blankets. Tie a second card to the covering. The radio will advise you what to do about taking the body away for burial. If however you have had a body in the house for more than five days, and if it is safe to go outside, then you should bury the body for the time being in a trench, or cover it with earth, and mark the spot of the burial. ”
On the other hand, the campaign was criticised for being a waste of taxpayers money and misleading, even deluding the public into a false sense of security. As by following those instructions, the public assume they'll be safe. The booklet was never distributed and the series of films were never shown, hence comedians such as Ben Elton ridiculed it in shows like The Young Ones as useless and a waste of money.
While somewhat fatalistic, it suggested that surviving a nuclear attack was possible and desirable. This was lambasted by British radical communist historian, E.P Thompson, who wrote Protest and Survive in response.
The film was created by Richard Taylor cartoons (the same company that made the legendary Charley Says series) and was narrated by the Shakesperian actor, Patrick Allen. It consisted of Voice-over narration, stills photographs and simple (if somewhat kitsch) animation. It was very simple to follow and very clearly laid out, which made it more chilling to watch. However, Allen does have the comically patronising line:
"Oh, don't forget your tin opener and bottle opener."
The Patronising nature of the film, as well as its fatalistic tone and grim content was wide open for ridicule. Especially with it being at odds with the kitsch animation style. The Harcore punk band, Discharge, wrote a song of the name name, criticising the campaign. Comedians also ridiculed the leaflet and PIFs, attacking the percieved hypocrisy of the government creating the conditions for nuclear war, yet trying to placate the public and the critics of the propaganda campaign that a war won't escalate if the government has a nuclear arsenal (Mutually assured destruction's not mad enough?). HM government was effectively accused of fudging the issue , as the Bomb Episode in The Young ones illustrates:
NEIL: Seriously, we ought to do something about this bomb! I'm going upstairs to get the incredibly helpful and informative "Protect and Survive" manual! Nobody better touch this while I'm gone!
Neil discovers the bomb
RICK: What are you doing?
Neil is reading his survival manual while painting himself white with a paintbrush
NEIL: Oh, painting myself white to deflect the blast!
RICK: That's great, isn't it, Racial discrimination, even in death! What are these? indicates a few lunchbags on the table
Rick's arrival after making his demands to Maggie Thatcher
NEIL: Oh, sandbags!
The table now has a drape over it saying, 'KEEP OUT, FALLOUT'. Mike enters carrying food in both hands
MIKE: Neil, where's the table?
NEIL: Oh, good. You got the provisions.
MIKE: Yeah
NEIL: No, not on the roof man!, put it in the food zone! Anyway, it's got to be tinned if it's going to survive ten years of fallout!
Excerpts of The Young Ones episode, Bomb
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An episode of Spongebob Squarepants in which Sandy eats a ton of nuts the store fat for hibernation season in her Tree Dome. Spongebob and Patrick end up going inside to see what she's up to and the door freezes shut in which they are trapped inside and forced to survive for all of winter. They do this by shaving patches of Sandys fur to use as warmth for the harsh climate. They eventually wake Sandy when they were arguing as to who is Dirty Dan and who is Pinhead Larry. Sandy and proceeds to practically killed both of them and give them their own grades.... morbid for a kids show huh? Anyway, as previously stated they make it through the spectral apparition that is the fact that it is snowing inside a dome with no clouds or westher... underwater. Sandy wakes up apparently losing all the weight games from eating all of the knots and then finds that all of her fur has been shaved off and then disturbingly where SpongeBob and Patrick as clothing..... our generation would be so fucked if they actually looked into these shows.
The Donner Party, survival of the idiots
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The practice of a person or people, who are homeless or otherwise disadvantaged in society, that involves trading sex for food, a place to sleep, or other basic needs.
Resources are not always abundant, to the point survival sex is looked as a stepping stone until an opportunity for social mobility becomes available.
emergency ration pie, usually small enough to fit in the pocket of a reasonably sized trench coat and of the pork variety, should be eaten furtively and nibbled on in a mouse like manner, for general day to day survival in an urban setting, to be eaten in times of great hunger, not to be confused with standard issue special forces ration pies
'I say John boy, is that snuff in that tinfoil package?'. No Biggles, that is is my survival pie. My stomach thinks my throat's cut!'
Usually what happens when:
1.Somebody sets you up the bomb
2.It's Cats, and all your base are belongs to him
3. Cats advises that you make your time
And usually leads to:
4. The Captain declaring that you move all ZIG "for great justice"
5. The Captain assumes that "you know what you doing..."
And if you survive, you get congradulation.
See:
make your time, aybabtu
"You have no chance to survive make your time..."
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The bible, the yellow pages, or da yella pages.
"Bitch I'm flowin straight from da survival scrolls!"
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The Darwinian notion that only those traits best suited to perpetuate the species will endure to be passed along indefinitely from generation to generation while those traits most detrimental to the good of the species will be phased out after a few generations.
This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. - Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
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