[PenultimateManStanding]

She's going to Finland to play volleyball. I told her don't go, it's too dangerous now. There is a global financial panic that will soon spread into the commercial sphere. She's 27 and she's very sweet to me. Loves her dad. But she's not buying this doomer talk. The thing is she doesn't read the news much. Her last boyfriend lost a lot of money in the stock markets but she's ho hum about it. She knows something is going on but doesn't figure it concerns her. My worry is if she's stranded in Finland it will concern her. She does have a round-trip ticket so that's a bit of reassurance. But not much.

[Loki]

I reckon there are worse places to be than Finland. At least she's not going to Zimbabwe or Canada

[mercurygirl]

Don't worry too much, Daddy. (I have one too, so I know.) The entire world isn't going to melt down anytime soon. She must have a pretty good head on her shoulders by now. How long is the trip?

[Carlhole]

I'm aware of all the things you say your daughter is unaware of and I don't buy all the doomer talk either.

[jasonraymondson]

You have children? Shit, those poor poor kids.

[Ludi]

Don't worry, she'll be able to get home.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mercurygirl', ' ')How long is the trip?

[HEADER_RACK]

Did you truly expect her to stay? Only on your prognostications of doom.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'Y')ou have children? crap, those poor poor kids.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'I')'m aware of all the things you say your daughter is unaware of and I don't buy all the doomer talk either.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('HEADER_RACK', 'D')id you truly expect her to stay? Only on your prognostications of doom.

[mercurygirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mercurygirl', ' ')How long is the trip?

[Revi]

PMS, whatever you do, do not read Last Light by Alex Scarrow. The father is a doomster and his kids don't believe him. Then it happens. You could get a copy for your daughter, though. They have it on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Light-Alex-S ... 0752893939

She won't be able to put it down.

It could be great reading on the plane.

You shouldn't read it because it will confirm all your fears.

Your daughter may see what her old man is talking about though.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mercurygirl', 'Y')ou jump at shadows, my friend. We're in a recession, they happen every so often. All the fuss is just everyone figuring out the best way to distract the people while they siphon yet money away, IMO.

[perdition79]

You have my sympathy. I'm just a couple years older than your daughter, and know that you can't simply spoonfeed people my age anything, even sage advice. The big picture has to come to someone as a realization, in a moment of scary epiphany. Hopefully that moment isn't induced by scores of panicky Scandinavians throwing shoddy yet functional furniture at one another.

[oddone]

I told my daughters, both students in UK, to keep some cash for emergencies (£200'ish), and a supply of canned & dry food to last for a week or so. (This happend before the "financial packages" were deployed).
They asked why they should do this, and I explained that we are very close to economic meltdown.
The situation seems under control now though, but could easily deteriorate again.
If so, we'll have armed forces on the streets.

If your daughter get stuck in Finland she'll be safer than most places. The Finns are a very coherent people and will not take to the streets in a mad stampede.

[kam3Oen]

I've often wondered about the same thing, being stranded in a foreign country post-crash. No doubt, it'll be a nightmare for countless thousands of people with no way to get back home. If you had to get stuck somewhere though, Finland wouldn't be too bad.

[oddone]

Well, I'm posted in Mexico for the next six months, but here is chaos already If TSHTF the Federal, Military and Local Police are on the streets already, i see truckloads every day

[drgoodword]

Number one, the Finns, as a whole, are probably better survivalists than Americans. I suspect she would be pretty much as safe there as she would on this side of the Atlantic, at least in the short term.

Number two, in my opinion, on this issue you're crossing the line from doomer to paranoid. Risk exists in everything we do, even taking a shower (slipping and falling the wrong way can be fatal). Assess risks in a calm, level-headed manner, and unless a certain desirable action is overwhelmingly risky, proceed with said action.

At the end of the day, no matter how well you outwit the unprecedented natural and manmade catastrophes that likely await us this century, life is still short, just as it always has been. So live a little before you join both the prepared and the unprepared in the final rest.

[killJOY]

PMS, Let her go. Let her be a big girl. She'll learn.

One day you'll get your chance to smile smugly.