Get over yourself, ansell2.
I’m 60 years old and remember my grandfather using the term. You’ve actually spelled it out many times as people have noted. Grow up.
Thanks for posting the article, Kart!
LOL, your grandfather has used it in private conversation?
When he starts joining the movement to make it mainstream, to change the name of our half century old movement to it, and works it into every nook and cranny of public life like the left desires, then call me.
I respect the fact that this is, in some respects, Jim’s house. His rules on language are fine, though a constant trouble to me (my fingers have a large amount of drunken sailor in their make-up!)
TSHTF I remember Dad and Grandad both using, though they said the words instead of using the acronym (how would you even pronounce it?). It has been around an aweful long time.
Sorry, but this is a storm in a teacup. You are a prepper, or at least on a prepper thread, and want everything sweetness and light? Are you going to fail to gut a hog because the large intestines smell of fecal matter?
Almost no one spells out the word, except for you. It is a convenient shorthand, and one that describes the severity of the problem. Not quite TEOTWAWKI, but a level up from widespread rioting.
Oh man - replied to the wrong person! Sorry mate!