Who Would Survive The Zombie Apocalypse?

Show your workings, please.

Jokes that fall completely flat because the person they were aimed at is in another time zone and probably asleep. Maybe I'll just use this thread to talk to myself about weightless semiotics.

(Also voting for Kanye because after watching the Black Skinhead video, he looks like his pixel-enhanced body could take care of himself and the Monster video shows his familiarity with dealing with zombies.)

Kanye has an advantage here as he is one person, and you are pitting him against the survival of an entire band. Statistically, it is far less likely that every member of Interpol would survive a Walking Dead-ish zombie apocalypse. In members of Interpol's favor is that they presumably are better at working in a group than Kanye. In general, people with substance abuse issues tend not to last very long.

What they all having going for them (presumably) is charisma, which could lead to other people with more useful skills flocking around them and helping them out.

On the other hand, the likelihood that they would be in dense urban areas at the dawn of the zombie apocalypse is a major point against them all.

I voted that neither would survive.

I am not going to take into account the general biases of cinematic/televisual portrayals of zombie apocalypse (esp. Walking Dead) where the members of Interpol have the advantage because they are white.

Huh, I didn't think of the group versus individual aspect. I suppose any member of Interpol surviving would count? Though I suppose it depends on which one. Because although the drummer looks like he could handle himself in a fight, none of the skinny, pasty ones look like they'd be much cop. Just a drummer wouldn't be much of a band, though. Maybe if the rhythm section survived and the skinny britishes got their brains munched that would be OK? Who would win in a Nazis vs Zombies scenario, though?

The racial aspects of zombie survival, I do remember, was a massive talking point in discussion of the Monster video, with a few critics pointing out how all the girls inside were dead and white, but all the girls outside were women of colour, but zombies. It's been a while since I saw that video, so I couldn't tell you for sure.

lol BB. I passed out on my couch immediately after I requested this information. but ty, this is lol.

I was curious, too, though, so I'm glad that you asked! :)

I also think Kanye has the best chance of survival. perhaps, that's why I was so curious. he seems to possess an intense will to live. He also probably has a compound and a large truck that he could load two motorcycles into.

kanye may actually be a doomsday prepper. it would not surprise me.

I bet kanye can negotiate and barter better than interpol. His business savvy extends further outside of the music industry.

Can you negotiate with zombies? Granted, I still haven't seen the Walking Dead (beyond the endless gratuitous gifsets of the blond one that Interpol fans fancy) so I don't know the mechanics of zombiefication in this universe. I thought they were just the usual drooling, brain-chomping types as seen in 28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead?

Like I said earlier, I think my money is on Kanye. (Though Carlos is probably already half virus at this point, so if it's a virally bourn zombie thing, he might have some kind of immunity)

(Oh wait, it's midnight. I am not allowed either glowing screens or Interpol after midnight, because I have to beat this stupid insomnia thing. Sorry! Please feel free to carry on debating zombies.)

Are we talking Interpol with Carlos D or Interpol without Carlos D?

With Carlos D. Because without would mean having to put Brandon Curtis through the zombie apocalypse, and he's been through enough this year.

Carlos D prbly has whatever std makes you immune to zombie bites. Had not considered this.

One thing I have always wondered was, does Carlos D actually *have* herpes, or was that one of those crazy ILX memes that escaped into the wild?

I never actually had the courage to click on that thread (because if there's one thing grosser than herpes, it was JW-era noize borad) but it was just something that floated up into my awareness of "random facts about bands" that you have no idea if they are true or not.

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I think the zombies ate Sarahell. She never came back, did she?

Maybe I will just use this thread from now on to contain the pestilence of my obsession, and stop it from cluttering up other threads, because honestly, who's gonna read a thread about zombies.

I would love to see Ian Duncan Smith getting his limbs torn off and dying in abject agony. When I am in a catastrophist mood I always think "At least some tory twat is going to die in this zombie apocalypse".

Oh, I guess people do read random threads about zombies.