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[XXSockXX]

Well, it was awkward for both sides, with one side wondering what the hell they just paid 5 bucks for and the other hoping not to get into trouble with well-trained military personnel.
I guess the Americans usually went there fridays, and the goth parties on saturday were called something with "black", which probably wasn't that clever, but heck even the german Black Magazin is a goth zine...

[SealyStar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkers_in_Albania
Seriously, WTF. I had heard that these things existed, but... that's insane. One for every four people? Building them alone must have cost several times more than what I would expect Albania's entire GDP to be at the time.

[kaijyuu]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkers_in_Albania
Seriously, WTF. I had heard that these things existed, but... that's insane. One for every four people? Building them alone must have cost several times more than what I would expect Albania's entire GDP to be at the time.

Some Albanians have taken to using the bunkers for more romantic purposes. In a country where until recently cars were in short supply, they have become popular places for lovers to consummate their relationships; as travel writer Tony Wheeler puts it, "Albanian virginity is lost in a Hoxha bunker as often as American virginity was once lost in the back seats of cars."[1]

*waggle eyebrows*

[Frumple]

... so that's what happened to Wheeler when he grew up...

[SealyStar]

It just hit me that these things must have inspired the bunkers from Starcraft. Between the design:

and the "four people per bunker" thing, it hardly seems coincidental.

[kaijyuu]

More likely it's just efficient bunker design.

[Bouchart]

Eh, not that out of the ordinary.  Back in the 1950s everyone in the States were building fallout shelters.

[SealyStar]

Eh, not that out of the ordinary.  Back in the 1950s everyone in the States were building fallout shelters.

But were there 24 per square kilometer?

Also, I have a new unit to express number of bunkers in a certain area. 24 bunkers per square kilometer (B/km²) will henceforth be referred to in Hoxhas (H). A megahoxha (MH) is 24 bunkers per square meter, somehow.

[Frumple]

Stack 'em up, of course. Vertical bunkerculture.

[Sirus]

Doesn't that kinda ruin the whole point of a low-to-the-ground building designed to ride out things such as bombings?

[SealyStar]

Doesn't that kinda ruin the whole point of a low-to-the-ground building designed to ride out things such as bombings?

Shh, ixnay on the ogiclay. We're talking about Albanians.

[misko27]

I know New York is positively dotted with old Fallout shelters if you know where to look, so there sure must have been a lot of them.

I imagine them there even now, stuck with 60 yr-old saltines and Defcon manuals.

[Descan]

Well it is New York, I'm sure there are some black people in there as well, 60 years old or not.

[SealyStar]

Well it is New York, I'm sure there are some black people in there as well, 60 years old or not.

[misko27]

Well it is New York, I'm sure there are some black people in there as well, 60 years old or not.

Blacks are 25% of the population; I'm not sure what you mean by that.

Looking through the Fallout Shelter article on Wikipedia showed me this:

Switzerland built an extensive network of fallout shelters, not only through extra hardening of government buildings such as schools, but also through a building regulation that ensured that all residential building built after 1978 contained a nuclear shelter able to withstand a blast from a 12 megaton explosion at a distance of 700 metres.[9] In addition, the Swiss government maintains large communal shelters (including the Sonnenberg Tunnel) stocked with over four months of food and fuel.[9] The reference Nuclear War Survival Skills declared that, as of 1986, "Switzerland has the best civil defense system, one that already includes blast shelters for over 85 percent of all its citizens."[10]

What the fuck Switzerland. No one would nuke you anyway.