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Post by NomadCris on Oct 15, 2024 16:35:21 GMT
You can always tell when folks are becoming paranoid about nuclear Armageddon when they suddenly start browsing survival /prepper and hippy sites.. 🤡.. Accept it, youre fucked already.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Oct 15, 2024 20:40:42 GMT
You can always tell when folks are becoming paranoid about nuclear Armageddon when they suddenly start browsing survival /prepper and hippy sites.. 🤡.. Accept it, youre fucked already. Too true! 😆 |
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Post by givingitsomethought on Oct 16, 2024 9:05:12 GMT
Do you know, I would find those sort of sites more scary if I had no idea at all, because they make you see how much you don't know and how much kit you don't have? I'm not in the survivalist/prepper category by a long shot, but just having basic camping gear and a few essentials put by (and possibly a bit of common sense) I feel we can 'manage', probably not for more than a relatively short space of time. But if I'd never been camping and got all my food delivered by Hello Fresh or whatever the latest one is and I started looking on those sort of sites I think I'd have a coronary at how much I'd be expected to buy and learn how to use. Some of my friends don't even have a lighter or a box of matches in the house, they just don't live the sort of life where those things are ever needed. It's funny how a lot of what would have been 'normal' in a home years ago is probably absent from a lot of places now. Although saying all that I have just realised my camping stove didn't work last time I used it and I haven't sorted it out yet so best get my bum in gear!
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Post by parrotandcrow on Oct 16, 2024 9:54:12 GMT
I have two missing pairs of secateurs, I've benn looking for them for probably two months, maybe longer.
I gave up and bought a pair from lidl and have now cut the grape vine down to ground level again. This summer it shot up -as they do - wanting to escape over my roof 😬
The vine is now sulking and I fully expect both sets of missing secateurs to turn up in defeat. My tyre inflater also went missing after I used it last week, and I could not be bothered with the hunt so ordered a new one. This worked well, the original turned up the day the new one arrived as did an old one I haven't seen for a decade!
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Post by NomadCris on Oct 16, 2024 16:09:20 GMT
Do you know, I would find those sort of sites more scary if I had no idea at all, because they make you see how much you don't know and how much kit you don't have? I'm not in the survivalist/prepper category by a long shot, but just having basic camping gear and a few essentials put by (and possibly a bit of common sense) I feel we can 'manage', probably not for more than a relatively short space of time. But if I'd never been camping and got all my food delivered by Hello Fresh or whatever the latest one is and I started looking on those sort of sites I think I'd have a coronary at how much I'd be expected to buy and learn how to use. Some of my friends don't even have a lighter or a box of matches in the house, they just don't live the sort of life where those things are ever needed. It's funny how a lot of what would have been 'normal' in a home years ago is probably absent from a lot of places now. Although saying all that I have just realised my camping stove didn't work last time I used it and I haven't sorted it out yet so best get my bum in gear! I dont honestly think there is much to be learned from prepper sites,especially the US oriented ones,theyre obsessed with weapons and combat and fighting off zombie hoards more than actually learning basics that will keep you alive if your house burned down,flooded or washed away which is infinitely more likely than fighting off zombie hoards. Someone from US posted their bugout bag the other day on twitter and had 6 guns and ammunition 3 knives some tactical clothes and boots and some drink and food satchets that would sustain him for a day max and he had a wife and child so im not sure what he planned for their survival but probably hadnt considered that. People who prep often get tunnel vision and it becomes all about who is your enemy and who you must fight and nothing about the real enemy - cold or heat exposure starvation and lack of potable water and dealing with injuries you will sustain. Learn some basic bushcraft and basic survival techniques and keep a bit of reserve food and essentials,its not difficult to do,what you going to do if you lose your bugout bag ? Id rather people know how to make dry warm shelter and fire to heat water and food or keep warm in car if it breaks down in a storm than whats in their bugout bag...there are dozens of good survival guide apps on Googleplaystore or AppStore that anyone can learn in your own time and are free and work offline and save youself an anxiety coronary. |
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Post by graceomalley on Oct 16, 2024 17:15:25 GMT
The hand tools I lost whilst gardening🙄I'll bet most of my customers have something buried in their compost heap!
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Post by graceomalley on Oct 18, 2024 18:36:27 GMT
Right,I've just read an article on how to make quince jelly.yup!all good,but the final sentence got me wondering.. " So now you have a nice vegan accompaniment for your Christmas cheese" surely if you 're bothered that your accompaniment is vegan,you wouldn't be eating cheese🤔 maybe I'm just over thinking😜
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Post by NomadCris on Oct 18, 2024 20:11:53 GMT
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Post by parrotandcrow on Oct 19, 2024 9:06:33 GMT
I have some quince jelly in the house at present. I used to use quince to bulk out apples for apple pie - or it might be more accurate to say I used apples to bulk out the quince as I liked the tart flavour. I haven't made a pie forever though.
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Post by NomadCris on Oct 19, 2024 11:30:28 GMT
I had several large quince bushes in my garden,i was never short of them for jelly. What i found reallt weird is if you told people it was quince jelly in the jar theyd look at it like it was witchcraft and decline it without smelling or tasting. If you told folks it was apricot or peach jam theyd dig in and love it. 🤷♂️then youd fess up and tell them its actually quince and it be like witchcraftery again,ive been poisoned 🤦🏻♂️
I had a lovely Medlar tree as well and no one under my age would touch them bc theyd never heard of them..the witchcraft thing again i guess.
More for me anyway. They were lovely. When i was a kid in 60's there was all sorts of exotic fruit and apple and pear varieties about on the market, now its all bland crud and people are suspucious of anything not in a plastic bag or tray.
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Post by NomadCris on Oct 19, 2024 15:03:54 GMT
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Post by parrotandcrow on Oct 21, 2024 19:30:39 GMT
I lost the charger to my old electric bike about a year ago. I looked forever, then tried to buy a new one, but they no longer exist for my model and I didn't want a cheap Chinese one, so I bought a new bike instead.
I like the new bike very well, but I am also extremely happy to have found the charger today for the old one.
It does mean I have two electric bicycles now, and will have to decide which one to keep though. 🤔
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Post by NomadCris on Oct 21, 2024 19:39:22 GMT
Thats a result...cant you keep them both in case of failures. ?
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Post by parrotandcrow on Oct 22, 2024 4:45:22 GMT
I don't have space or I might have done.
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