Buy $35 worth of cat food & a $5 can of spray paint. Round up all the stray cats in the Walmart lot, then it's snuggle time. Nothing keeps you warmer at night than a bunch of pussy. Oh, yeah before you snuggle up with your new found pussies, spray Shaggin Wagon on the outside of van. Cause as you know, you gotta keep it real.
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The humor is strong in this thread
How about buying a one or two reflective survival blankets to use inside the sleeping bag or a cheap plastic bivy to surround the bag? Maybe throw in a few chemical handwarmer thingies. Use the rest of the money for food or gas to look for a job the next day.
Another contribution on 24 hour public places: how about driving to a big airport? that might work.
How about buying a one or two reflective survival blankets to use inside the sleeping bag or a cheap plastic bivy to surround the bag? Maybe throw in a few chemical handwarmer thingies. Use the rest of the money for food or gas to look for a job the next day.
Another contribution on 24 hour public places: how about driving to a big airport? that might work.
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If you are smart enough to know that some clothing will compress in your bag, you should be able to make selections that don't. Besides, which way do you think limbs get heat, radiated heat from the torso, or conduction? if you are keeping heat from leaving limbs they will be warm, if they are getting cold, you might have circulation problems.
More ideas? crack a window and use a small propane catalytic heater.
Fill a large water jug from the hot tap in the walmart and use it as a thermal mass.
Buy an extension lead and a small radiant heater (if you are in a northern area that has outdoor plugins for staff vehicles)
cheap synthetic fleece blankets
What other riddles do you want to add? lets make it serious, -40C, 5amps @110v worth of AC power. You make it sound like there is a right answer and its getting old. What's your plan smart guy?
More ideas? crack a window and use a small propane catalytic heater.
Fill a large water jug from the hot tap in the walmart and use it as a thermal mass.
Buy an extension lead and a small radiant heater (if you are in a northern area that has outdoor plugins for staff vehicles)
cheap synthetic fleece blankets
What other riddles do you want to add? lets make it serious, -40C, 5amps @110v worth of AC power. You make it sound like there is a right answer and its getting old. What's your plan smart guy?
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Back in the days when we had to buy concert tickets in person by waiting in a line outside a record store overnight. We often came unprepared for the weather. A couple times we were cold, so one of us would take a quarter down to the newspaper vending machine. Pay for one newspaper. Take the whole stack back to the line where we would all crumple pieces of paper and begin stuffing them inside our clothes. It was cheap and effective.
This was the exact same thing I thought when I first read the thread! I'm definitely on the same page.
If you are camped out in your van in Vancouver and worried about freezing, you've already failed the IQ test.
Yes, cheap and effective. It was also theft. Plain and simple. You stole from the man who controls and fills the newspaper machines. I had a friend who once had a significant part of his income from such revenue. He utterly despised thieves. I can see why.
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Well, I was 13 yrs old. Didn't do it regularly. Also things get murky in survival situations. Didn't see your hand smacks to those who suggested loitering. Didn't see your reprimand to the bigot that wanted to gut a fat person. I could go on but you probably wouldn't hear me up on your high horse.
1. Loitering ain't against the law in wallyworld.
2. Wallyworld is a great place to find obese people when you need them (or even when you don't) --- nothing illegal about that either (until you kill and gut them to crawl inside the carcass).
3. Thirteen years old is old enough to know thievery is wrong and completely unjustifiable in the circumstances you describe. Besides neither of the above is theft or reality, and your theft was real and neither fantasy nor fiction as is the situation being discussed in this thread. Perhaps you could have suggested he save money and just steal what he needed from wallyworld.
4. Lastly, you might want to look up the definition of bigotry. Me thinks you don't understand it.
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I guess you apply the term "bigot" to my comment about obese people at Wal-Mart. Of course my post was meant in jest and stated in sarcasm towards the original poster using references of his idea in using a sling shot bow in the Alone 2 thread. He's just popped in here to share his knowledge like it's the gospel, but seems to not realize we might already know it, or some might know more than him. Based on that, and the name "alewn" seems to be a play on "Alone", I'm assuming they are just here to stir the pot and not offer anything useful.
That out of the way, there is a lot of interesting bits of urban survival knowledge you can pick up from observing street people and the homeless. Not all of it's legal, and some of it's pretty grim, but it could serve to keep you above ground a while longer. Another tool in the toolbox so to speak.
That out of the way, there is a lot of interesting bits of urban survival knowledge you can pick up from observing street people and the homeless. Not all of it's legal, and some of it's pretty grim, but it could serve to keep you above ground a while longer. Another tool in the toolbox so to speak.
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I can't believe you actually thought he was gonna gut a fat person, it was CLEARLY a joke
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Go into walmart, buy pepper spray and a crowbar, maybe also a mask, and choose which house you think looks warmest! Disclaimer: this post was entirely a joke, I don't condone breaking and entering or pepper spraying innocent people while they sleep, I would never actually attempt something so ridiculously stupid and you shouldn't either,
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Ridiculously stupid. Certainly not all of you, but this thread has jumped an obese shark or two already. Sometimes it only takes one person to set the wrong tone for a conversation.
Lets leave him alone.
Lets leave him alone.
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