Why shouldn't someone...

[hushnel]

I don't even listen to me.

I have never had an outdoor experience become a survival situation, so all of my preparation is for the "it could happen" scenario. I can't speak of survival from experience. I have been blessed with a mind that grasps situations quickly and intuitively. I also feel that the mind has a way of being lazy and every extra piece of gear causes more dullness in thinking.

I feel it "could never happen to me" but cold logic dictates this is not the case or maybe ignoring the possibility is simply illogical. For instance, I am confident that I will never be attacked so I am comfortable walking the streets and trails alike, it doesn't stop me from hitting the range every couple of weeks and always being armed when it is legal to be so, mostly.

I can and do learn from the experiences of others. I know that I react well in in critical situations, I've been riding a motorcycle in Miami Fl. for the last 25 years, if I didn't react and respond quickly to amazingly swiftly deteriorating situations I would have been killed or maimed 7 or 8 times by now. Some day sitting around the fire I'll show you my scars

I almost always carry a ukulele or at least a flute when I head out to the wild places, that alone is a good enough reason not to listen to me.

 

[Mentor]

I think guns in the wilderness are useful for hunting and nothing else. I see carrying a tent, sleeping bag and camp stove as a legitimate substitute for carrying a chopper. I think global climate change is actually happening. I think people should learn to get along with each other, whether circumstances are such that they happen to be neighbors or whether they meet each other on the trails. I think that when the SHTF (and it is going to happen), most people will generally prove their virtue and not behave like the scum of the earth. I think folding knives suck, unless it is a SAK and then it is okay. I think fiskers should replace the 'i' and 's' in their name with a 'u' and 'c'. <--- No I don't really think that but I thought it was funny. I have a really stupid sense of humour. I spell things with u after the o. I like to tell Don how violent he is and advise him on self defense. I think Hot Wheels and the manual race tracks were one of the 'best' kid toys of all times, second only to smash up derby zip cars. I don't own a single fixed blade knife that hasn't eaten its way through a block of wood in a batonning session. I think Rick's knives is pretty but Rick ain't yet his wife is awesome <--that is all really good news for his kids and their genetics, albeit some claim were actually fathered by Talfuchre.

Ken, this reminds me of those "My name is X, and I AM CANADIAN" commercials. Makes me laugh and want to drink a bottle of cheap domestic beer!

Best,

- Mike

 

[PastorMarko]

Kemsat, with some arranging, you have the makings of a fine country & western song.

 

[Cpl Punishment]

You shouldn't listen to me because:

I got my survival training from Tank Girl comics.

If you don't know when I'm joking, I'll keep going.

I won't change what I do or carry just because some dildo thinks I don't "need it".

If you don't understand, I'm not going to 'splain it.

 

[Voltron]

Welcome to WSS, oh wise one.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

 

[KEmSAT-Survival]

Personally, I think healthy debate and argument is good. It is bad when the debate turns into polarized view points with little or no real concession to different view points. Likewise, having a bunch of folks pat each other on the back telling each other how wonderful they are is equally useless.

Don't listen to me if I agree with you. Perhaps you should listen to me if I criticize you on the basis of a set of circumstances. I like W&SS because people here seem to have some faculty for understanding the debate process. Go outside of this place and you get either polarized view point or a lot of patting each other on the back.

Finally, I think you generate a certain respect for members who ostensibly demonstrate their skills through different threads, whether they are just the photodocumentation of their trips or attempts at instructional skills. Like Kevin's put up or shut up thread. Don't listen to people who suddenly pop up and claim to be experts. Usually you should completely avoid reading the text of anybody who starts off saying 'I am an expert in....'

So what are my biases?

I think guns in the wilderness are useful for hunting and nothing else. I see carrying a tent, sleeping bag and camp stove as a legitimate substitute for carrying a chopper. I think global climate change is actually happening. I think people should learn to get along with each other, whether circumstances are such that they happen to be neighbors or whether they meet each other on the trails. I think that when the SHTF (and it is going to happen), most people will generally prove their virtue and not behave like the scum of the earth. I think folding knives suck, unless it is a SAK and then it is okay. I think fiskers should replace the 'i' and 's' in their name with a 'u' and 'c'. <--- No I don't really think that but I thought it was funny. I have a really stupid sense of humour. I spell things with u after the o. I like to tell Don how violent he is and advise him on self defense. I think Hot Wheels and the manual race tracks were one of the 'best' kid toys of all times, second only to smash up derby zip cars. I don't own a single fixed blade knife that hasn't eaten its way through a block of wood in a batonning session. I think Rick's knives is pretty but Rick ain't yet his wife is awesome <--that is all really good news for his kids and their genetics, albeit some claim were actually fathered by Talfuchre.

You forgot the most important reason we should completely ignore you...

YOU'RE CANADIAN.

Everybody knows all you people do is drink and play hockey...sometimes at the same time. What time you're not saying "Eh?" and throwing round "bacon" at people, whilst listening to Alanis Morisette and watching Jim Carrey movies.




You aren't alone in the feeling about Hotwheels cars, I had tons of those things as a kid. We gave them fingernail polish paintjobs. I think Rick is hot though. In a Magilla Gorilla sort of way. Totally plutonic, one dude giving another a compliment, kind of thing. No, really. :foot:

 

[go2ndAmend]

Let's put it this way. I will now bring you up to speed on all that I know about what is most important in a survival situation. O.K., now you know as much as me. That is why you should not listen to me. I often fail where others suceed. Sometimes, by mere chance, I am able to accomplish something. Unfortunately it is rarely something useful that I am able to accomplish. So in the end, even my accomplishments are failures. Perhaps I am a very sucessful failure. Does that make me a sucess?

 

[seth]

you shouldnt listen to me, i live on an island so small that the only places i can go and not see any houses are in the bottom of gully's. you also shouldnt listen to me because i consider it cold when i wish i was wearing more than a pair of shorts and a t-shirt, dont listen to any advice i might give on building a shelter, unless of course, warmth is not an issue, dont listen to me when i talk about centepedes either, because they are the only creature in this world that im scared of... by the way, dont build a leaf type shelter in the caribbean, centepedes love warm piles of leaves, and they will not just curl up next to you for warmth, those creatures take great pleasure in attacking sleeping humans... you'd be safer sleeping on the beach or in the sea or something

 

[tonym]

I don't always whizz standing up.

:

I knew it!!




You shouldn't listen to me because I most likely am writing something sarcastic, or totally off topic

 

[762 shooter]

My wife has been married to me for 16 years now. She knows me better than all of my buddies combined. And she doesn't listen to me...

 

[Joel Stave]

Don't listen to me because I'm a liar. I lie a lot. About everything. I'm lying right now. This statement is a lie.