VioletSoftness

I use them after a POC friend said they thought it was cool when white folks use them and i’ve never heard anyone complain about it before this thread. It never occurred to me before that but i have many kinds of privilege so i’ll make any simple accommodation like that I can.

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okay that one is better than average but i am very biased towards liking it and i still think it could be cut in half, its like flogging the joke too much is part of the joke with them. thanks for that one though it made me chuckle for sure.

onion articles are best if you just read the title. They published a book of just the titles because even they know that’s where 99% of the humor is and the article is usually just bludgeoning the joke to death.

fuck yeah that’s good shit

they are talking about making fire without using lighter or matches or a fire starter, just wood on wood friction the way people had to make fire before any of those things existed. An oily rag won’t help you with the difficult part; making a small coal to light your tinder.

from the name??

this is going to mess with me when i make my next account 😂

have tried 3-4 times but never even got a whiff of smoke! The region i camp in is generally described as ‘rainforest’ and while i have to assume it’s possible I am missing some trick to it.

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@Alxe has it, I am now a white woman :)

ah you’re probably right that rose petal on the bottom right made me think it was a white panel but a metal bar makes more sense

I absolutely adore keeping the fire going. I was a white man for decades so i’m not dodging the allegations. I have never been camping where i was not the last person awake and always keeping the fire just right until all the wood was gone.

It’s all about the air flow. Too much and everything burns too quickly in a roaring furnace, too little and you have no light and not enough heat. By constantly adjusting the logs you can maintain the proper air flow to keep everything just right. Rotating a log to present fresh wood to an eager flame here. Squeezing two logs a little closer to reduce the oxygen and trim things up there. A proper fire adjusting stick (and a backup) is crucial.

Give me a stack of seasoned wood, a k-bar, a magnesium fire starter and a comfy camp chair and i’m in heaven from the time the sun sets until the wood runs out.

why couldn’t you rotate it the thing holding it up is very wide