Ahhhhhhhhh….. HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!!! I am going straight to hell! No bones about it either! It surely MUST have been a helluva night in Israel, eh? HAR HAR HAR!!!
But here we go again, eh? I’m seeing all kinds of crap about how Israel got totally pasted, “oh the poor, poor joooooooooos!!!”. Then ya see the vids of Iran blasted into a post apocalypse hellscape. It’s so depressing and predictable. The jews eat babies, the arabs fornicate with goats, and we are played like fools by both sides. It’s hard not to lose your faith watching this crap.
It surely must be a “chick thing”? The reason I say so is that I just draw a complete blank with it. Maybe it’s too early in the morn? Maybe it’s that third chromosome of mine kicking in? Writing a letter to your past self would be a cake walk. Whadda ya say to your future self?
Dear Filthie,
Sorry for everything. I didn’t know any better.
Actually, scratch that; it was fun, every second of it and I’d do it again. Screw you!
I aged out of the sexual marketplace and died a long time ago! ππ
Although this is presented (correctly) as feminist fattie nonsense… with happily married couples I think it may actually be true. My wife and I are wide loads and I see my own flab perfectly fine. But I don’t see hers at all. I got old, furry and ugly but my wife never did. I think it must have something to do with temporal relativity. Time gets shorter for me but it stops for her.
But I think that if I were a handsome young horny toad like Chutes or Mike… I’d see that and take a wide detour around it. That has been perhaps the largest failing of feminism - telling young ladies their looks don’t matter.
So I’ve basically given up on matches for my emergency and bushcraft stores. Thanks to liberal and nanny state faggotry I can’t buy them or easily make them myself. I have tons of the shitty anemic ones but I simply won’t rely on them. I stocked up on Bic lighters and have at least a dozen in the house and squirrelled away.
But… I have a few zippos too. I adore them. They feel great in the hand, they ride well in the pocket, they’re super handy. I love the memories they evoke. My dad and grandpa smoked like stacks and the “ka-chink/snick” sound stirs many fond memories as they lit up during breaks. I love the smell of them. The nostalgia and charm of them are not lost on me either. The problem is the damn things just won’t retain lighter fluid! It evaporates away and sure as chit… when you need them - they’re dry and you are SOL! my zippos sleep in a decorative wooden box beside my pipe, along with a couple Bics. What a waste. Used to be Pop would sit down a couple times a week and refill his zippo and wind his watch. It was a ritual. It was a good time to catch him and discuss important father/son business like who the toughest guy on Stampede Wrestling was, why is mom such a stupid bitch, why can’t I have an allowance without having to work for it…
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Such was the life of a little kid 50~60 years ago… today my watch is solar powered. It’s linked via satellite to a cesium atomic clock in Europe. It does altitude/barometer, stopwatch, timer, compass, temp, day/date, GMT… and it’s tougher and keeps better time than a Rolex. Certainly better than the manual winding Timex watches that working men had back in the day. When I was smoking I lost my Bic lighters before I ran them out. Mine “grew legs” and walked away. Others ended up in my pocket because I forgot to give them back. No one cares; if it runs out ya throw it away and buy another one. Or a pack of them. If Pop and Grandpa had access to these things they’d have thrown their accouterments in the garbage and grabbed the modern replacements in a heartbeat, and be thankful for them! HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!!! Your cell phone will blow the best wrist watch out of the water too.
In my comments it was said that Bics have a shelf life and that the flints will crumble over time. I’ve never noticed that because I generally lose them within a month or two! But it does pay to have back up. The modifications in the above vid are easy enough, I suppose…? I started idly looking at options and did a deep dive on the subject. I want to put these old zippos back to work. Nostalgia is all well and good but I am too scatterbrained and lazy to sit down and do needful things like Pop and Grandpa did. I also have other needful chores and priorities to take care of that didn’t exist in their day. I wondered if there is a happy medium… and there may be a couple.
One stubfart on OyTube uses a piece of bicycle tire inner tube. It fits tightly around the zippo and effectively seals it and also makes it “water resistant” - with emphasis placed on water resistance rather than “waterproof”. Only drawback is pushing the lighter in and out of it. That fit has to be tight. I decided to keep looking and see if there are other options.
This is basically a ballastic polymer plastic that replaces the classic metal zippo case. It closes up with an O ring seal. According to the bushcrafters on OyTube this one is only water resistant too. I don’t care… I ordered one off Amazon for under 20 bucks. A lot of people don’t like them. They say the ergonomics are wrong, it lost the feel of the original zippo, blah blah blah. I get that… but my zippos are for starting fires these days. I don’t need the lightening lighter draw that Pop and Grandpa did. They’re made by a company called Thyrm, if you’re interested.
If you’re REALLY determined, and seeking the best leak-proof flint/fluid lighters… the peanut lighters seem to be the best of the bunch.
I’m gonna buy some of them too, maybe? This one’s under 25 bucks on Amazon. They seal up right tight and seem to be the most waterproof of them all. They’re small enough to squirrel away anywhere too. There’s far more expensive, flashier versions available but they are for cooler kids than I.
In the real world? I dunno if these are seriously required. I discovered the hard way that in my entire life of camping, fishing and hunting - that I never once had to have a knife larger than three inches long. All my bigger knives are attributable to my knife fetish. I just bought a Gerber Strongarm because I REALLY wanted a mid length fixed blade. I didn’t actually “need” it.
The same may hold true for lighters, I guess. Do you or I need anything other than cheap disposable Bic lighters? I seriously don’t know. I see bushcrafters coming down on both sides. For me… I’ve never needed anything more than a Bic. I never needed any more of a rifle than your average Enfield or Mauser milsurp beater. But I have lots of rifles too.
It’s nice to play with all the options I guess. You do you.
Yep. No chit. I’m watching this thing unfold now and don’t even want to think about it. Blumpf blew up on camera yesterday when Israel flattened some oil refineries and tank farms. “They don’t know WTF they’re doing!” He raged. I think they know EXACTLY what they’re doing, and Blumpf is realizing that he got played for a dufus by the jews. I know how he feels. A few short years ago I thought the jews were our friends and that Israel was a friend and ally.
I dunno what to make of it. Everyone in that food fight is lying through their teeth. The monkeys on the sidelines are hooting and heckling and most of them are lying too. God damn them all, I suppose?
I don’t give a rat’s ass about the mullahs and ayatollahs - they should have been killed decades ago. Hate to say it but I don’t care about the jews either. F them too. They’re both animals.
But I really don’t want to see Americans die in this. If there’s an off ramp on this, I really think America should take it.
And the women that do it used to say all men are pigs…
Y’know I TOTALLY missed the usual claptrap and hogwash of black history month this year? I only saw one meme that a wank poosted. It said “Celebrate Black History Month” and had 20 thumbnail pics of black rapists, murderers, brawlers and crazies that had been in the news lately. I’da poosted it here but the fart suckers, snot gobblers and censors are watching me like a hawk.
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I’m looking forward to ignoring gay pride month this year as well. Say what you want - Blumpf banned those fake rainbow flags. He’s drumming the pervs out of the military. I almost stood up and saluted here in Alberta when Pete Hegseth read the riot act to the American Boy Scouts. This woke crap and the people that push it need to go away. With force and blunt implements of persuasion if necessary.
There is only one ‘woman’s day’ and that’s Mother’s Day. Anything else is just empty liberal virtue signalling or agitprop. Real people don’t need to be celebrated for being born with coloured skin or a vagina or unsavoury sexual kinks.