Well!!! I'm just spittin' MAD!!!
I wanted some good ol' fashioned strike-anywhere matches. These fuggin things from China are just garbage and in a pinch in inclement weather... I wouldn't trust them to light a fire. I've been hemming and hawwwing and dragging my feet on the idea of making them. It isn't hard - unless you live in a pussified, twink of a country like Canada. I swear - this place is run by menopausal old women. RETARDED old women... hell's bells, there are retarded, hormonal shrieking clot headed cnuts that show more sense than our gov't.
To make these things is simple. The procedure is all over OyTube. All ya need is the proper compound to make the match head - which you can get from the caps for kids' cap guns.
Do ya think I can buy these anywhere? Of course not! Some pastey faced pissant liberal pin heads decided these things are a safety hazard or something. I can't find them anywhere! FFS!!!! Out of idle curiosity I started looking for children's cap guns and only did a rudimentary search but they didn't come up either. I guess they want the kids to play with barbie dolls or something?
I suppose in the grand scheme of things it's not something to get perturbed about but... sheesh. I'll just use my trusty old Bic lighters. But even they need corrective surgery for adult use. There's a stupid childproof metal tab over the flint wheel that supposedly makes them harder for kids to light. They can be a pain in the ass for adults too! I always get out the needle nosed pliers and yank the things off.
What picks my arse is that the very, very odd cigar I have - is properly lit from a match. You strike the match, let the chemicals burn off, and then gently roast and toast the tobacco until it lights. It's a ritual.
Alberta needs to separate and partner with the US or found our own damn country and be done with those fairies and fart suckers out east for this very reason alone.
"I suppose in the grand scheme of things it's not something to get perturbed about but... sheesh."
ReplyDeleteTolerance is NOT a virtue. That's how we wound up here.
I’m reminded of it every day…😑
DeleteCan't get proper kitchen matches here either. I've said many, many times while going through 4 or 5 of those damned green tipped useless matches that I'd hate to have to trust my life to them.
ReplyDeleteIt's that bad in Canada? Hell I bought a 25 count box of "Strike Anywhere/Lifeboat" matches , a plastic O-ring waterproof container and 2 extra strikers for $8 at the local Menards. Keep some at the house and others in my 2 bugout bags (one for each vehicle). P.S. those matches are hard to extinguish! Unbelievable!
ReplyDeleteI’d stock up on them SIPO.
DeleteAnd Bic lighters too… come to think about it…🤔
P.P.S. Mine were made in USA.
ReplyDeleteI USED to stock up on BICs, buying the 3 and 5 packs. Only to find out later the flints disintegrate after only several years. I found this out, accidentally stepping on and opening one of those and then tried lighting one. Then another. And another. Bah - all toast. It wasn't a huge loss of $$ but what if I REALLY needed them to light. ?
ReplyDeleteI bought several Zippos and at least 10 bottle of fuel. The fuel, kept protected lasts a very long time. Do the lighters dry out when fueled - yes. There is a butane insert I hear some good about, the insert keeping fuel for over two years with no loss. That is worth investigating and finding if that is fact or fiction.