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Other Topics => Off Topic Discussion => Topic started by: Surveyor1 on August 13, 2022, 02:26:53 PM
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I saw a commercial for this while watching the Braves game and had to look it up🤦♂️…. Basically you buy the “smart” oven from them. You sign up for a meal plan based on how many you want per week. You pick your meals and they send to you with a card that is scanned by the oven in order to cook your single serve meal. If you order 6 or more meals per week you get free shipping 😎 but the cost of your single serve meal is $11.99🙄🤔😂….
Meanwhile in Surveyorville the Mrs and I had chicken leg quarters, navy beans and French style green beans for a total cost of $2.90 or $1.45 per meal with leftover navy beans and green beans.😎. I’ve come to the conclusion then that some people are just lazy and stupid! Their life is going to really suck for them during those 3 weeks that they survive the apocalypse…🤔 (actually our meal was $2.50 or $1.25 per person, our leg quarters were $.69lb and not the $.89 I thought😳)
https://www.tovala.com/
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thats way less than my wife costs
I'll take one
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thats way less than my wife costs
I'll take one
Leave it to NJ to actually put this in perspective, kudos!🤔😂😎
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Very few young people are taught basic life skills. They can’t change a tire (from what I understand, many cars don’t even have spares anymore.), they can’t boil water and don’t even know how to write a letter. Technology has made them lazy, complacent, and uneducated to basics of living. They will either learn fast or perish in SHTF. Sadly, from my observations, they aren’t very adaptable.
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This pretty much tells the story.
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Even my self rising flour has a warning label not to eat raw flour. What has this world come to? 😢
Ravenwood
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Generations are not smarter or dumber than eachother. People have knowledge relevant to the world they live in.
Hi, millennial here. My car has a spare, I can change it, so can my lady... and my sons and daughter.
And I'm an engineer who sits on my ass all day. And I'm a wat veteran... and I grow much of my family's food. And not only do I have plenty of smart devices, I also split all my wood with an ax.
You're judging people for the hell of it. Do you just need someone to pick on? Maybe they can afford it. Maybe they don't care about any implications of a smart anything.
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its just a meme in a light hearted, poke some fun thread
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its just a meme in a light hearted, poke some fun thread
I agree NJ!
Kinda like the actual tag I saw in my granddaughters clothing and I kid you not, “Remove child before washing.”
Yes I am an asshole and yes when people do stupid stuff I laugh at their sheer stupidity Just like I expect them to laugh at me! Not judging anyone Mr Hood nor am I picking on them, just observing the obvious. One of the best comedians of my generation was the late George Carlin. He made millions of dollars and made millions of people laugh by simply stating the obvious about peoples stupidity. Yes many people make fun of millennials and Gen Zers because many of them are really good at exposing their stupidity because of social media. The social media platforms have fueled idiocy to levels never seen before and has also caused many millennials and Gen Z to die because of “this challenge” or “that challenge”…. The fame and/or approval that many of these 2 generations seek from social media is at epidemic proportions spreading idiocy in its wake. No one group deserves to be painted with a broad brush but I’m not the one that started labeling everyone either. They created the labels and will be forever tied to whatever group they are in when members of that group do really stupid things…
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No, it isnt. I've been here since 2010. I can tell when prepper are having a smug laugh.
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then all the ladies should be mad that I joked how much money my wife spends?
I wouldn't know how old you were if you didn't volunteer it
should we post trigger warning on memes ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syV2LkGpQB0
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I really like the idea of trigger warnings. I’ll work on that in some of my upcoming post. Maybe we could get Lilburner to create a topic area that is called “Trigger Warning Area” so we could post pretty much anything there that people would not be allowed to get triggered? Hell, personally I would suggest we call it Utopia😎!
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No, it isnt. I've been here since 2010. I can tell when prepper are having a smug laugh.
If you’ve been here since 2010 then you should have enough sense to know when people are poking fun at other groups! If you cannot grasp that concept then you are either challenged or just plain stupid! I was asked by a long time and respected member of this forum not to respond to your senseless rhetoric and I sincerely tried in order to appease my friend. That lasted about a week because sometimes you just have to call out stupid when stupid appears! Mr Hood I have no problem with you, you actually contribute some very good thoughts and insights to the forum but when you go off the rails I and a number of people on this forum will call you out! It’s actually humorous how many messages I get regarding your post! So lighten up, get some perspective or get laid or something! Life is to short to make yourself a pirrahha to people that you are supposed to be “like minded” with! Trust me when I say this, you may be a prepper but there IS NOT ONE SINGLE MAG ON THIS FORUM THAT WOULD INVITE YOU TO JOIN. I’m not saying that to be mean but just simply stating the obvious! Sometimes a loooooong hard look in a mirror can do wonders for someone’s “perspective “….
I’ve already stated that I’m an asshole so no need to respond with insults! Do yourself a favor and read my post 5 times before you respond and you might actually understand what I’m telling you and take some of it to heart! If not, no one can say I didn’t try….
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I have a support group, thanks, and they include folks here. You do not speak for everyone here.
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Gentlemen, the old granny here begs you be kind to one another. This world is full of things causing pain, despair and wounded hearts. This forum is meant to be a safe place where we can look out for each other, grow our self sufficiency skills and give encouragement to newbie’s as well as the folks that have been here well over 10 years.
Remember the Golden Rule.
If anybody disagrees with this, contact an administrator.
Ravenwood the Peacemaker 🥰
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I must be really dense, but I can not figure out for the life of me what started this in the first place. I see C.H. as trying to be very helpful. He is very knowledgable, in many areas.
Everyone on here brings different skills to the table and we are dang lucky to have people who are willing to take their time to help others. We are all scrambling to keep ahead of what might happen next. I have been a preppier since 1999 and a small farmer before that. I have never seen as many possibilities as to the things that can destroy our current lifestyle. We need level headed thinkers.
Many people lerk here. Personal attacks will only encourage them to stay in the shadows. Play nice!
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As we go through our lives we are exposed to different things that other people may not be exposed to. For example, I can do basic car maintenance and even a little more than basic but I couldn’t rebuild a tranny.
Everyone’s life experiences are different. Many major corporations have started marketing differently to the various generations simply because their life experiences were different from previous generations (no one’s fault…). Below is an interesting article on some very major corporations marketing strategies for our changing world from one generation to the next. The author was amused but just because you were never exposed to something doesn’t mean a thing…
https://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/amusing-2/
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"People have knowledge relevant to the world they live in."
"As we go through our lives we are exposed to different things that other people may not be exposed to."
My take on what Cplhood was saying is just that. See, you guys actually agreed, good job!
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"People have knowledge relevant to the world they live in."
"As we go through our lives we are exposed to different things that other people may not be exposed to."
My take on what Cplhood was saying is just that. See, you guys actually agreed, good job!
See there is common ground!!! That is a really good thing! Now if we can agree that it is okay to make fun of people like George Carlin did for years on peoples stupidity we are making progress!
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Let’s face reality! I’ve done MANY stupid tings and deserved to be called out or mocked on them! The problem arises when people think that they cannot be called out for their sheer stupidity…. Let’s face it people do some REALLY stupid things and we should be able to call them out on them when they do it! Like I said before social media has exasperated the problem of stupidity, it’s a generational issue caused by social media that simply cannot be ignored! If I posted social media post of myself eating Tide Pods I would definitely deserve the wrath of the masses…..stupid has become a disease…
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Starlady hit it on the head. I feel like the political climate has hit hard here in the last 5 years, leading to a lot of mockery of non-preppers.
That's not what we're here for. We all know peppers who left the forum, or the internet behind becuase for one reason or another they want to isolate.
We aren't them. This group has been diverse mix of social and ethnic classes, and life values. You aren't encouraging folks to embrace the self-sufficient lifestyle if when those non-prepper folks get their first inspiration, find us on Google, then turn around when they see what looks like smug preppers making fun of their lifestyle.
Call it thin skin all you want in private, but we need a culture of teaching self reliance, not supposing violence (duh, were going to defend our homes) and making fun of technology. That's how we add ranks to our lifestyle.
Wanna cut down on violence after SHTF? Expand the number of people with massive canned food stores, whether you disagree with their lifestyle or not.
I love you all, even Surveyor :) Everyone here has different and valid opinions. Let's just be a little less prickly? What looks like humor to some is standing in the porch with a shotgun to others. When SHTF, we'll need every prepared family we can get. I'm not saying I want them all eating my food, but ill happy invite them on the porch and teach em how to make SauerKraut.
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I haven’t seen anyone mocking “non-preppers”. I’ve seen people, especially me, making fun of peoples sheer stupidity. Not directed at non-preppers at all…. Like I’ve said numerous times, if I do something stupid, I should be laughed at and even ridiculed. That’s one problem with so many people in our country, they’ve lost their sense of humor. The cancel culture is out of control and people are so judgmental that they are incapable of seeing the humor in everyday lives.
I’m not going to change to appease the masses. I will laugh at peoples stupidity and discuss it in an open forum. I don’t care about your feelings when it comes to laughing at you for doing something stupid. If I do something stupid, laugh at me, that’s fine because I laugh at myself a lot for doing stupid things! Too many people try to make a simple post something that it’s not. They “assume” that there was an underlying cause, hatred or prejudice. People that do this probably just need to read a post and take it at face value. I’m pretty sure that anyone that reads my post will agree that I’m very straightforward and will say exactly what I’m thinking, so stop “reading” something in my post that is not there…
This whole “shitshow” started because I shared a story that “I” thought was humorous about peoples either laziness and/or stupidity for paying $11.99 for 1 meal that is shipped to them and they wave a card in front of a reader and it automatically cooks the meal. Most “normal” might like the concept but think it’s just crazy to spend $11.99 for one meal? Just like George Carlin would have done I laughed at this and even stated why as my wife and I had just spent $2,50 for our dinner instead of $23.98…. Lighten up people and try and see the humor in everyday life and please understand that it’s ok to laugh at peoples stupidity, especially your own!
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I guess you can just write me off as one of the stupid, lazy weaklings.
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO CHANGE A TIRE.
I FLAT OUT DON'T GET ELECTRICITY.
I FLAT OUT DON'T GET HAM RADIO.
I HATE WASHING MY CARS - I'd rather pay to have it done.
Oh gee, can you do that with dinner?
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Star Lady, You have so many skills that I can not count them all. You not only have them, most importantly, you practice and perfect them. If changing your own tire was important to you, by now, you would have mastered it.
Two plumbers (brothers) came out yesterday. One was very interested in my gardens. He asked how long I had been gardening and I confessed around 40 years. He felt like he could not learn all it takes to be successful. I assured him he could. He showed me a picture of an overgrown tomato plant that resembled a heavy Christmas tree. I took him over to one tomato plant that I had not finished pruning and showed him how to thin and why. He is bringing his wife out. They live in town but want to learn. I am hoping I can find an opening to discuss securing their food supply, any way they can (and water). He has skills, just not gardening. A few times, he made comments that made me think he had to be kidding. He was not. I had to catch myself and not laugh. People need encouragement, not being called out.
With my students, if they brought a project up to me that still needed a lot of work, I would first point out all the good things about what they had down. Sometimes, I had to look pretty hard. Calling people out on what we may view as stupid, does not build us up and only damages the egos of others, whether they care to admit it on not. It also retards their process, as they may be afraid to move forward. Everyone has skills. They may or may not choose to use them, their choice.
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if you cut your grass and find a car, you might be a redneck
if you drink batteries and wash jackets with kids inside, you might be stupid
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" Calling people out on what we may view as stupid, does not build us up"
You got my point.
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Okay I have to admit I do make fun of non-preppers . But I don't do it to them . To the unprepared I give nudges to take baby steps .
Now to other preppers I refer to non- preppers as Those With Empty Reserve Pantries ....or TWERPS for short.
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Agree with FIXIT and I do refer to non-preppers as TWERPS when talking with other peppers. When talking to them, I ask if they insure their homes, cars, and other things of value to them. The answer is yes, or of course. I then nicely ask why then, don't they insure their food supply. What is more important? If they feel they can not afford to do much, I suggest starting with B.O.G.O. sales, of things they would buy anyway, put the free one back. Be sure to check dates. At this point, I don't replace anything with a date less than 2024. Exceptions have to be some mayonnaise and salad dressing, but I don't go over-board., will have to make my own. If they are true beginners, I don't go into first aid and things needed to insure health. Hunters seem to be more tuned in on having extra ammo, so I don't go there. I do encourage hunting for food, not sport. One issue with that are processing prices. They are crazy high and butchers like everyone else, can't find the help that wants to learn. Hey, that would be a good job part time for young preppers that want to get a block and tackle to process at home. They can also render fat and make bone broth, or a big kettle of soup as they process...Oh, to be young again!
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Lol, trigger in 3, 2, 1….. Thanks for the past 2 post, I Love people with a sense of humor!😎😎😎
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O.K. Surveyor 1, I'll bite. What was my trigger? statement??? I am guessing it might be that young people would learn to butcher. I know it is tough to do with a cell phone in one hand, but not all teens are alike. So hard workers do move among them. Maybe that was not the trigger, do tell...
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The generations aren't different. Old people always think young people are dumb, young people always think old people are crochety and stuck in their ways.
All the stories I hear from my kids, my parents, and my grandparents are ultimately the same stuff my peers do. The only difference is generational cultural identity and everything is online now.
https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-about-the-younger-generation/
^this article is both funny, and correct.
My favorite is the, ~"back in my day, we played outside," from 200 years ago:
“A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages…chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements … they require out-door exercises–not this sort of mental gladiatorship.”
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O.K. Surveyor 1, I'll bite. What was my trigger? statement??? I am guessing it might be that young people would learn to butcher. I know it is tough to do with a cell phone in one hand, but not all teens are alike. So hard workers do move among them. Maybe that was not the trigger, do tell...
Lol Abigayle it wasn’t the butcher statement, that was actually great advice for any teen growing up! I just don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea and think that you and Fixit were making fun of non-preppers using the term “TWERPS”! Personally I thought that it was a great acronym and have incorporated it into my vocabulary! Just like I incorporated your term and definition of “Snap-Chat”. That was creative and hilarious!!
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CRPL Hood, "We are going to hell in a hand basket". Difference is that hell is now coming to visit us. I.M.H.O. the generations are different. We really babied the last two. My generation was given a lot of stuff because our parents didn't have it. In return, they were somewhat of aa "me" generation; wanting gratification through material stuff they only dreamed about.
When you see thugs on the street, killing strangers for no reason, can you relate to that? I bet not. The major cities run by liberals have become a breeding ground for those without morals. Sure, there are lots of good kids out there, but they are over-shadowed by the kind that keep us up at night
I thought kids with behavioral disorders and learning disabilities. They were pretty good kids, sure there is always a standout. By todays standards they were pretty innocent. I taught Boys Town for a period of time to get my specialist degree. These were what was thought at the time to be the toughest in the school system. By today's standards they were pretty good kids. Some parents want teachers to parent, until things go wrong. I wanted to teach the basics, not sex education, not my job. I would not make it in the classroom today, with pronouns applied to children. Like they say "Not my monkeys not my circus.."
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I would Love to quote George Carlin but the moderators would probably flag it so I will paraphrase…
“Just look around at what would be considered the average intellect and realize that half of these people are below that line”. I really really cleaned up his language but think about your daily interactions. If yo deal with people on a daily basis that has “average” intellect there are just as many really stupid people out there! Don’t hate the messenger read the message and think about the people you deal with on a daily basis…
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O.K. can't resist this one, Surveyor, It's "people who have an average intelligence, not "people was has and average intelligence", just saying :)
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O.K. can't resist this one, Surveyor, It's "people who have and average intelligence, not "people was has and average intelligence", just saying :)
Are you making fun of my grammar?😳. She loved me very much and oh man could she bake!😎. Best grammar in the world!!! 🤔🤔
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“an” not “and”
I won’t to be an grammar police!
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Good catch Benny, it was a typing error, I never proof read. Had to pick on Surveyor though... Just think of President Trumps' grammar. Would pick him over Brandon anyway. Do like DeSantis a whole lot. Off track, off track...
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Lol. My mother has a masters degree in English. I grew up with daily corrections. I just thank my stars that she didn’t have a degree in math.
I really like DeSantis too.
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Good catch Benny, it was a typing error, I never proof read. Had to pick on Surveyor though... Just think of President Trumps' grammar. Would pick him over Brandon anyway. Do like DeSantis a whole lot. Off track, off track...
You can take the teacher out of the classroom but you cannot take the classroom out of the teacher! BennyMG1 said he was glad his mother didn’t have a degree in math…. Holy hebejebezze can anyone imagine how this post would be going if Abigayle had been a sex education teacher!!! I can promise you right now she would give a whole new definition of “animal husbandry”😳😳😳…”
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Good catch Benny, it was a typing error, I never proof read. Had to pick on Surveyor though... Just think of President Trumps' grammar. Would pick him over Brandon anyway. Do like DeSantis a whole lot. Off track, off track...
Oh yea picking on me, quoting me and screwing all of it up!!! You are such a “Thor’s Wife”!!! I remember when he sent me the private message that got me in major trouble with my wife! Thor said “trust me I’ve been married much longer than you and I can tell you that women really like it when you say things in rhyme!” Me being the dumbass that I am said, “like what?” Well your Thor responded with “My wife’s favorite is “Less Bitchen More Kitchen” said you thought it was cute”…. Well thanks for me losing 14 lbs! He obviously thinks he’s funnier than I (see correct grammar)…. ❤️❤️❤️ Abigayle 😎
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Benny, my son just reminded me the other day, that I would correct the letters the boys sent me from camp, in red ink and return them with my letters. I know that today, you are grateful for her corrections.
Surveyor, did you thank Thor for your weight loss? You should show some appreciation. Good thing he did not send a rhyme that would have resulted in hair loss.
I taught at a traditional school, where we only taught the basics, P.E. art and music Were taught by the specials teachers. Today, this would be referred to as a Charter School. Yes, I was actually hand picked to teach there, no one could be assigned to the school. Teachers even had a dress code, along with the students. We had a behavior code, a homework code and parents had to sign the homework.
I am going to completely ignore your last comment. I know you can not help yourself.