If I was forced to guess I would say that Rawles at http://www.survivalblog.com/ has surrendered to the inevitable and admitted that his hair will never be as good as mine and so has reluctantly started giving me daily article ideas against his better judgment as way of surrender. I know as soon as you all read the article on the Taliban
snipers
you knew I couldn’t NOT write on my beloved Enfield
being put to good use ( not to imply I approve of the targets, just that I admire an instrument of war ). Well, first you have to admit that between the AK’s and the Baby M-16’s there must be a whole lot of shooting and nothing being hit over there if the Enfield is a sniper rifle. I love the Enfield, I will maintain to my dying day that it is the best bolt action made for twentieth century war ( the No.4, anyway ), I get all soft and gooey inside whenever I see one and anyone that thinks a bit about the subject will admit that it represented the pinnacle of achievement for the British Empire
. But one thing I won’t do is to pretend is that it is all that accurate of a rifle. Yet while towelheads are running around failing to get Side Of Barn Angle and our boys are pinning down insurgents out to twenty five yards with a barrage of 22’s awaiting for a Predator
to arrive and actually kill them, someone is taking a beat to crap, dusty, seventy year old Lee-Enfield that shoots pie plate accuracy and inflicting actual damage. Someone is taking one of the least accurate rifles of a bygone era and almost achieving parity with a computer armed high tech army. I think I would like my share of the trillion dollar a year defense budget refunded, please.*
Then there is the matter of the Kindle
. While I also love Amazon ( although not as much as the Enfield ), and I call them one of the few well run companies, the fact of the matter is that the Kindle is a turd. Well, the Kindle books are a turd. Let me get this straight. I want to pay almost the same amount of money for a book that isn’t printed on paper and isn’t delivered to me through the post office? No one has to pay for paper, or postage, yet I want to pay the same amount as the paper version? Earth to all crack smoking
idiots, you are being ripped off. Let’s pretend your machine won’t crash or break and you’ll never lose a file. And that there will never be a solar flare that fries your preparedness/low tech books. Even so, you are not getting a fair value. The publisher is saving money. Amazon is saving money. In return, you save no money. Are you really so addicted to instant gratification that you can’t wait a week for delivery? Are you such a speed reader that you need to carry more than one book? That don’t even discount out of print books. Now, I can smell the confusion seeping through the wires. You are wondering what the Taliban snipers and Kindle e-books have in common. Easy, we are idiots for more.*
An idiot that thinks winning an argument with his wife involves a stoning is seduced by the pleasure and promise of more. Give up a bolt action rifle
that is reasonably accurate ( as accurate as needs to be with no fancy scope
, range finder
or bullet drop table ) and go pick up your choice of submachine guns dropped by dead Soviet
soldiers. It’s free, it carries a lot MORE ammo and you can kill a lot MORE enemies at one time and then Allah will smile down on you and pat you on the head, good boy, Aukmed, you are smiting MORE infidels
so I will promise you MORE virgins in heaven. The guy most likely humps his camels since his wife is so ugly so an increase count in virgins is pretty seductive. Who would say no? The problem is that he used twenty times the ammo and hit half the targets at half the range. More is not always better. Then we have some idiot tossing down Starbucks cappuccinos showing off his one thousand titles in Kindle. I suppose there is a reason he thinks more is better, but my lack of imagination forces me to admit I have no idea why that is. He gets a new e-toy and doesn’t have to wait for delivery. Is that $300 well spent? More fast food is more waistline. More miles per gallon is more of a commute to work. More magazine capacity is more waste. More square feet in the home is more heating and cooling cost and more property tax. Reading more Bison is more aggravation and blood pressure spikes.END
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10 comments:
Well Said!!!! Especially the last part!!
I always suspected that the reason the towel-heads are so pissed off at everything and everybody is because of discovering how butt-ugly their wife is when she finally removed her veil on the honeymoon.
O.K. I'm willing to consider an Enfield but I don't know anything about them. How about a 'basics of the Enfield', or 'Enfield for dummies' post?
More is better for stored beans and wheat though, eh?
I love real books, and I can take them outside to read, without the sun messing with the screen and the like, or worries about chords/or batteries and the like. So the Kindle seems pretty gimmicky to me, but I also don't use any of the new fancy phones either, I just want my cell phone to be a phone, not a overpriced umbilical chord to other people or a computer.
People have more and more specialized training in things that don't matter at all, particularly if you are a believer in 'long emergency' or I suppose the fast collapse if your Mr. Bison. I still think you are off by years, and that the real nasty stuff won't start till summer 2012, after another round of stimulus and shell game economic bullshit--but that's roughly when Oil decline will hit in a serious manner---unless the economy contracts to early 1900's lifestyles, which isn't going to happen--unless forced upon people. With what's going on in Korea etc. it seems likely we see a few wars, hell the US may not even start them, go figure....
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Jay- the last part about reading Bison?
Anon759-good catch, I didn't consider my call for MORE wheat and beans. Always happy to be caught in my own web.
Reading the posts never raises my blood pressure, after awhile you can take on a sort of Zen mentality about all this stuff and just focus on doing. Once I went from reading about doom/collapse/peakoil/peak phosphorous etc etc to actually doing something--growing food, learning basic skills and the like it became far more empowering. Baz Larhman said "worrying is about as useful as chewing bubble gum to solve algebra equations." Worry is only useful as an adaptive trait if it leads to adaptive actions, otherwise your just fighting tigers in your head and causing life to be full of anxiety. Twain said, "I have known a great many troubles,but most of them never happened."
Contemplating collapse starts off much like the old pessimist philosopher Arnold Schopenhauer stated, "The truth will set you free . . . but first it will make you miserable."
Somebody should tell them that the 40 virgins they are promised are 40 pissed off nuns.
Well, James, tell us what you think about Towel-head comments. I myself am torn, when I'm in a bad mood or firing off the cuff, I too make crass/hateful comments, however if pressed or thinking deeply. I can understand the rage at "people not from our tribe" crap, but really it's interesting a lot of people here I assume consider themselves free thinkers, so it interests me that they fall for the propaganda. If a fraction of the stuff that has happened to them, happend to any of us, I imagine we'd be "public enemy number one" We're on their soil f-ing them up, and we've been doing it so damn long, that of couse eventually some were going to make it over here, and bring a little pain. For all of you with a knee jerk reaction, just think about it, if you were them what would you do. - Saddam, Al-whatever, you'd be pissed and you'd attack too. So, of course the only answer is peace and that if we can't get along we have to stay in our corners. Of, course we're all human, so prepare for war.
Ken- of course I understand that we went and stole their oil and killed off civilians and starved babies, etc. If I lived over there I would be a freedom fighter ( known here as terrorist ). That said, war is all about one tribe stealing to survive at the expense of the other. I'm on the winning tribe ( until a nuke ) and so I approve of it. The oil doesn't just power up Yuppie Scum SUV's, it also feeds us and warms us. It is our survival. "Towelhead" is just part of the justification for theft ( along with the religious effect ). I understand both sides, believe me.
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