single bias

SINGLE BIAS

Nova fiction posted earlier.
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Okay, now look. Unhelpful comments accusing me of ignoring the needs of frugal families prepping is unfounded. What you really mean is I am unhelpful with any advice for Yuppie Scum Survivalist families. Look, I rag on old people. I’m almost one and I know a nice couple that are as old as dirt ( my parents ). I don’t hate old people, just their bad attitude. I bitch and moan about bitches, but again, I don’t hate females. Just most of their poor attitudes. And, while I claim I hate Yuppie Whoring Bastard Scum, I’m willing to reserve judgment on each individual until after I meet them. I’m sure I’ll be able to excuse 1% of them. Deep down under that soft gooey marshmallow exterior is a good heart. Hell, send me enough donations and I’ll blow smoke up your ass even if you aren’t a good person ( Sam, I honestly forgave your Yuppiness many, many donations ago. Gene, you might qualify as a Yuppie but you seem like Regular Folk ). I don’t necessarily condemn all yuppie families to the lower bowels of Hell. I’m still willing to help you out with a little advice. But you have to meet me half way there. I can’t JUST talk about AR-15’s, MRE’s and SUV’s. You have to concede the need that one day you’ll be crapping in a bucket and grateful for a old crumpled up newspaper to wipe with.

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As I’ve said before, when I started raising a family I was only allowed the stockpiled preps already in my procession before I got married. Four people, three hundred pounds of wheat and a Springfield Armory 45 with a few hundred rounds, a grinder and a few gallons of bleach. That would have really sucked if we had actually needed them. So, yes, everything I’ve done expanding that was done while legally single. Although for Y2K I was stocking for #4 (common law wife ) and her stepdaughter.  What did I do? More wheat and Spam. Scaling up to family size isn’t rocket science, it is just buying the same thing more than once ( although most likely less firearms ). So, it seems the basic complaint is that living in a tin box on junk land is family unfriendly. It seems that once microwave ovens and flush toilets were invented, it became impossible for the human race to ever revert back to a time before there was frozen TV dinners. And, any sanitation disposal below a unit in a 500 square foot bathroom with granite countertops was primitive and unacceptable. How old are the people making these observations? Don’t they remember their childhood? Were they locked up in the attic, or were they normal kids? Kids pick and eat scabs for dinner and pick their nose for dessert. If you let them, they would be camping outside all summer long and their idea of taking a dump is squatting down and wiping and covering with leaves. If anything, crapping in a bucket, wiping with real toilet paper, and living in rigid walls rather than a pup tent would be an improvement. I had TV when I was a kid. It was black and white ( I ain’t that old, but my folks bought one inexpensive set with cash and it was still going strong twenty years later ) and we were allowed one hour a night in front of it, subject to disciplinary measures, with a few hours of Saturday cartoons. We had a game consol, a used Atari. I wasn’t too interested in it myself. We had the great outdoors and I spent as much time as I could in it. Camping out was great, camping out in my friends RV was fun. It was too crowded to live in it, we were playing around outside of it. Okay, granted, it was central California weather. But even on junk land you can build some add-ons to shelter the kids in inclement weather.

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Why do kids need a huge house to live in? So they drive their parents crazy with pleas of insane boredom? Throw the little bastards outside, it will do them some good. Even when we lived in Lake Tahoe, I was outside most of the winter, staying out until my feet were numb with cold. I think the true objection about moving the family to junk land is that the parents don’t want to live like that. Granted, you must play the “family protective services BS” game. You need electricity ( genie and solar ), running water ( gravity flow from a high tank or a 12v pump ) and whatever other luxuries the state considers a minimum before you are allowed to keep your children ( a blatant terror technique to conform everyone ). Don’t go on state assistance to keep interference to a minimum and learn your state law. Other than that, how hard is it to move the family off grid? Me thinks some protest too much.

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I’m aware that simple things become the new minimum standards and that can only be overcome by practice, discipline and a bit of hardship. 24 hour a day electricity in unlimited amounts isn’t a necessity. If you just scale back expectations marginally, the “sacrifice” is minimal if even noticeable. #4 bitched and complained constantly about the crap bucket, but I think if I could have had the place heated to 85 all winter it wouldn’t have bothered her. I can’t tell the difference other than not needing to flush by handle. You sit, do your business, get on with life. It ain’t the nightmare imagined. Okay, so I can’t watch TV anytime I want, or get on the Internet at home. That’s a bad thing? So I have to read more books. OOOhhhh!!!! The humanity. I’m not claiming junk land is for everyone, I’m saying to automatically disqualify that affordable option because of your precious darling sensitive spawn is a cop-out. And, no, I don’t think I have single bias. Family planning verses single person is just scaling up.

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