ansel12 what I see is a person more worried about someone using a word than if your fellows are prepared for whats coming. All your brag about how a great and experienced prepper you are, but after researching your posting history I could not find one instant where you posted a article on preparedness or survival. I couldn’t fine one instant where you ever contributed one iota, one idea, one comment using of your ‘vast knowledge of survival/preparedness’ in an effort to teach, assist promote or even discuss survival/preparedness.
Yet you have written reams about the use of the term SHTF. I would point out that you yourself used the spelled ‘s’ word more in your post than most people use it in a year’s worth of their speech.
The article of the thread was about the real world experience someone who has been through a period of social/governmental/financial breakdown. Such knowledge is invaluable to anyone preparing themselves for such an event.
It is near the same as a new boot arriving in theater being told by a vet to “Forget about what they think they know and listen to me and you might just stay alive.”
This article provided just that type of firsthand knowledge. Can you provide the equivalent?
Would you prevent such knowledge from being relayed because they use rough language. My goal is to keep people alive you goal is to clean-up some language in the great scheme of things which do you conceder the greater goal?
Now can you point out anywhere were you logical discussed the subject of the post that of the best stratagem for saying safe and surviving such a break down? Can you show where you used your vast experience and knowledge to analyze what the author did and then provide an intelligent critique of his actions? Or of the situation or of Preparedness/Survival in general.
No what you did was to highjack a thread and turn it into your own personal soapbox while provide nothing of benefit on the subject of the thread.
You say we need to write these author and convince them not to use the term. I ask you now how many of them have you written to? Me I will continue to comb the net and provide as much valuable information as I can to my fellow Freepers so that they and their families might survive.
I wish you well in your efforts to save them from fowl language, meanwhile I will continue mine to keep them alive.
You can always preface your posts with "eat $h1+ ansel12", and then proceed with posting something relevant, as if the fly in the room were not here.
Apparently JR approves of his behavior, just don't let a fly get in the way of your mission.
The view from the cheap seats.
I see someone who has WAAAYYY too much time on his hands.
ansel12, if you want to make this your raison d'être, you're going to have to carry that banner alone. The rest of us have more important things to worry about, the TSHTF, at which point, the language usage is going to be the LEAST of your worries.
Ah fowl language! I have never understood a word that those birds said. snort))));)
Seriously, WTH is the deal with Shiite?
Effluent Hits the Fan? Not enough umph.
Crap hits the fan?
Codswallop hits the fan? Whatever that means. It sounds nastier.
Dung hits the fan? Dung Zhoau Ping ...Maybe.
Yuh All gotta be kidding me. The word Shiite finds it etymology in the Germanic languages and has been around in the written languages for some 600 years?
Pretty sure it was around even longer than that but some dude by the name of Gutenberg made it possible to print a whole bunch of crap that previously had to be written by scribe toads who spent their days with a Quill and some parchment writing bunk that only the elite and erudite wizards of the Feudal age could read.
I’ve actually heard people in or from Europe use the following terms schite or scheisse(See hot chick from Bourne Identity)
This whole moral indignation and petty piousness smells like...well, you can guess.
The world ain’t all roses out here and the parts that are come with thorns and if you get pricked(can we use that word?) hard enough, one might express their pain with “Shiite!”. Which is not to say what the fertilizer is made of.
Can we correctly use the word “Shit” when making compost? Or is this just a bunch of manure?
We should all stop acting like mushrooms and pretending everyone should fit your moral ideal or that SHTF stuff won’t happen....it does, all the time.
I have been in floods and tornadoes when I lived in Oklahoma, even hail storms. One hail storm, in particular, had hail as large as gold balls, stuff was breaking everywhere and barely got my car into a concrete parking garage as I watched in amazement the damage being done to everything.
Scared the Shiite out me but, I was situationally aware and prepared, having heard of the possible danger on the news.
So I had planned my safety that day on the possibility that this even would occurr and it did.
Another time, I missed the riots of San Francisco by 10 minutes. I had already been a little amp’d by going to L.A. a day before to find a friend, who I was worried might have been caught up in their mess.
So I quickly assessed from which direction the mobs where coming to Pier 39 and I beat street the opposite end of Embarcadero.
Turned on the radio to listen to the destruction going on by these miscreants.
Still, there have been other times I have snowed in, while in my car. I was prepared my friend wasn’t but he was damn glad I had everything covered.
Why, just last night I had to move some things and was glad to have 150 ft of paracord and some nifty Nite Ize Figure 9 Carabiners to make securing my load(not my crap, well the stuff is ..mostly but my belongings) easier.
I was able to exert force on the ropes easily without resorting to some fancy rope work and I wouldn’t have been able to pull so hard and tie quickly due to torn rotator cuff.
When disaster strikes it ain’t no time for moralizing or being prissy, pious poosies.
You don’t want any Shiite in your way or even some dumb Shiite who can’ figure out how to move or won’t listen to you as you give orders that might save their life. Some times people are scared Shiiteless and that’s okay.
That’s why there people like us out here to save some sorry ass who can’t get his Shiite together or didn’t do Shiite to prepare for what will absolutely happen:
Regional disasters.
Storm related disasters.
travel disasters.
Earthquake disasters.
medical disasters.
Etc, Etc, Etc....
Don’t get caught with your Shiite hanging out and unprepared.
Get your act and your Shiite together and prepare.
After all, you do prepare for dinner each evening because dinner is going happen just as surely as there will be a SHTF.
Actually if you go through my posting history you will find quite a few posts of mine on the preparedness threads over the years, in my case, I have been at it so long that I pretty well have seen it all a 1000 times, I already own so many books, and so much gear associated with it and now only look for the occasional new piece of info related to a technique or gear.
The excerpt from the article was removed for some reason, I think that says something.
The electric fan was invented 126 years ago, the saying is nothing new to anyone,I’m not interested in individuals using it among themselves, (although it is growing quite dated).
To start adopting it as the name of our movement, to use it in our publications which are a permanent body of work, to make it a formal part of our public self description is new, and I can’t believe that any conservative would be fighting tooth and nail to defend taking that deliberate action.
Keep’em coming, Kart. Always interesting posts. Much appreciated.
...You’re never gonna please everybody.
Mega-dittos !
When the atm doesn’t work anymore, when your car won’t start in the middle of nowhere, when the grocery shelves are empty, when the water is undrinkable, when the air is unbreathable, when the crops are rotting in the ground I don’t think we’ll be worrying about “shit” other than where to bury it.
CHICKEN!