Posted on 01/25/2015 8:57:51 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
My dearest wish is to one day have the pleasure of living in a small cabin in the frigid wilderness. There I will spend my nights covered in heavy wool blankets, eating smoked fish and dried fruit. Over time, my beard will grow to the point where I’ll be indistinguishable from a medium-sized woodland creature. The villagers I’ll come to know during my rare visits to town will call me “the wolfman,” not least because I will communicate solely by howling and scratching out messages with my clawlike fingernails. For now, I live in a big city, where such unconventional grooming habits are frowned upon, but I make a point of using very little heat.
I’ve suffered for living the no-heat lifestyle.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
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Up in the Mountains is the place to be!!
The concept of “whatever floats your boat” comes into play here.
Green Acres is the place to be...
Better give up on that tap water and indoor toilets, too.
I’m sitting here waiting for a storm and praying we don’t lose power and you post this ??????????????
:-)
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Yeah but you just know their setting the stage for freezing us out “for our own good”...
I get allergic smelling ice.
You don’t really live longer in colder wilderness climates, it just seems like it.
Sounds like he wants to look like Howard Hughes.
... Wait.. No I won't.
We have seen this before.
‘Zackly!!!!
Forget it.
I want to be warm, not all those other things, - allegedly.
OK...
God forgive me, I wasted a few precious minutes of this life that He has given me reading that dreadful, self-indulgent article.
The author is dreadfully neruotic.
Is “ Reihan Salam” a him, a her, or an it?
Slate magazine caters to the crowd who think that society would be more fair if we each lived at the expense of everyone else, and that everyone must obey our wise overlords. If our wise overlords think you will be more healthy if your house is kept at 50 degrees in the winter, that is what everyone will have. If you disagree, then government won’t pay for your health care like they promised they would.
It’s a him.
“My dearest wish is to one day have the pleasure of living in a small cabin in the frigid wilderness. There I will spend my nights covered in heavy wool blankets, eating smoked fish and dried fruit.”
I suspect if he did get his wish, he would find, in the words of Mr. Spock “having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting.”
Meaning this twerp would probably bear up in the frigid wilderness worse Joel Fleischmann did in the first season of Northern Exposure (remember that show?)
As for turning the heat down, talk to the White House first. They’re the ones who told us we can’t keep our thermostats at 72 anymore, but crank theirs up to 76...
Don't bother trying to convince me to keep the A/C off during the summer though. ;)
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