The definition of survival has changed

[jackcbr]

In my day survival meant an extreme situation that could be life threatening. Often that would also mean not having much kit, however there where a few bits of kit you could carry that would give surviving a fighting chance. Some would say the one bit of kit that meant the difference between surviving and not was a knife, others would say a form of starting a fire or a piece of clothing.

Well whilst surfing tonight I came across the latest bits of survival kit that will tip the balance of life and death in your favour. Oh how the world had changed in just a few years.

Must be a very different world now.

 

[spandit]

Dental health is very important in a survival situation - what's wrong with that?

 

[Retired Member southey]

A label used to grab search engine results s not a definition of a thing.

 

[Toddy]

...............we use different colours to tell everyone's apart. Could be tricky that.

I like the look of that spice tub thingie. Do you think it'd fit inside a Christmas Cracker ? HWMBLT could use that camping

Pretty sad day when 'survival' depends on possession of a spice tub though, even if it 'does' have three compartments

cheers,
M

 

[Toddy]

Just had a look at the site..........4lts (that's less than a gallon) of paraffin is £14.99!!!!!........and they'll no' post it to you for that either :shocked:

M

 

[Steffen]

i had a spice tub thingie once, and it looked exactly like the one in the picture.
it measured about 3x6cm(taken from memory)

 

[v8mule]

In my oppinion survival ain't fun if it is then your camping

 

[redandshane]

[QUOnE=v8mule;1184711]In my oppinion survival ain't fun if it is then your camping[/QUOTE]
Wigam must be a bad place
Lets not go there

 

[Toddy]

In my opinion survival ain't fun if it is then your camping

I'm going to remember that one

Thank you Steffen that'd fit
I'm just a bit fed up with the dodgy screw driver set and 60cm inch tape things that they put in men's crackers. I was trying to find a couple of wee useful things to put in each of them.
Sorry for the thread divert jackcbr

cheers,
Toddy

 

[cbr6fs]

In my oppinion survival ain't fun if it is then your camping

Surely survival is simply not dying?

 

[v8mule]

Surely survival is simply not dying?

Agreed but if your enjoying yourself its not survival, survival is the fight to stay alive we learn the art of survival with our bushcraft, hunting/trapping but we're never really surviving we're just living

 

[cbr6fs]

Agreed but if your enjoying yourself its not survival, survival is the fight to stay alive we learn the art of survival with our bushcraft, hunting/trapping but we're never really surviving we're just living

Odd way of looking at things.


I think if you go to bed and rest your head on your pillow at night then you've done a great job and survived another day.
If you had fun doing it all the better.

 

[santaman2000]

Agreed but if your enjoying yourself its not survival, survival is the fight to stay alive....

But what if fighting to stay alive is fun in and of itself?

 

[santaman2000]

Just had a look at the site..........4lts (that's less than a gallon) of paraffin is £14.99!!!!!........

.Depends on where you are; 4 liters is a little MORE than a gallon here. But agreed that price is too high.

 

[Toddy]

I forgot your gallons were smaller than ours. We sort of estimate 5litres to the gallon when adding it up. You don't want to know what a gallon of petrol costs us

cheers,
M

 

[santaman2000]

LOL. You're right; to be honest I don't even want to know what a gallon costs us.

 

[woof]

But the spice thingy does have 3 compartments...

Rob

 

[xylaria]

I got a three compartment spice container from home bargins baby eisle. 99p in tactical SAS pink.

 

[Bushwhacker]

But what does "bushcraft" mean to you........?

 

[veeraksanaveerak]

Hahaha... if im in a survival situation for sure, brushing my teeth would be the last thing i'd wanna think about. Same goes for shaking anything out of a spice shaker.

For me, survival is about having and committing the an attitude of "I swear it, I will not die here or today!"

But then, maybe what I call a blissful camping night in the jungle, Justin Bieber would call it a survival experience.

Cheers!