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    The end of RICE

    I get uncontrollable "vehicular tourettes" which is why I stick to motorcycles.
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    Suffolk Bushcraft Group

    http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb-hist.html
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    The end of RICE

    Did a lot of sport to a high level for much of my life (Judo, Rugby, Sabre fencing, Kung Fu). There's a place for Ice and compression but it depends on what you want out of the treatment. If the injury was too severe to allow you to continue playing, then, for me anyway, Icing was generally a...
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    camp coffee?

    http://www.gsioutdoors.com/products/pdp/javagrind or just reuse a pepper mill. PS: The Hario Hand cranked grinders get great reviews
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    Stainless Edge Pro Apex-style sharpener on Ebay - anyone tried it?

    I know some people who've received what they've ordered, and I know some people who now advise to steer well clear. In as much as there is some (not a lot) protection from e-bay/paypal for stuff from China, there's even less from ali-express. PS. The import duty rules changed last year 6% Duty...
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    What to put on the fire to deter mosquitos?

    I wouldn't want to be breathing in the smoke though. Because I vape instead of smoke these days and because insects don't like nicotine, I've used the glycerine/nicotine juice from e-cigs as a repellant and it works remarkably well and doesn't melt plastic like deet.
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    Which food safe oil is best to use?

    Commonly used "drying" oils include linseed oil, tung oil, poppy seed oil, perilla oil, and walnut oil. Because drying/hardening oils rely on oxidation, they tend to be susceptible to going rancid. Many drying oils (including "boiled" Linseed Oil) will have the addition of metal salts or naptha...
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    The women are revolting

    Maybe the show is racist as well, after all it contains no kalahari bushpersons, no headhunters from borneo, no amazonian forest dwellers or any other "indigenous people" for whom survival is a way of life rather than a hobby. You can also guarantee the men will be selected for having no...
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    Beard Facts

    The only reason I shave is because I'm worried some farmer will shoot me if I stray too close to his cattle
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    How to filter heavy metals and arsenic from stream water?

    Distillation is the only sure way, but then somehow you have to put the "flavour" back into the water.
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    "This year i want to..." Homesteading.

    Big difference between a rooster crowing and the noises hens make at dawn. Or when they've just laid, or when they're sorting out pecking order/space on a roost. A rooster crowing will have the whole block complaining, not just your next door neighbours. And roosters do go on and on, pretty much...
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    "This year i want to..." Homesteading.

    Which side of the leylandii did the rooster lay eggs?
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    What's in your hip flask?

    got to be Green Spot, surely? Although I'd most likely have either my sloe gin or one of my cousins home brewed >60% palinka's. (Apricot or Black Cherry, perferably)
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    Fondue anyone?

    Fondue is not cheese sauce........ (sticking up for the Swiss, here. Seeing as they'd likely stay neutral) well it is, just made with 50/50 emmental and gruyere and cut with kirsch and a little white wine. Price is not that surprising if made with authentic ingedients and then freeze dried.
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    Woodland Game thats fair game?

    Pheasant is excellent for "cutting" the taste of rabbit (if, like me, you're not too fond of that slightly bitter aftertaste). Pheasant, venison & rabbit makes a great game pie mix. Pheasant stock makes a super tasty soup with an onion, a carrot and some parsley root, a sprig of tarragon gives...
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    Dilicious food / no supplies. Is it possible?

    Hungarian meat rub equal parts of Cumin, Hungarian Paprika, Salt, Pepper All the flavourings spices you'll ever need in your essential kit
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    Farm Foods

    That sounds distinctly like contamination. No healthy mussel shell is transparent.
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    The Girls demonstrate the miraculous effects of Human Diesel Coffee

    There's a thing called asafoetida used in indian and middle eastern cooking, which imparts body to vegetable dishes and counteracts the wind produced from beans & pulses. A little goes a long way.
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    Tents, two Man, budget of £100. Recommend me one!

    +1 I have a vango atlas 200 which takes a double air mattress and not much else (maybe a 1 ft strip at the end). It does have the windbreak shelters outside, though. I bought it for its small pack size (Fits in my topbox along with the mattress, pump, sleeping bag and braai griddles) but it...
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    The 'Bug Out Bag' and the 'INCH' Bag

    Hi vis vest, hard hat and clipboard will get you in almost anywhere I never really took much interest in BOBs etc. until the big snows. Now I have OBTCBD and OBTBBD (motorcycle) kits