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    Bushcraft and homesteading skills in WW3

    i never had any issues with creepy-crawlies and maintained a safe distance to croc-suspicious water -- the main issue were two-legged predators and they're only around civilization (and not out bush); the oldest surviving culture on the planet are the Aborigines
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    Plans for 2026

    i've been told more than once i look like Gandalf/ Moses/ the local mountain god (in south korea) and once an old cuban guy who knew Fidel Castro and Che Guevara personally (according to his claim and i daresay he wasn't bovine excrementing me) told me i looked like Leonid Trotsky...
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    Plans for 2026

    if i could go where i wanted i'd beat the roadrunner heading for the centre of the universe (commonly called "Australia"), but sadly that won't happen... i DEFINITELY NOT would want to go back to europe, but "thanks" to dual citizenship they couldn't kick me out...
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    Plans for 2026

    the funds to start new somewhere else (sadly not happening anytime soon :-( )
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    Plans for 2026

    facial hair...
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    An Iron Age sew kit.

    please forgive my lack of knowledge, but what's their exact function?
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    Plans for 2026

    getting out of costa pobre is my wish, although i doubt lack of funds will make it happen... (i quit my job as a tour guide just before christmas: despite being peak season i did not get ont tour in 2months (unlike all the other guides working for this company) and the supervisor's endless...
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    Tiny little hatchet or tomahawk….suggestions?

    sorry for going somewhat off-topic, but how good is their quality?(currently i don't lack the funds but maybe one day in the future... iirc one of my workmates bought one when i worked in Japan 10years ago (for forestry work)...)
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    Buschcraft, fishing and PTSD

    not "could" -- "how much" is the correct phrasing :P
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    Xmas Knife!

    somewhere i read that the flowers are edible, in some areas Native Americans used it for bows and the timber is rather rot-resistant, which means in the olden days it was used to make wooden "nails" for ships... (sorry for going off-topic)
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    Tiny little hatchet or tomahawk….suggestions?

    not a hatchet in the european sense, but i'd suggest a nata (silky f.i. has several sizes)
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    A white Christmas anyone ?

    if it snows here in the caribbean i'd have another problem on my list...
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    Is Die Hard really a Christmas film?

    i'll ask my friend the Grinch tonight when we discuss the final details of this year's battle strategy against the 300pound alcoholic in the red suit...
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    Is Die Hard really a Christmas film?

    maybe you should ask Bruce Willis directly :P , it's a long time since i sae "die hard", but iirc there's a scene where Bruce Willis stuffs the first dead terrorist in an elevator with note "now i've got a machine pistol - ho, ho, ho!" (and a santa hat ?!)... imho the christmas episode of the...
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    Curaçao (South Caribbean)

    calabash trees are common around my present location (costa rican caribbean coast), too -- the indigenous people used them quite extensively in the past but i didn't know about the shampoo and coughing syrup: do you have by chance and infos on how to make them?! and there's even a nearby place...
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    Bushcraft and homesteading skills in WW3

    reminds me of a pic i once saw: a NASA robot lands on some alien planet with two of the aliens watching and one asking the other: "do we have any oil?!"
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    Bushcraft and homesteading skills in WW3

    it was a long time ago i heard this statement, so thanks for correcting me :-) generally spoken wars will continue for as long as some scumbags make money from it.... (and 'strangely' the countries/ governments who are complaining the loudest about others are those who aren't any better than...
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    Kydex sheaths & Webbing belt loop ?

    how would you shape the pvc to match the sheath?! (i wear my sheath in a different style - see post #2 -- but in case i'd decide one day to go back to belt carry your idea would be a solution for me
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    Bushcraft and homesteading skills in WW3

    Albert Einstein was once asked what weapons humans would use in his opinion in ww3 -- he replied "i don't know, but in ww4 we'll be using clubs and slings again..."
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    Man made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously known…

    reminds me of a scene from "demolition man", where a woman asks john spartan "what would you do if i'd call you a neanderthal?" (meant as an offence) and he replies "thank you, maybe?!"...