Experienced Outdoorsman from Glasgow – New Member

[fieldcraftman]

Hi all,

I’m Dobson, based in Glasgow, and I’ve recently joined Bushcraft UK to connect with others who share a serious interest in woodland skills and time spent outdoors.

I’ve been involved in bushcraft and outdoor living for a good while now, with a strong focus on practical field skills—firecraft in all conditions, shelter building using natural and minimal materials, and efficient camp setup for extended stays in the woods. I spend a fair amount of time in the Scottish outdoors, so I’m very familiar with dealing with wet conditions and adapting kit and techniques accordingly.

Foraging and plant identification are also ongoing interests of mine, particularly edible and medicinal species found in the UK, and I enjoy refining navigation skills using both map/compass and natural indicators when appropriate.

I’m always looking to exchange knowledge with others, especially when it comes to refining techniques, discussing kit choices that actually hold up in real field use, and learning different approaches people take to the same problems in the bush.

Looking forward to good discussions and maybe crossing paths out in the woods.

Cheers,
Dobson

 

[C_Claycomb]

Welcome. I am going to go out on a limb here for a compliment and say that that is one of the most impressive examples of AI writing I have seen used for an introduction. What prompts did you use?

 

[Toddy]

Awwww.

 

[Broch]

Mmm... it's not necessary to 'prompt' AI to get that kind of text out but just to ask it to turn something one has written into better grammar or a certain style. Not everyone has confidence in their written word and may feel they would like to have a little help. I would have given Dobson the chance to take part in some discussion before being so disparaging and, probably, putting him off any further participation.

But, on the other hand, you may be right

 

[C_Claycomb]

That was not me being disparaging. I didn't say it was bad that he used AI, just that it looked like AI.

If Dobson is who he says and all that he says is true, fantastic. If he shares how he wrote something that is structured and phrased to look like AI and multiple AI checkers show as 100% AI written (where the merely improved stuff is often rather a mixed score) then we will all learn something.

I would advise not to use AI because scammers do use it and if genuine members start using it then it will become that much harder to detect the scammers early on.

 

[StevieE]

I dont know why people are trying to hijack this website.

 

[Toddy]

I dont know why people are trying to hijack this website.

You would not believe the astonishing, and exasperating, range of spammers we have had over the years.
Leon and I once spent weeks clearing out a fellow who had literally thousand+ 'new member' user thing, hw was trying to push of all things, American football jerseys...
Thankfully the porn ones seem to be a thing of the past.
I'm not quite sure what IA wants from us; conversation perhaps ?

We could play a game with that.....we have every regional accent among us......we could just write as we speak ?

 

[Tengu]

Well, English Folk think I'm Welsh and Welsh folk think I'm English.

 

[Toddy]

....and I speak polite English, and broad Scots

My little brother took off one afternoon and signed up with the Army.....who promptly decided he had potential with explosives and radio communications.....he said that they knew the Russians were listening to their communications when in Germany on exercise, so they spoke broad Scots across the net.
"Hullo yin, this is twa, o'er", and even their Uni educated officers managed to understand and use it. Then they had an Aberdonian lad
The Navajo talkers in WW2, Ulster Irish, French patois from the southern port cities.....there is only the grammar of familiarity, slang and roots so widespread that it'll trip up those who have no 'in' with it.

We already use acronyms that confuse newbies at times, from FAK to BOB.....

 

[TeeDee]

Hi all,

I’m Dobson, based in Glasgow, and I’ve recently joined Bushcraft UK to connect with others who share a serious interest in woodland skills and time spent outdoors.

I’ve been involved in bushcraft and outdoor living for a good while now, with a strong focus on practical field skills—firecraft in all conditions, shelter building using natural and minimal materials, and efficient camp setup for extended stays in the woods. I spend a fair amount of time in the Scottish outdoors, so I’m very familiar with dealing with wet conditions and adapting kit and techniques accordingly.

Foraging and plant identification are also ongoing interests of mine, particularly edible and medicinal species found in the UK, and I enjoy refining navigation skills using both map/compass and natural indicators when appropriate.

I’m always looking to exchange knowledge with others, especially when it comes to refining techniques, discussing kit choices that actually hold up in real field use, and learning different approaches people take to the same problems in the bush.

Looking forward to good discussions and maybe crossing paths out in the woods.

Cheers,
Dobson

The only question that needs an answer.

Can you boil water in a boot?

 

[C_Claycomb]

Well, English Folk think I'm Welsh and Welsh folk think I'm English.

And the Scots?

 

[Nice65]

we could just write as we speak ?

Mind, pretty sure you already do that, ken?

 

[Toddy]

Ach, dinna fash.

We manage well enough to understand each other

I absolutely adore the richness of the languages of our British Isles, the accents, the way the words form and move with resolve, with emotion.

I am now profoundly deaf, but even deaf I can read, and when in person, see your words.....and seeing words lets people see us, see you.
It's an amazing thing is language It's so vital, so real, so full of culture and kin.

 

[Pattree]

I’ve just read a romance by someone called Kelsey McKnight.

She is very obviously American.

Her novels are set in the Highlands and among the Scottish nobility (as she sees it!)

The stories are good, well structured and fun but oh deary me.
She attempts to write dialogue with a brogue. Further, she doesn’t really understand Scottish idiom. It just doesn’t work.

Is it possible to write down dialect or patois successfully?

 

[Toddy]

If it's your own, then I don't see why not.

I think that's where IA fails; it's not 'real', iimmc ? it's a smoothie mix of bland.