That Ikea do a very nice line in hobo stoves, and that if you must baton with your knife, make sure you keep it to yourself. Oh and never start a thread that invites a comparison between BG and RM.
What have you learned since being on the forum?
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Come along to the amazing Summer Moot (21st July - 2nd August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
There's every chance that when you meet those same people in person you'll get on just fine.
Grown men on the internet are far more emotionally delicate than......well.....anything else I can think of at all
Its not just in here but every forum I'm a member of.
I am a senior mod on HPOC.co.uk and we get more than our fair share of drama queens! Some of the things we have to sort out behind the scenes is laughable at times. I have seen me stopping up all night to sort out issues with members who insist on forming multiple accounts and running amok because the read a comment out of context and spat the dummy.
With reference to the dislike comment, 3 years ago I had a chap hunt me out at a club meet as he was going to give me a piece of his mind because I was doing my job on the forum and he took it personally. When we met he was shocked I was a 39 year old bloke with a long beard. He was expecting a 17 year old spotty teenager! After the initial introduction and a laugh we got on fine and are now good mates.
Personally I think this is an excellent forum and its made great, partly by the people, and partly by the mods. You lot do a great job of keeping the peace and making sure we are in line with the rules. My hat comes off to you for this thankless task!!
I am a senior mod on HPOC.co.uk and we get more than our fair share of drama queens! Some of the things we have to sort out behind the scenes is laughable at times. I have seen me stopping up all night to sort out issues with members who insist on forming multiple accounts and running amok because the read a comment out of context and spat the dummy.
With reference to the dislike comment, 3 years ago I had a chap hunt me out at a club meet as he was going to give me a piece of his mind because I was doing my job on the forum and he took it personally. When we met he was shocked I was a 39 year old bloke with a long beard. He was expecting a 17 year old spotty teenager! After the initial introduction and a laugh we got on fine and are now good mates.
Personally I think this is an excellent forum and its made great, partly by the people, and partly by the mods. You lot do a great job of keeping the peace and making sure we are in line with the rules. My hat comes off to you for this thankless task!!
You can't hear intonation and emotion in most of the written replies.
Patience is a very good thing.
There's always someone out to do themselves a good turn.
There are always hundreds who would do others a good turn first
Not everyone will like you, regardless of how courteous or helpful you may be.
Minds are like parachutes; they function very well indeed when open.
A secret is only a secret when no one else knows it.
atb,
M
So true
I tend to speak my mind when necessary, and my intent is occasionally misconstrued. As a mod on another forum this can lead to misunderstandings. As you say, the internet doesn't suit everyone, so it's good to see so many meets and friendships being formed here. It's the way forward.
We can all sit on the sofa and type, link, quote etc, but there's nothing like being out and doing it.
Freezing our nuts off, hungry, in need of a wee, fire's gone out, hip flask empty, sleeping bag failing...
I have learned that there a great many kind and generous people, a few folk who seem to be intent on stirring things, a great many who get on with it and say little, a few who do little and say a great deal, a great many who I will never meet, a few I see on a regular basis, a great many that I have warmed to, a few I would rather not meet .... a bit like life really!
You forgot there's some folk that like to send you lots of pink things
Look closer - they are mentioned....
Elen Sentier
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Elen Sentier
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Go out with friends ... watch and listen and enjoy
Ask for help when you need it.
Avoid bushcraft courses !!!
Ask for help when you need it.
Avoid bushcraft courses !!!
The joy of hammocking, a spoon knife will carve a thumb just as easy as it'll carve a spoon, a PLUQ is easy to make and rather warm, you can never have too many sharps, just because a man is big burly and bearded; does not mean he doesn't love pink (sporks)......and probably a lot more 
Elen Sentier
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Even though sometimes, you see avatars, pics, vids etc, when you actually meet members in the flesh so to speak, they are still very different from the above!
Never mind accents! But to be honest i have probably met more BCUK members than most (apart from the moot of course) and nobody i mean nobody! Has disappointed me (possibly one) Maybe it's because we all have a common interest.
I have said this before (more than once!) I have grown up in a small moorland town, so sort of know everybody, one way or another(most of my business interests have been people based)
But since being involved in bushcraft/wild camping i have met some of the most amazing people in my 50 years on this planet! People i would call true friends, some i have only met once or twice, yet feel more at home with them more than people i have known all my life (common interest again, maybe?)
So, going back to the OP! Oh yeah that was me, without this forum, i would never have met those incredible folks and for that i am eternally grateful, and that is not Wilson bullsh1t!
Ivan...
Never mind accents! But to be honest i have probably met more BCUK members than most (apart from the moot of course) and nobody i mean nobody! Has disappointed me (possibly one) Maybe it's because we all have a common interest.
I have said this before (more than once!) I have grown up in a small moorland town, so sort of know everybody, one way or another(most of my business interests have been people based)
But since being involved in bushcraft/wild camping i have met some of the most amazing people in my 50 years on this planet! People i would call true friends, some i have only met once or twice, yet feel more at home with them more than people i have known all my life (common interest again, maybe?)
So, going back to the OP! Oh yeah that was me, without this forum, i would never have met those incredible folks and for that i am eternally grateful, and that is not Wilson bullsh1t!
Ivan...
Blooming heck! Filterhouse, i should have waited, you basically said what i mean't, without going all around the houses.
Regards.
Ivan...
