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Hard News: Notes in My Pocket, in reply to Hilary Stace,
That Justin Case wouldn’t get you far
It's very - non-specific eh? No saline drops for eyes, spare contact lens, lip balm, paracetamol & aspirin, minature 1m tape-measure, safety-pins,small notepad & pen, nail-clippers & Swiss Army manicure knife (not to mention Swiss Army card), and all the eftpos/credit cards, cash money, keys (vehicle & home sets) tide & moon watch, cellphone, iPod nano, multitool, tissues and decent LED tiny (but very bright) torches - they're on both sets of key-rings, o ...and other things!
Point being? It is a good idea to think about what you would essentially need if you suddenly found yourself in a situation where you have just what you are carrying on your person. Your personalised JustinCase...
O yeah - my Mitsubishi Delica Spacegear Jasper is also a survival capsule...come a tsunami and I can get out of Big O, I've got the gear to survive for at least a week without any contact with civilisation before starting to kill things for food...
This all isnt any kind of paranoia: it is a realistic response to what may & can & has happened in a remote area. To quote a person/motto (I dont have much time for the person or the movement) - "Be Prepared" Addendum - "It's better than being a burden to others or dead."
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to JacksonP,
Skyward astral snail!
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Muse: The Good Word, Bad Numbers and The…, in reply to Sacha,
Thanks Sasha. So -semi- illiterates destroying a word-meaning rather than being 'creative'? Pop-cult.
Some of the etomology given in that Wikipedia article is extremely suss- -
Muse: The Good Word, Bad Numbers and The…, in reply to Sacha,
Until recent times (the 1980s or thereabouts), the term was almost exclusively arms akimbo, with little involvement of the legs; it seems that it was first creatively used to describe sitting cross-legged. More recently, the term has been adapted still further, giving a second sense of limbs being splayed out rather than merely bent.
Reference please Sacha-
when well-established english words are sommersaulted into a non-sense meaning of what they are universally understood to mean , you have to wonder what is going on…
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Muse: The Good Word, Bad Numbers and The…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
nd I am really worried about the authoritarian streak I see in the current NZ government…
-showing up in hazard orange now, isnt it? And growing broader by the week-
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This an irrelevancy but sort of germane- one Michelle Duff, employed by Fairfax media, describes our latest Oscar winner as leaping “with legs akimbo and arms flung out.”
Choice! Wonderful example of journalistic ignorance of what words really mean-
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Hard News: Notes in My Pocket, in reply to JacksonP,
At home, I always have 4 blades to hand* - a tiny Swiss Army manicure knife; a Leatherman X6 Juice multitool that has 2 blades in it (serrated and plain), and my ancient trusty Mercator locking knife.
When travelling, I leave the Mercator at home...*Actually, I have many hundreds of blades ready to hand at home, because I collect knives and edged weapons.
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Hard News: Notes in My Pocket, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Ur, depends on the pocket, Hilary – or, in my case, 2 pockets in my trou, and 4 attachments to waistband thereof-would take a bit long to enumerate the contents thereof, and I’m not in a pissing contest anyway, but…they all make me feel equipped for a lot of possibilities and so, somenow/somewhen- safer?
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OnPoint: 195,508 people can't be that lazy, in reply to DexterX,
he tax cuts appear to have really kiciked in.
Yup
Or nope
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Hard News: That page doesn't exist ..., in reply to Paul Campbell,
perhaps “holystic” then?
Perhaps replace the 't' with a 'k' at the end of 'holysic' ? I know a lot of good stuff is done by religious organisations but the underlying ethos is always the same.