On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 07:06:58 -0700, Hell Broke Luce
wrote:

On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:35:57 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:

On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 15:23:24 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 14:50:49 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

Nope. But it's hilarious to contrast your dumpster diving with your
claimed skills.

One precludes the other? Really?


https://www.google.com/search?q=dump...utf-8&oe=utf-8

Only thing Ive not found in a dumpster so far are guns.

WTF? You told me how good the half-eaten Big Macs were, that you
pulled from a Dumpster, a decade ago.

The only questions are, was he lying then, or is he lying now, or did
he lie both times?

"So I went dumpster diving. And I sat in a house with no gas or
electricity and ate my dumpster food, and shared it with my dogs and
cats. We all were happy to have food. For two weeks."
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...ddd7a2af9e6173

Now he says he only gets guns from dumpsters.

To be fair, he said that guns are the only things he's *not* found in
dumpsters. I initially missed that, too.

However, whenever he brings up dumpsters (should be capitalized,
because it's a trade name, but what the hell...), I remember that
genuinely absurd string of tales, and some numbnuts who defended
Gunner by swooning over the quality of strawberry shortcake he finds
in dumpsters himeself. Gunner attracts some real nutcases who support
him.

But what's a $75 an hour
guy doing in dumpsters in the first place? The fantasies of
Wieberworld never make any sense. What does make sense is that Wieber
knows all the best dumpsters from which to rescue crap he can take
home or to the scrapyard. Jibes perfectly with the observable facts of
his subsistence lifestyle, need for charity, and decades of debt.

It looks like you're still locked into facts, logic and common sense.
In terms of reading their posts, I've moved on. Most of the
discussions in the survivalist NGs, which includes Gunner and all of
their cross-postings here, are a window into the new tribalism, where
truth and civility are meaningless, where insults are the favored
currency, and where attitude is everything.

I've joked about posting and reading in alt.survival about taking
notes for cultural anthropology g, but really, that's all that's
worth the time -- getting some insights into what's happened to
thought and fact-finding. It's pretty disturbing, but it's less
disorienting than wondering why it's considered acceptable to threaten
others' lives over political disagreements.

The real neck-snapper for me occurred a few years ago, when Larry, who
generally is pretty mild-mannered, suggested that we should threaten
elected representatives with guns if they don't adhere to policies
that amount to those of the Tea Party. I really couldn't believe it
and I asked him a couple of times is he was serious. He said he was.

Aside from the people who really are here to discuss metalworking (a
dwindling number), most of the rest -- and, numerically, most are
cross-posters from the nutbag NGs -- really are nuts.

--
Ed Huntress