On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 11:04:46 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:

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.

Oh well, he'll soon enough contradict himself to match the knocks,
assuming he hasn't already. He seems to be unable to grasp the
contradiction between the $75 an hour black tie talk, and dumpster
scrounging.

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.

Not many supporting him these days though. Some of the RCM
knuckledraggers were Okay with 2 decades of deadbeatitis, but had to
draw the line when it stretched out to three in real time.

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.

Too bad attitude isn't legal currency. Then some of these dolts
wouldn't be discussing their scrounged computers and crappy Internet
connections. I had to chuckle when I read a complaint about the high
price of multitools. An astronomical 60 bucks or some such. A new
measure of low-end retirement. Meanwhile, I am the Warren Buffett
of multitool purchasing apparently. I carry an expensive one, and when
it broke I though nothing about buying a second one to use while
waiting for the first to be repaired... for free of course, because
that's how Warren would handle it.

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 threats are crazy enough, but the absurdity goes into another
dimension when Wieber complains bitterly that folks are mean to him,
except when he's boasting about how much he enjoys folks being mean to
him.

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.

Many more are serious about stuff like that. If not quite dumb enough
to talk about it outright, more than dumb enough to make it obvious
from their comments.

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.

.... but fun to read sometimes. The variations on Hillary bashing are
the best, but soon to be overtaken by JFK stuff it appears.