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...you see the letters GB and instead of thinking, "Great Britain," you think "Gransfors Bruks"!
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Any others?
NickBristol
25-02-2004, 11:41
...you fancy a cup of coffee so you set up your tinder, your fuel, pull out your firesteel and knife, make a nice little pot hanger, fill your saucepan from your water bottle and only remember you're in the office when the fire alarms start going off and your colleagues are looking at you funny... :oops:
MartiniDave
25-02-2004, 11:54
You set out for an afternoons pigeon shooting, but instead of a hide you construct a rather nice lean-to shelter!
Dave
Your pockes are filled with birch bark, cotton wool, penknives and fungi samples!
There is no more room in your house and have to move - even though it is about knowing more and carrying less.
You end up buying a Land Rover.
You take holiday from work and pay good money to learn how to sleep rough.
You start clogging up the washing machine with bits of tree.
The Cramp Ball that you have drying out on your shelf at home bursts open and covers everything in little brown specks.
You spend too much money at Amazon.
You spend too much time on the internet :wink:
Happened to you too, eh? :rolmao: :o):
The Cramp Ball that you have drying out on your shelf at home bursts open and covers everything in little brown specks.
C_Claycomb
25-02-2004, 13:26
you have a bucket with nettle fibre, or spoon shavings next to the couch to have something to do while watching TV.
Fungi drying on radiators. But I did that before I had hear of bushcraft :-?
you have water proofed the bath by treating your Swann Dri in it.
MartiniDave
25-02-2004, 13:41
You try to use you BCUK user name to log on to the network at work.
You buy your wife a nice knife & firesteel.
You can't lift your coat because of all the kit in the pockets.
You're willing to go to the garden centre, but when you get there you sneak off to look at axes, bow saws etc.
You take your Swanndri in a rucksack to the beach on the hottest day in August, just in case!
jamesdevine
25-02-2004, 14:06
Wishing Birch Bark was legal tinder. Sorry tender (JT).
Who need the Lotto?
James
you set out to buy some t-shirts and come home with a stove, whistle, stuffsack, tick tweezers and NO t-shirts ! :roll:
NickBristol
25-02-2004, 14:27
Have any of you also noticed that whenever you do go into a shop, you look at everything in the context of being able to use it for bushcraft?
you get known in place or work/school for been able to do whatever is needed with the contents of you pockets. be it ligfhting a bunsum burner or cutting anything up.
you sharpen your pencil and make a hook for something.
when one of your internet mates sends you a box with a flint 'n' steel kit, you don't get time to open the box till lunch, and end up giving a quick demo on the theory of flint firelighting in the works canteen.
then you discover that smouldering tinder fungus is very difficult to extinguish, people start asking who's burning jossticks, and what's the bag of brown stuff? it's not what it looks like, honest! :shock: :lol:
cheers,and.
Whe you and your partner have a romantic walk through a woodland and you mentally "measure up" the gaps between the trees to see if your Hennessey will fit :-D
MartiniDave
26-02-2004, 08:31
You post a message to your bushcraft mates, most of whoom you've only met on a forum, to tell'em you've got a new axe!
Sorry Maddave, couldn't resist that one. Enjoy the SFA.
Dave :lol:
You post a message to your bushcraft mates, most of whoom you've only met on a forum, to tell'em you've got a new axe!
Sorry Maddave, couldn't resist that one. Enjoy the SFA.
Dave :lol:
:rolmao: :lol: "Git!"
MartiniDave
26-02-2004, 15:23
Touche! :rolmao: :super:
:o\: ..when you return from the hospital with a 3rth set of stitches within a year. :o\:
Hello Everybody!
-Emile
...you take your firesteel into the kitchen to light the gas...
...and remember just a little bit too late that your cooker runs on electricity
ditchfield
27-02-2004, 21:46
It takes 10 minutes to negotiate your way across your bedroom floor between tarps, knifes, stoves and books and when you get tho the other side your feet are covered in wood shavings. :-D
Justin Time
27-02-2004, 22:58
Hey Pete
Whatcha doin' in my bedroom?
My response to "You know you're into Bushcraft too much when..." is that every possible answer I can give actually sounds quite reasonable. :shock:
Forgot one from earlier :-D
You know that you are in to bushcraft when you lend the people staying round your house some sleeping bags, and have to apologise and shake out the leaf-litter.
:lol:
...your entire house smells of woodsmoke..... but you only notice when you go into other peoples home and think to yourself hmmm smells different here :-D
:-D :-D :-D
...your entire house smells of woodsmoke..... but you only notice when you go into other peoples home and think to yourself hmmm smells different here :-D
When your neighbour knocks on the door whilst your working on your latest bow :-x and then asks if you saw someone removing a large part of the ash tree in her garden! :lol:
.............. When your computer passwords are one or more of the following:-
grannyb
woodlore
lapppuukko
bushcraftiscool
gransforsbruks
tinderbox
hennesseyhammock
hoochie
firesteel
whosnickedmysfa
:shock:
jamesdevine
01-04-2004, 13:23
I didn't realise that I was that pradictable.
:oops:
...when your credit card statement is two pages long and all the items listed are from sporting goods stores or knife dealers. :shock:
When you'd rather be in the forest than watch wales generally beating most teams at football, (sorry, couldnt resist).
Oh yes...and when you feel akward if you dont have a plaster on your finger.
When you dont feel *right* if you dont have your WS and firesteel in your bag.
Justin Time
01-04-2004, 23:33
So Jake
Next time I'm in Cardiff I'll pop into your shop and look out for the guy with the plaster....
MartiniDave
02-04-2004, 08:26
When you're at a party and they play Black Lace, you start to sing
AAAAAAA-MMMMMM-AAAAAAAAAA DO DO DO...
AAAAAAA-MMMMMM-AAAAAAAAAA DO DO DO...
that was baaad. :lol:
(david attenborough voice) "now, we can just hear the mating call of the lightly intoxicated bushcrafter..."
8-)
cheers, and.
Bad - poor fellow needs shooting just for thinking of the push pineapple shake the tree song .............. mmmmmmm wonder what type of tree? :shock:
when you lite a bunfire at work with feather sticks and then get the billycan on for a brew :lol:
So Jake
Next time I'm in Cardiff I'll pop into your shop and look out for the guy with the plaster..
:rolmao:
Thats the way, or if its a match day, the guy with his ear against the radio.
mmmmmmm wonder what type of tree?
:rolmao:
Cheers,
Jake
bushwacker bob
03-04-2004, 01:05
you have left your lighter at home and desperately need to light a cigarette, you strip bark from a handy birch tree and spark it with a fire steel just to light a fag! and I was only in the back garden! :oops: doh
I just practised feather sticks to light my fire...there was firelighters at hand.
You know you're into BushcraftUK too much when ... you PM your family to wish them goodnight! :lol: :o):
donkeyporge
05-04-2004, 01:24
When you’re known to your friends as "the person who can find food where there is none!
I need a bacon sarnie now at 1.30 in the morning.....sheesh!
RAPPLEBY2000
11-04-2004, 01:36
...when you can not ever, ever, go for a quick walk in the woods, my walks even 10 min jobs always involve a basha and drinks kit! :roll:
when you cannot walk past a river/sea without wanting to build a fishing dam.
when friends joke about making coffee from any plant!
when you have 2 wardrobes 1 full to the brim with outdoor gear the other for my wife an I's clothes.
RAPPLEBY2000
11-04-2004, 01:43
:-)
just thought of another...
when you are a student on a "Diploma in outdoor activities" course and are more interested in......
Valleys rather than mountains
beaches rather than sailing
building snow caves rather than ice climbing
the local habitat rather than rock climbing.
walking slowly rather than straight lines at speed
SquirrelBoy
11-04-2004, 09:59
When you see road kill and wonder how long ago it was killed....
... and what could you make out of the skin :shock:
C_Claycomb
14-04-2004, 09:54
Re Road kill.
How long has it been there, how flattened is it, and will it still be good if you leave it in your boot while you are at work. I guess that if you are real hard core, neither matters, you just chuck it in there anyway!
when your 2 bed home simply becomes a rather large post box :roll: :roll: