Respect fire guy
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I absolutely adore keeping the fire going. I was a white man for decades so i'm not dodging the allegations. I have never been camping where i was not the last person awake and always keeping the fire just right until all the wood was gone.
It's all about the air flow. Too much and everything burns too quickly in a roaring furnace, too little and you have no light and not enough heat. By constantly adjusting the logs you can maintain the proper air flow to keep everything just right. Rotating a log to present fresh wood to an eager flame here. Squeezing two logs a little closer to reduce the oxygen and trim things up there. A proper fire adjusting stick (and a backup) is crucial.
Give me a stack of seasoned wood, a k-bar, a magnesium fire starter and a comfy camp chair and i'm in heaven from the time the sun sets until the wood runs out.
I love when I get back home and even after a shower and laundry, my hair and clothes still smell smokey.
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Pro tip: dip a paper towel in olive oil, stuff it under the main log, and light it up. Olive oil burns slow and hot.
they are talking about making fire without using lighter or matches or a fire starter, just wood on wood friction the way people had to make fire before any of those things existed. An oily rag won't help you with the difficult part; making a small coal to light your tinder.
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I love when I get back home and even after a shower and laundry, my hair and clothes still smell smokey.
fuck yeah that's good shit
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they are talking about making fire without using lighter or matches or a fire starter, just wood on wood friction the way people had to make fire before any of those things existed. An oily rag won't help you with the difficult part; making a small coal to light your tinder.
Right, I missed that.
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Rookie fire guy using a stick.
Pro tip: Get leather work gloves. Take your fire guy skills to the next level.
Even better are some welding gloves. That way you’re protected up to your elbows. I can grab a burning log with mine.
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Hah jokes on you i kept the fire going with an autistic filipinx lesbian butch! Tho i am a straight white male... also i have no idea if filipinx is the correct term, how do you use it in a gender neutral way?
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Hah jokes on you i kept the fire going with an autistic filipinx lesbian butch! Tho i am a straight white male... also i have no idea if filipinx is the correct term, how do you use it in a gender neutral way?
The x endings are generally regarded as white saviorism.
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Why is it always the guy who looks like that though? The two main friend groups I've been part of in the past decade had that one guy and they both looked very similar to the guy in the image.
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The x endings are generally regarded as white saviorism.
My experience is very anecdotal, but a friend of mine who is nonbinary and Mexican American uses and prefers e endings. So novie instead of novia/novio, amige instead of Amiga/amigo, et cetera. Pronounced Ay, like "no-vee-ay" instead of "no-vee-ah/oh"
I have adopted that generally when it's come up, but for the most part of I just stress over my sentence structure to avoid gendered terms at all costs. Like when it took my several tries to avoid the terms Latina/Latino/Latine in the first sentence of this comment.
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Hah jokes on you i kept the fire going with an autistic filipinx lesbian butch! Tho i am a straight white male... also i have no idea if filipinx is the correct term, how do you use it in a gender neutral way?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Filipino is the gender neutral way
I'm a half filipino raised in america though so take it with a grain of salt, but I honestly have never seen anyone use filipinx before -
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wrote last edited by [email protected]That's 100% my brother. The weirdest part, it looks so much like him I had to text him and ask if the chick in the background is an old girlfriend, because I'm genuinely not sure that's not my brother.
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Closet pyros
The closet burned down a while back
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My experience is very anecdotal, but a friend of mine who is nonbinary and Mexican American uses and prefers e endings. So novie instead of novia/novio, amige instead of Amiga/amigo, et cetera. Pronounced Ay, like "no-vee-ay" instead of "no-vee-ah/oh"
I have adopted that generally when it's come up, but for the most part of I just stress over my sentence structure to avoid gendered terms at all costs. Like when it took my several tries to avoid the terms Latina/Latino/Latine in the first sentence of this comment.
wrote last edited by [email protected]From my understanding of spanish gendered words, this seems the most logical. I'm by no means fluent tho... and in most circumstances it still seems silly and unnecessary to do this. If native Spanish speakers want to neuter their words, thats for them to do and let the rest of the world know about... Tumblr and American university students certainly shouldn't have been considered the authoritative voice on the matter.
edit: in conversation with a non-binary spanish speaker, this may be not at all silly and perfectly necessary... just to be clear
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Why is it always the guy who looks like that though? The two main friend groups I've been part of in the past decade had that one guy and they both looked very similar to the guy in the image.
They are Carriers of the Bloodline
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The OP's observation is that there is at least one white guy that fucks with keeping the fire going. There can be as many others as you wish!
Right, but it mentions a white guy specifically.
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Or gendered. I do this in my friend group. I also grill, smoke, and bbq.
Yeah my sister and I are both the fire keeper type.
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I grew up in the woods and chopped wood and did all the back-country stuff, but it wasn't until looking back way later in life that I realized that we lived in what was basically rural, racist, white America. The segregation that still exists is unfair in what it denies to children growing up. I feel like if were a black parent I might have serious reservations about taking my family out to most of rural America.
The legacy of homesteading being a "white settler" thing has left indelible marks on many places.
There's at least one organization working to fix that lingering impact. Outdoorafro.org is all about linking Black Americans with the parks and wild places that have historically been off-limits, dangerous, or discouraged.
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That's 100% my brother. The weirdest part, it looks so much like him I had to text him and ask if the chick in the background is an old girlfriend, because I'm genuinely not sure that's not my brother.
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I wonder if there is a genetic component to keeping fire for recreation or comfort.
I think all societies have a cooking on fire aspect.
The use of fire seems to play a much more active role in societies in cold climates. It seems to play a less prominent role in the tropics with warmer nighttime temperatures.
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The x endings are generally regarded as white saviorism.
Idk i always had a hard time as hungarian, my first language, doesnt have gender. Im a very proficient english speaker, almost at a native level but i do struggle with the gender stuff sometimes. Tho in daily speech i just use they/them as a fallback so i guess that works.
