#149165 - 09/16/08 02:43 PM
Re: Newspaper
[Re: Todd W]
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Carpal Tunnel
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VOX CLAMATIS IN DESERTO
I've been mentioning newspapers how long here?
They are also relatively sterile if you use the inner pages for expedient bandages. Chew a wad and you can form small patching materials. If you don't believe me, go talk to a paper wasp. Rolled up you have a splint. lit, a signalling torch.struck, a short baton. Laid out on the ground you have signalling panels.
Edited by Chris Kavanaugh (09/16/08 02:44 PM)
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#149205 - 09/16/08 05:11 PM
Re: Newspaper
[Re: Chris Kavanaugh]
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You can make a pretty good improvised weapon outta one. Millwall Brick I think I saw on one of those behind bars shows on the discovery channel, rolled up newspapers used as a stabbing weapon too.
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#149239 - 09/16/08 09:11 PM
Re: Newspaper
[Re: Themalemutekid]
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It is pretty hard to use the internet as: insulation to make a light jacket or jeans into winter wear. mullet wrapper field expedient hat notepad or distress sign paper airplane wick for a home made oil lamp electrical insulation paper mache for targets and toys absorbent for oil spills toilet paper (wad up and flatten several times to soften) bandage (see above) rolled for rods or around the limb for a splint
And after you have used it in any of these ways you still have fodder for a fire.
I have backed off my newspaper subscription. I only get it three days a week now. The local paper has local news, a nice weekly rundown on world news and the weeks TV schedule. And once I'm done reading it I can do all the other stuff.
IMHO no retreat is complete without a foot-high, or better, stack of newsprint on hand.
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#149246 - 09/16/08 10:28 PM
Re: Newspaper
[Re: Chris Kavanaugh]
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Years ago, one of the paperback heros, possibly Matt Helm (not Dino, the one in the books), was described as being able to kill with, in addition to lots of other things, a rolled up newspaper...
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#149282 - 09/17/08 02:09 AM
Re: Newspaper
[Re: RobertRogers]
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One advantage actual paper newspapers still have over their online siblings is that they still lack those darn dancing silhouette mortgage ads and all the other junk they shove on news websites these days.
I swear, news websites are some of the slowest sites I go to on a regular basis, and all of those ridiculous ads don’t help! I almost need to buy a new, faster computer just so I can keep up with the ever-increasing complexity and annoyance-potential of web site ads.
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#149295 - 09/17/08 02:52 AM
Re: Newspaper
[Re: AROTC]
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OK, bottom line here, you can use one sheet of newpaper to easily start a fire. Can't do that with a computer screen...
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#149299 - 09/17/08 03:06 AM
Re: Newspaper
[Re: JCWohlschlag]
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I swear, news websites are some of the slowest sites I go to on a regular basis, and all of those ridiculous ads don’t help! I almost need to buy a new, faster computer just so I can keep up with the ever-increasing complexity and annoyance-potential of web site ads. No ads, just the news. http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm
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#149312 - 09/17/08 11:55 AM
Re: Newspaper
[Re: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor]
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I hate those "dancing silhouette mortgage ads" with a passion...lol
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