The reason that there are so many “lurkers” in the forum, who are afraid to contribute and be a part of the community, is because of attitudes and comments like yours and Paul810.

There are people in this forum from all walks of life, with different experience levels, from different parts of the world. Not everyone is from your hometown or your country for that matter. And not everyone has your sense of “humor” or cynicism.

When someone stated that they could “start a fire without any tools,” I prefaced my inquiry with the phrase, “in the spirit of friendship,” so that they would understand that I was NOT being sarcastic or facetious. I wanted them to share their story with the forum so that we all could learn.

If you would clear your minds of sarcastic and facetious thoughts and realize, that as experienced as you think you are, you haven’t seen it all, you might learn something here that could save your life.

And isn’t that the point.