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What did you do to prepare today?
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bonniebede wrote: »...
Woohoo, I burnt stuff. Feels great.:D
Also playing with newly acquired Morakniv, companion version, stainless steel. My first real knive.
So far, very sturdy, and very sharp. Was good value I think.
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So the next thing your going to do to prepare today is to check the FAK and make sure you are stocked up on burn dressings and plasters
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baords dyslexic wrote: »So the next thing your going to do to prepare today is to check the FAK and make sure you are stocked up on burn dressings and plasters
Hah.:D good point.
might also look at aldis coming soon cheap fire extinguishers.:)0 -
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kildare.17hmr wrote: »Driving passed aldi in dunboyne and decided i havent had a look in a while so decided to stop and glad i did! Picked up a pack 'festival chef compact cooking set', basicaly 2 mess tins, 2 sets of fork, knife and spoon that clip together and a hexi cooker with tabs for €4.49!!! Mess tine are good quality and so is the cutlary and i guess we all have their hexi cooker at this stage which is also good quality. Dont know when these were originally on sale ir why my hunting buddy who works in their warehouse on specials didnt tell me about them :rolleyes: but its worth getting in for a look if your passing an aldi. Dunboyne have a few left and loads of hexi tabs if anyone is looking for them
Really varies from store to store for both Aldi and Lidl, I was in Waterford Lidl last week and they had some great fishing bargins from a previous months offers but Dungarvan shop had none. Waterford (cork road) Aldi also had the hexi stoves and blocks but I didn't ever have (except during the offer) the dry bags another poster reported on a while back. You just have to be a "hunter gatherer" and go out and keep hunting for the bargins
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I ordered Wim Hof's "Becoming the Iceman". Normally I'd have no truck with these wacky gurus, but his feats seem to be both reproducible and scientifically tested, as in they don't know how he does it but it does work, and works for other people too.Hof holds eighteen world records including a world record for longest ice bath.[1] He broke his previous world record by staying for 1 hour, 13 minutes and 48 seconds immersed in ice at Guinness World Records 2008. The night before, he performed the feat on the Today Show.
Dr. Kenneth Kamler monitored the event to explain the effects of using the Tantric practice Tummo to control one's body temperature. Tummo has been practiced by Yogi monks in Tibet. Wim describes his ability to withstand extreme cold temperatures as being able to turn his own thermostat up by using his brain.
In February 2009 Hof reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in his shorts within two days.[2]
In 2007 he attempted, but failed (due to a foot injury), to climb Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts.[3][4] Hof has been criticized for his stated justifications for this attempt: "Edmund Hillary's ascent of Mount Everest was a testament to human achievement; my climb of Mount Everest in my shorts will be a monument to the frivolous, decadent nature of modern society."[5]
In 2009 Hof completed a full marathon (42.195 kilometres (26.219 mi)), above the polar circle in Finland, in temperatures close to −20 °C (−4 °F). Dressed in nothing but shorts, Hof finished in 5 hours and 25 minutes. The challenge was filmed by Firecrackerfilms, who make productions for BBC, Channel 4 and National Geographic.[6]
Hof again broke the ice endurance record in 2010 by standing fully immersed in ice for 1 hour and 44 minutes in Tokyo, Japan.[7]
In 2011 Hof broke the ice endurance record twice, in Inzell in February and in New York in November. The Guinness World Record is now set for 1 hour and 52 minutes and 42 seconds by Hof.[8] On April 18, Hof got the test results regarding the "The influence of concentration/meditation on autonomic nervous system activity and the innate immune response" case study, demonstrating that he is able to directly influence his own Autonomic Nervous System and Immune System. Hof seems to be able to raise his cortisol levels and lower the amount of cytokines(flammatory bodies) just by using his meditation techniques. a different study on Hof while immersed in ice showed that Hof suppressed the cytokins (flammatory bodies) by 100 percent.[9] In September Hof also ran a full marathon in the Namib Desert without water. The run was performed under the supervision of Dr. Thijs Eijsvogels in assessment of prof. dr. Maria Hopman[10]
On April 19, 2012, an episode of the US television program Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, featuring Hof, was broadcast. Hof was tested against a member of the team named Austin, both sitting in a tank full of ice. Austin sat in the tank for about 20 minutes, with his surface body temperature falling to eight degrees above freezing. When he got out of the water, the other two team members used a heat camera to reveal that his body was at about forty degrees. Wim's core body temperature stayed the same for the entire twenty minutes, as did his heart rate.
I reckon I'll give it a blast anyway and see how I get on, if it at least makes my morning swims in the icy Atlantic more palatable I call that a win.
Assuming, as seems to be the case, that he's really onto something, the techniques and abilities he's mastered could give an enormous advantage in survival situations. Exposure becomes someone else's problem, extremes of heat and cold can be laughed off, the first rule of the three slips down to the bottom of the list, it changes the game completely.
I'll give ye a quick review whenever it arrives and a more thorough analysis in about ten years. 0 -
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i found this a wile ago and am glad i did so..just today my missus found my hoard of non perishables in the attic...twas funny trying to explain and justify but to be honest she understood where i was coming from under recent events etc...and is actually coming on board re a kit for the car boot...as i said to her ive a four year old depending on me....and even if it sounds a tad nuts...one thing for sure...il be prepared...What did I do to prepare today?
Found my new favourite forum
Looks like I have a lot of reading and work to do. Some fantastic info on here.0 -
ive read and seen bits about this guy the last couple of years....what is going on here??running up everest? in his shorts..incredible!I ordered Wim Hof's "Becoming the Iceman". Normally I'd have no truck with these wacky gurus, but his feats seem to be both reproducible and scientifically tested, as in they don't know how he does it but it does work, and works for other people too.Hof holds eighteen world records including a world record for longest ice bath.[1] He broke his previous world record by staying for 1 hour, 13 minutes and 48 seconds immersed in ice at Guinness World Records 2008. The night before, he performed the feat on the Today Show.
Dr. Kenneth Kamler monitored the event to explain the effects of using the Tantric practice Tummo to control one's body temperature. Tummo has been practiced by Yogi monks in Tibet. Wim describes his ability to withstand extreme cold temperatures as being able to turn his own thermostat up by using his brain.
In February 2009 Hof reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in his shorts within two days.[2]
In 2007 he attempted, but failed (due to a foot injury), to climb Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts.[3][4] Hof has been criticized for his stated justifications for this attempt: "Edmund Hillary's ascent of Mount Everest was a testament to human achievement; my climb of Mount Everest in my shorts will be a monument to the frivolous, decadent nature of modern society."[5]
In 2009 Hof completed a full marathon (42.195 kilometres (26.219 mi)), above the polar circle in Finland, in temperatures close to −20 °C (−4 °F). Dressed in nothing but shorts, Hof finished in 5 hours and 25 minutes. The challenge was filmed by Firecrackerfilms, who make productions for BBC, Channel 4 and National Geographic.[6]
Hof again broke the ice endurance record in 2010 by standing fully immersed in ice for 1 hour and 44 minutes in Tokyo, Japan.[7]
In 2011 Hof broke the ice endurance record twice, in Inzell in February and in New York in November. The Guinness World Record is now set for 1 hour and 52 minutes and 42 seconds by Hof.[8] On April 18, Hof got the test results regarding the "The influence of concentration/meditation on autonomic nervous system activity and the innate immune response" case study, demonstrating that he is able to directly influence his own Autonomic Nervous System and Immune System. Hof seems to be able to raise his cortisol levels and lower the amount of cytokines(flammatory bodies) just by using his meditation techniques. a different study on Hof while immersed in ice showed that Hof suppressed the cytokins (flammatory bodies) by 100 percent.[9] In September Hof also ran a full marathon in the Namib Desert without water. The run was performed under the supervision of Dr. Thijs Eijsvogels in assessment of prof. dr. Maria Hopman[10]
On April 19, 2012, an episode of the US television program Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, featuring Hof, was broadcast. Hof was tested against a member of the team named Austin, both sitting in a tank full of ice. Austin sat in the tank for about 20 minutes, with his surface body temperature falling to eight degrees above freezing. When he got out of the water, the other two team members used a heat camera to reveal that his body was at about forty degrees. Wim's core body temperature stayed the same for the entire twenty minutes, as did his heart rate.
I reckon I'll give it a blast anyway and see how I get on, if it at least makes my morning swims in the icy Atlantic more palatable I call that a win.
Assuming, as seems to be the case, that he's really onto something, the techniques and abilities he's mastered could give an enormous advantage in survival situations. Exposure becomes someone else's problem, extremes of heat and cold can be laughed off, the first rule of the three slips down to the bottom of the list, it changes the game completely.
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bonniebede wrote: »Got a solar shower in lidl for a fiver...
I got one of these last year, still not brave enough to try it out though
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Spent another day on reccy, found some interesting things but also a lot of disappointment. Commercial forestry is often barren, inhospitable and incredibly dense at floor level.
But managed to pass a quiet afternoon away
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Bought an "interesting" bit of junk from TK-MAX, a Large kitchen kit :rolleyes::eek:.
OK I just love organiser bag thingies, and this one is a handy size for putting a few extra cooking bits and bobs in or at least keeping all the ones I use in one place.
For a Fiver I got a little back zip bag (about the size of a wash kit) with loads of pockets and elastic retainers. In the bag were, compo type tin opener, tiny wisk, small grater, some ziplock bags, 6 various size bottles, a thin nylon cutting board, two washing line pegs, a pan scrubber and a cleaning cloth.
Basically a load of junk but plenty of room to add matches, a lighter, a vegatable knife, a filleting knife, salt, pepper a few herbs and spices, stock cubes, folded up kitchen foil and some wet cleaning wipes - other items will surely follow 0 -
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