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• m3t00@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  we’d drag discarded railroad ties down by a creek and drink beer and smoke weed. age 14-15. got beer by asking someone in line at the drive-up liqueur store to buy it. or go inside and shoplift something. was something to do i guess. not recommended firewood because they are soaked in creosote, but burn good. drinking not recommended. i managed to quit. friend never quit and died of liver damage 30 years later. cautionary note for anyone considering same habits.

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• Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I had a BBQ going one time and one of my friends was going through a rough patch and didn’t really feel very sociable but would disappear into the woods, come back with a log, chop it into firewood and then poke the fire a bit while adding fuel.

  He didn’t say much that day and spent at least 12 hours just tending the fire and one of my friends who didn’t know him said “Man theres always gotta be the fire guy”

  It’s like yea… Before we had much technology we had the fire and if we were fortunate enough we had a guy who really liked doing that. People have probably been saying something like this for a million years.

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  • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I was at a hotel up in the Alps in France that had a fire going and the staff put absolutely no effort into it and it smoldering on life support. So I took a log and rearranged things boyscout style and kept that sucker going till it was too hot to get near. Everyone gave me the weirdest looks like I was some crazy American. Like nah dude, gotta keep the fire going, it’s the best part.

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• Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  That’s because burning shit is more interesting than talking to you idiots.

  Fire is a fickle little thing that if not attended, will die immediately or get wildly out of control. It moves, breathes and eats. Every piece of fuel must be assessed for moisture, shape, size, and the potential to create smoke or embers. Fuel placement is critical, depending on the purpose of the fire, you can make it burn faster, stronger, longer, or create a good bed of coals for cooking. Fire gives warmth, and light while also containing desolation and death. It is a balancing act with dire consequences for falling off either side of a thin line of control.

  Occasionally a log will pop or snap, and throw out a little spark show, and that is cool.

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  • sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.world ⁨50⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I think you’re vastly overstating how delicate of a balance a campfire is in, but i wholeheartedly agree that the intellectual challenge of perfecting air flow, choosing the correct placement, and all that is a wonderful way to spend time

    Proto-tv

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  • BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    There’s also the grill master or chef character that gets to stay to the side of party cooking delicious things for people. That’s me, and my dad, and maybe it’s you.

    What that does not include is the other guests being idiots or uninteresting people by default. Social anxiety is what is, but automatically thinking negatively of other people is a hole that is very hard to climb out of.

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  • Ironrod@sh.itjust.works ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    You could say the same thing about friendship but something tells me you don’t know about that one

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• GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  The real trial is being this guy when other people decide they’re going to start a fire and by the time you get there they’ve done it all wrong and the thing is smouldering and coughing up smoke and barely staying lit at all as they cram handfuls of pine needles and barely dry leaves into places while there’s a full-ass log precariously balanced on top of it all and they’re saying things like “Maybe we should pour a little lamp oil on top of it?”

  And then you have to be the adult and take over the whole operation.

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• Southsamurai@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Man I fuck wit fire. Well, used to; my old, crippled ass can’t fuck wit much any more.

  Point is that being the fire tender isn’t exactly a no skill job, and it comes with some serious benefits.

  You gotta have at least a basic understanding of how fire works if you want to keep it going, and learn how to keep it controlled. That’s why fucks-wit-fire is such a coveted, but demanding, position. See, you gotta keep an eyeball on it. Stacking in fresh fuel in the right way. Keeping adequate air flow. Moving unburned fuel into the center. It’s a dance.

  And for that effort, you not only get the delightful scent of wood smoke in your beard, and the glow of warmth across your flesh, you get to see the ever shifting beauty of the fire and the embers. A constant flux of colors and lights that seems alive. I’d hypnotic, meditative, and can be a spiritual experience if one leans that way.

  Ash, drifting on breeze settles into your hair as sleep looms and you bank the fire, setting things up for the chilly morning to come, you look down at your friend glowing beneath ashes that only reluctantly settle in for the night.

  You go to your rest warm, fulfilled, and at peace.

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  • Armpitbagette@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mate i like your romantic narration and all but I have to break it to you, that delightful scent of wood smoke in your beard is actually a stink. That campfire smell gets everywhere and sometimes you have to wash your clothes twice just to get that stank out. Its still fun though.

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    • Southsamurai@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I dunno, back in my younger days camping with my family I was always up in the smoke and my clothes were fine. Had long hair, and it was never a bad smell. As I got older and did have a beard, I can’t recall it ever smelling unpleasant the next day, and I’m known for catching even faint smells after years of taking care of patients where faint smells can be a sign of something important.

      Maybe it depends on the wood? I know a pure deadfall fire can be stronger smelling, and you can get some strange odors indeed if you buy firewood that’s been sitting, though I can’t think of any that stank.

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  • wraekscadu@vargar.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you write?

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    • Southsamurai@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Here and there, yeah.

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• chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s an opportunity to play with fire and do something positive. Why wouldn’t I be that guy?

  spoiler

  I don’t feel called out at all

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  • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t worry guy, we appreciate you

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks

      I’m not that guy but I’m the other that guy

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  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I too, am of the order of fire watchers. May the flame keep you warm.

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  • jankforlife@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    and protect the campsite LMBO

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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Last time I went out on a trip with the extended family (we’re roughly 20 people, give or take), it was in a rented big structure with a sleeping area, a dining area, and a kitchen, and a yard outside with a place to make a fire. We started a fire, but come dinner time they all wanted to leave the fire going and eat at the table.

  I absolutely refused. No way in the world in leaving a fire unattended like that. I said we either stop the fire altogether (and restart it later), or I’ll stay watching it until someone comes to replace me.

  In the end I took a plate of food and ate it by the fire alone, until someone indeed came to replace me and I went to finish the meal at the table. It turned out fine, but it really annoyed me how no one in my family saw sense. They kept trying to convince me to just come and eat dinner… as if the social togetherness somehow makes the risk of starting a forest fire unimportant?! There’s some smart people in my family, but some days I don’t understand how they can all be so blind to the obvious reality.

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  • brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Personally it sounds like bliss eating a good meal alone by the fire.

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    • toynbee@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I generally try to avoid “this” style comments but, almost word for word, this is what I was here to say.

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    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure, it was alright, but I do love my family too ❤️

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  • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Boy Scouts taught me the rule that if you are leaving and you had a fire, that it needs to be put out to the extent that you’d willingly stick your hand into the middle.

    Scared it might be hot? Put it out more.

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    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What if you put it out using all the left over hot water you made over the fire? Its going to be hot even though it is currently underwater!

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    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t want to stick my hand in the lukewarm piss-mud. How long do I keep going?

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  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why would anyone make a fire, and then make food that can’t be eaten at the fire?

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  • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Every time I go camping I think about all the knowledge we have lost now that this is further and further from our every day experiences and even just being a less common recreational activity.

    I recently learned that the outdoor recreation curriculum was being cut from the school board I attended 30 years ago and that’s a big loss. I lived in a big city with > 50% of the population being born elsewhere and programs like these are sometimes the first opportunities these kids get to learn outdoor skills relevant to their new home.

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• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s with the trend of mentioning that people are white and connecting it with things they do? I also see live streamers do this a lot (including in reference to themselves) and it’s strange to me

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Always some white guy in the comments going on about how white people doing white people things is not something worth mentioning.

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    • FierroG@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn, I was about to comment the same, didn’t know doing so would turn my skin white.

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think it’s outrage bait because again, often the context is someone talking about themselves, and no arguments are started. But this didn’t used to be a thing, so what changed?

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At least they haven’t taken garlic bread and sitting in chairs weird away from bisexuals!

    People desperately want to associate aesthetic acts and preferences with demographics. I assume it has something to do with cultural desires to place people in neatly ordered boxes.

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• dismay3915@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s me. Just not white? Is being white a mandate for this role?

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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Traditionally, yes, but it’s not obligatory. Fire does consider the color of flesh, nor the gender of it’s attendant.

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  • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No. Hearth fire tenders are needed where they are needed.

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• MohamedMoney@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s skin colour got to do with it?

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  • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Americans…

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  • lefaucet@slrpnk.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nothing.

    The black men who do this know they are the white guys of their family.

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    • andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What’s skin colour got to do with it?

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  • thethrilloftime69@feddit.online ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Idk it’s probably cultural. Most non white people in the US have very little experience with stuff like camping and bonfires. So usually if you are at a fire and there’s a mixed race group hanging out, 90% of the time the guy fiddling with the fire will be white.

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    • pumpupthejam@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’re right. It’s a known issue. It’s predominantly white people going out and enjoying nature, for multiple reasons.

      Public forests offer a variety of outdoor recreation activities that enhance participants’ well-being, yet participation remains low among ethnic minorities in the United States. These groups face multiple barriers, including limited information, transportation and financial constraints, safety concerns, fear of discrimination, and wildlife-related anxieties, which are often shaped by broader structural and cultural contexts.

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    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Couldn’t you light a fire in a garden, park or beach? Even those shitty disposable BBQs are a form of fire, though I would recommend using almost anything else if possible.

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    • wieson@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      n a t i v e a m e r i c a n s … o. O

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  • brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Americans make everything racially charged.

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    • andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think this post is just observing stereotypes about camping overall that are really just a reflection of the historical cultural imagination about who camping is for. It’s not really as true as we think it is, because this tendency has been present among black folks and hispanic folks, and asian folks and women and everyone else who have been camping all along, they’re just not featured in film and TV often.

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  • Waterpumpee@lemmus.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We northern ethnics relied on fire probably a bit more due to colder climate, shorter days in winter.

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  • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nothing in the modern context, but 10000 years ago. If you were a black African and your fire went out, your food might not het cooked or that predator might take a chance to grab one of the kids.

    If you were a white person in northern europe, your fire going out meant that everyone froze solid overnight.

    Fire was just more essential in climates that developed white skins. Socially and genetically, that has an impact on behaviour.

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That shit is way too niche to have evolved at a stronger pressure than random genetic drift. If you could isolate cultural factors and analyse the genetic correlation, I bet your R^2 would be miniscule

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• ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You didn’t really campfire if you don’t smell like campfire

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• lukaro@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am that white guy. You’re welcome.

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It makes me feel weird about people that barely start a fire, and don’t tend to it. Like I’m holding someone else’s baby. Then feeding it. Then sending it to school. It’s my baby now, but it still has your name. Ugh.

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    • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’re the dad who stepped up.

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    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Its our fire now

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    • Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It makes me feel weird about people that barely see babies as property, the name attached is the value not the person who didn’t ask to be born and needs help.

      (To be clear I’m not saying you do this specifically, it’s more a cultural thing where people will see other people as unworthy unless their name is on it)

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    …why would I thank you for fucking with the fire going? I’d want someone who helps it keep going instead of fucking with it.

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    • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      The meme says “one white guy who really fucks with keeping the fire going.” He’s clearly not fucking with the fire. He’s keeping it going.

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    • GoodStuffEh@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because the post uses “fuck with” in the sense of “man I fuck with peanut butter cookies, they’re the best” vs. “I would love some but peanut butter cookies fuck with my stomach”

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• Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not me. I’m the guy trying to convince everyone camping is more fun without a fire

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  • kadotux@sopuli.xyz ⁨52⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Wait what? Please explain.

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Alright. Now I’m curious. Sell me on it. Cold food?

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    • Jtotheb@lemmy.world ⁨50⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Fuel stove, MSR Jetboil something of the sort. I use white gas and refillable canisters. Food’s faster, I’m lower impact. I love a good fire but it’s not what mother earth needs every night right now.

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    • Galapagon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Okay her me out, yes a vegetarian diet, but also an earlier bed time. That way, in the morning you wake up feeling more rested. Then, because you never mastered fire, no big brain. No big brain, no jobs. No jobs, no climate change. Checkmate atheists?/s

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Gotta keep the air between logs, and put fuel on the hot spots…

  The person doing it is often the person who started the fire, or most wants it to keep going.

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• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not a guy. Fire, good. Burn everything.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My sister and I are both the girl version of that guy

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s me.

  But I’m really just kind of mesmerized and considering how cleansed my soul would be if I dove in. Gotta burn the sin out.

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  • MrShankles@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The fire cleanses all

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• neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you insist on being the person to play with the fire, please, for fuck’s sake, know what you’re doing.

  Understand that the 2ft wide wet uncured stump you found in the woods will not burn no matter how hard you try. Smoke is not a sign of success.

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  • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’ll burn, you just need more other fire to do it.

    I remember a time we melted an aluminum pan in a fire… that was a good fire.

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  • vrek@programming.dev ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Trick question people used to ask, after a heavy rain where can you find dry wood? Split the wet wood and in the middle will be dry wood!

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• varden@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Once a couple friends and I decided to take some acid and camp out in one of the friend’s back yards. He had a metal tow-behind trailer that he had put up some plywood walls on and draped a tarp over the top. This was in Florida but during the 2 weeks of winter we get so it was actually pretty cold at night.

  The plan was for us to all sleep in the trailer, and we even had a little space heater going, but I was closest to the back of the trailer and the cold air was coming in more than the heater was warming me, so I couldn’t sleep (the acid didn’t help either, it had been several hours but I was still feeling it for sure).

  To stay warm, I got up and re-lit the fire which was in a circular cinderblock about a foot tall and a foot wide. Throughout the rest of the night and the morning I continuously tended the fire, only occasionally stepping away to grab more sticks from the woods.

  It was one of the most peaceful nights of my life. It did fully kill any enthusiasm I had for tending fires though. The smell of smoke didn’t come off of me for days afterwards. Ever since then I’ve had no problem letting other people take over the fire whenever possible.

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• FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well of course I know him, he’s me!

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• muzzle@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  o/

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• CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Goes camping, sits around campfire, phone in her face.

  *facepalm

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  • chortle_tortle@mander.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think that’s fine and normal.

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    • modus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I once hiked to a secluded area for a nice scenic overlook and the best spot was taken by two people who were playing on their phones for the entire hour that I was there.

      I know they’re just as entitled to sit there as I am and I have no right to tell them how to spend their time, but it still infuriated me. Then again, if they were reading a book or drawing a sketch I probably would have been OK with that. I think I just hate everyone.

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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s me

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• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I definitely do not respect this. I respect someone who helps keep it going, not the dude fucking with it, and giving the fire swirlies.

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• Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just look it that thing. It need to be poked with a stick.

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