Real life survival

[Tonkyhonk]

when you see a pro-survivalist butchering animals, they work so fast that you dont really need to worry about the animals faces or if they're feeling pain or anything. it is, rather, an art, i guess. the better youre at it, youll be fine.
so yeah, potjeh, youre probably very good at the work.
(but still, killing a dog for survival is another matter... lots of people had to leave their pets behind when tsunami came. i still dont know what i would do with my 5 cats if a natural disaster hit my place in the future, and 2 of them are real fat.)

once i stayed for a few days with a nomad family with lots of cattles. and they just had lots of babies born, and one of the goat kids somehow loved me so much that she just tried to follow me everywhere. that made the family love me too, and they decided to name her after my name, how sweet!
then, that evening, they butchered one adult goat to have a feast for me...
im pretty sure that the cute sweet goat named after me, should be slaughtered already for someone else >.<

[borka]

Dumpster diving (skipping in UK) is a good Urban survival training - in UK it's considered theft (thanks again iron lady) so it's also a good sneak/escape training ( combine it with Parcour)

As said before: Water is the main survival factor - there are enough informations in the net about purification techniques

Fun is also to experiment with solar powered showers or small windgenerators - also loads of DIY stuff in the net to find

one thing i really recommend is eating "strange" foods like ants, worms and stuff to overcome concerns

btw. most ppl won't eat animals if they would have to kill themselves

[Sibbechai]

Do I smell a survival information dump?
Why Yes I do.

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Let's see what else other's have.

[borka]

notice: not all game killed in the making of this thread was eaten!

[Tonkyhonk]

one thing i really recommend is eating "strange" foods like ants, worms and stuff to overcome concerns

to overcome concerns, hmm?
well, some "strange" foods are still normal stuff in many asian & african countries
(the market in Guangzhou was selling basically anything that exists, except for human flesh/bones.)

i dont prefer eating bugs, but i think some would rather hate eating dog or horse meat more in western countries.

[rozn]

I live in a city too and I have 4 chickens in my backyard, there's nothing better than fresh eggs every morning.

pics
here as babies (3 days old) got them in the mail


adults


the eggs


not really sure if this would count as survivalist thing since I didnt catch the chickens but bought them online heh

Thats the czech way of doing things

[borka]

@Tonkyhonk

when it's normal for someone to eat something it's not "strange" - for "normal" people in western countries even eating an earthworm is strange

and with concerns i meant more about taste and haptic than ethnical ( i wouldn't eat a fried gorilla leg at a bushmeat trade market)

[DatOneGuy]

@Tonkyhonk

when it's normal for someone to eat something it's not "strange" - for "normal" people in western countries even eating an earthworm is strange

and with concerns i meant more about taste and haptic than ethnical ( i wouldn't eat a fried gorilla leg at a bushmeat trade market)

See, I'd eat a fried gorilla leg, but no way I'd eat an earthworm.

[borka]

See i ate both - but the gorilla wasn't from bushmeat trade and it died not by getting killed

[MagicManICT]

Define 'normal' please. Normal to your conceptions or normal to the majority of the population? Hate to say it, but two billion Chinese and Indians almost beats out the rest of the world. When you figure in the rest of the aboriginal populations that live on some of that 'strange' stuff, the 'civilized' world is the abnormal.

Just be thankful that you were born in an area where you can forage safe foods vs trying to make toxic foods edible.