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Make that doorknob a lightbulb...

The number of under-30s I've heard sing the song of "I could never do that, I'd die" about things like marching 20 miles wearing a measly 30 pound backpack, on a trail or similar exercises...

The gold medal goes to the ones who breathlessly ask "How do you know how to make a fire in pissing rain? Which prepper-expert do you follow online?". They get snippy like old spinster harridans when you reply - innocently - with "I've got a three-digit IQ?"

Make a fire. Dig a shit-pit. Splint a leg. Build a hut or a bivouac. Make a harpoon for fishing. Simple traps. Know your berries and roots. There's not one swedish man my age doesn't know how to do that, no matter if theywere boyscouts or conscripts or not.

Today's juves, they buy bottled water. In a country where you can drink from virtually every stream or creek or lake.

Because they can't think.

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