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Quote: Moonstone @ January 16 2009, 4:44 PM GMT

That's ace! I'd love a real fire.

Me too but most homes don't have it as their only way of heating their homes. Most have Gas or something along with it. Also keep in mind Levins is 28 years old and never really used a computer. He owns an iPod but his friends fill it up with music for him.

Quote: Paul W @ January 16 2009, 4:44 PM GMT

I thought most canadians lived in shacks with nothing but an axe and a bear to keep them company?

Their standard issue around here.
As a side note I remember when I was in grade 2 and this really old (probably in his 90s came to my school and talked his days as a messenger living in Northern Ontario. He told us this story about how he was given a coffin and told to go out to this hunting cabin and retrieve the body of a hunter who the family had assumed died since he hadn't returned from his trip (if not he was to tell the hunter his family was worried about him....hence the messenger part).
He gets to the cabin to find the person dead and spread eagle on the floor. There was no way the deceased man would fit in the coffin or the small sled that was carrying the coffin by dogs. So he had to chop off the guys arms to fit him in.
That story horrified me as a child but stuck in my mind as how much it must have sucked living in Northern Ontario all those years ago.
Sorry...what were we talking about? Oh yea..Facebook is cooool.

Shit!

That is all!

Dead fatteh alert!

Quote: Griff @ January 16 2009, 5:47 PM GMT

I have a real fire. It is better than the telly some nights.

But obviously I have proper heating too. We're not savages in Oxfordshire.

There's something weirdly soothing about watching fire. Something you just can't emulate by staring at a radiator!

Quote: Moonstone @ January 16 2009, 5:50 PM GMT

There's something weirdly soothing about watching fire. Something you just can't emulate by staring at a radiator!

It's not weird at all. Just ace.

Quote: Aaron @ January 16 2009, 5:57 PM GMT

It's not weird at all. Just ace.

But that's what's weird - why is it ace? I don't mean you're weird by doing it.

It's pretty. It's warm. It smells nice. It sounds nice. Soothing. :)

Yea man I love it too.
For some reason its one of those things that relax me.
A great way to chat with your friends too because when people go quite you guys assume its because their enjoying the fire.

Quote: Aaron @ January 16 2009, 6:14 PM GMT

It's pretty. It's warm. It smells nice. It sounds nice. Soothing. :)

Even better when it's the house of someone you don't like. On the other side of the spectrum, when I fell aleep with a careless fag in me hand, waking up to the duvet on fire wasn't so calming.

But yes, a real fire is the biz.

Without the web, I wouldn't have met so many nice people from all over the place. But I couldn't rely on it alone for friendship or I'd go mad. Sometimes you need human interaction (stop it you dirty monkies) and you can't get that from windows live.

Buuuuuut.....

From another perspective.... It has also helped me get over some issues like getting to know new people without the (stupid) worry that they will recoil in horror straight away at the sight of me before I say my name which is actually really refreshing as I am really shy in person but I talk loads on here and on WLM and stuff. But it's nice to meet them too!

Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ January 16 2009, 9:29 PM GMT

Sometimes you need human interaction (stop it you dirty monkies) and you can't get that from windows live.

Ha! I would be quite happy, zooo aside, to have no human interaction.

Just a gas fire in my house, but it's better than nothing. Tomorrow I'm buying one of those outdoor fire pits so that I can sit around a toasty fire on the specially designed circular fire pit area of my deck.

Here's a fire I started with a knife and flint last weekend in the Mojave Desert.

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Quote: Aaron @ January 17 2009, 12:24 AM GMT

Ha! I would be quite happy, zooo aside, to have no human interaction.

I agree. On the whole I hate flesh and blood human beings. Or just humanity.

Quote: DaButt @ January 17 2009, 12:32 AM GMT

Just a gas fire in my house, but it's better than nothing. Tomorrow I'm buying one of those outdoor fire pits so that I can sit around a toasty fire on the specially designed circular fire pit area of my deck.

Here's a fire I started with a knife and flint last weekend in the Mojave Desert.

It looks more like the middle of a quarry than a desert.

Quote: Moonstone @ January 17 2009, 12:35 AM GMT

It looks more like the middle of a quarry than a desert.

Trust me, it's a desert and practically uninhabitable most of the year. The rocks have all washed down from the nearby Marble Mountains during flash floods.

Here's a photo of the mountains, my buddy (.357 Magnum in his lap) and the general surroundings of our campsite.

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Having been to the area myself, yes Ian, it is DEFINITELY desert. Just not the traditional image of mountains of sand.

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