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Brown guy here, I like fire too
I went to an engineering school and I am here to tell you that pyromancy is practiced by every type of person.
The best pyromancy comes from the United States, we have such classics as The German Barbeque, Korean Barbeque, Vietnam Barbeque, and California.
Is that a jab about all the forest fires CA keeps experiencing? If so, well done. I chuckled.
I’m from the Inland Empire here in SoCal I have to make jokes or the sirens call of the inferno starts to eat away at ones mind.
You forgot the Midwest Bonfire with 1000 drunken teenagers and a fire big enough that the local fire chief comes to check on it.
Isn’t that just Sunday?
You know it’s American when skin colour is mentioned for no reason
Yeah, whats the deal with “white guy”? Guys like fucking with fire. Black, white, brown, blue. If theres an alien species on the other side of the galaxy, you can bet they have something very much like guys, and the love fucking with fire.
I too feel very seen right now.
This is the campfire equivalent of that one person who makes best friends with the family dog at every party. Some of us enjoy the group but our social skills are only on par with fires and dogs.
That’s 100% my brother. The weirdest part, it looks so much like him I had to text him and ask if the chick in the background is an old girlfriend, because I’m genuinely not sure that’s not my brother.
Really not trying to be rude.
I don’t have TikTok and don’t want one. I want to be a part of online stuff such as this story you’re telling. But.
TikTok is fucking cancer on a phone/device that doesn’t have an account and doesn’t (therefore) have the app installed.
Popups of all forms. Just like sketchy websites. It’s just a red flag. That’s all.
These experiences really reinforce my decision to NOT have a TikTok.
100% agree. Fucking hate tiktok. Even beyond the data they collect and shit, how skeezy they are about watching the videos makes them so shitty.
That said, open it in a browser and then set to desktop site it you’re on mobile. It allows it to play without the popups. Mobile browser tiktok feels like a late 90s porn site with the popups
Thx for the info!
It is insane how much that dude looks like my brother. He even has the exact same shirt and shoes. Like I genuinely thought some random picture of him had been put online. When I texted him about it he had to text his best friend to find out if the chick in the picture was maybe one of the friends old girlfriends or something he’d forgotten about. Even my brother thought it was a picture of him. Lol
Lmao
I wonder if there is a genetic component to keeping fire for recreation or comfort.
I think all societies have a cooking on fire aspect.
The use of fire seems to play a much more active role in societies in cold climates. It seems to play a less prominent role in the tropics with warmer nighttime temperatures.
This reminded me of something my dad told me when I was younger. It was mostly to justify saying that no, I did not need a TV in my room, but still kinda interesting:
In many cultures (definitely the ones my family grew out of), the fire served as a gathering spot. People would talk about stuff, share food and jokes, and relax together. It was a shared experience and source of comfort that helped strengthen interpersonal bonds.
His argument was that the family TV served a similar function (without the whole ‘also it’s the means for cooked food’ aspect, which shouldn’t be overlooked). It’s a point that made some sense to me at that stage of late 20th century mainstream society.
Hmm…the 21st century, defined as billions of little fires, and many of us cold. There’s a really pretentious poem here somewhere.
Yeah I miss the days when my entire family would gather by the TV at night to watch something, anything really, I could be laying on the sofa reading a book but still enjoy the company and finding something interesting while channel surfing was it’s own joy, now I can stream or download anything I want to watch on all my devices and I can’t find anything interesting that makes me feel the sense of peace I had back then as a kid
Survivalists like to boast of their skills to start a fire from scratch with no modern tool. But that wasn’t the main skill in ancient times. Most societies found it easier to start a fire once and then keep the flame going through several mediums. It was a practical, mundane but vital activity that everyone participated in. The calories gains from eating cooked food was our cheat code for unlocking brain power.
Sabre-tooth tigers might sneak up and attack if the fire goes out, at least, I’ve not been attacked by one when the fire is burning, so I just can’t take the risk.
This is a white thing? I never knew that.
I’m black and I like fire, though aside from a fireplace visiting family once, I haven’t had much opportunities to tend an open flame. I did enjoy keeping it going that one time though.
I grew up in the woods and chopped wood and did all the back-country stuff, but it wasn’t until looking back way later in life that I realized that we lived in what was basically rural, racist, white America. The segregation that still exists is unfair in what it denies to children growing up. I feel like if were a black parent I might have serious reservations about taking my family out to most of rural America.
The legacy of homesteading being a “white settler” thing has left indelible marks on many places.
There’s at least one organization working to fix that lingering impact. Outdoorafro.org is all about linking Black Americans with the parks and wild places that have historically been off-limits, dangerous, or discouraged.
I would love to see more people of color embracing America’s wilds, if we had larger communities of color in the woods it wouldn’t feel so dangerous out there. Diversity leads to people not feeling like they own a thing and can make rules about who belongs there.
I would also love to see more progressives broadly reclaim the US flag and responsible gun ownership. I feel we lost the country because we let them plaster themselves with propaganda and made it feel “gross” to support our country. We allowed the seeding of far too much “America Bad” sentiment and it led to too many young people tuning out and not caring what happens to our home.
The OP’s observation is that there is at least one white guy that fucks with keeping the fire going. There can be as many others as you wish!
Right, but it mentions a white guy specifically.
Why is it always the guy who looks like that though? The two main friend groups I’ve been part of in the past decade had that one guy and they both looked very similar to the guy in the image.
They are Carriers of the Bloodline
Destined to link the flame
I’m out for a bit. Need more wood.
; )
That’s just Ignius, Keeper of the Flame.
He’s cool like that.
Closet pyros
The closet burned down a while back
Hah jokes on you i kept the fire going with an autistic filipinx lesbian butch! Tho i am a straight white male… also i have no idea if filipinx is the correct term, how do you use it in a gender neutral way?
The x endings are generally regarded as white saviorism.
My experience is very anecdotal, but a friend of mine who is nonbinary and Mexican American uses and prefers e endings. So novie instead of novia/novio, amige instead of Amiga/amigo, et cetera. Pronounced Ay, like “no-vee-ay” instead of “no-vee-ah/oh”
I have adopted that generally when it’s come up, but for the most part of I just stress over my sentence structure to avoid gendered terms at all costs. Like when it took my several tries to avoid the terms Latina/Latino/Latine in the first sentence of this comment.
From my understanding of spanish gendered words, this seems the most logical. I’m by no means fluent tho… and in most circumstances it still seems silly and unnecessary to do this. If native Spanish speakers want to neuter their words, thats for them to do and let the rest of the world know about… Tumblr and American university students certainly shouldn’t have been considered the authoritative voice on the matter.
edit: in conversation with a non-binary spanish speaker, this may be not at all silly and perfectly necessary… just to be clear
Idk i always had a hard time as hungarian, my first language, doesnt have gender. Im a very proficient english speaker, almost at a native level but i do struggle with the gender stuff sometimes. Tho in daily speech i just use they/them as a fallback so i guess that works.
Filipino is the gender neutral way :) I’m a half filipino raised in america though so take it with a grain of salt, but I honestly have never seen anyone use filipinx before
Ok ill use that, its just last time i used that someone had to point out that technically the male form… i guess it still is like in spanish where multiple people with undetermined gender are adressed with the male plural right?
Nah, the most popular language in the Philippines is tagalog and that is already a language that’s gender neutral. The word ‘Filipino’ is a colonial artifact—they were named after some guy named Philip. In that way, it is technically gendered considering the spanish influence, but no one I know considers it gendered in any way unless you put it like ‘pinoys or pinays’ etc. I know filipina or pilipina or pinay is used still, but I honestly haven’t heard it much except in america, but all filipino women I know, if you just asked ‘are you filipino?’ they would say yes.
Rookie fire guy using a stick.
Pro tip: Get leather work gloves. Take your fire guy skills to the next level.
Even better are some welding gloves. That way you’re protected up to your elbows. I can grab a burning log with mine.
Always wear gloves!
Legendary fire guys don’t use gloves. They have built years and years of scars, burns, and callouses on their hands. To the legends, they don’t feel the heat from a burning log.
The leather doesn’t get ruined?
Leather can take quite a bit of heat. I wouldn’t leave it laying in the flames, nor would I hold anything for too long because eventually the heat does get through. But if you just wanna shift a log or something, it gives you more control than a stick.
Might be easier to talk to her, if fuckin’ Debra over there’d get off her damn phone while camping, FFS. 🤷🏼♂️
