Tag: probably

glumshoe:

People get really territorial about fires.

If you’ve spent much time camping or cooking outdoors, you probably know what I mean. If there are several people around and more than one of them can build a fire, they’ll be micro-managing the process and arguing and making little unnecessary adjustments.

My parents’ house is heated entirely by wood. I’ve been building and tending fires for my entire life, yet my father still compulsively interferes with my process. I pointed this out to him and he grew sheepish and stopped, but I saw it again and again at camp. Younger counselors who had no actual experience building fires would get really possessive and fight for control of the fuel, to the point of actively endangering themselves with lighter fluid or completely unmanageable flames. If I was charged with building the fire, they’d come over and interrupt me and accidentally put it out before it had a chance to catch. Some fucker would drop a huge log on top of the tinder and then scratch his head wondering why it went out.

PLEASE. Building fires is a practical skill and quite basic. It’s not a genital-measuring contest.

Caveman instinct.

spontaneousmusicalnumber:

In The Road to El Dorado there is only really one inexplicable thing within the plot. Miguel and Tulio plausibly bluff their way through or slip out of most situations. However, I’d never figured out why the volcano actually stops erupting when Tulio commands it. 

The conclusion I finally came up with is that the actual gods were watching their big entrance go down, and thought “oh, this’ll be hilarious”