Would you like some cheese with your whine?


iconAfter watching a few hours of Colonial House, it appears to be nothing more than a bunch of city slickers bitching about having to go camping and live off the land. When I was a Boy Scout, we learned wilderness survival. We learned to make our own fires, chop our own wood, and forage for our own food. We hiked, we climed, we camped. We even had some camping trips that including nothing but manual labor, eating and sleeping. In what were called "Freezorees", we even camped in the dead of winter with several inches of snow on the ground.

These wussies, who are living in good sized cabins, are complaining about the cold, the food, dying in the outdoors, and of course the day to day labor. I think if we had it to do over again, today's soft bodies couldn't hack it.


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I saw the program as well. Those people wouldn't have survived two weeks if this were real. Also, I noted the lack of firearms. The Pilgrams had plenty of muskets and shot and game was plentiful in 1628 New England. The real settlers would have done much better than a pity muskrat.
But we can't have evil guns on PBS.

Posted by: Yosemite Sam at May 18, 2004 12:50 PM

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