damned_colonial: Convicts in Sydney, being spoken to by a guard/soldier (Default)
damned_colonial ([personal profile] damned_colonial) wrote in [community profile] metaquotes2010-05-19 06:38 am

C'mon baby light my fire

[personal profile] etfb has been learning how to light his new wood-burning stove:

I am clearly not cut out to be a pyromaniac. I heard about the red shirts in Thailand setting fire to shops and banks and my first thought was "How?". Clearly they're better at this sort of thing than me.


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aedifica: Photo of purple yarrow flowers. (Achillea millefolium)

[personal profile] aedifica 2010-05-19 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't imagine Central World burning. It was a huge shopping mall in Bangkok... until today. I was there in January. The news just doesn't seem real.
archersangel: (bad situation)

[personal profile] archersangel 2010-05-19 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
when my brother & i were trying to start a fire in a coal/wood furnace this past winter i said; "we're failing caveman 101." and "now i know why tom hanks was so damn thrilled to have made fire in the movie castaway."
msilverstar: (viggo-billy tongue)

[personal profile] msilverstar 2010-05-20 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
hee! very good