What skills do you have that would have...

[butters]

I propose our first project should be a stream driven vibrator, trust me I know this market.

Woof!

you're gonna need a focus-group and testers . . . i'm sure you'll find some willing consumery types happy to help you out

 

[butters]

ok, dickhead, unless you've anything worth contributing, fuck off

 

[kotori]

I propose our first project should be a stream driven vibrator, trust me I know this market.

Woof!

Brilliant!

Henceforth I shall sign all posts with "Warp", to compliment BD's "Woof".

Warp!

 

[oggbashan]

I'm pretty good with a Bow and a crossbow I'd have been a good hunter.

Also all joking aside if its a skill we possess now, never underestimate the ability to read and write. Many were illiterate centuries ago.

My paternal family were printers and before that scriveners (professional writers) as far back as the records go - and of course they kept the records. Their earliest mention?

1326

I used to be a Queen's Scout (US = Eagle Scout) but I gained most of my qualifications for that in Australia where the tests were more realistic.

Stone wall building and repair? Check
Tree felling? Check.
Bridge building? Check (felled the trees to build the bridge that could take a vehicle up to five tons)
Hut building? Check
Gold panning? Check - not much success but I knew how to do it.
Fire lighting? Check (without matches or lighter)
Fire fighting? Check
Well digging? Check
Map making and surveying? Check

Later: Rock climbing, mountaineering, surf rescue, cliff rescue.

Not possible in UK - Survival with just a knife. Small arms training, live fire hunting with bow and arrows, rifle (cartridge and black powder), musket and revolver, trapping, gutting, skinning and cooking kills. Use of crew-served machine guns, mortars and light artillery.

Later training perhaps not so useful in earlier times: Fire fighting at sea under nuclear, chemical or biological attack; escape from an upside down helicopter 30 feet down in water; escape from a submerged submarine, navigation on land and sea by sextant and compass.

I'm probably too old to do many of those things now, but I could show others how to do it.

 

[Bad_Doggie]

<much banging, sawing and swearing come from the direction of the garden shed>

Et voilà.

http://cdn-www.i-am-bored.com/media/steamvib.jpg

Step right up ladies; who wants to give it a go???

Woof!

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

...kept the wolf from the door a few centuries ago?

Well, I'm a pretty damn good marksman with both rifle and bow.
That may keep them at bay until I run out of arrows and/or ammo.

 

[oggbashan]

Added:

I can make charcoal, and build a kiln to fire bricks and pottery using the charcoal.

I can make, and have made, my own long bow and arrows. I made a mistake with the draw weight on the first long bow. It was 180 lbs. But when I drew it, the arrows went right through most objects (wrecking the flights).

 

[Sean]

Added:

I can make charcoal, and build a kiln to fire bricks and pottery using the charcoal.

Arthur Ransome taught me how to make charcoal. And all sorts of other useful stuff.

 

[butters]

My paternal family were printers and before that scriveners (professional writers) as far back as the records go - and of course they kept the records. Their earliest mention?

1326

I used to be a Queen's Scout (US = Eagle Scout) but I gained most of my qualifications for that in Australia where the tests were more realistic.

Stone wall building and repair? Check
Tree felling? Check.
Bridge building? Check (felled the trees to build the bridge that could take a vehicle up to five tons)
Hut building? Check
Gold panning? Check - not much success but I knew how to do it.
Fire lighting? Check (without matches or lighter)
Fire fighting? Check
Well digging? Check
Map making and surveying? Check

Later: Rock climbing, mountaineering, surf rescue, cliff rescue.

Not possible in UK - Survival with just a knife. Small arms training, live fire hunting with bow and arrows, rifle (cartridge and black powder), musket and revolver, trapping, gutting, skinning and cooking kills. Use of crew-served machine guns, mortars and light artillery.

Later training perhaps not so useful in earlier times: Fire fighting at sea under nuclear, chemical or biological attack; escape from an upside down helicopter 30 feet down in water; escape from a submerged submarine, navigation on land and sea by sextant and compass.

I'm probably too old to do many of those things now, but I could show others how to do it.

so you could be a guilds master or summat, teaching others to teach others - and keep all the records of what's needed where, when and how much it all costs. you get a comfy room in the castle with fresh rushes every day, a never-ending supply of candles/oil till electric light's available and all the writing paper and ink you need. oh, and room service.

 

[lovetoread]

I'd need a man, chippy.

I suck at real life survival horror, but I'm a master of the video game.

 

[oggbashan]

so you could be a guilds master or summat, teaching others to teach others - and keep all the records of what's needed where, when and how much it all costs. you get a comfy room in the castle with fresh rushes every day, a never-ending supply of candles/oil till electric light's available and all the writing paper and ink you need. oh, and room service.

I can make my own paper - and pens and ink...

 

[kotori]

<much banging, sawing and swearing come from the direction of the garden shed>

Et voilà.

http://cdn-www.i-am-bored.com/media/steamvib.jpg

Step right up ladies; who wants to give it a go???

Woof!

No governor or regulator?

Warp!

 

[oggbashan]

Arthur Ransome taught me how to make charcoal. And all sorts of other useful stuff.

He did that for me, too. But I got to try them in Australia. What I hadn't learned from Arthur Ransome, Baden-Powell and other writers for Boy Scouts copvered.

 

[butters]

<much banging, sawing and swearing come from the direction of the garden shed>

Et voilà.

http://cdn-www.i-am-bored.com/media/steamvib.jpg

Step right up ladies; who wants to give it a go???

Woof!

*backs away*

*shudders*

Well, I'm a pretty damn good marksman with both rifle and bow.
That may keep them at bay until I run out of arrows and/or ammo.

ok, we need a fletcher, then - it's a bit early for rifles.
how do you feel about wearing green? (and yeah yeah, i know that's a historical faux-pas)

Added:

I can make charcoal, and build a kiln to fire bricks and pottery using the charcoal.

handy. i can make thumb pots . . . nah, i can make more than that but thumb pots are funny

Arthur Ransome taught me how to make charcoal. And all sorts of other useful stuff.

how are you with explosives? you could be in charge of art supplies in your spare time

 

[Bad_Doggie]

I'd need a man, chippy.

I suck at real life survival horror, but I'm a master of the video game.

First potential customer…..special offer $40?

Woof!

 

[butters]

I can make my own paper - and pens and ink...

we have soooo much in common

i'd imagine yours are far more professional than mine ever were. i can make lots of stuff. and even if i've not made it before, could probably turn my hand to it without any fuss.

 

[Bad_Doggie]

I can make, and have made, my own long bow and arrows. I made a mistake with the draw weight on the first long bow. It was 180 lbs. But when I drew it, the arrows went right through most objects (wrecking the flights).

My son is into archery, I'll have to look into this.

No governor or regulator?

Warp!

Hey, this is the S1, they'll have to wait for the S2 for fancy stuff like that.

Woof!

 

[butters]

I'd need a man, chippy.

I suck at real life survival horror, but I'm a master of the video game.

no problemo, you an' sean can share a cute cottage i happen to know is empty and looking for occupancy. you can cook pottage for him and make cider

mind you, you'd have to dry your washing on a line

 

[kotori]

I can make my own paper - and pens and ink...

I always thought if I became independently wealthy, I'd like to learn bookbinding.

Warp!

 

[BoyNextDoor]

I am a geek. What was a geek doing a few centuries ago? I am sure I could have adapted to those challenges, but what is the 17th century version of a geek?

Maybe I would have meditated better than Descartes. Or better yet I'd have beaten Locke to the Enlightenment.

 

[zipman]

yep, employable - so long as you don't mind the silly costumes

just so long as you're smart enough not to appear too smart and draw attention to yourself in the form of enemies vying for power and poisoners/assassins paid to make you less smart.

I'm smart and humble.

Oh, and I can fish and grow vegetables pretty good for a city boy.

 

[butters]

I am a geek. What was a geek doing a few centuries ago? I am sure I could have adapted to those challenges, but what is the 17th century version of a geek?

Maybe I would have meditated better than Descartes. Or better yet I'd have beaten Locke to the Enlightenment.

you could set up a 'face-time café' (hire your staff) where there are tables set with empty picture frames standing upright across the centres of the tables. each frame wold have a little set of curtains. you could charge people to sit at the tables (with refreshments supplied by the establishment) and open the curtains so they could not only talk to but SEE the person on the other side!

be sure to have someone on hand to fix the pull-back curtains should they freeze!

 

[oggbashan]

My son is into archery, I'll have to look into this.

When I made my long bow, I had the resources of one of Her Majesty's major defence establishments to help.

But it was long before the Mary Rose was raised, or internet access to information. My researches were inadequate by current standards. Although we had made long bows and steel-tipped arrows, only our later efforts were realistically feasible.

A bow with a 180 lb pull is almost impossible to loose with any accuracy and very difficult to pull often.

 

[butters]

I'm smart and humble.

Oh, and I can fish and grow vegetables pretty good for a city boy.

are you married?

 

[butters]

hey mona! aren't you a singing chikka?

and we need nurses, and herbologists, actors and dancers, shoe-makers and grooms, secretaries and musicians.