The Stuff Hits The Fan (SHTF).
Anybody who has read Beans, Bullets, Bandages and You for any length of time has run across our version of the common prepper phrase SHTF. We use the word “stuff” in the SHTF saying for a very good reason.
Keeping Things G-Rated
I know what some people are thinking… “hey, we’re all adults here, we all know what the “real” “s-word” is. Right? So why on Earth not just say it and get it over with?
Well, for a very good reason… inclusiveness.
One of our missions here is to get as many people as possible listening to the message, and frankly there are a lot of people in our society that simply do not like “salty” language.
Profanity harshes a lot of people’s mellow
Know what profanity doesn’t do? Add any substance to the conversation.
We’ve had Beans, Bullets, Bandages and You online for over two years now, and in that time I’ve never had a single person log on and say “man, Salty, what you really need around here is some good old fashioned profanity… I think you need to write a post where you just cuss up a blue streak, THAT will really help people get better prepped.
Yeah, hasn’t happened.
Inclusiveness in prepping is a key goal
I wrote about this back in the early days of 3BY and I believe it more now than I did back then. I said the following:
I’m coining a new prepping phrase, something we will use a lot around here in the future, “Inclusive Prepping™”
If we involved these people who we may not like, who we may in fact hate, in prepping now, they will be less of a problem later.
Think about it. Who is more likely to become confrontational, to attack you and yours… somebody who’s well fed and has their own preps, or somebody who’s watching their children starve?
To me, it’s self evident that it is in MY best interest and that of my family that YOU prep. It’s in our best interest that EVERYBODY we can talk into it, no matter what their race, religious affiliations, sexual orientation, political ideology, or whatever is.
So if we are all better off to encourage EVERYBODY, no matter who they are, to prep, why are we as a community exclusive and decisive? Why are so many prepper websites and organizations geared towards “only the right type of people” being prepared?
Witness
In a sense, part of what we as prepping bloggers are doing is sharing our beliefs and knowledge about the various aspects of living the prepared life. We are witnessing to others about preparedness much like missionaries witness about their religious faiths. In many cases, people intertwine the two and while we choose to keep ours separated again we come back to being inclusive… we want to present “a good witness” for the prepared lifestyle.
I suspect to a lot of folks this seems silly
I get it. The world of 2019, when this is written, isn’t like the world was when I grew up back in the 1960’s. I am a curmudgeon.
Having said that, I’m a curmudgeon who wouldn’t be ashamed to show my writing to my pastor, my mother or even my grandmother (were, of course, the later two still living).
You can trust me on this one, I know the words. I could “talk blue” with everybody short of Eminem (I admit he would thrash me in a battle of obscenities) but to what purpose?
How does this stuff affect you, the reader?
We monitor all of our comments here at 3BY, and approve most of them that are not outright spam (there are, literally, dozens of spam messages a day). The stuff hits my email a lot.
We don’t actually approve or deny them based upon whether the person leaving the comment agrees or disagrees with us. Rather, we monitor them to make sure they meet our rules.
- No politics
- No profanity
- Last but not least, no bashing of people who disagree with us (i.e. some group of people who have a different ideology).
The reason we do this is that we want people of every ideology to be welcome here, because it’s in all of our best interests if they and everybody else are prepping. I know a lot of folks don’t agree with this, and that’s fine. But it’s not something that’s going to be changing any time soon.
There’s no harm in being G rated on the internet, and there’s a lot to gain from it, so that’s how we roll.
Good on you!!! Glad you are not using profanity. It doesn’t help anything.
its all about having respect for other people. sadly its not something you find to much anymore. chivalry is dead my friends, died years ago. and people wonder I try and recluse myself from society. thanks again for your hard work on this website, I look forward to your posts everyday, its something I look forward to
Salty;
Good for you old man, we, or at least I appreciate the “Clean” site.
There are a few of these around, and NO I’m not advertising.
AND yes there are a LOT of sites that seem to promote and welcome ….. well lets say “Bad Behavior” to an extreme, of which seem to do nothing but give Prepared/Lifestylers a worse name that Dooms Day Preppers did/do/have.
Keep the cussing to when ya smash the thumb with a framing hammer (and yes I have done both hehehe) and NOT in a informational BLOG as your’s.
Thank You
NRP
While I find this site mostly apolitical, calling a place like New Jersey the “People’s Republic of …” is overtly political and by doing so establishes a reasonable understanding of what your political persuasion is
Your claim of being apolitical is a stretch. Referring to, say New Jersey as “The People’s Republic of…” is an overt political position statement, and establishes your political persuasion
That’s fair. As an FYI we no longer do that, we caught that in our own reviews and don’t use that phrase in any new content.
PEPPER & GULO
I agree with the “trying” to be ‘apolitical’ on a preparedness site, but dose the fact it’s a preparedness site NOT make a statement?
Fortunately I’m not a editor of 3B&Y so I can flat out say I’m 1000% anti politics, and totally believe ALL of those in that “game” are crooks and liars.
Some emergencies are related to political situations, but some are just Life Happening. Preps don’t care; so we don’t have to either.
Preparedness is not a statement any more than being a backpacker, Pilot or cross country skier. An activity ones chooses to participate in is just that, an activity. Granted there is often a common thread amongst those who participate in preparedness, but that is not a blanket assumption of one’s political persuasion. We each have our own reasons for making sure we can weather the most likely storms that may come our way.
Heckboy? Is that someones slightly less mischievous younger brother? Too funny
In the Bible there is mention of “coarse language” …
not specific words, mind you, but reference to the intent.
using curse words tends to lower the bar thus opening the door to shallow thinking…hence the biblical warning…
So, yeah..keep it clean…mind, body, spirit and home.
Thank you for keeping it clean. I very much appreciate that.