>>1774545When some of the first paratroopers retired, many of them wrote books. That wasn't that long ago considering the first use of parachutes was WWII, albeit anecdotical, but it wasn't until the Cold War most countries had dedicated paratrooper forces, trained to drop beyond enemy lines, taught to rely on nothing but themselves, and survive.
So they wrote survival books, where they exposed their techniques. This is the basis on which "bushcraft" and "survival" trends started. While most of their techniques revolve around stuff like stealing chickens in farms and make it appear like it's a fox, they also did a lot of trapping and fishing, relying on what little they brought with them and carried. And being paratroopers, with a parachute they had no further use of, you bet they had a lot of paracord. One of the first things they did was use their parachute silk canopy as a hammock, tied to trees using paracord, and the parachute hammock was born. And then they still had a whole fucking lot of paracord, so they did everything with paracord. Retards took it literally, and thus the paracord meme was born.
Had they been tennis players they would have praised cat gut, and given the opportunity, you bet they'd have used something else. There were two points there: take the most out of what you have, and cord/rope is very useful. Retards just bought paracord and didn't even konw what to do with it, similar to how people these days buy a knife "because it's useful for survival" but don't have any related skills.
Back when /out/ was created, I made pic related because retards wouldn't stop talking about paracord with some shitty meme picture, so I made this one to show how some random cord outperforms it easy.
The only good thing about paracord is you can find any specific color or camo you want. But then it's still really shitty. I got some specific color paracord for a knife lanyard that matches the scale, after a few months /out/ that lanyard was fucking dying.
