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SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

Silver Alicorn posted:

ff into the wilds

earth week got me thinking, it's completely possible to live without all this computer bull poo poo. i've heard the internet makes you stupid. I used to be really into hiking and camping but since becoming an adult I've slipped into some destructive patterns and forgotten my roots. I want to start making trips into the wilderness and really getting away from it all

all of it

i would do this but my revolting nerd body is pathetically frail and would crumple into dust outside of a cushioned chair in a climate controlled building

# ¿ Apr 29, 2018 16:57

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# ¿ Sep 30, 2023 03:54

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Jonny 290 posted:

i surveyed the parking lot at 4 am at the nearby target/king soopers/mcdonalds strip, and there were FOURTEEN vans, buses or motorhomes clearly being slept in.

this is in one of denver's few lakefront neighborhoods

the housing situation is loving untenable

oh half of them are beat to poo poo 87 bagos and the other half are 110k Sprinters

ugh christ this makes me want to start checking out some of the walmart and similar parking lots here. disaster tourism in my own backyard or something. :-/

# ¿ May 21, 2018 20:18

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President Beep posted:

i just check out ur post history

# ¿ May 21, 2018 21:18

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C.H.O.M.E. posted:

jonny i hear you, but what if i did?

you better airbrush a big fuckin' wizard on that sumbtich

# ¿ Jun 13, 2018 00:51

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

loving BUMP

# ¿ Jun 21, 2018 02:32

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lancemantis posted:

i need to figure out a good earthquake preparedness stove setup

just get a lighter and find a ruptured gas main, now you've got a stove for the whole neighborhood.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2018 19:55

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DrPossum posted:

this is my brain's reaction to thinking about going to work tomorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5WRhoXge6A

Mm-hmm.

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

oh god dammit

Yup.

# ¿ Nov 5, 2018 01:55

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Jonny 290 posted:

lol carnie. how are carnivals still even a thing

probably (definitely) by exploiting their labor to hell and back

one route i take to work i drive past a guy who must run a travelling carnival. whole yard full of rides, concession stands, and random trucks and RVs. mostly empty in the warmer weather, full during the winter.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2018 01:41

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Achmed Jones posted:

oh yeah count me in for sure. ill bring good dogs

they will be big dogs because dog goodness is usually positively correlated with size

get a newfie to pull the raft

# ¿ Nov 9, 2018 03:59

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

bump.

thread's only 5th from the top so not much of a bump but the sentiment is still there believe me

# ¿ Nov 12, 2018 23:54

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GWBBQ posted:

i wish we had an actual fall this year instead of going from 85 degrees directly to 40 degrees in the daytime so I could have taken a week off to get in some quality hammock time with my kindle, leaving only as determined by the progress of the beer in/beer out cycle and my perceived risk of getting west nile virus based on mosquito density

dehumanize yourself and face to climate change. poo poo fuckin' sucks.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2018 15:42

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HAIL eSATA-n posted:

it's gross, op

*walks into party* (work w/me here)
*sees chalkboard with #instatags*
hii welcome 2 whatevervent the tag for this party is #somedumbshit like and subscribe!!!

what horrible garbage

i would upload and tag goatse

# ¿ Nov 20, 2018 22:57

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big scary monsters posted:

my ultimate vision is to ensure that no human has to touch a computer ever again

in the future, it will be computers touching humans. forever.

# ¿ Nov 24, 2018 14:51

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qirex posted:

you can't really take your own sunset heart hands pictures without some sort of tripod or gimbal

uh hello, google glass ??

# ¿ Dec 20, 2018 22:58

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Colonel J posted:

I really want to govplay outside but I spent 5/6ths of my life touching a computer. Its all I know how to do. its loving depressing.

hooray

# ¿ Mar 21, 2019 02:24

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

bump because the entire world is assholes

# ¿ Mar 28, 2019 20:36

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Jonny 290 posted:

bag problem? maybe

I bet the container store has a bag to store those bags in

Pham Nuwen posted:

nice load shelf.

idk man german toilets seem pretty weird

# ¿ Apr 10, 2019 13:06

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Share Bear posted:

thanks for the tip

this thread seems to be a more mountains/camping thing when i am definitely more for beaches/fishing kind of escape

this thread is for all forms of escape from tech bullshit (except drinking we have a separate thread for that)

# ¿ Apr 21, 2019 19:20

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do it all up 70s van-culture style

(more rad poo poo itt)

# ¿ Apr 26, 2019 01:50

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Ciaphas posted:

but upon my return i was accosted i say. all tellin me what to do

oh look its the canal carrying you'are poasting

# ¿ May 5, 2019 19:30

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has this guy come up in yospos before? idk probably but whatever it's good poo poo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz9I2YwmV8M

# ¿ Jul 3, 2019 02:10

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Silver Alicorn posted:

thinking of getting a bike so my partner and I can ride around town like hipsters

go full hipster, get a tandem bike

# ¿ Jul 19, 2019 16:22

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get therapy

# ¿ Aug 28, 2019 00:46

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i'm not being snarky either you seriously sound miserable

# ¿ Aug 28, 2019 00:47

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https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=214

# ¿ Aug 28, 2019 01:37

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Sagebrush posted:

i dream of someday buying a little tiny float plane and flying it up to any of the 100,000 tiny unspoiled lakes in northern quebec where no humans ever go and just existing in the real world

this is a random 40x40 mile chunk of land a few hours north of ottawa. infinite lakes, one road, no cities, no people

# ¿ Aug 29, 2019 00:25

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psiox posted:

Even then, it's not like you can really count on that lasting. The idea of long-term planning has been taken out back and shot by boomers. Not that it was much more than a fantasy for the privileged, anyway. Hooray.

Otherwise, I'd be really tempted to do the hairy mountain man thing, but I'd be worried about stranding myself in a situation that would be hard to get out of if (when?) things get Really Bad.

i'd do the hairy mountain man thing but i am a Tremendous Pussy who also doesnt know poo poo about gently caress

syntaxrigger posted:

This is a great picture. I am starting to understand the allure of bird watching. Between 9:30 and 10:30 my backyard becomes a disney princess movie but with grackels and rabbits.

birds are great, pimp your backyard with birdfeeders. suet in the colder months, hummingbird feeder comes out next month for us.

poo poo i should try hand feeding birds now

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 17:15

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EIDE Van Hagar posted:

nah you just have to pay $200-$250 per day for a visa, depending on the season.

we went in September and it was $220/day for the visa and $180 a day for literally everything else.

how soon we forget the memes of old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xALZs5mxPdU

# ¿ Oct 28, 2020 00:33

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# ¿ Sep 30, 2023 03:54

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EIDE Van Hagar posted:

and standard undeveloped country travel tips apply.

get vaccinated with whatever the cdc and who say you should to travel there

the locals are mostly vegetarian and you will mostly eat turnips and turnip greens. i think 95% of the food we ate involved steamed or boiled turnip greens. they do have chicken for the tourists at some places but it�s the most gristly bone filled chicken I have ever eaten, like floor sweepings from a chicken slaughterhouse in india.

the whole country has 800,000 people, the capital has 115,000 people. the largest contributor to their GDP is the electricity from a hydroelectric dam that they sell to india. india also built the dam. it�s really an agrarian subsistence farming economy. the GDP is roughly $3,000 USD per capita. tourism is the second largest contributor to their GDP.

all in, you�ll pay the about 90% amount you would pay on a trip to Paris with a 3-star hotel and modest daily food budget, but you are going to one of the poorest countries in the world so literally nowhere in the US is comparable in terms of remoteness or industrial development so be prepared to go with the flow and not contact anyone for most of the trip.

i was able to buy a local sim card in the city but it was in my tour guide�s name (you could not buy one as a foreigner when i was there) and some tour guides don�t want to have a bunch of sims in their name, so i didn�t ask but he offered so i got one, hopefully he made some good money marking it up to sell to me 🤷🏼‍♂️

that said, the country is basically untouched Himalayan mountains with some tiered subsistence farms, and rivers full of clear snowmelt. you feel like you are traveling back in time a thousand years. it�s completely worth it.

i have the names of the tour company we used pm me if you want it, i never felt anything other than safe in the time we were there, the govt required local guide and driver really nice and very knowledgeable, it�s one of my top 2 amazing trips along with the antarctic peninsula and i have been at least once to 6 of the 7 continents

some day I will finally catch em all and go to the marsupial island, but not this year.

ok cool now tell us about the dicks https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3945787

# ¿ Oct 28, 2020 23:18

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