Camping Reform

[Egbert]

You think we needed more evidence that Australians are uncivilized?

If you need more evidence that Australians are uncivilised then this is for you:

Gangs of louts brawling in the street.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-13/street-brawl-shuts-down-parts-of-melbourne's-cbd/7242676

[kentonio]

If you need more evidence that Australians are uncivilised then this is for you:

Gangs of louts brawling in the street.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-1...'s-cbd/7242676

Looks like any English city on a Friday night to be fair..

[Egbert]

Looks like any English city on a Friday night to be fair..

As a former colony we do our best to maintain English traditions.

We probably need more gangs of uncouth louts to have enough wild street brawls to keep up with the mother country.

[The Mad Monk]

Yeah, Camping is ok, but solar powered tents are just crazy. For one you're not going to get a great profile, unless you build a tent in the open and if you know anything about camping you don't pitch a ****ing tent where it's open.

Completely depends on where you're camping.

Not really. It mustly depends on who you are with.

Why would that change where you pitch a tent?

You're right; it mostly depends on whether you are pro or con lightning strikes.

[kentonio]

You're right; it mostly depends on whether you are pro or con lightning strikes.

Lightning strikes? Why would you go camping when there's going to be lightning storms? You know we have this crazy magic thing called weather forecasts now right?

[Lorizael]

Maybe you planned your camping trip further in advance than we can predict the weather and you're not a *****.

[kentonio]

Maybe you planned your camping trip further in advance than we can predict the weather and you're not a *****.

I think this thread just shows there's a major difference in camping between the UK and the US. Over in England people just go camping in civilized places with fields. It sounds like Americans prefer their camping to be a cross between Deliverance and the Revenant.

[Lorizael]

Hm. Perhaps. In my experience (Boy Scouts as a kid, road trip as an adult), camping usually means finding an at least superficially isolated bit of woods or hills and then pretending you're roughing it like the pioneers of old. I imagine such a feat is easier to pull off in America than Europe, but it's mostly an illusion.

[Bereta_Eder]

The only time I went camping (I bought a tent and everything) the frakking tent legs/spikes wouldn't go deep into the ground. Frustrated I took a rock and started pounding on the legs. What I didn't notice was that there was an elastic rope sticking out of the legs that went all the way up and held the tent upstraight. So when I hit the spike/leg the elastic cord snapped. WOOOOOOOOOOSH. Luckily I wasn't injured.

Then I had to go fish out the leastic rope out of the plastic legs because other wise the tent was "spinless" I spent a lot of time doing that. The sun started to go down.
When I finally managed, I had to secure it outside of the plastic leg, so I bruised my fingers trying to tie a knot large enough so it would hold/stick out of the plastic leg, and sometimes I failed so I had to do it all over again.

When I finally managed, the elstic rope was of course seriously curtailed which (after I again pouned carefully the plastic leg/spike in the ground) made the tent look like it had suffered a major earthquare. half o it was bend and curved way out of shape.

I crawled in and went to sleep.

the other day as the strong sun was shining and it woke me up I heard laughter. from all the other campers that were looking at my tent

[rah]

At least you hope is was because of the tent.

[Bereta_Eder]

that was the first and last camping attempt if you don't count the one time we slept at the courtyard of a closed for the summer school on an island because we had missed the last ferry to the other island where our hotel was.

that was actually a sweet experience because there were also girls and we cuddled/hugged to protect from the "cold" (of course) there was no cold it was ****ing mid summer in greece.

also some stray dogs found us out and came and kept us company. i'm pretty sure they were guarding us untill the morning came

[rah]

They probably just wanted your WOMEN, and were waiting for you to leave them.

[Bereta_Eder]

that was also the one time when something amazing happened.
we were a large group and there were a lot of relationships formed in that journey (we were young) and for me it was my first time I felt "in love"

so it was night and the sky was full of stars. there was a cliff that stared onto the sea. the setting was mezmerising, ubelievably beautiful. and I looked at the constelations and the face of the girl I was "in love" with appeared on the stars.
I swear it was true.
it was something magical and no substances of any kind were involved.

pretty much edged in memory with the potenc of royal honey

the only thing that came close (apart another) was after leaving on morning from another conquest and (since I was a student) i sat on a small caffee to have a morning coffee. the caffe was slightly on the top of a hill and I could see a large portion of the city underneath. and it seemed to me that the coffee place started hovering above the city i was so lovesweet ecstatically and also serenily happy, I was "flying" over the city, the whole world was at my feet.
i reutned home not really walking but rather floating. I looked at things from above with happiness with a full heart and amazing strength.

pretty intense too

[rah]

I did drugs when I was younger too.

[Bereta_Eder]

you still do