Have fun, Jon <3
Edit: I sometimes keep forgetting the meme communities on Lemmy are incapable of taking things as the joke they are. Y’all worry too much about taking shit seriously. Chill out lol
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- Air mattress and a good sleeping bag.
- Use a candle and a spray. You also shouldn’t get bites inside your tent.
- Fucking how? Also, if your backpack has food, it should either be in your car, suspended in the air between trees or in a locker provided by the campground.
- See 1.
- Tarps exist for several reasons, putting them above your tent and your eating area is one of them.
- Or a cot. I’m a huge cot fan.
Not liking camping without a cot or a backpacking hammock is like saying you don’t like swimming because your jeans get too heavy.
I used to be of the “just sleep on the ground, it feels fine” mindset. Then I turned 30. My back doesn’t like sleeping on the hard ground anymore, but a cot is perfectly comfortable.
But I have jeans. I don’t want to buy, store, or transport the right scuba gear.
Then don’t go scuba diving? And don’t complain about it?
That’s a lot of work when you can just stay home.
Life’s a lot of work when you could just be dead instead
I feel like there’s wiggle room in between the two of those.
Holy shit, you’re right!
I gotta go do a thing. We probably won’t talk later.Being dead cuts into my masturbation time.
SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!
🖐️🥴
I notice you only held up one hand…
The real question is do you go dominant or off hand?
Do you use the candle and spray as a flamethrower
Only for the big mosquitos
Alaskan SWAT team checking in.
I detest camping. I’ve camped in a number of places and it has never been good. I don’t care if it’s the rolling Mongolian steppe greeting me in the morning, it’s still horrible.
I like floors.
Which is why I upgraded to an RV/Camper. The smallest, lightest I can find.
I don’t mind being outside, cooking, eating, everything else. But I want a floor and a bed for sleeping, along with kind-of-solid walls.
That sounds about where I’m at. I’m happy to spend all day outside and I prefer to be barefoot in general. But I want a bit of floor for sleeping on. Far too many nights spent in perpetually soggy tents!
And being able to stand up, fully, to dress/change, or pee in the middle of the night
Camping is a blast. Pair it with fishing for a really good time
When I was like 7-9 I went on a “camping” trip with my football/soccer team.
Really, we were just putting up tents on the field we usually practiced at after some very tame river rafting.
It was the first time I was away from my parents. And I was inconsolable. I cried most of the night. To the point the supervisors offered to call my parents so I could talk to them. (And mobile phoning someone back then was not cheap),
In the end I just cried myself empty.
Because I was asleep so late, I slept into the morning and my “tent mates” pulled down the tent around me while I was sleeping.
So I woke up in drizzling rain, lying in my sleeping bag on a thin plastic sheet with no tent around me. While all my “friends” were in the club house having breakfast.
I did not stay in the soccer club long after that.
So many fragile campers in the comments. It’s ok if people don’t like your hobby. They might not find it worth the time, money, and effort to “get good”. You don’t have to defend the things you like from people who aren’t into it.
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How dare anyone engage in conversation about the topic of the post! I might accidentally SEE an opinion I disagree with!
That is kinda what it feels like, yeah, that the pro-camp camp can’t accept that some people don’t like camping.
But… that’s not what the discussion or post are about lmao
Oh wow, you’re really passionate about not liking camping.
It’s also entirely reasonable for people to roast you and tell you to git gud when you make a whole ass post about it though. Right?
It’s like those posts about turning 30 and your body falling apart immediately. No, you’re probably doing something very wrong, that’s not normal. We can point you in the right direction and you can choose to ignore it, that’s fine. Nobody’s really being fragile here.
Right, it’s just as silly when I do it as all the commenters come in to defend camping.
Not when everything OP mentioned is lack of skills. One thing is to not like camping other is doing it completely wrong…
If you don’t like sounding, is it because of a lack of skill? Because it’s fun actually, you’re just doing it wrong. You should buy the right equipment and learn how to do it right. It’s one thing to not like it, but have you even done it correctly?
Comparing camping to stuffing rods into your cock is such forever indoor Redditor shit and it’s very funny that you don’t get it. Stay beautiful lol.
“Touch grass”
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“Dear god what is he doing with the blades of grass?”
Git gud lol
Where are these comments?
Yeah, that’s a good faith question. Blocking you.
Speaking of fragility
I would normally agree with you on the “get good” sentiment being obnoxious to deal with but…. nature doesn’t fuck around. People who go into the wilderness unprepared can and do die.
It’s not just bears and starvation that can kill you. You can get sick, get infections, get poisoned, get frostbite, hypothermia, heat stroke, and many other afflictions that will either ruin your trip, ruin your life, or kill you if you’re unlucky enough. Even just something as simple as scraping your knee on a rock can give you a staph infection that costs you your leg, a risk that can be averted just by wearing a pair of jeans when walking in the woods.
But besides all that: camping is way more enjoyable when you do some basic research, make a plan, and do the basic preparations you need for the plan to be successful. If you’re not willing to do that then you probably shouldn’t go camping in the first place!
You sound like every other comment I’m talking about. You’re patting yourself on the back and saying um actually camping is fun. Again: you don’t have to defend your hobby from people that don’t like it.
Also, saying you gotta do everything right or die makes camping sound even worse.
The number of times I’ve been camping in 41 years of life can be counted on one hand, so I wouldn’t exactly call it my hobby. Would you care to try again?
Also what’s the big deal with reading about camping safety so that you know to bring a first aid kit, extra warm blankets, pitch your tent on high ground, and any other reasonable measures to keep yourself warm, dry, and reasonably safe from infections or illnesses?
As for “you sound like…” that’s called responding to tone or tone policing. There’s unfortunately far too much of it on Lemmy and it’s a pretty strong sign of its immaturity as a discussion community. Unfortunate!
Allow me to be serious for a moment: That is absolutely not what tone policing is. Please go read this or something a bit more in depth than the wiki article: https://blog.stetson.edu/faculty-engagement/tone-policing/
Tone policing is a much older and more common tactic than that. It’s fallacious because it’s responding to the implied tone of a person’s writing (or their emotions) rather than the specific claims of their argument.
Except this is a comparison to other comments, not the tone of the comment. A crow sounds like a raven in not the same thing as a crow sounds like a jerk/sounds angry and not worth listening to/etc. If that’s confusing, I give up. Tone policing is something used to oppress minorities and crush dissent. Using it to try and win stupid pointless arguments about camping of all things really sqiucks me out.
Homelessness, but fun.
Stealth camping is a real thing, where people try to scout spots to stay overnight without getting caught.
But unless it’s coming from a specific part of France, it’s just sparkling homelessness. It’s really just a bunch of rich dudes who like to cosplay as homeless.
Stealth camping is just recreational homelessness
Jon suchs at camping LOL
There’s two types of camping: (1) outdoor camping, which is the shitty one ; and (2) indoor, which has pillow forts.
You wouldn’t have made it though the paleolithic era bro. You don’t have the survival instincts ᵃⁿᵈ ᵃˡˢᵒ ᶦᵗ ˡᵃˢᵗᵉᵈ ˡᶦᵏᵉ ³ ᵐᶦˡˡᶦᵒⁿ ʸᵉᵃʳˢ ᵒʳ ˢᵒᵐᵉᵗʰᶦⁿᵍ ᵃⁿᵈ ⁿᵒᵇᵒᵈʸ ʰᵃˢ ᵉᵛᵉʳ ˡᶦᵛᵉᵈ ᶠᵒʳ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ˡᵒⁿᵍ ˢᵒ ᶠᵃʳ
I dunno, I like my chances. Been living so far and the trend is continuing in the right direction to survive that long
I said so far cause I think that in like 150 years science will have advanced enough to make the quadrillionaire oligarchs undying and unkillable
I fucking hate camping so much
It’s definitely an experience rather than a vacation sort of thing. I like it
I hate camping too lol, but I like staying in nature in a little cabin or lodge haha
At least your friends weren’t trampled by a moose.
Someone wasn’t in the scouts.
Seriously. Mice? Are they homeless?
This is a very inefficient method of telling everyone that you don’t know how to camp for shit.
People that don’t enjoy sounding might not want to do it for reasons other than lack of skill. Same with camping.
Yeah, but if someone says “I hate sounding, stabbing myself in the balls sucks!” you’d have a pretty good idea that they are doing it wrong. There’s a difference between “I hate activity, it’s not for me” and “I hate activity, I actively participate in it in a way that is easily avoidable and will make me miserable.” It’s just a meme, let people discuss it lmao
Yeah, you should definitely have a massive hangover in the morning, too
I don’t understand drunk hangovers.
Drink water. Then you don’t have hangovers. That’s it.
Yeah, but alcohol and water are both heavy in volume. Gotta set priorities when hauling out to the wilderness!
Alcohol is less than 80% the weight of water, so just carry that instead. Plus you have an antiseptic.
Acetaldehyde is also produced when alcohol is metabolized and it causes hangover symptoms, no amount of hydration will solve that. It’s also the reason hangovers can be influenced by genetics
You will eventually. You start feeling hangovers more and more sometimes in your late 20s or early 30s.
At some point jUsT dRiNk WaTeR doesn’t work and it will happen to you too.
I’m 38, about a year or two ago was when “drink enough water” stopped working. It’ll make you more functional, but that hangover ain’t going away until it decides it’s time to go, not you.
Not to mention if you’re out parting hard for an event you will have that hangover and feel it in other ways for two days. Heard it only gets better to as you age 🙃
Someone’s age is showing.
When i was young the water method worked but that was a long ago, it all gets fucked up later in life. I was among the first in my friend group who had killer hangovers, and by the time we reached 40 almost everyone told me something along the lines of “now i know how you felt”.
Them everybody clapped
