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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The only thing I really struggle with is shitting in the woods. Everything else is manageable.
More fiber.
Also, if you wait long enough, it won’t be a struggle.
Depending on how far you need to travel, just bring a 5 gallon bucket with a hole cut in the bottom. Flip it over and shit through the hole. Portable toilet.
I don’t necessarily mean struggle with the act, it’s just the nature of it.
I like plumbing, I’m particularly attached to it.
If you’re attached to your plumbing I think someone put glue on your toilet seat
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.
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.
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.
Where are these comments?
Yeah, that’s a good faith question. Blocking you.
Speaking of fragility
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.
Git gud lol
“Touch grass”
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“Dear god what is he doing with the blades of grass?”
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.
Oh wow, you’re really passionate about not liking camping.
Your dozen comments suggest this is pretty important to you. I take it you’ve suffered in the wilderness at some point? If so, my sympathies! A rough night outdoors can be genuinely awful.
But the “fragile” campers aren’t crying because they feel insulted - they’re just trying to share information about their hobby and hopefully help people like you not hate their lives if/when they venture into the wilderness.
It’s not like fucking sounding or taxidermy, but those were hilariously silly analogies, so thanks for that.
It’s more like someone making a meme about a video game that basically boils down to “this game sucks because I skipped the tutorial” and you’re out here saying “yeah but the game is torture.”
You don’t have to camp! It’s genuinely not for everybody, and that’s okay! But many people love it, so try not to be so down on others for the things they love and for trying to share their hobbies with others.
For me, camping is fun the day after I get home and have already had a shower, a good sleep, and put everything away.
Putting stuff away is the worst part, especially if you have to air out wet tarps
It’s a meme but you just tickled my autism.
It gets better with every single trip. I remember my first wilderness backpacking. Horrible. No sleep. Anxiety. Sun stroke.
Hundreds of trips later I sleep out of my backpack than I do in my apartment in the city. Every time you go out you dial in your gear and strategy a little more.
The thing I hate the most is not being clean which is why I don’t usually do more than 3 nights out there alone anymore. After several days of sweating I just stop having any sort of fun. And I’m a wimp for cold water and have no idea how these people are jumping into alpine lakes.
That said, though, I like your meme because it discourages other people to try it. It’s hard enough to get permits for certain trails!
I like your meme because it discourages other people to try it.
Huh? You just said the meme is relatable and if you do go camping and this happens you could do a ‘goddamn, I should’ve known’.
It’s hard enough to get permits for certain trails!
Ah, so you’re just selfish
People destroy nature, that’s just sadly how it is
Hoenstly, if youve ever seen a favourite spot or trail get absolutely overrun by instagram tourists and the general public youd understand that feeling.
Theres beautiful spots in the peak district that get so clogged up in the summer that youve got cars parked up and down every single road in a 10 mile radius.
Ive volunteered with groups that do weekly litter picks at some of these spots and trails and we’ll often run out of bags.
I dont think its selfish to wish these spots just never got discovered by the public. As soon as one of these beauty spots gets big, its a losing battle against the general public and everyone who wants to make bank from them
I love camping, and have had some great trips in the rain. Can be very comfy even with a backpack setup if you know what you’re doing.
That being said, this is hilarious.
And at least you have enough unsolicited advice to make it more comfortable if you want to go again 😅
Most of these can honestly be solved by getting a hammock with an integrated bug net, an underquilt and a tarp if it’s raining. You can get like all of that for ~$200 brand new that’s half decent. Onewind makes some pretty alright stuff for the money.
I don’t think I’m ever sleeping on the ground if I ever get a chance.
Skill issue
I say the same thing when people say they don’t enjoy taxidermy because of the dead animal aspect.
It’s definitely an experience rather than a vacation sort of thing. I like it
Jon suchs at camping LOL
Tell your friend to gitgud
I used to hate camping for this reason.
Then I learned how to set up a hammock. It’s (roughly) the same amount of effort to set up, but I actually sleep better than in a bed.
Switching to hammocking made a huge difference for me!
Eventually I did the AT and hammocked almost every night. Only drawback was leaving my pack outside overnight and picking off the spiders and insects in the am.
You mean picking the spiders from you or from your backpack?
I case of the former, there are mosquito nets for hammocks. I use them when I go wild camping with my hammock almost every time.
Picking them off my pack.
I use a hammock gear hammock, attached bug screen and internal ridge line. So it pops right up as you hang it.
Why not hang your pack to keep it off the ground? I’m assuming you have the ability to do so, since you’re already setting up a hanging hammock. Paracord is cheap and easy to stow in your pack, and you can just tie it around a rock to toss over a tree branch.
I did do that a bit. Generally I preferred to just keep it under the rain fly though to grab stuff if needed. And that makes pack up in the am much quicker anyway.
Ended up just not caring about the insects after the first few weeks.
Tangentially related: setting up hammocks in my living room was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. It’s so comfortable.
It’s pretty much the only way I get a decent nights sleep while camping, even with a great air mistress my back gets sore
Yeah, but air mistresses give really good blow jobs! I’ll let myself out…
Would be a flex to summon a giant soft woman to sleep on while camping, wizard goals
“Single white wizard looking to conjure a woman from thin air. Thin being the key word, no fatties. Must love pondering orbs and long beards.”
Wizard wants ads is a pretty great image skip to
“Contracts are so restrictive, we think of it closer to friends with benifits”
I use a portable cot with a mattress pad, it’s quite comfy =)
I love my backpacking cot, sets up in like 2 minutes and I’m off the ground and can lay comfortably anywhere, I like to lay by the fire before bed at night, it’s perfect.
Camping is a blast. Pair it with fishing for a really good time
- 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.
Do you use the candle and spray as a flamethrower
Only for the big mosquitos
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.
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?
Holy shit, you’re right!
I gotta go do a thing. We probably won’t talk later.
i stopped going camping when i moved away from home. good riddance.
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
