Living off the land 100%
- Thread starter Stanley Edwards
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Hows about, hows about, we all STFU and stop destroying our own reputations as quickly as we are destroying the good of these boards? Nobody wants to read this shit - nobody!
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
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chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
40kg!!!!
Mine is under 10kg. Including tent and sleeping stuff plus a couple of days worth of food.
I am back-tracking on a train. Need to make cash.
You spend a few days in a place, get to know the beautiful people, then you leave
Aveiro is cool as. Or, at least the people here are cool as. Few police. Decriminalised drug laws, and bars you can smoke in. I have reliable friends here already, and a whole heap of local knowledge to explore. I am thoroughly having a fucking fantastic time
You spend a few days in a place, get to know the beautiful people, then you leave
Aveiro is cool as. Or, at least the people here are cool as. Few police. Decriminalised drug laws, and bars you can smoke in. I have reliable friends here already, and a whole heap of local knowledge to explore. I am thoroughly having a fucking fantastic time
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
I clicked my heels, that's what did it.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Athos
Well-Known Member
I am back-tracking on a train. Need to make cash.
You spend a few days in a place, get to know the beautiful people, then you leave
Aveiro is cool as. Or, at least the people here are cool as. Few police. Decriminalised drug laws, and bars you can smoke in. I have reliable friends here already, and a whole heap of local knowledge to explore. I am thoroughly having a fucking fantastic time
So your walk across Portugal surviving on what you can forage had become travelling around on a train, working for money, and buying food from a supermarket? Cool. I do the same.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
not-bono-ever
meh
its just fucking inter-railing.
Imagine if Shackleton had set off after talking it up in the pub for weeks beforehand and 2 weeks later was spotted in le havre, dumping his remaining shrapnel on the bar for une pression, rooting through the bins behind KFC and sleeping under a crane in the docks in his piss stained underdogs
weak
Imagine if Shackleton had set off after talking it up in the pub for weeks beforehand and 2 weeks later was spotted in le havre, dumping his remaining shrapnel on the bar for une pression, rooting through the bins behind KFC and sleeping under a crane in the docks in his piss stained underdogs
weak
not-bono-ever
meh
75 cl
Fuck me you sneery cunts. I don't recall him claiming he was attempting a world record here.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Nope, he said this:
My plan is to harvest as I walk and fish for fish in the evening. I am going to try living off the land 100% for food as I travel
He's done fuck all of that afaics.
Which is up to him of course. But if you start a thread about doing this (look at the title, the OP) and then don't bother even trying, well, a little gentle pisstaking is fair game imho.
There was a post a little further down the thread dispensing foot advice for hikers after he'd walked something like 14km through the suburbs ffs.
That's funny in my book.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Stanley, I think there are two incorrect assumptions in your post.
Firstly, that your presence here puts the "good of the boards" at any risk whatsoever. It doesn't. There have been more foolish, nastier, sillier, cleverer, stupider, and more crayzee people on this boards, and there will continue to be. You are just one of those.
Secondly, I think you underestimate the degree to which anyone on this thread (or any of your other threads) is "destroying [their] own reputations" in any meaningful way. As for your reputation? Well, that's pretty well established, and all you ever succeed in doing - with a quite incredible degree of consistency - is reinforcing that reputation. And it's not all bad: you have supporters here, and there are clearly aspects of your lifestyle that you and others put some store by. But there is also the other side - your reputation for making outrageous (and probably fantastical) claims, defending them way beyond their sell-by date, and then launching into a vituperative attack on everyone who disagrees with you, is extremely well-established.
Ironically, I think that reputation might be quite easy to destroy. If you started acknowledging the actual truth behind any given story, rather than tying yourself in knots defending the indefensible, I think you would find that the more positive aspects of your lifestyle, not least the adventure that is someone living life from day to day with a kind of freedom most of us never get to enjoy, would get a great deal more positive attention.
I know, from my own interactions with you on here, just how thin-skinned you can be at the slightest disagreement. I've seen you regularly go from "good bloke" to "cunt" with people simply because they dared to challenge your attitudes. Lose that defensiveness, and you might just find you're getting the affirmation and positive regard it is pretty obvious to me you're craving, but going about getting in a totally unproductive way.
Try it some time.
Treacle Toes
Time
The thread title needs a little editing... '100% not living off the land' 
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yeh. if we all STFU then we will destroy the boards and nobody wants that. what good are discussion boards with no discussion?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
...oh, and the Savile quotage probably wasn't the most...diplomatic move.
I am in a secret place going through alcohol withdrawal induced paranoia. Everybody thinks I am a nasty, evil baby killer. Hiding until I can safely get back to where I stopped walking. I have picked some more beet things (like those on my blog). Anybody know what they are?
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Here is the irony of this thread. I have been accused of many horrible things just for admitting publicly that some 14 year old girls are sexually attractive, and admitting that I unwittingly barged a person with Downs syndrome in reaction to their very aggressive barge of me. How the fuck was I supposed to know who barged me from behind? No excuse for the very poor reaction mind. And, yet, we have people like Athos using the term 'vulnerable adult' as a derisory, or derogatory insult. That is a level I would never lower myself to.
You all go wipe your arses with Dettol soaked flannel now. Anal, fucking self-condescending idiots.
This is a very nice secret place
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Here is the irony of this thread. I have been accused of many horrible things just for admitting publicly that some 14 year old girls are sexually attractive, and admitting that I unwittingly barged a person with Downs syndrome in reaction to their very aggressive barge of me. How the fuck was I supposed to know who barged me from behind? No excuse for the very poor reaction mind. And, yet, we have people like Athos using the term 'vulnerable adult' as a derisory, or derogatory insult. That is a level I would never lower myself to.
You all go wipe your arses with Dettol soaked flannel now. Anal, fucking self-condescending idiots.
This is a very nice secret place
TruXta
tired
Please fuck off and stay fucked off, there's a good boy.I am in a secret place going through alcohol withdrawal induced paranoia. Everybody thinks I am a nasty, evil baby killer. Hiding until I can safely get back to where I stopped walking. I have picked some more beet things (like those on my blog). Anybody know what they are?
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Here is the irony of this thread. I have been accused of many horrible things just for admitting publicly that some 14 year old girls are sexually attractive, and admitting that I unwittingly barged a person with Downs syndrome in reaction to their very aggressive barge of me. How the fuck was I supposed to know who barged me from behind? No excuse for the very poor reaction mind. And, yet, we have people like Athos using the term 'vulnerable adult' as a derisory, or derogatory insult. That is a level I would never lower myself to.
You all go wipe your arses with Dettol soaked flannel now. Anal, fucking self-condescending idiots.
This is a very nice secret place
Just for that, eh?
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Thread takes off, again.
not-bono-ever
meh
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Athos
Well-Known Member
I am in a secret place going through alcohol withdrawal induced paranoia. Everybody thinks I am a nasty, evil baby killer. Hiding until I can safely get back to where I stopped walking. I have picked some more beet things (like those on my blog). Anybody know what they are?
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Here is the irony of this thread. I have been accused of many horrible things just for admitting publicly that some 14 year old girls are sexually attractive, and admitting that I unwittingly barged a person with Downs syndrome in reaction to their very aggressive barge of me. How the fuck was I supposed to know who barged me from behind? No excuse for the very poor reaction mind. And, yet, we have people like Athos using the term 'vulnerable adult' as a derisory, or derogatory insult. That is a level I would never lower myself to.
You all go wipe your arses with Dettol soaked flannel now. Anal, fucking self-condescending idiots.
This is a very nice secret place
Be fair Stan, though I take the piss a bit, I was the one saying it's a step too far to brand you a possible nonce!
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