Living off the land 100%

[equationgirl]

I am getting closer to 100%.

Herring steamed with fried potatoes and onion in a tomato and coriander salsa. I tell you what, I have never tasted food this good. Hungry as fuck. Shattered. Need to sort out a bed. I have reached Nazare to see the One of the World's biggest waves. Almost didn't make it. Went through almighty alcohol withdrawal (bad me). Could hardly sketch. Had just a few Cents. Then, within 10 minutes of sketching some very kind person offered to buy me a beer. I am now a solvent, and very content alcoholic once again. Nazare is much more interesting than the tourist hell you might expect. More tomorrow. I am totally fucking fucked.

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Herring 80 Cents. Lemon recycled from the market. Garlic carrying with me with the oil and chilies. Potatoes, onions, coriander and tomatoes HARVESTED

You bought the herring.

You didn't harvest those things, you stole them - unless all the farmers gave you permission to take them?

You're sketching for money and getting free beer.

That's not living off the land, that's doing what you always do in a different location.

 

[Pickman's model]

Narcisistic in navare

 

[cupid_stunt]

Potatoes, onions, coriander and tomatoes HARVESTED

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Lemon recycled from the market.

How does that work?

 

[bluescreen]

Stuff chucked away at close of business?

 

[Cid]

So stan is foraging... Admittedly in a freegan/squat sense of the word. And rather half-arsedly. But foraging!

Although also not living off the land.

 

[bluescreen]

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

I would love to see a video of Stan cooking his forage food outdoors, Keith Floyd style..talking us through where he found/sourced his ingredients....whipping the chillis out of his bottomless backpack.....saying things like..."here's one I found earlier" as he peels off the Continente stickers.

 

[Pickman's model]

I would love to see a video of Stan cooking his forage food outdoors, Keith Floyd style..talking us through where he found/sourced his ingredients....whipping the chillis out of his bottomless backpack.....saying things like..."here's one I found earlier" as he peels off the Continente stickers.

There are good reasons why there are no videos like that: I am assured that videos featured in the original plan but cooler heads prevailed

 

[weltweit]

When I was hitchhiking round Oz as a gap year peep, i.e. living like a bum! I tried sometimes to live of the land. Actually looking back I don't recall eating very much. One day I managed to catch three large catfish which fed me and two mates that night.

I never succeeded to catch anything from the sea, and never foraged for plant life. I did learn how to make damper though which was interesting and gave me something to eat at the end of a day's hitching.

Damper (food) - Wikipedia

 

[The39thStep]

I would love to see a video of Stan cooking his forage food outdoors, Keith Floyd style..talking us through where he found/sourced his ingredients....whipping the chillis out of his bottomless backpack.....saying things like..."here's one I found earlier" as he peels off the Continente stickers.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Arggggefuckingargh. Laptop screen busted. Keyboard shortcuts, guess work and about a 100x60 pixel area visible. Just going to make cash to get to Lisbon and get things repaired/replaced. I bought this fucker because it was supposedly unbreakable (not cheap). Fuck knows how it broke so easily???

Laptop Nº 8 in less than 6 years Broken/stolen/broken/stolen/smashed by police/stolen/stolen/broken.

Hanging on here until Tuesday, but doubt I will even be arsed to charge this thing. May be quiet from me until Wednesday.

Anyone have any idea how much I should expect to be paying for a new screen and fitting on an Acer, Aspire One Cloudbook 11?


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Oh, and what is the keyboard shortcut to open Notepad? I really, really need this to open a file with passwords and stuff.

Thanks.


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OK. Sorted. I can work with 100 pixel resolution until Lisbon.

 

[bluescreen]

Acer's crap, basically. Cut your losses.

 

[Pickman's model]

Arggggefuckingargh. Laptop screen busted. Keyboard shortcuts, guess work and about a 100x60 pixel area visible. Just going to make cash to get to Lisbon and get things repaired/replaced. I bought this fucker because it was supposedly unbreakable (not cheap). Fuck knows how it broke so easily???

Laptop Nº 8 in less than 6 years Broken/stolen/broken/stolen/smashed by police/stolen/stolen/broken.

Hanging on here until Tuesday, but doubt I will even be arsed to charge this thing. May be quiet from me until Wednesday.

Anyone have any idea how much I should expect to be paying for a new screen and fitting on an Acer, Aspire One Cloudbook 11?


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Oh, and what is the keyboard shortcut to open Notepad? I really, really need this to open a file with passwords and stuff.

Thanks.

Why not forage a computer?

 

[Pickman's model]

Acer's crap, basically. Cut your losses.

I've been very happy with my auld acer netbook, not perfect but does almost everything I want

 

[bluescreen]

I've been very happy with my auld acer netbook, not perfect but does almost everything I want

 

[Stanley Edwards]

I've been very happy with my auld acer netbook, not perfect but does almost everything I want

Most fucking helpful, you stupid twat.

 

[Pickman's model]

Doesn't do games. But very good for everything else.

 

[Pickman's model]

Most fucking helpful, you stupid twat.

Why don't you do as I suggested and "forage" a computer? Not got the balls, the cojones, for it I suppose. Living off the land my arse

 

[chilango]

Why not forage a computer?

I think I saw Ray Mears fashion one out of birch sap and pine cones once....

 

[Pickman's model]

I think I saw Ray Mears fashion one out of birch sap and pine cones once....

I saw him make a raspberry pi once entirely from foraged ingredients

 

[cupid_stunt]

Arggggefuckingargh. Laptop screen busted.

You mean, you broke it.

I bought this fucker because it was supposedly unbreakable (not cheap).

Christ, you do live an 'alternative' life, no laptop nor screen is unbreakable, especially in the hand of a drunk.

Not cheap? The Acer Aspire One Cloudbook 11 sells on Amazon for about £170 new, that's cheap for a laptop.

Fuck knows how it broke so easily???

The actions of it's owner?

Laptop Nº 8 in less than 6 years Broken/stolen/broken/stolen/smashed by police/stolen/stolen/broken.

Fucking hell!

Perhaps if you didn't drink so much, you could look after your possessions? Just a thought, like.

 

[Riklet]

Sorry to hear about the laptop Stan! At least you've walked a fair way now. Im sure they can fix the screen in Lisbon.

What about a protective travel case next time and packing it carefully, rather than into a 4kg backback with a load of heavy objects, forraged tatties and carefully cooled beers!

You generally finding the Portuguese dead polite and formal compared to the Spanish (when their stuff isnt being forraged)?

 

[Pickman's model]

You mean, you broke it.



Christ, you do live an 'alternative' life, no laptop nor screen is unbreakable, especially in the hand of a drunk.

Not cheap? The Acer Aspire One Cloudbook 11 sells on Amazon for about £170 new, that's cheap for a laptop.



The actions of it's owner?



Fucking hell!

Perhaps if you didn't drink so much, you could look after your possessions? Just a thought, like.

Maybe a rugged computer

Dell Latitude Rugged Laptop | Dell United States

 

[Casually Red]

Don't do what this fucking twat is doing . Eating unknown ...and unwashed ..stuff right off the Portuguese bushes . He's bound to be riddled with parasites .




Eeuugh ! Goddamn hippies .

 

[cupid_stunt]

Maybe a rugged computer

Dell Latitude Rugged Laptop | Dell United States

From around £2,500 new on Amazon.

FFS, are you trying to give Stan a heart attack?

 

[Pickman's model]

From around £2,500 new on Amazon.

FFS, are you trying to give Stan a heart attack?

He's doing a good job of that himself with his smoking and drinking

 

[innit]

Don't do what this fucking twat is doing . Eating unknown ...and unwashed ..stuff right off the Portuguese bushes . He's bound to be riddled with parasites .




Eeuugh ! Goddamn hippies .

I could only stand a few seconds... they're mulberries, you ignorant twat.

 

[Riklet]

I think people are getting a bit worked up about the risks here. He's not berry and mushroom picking, is he.

Not that many things which can kill you in Portugal and Stan would have to be pretty unlucky to get sick even if cooking most stuff properly.

Crabs and dead random seafood I wouldnt touch unless freshly caught, but being straight off ice, forraged for 2 euros from the local market I think he'll live to drink another day.

 

[Casually Red]

He could try foraging these