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Post by noelwelsh »

aa-jv wrote: post #67
halper wrote: post #21

I wonder what it says about me or my life that my first thought was that it sounded absolutely wonderful. I had a good stretch of time between jobs (fortunately voluntarily) a while back and ever since I have had a completely different outlook on life that is, sadly, not quite compatible with modern life. During my time unemployed my pace of life was more like it is when you are on a camping/hiking trip with a group…

I lived a pretty high life in Los Angeles for 15 years, and when the time came for me to move to Europe (I'm Australian), I had two weeks where I was basically homeless before the flight home - lease expired on the apartment, circumstances with couch-surfing were not ideal - so I tried two weeks living hard, to see what it was like, as I was also going to have a 6 month hiatus before Europe, back home in the Australi…

Where were you living in the Kimberley? I've only ever been to Broome in that region, but eating lizards definitely seemed optional.

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Post by zikduruqe »

chinaev wrote: post #52

Gives me an idea of an ultra endurance event... Think "Ironman" of walking. Let's say participants would have two weeks to complete the 587 km course or some part of it and whoever finished first is the Leatherman.

Now days, people call them backyard ultras.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_ultra

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Post by cwmoore »

ljf wrote: post #5

A very different man, but the book 'The Autobiography of a Super Tramp' is a fascinating read from the hayday of the tramp - about one manes tramping across the UK and USA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_a_Super...

Another, more recently, is the documentary Hobo; riding the rails in the 1990s:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1646104/

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Post by Y-bar »

that_guy_iain wrote: post #78
Y-bar wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

”Homed” people do those things, quite often, yet I have to se any anti-vacancy laws. It is telling that society regularly outlaws afflictions like homelessness or situations like vagrancy instead of targeting the specific instances of bad behaviour that ought to be the problem.

We outlaw homelessness because we don't want homeless people on the streets littering the place. The bad behaviours you want to be outlawed are in fact already outlawed. It's just super hard to catch and convict on those. While it's a lot easier to prove someone is sleeping rough.

That’s two major problems baked into one.

First: We hide the symptoms behind a veneer of illegality which allows us to ignore the underlying causes.

Second: We intentionally write laws which has a proportionally negative effect based on social and medical class of citizens. A class which is already facing hardships.

”The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

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Post by rtkwe »

chinaev wrote: post #52

Gives me an idea of an ultra endurance event... Think "Ironman" of walking. Let's say participants would have two weeks to complete the 587 km course or some part of it and whoever finished first is the Leatherman.

There already are, they're called ultramarathons [0], 587 km would be on the longer end for a regularly held race but it's only slightly longer than Dean Karnazes's record for an uninterrupted run which was 560 km in 80 hours [1] so it'd be a multi day race probably.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Karnazes#Running_highligh...

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Post by rtkwe »

zikduruqe wrote: post #82
chinaev wrote: post #52

Gives me an idea of an ultra endurance event... Think "Ironman" of walking. Let's say participants would have two weeks to complete the 587 km course or some part of it and whoever finished first is the Leatherman.

Now days, people call them backyard ultras. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_ultra

It's only one loop so not really a backyard ultra.

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Post by 10729287 »

jjkaczor wrote: post #80
theoreticalmal wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The romanticized farmer aspect always gives me pause as well. Farming is a very difficult job that requires many hours of work every single day, every day per year. Even if you had enough money left over from some other job to get to go travel, you could never find the time to do so after becoming a farmer

As a child, I spent about 4-5 years on both a family farm and then followed by about 6-months at a large commercial egg production farm (my father took a job as the farm manager, came with free housing) - it cemented within me the desire never to toil in the fields or take care of animals outside of pets. Yet of course - my kids and grandkids who were raised in suburban environments ALL romanticize farming...

It’s not even fun in stardew valley to be honest.

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Post by SoftTalker »

implements wrote: post #48
reader9274 wrote: post #15

"The more I read about this character, the more I don't care for him" - Norm Macdonald

Don’t want to edit Norm, but a (perhaps British sensibility) alternative is: “The more I hear about this Hitler fellow, the less I like him”

This was actually the line Norm MacDonald usually used, though he might have had a similar punch line in several different bits.
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