Chilling at a cabin on a small lake and there are so many goddamn boaters out getting way too close to the shore, the docks, and people in the water. In the last 20 minutes I've seen THREE tubers almost get run over by these petty bourgeois psychos who feel the need to zoom around as much of this tiny ass lake as they possibly can as fast as they can and put everyone else at risk.
We were out on the lake for like 20 minutes before deciding there are too many people out and someone's gonna get hurt. Cabin people are fuckin insane
To get a feeling for what the wayfinder is doing all this time with his testicles, it helps to understand ocean swells. These enormous formations are powered by distant storms and steady trade winds and shouldn’t be confused with surface waves which change direction as the local wind shifts. Swells march in consistent ranks across thousands of miles. The swell entertaining surfers in Honolulu is generated by winds south of New Zealand. If you can read the shape of a swell you can tell the direction and strength of the current beneath it, and this is critical because if you don’t know what the current is doing you can steer a perfect course and still get lost. The wayfinder reads the swell by sitting cross-legged and nearly naked on the bottom of his all-vegetable-matter canoe and feeling it in his testicles.
When the sun and moon can’t help, the wayfinder looks to his on-board pig, who can catch the scent of a distant atoll, its snout pointing the way.
http://legacy.ifa.hawaii.edu/friends/Technology_of_Oceania.pdf
One of the main problems with "let people enjoy things" cliches is that many of the things being enjoyed deny enjoyment to other people, often many more people being denied than the thing enjoyer. Also, in this case, there's pollution and environmental destruction, as is often the case with enjoyed treats.
One of the most notorious examples on Hexbear was when I talked about douchebags that lived nearby that blasted window rattling levels of high bass from their lifted trucks at 2-4am, and I was told I was the selfish one for not approving of the treat enjoyer enjoying the treat that is also being forcibly shoved onto literally hundreds of other nearby people, most of which were probably trying to sleep at that hour. :galaxy-brain:
I want to throw everyone who uses external bass or modified cars or drifts/do donuts in residential neighborhoods into an oubliette. Pol Pot for car culture
I can't believe people here told you to be nice to self-obsessed classless morons who drive outsized trucks for their oversized egos.
They did. It was under the "let people enjoy things" banner. I was even called a :grillman: because I didn't think it was cool to be an obnoxious loud asshole when people need to sleep for blocks around.
Struggle sesh time:
I do not like smokers. They ruin the fucking air. Vapes are alright but just do that shit away by yourselves. My asthma gets triggered by all of that and it’s annoying to be chilling at the beach or wherever outside and the fucking smoke makes it so I can’t breathe.
I do not care that tobacco smokers are working class or not, I can’t breathe when they smoke.
I've seen people with asthma or smoke allergies say the same, but especially on :reddit-logo: they'd get raged at, hard. "You must be fun at parties" "who hurt you?" "let people enjoy things" while dismissing the person suffering the smoke as some killjoy instead of a person not having a choice in not enjoying it.
I am against the drug war and pro legalization, but the same loud obnoxious bunch I mentioned before wants and apparently needs sticky weed stench everywhere. When I used to have an apartment, it'd often blow through the shared air conditioning, drying my eyes and throat whenever that happened. Edibles, bongs, and the like were apparently too considerate compared to the authentic le pothead experience.
there is a level of car noise that is acceptable, and around 10% of people aren't even within eyesight of the line
fuck whitey and their golf, their ATV shit, their stupid car races in the woods too. I grew up around mudding and dirt track culture and it's such a callous disrespect for otherwise nice natural forest areas. "oh but dirt track car racing evolved from prohibition era moonshine dealers running from the cops, so it has a proletarian history. In fact-" yeah fuck off
just go into the woods and walk around and look at trees and shit, it's nice. Take a picture of some birds. Put up a tent and watch the rain. Get high or something.
there are probably normal and polite ways of enjoying ATV stuff in the woods but I haven't seen it yet
I don't think your uncle is a bad person, but the practice of land just being in someone's possession when they don't use it in any meaningful way is weird.
i'm guessing there's a lot of motor vehicle stuff done in the woods out there? I don't know about it.
Ummmm that's nascar. I have never heard anyone say dirt racing is from prohibition
Based. You wanna go fast? Take a Rollercoaster. You need control? Ride a normal bike. You wanna be in the woods? Good. Put down your keys and experience nature on its own terms.
you're right to be concerned, the first-base coach for the blue jays lost his 17 old daughter that way like two weeks ago. she was tubing and the boater wasn't careful picking her up, ran over her with the engine still on and killed her :(
in general people who drive speedboats all seem to have no conception that someone could get hurt, and drive accordingly
They only recently, last 10-20 years or so, started giving DUIs for driving a boat drunk in a lot of states.
Every summer fox lake and chain o lakes in il would have several fatalities. Driver was always drunk blacked out and smashed into apier or the shore.
Boats are for alcoholics.
Conceptualizing how your actions affect other people is literally impossible for most Americans. Like trying to imagine life in the 7th dimension.
They're absurdly dangerous but treated as a fun toy to be enjoyed while drunk off your ass.
Canoing will legit make you look and feel like this. But if you're not careful the sun will kick your ass.
They're ATVs but for beautiful lakes and sea coasts. For people who don't actually want to enjoy nature or the place and just want to go vroom vroom in a different way than usual.
That stuff can be very fun but it's also stupid that it's focused on nice lakes. Dedicate a shitty reservoir to it or something, ban boating by default.
Chilling at a cabin on a small lake sounds really :comfy: hope you're still able to have a good time despite the boaters
To me one of the more infuriating aspects of PB tyrants' exploitation is that they take all of our sweat and blood and pour it into buying vroom vroom cars and vroom vroom boats. Terrorizing workers is all tied up with boat-buying in my mind. So as much as I hate the Bezoses and Tim Apples of the world, it will never not make me smile every time our beloved, hardworking small-business community gets its face meat-crayoned across the asphalt by some megacorporation. I think of all of those fuckin' boats rotting in some abandoned marina.
I was on a boat and a speed boat with a giant Trump flag drove in front of us and we almost T-Boned it.
last time I was kayaking I almost got hit by a speed boat with a confederate flag
when i was little i went to the lake for a week or so on vacation and had a good time, but at a certain time every day the boaters would come out and it was time to play board games in the cabin
