If I went camping.....who would come with?

[RiffRandell]

I'd love to know.....to plan ...and stuff...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. If only my feet weren't screwed up.

I'd go!

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. I don't know. Are you asking for a list of that subset of people

from the set of people defined as "All living people"? The way you worded the question, this is the question you are actually asking.

Or did you mean to ask "If I went camping... would you come with?"?

For the former, I have no way at all to answer. It's far beyond human ken, and it is an unfair question.

If the latter, then the answer is, "Yes, Rabrrrrrr would go camping with the caveat of needing to know first the conditions of the particular camping trip, since Rabrrrrrr doesn't agree to anything without actually knowing the parameters".

[graywarrior]

4. Oh sweet Jesus.

:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Language, and how we use it, is important.

See my thread about my tacky cousin for more edification on the importance of expending the extra energy to do well, instead of just accepting sloppy mediocrity as something worthy of a congressional medal of honor.

[graywarrior]

8. You're an editor's wet dream.

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. I am indeed!

I have that engineer/scientist mind of taking the purely literal meaning of a statement, and then annoying people with it, even when I know what they really are asking.

Like one friend asks me, "Do you know the time?" and then I look at my watch or a clock and say "Yes". Or they ask, "Can you tell me the time?" I say "Yes."

[Jamastiene]

15. I am a computer engineering student.

If you are a teacher, I have one request. Please don't torture students with answers to questions totally different than the ones they asked you to begin with. My teacher does this to us and we are all very confused this semester. I'm losing my mind. I was smart before I started studying engineering, now I'm :crazy:

[Orrex]

17. I used to have a friend like that

When asked "What's up?" he would reply "A direction without a vector."

After a year or two of this we bound him in a tree by his own entrails where for all anyone knows he hangs yet.

[RiffRandell]

9. Sorry, it's kind of a joke.

Our friends have a dog and always say "Lucy come with" or the other dog is "Amy come with" so I was just joking.

CP

[datasuspect]

12. the problem is this:

the "sloppy mediocrity" you decry is sometimes all that a great many people are capable of achieving.

i remember back when i was in college and would get visceral reactions to homeless people, the poor, even people in my own family.

i wondered regarding homeless people, 'why don't they just get their act together? how hard can it be to get a job?'

in the case of poor people, 'why don't they go to school and just better themselves.'

my family, 'ugh, they don't even know what "culture" IS.'

years passed, i grew up, cultivated a sense of tolerance and realized the world is a really large place. having become homeless at one point, i understood how important it was to have an address and a clean place to shit and maintain daily hygiene. most places will not hire you if have no set address.

i realized that many, many people are not well served by university education. yes, we can't all be pampered whiz kids marvelling at our own wonderfulness and precocity. we need people to scrub toilets, mow lawns, fix cars, prepare our food, and otherwise carry out a host of what might seem "meaningless tasks" to you or me.

i don't think anyone would claim or imply that "sloppy mediocrity" is deserving of a congressional medal of honor, but the search for excellence can be undertaken in manifold ways.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Wow - I'm sorry if I hit a sore spot with you.

But I spoke the truth.

And then you took it in a totally erroneous direction. Nowhere did I say that poor people are shit, or suck, or should be euthanized, or anything derogatory to the poor.

All I stated was, basically, that America is addicted to mediocrity, which is pretty much a fact, in my opinion.

That says nothing about the poor or uneducated. Obviously, you have emotional attachments to an issue I didn't bring up, and I affirm that - and I agree with you, we should not judge those who lack in resources by the standards of we who have those resources. To do so is both illogical and unethical.

[izzybeans]

16. If I went pre-camping would Rabrrrrrr come along?

;)

[SPKrazy]

3. Sure...

where we going so I can plan

but I'll be there if you tell me where and when

I like to camp

and if we camp near water, even better.

:shrug:

[fizzgig]

6. ooh ooh!!! me!!!

i love camping :bounce:

[datasuspect]

7. if it's naked camping

count me in.

[Xipe Totec]

10. Me!

I love interesting people. :hi:

[mentalsolstice]

14. Hopefully next weekend!

However, we're looking at a state park just 1.5 hours from our house. We're really testing out our dogs to see if they can go further. We're big campers for the Smokies! Once a year we get a riverside site @ Elkmont! There's nothing like sleeping with that water rushing by. We also go to Rattler's Ford, NC (outside of Robbinsville, where Eric Robert Rudolph was hiding out) in June/July.

Planning...get plenty of chips, crackers, plates, cups, TOILET PAPER, etc. And anything to cook over an open fire. In a state or national park, you definitely want good head lanterns, to make it easier to go to the public potties at night!

It's hard to advise without knowing exactly your cooking/potty situation is. I've found staff at Dick's Sporting Goods to be very helpful! If you have one close, that's where I'd go for advice!

I love me some camping!