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Title: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 10 August, 2022, 10:00:22 pm
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This is the reality for the residents of the village, which straddles Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, who have been made reliant on water bottles and tank water in conditions described as “worse than camping”.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/10/oxfordshire-village-living-without-running-water

What home conditions would be "worse than camping" for you?
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Kim on 10 August, 2022, 10:15:05 pm
Thousands of earwigs nibbling their way through the internet connection.
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 August, 2022, 10:36:18 pm
Not having an actual porcelain lavvy to sit on or a bed and a pillow to kip on.
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Polar Bear on 10 August, 2022, 10:50:29 pm
Finding out that the site cafe / restaurant is closed ...
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: ElyDave on 10 August, 2022, 11:28:20 pm
running out of firewood, or cheese
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Pingu on 10 August, 2022, 11:35:03 pm
A bedroom surrounded by clouds midges would be type 2 fun.
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: ElyDave on 10 August, 2022, 11:38:48 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 10 August, 2022, 11:35:03 pm
A bedroom surrounded by clouds midges would be type 2 fun.

sleeping bag has a built in midge net
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Jaded on 11 August, 2022, 01:27:18 am
Popping down to the plastic loos at pee-oclock and finding that your choice of loo has a mound of poo-and-paper that would touch your ring, if you sat down. The next one is the same. And the next. Oh, joy! The next too!
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: rogerzilla on 11 August, 2022, 07:15:16 am
Some cnut playing campfire guitar until 3am in my actual bedroom.
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 August, 2022, 07:51:13 am
Quote from: ElyDave on 10 August, 2022, 11:28:20 pm
running out of firewood, or cheese
You can butt-truss your wooden fort-truss with cheese.






Oh sorry the crap jokes thread is that way>>
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 11 August, 2022, 09:28:30 am
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“I don’t think we are prepared,” Langford (69-year-old farmer) said as the country braces for drought conditions until October. “Just look around,” he said, looking at the village pond that has been reduced to dirt and his sun-scorched fields. “Climate change is having a massive impact

And still, idiots keep shouting that 'there is no climate change, the earth is getting cooler', 'more CO2 is good, or plants will die' (that is my favourite idiocy) and 'greta is a spoiled brat' (anyone less spoiled I've never seen in my life).
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Paul on 11 August, 2022, 03:18:48 pm
It’s been a few years but most of the above responses just sound like camping to me!
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Paul on 11 August, 2022, 03:20:21 pm
I slept in a phonebox once. It was dry, but it was worse than most of the camping I’ve done.
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: The Family Cyclist on 11 August, 2022, 04:10:34 pm
New Cross hostel, above but unrelated to the new Cross inn below. Most the group I was with caught what looked like scabies. Thankfully one of my mates is a tad of a porker so snored so much I sat up and read as couldn't sleep

Was also working out what to tie the bed sheets to if had to climb out a window in event of fire. Could have added curtains if there were any. And I was really serious. The place looked a death trap and we did report to London fire brigade
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: ravenbait on 12 August, 2022, 11:21:26 am
If I went to the loo in the middle of the night and something larger and bitier than a previously-snoozing hare tried to jump into my private parts, that would be worse than camping.

Sam
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Kim on 12 August, 2022, 11:59:38 am
Hang on, I think we're missing the obvious:

Cycling from one end of the country to the other, camping in a different place each night, seeing the sights etc. is Type 1 Fun.

Cycling from one end of the country to the other without stopping to camp is Type 2 Fun.

Therefore "worse than camping" is "audax".
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Polar Bear on 12 August, 2022, 12:13:59 pm
Kim wins!  🤣🤣🤣
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Butterfly on 06 September, 2022, 10:36:45 am
Quote from: Polar Bear on 10 August, 2022, 10:50:29 pm
Finding out that the site cafe / restaurant is closed ...
;D
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: mmmmartin on 07 September, 2022, 10:00:06 am
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 10 August, 2022, 10:00:22 pm
What home conditions would be "worse than camping" for you?
Actually, i really like camping and mostly prefer it to being at home. So TBH I'd say most home conditions are worse than camping.
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: mzjo on 11 September, 2022, 08:40:20 pm
Finding the bus shelter full of peeing and pooing sheep being guarded by a very conscientious sheep dog (adds, in a country where the dogs guard the sheep from bears and the like; worse would be finding the bear outside, waiting for the dog to finish his shift!)
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Kim on 11 September, 2022, 10:11:32 pm
Quote from: mzjo on 11 September, 2022, 08:40:20 pm
Finding the bus shelter full of peeing and pooing sheep being guarded by a very conscientious sheep dog (adds, in a country where the dogs guard the sheep from bears and the like; worse would be finding the bear outside, waiting for the dog to finish his shift!)

At least it's not full of peeing audaxers...
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: hubner on 18 September, 2022, 03:28:19 pm
Self imposed hardship: fun.

Forced hardship: worse than camping.
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: andrewc on 21 November, 2022, 03:54:48 pm
The other night I found a slug crawling up my bathroom wall.  I'm 4 floors up, so it must have been quite a climb.  Now I've got water dripping into the flat.   Damp & slugs,  I'll just have to pretend I'm camping.
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: rogerzilla on 12 December, 2022, 11:23:59 am
I found a slug that had come in on a firewood log last week.  I think it wanted to get warm.
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: cycleman on 12 December, 2022, 06:14:38 pm
Christmas present for Kim? :demon: ;D
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Socks on 12 December, 2022, 06:32:43 pm
Sometimes camping can be worse than camping.  Cycle camping a few years ago (apparently this is now bikepacking).  Left my carradice saddlebags in the porch of the tent, while I went out for the day,  Then brought one of the saddlebags into the tent as a pillow.   Woke up I  the early hours ....

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Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Kim on 12 December, 2022, 06:59:39 pm
Quote from: Socks on 12 December, 2022, 06:32:43 pm
Cycle camping a few years ago (apparently this is now bikepacking).

Only if you don't use proper panniers.

Of course, slugpacking can be done with any kind of luggage...
Title: Re: "Worse than camping"
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 December, 2022, 09:43:45 am
Quote from: Kim on 12 December, 2022, 06:59:39 pm
Quote from: Socks on 12 December, 2022, 06:32:43 pm
Cycle camping a few years ago (apparently this is now bikepacking).

Only if you don't use proper panniers.

Of course, slugpacking can be done with any kind of luggage...
Bzzzttt! Slugs don't have any luggage whatsoever. They're the ultraracers of the invertebrate world. The ones with organic Ortliebs are snails.