catalog

Well-known member
Er yeah, unless you got wetsuits and all the clobber. Which I do actually have, but unlikely to be going swimming this week, can't see it happening. Even though I now live really near a good spot.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
Er yeah, unless you got wetsuits and all the clobber. Which I do actually have, but unlikely to be going swimming this week, can't see it happening. Even though I now live really near a good spot.
Yeah they are weird about the no wetsuits thing tbf.
 

catalog

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When I went swimming once, fully suited but no socks or gloves, it was so cold that when I pushed my arms out, I felt my fingers falling away. Got out quick then we were walking down and the was a guy fully in the nude with just a bobble hat. Simultaneously felt very proud of Yorkshire and shameful I hadnt been able to manage longer.

But it's no joke going no suit in this weather, you gotta knos what yer doing.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
Yeah my mates have said that when it starts to feel amazing you can either get out quick or die basically?
 

catalog

Well-known member
Yeah my mates have said that when it starts to feel amazing you can either get out quick or die basically?
Yeah you can shut down quick if you're not used to it. I'd not felt that hand numbness before and it felt so odd, not painful exactly but then you keep remembering how cold it is. Makes you go a big dizzy as well.
 

catalog

Well-known member
It’s in that neck of the woods yeah. Very beautiful, but rains all the fucking time.

The partner’s family are all here - she got out.
Lots of spars. There's a real showcase spar in pwellei it's the best spar I've ever been in. But yeah some of the little houses you pass look a bit grim. Like Cornwall really.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Some of the best ice cream in Britain at Cadwaladers in Criccieth

99% of America is undeveloped and that's not an exaggeration that's an actual number

This is less than 1% of the States by acreage

Sad to see how deeply in denial the Brits are about American pastoral beauty and ecological diversity

From the deserts and Joshua trees of SoCal, to the sequoia and redwood sanctuaries of NorCal to the foggy forests and salmon rapids of the Pacific Northwest, the rolling prairie heartland, the orange Southwest with its pueblo dwellings and sunset-striped cliffs, the swampy Spanish moss covered American South, the Florida keys, the beauty of New England

“from sea to shining sea”?

Before I go, I wanna add a bit more provocation so people can yell at me and keep the thread going/board energy up.

I basically don't think species extinction is a big deal like everybody claims. I care quite a bit about the suffering of sentient creatures. But I don't think there's any reason to care whether some particular species is around or not, unless they're so ecologically critical that their loss causes a big domino effect. Like really, why does us not having a sabertooth tiger or woolly mammoth or dinosaur around matter at all other than the fact they're "sick"? Yeah, platypuses are pretty cool, but that's not a moral argument.

The earth has had a lot of extinction effects, and life, in all its complexity and subtlety, always bounces back. I don't see any reason to believe the current batch of biology is "sacred" in any meaningful sense, when we've had so many batches. Humans are special for obvious reasons, nothing we know of has ever been able to do what we can do. But some pretty tropical bird? Really, who gives a shit. The whole anti-extinction fetish, particularly from people who are fine locking up billions of mammals and birds in horrific Holocaust-level conditions for the meat industry, strikes me as a bad & boring take.

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luka

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about to go to work. on a boat. hopefully be done by midnight tho im rostered on till 12.30. got 3 bottles of scotch in my bag. have to cycle with it cos there wont be transport.
 
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