Psylocide
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I sniff the farts out of bus seats.
Gross... you ride the bus?
I sniff the farts out of bus seats.
I would highly recommend it. It's a great feeling to look at something with the naked eye and know it's so far away. Not to mention you're pretty much looking back in time.
I use an Orion Sirius mount/tripod with an Orion ED80 scope. It comes as a package from Orion and I feel it was a great way to get started. I had been looking at something bigger to start, but anything much bigger wouldn't have allowed me to fully place M31 in the frame. Just be warned that, like brewing beer, there's always something new to buy (dew control, better cameras, camera control, autoguiding equipment). I use a fairly basic setup, but I think I've produced some pretty good images with it. I'm hoping to have a place one day where I can set up a pier/dome combination in the backyard.
I sniff the farts out of bus seats.
I love the abandoned building photography thing. It's amazing how quickly places deteriorate.
I used to work here- (not my photo. Shared from View attachment 252857[email protected])
I love the abandoned building photography thing. It's amazing how quickly places deteriorate.
I used to work here- (not my photo. Shared from View attachment 252857[email protected])
I like to explore abandoned buildings and take pictures. I have also been turning an abandoned building down the street from my house into an art exhibiton but scrappers keep messing stuff up and taking anything metal.
I had my bottle sculpture in a geometric pattern, but someone threw a pole at it and knocked it over. I may stop by and set it up again this weekend, but the scrappers dumped out a barrel of oil inside and I have been hoping it will air out.
What's with all the hunters? Not a complaint, as long as everyone is utilizing the carcass in a large degree and not intentionally "cruel" in the act. It just seems odd as a vegetarian (peace and love, free Tibet, etc.) that hunting is prevalent amongst homebrewers.
Makes sense. I've known many to hunt that all seemed to be after the sport of it. A brewer's DIY/home production mindset relating to hunting makes sense, but the other way around, the 2 seem more dissociated to me.My opinion is that the passion for hunting and beer brewing is born of the same mindset, a closer connection to what we're putting in our bodies and the pride that comes with crafting something or providing something pleasing. I can go out and obtain food for my family from the land, that's a great feeling... most likely due the hunter/gatherer instinct that has been embedded in our psyche for thousands of years. I feel the same pride when I drink one of my own brews.
We have the same thoughts on the matter, except that I am NOT able to kill the cow without my life on the line. If someone can't kill an animal, I don't think they deserve to eat it, let alone subject it to a pretty dismal life before getting axed. Nutritionally I do not think meat is unhealthy, I'm just not a killer, and like you I don't want to be a hypocrite.On another note, the hunting debate that has broken out. I'm sure you all really want more opinions, so here's mine. I'm ok with it. Hunting and fishing is not my idea of fun, not because of morality, just tedious. I could probably kill an animal if needed. In fact, if someone offered me to kill a cow that is being slaughtered and I could get instructions and whatnot so I could do it correctly, then I would. As I do eat meat, I would think it would be hypocritical to distance yourself from what it really is. Would I enjoy it? Hell no!
I don't recall expressing disdain towards hunters though that could be assumed, it would be incorrect unless as mentioned, the kill is wasteful.Bet you really hate us fur trappers.
I've hunted a bit, fish frequently, slaughtered and butchered my own livestock. I don't think these facts grant me more entitlement to what I eat than those who have not done so, but...
I have malted my own barley. No-one has the right to drink beer until they have malted their own barley at least once.
Trappers... There wouldn't be any point in expressing my views about trapping because I'm sure you've heard it all and it would only serve to entrench us both in our opinions in debate, so we probably don't have much in common and should focus on beer if we were to meet.
Me? It is definitely a true question of ethics. Every business supported, calorie consumed, etc. all has a negative aspect to it's coming to being: bad wages, habitat destruction, criminal involvement whatever. Ethically I don't support those things, but don't have many ways around it without driving to some "better" store (guzzling gas) or sustaining myself 100% (now I'm wrecking habitat and selling food to pay my taxes to destructive people who drove to me). Mice were killed in the field my vegetables are from, but does that mean I should just kill MORE for myself because I was involved? There's no answer, it's one's ethical choice and I'd say: no. I'd hope a farmer avoids killing when he can, but his life isn't mine to choose, so that's about all I can do. Everything I eat had a hand in killing SOMETHING on the way. The only choice in preservation I can make is the product itself.I realize that the vegan poster stated that harvesting food from hunting is ethical. This is not a knock against him or her. There is a lot to admire about a vegan philosophy. I do hear a fair amount of griping from certain parties that hunting is not ethical, that you shouldn't eat meat, etc.
I think that these people need to rethink their position, if possible. To give just one example, for every acre planted with Barley, a fair number of birds, rodents, and other small mammals lost their lives to the plough and scythe. Most trips to the farmer's market involve cars and roads. We are inter-meshed with every aspect of the food production cycle, whether we want to be or not,e and the soon choose to be authentic about our complicity, the better.
Thanks man, cheersWell said clone63, nicely worded civil response.
Did you ever get to play "Attack!"? I always wanted to but couldn't find it.Not really obscure, but I collect and play board games....and not the crap you find at Target or Wal Mart. I have around 250 games currently....ranging from "Carcassonne" to "Dawn of the Zeds" to "Ticket to Ride" to "Crokinole" to "Moongha Invaders", and a bunch in between.
Awesome thread!
Nothing too obscure here but thought I'd pitch in
1. Apartment hydroponics/aquaponics (basil - nothing too exciting)
2. Studying permaculture/homesteading
3. Playing cribbage
4. Scrutinizing every move in life for maximum efficiency to the point of OCD (leave the house to accomplish at least 3 things/when driving maximize right-hand turns etc)
You know how it is.
. That's just my reply to the eyes on my lifestyle. I realize my comments have taken this wayyyyy off course, so apologies to the OP. I'm shutting up -now-.
I have weekly combat with the local monkey tribe (22 at last count). I employ my airsoft pistol with soft plastic pellets (only 300fps, just enough to give them a good sting and stay away).
I grow peppers and tomatos.
Raise chickens for eggs and then the stew pot.
I load my own rounds.
I built my 94 Landcruiser into the ultimate hunting/camping/zombie apocalypse vehicle.
I'm building a cool offroad trailer.
I roast my own coffee beans.
I have a lot of knives.
I have 25yrs of Heavy Metal magazine.
I'm building a bar.
Stuff like that
I can go on and on about Hesse.
this sounds like so much fun!
Is that a sandbox full of crack pipes?
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