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I like going to different cities, but I don't really go to shop or see the nth church or plaza or huge museum. I just wander around and eat/drink/pet strange dogs. I love beaches. Snorkel, paddleboard, kayak, swim. A lot of beaches suck, but I still like to swim or read if it's not too sunny.

oh yeah that's another thing, even an empty beach gets boring after an hour. how TF can you enjoy yourself or be comfortable at a beach with strangers? I really don't get it but hope you have fun

― flappy bird, Tuesday, August 21, 2018 10:39 PM (forty-one minutes ago)

weed helps

The beach is really not the best part of the beach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7RkxLOSS9c

flopson
Posted: August 21, 2018 at 8:11:01 PM

sorry to quote it but everyone is smashing FP on this right?

dude u basically said the same things i did copycat

so u wanna be a FP superstar

and live large

Also truth be told i feel very strongly against yr all cities are the same comment nephew

It sounds like it stems out of a lack of travelling but i dont wanna call u out

So we coo fam 🤜

All towns are the same but they have different restaurants.

Maybe he meant all Scandanavian cities are the same? Or all cities in Japan?

My mother never got to travel much because my dad is a bore and she also doesn't want to leave him alone in the house where he could eat as much pastrami and mayo as he wants. I travel a lot and she always asks me if the place I just visited, no matter where it is, if it looks like Taipei. It's a very frustrating question.

Ya for sure

I’ve also heard the “why do you need to travel for? We got everything here in america. Little Italy, chinatown, european food, mexican, japan town, german food”

By golly youre right! All that time i thought there was more to life *hu hu hyuck*

Non controp: if you're bored, it's you, not the world outside you

― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, August 21, 2018 10:46 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not if you're in a beach town or a resort or anywhere isolated like that. it can be fun if you're with family (esp. relatives you haven't seen in a while) but it gets really old really fast for me. i've been some pretty miserable places. you can only read on the beach for so long, and i can read at home. swimming gets boring after an hour. depends on who you're with but i start going nuts 2 or 3 days into a vacation. i don't think i would feel this way if i grew up on the west coast or in florida, then again i don't know.

ideal vacation for me is visiting cities all over the world, which obviously isn't as easy or cheap as going to the woods or the closest beach. but going to cities (like Rome and Dublin) is really fun and amazing. in the relatively little amount of touring i've done, visiting and staying in cities i've never been to before was a blast.

on vacation: sleep in, read, drink coffee, swim, tan, eat, drink, sex if it’s an option.

i don't tan or drink and i can do everything else except swim at home

it's still you dude :)

When you have low expectations for some walk in the park and it suddenly turns into a dog ballet with unexpected mushrooms offered and there's a surprisingly pleasant poet who appears and his poems are good enough to be worth your time but not-so good as to make you feel insecure and then a friend decides to treat you to an espresso-based beverage that you've never tried before and it is alarmingly good and you run into an old friend whose face you didn't even realize you missed so much but you did miss and the sight of it makes you emotional and then you drift into a second-hand store and find a pair of trainers that are staggeringly well-priced and you put one on and wear mismatched shoes over to the market and peaches are suddenly in season and just as you buy one the cashier recognizes that you last week chased down a dude who mooned her apropos of nothing and when you confronted him he tweaked your ear and shoved you but you stood your ground and told him to stop mooning people and the cashier remembers you and gives you free peaches and also some liquorice and you thought you hated liquorice but the liquorice is delicious

yeah i mean this reads like you transcribed one of my nightmares. i can't live an unplanned, spontaneous existence. i need a routine

And at the end of the day you're feeling good about "kismet" which is a good thing when the world just comes together and shows you something beautiful

i get this feeling elsewhere

But you don't feel the sense of accomplishment of having planned a birthday party and had it go almost-entirely smoothly and seen real tears on the birthday girl's face when she realizes how much her friends care for her, enough that they all showed up and brought presents and the apps you made turned out perfectly and everybody contributes the right amount for the cost of groceries, that's really an amazing fun

this i agree with, a perfect example of planned fun being beautiful.

it's still you dude :)

― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, August 21, 2018 11:51 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Do you work for Sandals or the Four Seasons or something?

the only two models for spending some time at peace with yourself by the sea

i mean i'm not saying *you* don't find it boring, i'm just saying that's you, not the world

Sandals...heh.

i always need an extra vacation after i get back from vacation to deal with vacation-induced stress

on the other hand the beach is nicer when one can make it a day trip. also the oregon coast is way more pleasant than anywhere i've been on the atlantic coast.

i mean i'm not saying *you* don't find it boring, i'm just saying that's you, not the world

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, August 22, 2018 12:04 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes... that's why i posted in the controversial opinions thread

clearly it is

you can only read on the beach for so long

fucking try me

Controp: health-related charities are for shit and their ads/fundraisers are horrible

you could argue (and I would) that they shouldn't be necessary because health should be adequately funded from taxes, but we'd be in even more shit without them. some are better than others admittedly. IME local charities are better than the big national ones

I just hate adverts me. And I got door-stepped by some chugger from the British Heart Foundation at 9 o'clock the other night.

A recent example of the shittiness of charities was NAS congratulating the Conservative Government on the u-turn on Blue Badges for people with autism, when they did fuck all to support the family who won the test case against them, forcing them into the u-turn. it makes my blood boil!

door-stepping chuggers are the worst. had a few of those.

tbf I agree on the adverts, they are hard to deal with sometimes, constant ads for cancer charities feels like rubbing it in your face. glad we got netflix tbh

all these health charities that should have been a strong voice against the creeping privatisation of the NHS, but they are spineless. Disabled charities that have done next to nothing to protect vulnerable ppl during austerity. Wouldn't give them the steam off my hiss when they turn up on my doorstep!

I realise that cancer charities especially are a painful fact of life for a lot of people, hence the controp

The best I can say about the NAS and their ilk is they're better than nowt, sometimes. Too many disability charities are underrepresented by actual disabled people at board and policy-making level. "Nothing about us without us" etc.

NAS got arsey with me in a photo competition once, because it featured a young autistic kid at an anti-austerity demo, which was too political for them. The photo got thousands of online votes, but they hid it in a dark corner at their event. But I suppose I should cut them some slack seeing as Alex has 16-19 place in one of their schools. But fuck 'em!

don't get me wrong I'd consider working for them but they are The Man

I did nothing but move every goddamn five minutes for the first half of my life so I'm mostly content to be as immobile as possible at this point. I see the value in travel, from a distance, and understand that this is my problem (my sibs love trottin' all over the globe so they were clearly differently affected by our upbringing).

"I don't travel; it narrows the mind." - Raymond Briggs

politicizing tragedies is a good thing

tragedies are political

it isn't a big deal if someone opts not to vote in a closed primary where none of the intra-party candidates excite them.

and it is everyone's right to not vote at all

^ I mean not in Australia actually

god I'm so tired today

Nah i will scream at anybody who don't vote in Nov

Its compulsory to turn up to vote in Aus but you dont have to vote for anyone. You can spoil the paper or just leave it blank, no one cares, as long as you et signed off as showing up.

Most of us do participate though, for good or bad.

Nah i will scream at anybody who don't vote in Nov

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, August 28, 2018 7:51 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh for sure I'll give my friends a hard time, but it is their right. I know several people that have thought out, principled reasons for not voting, which I respect a lot more than the much more common lazy/apathetic/don't care/didn't know. which again, it's their right to be ignorant.

It's everyone's right to be selfish, oafish louts, but that is not the same as it being right.

I know

Yeah so this isn’t controversial then

"I know several people that have thought out, principled reasons for not voting,"

really, fuck them. I don't think there's any excuse for not voting

No effect will give an electric guitar the emotional power of a banjo

you are king of this thread lol