# yay! i get to go CAMPING!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-i-get-to-go-camping/72537>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 15, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-i-get-to-go-camping/72537 "2001-07-15T03:36:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-i-get-to-go-camping/72537/1 "2001-07-15T03:36:23Z")

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yep! i will be in northern new york state for the next two weeks, camping out! 🆒  
and you know what that means… 😕  
i will be out of the loop from the SDMB for the duration. ☹  
so, if anything notable happens, such as earth being claimed by aliens, cecil being revealed as the omniscient synthetic computer-based sentience he is, or just something really cool happening on the board, post it here so i can know what’s been happening while i was gone!

this will probably be my last post for most of the rest of the month, but i will still be on hand for the rest of the evening and possibly early tomorrow, so, i guess i might be able to fit one more in…

and as thus is said… I’M OFF! \<whoosh!\>

[sub]i hope i haven’t overestimated my network of friends and relations on the board…[/sub]

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-i-get-to-go-camping/72537/2 "2001-07-15T03:42:50Z")

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You left the oven on.

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**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-i-get-to-go-camping/72537/3 "2001-07-15T03:54:31Z")

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I decided to pad my post count.

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**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-i-get-to-go-camping/72537/4 "2001-07-15T03:59:29Z")

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heheheheheheheheeee…

that got me laughing!

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**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-i-get-to-go-camping/72537/5 "2001-07-31T06:36:43Z")

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well i just got back, and i am posting this before i even take a look at the rest of the boards.  
apperently, nothing happened whatsoever in the time i was gone.

how suprising.

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**Author:** ![Tedster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@Tedster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tedster)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-i-get-to-go-camping/72537/6 "2001-07-31T12:16:57Z")

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That’s the beautiful thing- The first time I spent a couple weeks cut off from “civilization” I was very excited to catch up on the News “I wonder what happened while I was gone, Wow…”

Same shit, different day. We’re just fed a bunch of crap via the media, and in fact throwing away the television is one of the smartest things a human can do. Camping taught me that indirectly.

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**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2001, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yay-i-get-to-go-camping/72537/7 "2001-07-31T15:18:36Z")

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i learned that lesson about ‘the crap of news’ a long time ago, and well, i was actually sorta hoping that some famous celebrity would die while i was gone and it would all subside by the time i got back, so i could say to myself “see? look what splurdge i managed to avoid! hooray for me!”.

it’s not as if i actually watch the daily television news or something, and wanted updates on that biased pointless crap. however, i haven’t quite reached the point of throwing out my TV, but only for the sake of comedy central. that is the best way to waste time, in my opinion; don’t have to deal with the world, you just get to laugh.