I would love to wake up and be in dance or fine arts camp again - I loved those summers This time I would be successful at convincing my mom I was old enough for the pointe classes
I never went to summer camp and my Girl Scouts troop was the worst: year 1 they helped us get 1 badge: roller skating. I voted archery and I would have liked to do rock climbing and other stuff, because I couldn’t climb that rope in gym but I wanted to. My sons’ Boy Scouts was awesome but they wouldn’t let moms join for some reason.
/giphy gym rope climb
@mollama
Aren’t they finally allowing girls to join? My troop as a younger scout was always run by women. I wish I had stuck it out, bit I didn’t like some of the folks I was stuck with so I quit before Eagle. Regret.
@thebigtverberg I know vaguely that girls in Boy Scouts has been discussed but have no idea of current state. And there is Venturing Crew that is coed 14-21 yrs old. But none allow the moms (or dads). And I am over 50 and have never ever done a single pull-up in my life so, no, you will not see me starting that stuff at this time. I just wish I could go back to younger me (summer camp age) and forced myself to put down the book and try harder.
Why do I have to be a child again? There are summer camps for adults! Imagine doing all those things while also being able to drink and canoodle! (Yes, I really do want to go to one of these.)
@cinoclav um YES! Why would I want to be a kid again.
Being the bully or being bullied. Worrying about EVERY LITTLE THING to make sure you fit in. That shit is exhausting. Nope! I will happily take my 40’s. I can be me and if you don’t like it, bye bye.
Then the camp has the added benefit of goofing off and alcohol. Win, win, win
@cinoclav@zinimusprime but resorts don’t have all kinds of daily activities and most people (IMO) just want to drink and sleep on the beach. What @cinoclav sent looks different.
@tinamarie1974@zinimusprime Exactly. There are ‘adult’ camps that are basically the exact same camps from your youth but include adult activities. Drunk archery anyone?
@cinoclav@tinamarie1974@zinimusprime Holy crap adult camp sounds phenomenal. Drunk archery, Wait, drunk archery combined with canoe races. We can shoot stuff at each other.
A child huh, so I’m not married anymore. How old of a child, have I hit puberty? If not some sports I’m old and have messed up knees, I would love to run around, B-ball baseball, football, volleyball, anything but soccer, thats how old I am.
@duodec Yep. That was the thing I did second most often at my summer camp (after sailing).
We didn’t have trap shooting though, that would’ve been awe5ome (f.u. Mediocrebot).
We had .22 rifles and I became quite a good shot.
My main memory of that was the dirt backstop at the range that had a groundhog living in it who would poke his head out occasionally, and the range-master constantly having to say, “don’t shoot the gopher.”
(yes, it was a groundhog, and yes, he always called it a gopher)
@chienfou@duodec Well, this was right around the time that Caddy Shack came out, which I’m pretty sure is the main reason he insisted on calling it “gopher”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@DennisG2014@duodec@tinamarie1974 Wife and I just came inside after a dip in the ‘cement pond’. We had worked outside trimming, killing weeds etc. and were super hot and sweaty so it was just the thing to refresh us before coming inside. Oh … and we had a beer…
@chienfou I’m jealous.
After a sweaty day working in the yard, the best I’ve got to cool off is a shower under the garden hose or a douse in the utility sink (which is not what I got it for, but it sure is nice).
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And yeah, I keep beer in the fridge specifically for après-yardwork refreshment.
Not necessarily the only time I drink beer, but probably the only time I really enjoy it.
Therapy
The psychiatrist.
Is there an Avoiding Life Mistakes activity being offered?
@mfladd ah, but those experiences made you who you are today. Do you want to be someone entirely different?
/giphy deep thoughts
@tinamarie1974 Entirely different? No. But I can think of a few mods that would be great to maybe test drive.
@mfladd nope, bitch.
@KittySprinkles
@mfladd
@KittySprinkles
@KittySprinkles @mfladd Wow - never realized it, but the Evil Dead movies totally paid homage to that shot of the witch in Sleeping Beauty.
Couldn’t find a gif, but there’s definitely a scene in I and/or II where the ‘witch’ descends into the fruit cellar in exactly the same way.
Let’s see if I can get the stills to post correctly:
First pic - original E.D. 1981
2nd pic - E.D. II 1987
They also did it in the 2013 remake, but F that garbage.
@mfladd if you were smart, you’d have ran.
sailing!!
@Kidsandliz Me too.
Wait, summer camp is a real thing? I thought that was just in movies.
Swimming
Catch the one that got away.
@hchavers
@hchavers try finding them on FB?
Rock climbing.
I would love to wake up and be in dance or fine arts camp again - I loved those summers
This time I would be successful at convincing my mom I was old enough for the pointe classes
Flute practice
@ThatsHeadly heh heh …
/giphy that one time in bandcamp
I never went to summer camp and my Girl Scouts troop was the worst: year 1 they helped us get 1 badge: roller skating. I voted archery and I would have liked to do rock climbing and other stuff, because I couldn’t climb that rope in gym but I wanted to. My sons’ Boy Scouts was awesome but they wouldn’t let moms join for some reason.
/giphy gym rope climb
VAN MURALS! GROUND SQUIRRELS! SPIT CURLS! AWESOME!
@mollama
Aren’t they finally allowing girls to join? My troop as a younger scout was always run by women. I wish I had stuck it out, bit I didn’t like some of the folks I was stuck with so I quit before Eagle. Regret.
@thebigtverberg I know vaguely that girls in Boy Scouts has been discussed but have no idea of current state. And there is Venturing Crew that is coed 14-21 yrs old. But none allow the moms (or dads). And I am over 50 and have never ever done a single pull-up in my life so, no, you will not see me starting that stuff at this time. I just wish I could go back to younger me (summer camp age) and forced myself to put down the book and try harder.
Summer Camp, nooooo! My mom wouldn’t let me go to summer camp. All my allergies…
I went to science camp. At the school.
@olperfesser
@olperfesser In my early teens I went to an Atari computer camp based at East Stroudsburg University. Nerds unite!
Why do I have to be a child again? There are summer camps for adults! Imagine doing all those things while also being able to drink and canoodle! (Yes, I really do want to go to one of these.)
https://www.livehappy.com/lifestyle/20-best-sleep-away-camps-grown-ups
@cinoclav um YES! Why would I want to be a kid again.
Being the bully or being bullied. Worrying about EVERY LITTLE THING to make sure you fit in. That shit is exhausting. Nope! I will happily take my 40’s. I can be me and if you don’t like it, bye bye.
Then the camp has the added benefit of goofing off and alcohol. Win, win, win
/giphy sign me up
@cinoclav @tinamarie1974 Isn’t that the same as being at a resort??? I think it’s called “vacationing”.
@cinoclav @zinimusprime but resorts don’t have all kinds of daily activities and most people (IMO) just want to drink and sleep on the beach. What @cinoclav sent looks different.
@cinoclav @tinamarie1974 Those look awesome.
POPSOCKETS! SPROCKETS! DAVY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
@tinamarie1974 @zinimusprime Exactly. There are ‘adult’ camps that are basically the exact same camps from your youth but include adult activities. Drunk archery anyone?
@cinoclav @tinamarie1974 @zinimusprime Holy crap adult camp sounds phenomenal. Drunk archery, Wait, drunk archery combined with canoe races. We can shoot stuff at each other.
@cinoclav @KittySprinkles @tinamarie1974 @zinimusprime
and as a side benefit, you can work on your first aid/CPR badge…
@chienfou @cinoclav @tinamarie1974 @zinimusprime only if someone sucks ass at serpentine.
Space camp! In this reality, I would be able to afford it.
I’d sign up for the CPR class.
With the hot (male/female, whatever your preference) lifeguard to practice on…
@haydesigner So you’re AC/DC? Bet that doubles your chances of getting lucky.
@haydesigner
A child huh, so I’m not married anymore. How old of a child, have I hit puberty? If not some sports I’m old and have messed up knees, I would love to run around, B-ball baseball, football, volleyball, anything but soccer, thats how old I am.
Target shooting. Its not a real summer camp without .22 rifles for target shooting, and shotguns for trap.
@duodec Yep. That was the thing I did second most often at my summer camp (after sailing).
We didn’t have trap shooting though, that would’ve been awe5ome (f.u. Mediocrebot).
We had .22 rifles and I became quite a good shot.
My main memory of that was the dirt backstop at the range that had a groundhog living in it who would poke his head out occasionally, and the range-master constantly having to say, “don’t shoot the gopher.”
(yes, it was a groundhog, and yes, he always called it a gopher)
@DennisG2014 @duodec
Maybe he could have said “don’t shoot the whistle pig” instead?
@chienfou @duodec Well, this was right around the time that Caddy Shack came out, which I’m pretty sure is the main reason he insisted on calling it “gopher”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@DennisG2014 @duodec did you try the snicker bar in the pool thing…?
@chienfou @duodec We had a lake, not a pool, but I’d bet money that someone quoted that scene at least once while I was at summer camp.
@chienfou @DennisG2014 @duodec lake or pool, both sound nice on a day like today (my car read 99 degrees and the humidity was horrible)
@chienfou @duodec @tinamarie1974 Pool or pond… pond’d be good for you I think.
@chienfou @DennisG2014 @duodec I see what you did there
@DennisG2014 @duodec @tinamarie1974 Wife and I just came inside after a dip in the ‘cement pond’. We had worked outside trimming, killing weeds etc. and were super hot and sweaty so it was just the thing to refresh us before coming inside. Oh … and we had a beer…
@chienfou I’m jealous.
After a sweaty day working in the yard, the best I’ve got to cool off is a shower under the garden hose or a douse in the utility sink (which is not what I got it for, but it sure is nice).
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And yeah, I keep beer in the fridge specifically for après-yardwork refreshment.
Not necessarily the only time I drink beer, but probably the only time I really enjoy it.