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hikehunter

10-01-2014, 00:07

Southeast

10-01-2014, 00:18

I get pleasantly surprised if I get 10 posts into a thread and somebody hadn't been 'blazed' yet.

JohnnySnook

10-01-2014, 01:16

Well I hope its one of the people that targets a 15 year girl for thru hiking the AT or the people that go after the 19 year kid that wants to hike the AT next year but they think he should already have a career, 401k, retirement fund, own a main residence and a summer house on the beach.

Someone that wants to do something besides just hike the AT just to hike can be attacked daily.

Do any of these fit the bill?
If not is it me?

I know I get a little excited about bears but I'm from south Florida and spearfish around sharks and rarely give up a speared fish to a shark unless its really big and overly aggressive. When you feed them they come back. When you poke them in the eye they normally don't come back. Bears I find interesting.

I hope its not me. I'm the new guy remember.

Yankytyke

10-01-2014, 01:22

Yep some people are 'touchy' in this forum.
i got berated for mentioning the woman who did the AT in record time. Mentioned by asking what her name was.
each to thir own, the mass of great knowledge outweighs the touchy people.

shakey_snake

10-01-2014, 02:26

Younger know-it-alls and old curmudgeons abound in numbers.

This place is like the trail, you get a fun cross-section of demographics that have to clumsily interact. There's lots of hobbies where very like-minded people congregate together, but hiking really isn't one of them. The result is the atmosphere around white blaze.

Enjoy you time here, but if you're looking for solidarity: it's elsewhere.

Sailing_Faith

10-01-2014, 08:20

Drama is a part of human nature. If you don't feed the troll, it tends to stay under the bridge where it belongs.

i have got some good information here, and find it to be a good and helpful community.....

....maybe it is just me?

(wow, that is funny... That was my 500th post). :)

Hot Flash

10-01-2014, 08:57

Another Kevin

10-01-2014, 09:12

As one of the old curmudgeons mentioned by an earlier poster in this thread, I shrug.

"Four fifths of everybody's work must be bad. But the rest is worth the trouble for its own sake." - Rudyard Kipling, The Light that Failed.
"Ninety per cent of everything is crud." - attributed to Theodore Sturgeon.

But I try not to "blaze" people. I often don't succeed. Sorry.

RangerZ

10-01-2014, 09:47

98% of all statistics are made up.

Elsewhere here on WB I thought it was 75.8% or so.

rafe

10-01-2014, 09:53

Hikers tend to have healthy egos, or at least some sense of adventure and bravado. It's not surprising that they have strong opinions. For the most part, hikers are good people. I meet very few a--holes in the woods or on the trail. Internet forums often bring out the worst in people. Curmudgeons have seen the same topics come up again and again and are prone to making provocative remarks just to stir things up.

runt13

10-01-2014, 10:10

I take no offence to anything I read, even if I disagree.

RUNT ''13''

rickb

10-01-2014, 10:53

I take no offence to anything I read, even if I disagree.

RUNT ''13''

Manners are important, but the part of HYOH that people often forget is to not let others define you, or get under your skin. Easy to say, but harder for some.

In this spirit, here is a link to an article in Vanity Fair (thanks Drudge) on "Generation Wuss"

http://www.vanityfair.fr/culture/livre/articles/generation-wuss-by-bret-easton-ellis/15837

steve0423

10-01-2014, 11:26

Odd Man Out

10-01-2014, 11:54

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent". Attributed to Elanor Roosevelt.

My paraphrase: I don't allow my day to be ruined by what stupid people say on line.

lonehiker

10-01-2014, 12:50

WB is not as entertaining as it once was and arguably less informative.

Tipi Walter

10-01-2014, 13:11

WB is not as entertaining as it once was and arguably less informative.

I just wish there were some viable forum alternatives. Whiteblaze is one of the few backpacking forums which gets ample posts and quick mvt. Many like Trailspace and Sgt Rock's are slow moving---while Backpacker.com (the magazine's forum) just had a new remake and is full of bugs and frustrating.

Other Forums are zone-specific for the Cascades or the Northeast or Linville Gorge, etc. Show me an active Backpacking forum that has quick response times and doesn't get populated with non-backpacking discussions over firearms or ATV's or RV camping or Dayhiking Only or Bushcraft axes and saws---and I'd be happy.

Of course there's always Backpackinglight.com (BPL) and it's very active but gets gear obsessed and Gram crazy to the point of extremis. And now I believe requires new members to actually pay cash to post, a dead-end non-starter for me (but I'm grandfathered in so I can still post and not pay). Paying for a forum is like paying to breathe.

Dogwood

10-01-2014, 13:16

There are few absolutes in this reality. That certainly applies to many topics surrounding the often very individualistic find your own path HYOH world of hiking. Soooo? Why spend one iota of consciousness being offended by what amounts to a largely opinion based website or the way someone said something or that people disagree? You said it best: "People will hike their hike... what works for one may or may-not work for all...." I would sincerely hope we have all gotten that into our thinking. Personally, I often like breaking out of the commonly held hiking theories/thinking by plainly stating so in my comments. I know that can come across as harsh and shocking at times though.

Old Hiker

10-01-2014, 14:47

98% of all statistics are made up.

And the other 15% can be shown to be wrong.

Tuckahoe

10-01-2014, 14:56

And the other 15% can be shown to be wrong.

And you shouldnt point out that they are wrong because it might hurt their feelings.

Pedaling Fool

10-01-2014, 14:58

I started to post several times then canned it cause I didn’t want to hear the blazing. I’ve walked from Georgia to Maine and feel like I have something to contribute AND something yet to learn… but sometimes it’s just not worth the effort. sad :-?Don't let the "blazing' deter you. I get "blazed" all the time, it's always been that way, but you learn to like it:D; Thank You Sir, may I have another....:)

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rocketsocks

10-02-2014, 07:36

Manners are important, but the part of HYOH that people often forget is to not let others define you, or get under your skin. Easy to say, but harder for some.

In this spirit, here is a link to an article in Vanity Fair (thanks Drudge) on "Generation Wuss"

http://www.vanityfair.fr/culture/livre/articles/generation-wuss-by-bret-easton-ellis/15837
great article...a must read.

Millennial« Generation Wuss » by Bret Easton Ellis
In his books, he used to shoot at the materialistic excesses of his generation. But today, youth has become Bret Easton Ellis' favorite target. According to him, young people are just too sensitive, too narcissistic ,too stupid. But ultimately, as he explains in this exclusive text, he kind of feel sorry for them ( and they love it !).

In February I gave an interview to Vice UK to help promote a film I had written and financed called The Canyons—I did the press because there was still the idea, the hope, that if myself or the director Paul Schrader talked about the film it would somehow find an audience interested in it and understand what it was: an experimental, guerilla DIY affair that cost $150,000 dollars to shoot ($90,000 out of our own pockets) and that we filmed over twenty days in L.A. during the summer of 2012 starring controversial Millennials Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen. The young journalist from Vice UK asked me about the usual things I was preoccupied with in that moment: my admiration of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street—the best film I saw in 2013 (not great Scorsese, but better than any other American film that year) and we talked about the movie I’m writing for Kanye West, my love of Terrence Malick (though not To The Wonder), a miniseries I was developing about the Manson murders for FOX (but because of another Manson series going into production at NBC the miniseries has now been cancelled), the Bret Easton Ellis Podcast (link), the possibility of a new novel I had begun in January of 2013 and that I lost interest in but hoped to get back to; we talked about my problems with David Foster Wallace, my love of Joan Didion, as well as Empire versus post-Empire (link) and we talked about, of course, The Canyons. But the first question the young journalist asked me wasn’t about the movie—it was about why I was always referring to Millennials as Generation Wuss on my Twitter feed. And I answered her honestly, unprepared for the level of noise my comments caused once the ViceUK piece was posted.I have been living with someone from the Millennial generation for the last four years (he’s now 27) and sometimes I’m charmed and sometimes I’m exasperated by how him and his friends—as well as the Millennials I’ve met and interacted with both in person and in social media—deal with the world, and I’ve tweeted about my amusement and frustration under the banner “Generation Wuss” for a few years now. My huge generalities touch on their over-sensitivity, their insistence that they are right despite the overwhelming proof that suggests they are not, their lack of placing things within context, the overreacting, the passive-aggressive positivity, and, of course, all of this exacerbated by the meds they’ve been fed since childhood by over-protective “helicopter” parents mapping their every move. These are late-end Baby Boomers and Generation X parents who were now rebelling against their own rebelliousness because of the love they felt that they never got from their selfish narcissistic Boomer parents and who end up smothering their kids, inducing a kind of inadequate preparation in how to deal with the hardships of life and the real way the world works: people won’t like you, that person may not love you back, kids are really cruel, work sucks, it’s hard to be good at something, life is made up of failure and disappointment, you’re not talented, people suffer, people grow old, people die. And Generation Wuss responds by collapsing into sentimentality and creating victim narratives rather than acknowledging the realities of the world and grappling with them and processing them and then moving on, better prepared to navigate an often hostile or indifferent world that doesn’t care if you exist.I never pretended to be an expert on Millenials and my harmless tweeting about them was solely based on personal observation with the reactions to the tweets predictably running along generational lines. For example, one of the worst fights my boyfriend and I endured was about the Tyler Clemente suicide here in the United States. Clemente was an 18 year-old Rutger’s University student who killed himself because he felt he was being bullied by his roommate Dharun Ravi. Ravi never touched Tyler or threatened him but filmed Tyler making out with another man unbeknownst to Tyler and then tweeted about it. Embarrassed by this web-cam prank, Tyler threw himself off the George Washington Bridge a few days later. The fight I had with my boyfriend was about victimization narratives and cyber-“bullying” versus imagined threats and genuine hands-on bullying. Was this just the case of an overly sensitive Generation Wuss snowflake that made national news because of how trendy the idea of cyber-bullying was in that moment (and still is to a degree) or was this a deeply troubled young person who simply snapped because he was brought down by his own shame and then was turned into a victim/hero (they are the same thing now in the United States) by a press eager to present the case out of context and turning Ravi into a monster just because of a pretty harmless—in my mind—freshman dorm-room prank? People my age tended to agree with my tweets, but people my boyfriend’s age tended to, of course, disagree.
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But then again my reaction stems from the fact that I am looking at Millenials from the POV of a member of one of the most pessimistic and ironic generations that has ever roamed the earth—Generation X—so when I hear Millenials being so damaged by “cyber-bullying” that it becomes a gateway to suicide—it’s difficult for me to process. And even my boyfriend agrees that Generation Wuss is overly sensitive, especially when dealing with criticism. When Generation Wuss creates something they have so many outlets to display it that it often goes out into the world unfettered, unedited, posted everywhere, and because of this freedom a lot of the content displayed is rushed and kind of ****ty and that’s OK—it’s just the nature of the world now—but when Millennials are criticized for this content they seem to collapse into a shame spiral and the person criticizing them is automatically labeled a hater, a contrarian, a troll. And then you have to look at the generation that raised them, that coddled them in praise—gold medals for everyone, four stars for just showing up—and tried to shield them from the dark side of life, and in turn created a generation that appears to be super confident and positive about things but when the least bit of darkness enters into their realm they become paralyzed and unable to process it.My generation was raised by Baby Boomers in a kind of complete fantasy world at the height of the Empire: Boomers were the most privileged and the best educated children of The Great Generation, enjoying the economic boom of post-World War II American society. My generation realized that like most fantasies it was a somewhat dissatisfying lie and so we rebelled with irony and negativity and attitude or conveniently just checked-out because we had the luxury to do so. Our reality compared to Millennial reality wasn’t one of economic hardship. We had the luxury to be depressed and ironic and cool. Anxiety and neediness are the defining aspects of Generation Wuss and when you don’t have the cushion of rising through the world economically then what do you rely on? Well, your social media presence: maintaining it, keeping the brand in play, striving to be liked, to be liked, to be liked. And this creates its own kind of ceaseless anxiety. This is why if anyone has a snarky opinion of Generation Wuss then that person is labeled by them as a “douche”—case closed. No negativity—we just want to be admired. This is problematic because it limits discourse: if we all just like everything—the Millennial dream—then what are we going to be talking about? How great everything is? How often you’ve pressed the like button on Facebook? The Millennial site Buzzfeed has said they are no longer going to run anything negative—well, if this keeps spreading, then what’s going to happen to culture? What’s going to happen to conversation and discourse? If there doesn’t seem to be an economic way of elevating yourself then the currency of popularity is just the norm now and so this is why you want to have thousands and thousands of people liking you on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumbler—and you try desperately to be liked. The only way to elevate yourself in society is through your brand, your profile, your social media presence. A friend of mine—also a member of Generation Wuss—remarked that Millennials are more curators than artists, a generation of “aestheticists…any young artist who goes on Tumbler doesn’t want to create actual art—they either want to steal the art or they want to BE the art.”I forgot about the Vice interview but was reminded of it due to a minor explosion that occurred after it was posted and the term Generation Wuss received an inordinate amount of press and I was immediately asked to appear on talk shows and podcasts and radio programs to discuss “the phenomenon” of Generation Wuss. The people who agreed with my casual, tossed-off assessments skewed older but I was surprised by the number of young people who agreed with me as well, Millennials who also had complaints about their generation. The older people wanted to share examples: a father related a story how he remembered watching in frustration as his son participated in a tug-of-war game with his classmates on the field of his elementary school and after a minute or two the well-meaning coach announced the game was officially a tie, told the kids they did a great job, and everyone got a ribbon. Occasionally there were darker stories: guilt-ridden parents chastising themselves for coddling kids who when finally faced with the normal reality of the world drifted into drugs as an escape…from the normal reality of the world. Parents kept reaching out and told me they were tormented by this oppressive need to reward their kids constantly in this culture. That in doing so they effectively debilitated them from dealing with the failures we all confront as get older, and that their children were unequipped to deal with pain.I didn’t appear on any of the talk shows because I don’t pretend to be an expert on this generation any more than I feel I’m an expert on my own: I don’t feel like that old man complaining about the generation supplanting his. As someone who throughout his own career satirized my generation for their materialism and their shallowness, I didn’t think that pointing out aspects I noticed in Millennials was that big of a deal. But in the way that the 24-48 hour news cycle plays itself out I briefly was considered an “expert” and I kept getting bombarded with emails and tweets. What the Vice interview didn’t allow was that because I’ve been living with someone from this generation I’m sympathetic to them as well, remembering clearly the hellish year my college-educated boyfriend looked for a job and could only find non-paying internships. Add in the demeaning sexual atmosphere that places a relentless emphasis on good looks (Tinder being the most prevalent example) in such a superficially nightmarish way it makes the way my generation hooked-up seem positively chaste and innocent by comparison. So I’m sympathetic to Generation Wuss and their neurosis, their narcissism and their foolishness—add the fact that they were raised in the aftermath of 9/11, two wars, a brutal recession and it’s not hard to be sympathetic. But maybe in the way Lena Dunham is in “Girls” a show that perceives them with a caustic and withering eye and is also sympathetic. And this is crucial: you can be both. In-fact in order to be an artist, to raise yourself above the din in an over-reactionary fear-based culture that considers criticism elitist, you need to be both. But this is a hard thing to do because Millennials can’t deal with that kind of cold-eye reality. This is why Generation Wuss only asks right now : please, please, please, only give positive feedback please.

rocketsocks

10-02-2014, 07:46

I read a lot of the posted items on this great blog....called ....."WHITE BLAZE "...

I respond to posts mostly based upon on who is posting.....
sometimes I respond based on the topic.

...there are a few and (as far as I have seen there are just a few)...folks that have gone "off the reservation".

More than 50% of what you find on the social inter-web....is crap....

I like this place ,.... as it has a lesser % of crap, however, the "white blaze" still has more than 30% crap.........

People will hike their hike... what works for one may or may-not work for all....

Opinion is one thing ..... going after someone that does something different ---------- is something that does not go with the common "think" of others....

I have only seen this in a few threads.......however......it is the same persons that go...APE S--T, in their replys......:confused::confused:

Perception is everything, could be reasons for snarky replays were not aware of...most can give as good as they get. I try not to sweat the small stuff. If someone feels the need to get there stuff off so as to keep from goin' postal...I say let er rip.

public service announcement

Feel your goin' postal
Need someone to Cus at
Send me some PM's and we'll have us a all out bitch slap fest, I could take it...hell I could use it!

Traveler

10-02-2014, 09:57

hikehunter

10-02-2014, 15:32

Thanks for the good replies. I saw what I was looking to find.

Dogtra

10-02-2014, 16:34

I'm not fully understanding the reasoning behind this thread but I'm glad it didn't divide posters further, as it could have. Whiteblaze is no different than any other group forum. There are differing personalities, ideas, and opinions. Knowing that they will clash at times is a given. Yes, we can hope for people to treat others respectfully. Treat them how we would want them to treat us. But I do believe that most of us know by now that there will always be people that step out of line, that can't stand other's opinions if they don't fall in line with their own, and those that will forever remain immature and insensitive.

In the end it is up to me how I choose to respond and how I choose to sift through very opinionated threads to find potential gems of insight.

2015 Lady Thru-Hiker

10-03-2014, 09:28

I tend to have the approach of "take what you need and leave the rest". If someone doesn't agree with me or takes issue with something I post I first try to see their point and/or if I can learn something from their post/rant. If I can, great! If I can't, well everyone is entitled to their own opinion - and everyone's got one ;) If someone posts something I take issue with I try to figure out if my response with impart information not already contributed to the thread or I sense it will add any value. If so, I post. If not, well, I don't. Of course not all posts, even controversial ones are meant to be taken seriously :)

Mags

10-03-2014, 11:24

[QUOTE=Tipi Walter;1912252]I just wish there were some viable forum alternatives. /QUOTE]

Check out Trailgroove
http://www.trailgroove.com/forum.php

Where BPL is gear focused and WB is (mainly) long trail focused, the magazine and the forums are more "everyday backpacker" focused.
The forums are growing in use and more experienced backpackers who can contribute (like you! :D) would be very welcome.

And yeah, I heard BPMag's forums have went downhill since the switch. At least according to the FB group.

I don't look at all these forums as competition but rather different arenas filling different niches.

(Disclosure: I do some writing for TG magazine. But I was a big fan of them well before I was asked to write for them)

Tipi Walter

10-03-2014, 11:38

Thanks Mags for the neato link.

10-K

10-03-2014, 12:38

Tipi Walter

10-03-2014, 12:50

The Trailgroove forums aren't very active either....

No matter where the forum is hosted the content is pretty much some variation of ... "What's the best _______?" and other content that's duplicated across forums. Even the same people posting on the different forums for the most part.

And don't forget Trail Journal trail forums--

http://www.trailforums.com/index.cfm

No avatars and no apparent way to insert fotogs.

10-K

10-03-2014, 12:53

And don't forget Trail Journal trail forums--

http://www.trailforums.com/index.cfm

No avatars and no apparent way to insert fotogs.

Yeah, I'll just stick with good ol' WB...The devil you know kinda thing.

Everybody that's been here a while knows that most of the bickering isn't real. I've met a lot of WB'er and to a person they've all been pretty nice folks.

I do like Gear Swap and Gear Deals on BPL though.

MuddyWaters

10-04-2014, 14:20

If someone wants everyone to agree with them, or gets an attitude or offended because others dont, they are the one with the problem.

If we were all the same it would be boring as hell.

rocketsocks

10-04-2014, 14:29

Perception is everything, could be reasons for snarky replays were not aware of...most can give as good as they get. I try not to sweat the small stuff. If someone feels the need to get there stuff off so as to keep from goin' postal...I say let er rip.

public service announcement

Feel your goin' postal
Need someone to Cus at
Send me some PM's and we'll have us a all out bitch slap fest, I could take it...hell I could use it!

Well I've already received a couple steamy PM's, awesome keep em comin'...aaaargh! ;):)

rocketsocks

10-04-2014, 14:44

just a few thoughts that keep me somewhat sane and even keeled.

push like you pull
give like you take
rely on the tried and true things you've learned, and trust em
most anything can be fixed
often the situation is this x not this X...so chill.

hikehunter

10-06-2014, 23:37

LIKE I SAID ..... " have see what and who I want to see.:rolleyes::p

JohnnySnook

10-07-2014, 00:56

This next post may be a little long.

JohnnySnook

10-07-2014, 01:03

The Forum Bully – Why Are There So Many Online Bullies?

http://chataboutyou.com/online-forum-bully

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What is a Forum Bully?

Bullying is about power and dominance. In online forums, bullies use words to intimidate, isolate, and degrade their victims.
Bullies are generally easy to pick out. Here are some common forum bully traits –

Bullies use unsubstantiated personal attacks to denigrate their victims. Often, they make fun of their victim’s intelligence, get everyone to laugh at him, and in doing so isolates and degrades their target. In this way, their victim is neutralized, and serves as a strong reminder to everyone of the bully’s power. Bullies rule through fear.
Bullies usually attack weak or new targets. The best way to get yourself into a bully’s little black book of horrors is to appear weak, uncertain, and emotionally vulnerable. New members to a social group are also a bully’s favorite because they are new, unproven, and do not yet have a support system. They are alone – and therefore easier to hunt-down and kill.

http://images.chataboutyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Online-Bully11-520x520.jpg (http://images.chataboutyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Online-Bully11.jpg)
What is an Forum Bully?

http://images.chataboutyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Online-Bully19b-280x280.jpg (http://images.chataboutyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Online-Bully19b.jpg)
Forum bullies hate being challenged and they hate losing.

Bullies hate being challenged and they hate losing. Another quick way to get yourself into the black book of horrors is to publicly challenge a bully, especially a head bully. A bully’s power rests in his ability to control others through fear. If they are challenged and they lose, it will significantly erode their power. As a result, they will use excessive force to defeat public challenges.
Bullies usually hunt in packs.There is safety and strength in numbers. As we said before, bullies hate losing, so they try to go for a sure kill.
Bullies are afraid of strength. If they spot strong new members to the community, they will first try to recruit them. If that fails, they will usually leave them alone. Strong targets are risky and usually end up costing the bully more than he gains.
Bullies are in-love with themselves. They have little to no empathy, and are only interested in their own activities, and their own power. A bully may help others who are in his gang, or help other respected members of the community, but only for his own advancement and glory.

http://images.chataboutyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Online-Bully13-520x520.jpg (http://images.chataboutyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Online-Bully13.jpg)
Forum bullies are afraid of strength.

Why Be a White Blaze Forum Bully?

Because my hiking style is the only way! If your pack is too light your a speed hiker!
If your pack is too heavy? Well, there are too many answers on this forum that one! LOL!

God forbid you take a blue blaze trail or slack pack!

If your a 15 year old girl that is supported by your parents never even step foot on the trail or least not tell anyone what a great adventure you had!

If your 7 to 9 years old please don't tell anyone you hiked the AT and are home schooled!!!
I mean your parents had to of helped you do this! Maybe even carried your pack in the hard sections!

Bullying is popular in online forums, and other online social groups because –

The internet is largely anonymous. Studies show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deindividuation#Nadler.2C_A..2C_Goldberg.2C_M..2C_ Jaffe.2C_Y._.281982.29) that when we are anonymous, we feel less inhibited. For example, when we wear a costume and cover up our face with a mask, we feel more free to take risks. The internet allows us all to easily put on a mask and outfit. Being anonymous creates more freedoms and removes judgement based on physical appearance, race, income, and more. However, it also allows us to escape responsibility for our actions, including verbal abuse and bully behavior. Many forum bullies use the internet as a release mechanism for their real-world anger or frustration. Since they cannot shout at their boss, co-workers, or neighbors without real-world consequences, they take their frustrations out in an anonymous online forum, where there are no real consequences for their anti-social behavior.
Negative interactions get more attention. Human nature is such that we respond more quickly and more strongly to negative comments. In this way, forum bullies are the ones that get the most attention and the most followers. This online attention positively reinforces the bullying behavior, which causes more bullying to occur. Today, many people are trying to make money online through advertising. Getting forum attention generates more buzz, this gets them more traffic, which translates into more money.

Ia wonder

10-07-2014, 09:18

Sarcasm the elf

10-07-2014, 11:07

As someone who is new to this forum, I find your responses to be well thought out and backed by experience . I think you would be interesting to hike with.

The last time I hiked with Kevin he took us off trail in the Catskills for three days and we had to wear safety glasses so that the spruce trees we were pushing through didn't poke us in the eyes. :)

rafe

10-07-2014, 11:19

The last time I hiked with Kevin he took us off trail in the Catskills for three days and we had to wear safety glasses so that the spruce trees we were pushing through didn't poke us in the eyes. :)

I do a lot of my hiking while wearing a cheap pair of plastic safety glasses. Mostly to thwart those %^$#@ midges that buzz around my face and try to dive-bomb my eyeballs. Even last weekend in moderate autumn New England temps, the midges were out.

rocketsocks

10-07-2014, 15:25

Forum bullies hate being challenged and they hate losing.

Bullies hate being challenged and they hate losing. Another quick way to get yourself into the black book of horrors is to publicly challenge a bully, especially a head bully. A bully’s power rests in his ability to control others through fear. If they are challenged and they lose, it will significantly erode their power. As a result, they will use excessive force to defeat public challenges.
Bullies usually hunt in packs.There is safety and strength in numbers. As we said before, bullies hate losing, so they try to go for a sure kill.
Bullies are afraid of strength. If they spot strong new members to the community, they will first try to recruit them. If that fails, they will usually leave them alone. Strong targets are risky and usually end up costing the bully more than he gains.

Many forum bullies use the internet as a release mechanism for their real-world anger or frustration. Since they cannot shout at their boss, co-workers, or neighbors without real-world consequences, they take their frustrations out in an anonymous online forum, where there are no real consequences for their anti-social behavior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krD4hdGvGHM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krD4hdGvGHM