Outdoorsy Shite: MNHQ chose the naff name

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but never mind, we know what it is really

Bear sticky
Too much honey.

I have a new hover in your honour

I have no desire to ever go camping again (I think there's a damn good reason humans invented bricks) - although I do like a good hearty walk.

Anyway - have admired your campaign for this topic from afar and particularly enjoyed your World Cup hijack so many, many congratulations . May you live long and prosper.

I can assure you all that you would be perfectly safe from me if you climbed a tree. Actually, In my bear incarnation, I am approximately 2.5"" tall (see picture) so you could just step over me and carry on trekking....

awww

Should it not be The Great Outdoors, with capitals....in lower case it comes over as a bit small and lowly, not Great at all ;o)

Preferred Outdoorsy Shite though and agree that there should be a rule about prefacing all thread titles with it :o

You do have quite a fierce expression in that picture, rustybear, knittedness notwithstanding. My trigger finger is firmly on the brearspray nozzle.

Whoop.

May you live long and prosper.
Thank you. We will of course, all the fresh air and exercise, and (for the majority who are in the UK) no bears. Just cows and distracted helmsmen as major perils.

You climb trees for grizzlies, not for black bears which are much better climbers than you and you just end up having to fight a bear in a tree (almost-quote from Bill Bryson)

Oh, and whoever it was asked about quiche.... don't be daft. Its all sandwiches and pub lunches hereabouts. The more the merrier - the Great Outdoors is big enough for all.

And ale. Don't forget the ale. Or the dog. Dogs welcome. Especially fat Labradors.

But don't let them eat the sandwiches.

Is it wrong for me to want to name change to distractedhelmsman?

I can't, cos I'll be locked out of the attic again, but I really do wanna.

Or sudokucougar.

ooh goody not quiche then

that's bears sorted...what do we do with the cows, then?

think I would sing a haunting song, to baffle them. Actually I might try that with the bears as well

oooOOOOOOaaaahhhhooooo

I do like 'The Great Outdoors is big enough for all'

it's giving me a lovely warm glow

...oh, hold on. that's because I've just spilt my pint of Old Mouldy on my chest

tsk

...and apparently I'm near the fire

OW

too near, some say

I am a little concerned about cows. I once got chased off a hillock (or was it a hummock?) by a frisky herd in East Sussex and had to leap barefoot over a fence to escape.

Jack - good thing you were on beer not spirits just then!

I still have actual scars from leaping over barbed wire fences being chased by a coyote, meg. I'm allergic to tetanus vaccs. The doc didn't know whether to cross his fingers or just shoot me. And my stupid dogs wanted to play with the damn thing.

If I fall asleep by the fire, can someone wake me when it's kicking out time?

Cows are evil bastards.

I'm intrigued by bear spray. Is it like Mace for bears?

exactly that.

but make sure it's pointing in the right direction when you go for it.

It has only taken me four days to get here.

Tis the hot weather you know, it slows me down with all this fur.

Shouldn't it be flan not quiche, same as body warmer not gilet?

I am at my friends house and we have just been for a long walk As it happens we camped in a bear area several (ahem) years ago. No fancy bear spray for us. When one wandered into our camp site we scared it away with the force of our personalities ( and by banging pots together like fuck). Happy days.