As a former boy scout, my least favorite kind of person to go camping with is anyone who never bothered to figure out how any of their gear works. They inevitably show up in the dark and gripe about stuff like it's in Swedish Ikea directions format, start off the first day grumpy as hell cause they froze their asses off on the hard ground and didn't get any sleep. What's worse is this turns them against the prospect of ever visiting the outdoors again and they leave the gear to rot in their garage instead of donating it to someone more responsible and with a more enthusiastic joie de vivre than them, namely small, poor children.
IKEA instructions are clear, concise, and complete. A better comparison would be Chinese flatpack trash from Wayfair with poorly photocopied diagrams, inscrutable Engrish, and missing steps.
Very precise. I do technical drawings for fabricators and Ikea is the sort of gold standard, for exploded assemblies views anyhow. What I was getting at was another layer of insufferability which is the people that complain about instructions which can't be any more clear, just because they are bellyachers.
Based off my limited experience, Wayfair furniture is intentionally designed to be as frustrating as possible to assemble.
I learned to cherish IKEA instructions after my first and last experience with those.
If you can't figure out how to build a tent (in the dark or not), camping clearly is not for you, or anything that requires the mental capability of an adult for that matter. That shit really is not hard.
People who don't ever use their toys prior to executing the camping trip are probably amateurs in more ways than just camping.
This is exactly the reason I bought a car that can fit an inflatable mattress in the back.
Because I won’t let details like a lack of preparation stop me! I’ve prepared for that!Car camping like that is the best!
Similar experiences with me except army.
Load all their Gucci kit into a ruck. March 12km out to the middle of bumfuck nowhere huffing and puffing cause your shit weighs 80lbs before they gave you ammo, water and rations. Now you're wearing battle rattle and hiking up Mount Fuckyou carrying a load of bullshit.
Get to the bivouac, drop your shit and you didn't bother to figure out how your new inflatable mattress works instead of a foam hobo-pad the army issues you... Oh and you forgot to pack your bivvie bag and the ground is wet so you're trying to suck and fuck your way into someone's spare kit... Oh and you didn't bring a headlamp for sentry duty and now I gotta explain the the Sarge why my 2IC is such a useless bag of milk and needs to see a medic cause they cooked their lower back lugging their kitchen sink up a mountain for a three day mission.
Motherfucker, if you listened to me and packed the bare essentials and threw your spare kit in the truck you wouldn't be having this problem. Next time, make sure your goddamn flashlight has batteries and no, you can't use my battery pack to charge your cellphone. If my phone dies what am I gonna look at while baking in the 40°C blue rocket? The same childish graffiti of cocks? Brother, I drew those cocks. I don't need to look at them.
Might I add: My ass is 230lbs and I ain't got a gat dang problem lugging my shit up there. Yet these young dumb lads think they're the Morningstar's gift to the corps and yet here they are crying to me that their balls are so chafed they're bleeding.
Both saddened and relieved I never attained this level of ...militariness(?)
The language alone is super kickass and I would have had a lot of fun bustin chops. I was out of there before I was 15 so it wasn't to be.
On the other hand, damn, why was this even allowed to be an option? I guess it's trial by fire but it seems like military issued gear should be the only gear allowable in that situation and that they would have gone through extensive drilling till they got proficient before getting into potential life-risking conditions. Honestly, looking back, it wasn't much different for our first backpacking trips. We were still using terrible external-framed packs. My mom insisted on getting the crappiest discount ghetto-ass pack for me and I was in a ton of pain the whole time. Parents weren't super into looking out for us back in those days. Years later, I got myself a decent internal-framed pack and the extreme upgrade made me want to go kick them all in the dicks. It didn't cost one penny more, either. Just somewhat slightly thoughtful.
Haha, either way, I sure do love the way you described it. Thanks for posting.
Often, I think of this line from Deadwood when I read a description I really like. It's not about the lying, of course. It's about the turns of phrase and the storytelling. Thanks again.
God dammit Swearengen, I don't trust you as far as I can throw ya...but I enjoy the way you lie.
https://www.reddit.com/r/deadwood/comments/1e51dyv/daily_deadwood_quote_337/ldj8zhb/
anyone who never bothered to figure out how any of their gear works. They inevitably show up in the dark and gripe about stuff like it’s in Swedish
Dang, you have a lot of prejudices against me. And they're all wrong. What's fun about knowing how stuff works, finding it out is the adventure!
You sound like an exception, then.
The ones doing this usually are not having fun and quite often ruining the mood for people around them. Bright lights everywhere, shining head lamps in the faces of sites around, loud, grumpy. Often I help them out simply so I can go back to my campfire in peace.
I wonder if dude actually made it home, as those things aren't designed to leave pavement.
I hear he hit a 1-meter patch of ice and the cybertruck spontaneously combusted.
You jest, but their warranty is literally invalid off pavement.
As ugly as the Aztek is, it's gorgeous next to that stainless steel doorstop.
I miss my old Pontiac Aztec, I had this tent and inflatable mattress. This cars truck space was huge!!
Honestly it was the ugliest car, but also the best car.
Center consoles air conditioning "nipples" were the best.
This looks like hardcore 2000 era design, but on steroids. Nice!
I am not into camping so I'm not sure, but isn't the point to get away from density/people/etc? There's so many cars there. Am I missing something (aside from an appreciation for nature up close)?
It mentions a bike ride the next day, so it's probably just something that's out in the middle of nowhere and starts pretty early. They'll often have an area for participants to camp for the night instead of driving out in the early morning.
depressingly it's very very popular (at least here in sweden) to go """"camping"""" at what is basically trailer parks but for house cars (not literal mobile homes) where you stay a couple of nights at a time at most.
It just feels like the typical suburban mindset really.
In the US those are "RV Parks". They're pretty good if you you're traveling with kids and want to give them the opportunity to meet other kids and play with whatever amenities the park has. Camping in a state or national park is better if you want to more space and a more natural experience. Areas in some nattional forests are available to camp in for free as long as you don't stay in the same place for more than a week and clean up after yourself.
We have this shit in Canada, too. Millions of square kilometers of wilderness, and people camp on top of each other and run their generators for the air conditioning and TV in their $250,000 RV they use 2 weekends out of the year.
Fucking weirdos.
The Society of the Spectacle talks about how this phenomenon fits into larger societal pathologies.
Car camping is its own thing with its own distinct culture from backpackers who hike out into the wilderness to camp.
I think it was more of a weekend bike trailing event, since cyberbaby left before "the bike ride".
I split it up between car camping, what you see in this post. Which is much different than backpacking or Backcountry camping. Which is packing all your gear in a pack and trekking multiple days or large distances in the middle of nowhere.
I go backpacking exactly for the reasons you bring up. Sometimes there's assholes at campsites. Or people with loud music, etc.
An epic in six tweets.
Probably first time doing it and he didn’t even try at home before going camping. When those foldable kayaks started popping out on Amazon, I saw a couple arriving with two at a lake. They spent like 20 minutes trying to assemble them and ended up giving up.
I unironically like the Aztec. Function over form.
They could have just bought a Porsche Taycan with the roof tent with that Cubertruck money.
Here's a shortish video showing setup.. Man it looks like a fiddly process.
LOL, all that electricity in the "truck" and they give you a manual bike pump to inflate the damn thing‽
That looks insane. It's held up by clamping onto the metal flashing of the door, instead of to the frame, the flashing held on by fucking glue. I also love how they show the electric plugs, but you have to use a bicycle pump to inflate.
Indeed it looks really complex, half way through the video I was already lost.
It's crazy not just that you have to manually pump it yourself, but why does it even have a "camping program" that you have to engage? It does nothing other than revealing the tray with the tent gear. There's so many steps involved, why did they think that was the one that required automating?
Doesnt actually look that bad, putting up any tent is usually a fiddly process. But its definitely not intuitive at all. If I were somehow a cyber truck driver and not a dumbass, I would practice setting up and taking down the tent at home first until I got it all figured out. Just as I would with any other new tent.
The Aztec wasn’t ugly in the right configuration and even if it was ugly, it was at least practical and affordable
Most trucks can accommodate some sort of official or unofficial tent. Granted, the Aztec was, I believe, designed with that in mind. I feel like the cybertruck tent failure was likely a combination of poor design and the lack of critical thinking that a person who purchased a cybertruck has. Regardless, I prefer my canvas tent on the ground. There is plenty of space, no climbing, and I can have a stove (heat only) for winter excursions.
And the biggest advantage is that you don't have to take it down to go on day trips while you're camping. I think the rooftop and vehicle tents only make sense if you're going to be sleeping somewhere different every night.
Don't even need to piss about with a tent, just get a shell make sure it's water proof voila camper, alternatively you could get some aluminum pipes and canvas to just build a canvas cover which has the same advantage as a tent or shell. Really a tent seems weirdly restricted and over engineered for no real gain.
TIL: the cybertruck has a tent. WHY!
I think it's an accessory you can buy. The quality seems to be on par with the rest of the thing.
It was advertised as a hard top too. They made it a basic ass tent that doesn't even work.
I recently found out that this is a surprisingly common option for new cars.
Its having “pc beeper comes with the case and not the motherboard” vibes to me. Something legacy.
Well the Cybertruck ist asstech in it's own way.
