u/Important_Nobody8768

You would expect someone who posts on r/freediving or something to be somewhat cooler or at least different than someone posting on r/mechanicalkeyboards but without fail every sub on this site is exactly the same and has the exact same morbidly obese, neurotic, smug and stupid users

90% of posts are just people posing their gear for pictures/asking for gear recommendations. Most people spend more time online shopping than doing their actual hobby. Half the sports you can't really get any improvement other than weight savings beyond a certain point so you'll have guys that are literally 80lb overweight bursting out of their spandex bibs spending $2000 to make their bicycle weigh 2lb less. No matter what hobby it is people will give you some insane amount in the thousands of dollars as the "bare minimum" to get "entry level gear". Then you check their profile and their fat ass is doing the pizza down a green run with $5000 worth of brand new ski gear asking how their "form" is. And you just KNOW they'll be asking some dumbass question about upgrading their skis after their 3rd time up the mountain

Imagine being some poor broke ass kid coming on Reddit for advice (normal people do do this) and thinking you need $1400 worth of certifications, a $700 speargun and a list of like 50 stupid gizmos to go spearfishing when every normal person in real life starts with a mask and fins from the thrift store and some shitty old speargun out of their uncle's attic

If you check the top posts they will without fail be a few pictures of black guys doing their sport and a bunch of goonerbait/thinly veiled onlyfans advertisements

They're also neurotically safety and rules obsessed to the point that they can barely functionally participate in a real life hobby. It's like an entire website of Germans. Every normal rite of passage experience like some stinky dude who lives in his van teaching you to belay while smoking weed is treated as basically suicidal. Instead you should go to some fuckass gym with some fuckass licensing system you've never heard of and take an accredited course blah blah blah before you even get started

And god forbid you make fun of them in any way or give normal sane advice. 20 people replying "don't yuck his yum!!!" before you're permabanned

Sometimes you spot them in real life but not often. When I'm on a day hike with my 7 year old niece and 65 year old aunt in sandals and we pass an ugly WMAF couple wearing $3000 of pristine Arc'teryx it's like yeah that dude 100% posts on Reddit

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I've seen this hundreds of times in old novels and it seems to be too common to be purely creative license, but also seems hard to believe. What's the deal?

I am gonna have to start commuting this year, about 45 mins each way. I generally listen to more simple, easy to follow, young adult-y type stuff that I wouldn't read otherwise. The call of the wild, earthsea, Tom Sawyer etc. have tried more complex books but I felt like I wasn't following them as well as I would have reading.

Any recommendations?

I can clock Army people 99% of the time especially women. Not just talking about their shitty outfits, they have a specific face

There is a mower, Death yclept

Hath power which the Lord hath kept

When he 'gins his scythe to whet

Keener it grows and keener yet

Is it acceptable to use yclept after the name or is this just done in a more poetic fashion for the sake of the rhyme? Otherwise I've only seen it before the name, as you'd use "named."

There is a mower, Death yclept

Hath power which the Lord hath kept

When he 'gins his scythe to whet

Keener it grows and keener yet

Is it acceptable to use yclept after the name or is this just done in a more poetic fashion for the sake of the rhyme? Otherwise I've only seen it before the name, as you'd use "named."

Hilo had a stripped bolt and as I was hammering a torx head into it the valve core got loose and exploded a bunch of oil out. What do I use to top it up? One thread said 5w motorbike fork oil, is that good?

I don't care about parasites unless they'll actually get me sick. And if something is safe to eat 95% of the time that's good enough for me. Can I do lingcod ceviche, raw uni, etc? So far I'm just doing scallop and urchins

It seems like the Jolas translation was poorly recieved in the 30s because of the type of slang it used but that's not something that seems particularly relevant today. Has anyone read both (or excerpts from both)? Is one clearly better than the other?