Does anyone else feel intense pity and disgust seeing bongs larp as woodsmen? I mean look at that joke of a "forest". I've seen more dangerous bush in Central park.
Does anyone else feel intense pity and disgust seeing bongs larp as woodsmen?
Does anyone else feel intense pity and disgust seeing bongs larp as woodsmen? I mean look at that joke of a "forest". I've seen more dangerous bush in Central park.
They do the best they can with what they have. The biggest pity is this guy’s struggle to create content as he desperately tried to cling to you tube as a career
Both of these. Why would I feel disgust at someone because they're less fortunate than me and live in a shitty country for PrepHole? Why do you feel the need to make a thread about it?
The guy has two youtube channels, with TA outdoors being his 2nd one. His main one is TA Fishing. I dunno why you say desperately try to cling, when he has done great success from both channels, his net worth is several million from that.
>his net worth is several million from that.
no, youtube with his subscription count make £40k/ on average. He is very much so struggling for content. There is a good reason tv shows last a few seasons and then stop
He probably earns fairly well on the merch and gear he sells though
We hate them just as much. The ones who just do it on their own in a local woodland are decent, the ones recording it are just gearfags, shills. They take a few videos and photos, set up their £900 paper tent then head home and come back the following morning.
Don't think that they represent us is any way. Just as bad as the gearfags across the pond
>bongs
I don't even think about them.
probably the coolest stump ive ever encountered
also is this the guy that builds "medieval" sheds in a plantation wood by a motorway?
I wouldn't laugh at him: youtube gave him enough money to buy his own woodland
That's a pretty cool stump, anon
I feel intense envy at exactly that kind of forest because everything in my cunt is annoying hilly trails. I want comfy flat woodland to hang a hammock and nothing else.
>youtube gave him enough money to buy his own woodland
You're delusional. All these youtube "bushcraft" kids already bought woodland with daddy's money before YT made them even richer when they turned into living billboards for a lifestyle. That's how they could park their car right outside the camera doing take after take of their photogenic "bushcraft" "survival" videos. I can't believe that so many people here simp for these gays. There's not a single one of them who isn't a disgusting fraud, except that old man in Alaska who eventually quit making videos.
>I feel intense envy at exactly that kind of forest because everything in my cunt is annoying hilly trails. I want comfy flat woodland to hang a hammock and nothing else.
UK style 'ancient semi-natural woodland' might not be extensive, wild, remote or free of people but it is pretty comfy. It's also has fascinating ecological and social history.
i for one appreciate the diversity of forests our planet has to offer. how difficult it is to traverse is secondary to appreciating nature
doesnt ths guy live in norway
Doubt it
>not seething about people 1000s of miles away doing a hobby = cuckoldry
amerishart logic
If I was a bongbro I would just do urban stealth camping. I've been doing it alot lately, its a ton of fun, not sure why. I guess its fun for the same reason that sex in public is fun. Its also super comfy setting up camp then walking a few blocks to the gas station for a beer. Homeless morons might be on to something...
beach camping is more fun here. cities are a shithole here
I really respect that one guy who will stealth camp in some 5' x 10' patch of shrubs in the middle of a city highway. Its way more earnest and challenging.
This guy?
https://www.youtube.com/@VagrantHoliday/videos
Probably referencing this Canadian
bongs have access to good seas. if I was a bong I would be on a sea kayak.
nope. he's making the best with what he's got and getting a pretty penny at the same time
That guy and his dad are particularly cringey when it comes to this, his dad makes fishing vids some of which have been fairly useful to me in the past but the attempt to emulate American ways all the time is pretty sad. Particularly annoying to me seeing this type of guy in the north of Scotland going to places I know which are pretty but not very far off the beaten track and full on LARPing like he's 1000 miles into the taiga, people who watch this kind of shit end up following and trash everything in these places. Your approach to the outdoors should be vernacular to your area imo, Englishmen should stick to this kind of thing for example https://youtube.com/watch/dp6UXLD00GA
In the UK you'll only get about a day or two from actual civilisation, so you want to work within those limits. Not so bad.
not if you're disabled
now that you mention it, yeah. there are literally no predators or dangers besides deliberate cold weather exposure. kinda sad actually
isnt the real larp thinking that true "outdoorsing" is when there are
>predators or dangers
potentially around you.
you do have to be over 18 to post here you know.
>british "forest"
>it's actually just one of the king's many gardens
they have scotland oh wait
Looks comfy. Usually they’re filled with brambles which means you can’t even walk through them without getting shredded.
Literally every board I go to there's someone seething about us, we don't even think of you fags from anywhere else. I guess it's lonely at the top. Stay mad.
>I guess it's lonely at the top.
At the top of what?
Fastest way to lose an empire?
Most significant loss of a colony in world history?
Worst-regarded cuisine?
#1 world champions in currency depreciation?
World's first to kill off 100% of large predator species?
Most loicences required to do anything except leave your house?
World's least-desirable coastal real estate?
Least amount of pristine wilderness per acre?
Stay mad gay, didn't ask.
>Stay mad gay, didn't ask.
Stay mad about what? There's literally nothing to be jealous of. We have you beat in every single category.
Reddit spacing. Go back.
>Reddit spacing. Go back.
I've been using PrepHole since 2007, and I continue to prefer clarity and legibility to some newfag's opinion on post formatting.
Besides which, you don't need to use paragraphs and line spacing to detect R*dditors on this board. They're everywhere. They stop just short of admitting it and will go so far as to defend R*ddit outright, not that they use it, mind you. You can also pick them out by noting their trend-following consoomerism, dayhiker mentalities, and any spontaneous use of the word "gatekeeping."
But yeah it's the spacing, that's what gives them away.
>But yeah it's the spacing, that's what gives them away
This snarky gayry gives it away
Nah, he's right. Assmad newfags write like 17 year olds because they ARE 17 year olds.
You big mad bro. Chill out its the fucking internet.
>Actually caring that people think he uses a different website
You fool
That's pretty disingenuous
>haha you use that website, look! he is using that website how lame
>I don't
>you sure care a lot about someone's opinion lol
I mean you first try to undermine him and then dismiss being called out as caring too much
Reddit spacing also we made you bitch
you didn't make anything
Seethe
kek, swap the races and half the girl's age and you're more realistic.
that guy looks like peak homo
>bongs
>pretending not be buttburt
Anglo-Saxon migration only happened after the Romans left, whatever they wrote was about Brythonic celts
in other terms, the welsh
Those are some of the most american looking swamps I've ever seen
Why do yanks try to dunk so hard on British genetics when the largest white group of Americans are British decended followed by Germanic. Do they think the addition of Hispanic, slav, injun and spook makes them better lmao
I dunno man, being able to endure any hardship by plunging into the swamps sounds based to me.
You mean like a pig? Like something an animal would do? Rolling around in the muck because they can't build a shelter? I guess that is pretty fitting for them.
Why do yanks try to dunk so hard on British genetics when the largest white group of Americans are British decended followed by Germanic. Do they think the addition of Hispanic, slav, injun and spook makes them better lmao
unironically yes. all that mixed blood diluted the centuries of cousin fucking you did. try to ignore all the deep south hicks busily reintroducing it though.
>thinks British bloodline is inbred despite a mixture of Saxon, Celt, Norman, Scandinavian
>Thinks because D'Shawn Blacked his Gran he is entitled to smug superiority
https://www.science.org/content/article/genetic-study-reveals-surprising-ancestry-many-americans#:~:text=At%20least%203.5%25%20of%20European,least%201%25%20Native%20American%20ancestry.
Why do bongs live in your head so rent free? Maybe its jealousy. deep down you wish you had our allyness
Most Americans have been propogandised to hate their own race. In my college writing and film classes nowadays they'll teach you when writing about race to capitalise Black and lowercase white as a dog whistle, and if you don't you won't make it because all the certain group of people who own all the media companies are looking out for that to only publish people who are in the in group with their agenda. It's crazy over here man.
>Romans seething at celts they couldn't conquer
Lol
You should be more thankful ali G. We been saving yo honky ass ever since 1916
cant even get the dates right. typical yank
>Literally every board I go to there's someone seething about us
This. What's the cause? From cooking, to literature, to fucking video games there's always a thread seething about bongs
Stolen American meme Tbh
There is always some post shitting on your home country, be it America, Germany, France, Japan, Argentina, Israel, whatever
That you think it's only happens to you is confirmation bias
Correct answer.
Stolen American meme Tbh
Lol the revolution sucked huh last nail in the coffin for the glorious empire yall had
>last nail in the coffin
the american revolution was 100 years before the peak of the empire
It ruined the French if anything.
>lonely at the top
at the top of shit mountain, king turd
The fact that this thread is still going proves this anon right.
>Can you even fall a tree and start a campfire in bongland without a loicense from his royal majesty?
depends but yeah
>If you post an outdoors picture with, god forbid, a visible pistol on your person it's a buglight for every sour-grape bow-drill slinging cuck in sight
it's not bongs who get mad over this, if anything bong gearfags are extremely jealous of american PrepHole larp and try to emulate it as much as possible. That is part of the reason they are so AIDS. I think you have some kind of problem if you can't just not click on a video when it comes up in your feed when you know it's going to upset you.
Pretty much true, no dangers here other than ticks, boar and bovines
but i dont see why it makes OP seethe so much
Please do not emulate PrepHole. They’re a bunch gear fags and larpers now. Old PrepHole was fine and sometimes useful. New PrepHole is just circle jerking gayry.
Boar can actually be quite dangerous. Glad I don’t have them on my land. I just have coyotes and bob cats, but neither one of those are dangerous for humans unless they have rabies. And then, you’re just worried about getting infected, not killed. Most Americans aren’t in any real danger when they go in the woods as it’s the same for them. Wolves, bear and mountain lions have been pushed up into the remote north and remote mountain areas of the US. Same for moose. They’re extremely rare. I did see a black bear while hiking in the smoky mountains with my dad as a kid, but it was pretty small and ran away. It was clear it wanted nothing to do with us.
>They’re a bunch gear fags and larpers now. Old PrepHole was fine and sometimes useful. New PrepHole is just circle jerking gayry.
Tell me about it. I still go on PrepHole because there are still good threads every now and then, but the zoomer infestation is really getting out of hand. We just had a thread full of people arguing that there is nothing wrong or unethical about taking 600-800+ yard shots on animals when hunting. If you dare disagree, you are a fudd who just "can't shoot good."
The goddamn war thrashed PrepHole really bad, it was on a downward trend after the election but as soon as putin set foot across the border the board quality tanked
You know freshly cut trees don’t burn, right?
>wood doesn't burn
>Does anyone else feel intense pity and disgust seeing bongs
are you still mad they taught you how to use a fork and poo in loo?
My dad has got really into these youtubers and he's spent the last month making little camp stoves out of stuff he wants to go to the woods with me in spring and camp and do bushcraft stuff I'm looking forward to it.
wholesome.
God i wish that were me
there is hope yet for this place
pov your country is free and based and everyone can have campfires wherever they want
>thinks american rv campers do this
weve had shitty car camping tards since reagan, you nonce. a simple tv spot for a bear handled the brunt of that and there were never blazes on todays scale
nobody is gonna stop you felling a dead tree
I fell dead trees all the time
well, you can't stop larpers from larping, but it isn't really possible to go out with a gun unless you own the land or have landowner's permission anyways aand thats why they look even more pathetic.
The boar can be dangerous but realistically they aren't a danger, I think the worst incident we have had in england is with a woman having fingers bitten off. There are also bison being reintroduced, which could be a threat.
I feel sorry for bongs in general.
But England doesn't even have any forest. I tried to find one on google maps but couldn't. t. finnish
we dont have large forests, no. Largest is about 1000 square km
nothing like finland, that's for sure, but we make do
almost bought a house in there, with its own private burn 🙁
That can't be the largest. It has cuts all through it.
Buy something internationally lmao asap.
>Buy something internationally lmao asap.
not him but literally where? Also it is usual for people to not want to leave their own country, something that PrepHole doesn't really understand in general. But yeah: where would he go? Even commonwealth nations aren't thaat easy for bongs to immigrate to without first securing a job there.
Anywhere but the UK is a good start. Same as all the history winners did.
Then again due to NIMBY I don't want to make a suggestion or provide an actual solution. Bongs should be forced to live with what they created with passive obediance. Some of them are alright I guess. Don't come to Greggs tomorrow.
>american immediately starts thinking about cuckolding
Yeah I find it weird too. I just don't like larpers in general, bong or not.
i feel a primal feeling of digust that i can't tune out any time i hear a wood toothed 4reigner gay use the term "wild camping"
You don't have campsites where you live? Suppose Americans wouldn't get it. every square inch of land is owned or used in the UK and other small countries, so the term is used quite rightly
Tbh.
Ya live on an island, your PrepHole opportunities get reduced. Why do you think the Japanese are so terrible at PrepHole, unless they come from Rykyuu of Hokkaido.
Every single "outdoorsman" on youtube is a pretentious douche bag
Mixed feelings here. On the one hand:
>Little island with few remaining woodlands and almost nothing in the way of real natural "wilderness"
But on the other hand:
>right-to-roam laws, bothys, no larping militia rednecks who will shoot you for accidentally stumbling into their meth camps
Sounds comfy, and although some britbongs may be larping, they never reach the extremes of Americlaps driving to the dog park in their lifted snorkle-jeeps with "Salt Life" and Punisher stickers.
You are mixing england to whole uk now, scotland has freedom to roam like nordic countries and high lands has actually proper nature
That's because forests are meme reinforced by American pioneer history, and the only European forests are in mountains or swamps which are not attractive for human habitation. And England lacks mountains, beside being an industrialized island. Most of the Continent is also like that, pretty much all forest are managed. Brits should be camping in the wet and icy wastelands of the Fells, it's like a goblin country out there, and not follow burger cultural narrative.
Before the norman conquest, the middlesex forest stretched as much as 20 miles north of london. Even 500 years ago, most of lowland england was forest. Enclosure and the industrial revolution is what finished off our natural woodland, but make no mistake: our lowland landscape should mostly be swamp, woodland and meadow
stop using je-youtube
>PrepHole
>Infected with 4chan and /int/ nonsense
>PrepHole
>infected with 4chan and /int/ nonsense
>PrepHole
Infected with 4chan and /int/ nonsense
>PrepHole
>same fucking story
Fuck you OP you cum gargling homo
It would explain all the poms needing rescued after wandering out into the bush with half a bottle of lucosade for hydration and no real sense of where they're going
>I've seen more dangerous bush in Central park
Since when "dangerous" is a quality metric?
Dangerous environment filter casual scum playing badass outdoorsmen
Honestly I would love to do some trekking across the scottish moors. Can any bongs recommend some more remote, desolate parts to wander around? I am going to be doing a scotch tour at some point and might sober up enough to go out
>t. nip
Firstly, the word Scotch refers exclusively to two things; Scottish single malt whiskey and, Scotch egg; a delicious savoury snack which consists of a boiled egg coated in sausage meat and bread crumbs. If you are using it in any other way people will think you a fucking idiot.
Scotch tour means visiting various distilleries...
>I've seen more dangerous bush in Central park.
Well that's not surprising, there's morons in NYC.
>it's not camping unless it's dangerous.
Would simply setting himself on fire have the desired effect? Or is it a specific type of danger that makes it "real"
Are they even allowed to carry knives
Nope, not even in the woods
wrong
you can carry a knife in the woods no problem whatsoever
to expand, you can carry a knife, ax, machete etc whatever in the woods since it qualifies as a "reason" to have it but also since nobody gives a shit.
You can carry a bow in the woods too.
The things you can't carry are guns or crossbows unless you own the land or have permission from the landowner (common land never usually gets permission given on it)
Can they carry a bike wheel in the woods?
Blade has to be under 3 inches and non-locking; unless you have a valid reason for carrying it. Camping can be considered a valid reason and therefore it's fine to bring a much larger fixed blade, so long as you have all the other usual camping equipment with you. In reality though you're never going to be searched.
Bongland is deforested. However, I do not feel sorry for them because they have good airports. Fly to Scandanavia and live out your innawoods dreams there with the occasional foray to Canada or the US.
>forest
There are no forests in Europe, outside of a few natural parks, and you can't camp there anyway. The woods that they have are mostly just tree plantations. All of it is artificial, europoors will never know the joy of being able to camp days away from civilization.
America is going that way too, we just have the advantage of being much younger than them, and having far more territory. But the same thing is happening. More and more ground being civilized, either for resource extraction, grazing land extension, or for easily accessible camping grounds.
For wilderness camping, the US (and Canada, and Russia) have a huge advantage, but we shouldn't take it for granted. Europe used to have wilderness too, and wild predators, but they settled all those lands. Same shit is happening in US. Though maybe we skipped the worst by learning from their mistakes, for example, wolves are being reintroduced into some areas.
It's a big political issue, where I live. Not much farming, mostly ranchers. Wolves kill cows, obviously. So you've got the scientific environmentalists, wolves control grazer population which reduces erosion and is better for the ecosystem overall, vs ranchers who are losing money from cattle deaths, plus people's who are afraid of wolves.
It's a very messy subject. That said, I support the wolves. there will be losses, but it's best for everyone in the long term.
Become a wolf rancher and make everyone seethe
>America is going that way too
America now has more forest coverage than it did 110 years ago you sensationalist moron.
>Ignores Finland, Sweden and Norway
thanks for demonstrating how much of a moron you are so more time is not wasted
Forests in America are bigger than their entire countries lmao
Wow, almost like America is like 1000x the size
Almost like America is 1000x more based
>europoors will never know the joy of being able to camp days away from civilization.
what do you mean?
i can get on a train to finland or sweden and be there by the end of the day.
these retarded threads are based on this absurd conception that people can't and dont travel.
So it costs you 100s of europesos to go camping in mini forests whereas I can drive my car for 40 minutes and enter total wilderness. Good to know.
so it's true amaricones don't know how passenger trains work
No, they don't.
American trains/buses are surprisingly expensive, they're unreliable, and rarely get you close to where you want to go. They don't understand that the rest of the world has trains/buses that go places other than metropolitan areas.
>inb4 "no that's not true"
You can take a single train from Helsinki to Rovaniemi. It takes eight hours to take the train, takes about nine to eleven hours to get there by car.
https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/Helsinki,+Finland/Rovaniemi,+Finland/@63.2713979,19.8993388,6z/am=t/data=!4m15!4m14!1m5!1m1!1s0x46920bc796210691:0xcd4ebd843be2f763!2m2!1d24.9383791!2d60.1698557!1m5!1m1!1s0x442b4bbd76772553:0x158088adb48841c4!2m2!1d25.7293906!2d66.5039478!3e3!5i2
He's hiding from runners and police, much harder than bears and wolves. Respect.
If they really wanted to get to him, they could. Same with places like Germany where they caught that black forest rambo in 5 days (actually impressive 2bh) and were able to get hundreds of cops and FLIR choppers into the area basically immediately. Real wilderness is difficult to access and a lot easier to hide out in. US designated wilderness is typically not allowed road constructions or structures at all and is often on mountainous forested terrain with a harsh climate and can be up to 30 air miles from the nearest town of any size and over 50 to a town of 1k even in the lower 48 (and several non wilderness spots in the lower 48 are over 100 miles to the nearest town of any size). National forests will typically have plenty of forest roads, but have a larger area than wilderness zones and can have equally harsh climate and terrain. Most outdoorsmen haven't actually camped out in designated wilderness. For the UK I bet the closest they can get to US level is Iceland and Norway.
can they even have campfires?
yeah
No.
Not as of 2023.
>Not as of 2023.
what? yes it does.
Nope
this is where the right to roam now exists in england after the dartmoor ruling.
Also all of scotland, and then again some areas in wales are still open.
>look at that joke of a "forest"
whats wrong with it
Yet you watch his videos hmmmmm
so whats the premise of this thread?
you shouldn't practice bushcraft unless you literally live permanently in the middle of a wilderness?
the joke is they have america -tier property laws besides being part of europe
60% of Britain has right to roam/freedom of access.
thats because no one wants to roam or free access anything in that satanic bog-swamp
>satanic
Retard
>trespassing not illegal
>camping on private land not illegal
>foraging on private land not illegal
>trapping or hunting pest animals on private land not illegal (unless using an "offensive weapon" ie firearm, in which case armed trespass is the crime)
yes sounds american tier to me
I take it you didn't hear about Dartmoor
Still not criminal.
Trespass is a civil matter in the UK.
yes I did hear about the shartmoor ruling
all that ruling means is that landowners in shartmoor once again have the ability to tell you to leave their land, whereas they didn't before.
>foraging
>hunting
Doesn’t that stuff require permission from the land owner though? Not that other anon btw just genuinely curious how right-to-roam works.
I don't think foraging does but hunting does for sure.
If you're brave enough you can get away with it. An air rifle and dog are great for taking out foxes, pheasants, seagulls, or other pests but the laws are strict if you get caught. Would like to try out a crossbow
Foraging does not need landowner permission.
Hunting pests like rock pigeon or squirrel does not need landowner permission. Should have been specific that it is only certain animals that exist outside of the general licence that can be killed on other's land.
In other words, killing a pest animal on anothers land without permission is not a crime. The crime would be breaking hunting laws or laws in relation to bringing weapons onto anothers land.
the dartmoor ruling only applies to dartmoor. idk why people are exaggerating how important it is so much. You can still camp on dartmoor no problem, just if a landowner finds you he can move you on.
Alot of these threads are mutt cope, they have large wilderness but they also have large dwellings made out of concrete and glass as far as the eye can see.
Europe is more densely populated than the States dumbass
Good to know but just like anons post before; what's your point?
You shouldn't practice bushcraft over a certain population densely?
I was addressing
>mutts are coping
I don’t have any ill will to Western yuros and think these threads are pretty gay tbqhf
I think the TA outdoors guy is pretty annoying. He seems like a spoiled rich kid who hangs out with his boomer dad like a shitty Jack Whitehall. He got boomer dad to buy him a patch of forest so he could larp and build a den in the woods.
"Forests" in the Netherlands be like
I don't see the problem, Europe, especially the UK just doesn't have the kind of vast continuous forests as we do in North America, does that mean they can't enjoy going PrepHoleside? What's the problem?
Not pity, really. They're comfy videos for sure, but they decibel have a Bear Grylls feel about them. Like I'm sure they need to cut out the sound of a loud truck or plane going by on a fairly regular basis.
Isn't it all the more treacherous or at least unpredictable? I've seen the Les Stroud outback episode and the mix of desert with dangerous creatures with him suddenly finding shrimp ("yabbies") quite impressive
Europeans are consistently the worst posters on this board, with absolute dog shit tier advice and the worst possible takes. It would be one thing if they made their own threads but they interject into topics they know nothing about and have zero experience with.
how often do you go out anon?
could you do better than him?
>I've seen more dangerous bush in Central Park
I'm sure you have, junkie rapist
No, but I do for their fishing. Like, fuck. Imagine spending money for the right to fish at a designated spot at a manicured pond. And then all you do is bottom fish with chum for fucking carp or carp-adjacent fish.
Their ocean fishing is pretty fucking cool though.