RobAnybody wrote:Radio 5 did a show called Straight Up where they followed the Greenwich Meridian |
English guy tries to walk across Wales IN A STRAIGHT LINE • Page 2
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X201 22,150 posts
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MrWonderstuff 3,617 posts
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Registered 16 years agoEpisode 2 is up:
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RobAnybody 2,892 posts
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Registered 10 years agoJust watched it, just as much fun as part 1. He's a complete mad lad. -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoThis is great fun.
But.
Why is he so afraid of people? As a Swede spoilt by right of public Access laws I can't help but find the whole thing slightly strange.
"Oh my shit, a house! Better leg it."
Another similar thing to watch is Big Dave's big fat freight hop.
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MrWonderstuff 3,617 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIn England there is no global right of way as much land is privately owned. There are rights of way where you can go through including through farmers fields and farms but they marked on Ordinance Survey maps and the public need to abide by them. Not to say sometimes you have to take detour as some group of beligerent cows have cut off the path. There is also the fact that farmers carry guns and shout "get oif moi land!" if they find you - or not - never happend to me in the time I have hiked.
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RobAnybody 2,892 posts
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Registered 10 years agoI guess he's worried about being told to leave the land and being thrown off his planned route? -
Tomo 19,565 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYeah exactly. He dramatises it a bit by saying things like he'll get arrested for trespassing, but really I think he doesn't want to have to deviate from his line because he has to walk around a farmer's set of fields. -
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Registered 18 years agoI'm still really enjoying his trek though, don't get me wrong. His amateurish fire making skills makes for a nice difference from the hardcore "survive in minus 20 blizzard" videos I watch sometimes
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Tomo 19,565 posts
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Registered 18 years agoYeah he kinda just drops that bombshell out of nowhere. Guess he's basically over it. -
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Registered 10 years agoPart 3 is now up, and Tom is starting to suffer:
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MrWonderstuff wrote:
What about Wales though?
In England there is no global right of way as much land is privately owned. There are rights of way where you can go through including through farmers fields and farms but they marked on Ordinance Survey maps and the public need to abide by them. Not to say sometimes you have to take detour as some group of beligerent cows have cut off the path. There is also the fact that farmers carry guns and shout "get oif moi land!" if they find you - or not - never happend to me in the time I have hiked. -
MrWonderstuff 3,617 posts
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Registered 16 years ago@AaronTurner much the same from my experience rambling in the Brecon beacons snd Snowdonia. However, those areas have vast areas of national parks which you can wild camp in. Scotland is pretty good for rights of access. However this guy is in mid Wales- not an area I have walked in very much. -
fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoI watched a bit of this and it made me realise that I really worked hard on trying to integrate with you weirdos when I lived there because fuck me this is boring -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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Registered 19 years agoCould it be improved with the application of a couple of mooses and a bear drinking cans of Labatts stolen from the back of a pickup?
Actually, yeah - that probably would be more interesting.
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fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoWhat couldn't -
RobAnybody 2,892 posts
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Registered 10 years agoPart 4 is now available:
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TechnoHippy 19,245 posts
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Registered 18 years agoThese are a fun watch. Not sure the hand wound was all that serious though .gif)
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OnlyJoeKing 1,293 posts
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Registered 9 years agoOf all the appalling decisions that went into this, the one that gets me is - why on earth didn't he take gloves? -
markytonline83 940 posts
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Registered 8 years agoSuch a lad
/necks a lager then leads the boys down the pub into a glorious rendition of ‘lads lads lads’!! -
FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI'm enjoying this. The fact that his biggest fear are farmers/landowners, just how much of the UK is owned by a few. We really are a backward country. -
fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoAdmittedly I only watched one episode but the fear appeared to be manufactured for tension rather than something which ever transpired.
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FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI do agree he hams it up given he doesn't get caught, but the point is if he does and they want him removed, he will be. End game.
Imagine doing this in Canada... you'd be dead. British "countryside" is not particularly "natural".
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fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoIt would probably take longer than a day to walk the width of Canada -
FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agoWell, that too, but also mean that the "countryside" would kill you. -
fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoOh, I've never been to those bits -
RobAnybody 2,892 posts
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Registered 10 years agoOnlyJoeKing wrote:
He does have gloves it's just that he doesn't often wear them, I think he mentioned in a YouTube comment that they get sweaty, cold and clammy.
Of all the appalling decisions that went into this, the one that gets me is - why on earth didn't he take gloves?
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You'd think climbing a barbed wire fence or sticking your hand into a throng of brambles would be occasion enough to put them on. -
@RobAnybody oh right, hah. Poor glove selection.
Given the things he has to climb over and through this just feels like a massive oversight. A solid pair of gloves would have been first thing on my list.... and it's the middle of winter ffs! Not like its too hot..
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