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 akb112211
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 serious hunting question
#8473845 - 06/02/08 05:22 AM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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Does anyone have any advice for me?
About a year ago when I began hunting for various fungi, I had a disturbing experience.
It was a mild summer afternoon. I decided to visit the local nature reserve at the end of my neighborhood. It was a nice day, so I smoked a little ... and headed out. Ahh, sunshine, nature, birds singing. Life is nice...
I was new to this hobby, so I wasn't quite sure where to look for fungi. So, I thought, damp, shady areas. I walked around this wooded area for about 5 minutes, noticing a fair amount of litter strewn about. Few wrappers, and soda bottles here and there. Didn't pay much attention. Then I found a bit of porn half hidden beneath a fallen tree and some ivy. Didn't really bother me. I have noticed that porn is almost guaranteed when walking through public woodland.
Then, low and behold, in a small naturally carved out cove of dead trees and branches, my first mushrooms! It was a couple of little mycenae. Awe, thats nice. So, I crouched down and decided to go in for further inspection...
Thats when, all of a sudden, I hear the crinkle, and crunch of leaves and twigs, and a branch snap beneath someone's foot somewhere to my rear.
I jumped up, and turned around. My was heart racing. Damn, was I startled. I was intently enjoying the sight of my first intentionally found species, while wandering through unchartered territory(to me).
So, now walking towards me was a bearded man in plain clothes of about 6'4 or so. I thought, no biggie. I'm not doing anything wrong, I'll just say hi and walk away. So, I passed by him and continued my foray. Still yet again, finding more litter than mushrooms, I began to notice what the litter consisted of. I kept noticing balled up tissue paper near trees, and the wrappers, which were mainly either silver, red, green or blue. Some square, some oval...ahh, condom wrappers. I thought, hmm...strange.
Just as I noticed one, they all began to pop up around me. Like a swarm of Fly agarics peppering the woodland floor. This is when I turned around and all of a sudden the same guy was coming my way again!
It all came flooding to me all at once! Men come out here for sex! I panicked, all of the small worn trails began to look the same. I noticed another man creeping out to my right. Shit, how do I get back to the main trail!? Oh god help! I just began walking, now with the intent of getting the hell out of there! Screw you mushrooms! screw you nice pretty calm nature! I'm outa here!
I turned off to the left and found the trail leading out to the car park.
There were about 5 or six cars out there, a couple empty, and one or two with a single man sitting inside. Walking by, all I could see were shifty eyes looking at me.
With my head down, a weird feeling in my gut..I walked home.
What the hell just happened? I thought to myself. Talk about extremes. One minute I was in heaven, in my own little world. The next second, I was in absolute hell! Its like a wandering bear being caught in a bear trap.
I have been back a couple times. There are two main parallel trails leading from one end to the other. Its a pretty small wooded area. I have since been sticking to the trails. The thing is, I have found a fair amount of fungi just to the immediate left and right of the main trails, but each time I return, I get so frustrated because, there is a whole swath of woodland and open area that I would like to wander around in. I hate the fact that I have to keep my eye out and that I can't freely walk around without paranoia.
One time, just walking through the woods, I was followed out of there. I spotted some agarics out in a grassy cut field near a children's play area beneath some tall trees. I walked over to them under the trees, and here comes this guy. I didn't realise he was behind me. I turned and out of frustration, kind of yelled at him. And told him to get the f_ck away.
After, I thought, poor guy, He is probably so consumed with getting off, that this is what he resorted to. Right near families and children no less!
So, maybe I wasn't actually looking for advice.
I do head out there for walks with my wife from time to time, but its just not the same anymore. To be honest, I haven't been able to wander around near there by myself in absolute comfort.
Its just not right that the purity and serenity of these woods has been shaded by creepy men and litter. I guess this is reality and I'm not naive anymore. This situation is a great parallel to my life in general. At times, I wish I weren't so negative about the world around me.
Should I just get over it?
Thanks for reading, happy hunting!
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 MHbound
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: akb112211]
#8473873 - 06/02/08 05:41 AM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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Shit man thats fucked up. I wouldn't go out there I mean you never know what those guys might decide to do. Choose to come up behind you know your ass out, and then rape you...Or worse. I mean the way you made it sound these people aren't mentally sound, and I sure as hell wouldn't go. I might call the police, and tell them whats going on. Or beat the shit out of one, and make it known that this guy means business . Try to find another place, or maybe I'm just being paranoid.
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 Re: serious hunting question [Re: MHbound]
#8473920 - 06/02/08 06:08 AM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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theres a park like that near me, I stay the hell away, plenty of other places to go 
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TripleTree3
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: chais875]
#8473948 - 06/02/08 06:32 AM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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I'm pretty sure there's places like that everywhere. In my hometown it was the trails out at the wildlife refuge. It got to where cops would just stay out there
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: TripleTree3]
#8473956 - 06/02/08 06:40 AM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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wheres the serious hunting question that you stated there to be?
What?.. Should you just get over it?
What do you think??
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Edited by Dizzwizzle (06/03/08 06:08 AM)
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jebideebebop
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: Dizzwizzle]
#8474191 - 06/02/08 09:10 AM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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lol it happens to the best of us man i feel for you  hahahaha! one time me and my friends were walking through a pleasant public garden (i live in england south east)at midnight we had a little to drink and were just wandering and mucking about when we started to become aware of twigs and branches snapping and rustling in the ferns and lorals. The laughter and joking soon stopped when about half and hour later we got to the car park where there were several men 'resting their heads' on each others laps in their cars and giving us premiscuous looks. It went silent as we walked through and out of the gardens onto the main road. Seriously awkward walking through a homosexual dogging sight and in such a pleasant place outrageous i tell you outrageous!  ah we were okay but an odd experience none the less.
on the plus side i did find a healthy mycelium ring growth in the grass whilst rolling down a hill with a few baby Psilocybe semilanceata.
best to add a butt plug to your shroom hunting equipment amigo
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: akb112211]
#8474303 - 06/02/08 10:01 AM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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shit son, was that you? a simple 'no thanks man' would'a sufficed. 
as for the mycenae. you sure thay weren't the similar looking, shittissua cumophillia or latexia fulloadia's? 
two genera that seem to have cut out a niche for themselves in such places.
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akb112211
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Re: serious hunting issue [Re: deucedbi9]
#8474625 - 06/02/08 11:57 AM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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haha, funny, jebideebebop...I'm in the east of england too. I've mentioned it to community support officers in passing and they kind of shrug their shoulders and say they can't do much about it. Thats what annoys me. Oh well.
The latest "deterrant"(yeah right) were notices posted saying, "while sex and/or nudity in public are not illegal, littering is. Also, certain activities can be considered anti-social and should be reported to the police"...Something to that effect. Yeah, I could really see these guys having second thoughts after reading the notice.
So, whats with the English and dogging anyway? It seems like a much more popular past time for the sexually deviant here than anywhere else I've lived.
Dizzwizzle, my post began as a question, but turned into a story instead. Sorry if you got through the whole post only to be disappointed by a lack of a question. At least you read the whole thing.
bad subject heading I guess. no need to be an ass though.
So you mean to tell me this is not a mycena pileus? I'm so bad at this hunting stuff.
I thought they were a bit rubbery.
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: akb112211]
#8475107 - 06/02/08 02:17 PM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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Yeah thats happened to me before too. It enrages me on so many levels. I will not hesitate about beating the shit out of someone next time it happens...not out of homophobia but out of retaliation against sexual harassment...One should be allowed to go for a walk without being approached...let alone for sex. Also, keep in mind that, chances are, many of the guys going to spots like that are married men with families who are keeping their sexuality a secret; Its very fucked up business.
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Dishez
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: Dishez]
#8475132 - 06/02/08 02:25 PM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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BTW, I think it was very valid for OP to post about this. We all need to be aware that, as we place our attention upon the debris and hummus of the forest floors, we are in a vulnerable state. Its hard to spread your focus throughout your entire surroundings while picking at the minute details of whats directly in front of you, and the strength of even the largest of us is a null point when being taken off guard...add that to the fact that quite a few of us hunters like to keep their spots absolutely secret and you might realize just how dangerous a pair of unseen eyes can be.
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jebideebebop
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: Dishez]
#8475440 - 06/02/08 03:51 PM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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 wise words dishez imagining you telling me that with a sincere tone only makes me crack up laughing even more amigo
akb112211 you are right the brits are dirty bastards when you think about it... no decorum
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: Dizzwizzle]
#8475497 - 06/02/08 04:10 PM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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And cheer the fuck up dizzlewizzle you are making the carving knife on my kitchen counter look awaful friendly with my wrist...lay off the green for a while mr.hazy.
Quote:
Human evolution should amount to nothing by now, but a vicious cycle of obsolescene, a world accountable to its own past which is doomed to repeat it indefinate. If but the cosmos could possibly have come about, then this history has lost only ignorance of all its potential, un-pregidous of a way, rather than that is only tried and performed at the mercy of all its error.
~CHROMATONE~
I don't see how chromatone can put the evolution of thought and intelligence in with the same boat as the physical evolution of our species when it was a physical evolution that gave a sudden evolution of our intelligence and creative abillities- the come about of more complex communication from grunting to words-the making and use of tools- maybe in the next thousand years we will be far a more intelligent and with time, more wise species thus giving us the abillity or cussiness to not allow history to repeat itself or maybe we already have that abillity...?...
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: jebideebebop]
#8475511 - 06/02/08 04:13 PM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: akb112211]
#8476443 - 06/02/08 07:53 PM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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Call the Park Office, they are littering and hassling people.
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: jebideebebop]
#8477677 - 06/02/08 11:35 PM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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Quote:
jebideebebop said:
And cheer the fuck up dizzlewizzle you are making the carving knife on my kitchen counter look awaful friendly with my wrist...lay off the green for a while mr.hazy.
Quote:
Human evolution should amount to nothing by now, but a vicious cycle of obsolescene, a world accountable to its own past which is doomed to repeat it indefinate. If but the cosmos could possibly have come about, then this history has lost only ignorance of all its potential, un-pregidous of a way, rather than that is only tried and performed at the mercy of all its error.
~CHROMATONE~
I don't see how chromatone can put the evolution of thought and intelligence in with the same boat as the physical evolution of our species when it was a physical evolution that gave a sudden evolution of our intelligence and creative abillities- the come about of more complex communication from grunting to words-the making and use of tools- maybe in the next thousand years we will be far a more intelligent and with time, more wise species thus giving us the abillity or cussiness to not allow history to repeat itself or maybe we already have that abillity...?...
Yea i was on my rags yesterday, reading that post to find no question kinda pissed me off sorry peeps.
But dont be telling people to lay off greenery, as the cause effect on natural anger from marijuana is not at all in comparisom with most other drugs (like im sure you think).
By saying that you are just likely to start an argument with many people who put a Good name to the use.
Maybe you should repeat that in the "legalise Marijuana" thread? Lol  (not recomended)
I dont think you understand the quote at all.
This Chromatone 'my friend, is the name of a PsyTrance Dj who creates wonderful music with incredible insight.
Im not relating chromatone to physical evolution, as you you should be able to see this is one of its incredible quotes of thought, 'only thought mind you...
Though you shouldnt comment on such a topic as this if you couldnt realise that the word "chromatone" used by it self has no place in putting different types of evolution in context with each other.
Of course evolution of Thought and intelligence can be put in the same boat as physical evolution, its all from one source. And it has All evolved over time. Blindly too i might add..
You say "it was a physical evolution that gave a sudden evolution of our intelligence and creative abillities",
Thats exactly what im talking about, minus the suddenness, though in a way you are kind of contradicting yourself, but in a good way
"maybe in the next thousand years we will be far a more intelligent and with time, more wise species thus giving us the abillity or cussiness to not allow history to repeat itself or maybe we already have that abillity...?..."
I do hope so friend, it is a highly technocratic surrounded world that we are living in. Different thoughts are wide spread accross the world. Blindness we are virtually prone to.
Dizz
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: Dizzwizzle]
#8477909 - 06/03/08 12:43 AM (5 months, 27 days ago) |
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 sorry i got it wrong thanks for setting me straight
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: akb112211]
#8478350 - 06/03/08 04:18 AM (5 months, 26 days ago) |
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perhaps you should think about making a shirt with a printed message that communicates your lack of desire to be bummed. Just make sure you have it printed on the back of the shirt
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jebideebebop
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thats a good idea but isuggest he take it off before going to get a bite to eat at the nearest mc donalds or thats going to get some frowns from the men standing behind him in the queue
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Re: serious hunting question [Re: akb112211]
#8478897 - 06/03/08 10:04 AM (5 months, 26 days ago) |
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I have been back a couple times.
Fug that, I wouldn't go back there ever! 
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akb112211
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its literally right at one end of my neighborhood. people walk dogs there, jog, walk with their kids, but for the most part stay to the paths...I'm not exactly in a bad part of the city. And I happen to live in one of the most idyllic, picturesque places in england. This is what bothers me. Its like its my own backyard. Sometimes its just nice to take a walk in nature.
Gonna work on getting that t-shirt printed...or simply write a letter to the council.
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