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Hammocks: Bad for your back, good for your soul.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:42 pm
by rep
I'm thinking of buying a hammock. I don't plan on sleeping in it, but I do fancy an afternoon swinging in one with a good book to combat the atrophy of being around modern convenience and technologies.
Does anyone know of a high quality hammock that is less harmful to the spine than others, or does the damage happen to folks who sleep in them for years, and I've nothing to worry about? What's more, what have you all been reading lately?
Love,
rep
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:51 pm
by sys0p
Uncanny. I got a letter through the post today from Homebase telling me my hammock was being recalled due to the beams splitting over time.. I've been offered a full refund, but I'm gutted because it was the comfiest thing I've ever laid on.
That's the exact one. On hot nights me and my girlfriend have slept on it with no covers and it's comfier than a bed. All hammocks are the same as long as they're pretty loose, and you're able to rock them.
Re: Hammocks: Bad for your back, good for your soul.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:57 pm
by Cool Blue
rep wrote:I'm thinking of buying a hammock. I don't plan on sleeping in it, but I do fancy an afternoon swinging in one with a good book to combat the atrophy of being around modern convenience and technologies.
Love,
rep
You're going to lie in a hammock to combat the atrophy of sitting at your desk? What a well thought out plan.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:01 pm
by rep
Mental symptosis is just as significant as physical atrophy.
Who wants to work at a computer, party around idiots with cellular phones, hang out with people who play video games and watch DVDs?
Technology is shit. Give me a hammock, some shade, the sound of birds, and a book or three.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:04 pm
by Chupacabra
if technology is so shit, what are you doing here then?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:51 pm
by R00k
lol, no kidding.
At any rate, if you really want a good hammock, go pick up a copy of the SAS Survival Handbook, and make one yourself.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:29 am
by +JuggerNaut+
christ, you f@gs need to get outside.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:46 am
by Scourge
Been outside all day. Now I wish I had a hammock.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:48 am
by seremtan
yeah, where the hammocks are
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:46 am
by rep
Chupacabra wrote:if technology is so shit, what are you doing here then?
ROFL, I wasn't 'here'. I was posting from work via VNC, and then I was out and about until just now.
Now I'm 'here', newb.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:59 am
by glossy
rep wrote:Chupacabra wrote:if technology is so shit, what are you doing here then?
ROFL, I wasn't 'here'. I was posting from work via VNC, and then I was out and about until just now.
Now I'm 'here', newb.
I'm 'here' now, but the other day i got stoned as a motherfucker and was on the internet -- definately not 'here', but still 'here'. in the morning i was in the same place, but actually 'here'. trippy, huh!
I also like the fact that although technology is so shit, you set up VNC and utilised it so you could post on an INTERNET FORUM from SOMEWHERE ELSE. why not just wait the extra couple of hours and post later?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:13 am
by Massive Quasars
rep's been working double shifts to replace the retard void left by Kracus.
Re: Hammocks: Bad for your back, good for your soul.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:35 am
by +JuggerNaut+
rep wrote:What's more, what have you all been reading lately?
Love,
rep
i'm 5 chapters or so into
Nanofuture: What's Next For Nanotechnology by J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
amazing read so far.
Re: Hammocks: Bad for your back, good for your soul.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:41 am
by dzjepp
Re: Hammocks: Bad for your back, good for your soul.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:08 am
by rep
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:rep wrote:What's more, what have you all been reading lately?
Love,
rep
i'm 5 chapters or so into
Nanofuture: What's Next For Nanotechnology by J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
amazing read so far.
It sounds interesting, but we're many decades away from any meaningful information about nanotechnology. Reading that is probably interesting, but the material is undoubtedly similar to books about the Internet written in the 1950s, where instant messaging may have been described as a printed system with no visual display, or something equally primitive.
Typography: Macro- and Microaesthetics is incredible.
Re: Hammocks: Bad for your back, good for your soul.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:55 am
by Zerofactor
rep wrote:I'm thinking of buying a hammock. I don't plan on sleeping in it, but I do fancy an afternoon swinging in one with a good book to combat the atrophy of being around modern convenience and technologies.
Does anyone know of a high quality hammock that is less harmful to the spine than others, or does the damage happen to folks who sleep in them for years, and I've nothing to worry about? What's more, what have you all been reading lately?
Love,
rep
Who gives a shit. :icon27:
Re: Hammocks: Bad for your back, good for your soul.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:57 am
by DiscoDave
rep wrote:I'm thinking of buying a hammock. I don't plan on sleeping in it, but I do fancy an afternoon swinging in one with a good book to combat the atrophy of being around modern convenience and technologies.
Says the man who makes music videos about himself
Jesus rep..
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:50 am
by rep
Jesus rep..
Yeah, heaven forbid I waste thirty minutes, give or take five, here and there. What else would I do, make a video about how sore DiscoDave must be at rep for running his world?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:50 pm
by R00k
What a rep-tarded thread.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:00 pm
by Dek
someone say "Ham Hocks"?

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:13 pm
by MKJ
ham cocks
Re: Hammocks: Bad for your back, good for your soul.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:02 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
rep wrote:+JuggerNaut+ wrote:rep wrote:What's more, what have you all been reading lately?
Love,
rep
i'm 5 chapters or so into
Nanofuture: What's Next For Nanotechnology by J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
amazing read so far.
It sounds interesting, but we're many decades away from any meaningful information about nanotechnology. Reading that is probably interesting, but the material is undoubtedly similar to books about the Internet written in the 1950s, where instant messaging may have been described as a printed system with no visual display, or something equally primitive.
Typography: Macro- and Microaesthetics is incredible.
yeah, i picked it up at Foothills branch (glendale) when i was snagging The Shield: Season 2 set. it's extremely interesting and i've always been fascnited by it. certainly, it's not stuff that's happening tomorrow, but the ideas intrigue me to no end.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:12 pm
by SplishSplash
Why would they be bad for your back?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:29 pm
by plained
yo splish i figure bad like ol gilligans hammy, his apeared uncomfy
Re: Hammocks: Bad for your back, good for your soul.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:26 pm
by Nightshade
rep wrote:+JuggerNaut+ wrote:rep wrote:What's more, what have you all been reading lately?
Love,
rep
i'm 5 chapters or so into
Nanofuture: What's Next For Nanotechnology by J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
amazing read so far.
It sounds interesting, but we're many decades away from any meaningful information about nanotechnology.
Like you have ANY FUCKING IDEA AT ALL.