The Awkward Turtle Roams At Night

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lifescouts: Lifescouts: Tree-Climbing Badge If you have this badge, reblog it and share your story! Look through the notes to read other people’s stories. Click here to buy this badge physically (ships worldwide). Lifescouts is a badge-collecting community of people who share their real-world experiences. I once climbed a tree and thought that my mom would have to phone the fire department to get me down. But then I remembered I was on a beach and how are the firetrucks going to drive on the beach? I was an… interesting child with no logic. There was also that time when I was escaping a dog at a campground. It turned out to be pretty neutral about the situation. Enough that it was sort of growling, but not enough to pursue me. I have climbed other trees though. Don’t think all of my tree-climbing experiences were horrible-little-kid moments.

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I once climbed a tree and thought that my mom would have to phone the fire department to get me down. But then I remembered I was on a beach and how are the firetrucks going to drive on the beach?

I was an… interesting child with no logic.

There was also that time when I was escaping a dog at a campground. It turned out to be pretty neutral about the situation. Enough that it was sort of growling, but not enough to pursue me.

I have climbed other trees though. Don’t think all of my tree-climbing experiences were horrible-little-kid moments.

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fishingboatproceeds: bbc-bestbromancecompany: Nerdfighter Benedict? Or just failed Vulcan? As far as I can tell, there are eight possibilities here. (I’ve spent a fair bit of time thinking about this.) 1. Benedict Cumberbatch is a hardcore nerdfighter and when Martin Freeman threw up a gang sign, Cumberbatch was like, “I have one of those.” 2. Cumberbatch, who obviously has a relationship with Star Trek, just naturally changed the Vulcan sign (pulling in the thumbs, turning the palms inward, crossing the arms) in precisely the same way that I happened to change the Vulcan sign when I first made the nerdfighter sign in the halcyon days of 2007. 3. One of the interns on set who has gained the trust of Benedict Cumberbatch was like, “If you do your hands like this, the Internet will get really excited.” And so he did. 4. BBC, in their infinite wisdom, staged the entire photo and Cumberbatch was taught the nerdfighter sign (I MEAN LOOK AT THE PERFECTION OF HIS NERDFIGHTER SIGN! He seems so comfortable and confident in it, almost as if it is muscle memory, almost as if he has flashed it to his laptop screen on hundreds of occasions in the past, but I digress) and this photograph was staged to get people psyched for Sherlock, although what tiny segment of nerdfighteria is not already psyched for Sherlock? Also, if this is the case, who is Martin Freeman trying to advertise to? Residents of the West Side? 5. Benedict Cumberbatch has a relative or a friend who is a nerdfighter and so he is passingly familiar with nerdfighteria and liked what he has seen and wanted to make us all very happy. 6. The nerdfighter sign also happens to be the hand sign of some obscure English gang with which I am unfamiliar called like The East London Wanderers or The Slightly Intimidating Liverpudlians or whatever. 7. Nerdfighteria actually figures in the plot of the new season of Sherlock. Perhaps a nerdfighter has been (wrongly no doubt!) accused of a murder. 8. Benedict Cumberbatch was playing some kind of British version of Rock Paper Scissors against two invisible opponents, and he went double scissors (as any smart person would). This intrigues me.

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Nerdfighter Benedict? Or just failed Vulcan?

As far as I can tell, there are eight possibilities here. (I’ve spent a fair bit of time thinking about this.)

1. Benedict Cumberbatch is a hardcore nerdfighter and when Martin Freeman threw up a gang sign, Cumberbatch was like, “I have one of those.”

2. Cumberbatch, who obviously has a relationship with Star Trek, just naturally changed the Vulcan sign (pulling in the thumbs, turning the palms inward, crossing the arms) in precisely the same way that I happened to change the Vulcan sign when I first made the nerdfighter sign in the halcyon days of 2007.

3. One of the interns on set who has gained the trust of Benedict Cumberbatch was like, “If you do your hands like this, the Internet will get really excited.” And so he did.

4. BBC, in their infinite wisdom, staged the entire photo and Cumberbatch was taught the nerdfighter sign (I MEAN LOOK AT THE PERFECTION OF HIS NERDFIGHTER SIGN! He seems so comfortable and confident in it, almost as if it is muscle memory, almost as if he has flashed it to his laptop screen on hundreds of occasions in the past, but I digress) and this photograph was staged to get people psyched for Sherlock, although what tiny segment of nerdfighteria is not already psyched for Sherlock? Also, if this is the case, who is Martin Freeman trying to advertise to? Residents of the West Side?

5. Benedict Cumberbatch has a relative or a friend who is a nerdfighter and so he is passingly familiar with nerdfighteria and liked what he has seen and wanted to make us all very happy.

6. The nerdfighter sign also happens to be the hand sign of some obscure English gang with which I am unfamiliar called like The East London Wanderers or The Slightly Intimidating Liverpudlians or whatever.

7. Nerdfighteria actually figures in the plot of the new season of Sherlock. Perhaps a nerdfighter has been (wrongly no doubt!) accused of a murder.

8. Benedict Cumberbatch was playing some kind of British version of Rock Paper Scissors against two invisible opponents, and he went double scissors (as any smart person would).

This intrigues me.

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I’ve had 3 yo-yo’s, 2 of which I still have. The one that didn’t survive was one shaped like a hamburger which my sibling broke. The other ones are glow in the dark, and rainbow.

I particularly like the glow in the dark one. Purely because it’s heavier and that makes things easier.

Review: 4 stars.

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Grand Prismatic Spring

Located in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, the Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest natural hot spring found in the US. The spring has a scalding temperature of 160 °F (70 °C), a total depth of 160 feet and a diameter of 300 feet. The vivid, rainbow colors in the spring are the result of pigmented bacteria in the microbial mats that grow around the edges of the mineral-rich water.

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lifescouts: Lifescouts: Bike-Riding Badge If you have this badge, reblog it and share your story! Look through the notes to read other people’s stories. Click here to buy this badge physically (ships worldwide). Lifescouts is a badge-collecting community of people who share their real-world experiences. I had bikes as a kid, but I rode with training wheels until I was somewhere between 8-10. My younger sibling learned how to ride a bike without training wheels before me and that really peeved me off so I waited awhile until bothering to take them off. It’s not that I was that bad at learning to ride my bike, it was more like: I didn’t want to bother learning how. I was just content playing inside and not going round in circles in the driveway. I found it very repetitive, and boring. I have fallen off my bike quite a few times, but nothing serious. The worst that’s happened is driving it down a bank while camping and knocking off the front reflector. I haven’t ridden my bike for a while now, and when I did it was to help for a charity event. My current bike has perpetual flat tires and we pumped it up once, then went for 2 hours round a lake while the back tire deflated rapidly. Not fun. Especially because the others kept going on way ahead without me. I know I’m lazy and out of shape, but that flat tire was quite a big part of me lagging behind. And don’t give me the: “You should get it to a shop to fix it,” spiel. Because I have. And it didn’t work. But lets end on a high note: I can ride a bike.

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I had bikes as a kid, but I rode with training wheels until I was somewhere between 8-10. My younger sibling learned how to ride a bike without training wheels before me and that really peeved me off so I waited awhile until bothering to take them off.

It’s not that I was that bad at learning to ride my bike, it was more like: I didn’t want to bother learning how. I was just content playing inside and not going round in circles in the driveway. I found it very repetitive, and boring.

I have fallen off my bike quite a few times, but nothing serious. The worst that’s happened is driving it down a bank while camping and knocking off the front reflector.

I haven’t ridden my bike for a while now, and when I did it was to help for a charity event. My current bike has perpetual flat tires and we pumped it up once, then went for 2 hours round a lake while the back tire deflated rapidly. Not fun. Especially because the others kept going on way ahead without me. I know I’m lazy and out of shape, but that flat tire was quite a big part of me lagging behind. And don’t give me the: “You should get it to a shop to fix it,” spiel. Because I have. And it didn’t work.

But lets end on a high note: I can ride a bike.

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I had one of those relatively large trampolines with the net around it. I kind of liked the net, made it look like a battle arena. And I didn’t have to worry about pushing people off. Yeah, violent child. Safety first!

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I live in Canada. You`d better bet that I’ve been camping before. Anyone in Canada over the age of about one who says they’ve never been camping: shame!

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lifescouts: Lifescouts: Kite-Flying Badge If you have this badge, reblog it and share your story! Look through the notes to read other people’s stories. Click here to buy this badge physically (ships worldwide). Lifescouts is a badge-collecting community of people who share their real-world experiences. One of the only memories I have of kite flying is up the lake at the cabin my family had when I was a kid. There was nowhere to run or anything but we got this bird-looking one in the air pretty well. Unfortunately there were a bunch of dead trees around and it got caught. Yeah, we never got to fly it again, but we did get it down.

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One of the only memories I have of kite flying is up the lake at the cabin my family had when I was a kid. There was nowhere to run or anything but we got this bird-looking one in the air pretty well.

Unfortunately there were a bunch of dead trees around and it got caught. Yeah, we never got to fly it again, but we did get it down.

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