went sailing with my son last night
Have you come up with a name for your sailing adventures yet?
P.S - “Mancations” is already taken.
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I’ve been included in an annual event called mancation where a big group of guys heads to the St. Anthony sand dunes in Eastern Idaho to ride our side by sides and sand rails. I joined on year 8 and this will be year 10 now.
It’s actually a great event as the riding we do with just the boys is a lot more challenging and my wife would be hitting me constantly if she was along for the rides. Plus night rides which she won’t do in the dunes.
The group consists of guys from Nebraska, Iowa, California, Nevada, and Idaho. Fairly strict rules on who is invited and their personality. Lots of beer is drank, food is cooked, and everyone gets along. Other rules are no riding alone, we don’t go into town except for 1 night that a local bar has a pig roast. Otherwise we all chip in for food, and have an absolutely great time.
Honestly my wife has no interest in going to this event or the dunes in general. Not her cup of tea but she encourages me to go be a boy for this event. Usually come back exhausted with a few broken parts on someones machine. Last year we had a former chef so he did all the cooking, it was fantastic.
So I didn’t name it but fully support the event and can’t wait for mid August when we go again.
what I want to know is who’s the **hipster **d-bag that came up with the term ‘staycation’?
Sidebar: Do hipsters know that they are hipsters? Do they feel peer pressure to maintain that beard, thick rimmed glasses, skinny jeans, and drink microbrews?
The portmanteau word phenomenon is completely out of control. I first noticed it as an annoying trend back a decade or more ago with the rise of ‘webinar’, but it’s accelerated a lot. Staycation, bromance, babymoon, bankster, metrosexual, manscaping, sexting, frenemy, gaydar, phablet, the list if endless.
A good portmanteau that is judiciously conceived and sparingly deployed can be great but these fuckers are breeding like rabbits.
I burst out laughing.
Every year or two a couple old buddies and I go on ski trips. Usually we stay in the US, but a couple trips went to Europe. Would love to do more of them. The character of our guy trips is radically different then the vacations we do with our families. Only during the guy trips is everyone howling with laughter at the stories that could not have been told with wives or kids present.
went sailing with my son last night
Have you come up with a name for your sailing adventures yet?
P.S - “Mancations” is already taken.
It’s called Brailing (sorry, wimsey)
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what I want to know is who’s the **hipster **d-bag that came up with the term ‘staycation’?
Sidebar: Do hipsters know that they are hipsters? Do they feel peer pressure to maintain that beard, thick rimmed glasses, skinny jeans, and drink microbrews?
I don’t think so. It’s like when people die. They don’t know they’re dead, and it’s only difficult for the ones left around them. Sort of like with stupid people. Or hipsters. 
went sailing with my son last night
Have you come up with a name for your sailing adventures yet?
P.S - “Mancations” is already taken.
It’s called Brailing (sorry, wimsey)
You’re dead to me 
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A good portmanteau that is judiciously conceived and sparingly deployed can be great but these fuckers are breeding like rabbits.
Wow… I use a 5 dollar word on occasion, but that’s a 20 dollar phrase.
In May two good buddies and I took off to Cuba for a week. It was awesome! My wife and I have our regular vacations to spots like tofino, but, she hates the heat so when it’s anywhere tropical I usually go with my friends (the ones who aren’t so whipped that they can actually do that stuff).
A good portmanteau that is judiciously conceived and sparingly deployed can be great but these fuckers are breeding like rabbits.
Wow… I use a 5 dollar word on occasion, but that’s a 20 dollar phrase.
If you say so. In a time of 140 character communiques and a tweeter-in-chief whose favorite descriptor is “sad”, I guess polysyllabic words count as complex linguistics.
A good portmanteau that is judiciously conceived and sparingly deployed can be great but these fuckers are breeding like rabbits.
Wow… I use a 5 dollar word on occasion, but that’s a 20 dollar phrase.
If you say so. In a time of 140 character communiques and a tweeter-in-chief whose favorite descriptor is “sad”, I guess polysyllabic words count as complex linguistics.
Indubitably, my good man.
A good portmanteau that is judiciously conceived and sparingly deployed can be great but these fuckers are breeding like rabbits.
Wow… I use a 5 dollar word on occasion, but that’s a 20 dollar phrase.
If you say so. In a time of 140 character communiques and a tweeter-in-chief whose favorite descriptor is “sad”, I guess polysyllabic words count as complex linguistics.
Years ago it would only be a five dollar phrase, but since I confused someone the other day with the word vernacular, the dollar value of your phrase went up.
A good portmanteau that is judiciously conceived and sparingly deployed can be great but these fuckers are breeding like rabbits.
Wow… I use a 5 dollar word on occasion, but that’s a 20 dollar phrase.
If you say so. In a time of 140 character communiques and a tweeter-in-chief whose favorite descriptor is “sad”, I guess polysyllabic words count as complex linguistics.
Years ago it would only be a five dollar phrase, but since I confused someone the other day with the word vernacular, the dollar value of your phrase went up.
Word value inflation. It’s all Obama appointee Yellen’s fault - sad!
A good portmanteau that is judiciously conceived and sparingly deployed can be great but these fuckers are breeding like rabbits.
Wow… I use a 5 dollar word on occasion, but that’s a 20 dollar phrase.
If you say so. In a time of 140 character communiques and a tweeter-in-chief whose favorite descriptor is “sad”, I guess polysyllabic words count as complex linguistics.
Indubitably, my good man.
Indubitably?
Gesundheit!
I am all about going places and doing things but I can only take so much bro-ness before I go insane.
Yeah, at some point the pendulum is going to swing the other way and millenials will start writing about the new found popularity of vaginacations.
It’s all about balance. I once took an overnight trip to Istanbul. The next day I was looking for a taxi to run me over.
I know someone who has been doing this with his group of friends from college for over 25 years now, they call it Jake Day. It started not long after they graduated and everyone started to settle down and get married. Some guys had also moved to other parts of the country, so as an excuse to get together for a weekend each year, they made up an imaginary friend named Jake. (“Honey, the guys are all going to visit Jake, remember him? He was in so-and-so’s wedding, real nice guy. Anyway, he just moved to Chicago and we’re going to visit him and catch a Cubs game at Wrigley.” They’ve mixed it up each year, either catching baseball/football games around the country, golf weekends, Vegas etc.
It’s all about balance. I once took an overnight trip to Istanbul. The next day I was looking for a taxi to run me over.
Hey, that’s why they call(ed) you Mister Tibbs.
Tee hee
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went sailing with my son last night
Have you come up with a name for your sailing adventures yet?
P.S - “Mancations” is already taken.
It’s called Brailing (sorry, wimsey)
You’re dead to me
My wife refuses to get on a sailboat.
It’s not called Brailing. My son calls it “now I am Happyâ€.
I call it , “ any time you are on the water you are having a good day.â€
We are just getting tuned up for a week up in Harbor Springs. I told the boys if they didn’t get some sail time in, we weren’t bringing the Lightning.
It is awesome.
This is us messing around on the water…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvQkwykdyes