boothie103

Stupid money making hype to sell advertising.

I had problems for the first time today and had to manually transfer GPX files to the GPS. The only difference was a new laptop and Windows 10. Perhaps all the other Internet Browsers are gearing up for Windows 10 and trying to conform to Windows 10.

I use an extendable inspection mirror to look for caches and often find caches that there is no way, given the disabilities that I have, that I can retrieve them. It frustrates me that I know where they are but cannot reach them, have seen them but cannot sign the log. So I log a DNF and move onto the next. Can't claim a find unless you sign the log.

My only contribution, albeit simplistic, IS WHY FIX SOMETHING THAT ISN'T BROKEN? Dumb seat polishers everywhere have this desire to fix something. Especially if there has been a change in organisation or something stupid like that. Could we just put it back or at least ask us if want the change? Nope, lets do it anyway, after all a new broom will always sweep cleaner than an old one. The trouble is the old broom is the tried and trusted!

There are things called plastic bubbles, hermetically sealed with total life support that could house all those susceptible to a dirty cache, dirty door handles, dirty shopping trolley handles, toilet doors in public places, toilet seats that need lifting to allow males to pee and will never let you have to walk across ground that may have been urinated on by men, dogs, cats or women who have had to much to drink. Thus making your life aseptically clean and would, unfortunately never allow you to geocache again! I can wash my hands with normal soap and water as well as shower with the same at the end of the day and go out the next and get dirty again. How about we start talking about the Biological hazards such as dirty needles found at caches? I can't protect against one of those.

Shopping trolley handles, coins, plastic money, paper money, magazines in Doctor's waiting rooms, Dentist's rooms, books from the library and even packets of non prescription drugs from the pharmacist or chemist that have been handled have bugs on them. Don't get sick and have to spend time in hospital or even have to have an operation, hospitals are full of bugs. Step on a snail with bare feet and you could die from a flesh eating bug. A simple encounter with a spider could introduce a flesh eating bug that may need you to spend time in a chamber at low pressures with a diver with the bends. A simple street café meal could end you in intensive care and who knows how much brain damage. An encounter with some ones pet Budgie could give you a life threatening disease. You could go overseas and get bitten by a mosquito and get malaria. Give up Geocaching and go and live in a plastic bubble is my answer!

I grew up playing and catching tadpoles and frogs in gutters, catching lizards and all sorts of stuff that was yucky. Cleaning fish, skinning rabbits and gardening with of all things manure. I walk into a supermarket and they have free antibacterial wipes to wipe the trolley handles. Walked into the chemist and they had disposable toilet covers and spray on stuff for the toilet seat and stuff to wipe your hands with in case you came into contact with something and stuff to sanitise this and germicide that. No wonder the children today have so much wrong with them, they are not allowed to catch a bug to save themselves. I still catch tadpoles and frogs, get bloody cleaning fish and rabbits, developed a taste for raw fish and steak and eat oysters straight of the rocks.

Woof is the sound made by pet Murray Cod eating a shrimp dropped into his tank, or is boof?

Too heavy for me, suspected throw down needs maintenance as it is not the owners cache anymore, if it has been clearly muggled, NM required. If you didn't place the cache then you have no right to it or throw down one, place a NM. If there is a heap of DNF, place on your watch list and if it turns up again as a DNF post a NA.

I would love to add a vitriolic post concerning this issue, but if I did, I know I would get banned from this site. So all I am going to say is if the cache is broken in any way, especially if you find one of mine broken, please post a NM. So please grow to maturity and learn that a NM is on the same level as pest control!

You can't make a silk purse out of a pigs ear. If it needs maintenance of any form, post a needs maintenance. It can not get any easier. Just do it for the sake of the game!

Self licking ice-cream, you want it but can't be bothered with it. So just give it up!

Now let's ape this up a little. I hate caches in public areas, Chimpanzees in tweed suits get stared at all the time! People have no respect. Seriously, I enjoy the game, I hate caches placed in public places that require stealth. I like the caches that have history as the basis. I don't like physical challenges due to knee problems and anything to do with heights. My immediate question is "Why are you still doing it?"

Business cards used as logs, found a couple lately and am wondering if the business owners are actively replacing logs with cards?

I agree and let us all get over the fact that there are generous, albeit in my view, misguided people propping up caches that need to disappear and misguided people like my self who would like misguided COs to grow what it is ever needed to maintain their own caches so that we can all get back to enjoying the game. Have a good Christmas and hope you find many caches!

Muggle trap that can stop caches from suddenly disappearing by transporting muggles to a muggle place where there is torment of thousands of caches that they cannot physically touch! Seriously, nothing because the game is good enough without diluting it with contraptions.

Oh dear, if I was to post my true feelings about this I would probably be banned for life! It is such a pity that people have apparently signed logs without seeing the cache site when the site is the reason the cache was placed there. There off signing for the other members who have signed for them. If you have signed a log by proxy, please feel guilty, go back and sign it for real and say sorry as you are disrespecting the owner of the cache. On that note, is it allowable for a CO to delete team logs as being false logs?

Cheap COs who use post it note pads as logs. You end up with a cache that is full of garbage, particularly when the CO is that cheap that the post it note pad has been cut down to fit a micro!

If a log needs replacing because it is damaged by water, cachers being overzealous in retrieval or CO's not providing a robust enough log(post it notes in particular cut up to fit) or the cache has been damaged, then the cache needs a NM log. If the cache is full, it is not up to me to replace it, particularly if there has been multiple posts saying the log is full and people are slipping shopping dockets into the cache to keep the cache alive, the cache needs a NM posted. All of the above indicate a lazy CO or one who lives too far away from the cache who probably should not have placed the cache in the first place or are out of the game and the cache needs archiving. So I guess I will cop a lot of flack from these statements, but I have made them because I do not expect anybody to maintain my caches and expect them to post NMs as required as I have hidden the caches for others to find and they are my responsibility. If I cannot look after them, I will offer them up for adoption or archive them.

How the hell am I supposed to reach that?

I bet you are still finding caches made of plastic, metal or with some other synthetic material.

Reading through this and having submitted to it as well, it is a tired old argument, rhetoric garbage and I am surprised the moderators haven't put it to bed. Just post a NM when you think it is needed and COs get over the belief that you are holier than the people finding your cache. You hid for the finder in the first place!

I have to ask how many caches has any person found that is natural or carbon neutral? Virtually every cache found is in a man made thing, unless it is an earth cache. But even an earth cache requires a carbon footprint. Then, by logging it, reporting the find and usually taking the photo, carbon credits are used. So how carbon clean is geocaching should be the question? Then we have archived caches that are never retrieved, maybe there should be a an alert of archived caches for people to retrieve and get an award for! Or even a CITO cache whereby people can confirm by geocaching archived cache that it is gone by removing it?

I agree with the previous post. I posted a NM today on a cache that the last 6 or so posts stated the container is broken. What made me make the NM is that the log was full and kind hearted cachers, instead of saying come and fix your cache were slipping pages out of note pads as a band aid to a broken cache and mentioning it in their posts. Realistically, and consider this as constructive criticism, if my cache was in such disrepair and I received a NM post, I would appreciate that someone took the time to let me know and I would not take it as disrespect or offensive. Rather as a wake up call that I need to check my caches. I would also like to point out that if you, as a CO consider that trivial matters which take half a day to sort out are an issue, you definitely need to ask yourself why did I plant that cache if I am not prepared to look after it. And please respect the comment and no sledging because if you feel you need to, go back and revisit Goecaching101. It is all explained there.

You're assuming finding a junk box is fun for everyone. Here's a cache I found recently - active owner, 4 NMs (now 5) and multiple Found logs that say the cache is in rough shape. No response from the CO who never visited the cache after hiding it in 2011. Someone recently left a new logsheet. Was it a fun find?....Absolutely not. I hope that people would take pride in the game overall and promote responsible cache ownership. Geolitter does not reflect well on the pastime. I have to admit, I don't like finding caches in this condition and do feel that it needs an NM call or a NA after several NMs. If I got into a situation where I could not maintain the cache, I would either offer it out for adoption or archive it. Adoption would be first choice.