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I didn't know there was an Us and Them.........I was told this by another cacher........................................."It's true that for some people geocaching is finding a piece of paper at a set of coordinates and that's enough for them, but it's not enough for many of us." .....................................

 

Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?

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I didn't know there was an Us and Them.........I was told this by another cacher........................................."It's true that for some people geocaching is finding a piece of paper at a set of coordinates and that's enough for them, but it's not enough for many of us." .....................................

 

Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?

 

So what is your point? :)

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I didn't know there was an Us and Them.........I was told this by another cacher........................................."It's true that for some people geocaching is finding a piece of paper at a set of coordinates and that's enough for them, but it's not enough for many of us." .....................................

 

Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?

 

Are you talking about finding caches?...you know. Caches.

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I didn't know there was an Us and Them.........I was told this by another cacher........................................."It's true that for some people geocaching is finding a piece of paper at a set of coordinates and that's enough for them, but it's not enough for many of us." .....................................

 

Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?

 

So what is your point? :)

I was wondering who the Us was. We are all geocachers.

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I didn't know there was an Us and Them.........I was told this by another cacher........................................."It's true that for some people geocaching is finding a piece of paper at a set of coordinates and that's enough for them, but it's not enough for many of us." .....................................

 

Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?

 

Are you talking about finding caches?...you know. Caches.

I just thought this was a funny comment. In the statement in qoutes I wondered who is classified as Us, that's all.

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I didn't know there was an Us and Them.........I was told this by another cacher........................................."It's true that for some people geocaching is finding a piece of paper at a set of coordinates and that's enough for them, but it's not enough for many of us." .....................................

 

Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?

 

Are you talking about finding caches?...you know. Caches.

I just thought this was a funny comment. In the statement in quotes I wondered who is classified as Us, that's all.

 

I'm wondering about the context of the conversation. Why was it brought up?

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Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?

For some folks, that's all that's needed. And that's perfectly OK... for "them". :laughing:

 

If you read a brilliantly written cache page which leads you to hike 6 miles down into a canyon, eventually ducking behind a waterfall to locate an ammo can bristling with high end swag, you will likely find in there a piece of paper to put your nickname on.

 

If you read a 6 word cache page that guides you to a blistering, 500 acre, exhaust laden parking lot, bristling with SUVs driven by soccer moms, to find a soggy log film can under a lamp post skirt, you've still found a piece of paper.

 

If you find both experiences to be identical in quality, you are a "them". :)

If not, you might qualify as an "Us". :laughing:

 

It's all about Pink Floyd! (and bacon)

Nailed it! :laughing:

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I didn't know there was an Us and Them.........I was told this by another cacher........................................."It's true that for some people geocaching is finding a piece of paper at a set of coordinates and that's enough for them, but it's not enough for many of us." .....................................

 

Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?

 

some people cringe that there isn't an epic poem on a cache page, to them i say "read dante's inferno if you are looking for 'a good read'".

 

geocaching isn't a best-in-show scenario where you are only going to have the premium locations, write-ups, containers, etc. you MUST take the good with the bad, outside of that, filter out those items that you might think of as "bad" - and be happy with the 5-6 caches in your area that fit the criteria.

 

:laughing::)

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I understand that. Explain on the Us part, thats what I'm asking. :)

isn't that obvious? us = happy with finding any piece of paper and signing it. them = happy with finding a cache with stuff in it / not happy with just finding a piece of paper and nothing else. or the other way around, as you like. or any other sort of distinction between how people play the game and/or what they like and prefer.

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Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?

yeah, but for some people that's not enough. back to square one. :)

I understand that. Explain on the Us part, thats what I'm asking. :laughing:

"Us", in the quote, is "all people who participate in something they refer to as geocaching".

 

"Them" is "A subset of 'Us' as defined above for whom finding a piece of paper at a set of coordinates is enough to be called geocaching".

 

"many of us" is "A subset of 'Us' as defined above for whom finding a piece of paper at a set of coordinates is not enough to be called geocaching"

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Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?

yeah, but for some people that's not enough. back to square one. :angry:

I understand that. Explain on the Us part, thats what I'm asking. :smile:

"Us", in the quote, is "all people who participate in something they refer to as geocaching".

 

"Them" is "A subset of 'Us' as defined above for whom finding a piece of paper at a set of coordinates is enough to be called geocaching".

 

 

Therefore, All Us is them. But some them is not us.

 

I actually got one of my few A's in my entire academic career in that stuff. Of course that was like 20 years ago. :P

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I dont like this us/them mentality.....but i will tell you what I like....

 

I like the soggy log i can replace.

I like the swag my daughter gets excited about.

I like the bad cache at a good location.

I like the good cache at a bad location.

I like the puzzle if I can solve it.

I like the puzzle if I cannot solve it.

I like the long poems.

I like the short easy finds.

I like the ones you bushwack for no reason.

I like the ones you have to bushwack.

I like watching for poison ivy.

I like shaking my head about a bad guardrail find.

I like lousy coordinates.

I like any number of DNFs followed by a find.

 

I like Geocaching. What do you like?

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Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?

For some folks, that's all that's needed. And that's perfectly OK... for "them". :smile:

 

If you read a brilliantly written cache page which leads you to hike 6 miles down into a canyon, eventually ducking behind a waterfall to locate an ammo can bristling with high end swag, you will likely find in there a piece of paper to put your nickname on.

 

If you read a 6 word cache page that guides you to a blistering, 500 acre, exhaust laden parking lot, bristling with SUVs driven by soccer moms, to find a soggy log film can under a lamp post skirt, you've still found a piece of paper.

 

If you find both experiences to be identical in quality, you are a "them". :P

If not, you might qualify as an "Us". :angry:

If you still haven't figured out how to tell those two caches apart before looking for them, you are definitely a 'them'. Edited by sbell111
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Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?

For some folks, that's all that's needed. And that's perfectly OK... for "them". :angry:

 

If you read a brilliantly written cache page which leads you to hike 6 miles down into a canyon, eventually ducking behind a waterfall to locate an ammo can bristling with high end swag, you will likely find in there a piece of paper to put your nickname on.

 

I align myself with the "hiker type geocacher," not the: "skirt lifters," or the "park & grabbers," or the worst offenders of all, the "cut & pasters."

 

If you read a 6 word cache page that guides you to a blistering, 500 acre, exhaust laden parking lot, bristling with SUVs driven by soccer moms, to find a soggy log film can under a lamp post skirt, you've still found a piece of paper.

 

To low of a fun quotient for me. :P

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I didn't know there was an Us and Them.........I was told this by another cacher........................................."It's true that for some people geocaching is finding a piece of paper at a set of coordinates and that's enough for them, but it's not enough for many of us." .....................................

 

Don't we all find a piece of paper in the end?

 

The answer is simple--US are those who enjoy bacon. THEM are those that enjoy compressed strips of soy that imitate bacon.

 

Problem solved.

 

:P

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