+GeoElmo6000 Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 What do you call those people in your life who are not geocachers but love you even though you are? Quote Link to comment
+K13 Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 A Codependent Enabler. 4 Quote Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 Snuggle muggle 7 Quote Link to comment
+searcherdog Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 48 minutes ago, GeoElmo6000 said: What do you call those people in your life who are not geocachers but love you even though you are? Somebody very special. 1 Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 Family... 1 Quote Link to comment
+LizzyRN Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 My husband. 1 Quote Link to comment
+kunarion Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 2 hours ago, LizzyRN said: My husband. Will that be suitable? "I couldn't access the cache because the place is full of LizzyRN's husbands". 4 1 Quote Link to comment
+JL_HSTRE Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 Geoaware muggle: one who does not cache, but does know what caching is. Quote Link to comment
+niraD Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 2 hours ago, JL_HSTRE said: Geoaware muggle: one who does not cache, but does know what caching is. Except that "geoaware" already has a different meaning. "You can also contact the local geoaware reviewer, normally listed as the person who published the EarthCache, to get advice." - How do I create an EarthCache? (GSA EarthCache - Getting Started) Quote Link to comment
geoawareUSA9 Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, JL_HSTRE said: Geoaware muggle: one who does not cache, but does know what caching is. 6 minutes ago, niraD said: Except that "geoaware" already has a different meaning. Indeed it does. We haven't trademarked it or anything, but I wouldn't consider our group name for earthcache reviewers as an apt qualifier for a subset of muggles. (No offense to @LizzyRN's husband or @Moun10Bike's snuggle muggle intended, of course.) Edited September 20, 2019 by geoawareUSA9 1 Quote Link to comment
+The Jester Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 Another recent thread suggested SQUIB's - from Harry Potter - a non-magical member of a wizard family. But that doesn't include muggle parents/family of new (first in family) witches/wizards - they know about the magical world but aren't any part of it. Quote Link to comment
+The Jester Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 11 hours ago, kunarion said: Will that be suitable? "I couldn't access the cache because the place is full of LizzyRN's husbands". He does get around a lot, doesn't he? 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+kunarion Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 14 minutes ago, The Jester said: He does get around a lot, doesn't he? Quote Link to comment
+BethDaddyKaty Posted September 20, 2019 Share Posted September 20, 2019 More to the point, what do you call the people who you think are geocaching but when you talk to them you realise they're actually just shuffling around near a cache on their smartphone? 2 Quote Link to comment
+JL_HSTRE Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 15 hours ago, daddybeth said: More to the point, what do you call the people who you think are geocaching but when you talk to them you realise they're actually just shuffling around near a cache on their smartphone? Depends. Are they playing Pokemon or Harry Potter, or just snapchatting? Quote Link to comment
+The Jester Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 18 hours ago, daddybeth said: More to the point, what do you call the people who you think are geocaching but when you talk to them you realise they're actually just shuffling around near a cache on their smartphone? Weird normal. Quote Link to comment
+_Kilroy_ Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 (edited) The December 2014 issue of FTF Magazine ran a well written article by GeoJo24 titled "Fellow Travelers." She makes a sound case for why she calls her non-cacher/non-muggle friends and relatives "fellow travelers." I like that term. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://ftfgeocacher.com/FTFV56.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiLnqfa5-LkAhVsc98KHUcEAdgQFjAAegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw1yS3Omc8qE99axBncz13XC Edited September 21, 2019 by _Kilroy_ Added link to article 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+_Kilroy_ Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 I just added the link to a PDF file of that December 2014 issue of FTF for anyone interested in checking out the aforementioned article. Its on page 8. Quote Link to comment
+Michaelcycle Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 On 9/21/2019 at 3:48 PM, _Kilroy_ said: The December 2014 issue of FTF Magazine ran a well written article by GeoJo24 titled "Fellow Travelers." She makes a sound case for why she calls her non-cacher/non-muggle friends and relatives "fellow travelers." I like that term. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://ftfgeocacher.com/FTFV56.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiLnqfa5-LkAhVsc98KHUcEAdgQFjAAegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw1yS3Omc8qE99axBncz13XC Both the origin and the most famous usage of that term have strong political connotations. I would not use it. 2 Quote Link to comment
+Oxford Stone Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 On Saturday we - that's me, OS Junior (non-premium account) and Mrs OS (comes on most weekend walks but not all) found 22 caches that took me past 6400 and OS Junior to 3995. We wondered how many the long-suffering Mrs OS would have, if she had an account. Probably 2500-3000. She always finds the hardest ones - on this walk the 22 were quite evenly split between who saw them first. She's never used a smartphone or GPS in her life! She'd be delighted to have a term to describe her role, I'm sure... Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 On 9/21/2019 at 2:21 PM, JL_HSTRE said: On 9/20/2019 at 11:19 PM, daddybeth said: More to the point, what do you call the people who you think are geocaching but when you talk to them you realise they're actually just shuffling around near a cache on their smartphone? Depends. Are they playing Pokemon or Harry Potter, or just snapchatting? Sometimes they are looking for...companionship. Which can make for some awkward encounters. Quote Link to comment
+JL_HSTRE Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, hzoi said: Sometimes they are looking for...companionship. Which can make for some awkward encounters. I once arrived a park to geocache and a fellow parked nearby. I didn't recognize him (which isn't unusual), but I got the mistaken impression they recognized me from geocaching or school. It turned out it was a muggle stranger meeting someone from the internet who mistook me for the fellow he was supposed to meet. I apologized for the misunderstanding, but I held up my GPS and insisted I was there for other purposes. After about 10 minutes they drove off, dejected having apparently been stood up. Edited September 23, 2019 by JL_HSTRE Quote Link to comment
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