The BMI discussion in 'Useless messages...' inspired me to open this topic... Come on, tell the public numbers! ;)
Height: 176 cm
Weight: 88 kg (at the moment, summer plan is < 80 kg)
Fat ratio: ~31% (estimation from a fitness website, 10-20 is normal for a man)
Shoe size: 42 1/2 (US 8, EN 7 1/2)
Upper arm circuit: 37.5 cm
Head circuit: 59.5 cm
"Wing-spread": 181 cm
That's all I know in the current situation... Maybe other useless data is coming soon, not related to body but life activities, like travelling X kms or running Y meters in Z seconds. :D
dick 27 cm
Quote from: alanrotoi on January 19, 2009, 12:27:31 AM
dick 27 cm
Mistype... ;D I guess you wanted to say mm. :P
yes, I'm sorry ;D
Akoss will love this topic for sure. :D
Quote from: CTG on January 18, 2009, 11:55:46 PM
The BMI discussion in 'Useless messages...' inspired me to open this topic... Come on, tell the public numbers! ;)
Height: 176 cm
Weight: 88 kg (at the moment, summer plan is < 80 kg)
Fat ratio: ~31% (estimation from a fitness website, 10-20 is normal for a man)
Shoe size: 42 1/2 (US 8, EN 7 1/2)
Upper arm circuit: 37.5 cm
Head circuit: 59.5 cm
"Wing-spread": 181 cm
That's all I know in the current situation... Maybe other useless data is coming soon, not related to body but life activities, like travelling X kms or running Y meters in Z seconds. :D
This is at least as useless as useless messages.
height: 183cm
weight: 61kg
fat ratio (measured 2 years ago): 9%
shoe size: 45 1/2
don't know the others.
But our baby was measured 6,5cm today. :)
Quote from: zaqrack on January 19, 2009, 11:31:00 AM
This is at least as useless as useless messages.
It's not a matter for me - most of messages in any forums are useless... ;D
I forgot that we also know the approximate weight!
Our baby is 6.5cm tall
Weight is 0.080 kg
that equals a BMI of
0.080/(0.065*0.065)= 18.934
;D
Last year I spent about 90-100 days online on the Internet - probably more than sleeping (~80-90 days)...
Calculating with my average food intake, I've eaten about 120,000,000 kilojoule from my birth (energy of 30 tons TNT explosion); but drinking only ~30,000 liters of water.
Adding the growth of my every single piece hair from my birth, result is about 300 kms.
Breathing: well, my lungs "wasted" about 130,000 cubic meter air so far...
Quote from: CTGNumbers about yourself
I am not a number, I am a free man !
R.I.P. number 6... :'(
Height: 180 cm
Weight: 74 kg at the moment
Fat ratio: No idea (Maybe you can link me to that fitness website you talked about)
Shoe size: 42 No idea in other countries.
Upper arm circuit: Will measure it at home and edit this
Head circuit: Will measure it at home and edit this, too
"Wing-spread": I think it was about 190 but... Will measure it at home and edit this to make sure.
I bike around 10 Km/day (My girlfriend lives 6.5 Km away from my house + university is 4.5 Km away + friends - Stormy days ;))
http://body.builder.hu/prg_zsir3.htm4 (http://body.builder.hu/prg_zsir3.htm4) but it's in Hungarian. You have to measure the thickness of the fat layer (just pick it from two side with your fingers) at the three signed place (mm) and write them in the calculator. Use the left one ("férfiak", means males): életkor = age, testsúly = weight, mellkas: add fat layer on your chest, has: add fat layer on your stomach, comb: add fat layer on your upper leg; then press "Számol" (calculate).
Results:
Testzsír = fat content
Zsírtömeg = weight of fat
Zsírmentes testtömeg = lean body mass (theoretical value, impossible to reach)
Leadható zsírtömeg = weight of fat that you can lose with diet and training (quite a strict value but this is a website for body builders... :D)
There's a more precise method with 7 point measurements, I'll try that too.
Height 189 cms
Weight 94 kgs (I'm on a diet)
Dick 50 parsecs
Shoe size 45-46
Longest finger 12 cms
Head circuit 60 cms
Hair length 3 cms (max. 30 cms, February 2005)
Age 25
F*cked girls so far 1
Girlfriends so far 2
Kissed girls so far 12
Years of education in the 19th at the moment
hm, some more to come maybe
Quote from: zaqrack on January 19, 2009, 03:06:47 PM
I forgot that we also know the approximate weight!
Our baby is 6.5cm tall
Weight is 0.080 kg
that equals a BMI of
0.080/(0.065*0.065)= 18.934
;D
Sounds like it's your baby, indeed... :-)
Fat content: 8%
Weight of fat: 5 kg
Lean body mass: 58 kg
Weight of fat that I can lose...: 0 kg
Height: 178 cm
Weight: 63 kg
BMI: 19.88
Hair length: 7.5 cm
Shoe size: 42
Our baby: height 65 cm, weight 7.1 kg --> BMI=16.80. Well, he seems to be everything but not thin. :)
Quote from: Akoss Poo
F*cked girls so far 1
Girlfriends so far 2
Kissed girls so far 12
Such low values, you should have kept them private. :P ;D :D
I'll be wed in exactly 275 minutes.
Quote from: zaqrack on January 24, 2009, 10:06:33 AM
I'll be wed in exactly 275 minutes.
Woohoo, the final countdown ! :D
Quote from: zaqrack on January 24, 2009, 10:06:33 AM
I'll be wed in exactly 275 minutes.
CONGRATS ZAK AND ANDI!!! I hope everything went great and no crazy girl or guy tried to stop the wedding ;). Happy honeymoon, enjoy London.
Quote from: Krys TOFF on January 23, 2009, 02:56:31 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo
F*cked girls so far 1
Girlfriends so far 2
Kissed girls so far 12
Such low values, you should have kept them private. :P ;D :D
They are low, but not extremely low, and taking my principles into consideration, they are absolutely not shameful. And the quality is other factor: I think (to be really honest and sincere, without intending to hurt anybody), in Stunts community, my girls and "girls" were of quite high standards related to others'. BÖFF!!!
Quote from: zaqrack on January 24, 2009, 10:06:33 AM
I'll be wed in exactly 275 minutes.
I'm a married man since 400 minutes.
Problem-free and very happy wedding :)
Quote from: zaqrack on January 24, 2009, 09:26:36 PM
Quote from: zaqrack on January 24, 2009, 10:06:33 AM
I'll be wed in exactly 275 minutes.
I'm a married man since 400 minutes.
Problem-free and very happy wedding :)
CONGRATULATIONS!!! I hope you have had the best wedding one could wish for! :) I'm really looking forward to see the pictures! Congratulations again! :D
Quote from: zaqrack on January 24, 2009, 09:26:36 PM
Quote from: zaqrack on January 24, 2009, 10:06:33 AM
I'll be wed in exactly 275 minutes.
I'm a married man since 400 minutes.
Problem-free and very happy wedding :)
CON-GRA-TU-LA-TIONS ! Let it be a pleasurefull life for you both. Oh, no, for you 3 with little Zaki coming. ;)
Quote from: Akoss Poo on January 24, 2009, 06:30:53 PM
Quote from: Krys TOFF on January 23, 2009, 02:56:31 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo
F*cked girls so far 1
Girlfriends so far 2
Kissed girls so far 12
Such low values, you should have kept them private. :P ;D :D
They are low, but not extremely low, and taking my principles into consideration, they are absolutely not shameful. And the quality is other factor: I think (to be really honest and sincere, without intending to hurt anybody), in Stunts community, my girls and "girls" were of quite high standards related to others'. BÖFF!!!
To be really honest and sincere, without intending to hurt anybody: I am sure there is not one person here who will agree with you about that.
On the other hand, I don't think the numbers are that low...
Our scale became mad or I really lose weight: 86 kgs... maybe the first option. ;D
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on January 26, 2009, 12:12:20 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on January 24, 2009, 06:30:53 PM
Quote from: Krys TOFF on January 23, 2009, 02:56:31 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo
F*cked girls so far 1
Girlfriends so far 2
Kissed girls so far 12
Such low values, you should have kept them private. :P ;D :D
They are low, but not extremely low, and taking my principles into consideration, they are absolutely not shameful. And the quality is other factor: I think (to be really honest and sincere, without intending to hurt anybody), in Stunts community, my girls and "girls" were of quite high standards related to others'. BÖFF!!!
To be really honest and sincere, without intending to hurt anybody: I am sure there is not one person here who will agree with you about that.
On the other hand, I don't think the numbers are that low...
I wrote "to be really honest and sincere" because that wanted to mean that I had been trying to think with the world's brain, and not with mine. And still, I held on to my opinion, and I'm holding on. BÖFF! Btw I was a bit drunken when I wrote that sentences. :) And the drunken people say right. What's more, I don't have a girlfriend at the moment, and I'm not in love with anybody, so - opposite some others - I can think with a clearer mind.
Btw I'm also losing weight: 12 January 95.8 kgs, today 91.3 kgs. Quite good.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on January 27, 2009, 01:41:02 PM
I don't have a girlfriend at the moment, and I'm not in love with anybody, so - opposite some others - I can think with a clearer mind.
I has nothing to do with that. I have a girlfriend but I know she's not the prettiest girl in the world, even if she's ny girlfriend. What BJ probably meant is that different men like different kind of woman. For instance, CTG likes skinny girls and I don't, and that has no relation with us being in love whatsoever.
Quote from: Chulk on January 27, 2009, 06:28:11 PM
For instance, CTG likes skinny girls
I like girls with big... soul. ;D
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_af3t-LqOLCQ/SB8gIsgN_UI/AAAAAAAAAEk/IUW01npb-_M/s400/big%2Bboobs.jpg)
Quote from: CTG on January 27, 2009, 11:30:43 PM
Quote from: Chulk on January 27, 2009, 06:28:11 PM
For instance, CTG likes skinny girls
I like girls with big... soul. ;D
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_af3t-LqOLCQ/SB8gIsgN_UI/AAAAAAAAAEk/IUW01npb-_M/s400/big%2Bboobs.jpg)
:D I have this pic on my computer with an arrow pointing at the tower in the background. Still, I recognized the huge tits first instead of it, like all other men would have done so.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on January 28, 2009, 12:55:48 PM
Quote from: CTG on January 27, 2009, 11:30:43 PM
Quote from: Chulk on January 27, 2009, 06:28:11 PM
For instance, CTG likes skinny girls
I like girls with big... soul. ;D
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_af3t-LqOLCQ/SB8gIsgN_UI/AAAAAAAAAEk/IUW01npb-_M/s400/big%2Bboobs.jpg)
:D I have this pic on my computer with an arrow pointing at the tower in the background. Still, I recognized the huge tits first instead of it, like all other men would have done so.
I guess Mingva would find the 'Money' part first... ;D
Highest/lowest coordinates I've ever been to so far:
North: 56° 9' 0" N, 10° 13' 0" E - Aarhus DEN
South: 43° 47' 0" N, 11° 15' 0" E - Firenze ITA
West: 51° 10' 43.84" N, 1° 49' 34.28" W - Stonehenge (Salisbury) GBR
East: 48° 6' 54.58" N, 22° 22' 19.78" E - Jánd HUN
My location: 48° 15' 11.34" N, 20° 38' 44.27" E - Kazincbarcika HUN
You've got to work on east then!
I've got to work on west...
My body has been to:
N: Helsinki, Finland - 60N
E: Qingdao, China - 120E
S: Chengdu, China - 30N
W: Gretna, UK - 3W
Well, lets see. Mine is quite similar, the west is even worse :)
and yes, East is the most fun and interesting direction to travel to. Go Akoss!
North: Tallinn, Estonia
South: Hong Kong, China
West: London, UK
East: Shanghai, China
probably wont change for a while... our holiday plans for the next years with the baby are within Hungary. Perhaps Kiel once, we were promised to get seafood there. ;D What about a stunts meeting in Kiel?
I bet you all I'm the one who's been closer to the South Pole!
Oh whow, nice chance to think about my travels...
North: Bergen, Norway
East: Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan
South: Cape of good Hope, South Africa
West: Las Palmas, Canary Islands
Guess I've got to work at the north and west. 8)
Quote from: zaqrack on May 27, 2009, 07:49:03 PM
Perhaps Kiel once, we were promised to get seafood there.
Definitely yes!
Quote from: zaqrack on May 27, 2009, 07:49:03 PM
What about a stunts meeting in Kiel?
The day shall come!
I think I'd like to work on the North and the South rather than on the West and the East. Once I'd like to see the Sun when it does not set during the night during an Arctic summer. On the South, I could see some never observed constellations (and a much brighter Milky Way) - the farther, the more. These would be much bigger memories for me than experiencing the atmosphere of different cultures. :) BÖFF!
Btw I crossed the Hungarian border on the East, too - but it wasn't farther from Greenwich line than Jánd, Hungary (where my grandfather was born).
Quote from: CTG on January 18, 2009, 11:55:46 PM
Weight: 88 kg
It's better not to update at the moment. Diet in progress. ;D
I don't know why I still haven't posted my coordinate extremes. Here they are:
North: 60° 53' 56" N, 7° 03' 49" E - near Flam, NOR
South: 37° 54' 54" N, 23° 06' 25" E - near Korinthos, GRE
West: 57° 08' 35" N, 2° 06' 37" W - Aberdeen, GBR
East: 46° 33' 19" N, 26° 06' 46" E - Palanca, ROM
I know why I still haven't posted my coordinate extremes. Maybe because they are extremely close to eachother.
I just pushed out a 10 seconds long bööööööööööööff!!! ;D
These are my extreme coordinates...
Most Estearn: Canasvieiras (Brazil) 48°27'53''W - 27°26'24''S
Most Northern: Camboriu (Brazil) 26°58'55.2"S - 48°38'6"O
Most Western and Most Southern: Esquel (Argentina) 42º54'24.20''S - 71º08'48.40''W
Quote from: Chulk on July 06, 2010, 04:36:51 PM
These are my extreme coordinates...
Most Estearn: Canasvieiras (Brazil) 48°27'53''W - 27°26'24''S
Most Northern: Camboriu (Brazil) 26°58'55.2"S - 48°38'6"O
Most Western and Most Southern: Esquel (Argentina) 42º54'24.20''S - 71º08'48.40''W
You should drop by the northern hemisphere at some point! There's a whole lot of interesting stuff going on up here.
Yes I know, but it is a 'bit' expensive... my parents have been in Europe though, I think somewhere in Germany was the closest to the North Pole they've been...
Quote from: Chulk on July 08, 2010, 07:45:35 PM
Yes I know, but it is a 'bit' expensive... my parents have been in Europe though, I think somewhere in Germany was the closest to the North Pole they've been...
I'd also love to see the Southern Hemisphere, but from 48 degrees North, it also seem to be impossible (unaffordable at the moment). Greenwich line is created by men, so it's not a big deal to cross it. The Equator would be more interesting. :)
At least I'd like to reach the Tropic of Cancer to see some more Southern constellations and to see the Sun in the top of the sky in June.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 27, 2009, 05:03:28 PM
Highest/lowest coordinates I've ever been to so far:
North: 56° 9' 0" N, 10° 13' 0" E - Aarhus DEN
South: 43° 47' 0" N, 11° 15' 0" E - Firenze ITA
West: 51° 10' 43.84" N, 1° 49' 34.28" W - Stonehenge (Salisbury) GBR
East: 48° 6' 54.58" N, 22° 22' 19.78" E - Jánd HUN
My location: 48° 15' 11.34" N, 20° 38' 44.27" E - Kazincbarcika HUN
Very serious records has just been broken.
Carmel-by-the-Sea; Location in Monterey County and the state of California, United States of America
Coordinates: 36°33?19?N 121°55?24?W? / ?36.55528°N 121.92333°W? / 36.55528; -121.92333Coordinates: 36°33?19?N 121°55?24?
- SOUTH RECORD
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Coordinates: 37°46?45.48?N 122°25?9.12?W? / ?37.7793°N 122.4192°W? / 37.7793; -122.4192Coordinates: 37°46?45.48?N 122°25?9.12?W? / ?37.7793°N 122.4192°W? / 37.7793; -122.4192
- BIG BIG WEST RECORD
I'm not counting the areas where I've been only during a flight, above the ground some thousand meters (otherwise, Greenland would be a nice NORTH RECORD).
BÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!
Wow, the good old Akoss Poo in the USA. :) Congratulations for the new records!
I hope to break my north record within a year (on the ground). Other directions can wait.
Quote from: Usrin on March 10, 2011, 11:47:11 AM
Wow, the good old Akoss Poo in the USA. :) Congratulations for the new records!
I hope to break my north record within a year (on the ground). Other directions can wait.
Thanks! I hope I can beat the East record this year, there might be a possibility to travel to Transylvania this year (conference/hiking group/sightseeing tourist group... any case would suit me). (Croatian trip - Plitvice Lakes National Park) is fix in May for a weekend, but that won't mean any record.)
North record on ground... where?
BÖFF!!!
Quote from: Akoss Poo on March 11, 2011, 10:46:05 AM
North record on ground... where?
After finishing PhD, international job hunting will begin. My main targets are Scandinavian countries, so in case I succeed, I will definitely visit the northern part of the country. By the way, I would rather not estimate my chance.
One 'coordinate' is still missing: the highest elevation reached (by foot).
My personal record was broken on 8th this month, it's 2 024 m now (Chopok, Lower Tatras / Carpathian Mountains, Slovakia).
Of course it wasn't climbed from sea level. ;D But a very-very steep and rocky mountain it was (+snow +fog).
Quote from: CTG on June 29, 2010, 08:02:50 PM
I know why I still haven't posted my coordinate extremes. Maybe because they are extremely close to eachother.
It's still the same, shameful.
North: 50°05' N, 19°57' E (Krakow, Poland)
South: 45°14' N, 19°51' E (Novi Sad, Serbia)
East: 47°50' N, 22°08' E (Nyírbátor, Hungary)
West: 47°39' N, 13°05' E (between Hintereben in Germany and Heilbad Dürrnberg in Austria)
Altitude: 1315 m (start of bobsleigh track in Heilbad Dürrnberg)
What about your sport records?
Quote from: CTG on January 27, 2012, 10:01:12 AM
What about your sport records?
That was discussed in another topic some years ago.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on January 27, 2012, 10:04:42 AM
Quote from: CTG on January 27, 2012, 10:01:12 AM
What about your sport records?
That was discussed in another topic some years ago.
Hmmm probably you are right. I remember that Argammon said "impossible" values, as I expected it from him. Mouthkarate... ;D
EAST record was broken on Friday:
45°52'41N 22°54'52E / 45.87806°N 22.91444°E
Déva (Deva), Transylvania ('Romania')
Quote from: Akoss Poo on April 02, 2012, 01:43:23 AM
EAST record was broken on Friday:
45°52'41N 22°54'52E / 45.87806°N 22.91444°E
Déva (Deva), Transylvania ('Romania')
Bourgeois!!! :D
Eastern record was set in early April:
47°8?0?N 24°30?0?E - Bistrita, Romania
if everything goes fine, it will be beaten in October (Turkey).
This month the South record can be beaten as well (Los Angeles).
A company meeting and geological field trip in South Portugal is planned for September; chance for breaking my South and West records.
:)
West & South - Firenze, Italy
North - Deštné v Orlických Horách, The Czech Republic
East - Vinné, Slovakia
well.. that Italy (a tournament), CZE (2 times) and one Hungary trips were my only ones abroad up to date (hmm.. ok and three times at AUT near my home location at tournaments). ok, I cross the state border quite often, but it doesn't count (kayaking at the Danube river and the Morava river and the AUT-HUN-SVK border point and our ..ehm.. super cool new bridge over the Morava river). :)
For me:
- West and south around Lisbon, Portugal: 9°14' West and about 38°30' North
- Toward east... I don't remember ;D Some place east of Prague, school trip 14y ago. Let's say 15° East
- North, last summer: 71° 11' on the Knivskjellodden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knivskjellodden)
New Southern record: at the moment I am typing from Los Angeles, California.
34°03?N 118°15?W
Say hi to Sampi :)
Quote from: CTG on January 21, 2012, 07:39:48 PM
West: 47°39' N, 13°05' E (between Hintereben in Germany and Heilbad Dürrnberg in Austria)
If everything goes well, sooner or (rather) later it will change to München (headquoters of European Patent Office, many trials take place there).
Update:
North: 51°13' N, 3°13' E (Brugge, Belgium)
South: 45°14' N, 19°51' E (Novi Sad, Serbia)
East: 47°50' N, 22°08' E (Nyírbátor, Hungary)
West: 51°13' N, 3°13' E (Brugge, Belgium)
Altitude: 1315 m (start of bobsleigh track in Heilbad Dürrnberg)
I have the plane tickets to break my East record on 30th September: I'll fly to an Istanbul conference.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on July 25, 2013, 02:33:51 PM
I have the plane tickets to break my East record on 30th September: I'll fly to an Istanbul conference.
Waste of money by the state/EU.
Quote from: CTG on July 25, 2013, 02:41:38 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on July 25, 2013, 02:33:51 PM
I have the plane tickets to break my East record on 30th September: I'll fly to an Istanbul conference.
Waste of money by the state/EU.
By our Institute. ;D
Quote from: Akoss Poo on July 25, 2013, 02:53:17 PM
Quote from: CTG on July 25, 2013, 02:41:38 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on July 25, 2013, 02:33:51 PM
I have the plane tickets to break my East record on 30th September: I'll fly to an Istanbul conference.
Waste of money by the state/EU.
By our Institute. ;D
Even worse.
Apropo, 'My city' topic. If I'm not mistaken, the time spent in Budapest overtakes Györ in these months...
1983-1997: living in Györ, 5-10 days/year in Budapest
1997-2005: studies in Budapest, weekends and summer holidays in Györ (although a bit less in the last two years, because of the summer practice, etc.)
2005-2009: still the studies, but living together with my girlfriend, maybe every second weekend at my parents (and one or two weeks in the summer)
2009-2013: living in our own flat in Budapest, visiting my parents 5-6 times in a year...
Places where I lived:
1983-1985 Kazincbarcika, at my grandma's
1985-1991 Kazincbarcika, first flat of my parents
1991-1997 Kazincbarcika, second (bigger) flat of my parents
1997-2001 Kazincbarcika, second (bigger) flat of my parents plus cca. half of the year in Budapest, in a dormitory
2001-2007 Kazincbarcika, second (bigger) flat of my parents (from 2006, only my mother is living there) plus cca. half of the year in Debrecen, in two lodgings, two dormitories and the minus five star 'hotel' of the railway station
2007-2008 Kazincbarcika, second (bigger) flat of my parents, only my mother is living there
2008-2011 Kazincbarcika, at my grandma's
2011-2012 Kazincbarcika, at my own flat
2012- Kazincbarcika, at my own flat, at least 2-3 days per two weeks in Debrecen at my girlfriend's lodging
Quote from: CTG on July 30, 2013, 09:16:37 AM
Apropo, 'My city' topic. If I'm not mistaken, the time spent in Budapest overtakes Györ in these months...
Statement withdrawn. I was sitting on the toilet and thought it over again - somehow I failed with the study part. Györ is still leading heavily.
~6000 - Györ
~4500 - Budapest
~150 - Üllö (maybe our future "hometown")
~350 - elsewhere
Üll? as a hometown? You must be kidding. (or taking airplane spotting too seriously :))
My numbers are rather boring:
1981 - 2011 Budapest
2011 - 2012 90% Shanghai 10% Budapest
2012 - 2013 70% Shanghai 30% Budapest
Quote from: zaqrack on July 30, 2013, 10:04:20 PM
Üll? as a hometown? You must be kidding. (or taking airplane spotting too seriously :))
The southern part is far from the air corridor.
Quote from: zaqrack on July 30, 2013, 10:04:20 PM
Üll? as a hometown? You must be kidding. (or taking airplane spotting too seriously :))
Is there any other reason to ignore Üllö?
If we had enough money to buy a house in Budapest, we would do that - probably in 16th district. But unfortunately prices are quite high in the capital, 1.5-2x compared to Üllö. However, I still give 10% for leaving the country in a year, so maybe we won't ever live there...
10th August 2013 = 10 year living alone in my apartment.
Quote from: alanrotoi on August 05, 2013, 11:55:40 AM
10th August 2013 = 10 year living alone in my apartment.
Without getting out? :o
Quote from: dreadnaut on August 05, 2013, 01:51:05 PM
Quote from: alanrotoi on August 05, 2013, 11:55:40 AM
10th August 2013 = 10 year living alone in my apartment.
Without getting out? :o
There must be an awful smell... :D
Here smells like stunts spirit.
It was a nitro :D
Quote from: alanrotoi on August 06, 2013, 06:55:44 PM
It was a nitro :D
(http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll44/starbright4860/Cartman_farting_fire.gif)
Days I lived alone in my entire life = 0.
Quote from: zaqrack on August 06, 2013, 08:59:46 PM
Days I lived alone in my entire life = 0.
The same here.
That makes 3 of us. Parents -> Girlfriend -> Parents
Quote from: CTG on August 06, 2013, 09:04:57 PM
Quote from: zaqrack on August 06, 2013, 08:59:46 PM
Days I lived alone in my entire life = 0.
The same here.
1983-1997: parents
1997-2001: grammar school's hostel (various roommates in 4-7 bed rooms; 4 years in the same room with the slovak, 3 with the smelly poo)
2001-2005: university hostel (various roommates in 2 bed rooms)
2005-2009: girlfriend (still in the hostel)
2009-now: girlfriend/wife (own flat)
Btw today is the 3rd anniversary of our wedding.
1981 - 2000 with parents
2000 - 2006 with my brother
2006 - 2009 with my brother and Andi
2009 - with Andi and the kids
Quote from: CTG on August 07, 2013, 08:29:44 AM
Btw today is the 3rd anniversary of our wedding.
Congrats on the feat!
New records:
North: 66'27N (Kögur mountain, Hornstrandír, Iceland)
West: 23'07W (Straumnesfjell, Hornstrandír, Iceland)
South: 22'10N (Macau, China)
East: 139'48E (Tokyo, Japan)
Summary of my records (they have separately in this thread, let them be united somewhere):
North 56°09'N Aarhus, Denmark (7°54' from my hometown)
West 122°29'W San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge, United States of America, California (143°7' from my hometown)
South 33°59'N Los Angeles, Venice, United States of America, California (14°16' from my hometown)
East 24°30'E Bistrita, Romania (3°52' from my hometown)
Location: 48°15'N 20°38'E Kazincbarcika, Hungary (elevation: ~135m)
Elevation: Chopok Mountain, Slovakia (2 024m)
(I have my plane ticket to Istanbul, Turkey, 28°57'E - that would be an East record in September.)
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 08, 2013, 10:28:29 AM
(I have my plane ticket to Istanbul, Turkey, 28°57'E - that would be an East record in September.)
excellent choice of destination!
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 08, 2013, 10:15:52 AM
New records:
North: 66'27N (Kögur mountain, Hornstrandír, Iceland)
West: 23'07W (Straumnesfjell, Hornstrandír, Iceland)
How was Iceland? I long to go there someday.
The nature was unbelievable. We hiked for five days in a remote, uninhabited area. It was tough, and it was cold (even though it was sunny and summer), but so beautiful. Every little corner was beautiful. The pictures you can see on Facebook are good, but of course they don't grasp the feeling of being there. Two other special things: the air is cleaner and fresher than anywhere else, and the place we went to was flooded with mountain springs full of drinkable water.
We only saw a small corner of Iceland. I think I could go there 20 times and still have areas left to see. You should go mainly for nature, though. Culturally, it's certainly got appeal, but it's quickly surveyed. Reykjavik is a nice and active hipster city with a good atmosphere in summer - a bit like Århus, but smaller and with better views.
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 08, 2013, 12:18:41 PM
hipster city
That one was the moment when I decided not to visit Iceland.
You're 4 years behind. It's not cool to hate hipsters anymore. Move on.
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 09, 2013, 12:51:24 PM
You're 4 years behind. It's not cool to hate hipsters anymore. Move on.
Their lifestyle is damned far from mine. And try to listen the ByeAlex song more than twice - you will be immediately 50 years behind.
Oh, the Grand Prix song :D Well, that was a pretty boring song, but they sure dressed like hipsters.
By the way, Copenhagen hipsters listen to techno, dancehall, obscure electronica and minimalistic indie pop. They can't be totally like Budapest hipsters.
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 09, 2013, 02:24:12 PM
Oh, the Grand Prix song :D Well, that was a pretty boring song, but they sure dressed like hipsters.
As for me, hipster is just a word for new wave metrosexual snobs.
(I don't know who the fvck voted on that fag.)
Quote from: CTG on August 09, 2013, 02:48:12 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 09, 2013, 02:24:12 PM
Oh, the Grand Prix song :D Well, that was a pretty boring song, but they sure dressed like hipsters.
As for me, hipster is just a word for new wave metrosexual snobs.
(I don't know who the fvck voted on that fag.)
<3 new wave metrosexual snobs
I don't know why they create a lot of new words just to say "nerd" :D
Quote from: alanrotoi on August 09, 2013, 05:31:14 PM
I don't know why they create a lot of new words just to say "nerd" :D
A crate of beer to Mr. Osuna! ;D
Quote from: alanrotoi on August 09, 2013, 05:31:14 PM
I don't know why they create a lot of new words just to say "nerd" :D
Those are guys who are unable to make an achievement in science/sports/art/a hobby/their job/their family life/etc., so they desperately try to prove that they are "special". If one word doesn't sound so "special" anymore, they have to invent another one...
Btw, hipsters don't occur in the nature, so I'm sure that 99% of Iceland's area is free of them. 8)
Quote from: zaqrack on August 06, 2013, 08:59:46 PM
Days I lived alone in my entire life = 0.
I was living alone for ca. 1 year (this is the sum of a few shorter periods).
Places where I lived:
1982-1987: Hódmezövásárhely, flat of my parents, no. 1.
1987-1988: Szolnok, flat of my parents, no. 2.
1988-1993: Szolnok, flat of my parents, no. 3.
1993-2001: Szolnok, flat of my parents, no. 4.
+1997-2001: spending the weekdays of the schoolyear in Budapest (dormitory)
2001-2007: Szolnok, flat of my mother
+2001-2004: university hostel, no. 1. in ~80% of the year.
+2004-2007: university hostel, no. 2. in ~90% of the year; includes 5 months alone (my roommate moved to a lodging).
+2007 Jun-Aug: Stavanger, university hostel (2 months alone), than a shared rental flat
2007-2012: Budapest, with my girlfriend/wife; our son also joined us in 2008 :)
+2009 Jul-Aug: Stavanger, 2 months alone in a rental flat
2012-2013: Stavanger, alone for 5 months, than with my wife & my son
Quote from: Usrin on August 09, 2013, 10:57:49 PM
they desperately try to prove that they are "special"
But since you can see 8537848 clones on the street, they aren't special at all. ;D
(http://darknessvisible13.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/hipster-stereotype.jpg)
Quote from: Usrin on August 09, 2013, 10:57:49 PM
Quote from: alanrotoi on August 09, 2013, 05:31:14 PM
I don't know why they create a lot of new words just to say "nerd" :D
Those are guys who are unable to make an achievement in science/sports/art/a hobby/their job/their family life/etc., so they desperately try to prove that they are "special". If one word doesn't sound so "special" anymore, they have to invent another one...
Btw, hipsters don't occur in the nature, so I'm sure that 99% of Iceland's area is free of them. 8)
All young people are like that. They seek a personal identity and they seek to belong. It's a beautiful process that people go through in different ways.
By the way hipsters didn't invent the word "hipster", it appeared as a derogatory term used against them by people who want to marginalize them. Same as "nerd", "jock", "thug", "punk".
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 10, 2013, 12:24:34 AM
They seek a personal identity and they seek to belong. It's a beautiful process that people go through in different ways.
Different ways? COPYCATS!
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 10, 2013, 12:24:34 AM
Quote from: Usrin on August 09, 2013, 10:57:49 PM
Quote from: alanrotoi on August 09, 2013, 05:31:14 PM
I don't know why they create a lot of new words just to say "nerd" :D
Those are guys who are unable to make an achievement in science/sports/art/a hobby/their job/their family life/etc., so they desperately try to prove that they are "special". If one word doesn't sound so "special" anymore, they have to invent another one...
Btw, hipsters don't occur in the nature, so I'm sure that 99% of Iceland's area is free of them. 8)
All young people are like that. They seek a personal identity and they seek to belong. It's a beautiful process that people go through in different ways.
Yes, it would be somehow natural for VERY young people, under the age of 16-17. They have still not had enough time for achieving a real goal in the life. But those forming the "hipster culture" are adults. It's sad that there are so many whose life would be empty without such a silly self-identification...
Quote from: CTG on August 10, 2013, 12:32:46 AM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 10, 2013, 12:24:34 AM
They seek a personal identity and they seek to belong. It's a beautiful process that people go through in different ways.
Different ways? COPYCATS!
Not everyone is a hipster.
Quote from: Usrin on August 10, 2013, 01:22:25 AM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 10, 2013, 12:24:34 AM
Quote from: Usrin on August 09, 2013, 10:57:49 PM
Quote from: alanrotoi on August 09, 2013, 05:31:14 PM
I don't know why they create a lot of new words just to say "nerd" :D
Those are guys who are unable to make an achievement in science/sports/art/a hobby/their job/their family life/etc., so they desperately try to prove that they are "special". If one word doesn't sound so "special" anymore, they have to invent another one...
Btw, hipsters don't occur in the nature, so I'm sure that 99% of Iceland's area is free of them. 8)
All young people are like that. They seek a personal identity and they seek to belong. It's a beautiful process that people go through in different ways.
Yes, it would be somehow natural for VERY young people, under the age of 16-17. They have still not had enough time for achieving a real goal in the life. But those forming the "hipster culture" are adults. It's sad that there are so many whose life would be empty without such a silly self-identification...
That's just a blasé comment spoken about a culture you have no insight into. You wouldn't say that about something you had seen from the inside. The hipster culture is just as good as any other culture. Like most cultures, it offers more than self-identifcation. It offers activities, creativity, community etc.
What is 'a real goal in life' to you? And do you feel the same way about sports fans, nerds, hippies, goths, picsácipö girls and everyone else who isn't culturally neutral?
Quote from: CTG on August 09, 2013, 12:53:49 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 09, 2013, 12:51:24 PM
You're 4 years behind. It's not cool to hate hipsters anymore. Move on.
Their lifestyle is damned far from mine. And try to listen the ByeAlex song more than twice - you will be immediately 50 years behind.
actually I listened to one yesterday on the radio and whereas it's not exactly my style, I think it is quite good, a decent pop song with some bitpop, (that always helps :)).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFhZQreN9tI
anyway, nothing beats "accidental Chinese hipsters" as us, Shanghai expats call them! This old man great example I found in the Century Park on a nice spring morning.
Gloves? Is cold there? :O
pic was taken on March 15. It's 7-15 degrees that time of the year, and as far I can recall, this day was not different, a maybe on the warm side.
for the full picture: we were without coats :) Shanghainese tend to overdress when it gets "cold".
That is one hip old man.
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 10, 2013, 07:49:31 AM
That's just a blasé comment spoken about a culture you have no insight into. You wouldn't say that about something you had seen from the inside. The hipster culture is just as good as any other culture. Like most cultures, it offers more than self-identifcation. It offers activities, creativity, community etc.
What is 'a real goal in life' to you? And do you feel the same way about sports fans, nerds, hippies, goths, picsácipö girls and everyone else who isn't culturally neutral?
For me, a real goal in the life is something what makes the life of other people better, and/or contributes to the common heritage of mankind (scientific knowledge, works of art, etc.). Being a hipster or following any other, currently fashionable lifestyle is not like this. I'm sure that after 100 years (or even less) nobody will know that hipsters ever lived on Earth.
Does hipters watch "The big bang theory" show to learn how to be cool?
Quote from: Usrin on June 29, 2010, 12:11:03 PM
West: 57° 08' 35" N, 2° 06' 37" W - Aberdeen, GBR
This record will be smashed tomorrow: I'm flying to Manchester, located at 2°
16' 30" W. :) I hope I'll find some REAL (not crappy British) beers to celebrate that!
Quote from: Usrin on August 29, 2013, 03:50:03 PM
Quote from: Usrin on June 29, 2010, 12:11:03 PM
West: 57° 08' 35" N, 2° 06' 37" W - Aberdeen, GBR
This record will be smashed tomorrow: I'm flying to Manchester, located at 2° 16' 30" W. :) I hope I'll find some REAL (not crappy British) beers to celebrate that!
Then sing there 'Fvck you Man. United' or something like that! ;D
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 29, 2013, 03:52:15 PM
Then sing there 'Fvck you Man. United' or something like that! ;D
Then they would think I'm a Man City fan - although I hate them way more than Man Utd! I would rather BÖFF a lot, it's more safe. ;)
Btw, the new West record won't be long-lived: my tickets are already booked to Lisbon (9° 8' W) for 22 Sep.
Quote from: Usrin on August 29, 2013, 04:58:24 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 29, 2013, 03:52:15 PM
Then sing there 'Fvck you Man. United' or something like that! ;D
Then they would think I'm a Man City fan - although I hate them way more than Man Utd! I would rather BÖFF a lot, it's more safe. ;)
Btw, the new West record won't be long-lived: my tickets are already booked to Lisbon (9° 8' W) for 22 Sep.
Bourgeois, again! ;D
Quote from: CTG on August 30, 2013, 12:56:14 PM
Bourgeois, again! ;D
Both are business trips (although less than 14 days), payed by the company. :P
I'm in Istanbul now, so the mentioned East record is officially broken. 28°57' East, that is 8°19' from my home.
So I should turn attention to my North record now (7°54'), which is the weakest at the moment.
I like that!
New improvement on my East record: 29° 4' 0" E - that is Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge on Bosphorus (Istanbul, Turkey). 8° 26' from my home.
south record to be broken soon... expecting a trip to India (Bangalore) in the coming months.
pipsqueaks... :D
http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/14/round-the-world-from-a-z-briton-becomes-youngest-to-visit-all-196-nations-4146091/
North and East record will be broken when I'll arrive to Paris next month.
Instant WSM! :D
Quote from: CTG on October 16, 2013, 04:37:14 PM
pipsqueaks... :D
http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/14/round-the-world-from-a-z-briton-becomes-youngest-to-visit-all-196-nations-4146091/
125000GBP from work in bars and hotels? :o
In Hungary that would need working 30 years full-time as a bartender not spending on _anything else_. I am not sure about UK wages, but probably still several years needed.
Also, from this much money this is an easy feat. You can travel the world for a year for about 20000GBP.
I'm happy with my extremely poor list: Hungary, Austria, Serbia, Slovakia, Poland, Belgium. Germany will join soon (hopefully).
Transit countries (flying over): Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg.
I'm also happy with my list:
Visited:
- Hungary 1983
- Great Britain 1994
- Belgium 1994
- Slovakia 1995
- Romania 2000
- Denmark 2005
- Germany 2005
- Italy 2006
- USA 2011
- Croatia 2011
- Poland 2011
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 2013
- Montenegro 2013
- Albania 2013
- Turkey 2013
- Austria 2013
Semi-transit (with car, stopped several times to look around in the mountains):
- Slovenia 2006
Transit (with bus, or flight exchange airport country):
- Holland 1994
- France 2011
Air transit (flying over only, ? - ? ? ? ? ? mean I may/might/miiiight have passed):
- Czech Republic ( ? ) 2005
- Switzerland ( ? ? ? ) 2011
- Liechtenstein ( ? ? ? ? ? ) 2011
- Luxemburg ( ? ? ? ) 2011
- Iceland 2011
- Canada 2011
- Ireland ( ? ) 2011
- Bulgaria 2013
My list:
Quote from: alanrotoi on October 17, 2013, 08:11:11 PM
My list:
Real countries that I've actually been to:
Denmark
Sweden (x10+)
Turkey (x1)
France (x6)
China (x5)
Netherlands (x2)
Italy (x5)
England (x10+)
Belgium (x2)
Germany (x10+)
Spain (x1)
Czech Republic (x1)
Norway (x2)
Hungary (x3)
Slovakia (x1)
Austria (x1)
Japan (x1)
Iceland (x1)
Andorra (x1)
Fake countries I've actually been to:
Hong Kong (x1)
the Vatican (x1)
Scotland (x1)
Macau (x1)
Real countries that I've been in, but never stepped on the ground outside the airport:
Luxembourg (x1)
Russia (x2 - well, on the way out and the way back from Hong Kong)
Finland (x2 - out and back from Beijing)
fake countries 8)
My list:
Europe:
Hungary (lots)
Slovakia (10+)
Austria (10+)
Romania (5)
Germany (5)
France (4)
Denmark (3)
United Kingdom (3)
Italy (3)
Greece (3)
Serbia (2)
Czech Republic (2)
Netherlands (2)
Croatia (2)
Slovenia (1)
Poland (1)
Belgium (1)
Estonia (1)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (1)
not Europe:
China (10+)
Georgia (1)
Israel (1)
Tunisia (1)
Countries which don't exist anymore but I have been there:
Czechoslovakia (1)
Yugoslavia (1)
Fake countries:
Hong Kong (5)
Macao (1)
Vatican (1)
San Marino (1)
Monaco (1)
Distances being shorter in Europe clearly helps a lot comparing to SA distances.
My list:
Argentina
Uruguay
Brazil
Paraguay
Bolivia
of course! There are worst starting places though: Australia comes to my mind, but the middle of China is not easy leave either.
Now I show the list by signing how many times I visited the country (NOT counting transit visits)
Visited:
- Hungary (lots)
- Slovakia (x25+)
- Croatia (x4)
- Romania (x3)
- Poland (x3)
- USA (x2)
- Great Britain (x1)
- Belgium (x1)
- Denmark (x1)
- Germany (x1)
- Italy (x1)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (x1)
- Montenegro (x1)
- Albania (x1)
- Turkey (x1)
- Austria (x1)
Semi-transit (with car, stopped several times to look around in the mountains):
- Slovenia (x0.5)
Transit (with bus, or flight exchange airport country):
- Holland (x0)
- France (x0)
I don't mention flight transit countries here. I visited one fake country by flight transit, but I haven't mentioned it: Greenland.
I've been planning to make such a list for >10 years - it seems I can't postpone it anymore. :)
Countries I've visited:
Hungary
Norway
Slovakia (ca. 15)
Austria (7)
Sweden (4)
Romania (3)
France (3)
Great Britain (England 2 + Scotland 1)
Greece (2)
Slovenia (2)
Germany (2)
Poland (2)
Denmark (2)
Croatia (1)
Italy (1)
Belgium (1)
Netherlands (1)
Portugal (1)
Czech Republic (1)
Transfers (road/railway/air) with no sightseeing are not included in the numbers. (They would add a lot especially to Austria, Germany & the Netherlands.) There's no country where I went ONLY due to a transfer.
Countries which I've only flied above:
Serbia
Macedonia
Bulgaria
Spain
Luxemburg
Quote from: Chulk on October 18, 2013, 05:53:45 AM
of course! There are worst starting places though: Australia comes to my mind, but the middle of China is not easy leave either.
I'm pretty sure I didn't say this... Zak maybe? ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: zaqrack on October 18, 2013, 05:06:39 AM
fake countries 8)
My list:
Europe:
Hungary (lots)
Slovakia (10+)
Austria (10+)
Romania (5)
Germany (5)
France (4)
Denmark (3)
United Kingdom (3)
Italy (3)
Greece (3)
Serbia (2)
Czech Republic (2)
Netherlands (2)
Croatia (2)
Slovenia (1)
Poland (1)
Belgium (1)
Estonia (1)
Sweden (1)
Switzerland (1)
not Europe:
China (10+)
Georgia (1)
Israel (1)
Tunisia (1)
Countries which don't exist anymore but I have been there:
Czechoslovakia (1)
Yugoslavia (1)
Fake countries:
Hong Kong (5)
Macao (1)
Vatican (1)
San Marino (1)
Monaco (1)
San Marino is a real country...
Quote from: Chulk on October 24, 2013, 06:50:16 AM
Quote from: Chulk on October 18, 2013, 05:53:45 AM
of course! There are worst starting places though: Australia comes to my mind, but the middle of China is not easy leave either.
I'm pretty sure I didn't say this... Zak maybe? ;D ;D ;D
I am pretty sure I said this. Somebody stole my post! Chulk??? 8)
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on October 24, 2013, 08:31:08 AM
San Marino is a real country...
seemed pretty fake to me. Guns and tourist crap everywhere.
Well, okay. But it's recognized as a sovereign state by all other countries. What were you doing there?
As I mentioned earlier, my journey to Portugal resulted in new West and South records.
West: Cabo Espichel, 38°24'50" N, 9°13'23" W
South: Faro, 37°00'55" N, 7°56'02" W
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on October 24, 2013, 01:36:18 PM
Well, okay. But it's recognized as a sovereign state by all other countries. What were you doing there?
sightseeing and buying a knife :)
(I was only 15 but it seemed nobody goes there on a purpose. Whoever travels nearby pays a visit to put one more country on the list)
My new coordinates:
South: Punta Tombo, Argentina.
Latitud: 44.05S Longitud: 65.1833 O
North and East: Paris, France.
48°52?0?N 2°19?59?E /
West: Bariloche, Argentina.
41°09?S 71°18?O
Something like this:
(http://image.gxzone.com/images/9/b/9b40b9da44b.jpg)
Next Thursday we're travelling to Harstad (68°48' N, 16°32' E) with my boss for a client presentation. So it seems that my North record will be broken.
My list is different now:
Countries I visited
- Spain
- France
- Uruguay
Countries I overfly
- Brazil
- Morocco
- Mauritania
not independent territories I overfly
- Western Sahara
Countries I maybe overfly
- Cabo Verde
- Senegal
- Gambia
Territories I saw form the window (:D)
- Gibraltar
Quote from: alanrotoi on February 06, 2014, 06:05:48 PM
Territories I saw form the window (:D)
- Gibraltar
I forgot that I saw Monaco (an independent country!) from the window of a bus. ;)
Quote from: Usrin on February 06, 2014, 04:12:19 PM
Next Thursday we're travelling to Harstad (68°48' N, 16°32' E) with my boss for a client presentation. So it seems that my North record will be broken.
Accomplished - time to show my updated records!
North:
68° 48' 12" N, 16° 32' 55" E - Harstad, NOR
South:
37° 00' 57" N, 7° 56' 03" W - Faro, POR
West: 38° 25' 17" N,
9° 13' 02" W - Cabo Espichel, POR
East: 46° 33' 19" N,
26° 06' 46" E - Palanca, ROM
My south record will soon change: Bangalore, India in March.
Wow tell us how it looks like!
Forum records:
North: Knivskjellodden, Norway, 71N (dreadnaut)
East: Tokyo, Japan, 139E (Bonzai Joe)
South: Perito Moreno Glacier, 50S (Chulk)
West: San Francisco, USA, 122W (Akoss Poo)
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on February 17, 2014, 07:03:15 PM
Forum records:
North: Harstad, Norway, 68N (Usrin)
East: Tokyo, Japan, 139E (Bonzai Joe)
South: Esquel, Argentina, 42S (Chulk)
West: San Francisco, USA, 122W (Akoss Poo)
North: maybe dstien would disagree
East: Diesel Joe, Australia?
I was in Punta Tombo, it's in the same province than Esquel but southern and coastal.
BTW it's 44.05S.
https://maps.google.com.ar/maps?q=Punta+Tombo,+Florentino+Ameghino,+Chubut&hl=es-419&ll=-44.040157,-65.223169&spn=0.035231,0.055189&sll=-44.885553,-65.607605&sspn=0.138896,0.220757&oq=punta+tombo&t=m&z=14
17 years ago in Punta Tombo...
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1/62268_436741378739_527266_n.jpg)
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on February 17, 2014, 07:03:15 PM
Forum records:
North: Harstad, Norway, 68N (Usrin)
I have 71°N (http://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?topic=2307.msg56546#msg56546) :)
:o where?
Quote from: CTG on February 17, 2014, 07:53:22 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on February 17, 2014, 07:03:15 PM
Forum records:
North: Harstad, Norway, 68N (Usrin)
East: Tokyo, Japan, 139E (Bonzai Joe)
South: Esquel, Argentina, 42S (Chulk)
West: San Francisco, USA, 122W (Akoss Poo)
North: maybe dstien would disagree
East: Diesel Joe, Australia?
I think it would be a valid record only after it is posted here.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on February 17, 2014, 10:06:10 PM
Quote from: CTG on February 17, 2014, 07:53:22 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on February 17, 2014, 07:03:15 PM
Forum records:
North: Harstad, Norway, 68N (Usrin)
East: Tokyo, Japan, 139E (Bonzai Joe)
South: Esquel, Argentina, 42S (Chulk)
West: San Francisco, USA, 122W (Akoss Poo)
North: maybe dstien would disagree
East: Diesel Joe, Australia?
I think it would be a valid record only after it is posted here.
Do we have an info about where Diesel Joe lived in Australia?
Updated. I agree with Akoss - what counts is what's posted here. Who knows if vamologocomisso once lived in Alaska for three days? It's almost 100% sure that some forum members have been further than these records.
I actually was at Perito Moreno Glacier (50°29?S 73°03?O) so that's probably the southernmost point we forum members have been. Here's a pic to confirm
I wonder about the coordinates of your hometown - it would be more interesting to check our relative records (degrees counted from hometown coordinates).
Of course it is not a big deal to own the South record if you are born on the Southern Hemisphere or to own the North if you are born in Scandinavia... But how far did you manage to go away from the place where you were born or where you are living?
Quote from: Chulk on February 17, 2014, 11:17:16 PM
I actually was at Perito Moreno Glacier (50°29?S 73°03?O) so that's probably the southernmost point we forum members have been. Here's a pic to confirm
Oh yes? So I was in... in... Lanus! :P
How could we know if that's a glacier and not San Lorenzo's Stadium?
Quote from: alanrotoi on February 18, 2014, 12:34:25 AM
How could we know if that's a glacier and not San Lorenzo's Stadium?
Because it's fixed on the same neighbourhood since the beginning!
Quote from: Chulk on February 18, 2014, 06:21:02 AM
Quote from: alanrotoi on February 18, 2014, 12:34:25 AM
How could we know if that's a glacier and not San Lorenzo's Stadium?
Because it's fixed on the same neighbourhood since the beginning!
Sorry, but I couldn't leave it out... ;D
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6410270464/h8ED485D5/)
Quote from: Akoss Poo on February 17, 2014, 11:56:19 PM
I wonder about the coordinates of your hometown - it would be more interesting to check our relative records (degrees counted from hometown coordinates).
Actually, I was wondering where I was furthest from home. (I'm considering Szolnok as my hometown; that's where I spent the most time in my life, and the No.1 place where I feel myself at home.) Based on Google Earth, my furthest position from Szolnok was
2632 km away, on the west coast of Portugal (close to the SW tip).
Szolnok is at 47°10' N, 20°11' E, so my relative records in degrees are:
North:
21° 38' (68° 48' N, Harstad, NOR)
South:
10° 09' (37° 01' N, Faro, POR)
West:
29° 24' (9° 13' W, Cabo Espichel, POR)
East:
5° 56' (26° 07' E, Palanca, ROM)
It would be really good to improve the crappy East record. The second worst is South, but the most reachable places in this direction (Africa & Middle East) are not too interesting for me. If once I go south, I'd rather travel to S America, where I can see the southern skies as well as Stunts pipsqueaks / ghosts.
;)
If Aarhus is my hometown, that would mean something like:
North: 10 (well, it's hard to go that much further North when your starting point is so northern...)
East: 129
South: 34
West: 32
But of course, my South extreme (Macau) was dramatically further away than my West extreme (Iceland), even though they look close above.
Location: 48°15'N 20°38'E Kazincbarcika, Hungary
North 7°54' (56°09'N, Aarhus, Denmark)
South 14°16' (33°59'N Los Angeles, Venice, United States of America, California)
West 143°7' (122°29'W San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge, United States of America, California)
East 8° 26' (29°4'E, Fatih Istanbul, Sultan Mehmet Bridge on Bosphorus, Turkey)
Elevation: 135m for Kazincbarcika, 2024m for Chopok, relative: 1889m).*
*On Saturday it might have broken, since there is a small mound (where the Pät' Spišských plies, Szepesi Öt-tó, Five Lakes of Szepes can be seen) behind Téryho Chata (2015m) which I climbed, and its relative elevation could be more than 9 meters.
Location: 47° 31' N, 19° 9' E, Budapest, Hungary
North: 3° 42' (51° 13' N, Brugge, Belgium)
South: 2° 17' (45° 14' N, Novi Sad, Serbia)
East: 2° 59' (22° 8' E, Nyírbátor, Hungary)
West: 15° 56' (3° 13' E, Brugge, Belgium)
At least my task is far the easiest to break personal records... ;D
Nice math test :D
North: 82º
East: 60º
South: 10º
West: 7º
BTW I did a magic carpet to reach Europe :D
(http://image.gxzone.com/images/9/7/972e87ad13e.jpg)
Great picture!
This is my 1000th workday at the company.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on October 18, 2013, 09:25:43 AM
Now I show the list by signing how many times I visited the country (NOT counting transit visits)
Visited:
- Hungary (lots)
- Slovakia (x25+)
- Croatia (x4)
- Romania (x3)
- Poland (x3)
- USA (x2)
- Great Britain (x1)
- Belgium (x1)
- Denmark (x1)
- Germany (x1)
- Italy (x1)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (x1)
- Montenegro (x1)
- Albania (x1)
- Turkey (x1)
- Austria (x1)
Semi-transit (with car, stopped several times to look around in the mountains):
- Slovenia (x0.5)
Transit (with bus, or flight exchange airport country):
- Holland (x0)
- France (x0)
I don't mention flight transit countries here. I visited one fake country by flight transit, but I haven't mentioned it: Greenland.
New visited country will be added next Saturday, Bulgaria. I'll spend there 8 days.
New transit country will also be added next Friday, Serbia. We'll actually going to cross the country from the Northwest to the Southeast via Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) in our - Sofia - Plodviv - Stara Zagora - Burgas - way to Sozopol.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 29, 2014, 06:37:27 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on October 18, 2013, 09:25:43 AM
Now I show the list by signing how many times I visited the country (NOT counting transit visits)
Visited:
- Hungary (lots)
- Slovakia (x25+)
- Croatia (x4)
- Romania (x3)
- Poland (x3)
- USA (x2)
- Great Britain (x1)
- Belgium (x1)
- Denmark (x1)
- Germany (x1)
- Italy (x1)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (x1)
- Montenegro (x1)
- Albania (x1)
- Turkey (x1)
- Austria (x1)
Semi-transit (with car, stopped several times to look around in the mountains):
- Slovenia (x0.5)
Transit (with bus, or flight exchange airport country):
- Holland (x0)
- France (x0)
I don't mention flight transit countries here. I visited one fake country by flight transit, but I haven't mentioned it: Greenland.
New visited country will be added next Saturday, Bulgaria. I'll spend there 8 days.
New transit country will also be added next Friday, Serbia. We'll actually going to cross the country from the Northwest to the Southeast via Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) in our - Sofia - Plodviv - Stara Zagora - Burgas - way to Sozopol.
=Poo won't have the chance to win Pristina! Come on, Duplode! ;D
New countries:
Bulgaria (seven nights in Sozopol, also visiting Nessebar and Burgas, travelling through the main railway via Sofia)
Transit:
Serbia (- Horgos - Újvidék/Novi Sad - Nándorfehérvár/Belgrád - Nis/Nissza - Pirot/Sarköi - Dimitrovgrad (the Serbian one) -)
Another interesting record:
70 stotinka for a 170 g freshly baked, delicious pizza slice in Burgas + 0.2 liter of a soft drink (that was not very good)... 1 leva = 1/1.95 Euro = 100 stotinka... 3 pizza slices=a very good dinner for only a lil more than 1 Euro, that is awesome... and they have to hire the building and still have income on it... now think about Western European prices...
Quote from: Akoss Poo on June 18, 2014, 08:15:12 PM
now think about Western European prices...
now think about salmonella and botulism... ;D
and consider Western-European wages...
then compare Hungarian wages to Bulgarian wages... and Hungarian prices to Bulgarian prices.
something's not right, right?
New Record!
Highest elevation reached on foot: the Bystrá (Hungarian: Sebes, Polish: Bystra) peak (the highest point of the Western Tatras), 2,248 meters above sea level.
We started from 930 meters above sea level (Podbanské/Podbanszkó, Slovakia), that means 1,318 meters of absolute elevation gain, which is also a record. We followed the path: Pysné sedlo (Köves-nyereg in Hungarian, Pysznianska Przelecz in Polish) - Blyst (Bliszt in Hungarian, Blyszcz in Polish) - Bystrá (Sebes).
What a shame, I lost my camera during the hiking...
Quote from: Akoss Poo on September 14, 2014, 11:32:24 AM
New Record!
Highest elevation reached on foot: the Bystrá peak (the highest point of the Western Tatras), 2,248 meters above sea level.
We started from 930 meters above sea level (Podbanské, Slovakia), that means 1,318 meters of absolute elevation gain, which is also a record. We followed the path: Pysné sedlo - Blyst - Bystrá.
What a shame, I lost my camera during the hiking...
No "potty"? :D
Nice climb, Akoss.
Thanks. Next goal is the mighty Rysy (Tengerszem-csúcs, Meeraugspitze, 2,499 m above sea level) in the High Tatras, on the Slovakian-Polish border from Strbské Pleso (Csorbató, Tschirmer See ~1,300 m above sea level). Though the elevation gain would be less, this is a more difficult climb, at least technically.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on September 15, 2014, 09:32:55 AM
Thanks. Next goal is the mighty Rysy (Tengerszem-csúcs, Meeraugspitze, 2,499 m above sea level) in the High Tatras, on the Slovakian-Polish border from Strbské Pleso (Csorbató, Tschirmer See ~1,300 m above sea level). Though the elevation gain would be less, this is a more difficult climb, at least technically.
Why don't you simply go by car? I guess many 2500+ mountains are available on road. ;D
(I hate to leave the paved road - both in Stunts and real life)
My next hike in the Slovakian(/Southern Polish) mountains will be the 25th of mine there.
Let's see some stats about the previous 24.
First: 1999-05-22 (Holló-szikla/Havrania skala, 1153m, Slovak Paradise)
Last: 2014-10-11 (Felsö-Kopa-hágó/Vysné Kopské sedlo, 1933m, Belianské Tatras)
Highest: 2014-09-13 (Sebes/Bystrá, 2248m, Western Tatras)
Lowest: 2011-06-18 (Dunajec River Gorge, ~450m, Pieniny Mountains)
Highest elevation gain: 2014-09-13 (Sebes/Bystrá, 1318m, Western Tatras)
Lowest elevation gaim: 2011-06-18 (Dunajec River Gorge, below 50m, Pieniny Mountains)
Most difficult: 2012-10-13 (Giewont, 1894m, Polish Tatras)
Easiest: 2011-06-18 (Dunajec River Gorge, ~450m, Pieniny Mountains)
Slovakia: 22
Poland: 4
Mountain Ridges:
High Tatras 9
Slovak Paradise 6
Polish Tatras 2
Western Tatras 1
Pol'ana 1
Lower Tatras 1
Slovakian Ore Mountains 1
Pieniny Mountains 1
Vihorlát Mountains 1
Belianské Tatras 1
Travelled with me:
Lupuszka 11 times
Ildi 8 times
Hatalmas, Zsíros Seggü Erika 6 times
Vikkancs 5 times
My mother 4 times
My father 3 times
Vörösné Ildikó 3 times
Mariann twice
Katica once
Ján Slotás Peti once
Gunnar once
Batman once
Organization:
Bagyinszki&Co. 20 times
Kiss Tamás once
Hegedüs Zsuzsa once
Gunnar (by car) once
Ján Slotás Peti (by car) once
Most active year: 2011 (6 trips)
Least active year: 1983-1998, 2000-01, 2003, 2005-07, 2009 (0 trips)
(To CTG, there are not so many 2500+ mountains available by car... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_paved_roads_in_Europe )
Hatalmas, Zsíros Seggü Erika ;D
(=Enormous Fat Ass Erika)
Quote from: Akoss Poo on October 13, 2014, 02:10:32 PM
(To CTG, there are not so many 2500+ mountains available by car... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_paved_roads_in_Europe )
Who said that you have to limit yourself to European mountains? :D
Quote from: Akoss Poo on October 13, 2014, 02:10:32 PM
(To CTG, there are not so many 2500+ mountains available by car... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_paved_roads_in_Europe )
Cime de la Bonette (3th in that list) is recommended for Looping Warriors. :)
Btw, I'm travelling to Italy next week for the annual meeting of our company. Based on the plans, my 18-year-old altitude record (2037 m) will be broken, as we're going up to ~2900 m on Mt Etna.
So much for my 2248m record... I only had a better record than Usrin for 1.5 months...
Quote from: Akoss Poo on October 14, 2014, 11:52:42 AM
So much for my 2248m record... I only had a better record than Usrin for 1.5 months...
Your West, East and South records will be still better than mines, and that probably won't change in the near future.
My chances of traveling further than
your current records in the next 5 years: west - 0.5%, east - 10%, south - 40%.
The chances of breaking
my personal records in the next 5 years: east - 25%, south - 45%, west - 55%, north - 85%, altitude - 99% (now) or 25% (after accomplishing the Etna hike).
Mine is Cerro Catedral 1500-2000m (not the top of the mountain). That's where they took my "Alan Rotoi" picture :D
(http://image.gxzone.com/images/7/c/7c3d799caa9.jpg)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Catedral
West record to be broken soon! I will travel to the US (New Hampshire) next week.
I have been working here for five years... the company never bothered to invite me. Now that I have resigned I am expected to travel immediately to facilitate knowledge transfer. Funny...
Quote from: zaqrack on October 22, 2014, 04:25:14 AM
Funny...
Rather disappointing. Most of the companies have a strange (disgusting) policy when you want to leave / go to another department.
Quote from: zaqrack on October 22, 2014, 04:25:14 AM
West record to be broken soon! I will travel to the US (New Hampshire) next week.
I have been working here for five years... the company never bothered to invite me. Now that I have resigned I am expected to travel immediately to facilitate knowledge transfer. Funny...
US and China. Zak probably owns the East/West distance record
Quote from: Chulk on October 22, 2014, 09:54:42 PM
Quote from: zaqrack on October 22, 2014, 04:25:14 AM
West record to be broken soon! I will travel to the US (New Hampshire) next week.
I have been working here for five years... the company never bothered to invite me. Now that I have resigned I am expected to travel immediately to facilitate knowledge transfer. Funny...
US and China. Zak probably owns the East/West distance record
Poo will say it's a cheat!!! ;D
Quote from: Chulk on October 22, 2014, 09:54:42 PM
Quote from: zaqrack on October 22, 2014, 04:25:14 AM
West record to be broken soon! I will travel to the US (New Hampshire) next week.
I have been working here for five years... the company never bothered to invite me. Now that I have resigned I am expected to travel immediately to facilitate knowledge transfer. Funny...
US and China. Zak probably owns the East/West distance record
My first date with the international dateline coming up this weekend... Flying 11900km in 5 minutes. Sounds fun - except for the 13+ hours to be spent on the plane :)
Quote from: CTG on October 22, 2014, 10:02:39 PM
Poo will say it's a cheat!!! ;D
Like I care what a confessed cheater considers cheating
The international dateline! What a dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaO3AXaiTIc
May you cross it well.
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on October 23, 2014, 01:13:27 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaO3AXaiTIc
Shitty music, sorry. :D
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on October 23, 2014, 01:13:27 PM
The international dateline! What a dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaO3AXaiTIc
May you cross it well.
I have already copied this song to my phone - hope I can listen to it at the right moment :)
It's just an arbitrary border, nothing serious will happen. :D
It's not completely arbitrary. It's the opposite of the Greenwich/Paris meridian, which was established there because it was center of European/Western culture.
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on October 24, 2014, 11:34:09 AM
center of European/Western culture
Which is also quite an arbitrary one. Just like monetary system, religions or any (human created) law.
Then we don't agree on the definition of arbitrary. What's not arbitrary to you? Gravity? And why not?
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on October 24, 2014, 04:31:32 PM
Then we don't agree on the definition of arbitrary. What's not arbitrary to you? Gravity? And why not?
Everything defined by a human, but not based on a scientific phenomenon.
Quote from: CTG on October 22, 2014, 10:02:39 PM
Quote from: Chulk on October 22, 2014, 09:54:42 PM
Quote from: zaqrack on October 22, 2014, 04:25:14 AM
West record to be broken soon! I will travel to the US (New Hampshire) next week.
I have been working here for five years... the company never bothered to invite me. Now that I have resigned I am expected to travel immediately to facilitate knowledge transfer. Funny...
US and China. Zak probably owns the East/West distance record
Poo will say it's a cheat!!! ;D
It's not a cheat, but we haven't counted the destinations which were only reached by flying on plane.
If we change this, I've been to Greenland (moreover, the northernmost point of the island, which would be my new North record by far), Canada (including the northern territories of it), the Faroe Islands, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland and Iceland, spent some time among Eskimo people. And I've also been to the Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Moreover, my West record is also a bit better, because the plane to San Francisco in 2011 reached westerly places than the International Airport and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Here I am, beating my North record in 2013:
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg60/JackyVSO/P8012209.jpg)
Well, good idea...
My record beating pictures are:
Aaaaaaaaaaaand...
Quote from: CTG on October 28, 2014, 12:36:17 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on October 28, 2014, 11:48:05 AM
Aaaaaaaaaaaand...
somebody is getting fuckin' old
Climb a 2000+ peak in fog+drizzle+5 degrees cold and try to look smart and young...
Quote from: Akoss Poo on October 28, 2014, 12:48:33 PM
Quote from: CTG on October 28, 2014, 12:36:17 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on October 28, 2014, 11:48:05 AM
Aaaaaaaaaaaand...
somebody is getting fuckin' old
Climb a 2000+ peak in fog+drizzle+5 degrees cold and try to look smart and young...
No, thanks! I can look dumb and old even at 110 m. ;D
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand...
As I've mentioned, I was on Mount Etna last week. The GPS showed that the highest points we reached was at 2940 m (+/- 20 m). The pic was taken a bit lower, at ~2910 m. The main peak in the background is ~3345 m high, but it was forbidden to go there due to the volcanic activity.
We also took an excursion in the southern part of Sicily, where I got very close to my South record, maybe even broke it... I'm checking in Google Earth soon.
Damn, I was 0°02' north from my South record (37°03' vs. 37°01')!
Quote from: Usrin on October 29, 2014, 06:23:28 PM
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand...
As I've mentioned, I was on Mount Etna last week. The GPS showed that the highest points we reached was at 2940 m (+/- 20 m). The pic was taken a bit lower, at ~2910 m. The main peak in the background is ~3345 m high, but it was forbidden to go there due to the volcanic activity.
We also took an excursion in the southern part of Sicily, where I got very close to my South record, maybe even broke it... I'm checking in Google Earth soon.
Wow, Etna and Sicily! I long to go there. And nice pic! Btw. do you still have the same glasses as 10 years ago or do you remake them from time to time? :)
I just realized I have also broken my east record on the trip to Shengsi island last weekend by 1°80. :)
Breaking both my east and west record during the same weekend. what a feat! :)
My updated coordinates:
North: Narva-Joesuu, Estonia: 59°27 N 28°2 E
South: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2°45 N 101°42 E
East: Shengsi Island, China: 30°42 N 122°28 E
West: Chicago, USA: 41°58 N 87°54 W
home is at 47°32 N 19°2 E, so relative records:
North: 12
South: 45
East: 103
West: 106
I'll try not to forget to take a picture in Chicago on the way home, so I can post pics... :)
Now time to eye the southern hempishere and of course north! :)
Buenos Aires is in southern hemisphere ::) ::)
Quote from: zaqrack on October 30, 2014, 02:31:59 AM
Breaking both my east and west record during the same weekend. what a feat! :)
That is indeed impressive!
Now, who will be the first pipsqueak to circumnavigate the globe? :D
My geographic extreme numbers:
North:
Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
03° 43' 06" S 38° 32' 34" W
South:
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
30° 01' 58" S 51° 13' 48" W
East:
Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
03° 43' 06" S 38° 32' 34" W
West:
Pato Branco, Paraná, Brazil
26° 13' 44" S 52° 40' 15" W
My hometown is:
25° 25' 47" S 49° 16' 19" W
A number about Aburaf: 19 World Cups!!!
Quote from: Topic title
Numbers about yourself
Quote from: alanrotoi on November 22, 2014, 05:25:39 PM
A number about Aburaf
GOTCHA!!! ;D
Son of a... ok it was funny :D
NEW NORTHERN RECORD!!!
60° 04' 15.7" - Odda, Norway
NEW DEPTH RECORD!!!
-223m under sea level, in a tunnel near Stavanger, Norway - I think that was it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byfjord_Tunnel
New country visited: Norway
New country to spend a night there: Norway, Poland
New country to fly over it: Sweden (?, I asked CTG to check it - confirmed, I was above Sweden!)
NEW HEIGHT RECORD!!!
Kapor-csúcs (Dillenspitze, Koprovsky Stit, = Dill Peak) in the Tatra Mountains - elevation: 2367 metres a.s.l.
2015.08.29.
impressive! any symptoms due to less oxygen there?
When I was biking in Switzerland, we only went up to 2200, but we already felt some effects.
Quote from: zaqrack on September 02, 2015, 11:49:25 AM
impressive! any symptoms due to less oxygen there?
When I was biking in Switzerland, we only went up to 2200, but we already felt some effects.
I must take breath more often and more deeply - and it is different than running out of oxygen because of tiredness.
And sometimes I also experience that my motion becomes somewhat slower.
My height record, If I'm not wrong is only 1.430 meters at the Anhangava Peak, 1994. (Anhangava is a word what only portuguese speakers, gallego speakers and maybe paraguayans can speak correctly).
Unbelievable, but second height record within a week!
This afternoon I went to the Bükk Mountains to ride my bike.
Route: Kazincbarcika (135 m a.s.l.) - Sajószentpéter - Parasznya - Varbó - Fónagyság - Mahóca - Csókás - Szentlélek (740 m a.s.l.) and back, 62 km total. Not much before Szentlélek, there is Köpüs-nyereg (Köpüs Saddle), according to Google Earth, it is 754 m a.s.l., which is my new height record with BIKE. 619 m elevation gain, that's also a very good number (at least at the age of 31, at the weight of 97 kg, with a not-too-good mountain bike). More than 500 m out of this 619 m came in the last 10 km on my route to Szentlélek.
Quote from: Akoss Poo on September 04, 2015, 08:12:06 PM
Unbelievable, but second height record within a week!
This afternoon I went to the Bükk Mountains to ride my bike.
Route: Kazincbarcika (135 m a.s.l.) - Sajószentpéter - Parasznya - Varbó - Fónagyság - Mahóca - Csókás - Szentlélek (740 m a.s.l.), 62 km total. Not much before Szentlélek, there is Köpüs-nyereg (Köpüs Saddle), according to Google Earth, it is 754 m a.s.l., which is my new height record with BIKE. 619 m elevation gain, that's also a very good number (at least at the age of 31, at the weight of 97 kg, with a not-too-good mountain bike). More than 500 m out of this 619 m came in the last 10 km on my route to Szentlélek.
I almost read Bukkake Mountains... OUCH!
Quote from: Akoss Poo on September 04, 2015, 08:12:06 PM
Unbelievable, but second height record within a week!
This afternoon I went to the Bükk Mountains to ride my bike.
Route: Kazincbarcika (135 m a.s.l.) - Sajószentpéter - Parasznya - Varbó - Fónagyság - Mahóca - Csókás - Szentlélek (740 m a.s.l.) and back, 62 km total. Not much before Szentlélek, there is Köpüs-nyereg (Köpüs Saddle), according to Google Earth, it is 754 m a.s.l., which is my new height record with BIKE. 619 m elevation gain, that's also a very good number (at least at the age of 31, at the weight of 97 kg, with a not-too-good mountain bike). More than 500 m out of this 619 m came in the last 10 km on my route to Szentlélek.
Well, today I was not working. I went instead a bike trip. Good weather was promised: sunny, weak/moderate wind, mild temperatures.
I broke my height record by reaching 903 metres (according to Google Earth) between Farkas-nyaki-elágazás and Bánkút in the Bükk Mountains. Endomondo only said 894, but it is not very precise. Dom from metnet.hu, knowing the Bükk well, also said that the road to Bánkút reaches 900 m before finish, but then descends through the finish.
Route: before Szentlélek, the same as last week. Then: Csikorgó - Farkas-nyaki-elágazás (Wolfneck Cross) - Bánkút (880 m, 903 m before finish) - Nagy-mezö (Large Meadow, 780 m) - Zsidó-rét (Jewish Meadow) - Olasz-kapu (Italian Gate, 885 m) - Gerennavár (Gerenna Castle, ~700 m) - Millenniumi Kilátó (Millennium Viewpoint, ~600 m) - Szalajka-völgy (Szalajka Valley, ~400 m) - Szilvásvárad - Nagyvisnyó - Dédestapolcsány (~200 m) - Fúcking annoying and tiring ascent (310 m) - Tardona - Kazincbarcika.
This is 86.42 km, with lot of ascent and descent. 14.24 km/h average, counting everything (eating, drinking, shopping, red lights, photo, having a rest etc.), that is surprisingly good I think. I went alone by the way.
This is a top5 bike distance in my whole life (probably exactly 5th, record: 123 km with Usrin, Kazincbarcika - Eger - Kazincbarcika, 11th June 2004), but by far the most difficult trip. Also a chance for the biggest sport result ever completed by me.
Now I'm fúcking tired, but it was worthy.
nice to read about such a bike trip! What was the total elevation covered? Was it on tarmac or dirt road?
I hope to be able explore the Bükk mountains next year in a bit more depth.
Quote from: zaqrack on September 10, 2015, 11:44:14 AM
nice to read about such a bike trip! What was the total elevation covered? Was it on tarmac or dirt road?
I hope to be able explore the Bükk mountains next year in a bit more depth.
Of course it was tarmac, though it was of bad quality from Varbó to Szilvásvárad, especially on the Bükk Plateau.
Total elevation:
if I count only the bigger climbs, there were:
- from Kazincbarcika to Bánkút, from 135 m to 903 m, this is 768 m (most difficult part: from Lake Varbó to Bánkút, 16 km, elevation gain: 700 m, with very steep parts)
- from Nagy-mezö (780 m) to Olasz-kapu (885 m), this is 105 m
- from Dédestapolcsány (200 m) to the last steep but short climb (310 m), this is 110 m.
Sum total: 993 m. Though there were several minor ups and downs on the route, so in real, the total covered elevation is more.
Endomondo says 2187 m total ascent, but this sounds too much. Maybe it took every little ascent into account, and also some hundred meters were added by the inaccuracy of the GPS. https://www.endomondo.com/users/20780060/workouts/598352418
I would say 1200 m - 1400 m is realistic.
I think there is only one more difficult tarmac climb in the country, climbing Kékes from Gyöngyös. The Bükk Mountains are really worthy to be explored, nice routes and bike routes especially over 700 m (which covers a significant part of the mountain range).
http://www.mvte.hu/HOTT.html - I think this route was a bit more difficult than the Herman Ottó 65 route.
Sports activity this year so far:
1620 km cycling (on 59 occasions)
20 km running (on 7 occasions)
380 km hiking (on 21 occasions)
3 km swimming (on 3 occasions)
64 table-tennis matches (won: 64, lost: 0, sets: 127-10)
Well, plus one country visited: Switzerland.
Who do you play table tennis with? :D
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on October 29, 2015, 09:30:03 PM
Who do you play table tennis with? :D
With Ildi, my girlfriend ;)
Quote from: dreadnaut on May 05, 2013, 08:46:02 PM
For me:
- West and south around Lisbon, Portugal: 9°14' West and about 38°30' North
- Toward east... I don't remember ;D Some place east of Prague, school trip 14y ago. Let's say 15° East
- North, last summer: 71° 11' on the Knivskjellodden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knivskjellodden)
The east record has been smashed by the travel to Japan :)
- East: Narita Airport, Japan - 140° 23' East
- South: Nara, Japan - 34° 41' North
I think the next trip will have to be to the Southern emisphere!
European countries where I have been to, see map (attachment).
Red: I've been to
Yellow: transit on mainland
Light blue: only flown over the country
(Outside Europe: USA red, Canada light blue.)
Ouch, I forgot to add Ireland and Iceland to the light blue zone. With that, the Northwest-Southeast axis is more prominent. :-)
Quote from: Akoss Poo on October 05, 2015, 11:48:39 AM
Sports activity this year so far:
1620 km cycling (on 59 occasions)
20 km running (on 7 occasions)
380 km hiking (on 21 occasions)
3 km swimming (on 3 occasions)
64 table-tennis matches (won: 64, lost: 0, sets: 127-10)
2015:
1785 km cycling (on 67 occasions), max. speed 61.9 km/h (according to Endomondo, could be higher measured rotation to rotation), max. altitude 903 m (starting from 135 m, Kazincbarcika)
38 km running (on 13 occasions)
512 km hiking (on 28 occasions), longest: 32 km, highest altitude: 2367 m (Kapor-csúcs/Koprovsky stit, High Tatras)
88 table-tennis matches (won: 88, lost:0, sets: 175-16, points won: 60.2%)
3 km swimming (on 3 occasions)
Countries visited:
Hungary - sleeping there
Slovakia
Romania - sleeping there
Czech Republic (new) - sleeping there
Poland - sleeping there
Denmark (only air transport)
Sweden (new, only air transport)
Norway (new) - sleeping there
Austria (only air transport)
Italy - sleeping there
Switzerland (new)
Back from Iceland, where fast and low cars are really rare, but weird 4x4 fill the roads!
This moves my west record a bit further, but still on this side of the Atlantic.
- North: Knivskjellodden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knivskjellodden), Norway: 71° 11' North
- East: Narita Airport, Japan - 140° 23' East
- South: Nara, Japan - 34° 41' North
- West: Keflavik Airport, Iceland - 22° 37' West
OMG those are some huge wheels! :-O
(http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/0/01/Screaming_Yellow_Honkers.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080324175654)
2016.07.23. Altitude new record
Rysy (Tengerszem-csúcs, Meeraugspitze) 2499 m (Slovakia, High Tatras)
A new SOUTH record is to be beaten in December:
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (Canary Islands) 28o9' N
My personal geographic extremes need some updating.
North: 68° 48' 12" N, 16° 32' 55" E - Harstad, NOR, 2014
South: 34° 48' 57" S, 58° 32' 31" W - Buenos Aires Ezeiza airport, ARG, 2019
West: 32° 49' 25" S, 69° 56' 34" W - Parque Provincial Aconcagua, ARG, 2019
East: 22° 45' 06" N, 59° 19' 44" E - near Qualhat, OMN, 2017
Altitude: ~2940 m - Mt Etna, ITA, 2014
I really wanted to come home from Argentina with a new altitude record, but the paths where I could go above 2900 m were closed due to the deep snow.
But I probably broke a very special record, experiencing the lowest ever dew point of my life : -23° C! (Calculated from T=-9.4°C and RH=32%.)
Well, I forgot to update the stats in the international forum, so my present records are:
North 60° 04' 15.7" - Odda, Norway
South 27.75° Maspalomas, Canary Islands, Spain (Playa del Inglés)
West West 122°29'W San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge, United States of America, California
East 29° 4' 0" E - that is Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge on Bosphorus (Istanbul, Turkey)
Max. altitude Rysy (Tengerszem-csúcs, Meeraugspitze) 2499 m (Slovakia, High Tatras) 23.07.2016.
Min. altitude -223m under sea level, in a tunnel near Stavanger, Norway - I think that was it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byfjord_Tunnel
As for the dewpoint, I guess I experienced it to be lower than -23 oC. In 2002, when -26 oC was experienced in Kazincbarcika according to metnet.hu (Usrin informed me about that site for the very first time them), I was in the town at 2-3 a.m., when it was probably only 1-4 oC 'warmer' than the daily minimum. As far as I remember, we were far away from fog, so the dew point could have been lower than Usrin reported from Argentina. Another possible change is when in February 2011, I was hiking in the High Tatras, and it was around -10 oC near the Zöld-tavi menedékház (Chalet of the Green Lake, Chata pri Zelenom plesé), and a very dry and strong wind was blowing from North, the air was extremely clean and dry at that moment.
Continents I've visited (new with bold):
Europe
North America
Asia (Bosphorus only)
Africa (Canary Islands only)
Countries where I spent a night (sleeping on the bus/in an aircraft doesn't count):
Hungary
Great Britain
Slovakia
Denmark
Italy
Romania
Croatia
Montenegro
Turkey
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Norway
Poland
Spain
Portugal
Sweden
Greece
Slovenia
Austria
Countries I've visited (at least some hours spent, but no nights spent there, new with bold):
Belgium
Germany
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Albania
Switzerland
Countries I've visited, only transit (new with bold):
the Netherlands
France
Serbia
Macedonia
Countries I've flown over (new with bold):
Ireland
Iceland
Canada
Morocco
Places where I've lived:
no changes, but my girlfriend (wife from 2017) moved to Kazincbarcika to me in August 2014
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 01, 2019, 07:08:57 PM
no changes, but my girlfriend (wife from 2017) moved to Kazincbarcika to me in August 2014
And that's how Poo became a pseudotötyi-slave, a.k.a. Poo-Kahdra Poo. ;D
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 01, 2019, 07:08:57 PM
As for the dewpoint, I guess I experienced it to be lower than -23 oC. In 2002, when -26 oC was experienced in Kazincbarcika according to metnet.hu (Usrin informed me about that site for the very first time them), I was in the town at 2-3 a.m., when it was probably only 1-4 oC 'warmer' than the daily minimum. As far as I remember, we were far away from fog, so the dew point could have been lower than Usrin reported from Argentina. Another possible change is when in February 2011, I was hiking in the High Tatras, and it was around -10 oC near the Zöld-tavi menedékház (Chalet of the Green Lake, Chata pri Zelenom plesé), and a very dry and strong wind was blowing from North, the air was extremely clean and dry at that moment.
It's a pity that I was always at a wrong place (mostly Budapest) when parts of Hungary had temperatures below -20°C. Of course it could have easily meant a dew point below -23°C.
Btw, the extremely dry air in Argentina was not a pleasure - made my overly sensitive nose bleed a few times... (During the relatively warm afternoons, the same moisture in the air gave relative humidity of not more than 10%.)
Statistics on my time spent in different countries are under preparation.
Present state of my coin collection:
(new coins with bold)
Albania (lek)
Australia (dollar)
Austria (schilling)
Belgium (franc)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (convertible mark)
Brazil (real)
Bulgaria (both old and new leva)
Croatia (kuna)
Czech Republic (koruna)
Czechoslovakia (koruna)
Denmark (krone)
East Germany (mark)
Euro
France (franc)
Germany (mark)
Greece (drachma)
Great Britain (pound)
Hungary (forint from many eras, also pengö - the old currency before 1946)
Iceland (krona)
Israel (shekel)
Italy (lira)
Jordan (dinar)
Kazakhstan (tenge)
the Netherlands (gulden)
Norway (krone)
Poland (new and old zloty)
Romania (new and old lei)
Serbia (dinar)
Slovakia (koruna)
Soviet Union (rubel)
Spain (peseta)
Sweden (krona)
Switzerland (franc)
Turkey (lira)
Ukraine (hrivna)
USA (dollar)
West Germany (mark)
Yugoslavia (old dinar)
Brazil: a Brazilian student is co-supervised by me, during his summer internship we talked a lot, coin collections were also discussed, the other day he brought me a 5, a 10 and a 50 centavo coins. :-)
Iceland: a 1 krona coin was found by Ildi at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam. She gave it to me.
Norway: visited in 2015, coins were put into my collection.
I had bad luck in Macedonia, when we were travelling to Greece last year, we stopped at a petrol station with the bus, and a guy noticed a 1 Macedonian denar coin just a few tenths of a second faster than me and picked it up instead of me...
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 02, 2019, 12:48:04 PM
Present state of my coin collection:
I'm keeping three coins (Argentinian 1 peso, Omani 50 baisa and 25 baisa) for your collection.
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 01, 2019, 07:08:57 PM
Min. altitude -223m under sea level, in a tunnel near Stavanger, Norway - I think that was it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byfjord_Tunnel
Exactly. I have the same minimum altitude, having crossed this tunnel many times.
However, I expect to break this record twice in October. First I'm going to run half-marathon in a brand new subsea tunnel going down to -291 m:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryfast
And for late October, the company is planning a geological field trip to the Dead Sea - that would be a nearly unbreakable record.
Quote from: Usrin on August 02, 2019, 01:18:47 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 02, 2019, 12:48:04 PM
Present state of my coin collection:
I'm keeping three coins (Argentinian 1 peso, Omani 50 baisa and 25 baisa) for your collection.
Oh! A peso? Thanks! Can't wait to feel it in my hands!
Sometimes I also forget about the baisas.
(Then 42 currencies of countries instead of 40.)
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 02, 2019, 12:48:04 PM
Present state of my coin collection:
(new coins with bold)
Brazil (real)
Brazil: a Brazilian student is co-supervised by me, during his summer internship we talked a lot, coin collections were also discussed, the other day he brought me a 5, a 10 and a 50 centavo coins. :-)
Which generation of coins? All silver or coopper 5, yellow 10 and silver 50?
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brazil_500_cruzeiros_banknote_1981_reverse.png
I have this one.
Quote from: CTG on August 29, 2019, 08:27:18 AM
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brazil_500_cruzeiros_banknote_1981_reverse.png (https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brazil_500_cruzeiros_banknote_1981_reverse.png)
I have this one.
Very old. I didn't see it. Brazil changed the money a lot in the 80's and early 90's.
Brazilian money:
- Cruzeiro Novo (1967-1986)
- Cruzeiro Real (1993-1994)
Quote from: Shoegazing Leo on August 29, 2019, 12:06:08 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 02, 2019, 12:48:04 PM
Present state of my coin collection:
(new coins with bold)
Brazil (real)
Brazil: a Brazilian student is co-supervised by me, during his summer internship we talked a lot, coin collections were also discussed, the other day he brought me a 5, a 10 and a 50 centavo coins. :-)
Which generation of coins? All silver or coopper 5, yellow 10 and silver 50?
See attachment, I took a photo of them.
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 31, 2019, 01:40:54 PM
Quote from: Shoegazing Leo on August 29, 2019, 12:06:08 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 02, 2019, 12:48:04 PM
Present state of my coin collection:
(new coins with bold)
Brazil (real)
Brazil: a Brazilian student is co-supervised by me, during his summer internship we talked a lot, coin collections were also discussed, the other day he brought me a 5, a 10 and a 50 centavo coins. :-)
Which generation of coins? All silver or coopper 5, yellow 10 and silver 50?
See attachment, I took a photo of them.
The most new ones
I'm proud to announce that I beat my EAST latitude record on foot in the past days. Having fixed holidays off from work, but having our car at service, we decided to fly to Cyprus for three nights.
Exact record came yesterday: 33.6409o E in Larnaca, near Europe Square and Larnaca Marina.
Also first time visited a country which is geographically located in Asia (though it is culturally and politically Europe, so the same as it was for the Canary Islands-Africa relation).
With this, on foot, North record became my weakest record, moving only around 12o from my location of origin. (East movement on foot is now around 13o.)
Remark: I never counted records on airplane, but when I flew to the USA in Feb 2011, we touched the North of Greenland around latitude 79o N.
On airplane, my West record is probably my East record. I don't know how to take it, because I crossed the International Date Boundary when I went to New Zealand. So I'm unable to break my own East and West records and yet, I haven't visited most of the world. My North record is Maiquetía, Venezuela and South record is within my country, in Punta Tombo, Chubut. Afoot, I've always loved walking, but never did it trying to set a record, so always within my sector of the city. The longest I've walked in one session is probably about 20 km. Could've done more and further if I had had the purpose. I should try that. It's a nice thing to do. Walking is a good habit and setting goals helps with it :)
Quote from: Usrin on August 02, 2019, 01:32:06 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 01, 2019, 07:08:57 PM
Min. altitude -223m under sea level, in a tunnel near Stavanger, Norway - I think that was it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byfjord_Tunnel
Exactly. I have the same minimum altitude, having crossed this tunnel many times.
However, I expect to break this record twice in October. First I'm going to run half-marathon in a brand new subsea tunnel going down to -291 m:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryfast
Accomplished. The new record is actually -292 m, I rather trust the organisers of the race than Wikipedia.
Quote from: Usrin on October 05, 2019, 11:02:27 PM
Accomplished. The new record is actually -292 m, I rather trust the organisers of the race than Wikipedia.
That's very cool! Was that before the opening to traffic? How's the air down there?
I drove through the tunnel to Magerøya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mager%C3%B8ya), in Finnmark, so I suppose my low altitude record is -212m. Max altitude should be ~3400m on the Jungfrau, CH.
My max was 3538m (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocciamelone) back in 2000, but from where I live, I could do better with a certain easiness.
Unfortunately I never went below 0m, except by "diving" at the sea, thus probably my exact record is somewhere near -3m...
Quote from: dreadnaut on October 13, 2019, 12:05:34 AM
Quote from: Usrin on October 05, 2019, 11:02:27 PM
Accomplished. The new record is actually -292 m, I rather trust the organisers of the race than Wikipedia.
That's very cool! Was that before the opening to traffic? How's the air down there?
Yes - it will be opened for traffic at the end of December. The air was super clean, quite humid and a bit warmer (12 degrees) than outside. Like in a natural cave. With the absolute lack of wind, it felt warmer than ideal for running, even wearing only T-shirts and shorts.
Quote from: Usrin on October 17, 2019, 02:01:16 PM
Yes - it will be opened for traffic at the end of December. The air was super clean, quite humid and a bit warmer (12 degrees) than outside. Like in a natural cave. With the absolute lack of wind, it felt warmer than ideal for running, even wearing only T-shirts and shorts.
Uhm, I've been in a few caves and I wouldn't enjoy running there. Moreover, running in an underwater tunnel means it's all downhill at the beginning, and all uphill at the end :P
Quote from: dreadnaut on October 18, 2019, 01:17:24 AM
Quote from: Usrin on October 17, 2019, 02:01:16 PM
Yes - it will be opened for traffic at the end of December. The air was super clean, quite humid and a bit warmer (12 degrees) than outside. Like in a natural cave. With the absolute lack of wind, it felt warmer than ideal for running, even wearing only T-shirts and shorts.
Uhm, I've been in a few caves and I wouldn't enjoy running there. Moreover, running in an underwater tunnel means it's all downhill at the beginning, and all uphill at the end :P
Exactly. And the deepest point is not in the middle but at 17 km --> the last 4 km was a 7-8% incline, where I was rather walking than running. :) (I finished in 2:10:50, after reaching 17 km at ~1:30.)
Quote from: Usrin on August 02, 2019, 01:32:06 PM
And for late October, the company is planning a geological field trip to the Dead Sea - that would be a nearly unbreakable record.
This one has been also accomplished, my new low altitude record is
-394 m. However, it's not unbreakable: we ran out of time and did not visit the northern part of the Dead Sea, lying ca. 30 m lower. (The water of the southern part is kept "high" by dams.)
I've updated my flight history, digging up the bookings from the last 2 years - and it turned out that I completed exactly 200 flight segments during my life so far.
Details: https://my.flightradar24.com/Usrin/
Quote from: Usrin on November 18, 2019, 12:12:13 AM
I've updated my flight history, digging up the bookings from the last 2 years - and it turned out that I completed exactly 200 flight segments during my life so far.
Details: https://my.flightradar24.com/Usrin/
Oh... I have my flight stats only in an Excel file. And I only have 34 flights so far during my life.
Budapest Hannover privát, stunts találkozó Air Berlin 2005.07.14
Hannover Budapest privát, stunts találkozó Air Berlin 2005.07.19
Budapest Párizs CDG céges, tréning Air France 2011.02.28
Párizs CDG San Francisco International céges, tréning Air France 2011.02.28
San Francisco International Párizs CDG céges, tréning Air France 2011.03.06
Párizs CDG Budapest céges, tréning Malév 2011.03.07
Budapest Frankfurt am Main céges, tréning Lufthansa 2013.05.19
Frankfurt am Main San Francisco International céges, tréning Lufthansa 2013.05.19
San Francisco International München céges, tréning Lufthansa 2013.05.27
München Budapest céges, tréning Lufthansa 2013.05.28
Budapest Isztambul céges, konferencia Turkish Airlines 2013.09.30
Isztambul Budapest céges, konferencia Turkish Airlines 2013.10.06
Budapest Varsó Chopin privát WizzAir 2015.06.29
Varsó Chopin Stavanger privát WizzAir 2015.06.30
Stavanger Varsó Chopin privát WizzAir 2015.07.07
Varsó Chopin Budapest privát WizzAir 2015.07.09
Debrecen Milánó/Bergamo privát WizzAir 2015.10.25
Milánó/Bergamo Debrecen privát WizzAir 2015.10.28
Budapest Barcelona privát, nyaralás RyanAir 2016.12.12
Barcelona Las Palmas de Gran Canaria privát, nyaralás RyanAir 2016.12.12
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Barcelona privát, nyaralás Vueling 2016.12.18
Barcelona Budapest privát, nyaralás RyanAir 2016.12.18
Budapest Párizs CDG privát, nászút Air France 2017.06.22
Párizs CDG Lisszabon privát, nászút Air France 2017.06.22
Lisszabon Párizs CDG privát, nászút Air France 2017.06.29
Párizs CDG Budapest privát, nászút Air France 2017.06.29
Debrecen Malmö privát WizzAir 2018.01.26
Malmö Debrecen privát WizzAir 2018.01.29
Budapest Amszterdam Schiphol privát KLM 2018.10.06
Amszterdam Schiphol Bristol privát KLM 2018.10.06
Bristol Amszterdam Schiphol privát KLM 2018.10.13
Amszterdam Schiphol Budapest privát KLM 2018.10.13
Debrecen Lárnaka privát, nyaralás WizzAir 2019.09.01
Lárnaka Debrecen privát, nyaralás WizzAir 2019.09.04
Quote from: Usrin on November 18, 2019, 12:12:13 AM
I've updated my flight history, digging up the bookings from the last 2 years - and it turned out that I completed exactly 200 flight segments during my life so far.
Details: https://my.flightradar24.com/Usrin/
Bourgeois
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 18, 2019, 08:58:29 AM
Oh... I have my flight stats only in an Excel file. And I only have 34 flights so far during my life.
Budapest Hannover privát, stunts találkozó Air Berlin 2005.07.14
Hannover Budapest privát, stunts találkozó Air Berlin 2005.07.19
Budapest Párizs CDG céges, tréning Air France 2011.02.28
Párizs CDG San Francisco International céges, tréning Air France 2011.02.28
San Francisco International Párizs CDG céges, tréning Air France 2011.03.06
Párizs CDG Budapest céges, tréning Malév 2011.03.07
Budapest Frankfurt am Main céges, tréning Lufthansa 2013.05.19
Frankfurt am Main San Francisco International céges, tréning Lufthansa 2013.05.19
San Francisco International München céges, tréning Lufthansa 2013.05.27
München Budapest céges, tréning Lufthansa 2013.05.28
Budapest Isztambul céges, konferencia Turkish Airlines 2013.09.30
Isztambul Budapest céges, konferencia Turkish Airlines 2013.10.06
Budapest Varsó Chopin privát WizzAir 2015.06.29
Varsó Chopin Stavanger privát WizzAir 2015.06.30
Stavanger Varsó Chopin privát WizzAir 2015.07.07
Varsó Chopin Budapest privát WizzAir 2015.07.09
Debrecen Milánó/Bergamo privát WizzAir 2015.10.25
Milánó/Bergamo Debrecen privát WizzAir 2015.10.28
Budapest Barcelona privát, nyaralás RyanAir 2016.12.12
Barcelona Las Palmas de Gran Canaria privát, nyaralás RyanAir 2016.12.12
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Barcelona privát, nyaralás Vueling 2016.12.18
Barcelona Budapest privát, nyaralás RyanAir 2016.12.18
Budapest Párizs CDG privát, nászút Air France 2017.06.22
Párizs CDG Lisszabon privát, nászút Air France 2017.06.22
Lisszabon Párizs CDG privát, nászút Air France 2017.06.29
Párizs CDG Budapest privát, nászút Air France 2017.06.29
Debrecen Malmö privát WizzAir 2018.01.26
Malmö Debrecen privát WizzAir 2018.01.29
Budapest Amszterdam Schiphol privát KLM 2018.10.06
Amszterdam Schiphol Bristol privát KLM 2018.10.06
Bristol Amszterdam Schiphol privát KLM 2018.10.13
Amszterdam Schiphol Budapest privát KLM 2018.10.13
Debrecen Lárnaka privát, nyaralás WizzAir 2019.09.01
Lárnaka Debrecen privát, nyaralás WizzAir 2019.09.04
Bourgeois
Other useless stats:
Countries where I have hiked:
Hungary (first in 198x)
Slovakia (first in1999)
Croatia (first in 2011)
Poland (first in 2011)
Austria (first in2013)
Norway (2015)
Spain (2016, Canary Islands)
Greece (2018, only small hike)
Slovenia (2019, only small hike)
Countries where I have ridden a bike:
Hungary (first in ?1992)
Norway (2015)
Slovakia (first in 2015)
Sweden (2018)
Countries where I have driven a car:
Hungary (active driver since 2018)
Slovakia (first in 2018)
Austria (first in 2018)
Czech Republic (2019)
Germany (2019)
Slovenia (2019)
Italy (2019)
Poland (2019)
Countries where I have swum:
Hungary (learned in 1998)
Denmark (2005, Baltic Sea)
Italy (first in 2006, Adriatic Sea)
Croatia (2012, Adriatic Sea)
USA (2013, Pacific Ocean)
Montenegro (2013, Adriatic Sea)
Bulgaria (first in 2014, Black Sea)
Spain (2016, Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean)
Portugal (2017, Atlantic Ocean)
Greece (2018, Aegean Sea)
Cyprus (2019, Mediterranean Sea)
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 22, 2019, 10:14:15 AM
Other useless stats:
Countries where I have hiked:
Hungary (first in 198x)
Slovakia (first in1999)
Croatia (first in 2011)
Poland (first in 2011)
Austria (first in2013)
Norway (2015)
Spain (2016, Canary Islands)
Greece (2018, only small hike)
Slovenia (2019, only small hike)
Countries where I have ridden a bike:
Hungary (first in ?1992)
Norway (2015)
Slovakia (first in 2015)
Sweden (2018)
Countries where I have driven a car:
Hungary (active driver since 2018)
Slovakia (first in 2018)
Austria (first in 2018)
Czech Republic (2019)
Germany (2019)
Slovenia (2019)
Italy (2019)
Poland (2019)
Countries where I have swum:
Hungary (learned in 1998)
Denmark (2005, Baltic Sea)
Italy (first in 2006, Adriatic Sea)
Croatia (2012, Adriatic Sea)
USA (2013, Pacific Ocean)
Montenegro (2013, Adriatic Sea)
Bulgaria (first in 2014, Black Sea)
Spain (2016, Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean)
Portugal (2017, Atlantic Ocean)
Greece (2018, Aegean Sea)
Cyprus (2019, Mediterranean Sea)
I miss the following lists from your post: countries where you...
- crapped more than 10 times
- ate chili beans or shitty alpenmilch from pina
- your nose bleeded after you blew it (separate list for those where you made on an airplane)
- drunk more than 3 / 5 / 10 different brands of local beers
- böffed an öblös one
Quote from: CTG on November 22, 2019, 10:30:17 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 22, 2019, 10:14:15 AM
Other useless stats:
Countries where I have hiked:
Hungary (first in 198x)
Slovakia (first in1999)
Croatia (first in 2011)
Poland (first in 2011)
Austria (first in2013)
Norway (2015)
Spain (2016, Canary Islands)
Greece (2018, only small hike)
Slovenia (2019, only small hike)
Countries where I have ridden a bike:
Hungary (first in ?1992)
Norway (2015)
Slovakia (first in 2015)
Sweden (2018)
Countries where I have driven a car:
Hungary (active driver since 2018)
Slovakia (first in 2018)
Austria (first in 2018)
Czech Republic (2019)
Germany (2019)
Slovenia (2019)
Italy (2019)
Poland (2019)
Countries where I have swum:
Hungary (learned in 1998)
Denmark (2005, Baltic Sea)
Italy (first in 2006, Adriatic Sea)
Croatia (2012, Adriatic Sea)
USA (2013, Pacific Ocean)
Montenegro (2013, Adriatic Sea)
Bulgaria (first in 2014, Black Sea)
Spain (2016, Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean)
Portugal (2017, Atlantic Ocean)
Greece (2018, Aegean Sea)
Cyprus (2019, Mediterranean Sea)
I miss the following lists from your post: countries where you...
- crapped more than 10 times
- ate chili beans or shitty alpenmilch from pina
- your nose bleeded after you blew it (separate list for those where you made on an airplane)
- drunk more than 3 / 5 / 10 different brands of local beers
- böffed an öblös one
Well, maybe the stats I showed were not THAT useless... :-)
But:
a.) Well, my average daily craps range around 1.0-1.2, though I guess it's a bit less when I'm travelling. So, the countries where I spent at least 10 nights are candidates. :-) Plus Slovakia, where I sent many many days. Plus Hungary. Unfortunately I don't have crapping stats detailed to that extent.
b.) Unfortunately there are no such countries.
c.) I guess only Hungary, I'm not the nose-bleeder type. On plane: never, it's rather my ears that suffers sometimes on plane during cabin pressure fluctuations.
d.) I could check them in an hour in my Beer excel file. Not now.
e.) Like a.), so where I spent several days, maybe I have böffed an öblös one there. And unfortunately, I don't have exact stats like this.
Btw I'm fond of smart gadgets. When I was 5 or 6 years old, I used to (day)dream about magic machines, being able to measure and register any useless parameters of my life. Now it's reality.
Oh... I think I should organise something like that for me. In my case, my flights (from memory), go more or less like this:
March 2007: Córdoba (AR) -> Santiago (CL)
Next day: Santiago (CL) -> Lima (PE) -> Caracas (VE) -> Maracaibo (VE)
A few days later: Maracaibo (VE) -> Caracas (VE) -> Santiago (CL)
Next day: Santiago (CL) -> Córdoba (AR)
Late June 2009: Córdoba (AR) -> Santiago (CL)
A week later: Santiago (CL) -> Auckland (NZ)
May 2010: Wellington (NZ) -> Auckland (NZ) -> Santiago (CL)
A week later: Santiago (CL) -> Córdoba (AR)
Late May 2014: Córdoba (AR) -> Santiago (CL) -> Auckland (NZ)
A couple of months later: Wellington (NZ) -> Christchurch (NZ)
About a monht later: Wellington (NZ) -> Auckland (NZ) -> Santiago (CL) -> Buenos Aires (AR) -> Córdoba (AR)
July 2017: Córdoba (AR) -> Santiago (CL)
A week later: Santiago (CL) -> Lima (PE)
Two weeks later: Lima (PE) -> Córdoba (AR)
Hi All,
this is as good a place as any to introduce myself a bit.
I'm Daniël and Stunts fan since 1992.
I've been around here as guest on and off for about 5 years.
been around JTk's site way longer, before the millenium i think.
Height: 186 cm
Weight: 81 kg
Fat ratio: ~12%
Shoe size: 43
average hours of sleep: 4-6
hours needed: 6+
age: 40
Wife: 1
Kids: 4 (8y, 5y, 2y and 8m)
stunts driving experience: 28 years
Number of legal copies owned: 0 (never even seen it)
Computers owned at this moment: 4 for me 1 for the rest 8)
working phones and tablets: 4 for me 3 for the rest
Time available to play stunts: never enough
Time spend on playing stunts: always to much.
That's it for now.
D
Quote from: Daniel3D on June 24, 2020, 12:05:28 AM
Hi All,
this is as good a place as any to introduce myself a bit.
I'm Daniël and Stunts fan since 1992.
I've been around here as guest on and off for about 5 years.
been around JTk's site way longer, before the millenium i think.
Height: 186 cm
Weight: 81 kg
Fat ratio: ~12%
Shoe size: 43
average hours of sleep: 4-6
hours needed: 6+
age: 40
Wife: 1
Kids: 4 (8y, 5y, 2y and 8m)
stunts driving experience: 28 years
Number of legal copies owned: 0 (never even seen it)
Computers owned at this moment: 4 for me 1 for the rest 8)
working phones and tablets: 4 for me 3 for the rest
Time available to play stunts: never enough
Time spend on playing stunts: always to much.
That's it for now.
D
Welcome back, Argammon. Kidding.
Quote from: Daniel3D on June 24, 2020, 12:05:28 AM
Hi All,
this is as good a place as any to introduce myself a bit.
I'm Daniël and Stunts fan since 1992.
I've been around here as guest on and off for about 5 years.
been around JTk's site way longer, before the millenium i think.
Height: 186 cm
Weight: 81 kg
Fat ratio: ~12%
Shoe size: 43
average hours of sleep: 4-6
hours needed: 6+
age: 40
Wife: 1
Kids: 4 (8y, 5y, 2y and 8m)
stunts driving experience: 28 years
Number of legal copies owned: 0 (never even seen it)
Computers owned at this moment: 4 for me 1 for the rest 8)
working phones and tablets: 4 for me 3 for the rest
Time available to play stunts: never enough
Time spend on playing stunts: always to much.
That's it for now.
D
Nice fact sheet :) Welcome, fellow Daniel :D
8) thanks.
I usually don't do forums because I can't keep up.
But here the most post actually have some degree of depth. And at a good pace ::)
100 days! ;D
Quote5015,93 km
CTG, how does that work in terms of tires, brakes, and chains? How many have you replaced at this point? ;D
Quote from: dreadnaut on December 16, 2020, 06:59:26 PM
Quote5015,93 km
CTG, how does that work in terms of tires, brakes, and chains? How many have you replaced at this point? ;D
Luckily, this bike is a work horse. It's quite slow (internal hub with 3 gears), heavy (steel), but needs only minor maintenance.
Tires: accidental puncture of the front wheel (April), anyway both tyres are already close to "slick" state
Brakes: front V-brakes were adjusted in June, rear contra brake is still fine
Crank set: minor adjustment
Chains: the original one is still working
Internal hub: minor adjustment was necessary in the summer
Quote from: CTG on December 16, 2020, 08:35:10 PM
Luckily, this bike is a work horse. It's quite slow (internal hub with 3 gears), heavy (steel), but needs only minor maintenance.
It does sound sturdy! I kept having to replace the v-brake pads, but I suppose city cycling at rush our it more start-and-stop. Anyway, they've lasted far longer this year, since I've been working from home :P
Despite CTG reached high numbers this year (maybe he should compete with Zak), I remained a regular hobby biker. I am at 2493 km this year, which means a new yearly record in my life... and it could have been more as I didn't have a bike for a month in the summer (buying one was difficult due to the coronavirus pandemic). But it is a result of the pandemic restrictions this year: less travels, less swimming, less hiking (in the Tatra mountains for example), more free time... so... new record, but no joy... trying to reach 2500 km in the next days if I find a weekend day over 5 Celsius to track 7 km somewhere in the town...
Quote from: dreadnaut on December 16, 2020, 10:13:50 PM
Quote from: CTG on December 16, 2020, 08:35:10 PM
Luckily, this bike is a work horse. It's quite slow (internal hub with 3 gears), heavy (steel), but needs only minor maintenance.
It does sound sturdy! I kept having to replace the v-brake pads, but I suppose city cycling at rush our it more start-and-stop. Anyway, they've lasted far longer this year, since I've been working from home :P
Yeah, it's a cheap (~250 EUR), but durable basic city bike from a classic Hungarian manufacturer (Csepel). Less useless extra parts, less trobule. :D
However, it has limited abilities. Shimano Nexus 3 hub provides quite a narrow gear ratio range (186%). It's not enough if you want to climb a mountain, and you cannot reach a really high top speed (my record is a poor 51.7 km/h). By having rigid steel fork and 1.5" wide tyres, it's better not to leave asphalt/tarmac road with this bike. But still, I like to ride it.
About home office and biking: it has an opposite effect on my biking habits. Without COVID-19, my yearly performance would be somewhere around 3000 km, because of having less time to make trips in the morning/evening.
2021 will be different, even if the virus won't be stopped. I don't want to brake my limits again, or at least not by hunting monthly/yearly records like a maniac (e.g. 825 km in August was simply too much for my body). This year it became an addiction (numbers, numbers, NUMBERS...), and I have to admit, the last 500 km was almost pure pain.
Here (attached) you can see mine. Blue dotted line: 14 day moving average.
Total days on bike: 89
Average distance on bike days: 28.01 km
Average distance per day (calculated with 0 km for 16-31th December): 6.81 km
1 or 2 days on bike still possible, though not sure.
379 km hiking, 4900 m swimming and 17 table tennis matches in addition. These are less than 2015-2019 average. I didn't go running or playing football this year.
That's a neat chart Akoss! I wonder if the "average temperature" line would follow very closely ;D
Quote from: dreadnaut on December 17, 2020, 07:12:27 PM
That's a neat chart Akoss! I wonder if the "average temperature" line would follow very closely ;D
Thanks! Yes, temperature is also an influencing factor, along with day length of course. Here (48o15'N, 20o38'E, in a valley between hills and mountains, in an industrial zone) winters can be cold, foggy, snowy/freezing and dark, which makes days unsuitable for cycling (for example today I arrived at home from work at 5:20 p.m., sunset around 3:40 p.m., weather at arrival: 3 degrees, drizzle and fog). On the other hand, summers can be quite hot here (sometimes accompanied by thunderstorms and consequently way too humid conditions), which might also affect summer performance (along with my summer holiday habits: we prefer to go in June where the weather is less warm but the daylight times are longer). Even without the lack of bike this year there would have been a summer secondary minimum in the figure. Best period for cycling: April-May and August-September, here at least.
It seems that international travel is becoming easier, and I will probably go to some new countries in 2022. It's time to prepare a list of the countries I've already visited!
Countries where I spent at least a night (sleeping on a bus/train does not count), with the number of nights:
Hungary: ~11000
Norway: ~3500
Germany: ~35
Slovakia: 22 (+countless day trips, so I have certainly spent more time in SVK than in FRA or ROM)
France: 24
Romania: 23
Greece: 13
Sweden: 13
Italy: 11
Poland: 11
United Kingdom: 11 (of which England: 8, Scotland: 3)
Denmark: ~10
Czech Republic: ~10
Austria: 9
Israel: 8
Oman: 8
Slovenia: 8
Albania: 7
Netherlands: 7
Spain: 7
Portugal: 6
Argentina: 5
Belgium: 3
Country I visited for a day trip:
Croatia
Countries I 'visited' only for transit:
Latvia (transfer between flights, not leaving the airport)
Saudi Arabia (stopover on a flight, I did not leave the aircraft)
Countries I have only flown over:
Bahrain
Belarus
Brazil
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Iran
Lithuania
Morocco
Qatar
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
Uruguay
And maybe worth mentioning the countries I have seen from outside, standing close to their border:
Egypt (~30 m)
Jordan (~1 km)
Monaco (~1 km)
Ukraine (~1 km, but it is also in the 'flown over' list)
Quote from: Usrin on February 06, 2022, 07:01:42 PM
Countries where I spent at least a night (sleeping on a bus/train does not count), with the number of nights:
Ooooh, I like this stat! I wish I had tracked something like that myself, with moving to different countries :( — I could probably try and do it now, but they would be very rough numbers.
Quote from: Usrin on February 06, 2022, 07:01:42 PM
It seems that international travel is becoming easier, and I will probably go to some new countries in 2022. It's time to prepare a list of the countries I've already visited!
Countries where I spent at least a night (sleeping on a bus/train does not count), with the number of nights:
Hungary: ~11000
Norway: ~3500
Germany: ~35
Slovakia: 22 (+countless day trips, so I have certainly spent more time in SVK than in FRA or ROM)
France: 24
Romania: 23
Greece: 13
Sweden: 13
Italy: 11
Poland: 11
United Kingdom: 11 (of which England: 8, Scotland: 3)
Denmark: ~10
Czech Republic: ~10
Austria: 9
Israel: 8
Oman: 8
Slovenia: 8
Albania: 7
Netherlands: 7
Spain: 7
Portugal: 6
Argentina: 5
Belgium: 3
Country I visited for a day trip:
Croatia
Countries I 'visited' only for transit:
Latvia (transfer between flights, not leaving the airport)
Saudi Arabia (stopover on a flight, I did not leave the aircraft)
Countries I have only flown over:
Bahrain
Belarus
Brazil
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Iran
Lithuania
Morocco
Qatar
Turkey
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
Uruguay
And maybe worth mentioning the countries I have seen from outside, standing close to their border:
Egypt (~30 m)
Jordan (~1 km)
Monaco (~1 km)
Ukraine (~1 km, but it is also in the 'flown over' list)
I have stats a bit different than these, but I'll also list them.
I have a rank which resembles a medal table. A night spent in a country counts as a 'gold medal' (sleeping on a bus/train or in the car doesn't count), a daily trip (which means an intentional visit in that country, even it is not more than 1-2 hours, but no nights spent there) counts as a 'silver medal' and a transit counts as a bronze medal (return transit doesn't count as a new 'medal'). Countries which I've flown over don't count, but I'm also noting them. I don't have the cathegory 'seen from outsite'.
So let me present my table, even if it is not as glorious as Usrin's one.
1 United Kingdom 16 0 0
2 Romania 14 1 0
3 Bulgaria 14 0 0
4 Slovakia 13 89 12
5 USA 13 0 0
6 Italy 12 0 0
7 Croatia 8 4 1
8 Slovenia 7 1 1
9-11 Greece 7 0 0
9-11 Montenegro 7 0 0
9-11 Portugal 7 0 0
12-14 Czech Republic 6 0 0
12-14 Spain (including Canary Islands) 6 0 0
12-14 Norway 6 0 0
15 Poland 5 8 0
16 Turkey 5 0 0
17 Denmark 4 0 0
18-19 Cyprus 3 0 0
18-19 Sweden 3 0 0
20 Austria 2 2 2
21 Germany 0 2 2
22-25 Albania 0 1 0
22-25 Belgium 0 1 0
22-25 Bosnia-Herzegovina 0 1 0
22-25 Switzerland 0 1 0
26 Serbia 0 0 3
27-28 France 0 0 2
27-28 Netherlands 0 0 2
29 North Macedonia 0 0 1
Countries which I've flown over:
30-33 Canada
30-33 Iceland
30-33 Ireland
30-33 Morocco
Greenland can also be mentioned, though it is not a sovereign country.
And let me add a map of Europe where I illustrate these, see attached.
Legend:
red - regular visit ('gold/silver medal')
yellow - transit ('bronze medal')
light blue - only flown over
white - untouched
Sputnik V with a third, booster dose of Western vaccine will make me available to visit a lot of countries, so I will try to collect more 'medals' this year. However, no new country is planned at the moment. Moreover, I only plan the third shot of vaccine around April/May since I had a coronavirus infection in late October-early November 2021. I do not have a certificate of recovery since I did not have a positive PCR test, only a positive rapid test, which is not eligible for that.
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 06, 2022, 08:10:29 PM
I have a rank which resembles a medal table. A night spent in a country counts as a 'gold medal' (sleeping on a bus/train or in the car doesn't count), a daily trip (which means an intentional visit in that country, even it is not more than 1-2 hours, but no nights spent there) counts as a 'silver medal' and a transit counts as a bronze medal (return transit doesn't count as a new 'medal'). Countries which I've flown over don't count, but I'm also noting them. I don't have the cathegory 'seen from outsite'.
So let me present my table, even if it is not as glorious as Usrin's one.
Perhaps less glorious based on the number of 'medals', but you have visited significantly more countries. With that system, my table could include 25 countries if airport transits qualify for the 'bronze'. However, I think it should be given only for road/rail transit, where you see a bit more of the land... So I would stop at 23 (including NOR, because I visited it before moving here).
The plans of my boss for business trips in 2022 include Saudi Arabia (probability: 90%) and the USA (70%). Not really the countries I wanted to add to my list... Although in the USA we would go to San Francisco, where I could beat not only my personal but also Akoss Poo's west longitude record. :) And there is also some chance (25%) for a private trip to Iceland.
Anyway, my main goal nowadays is not to visit as many countries as possible, but rather to spend more time in places I like. The few parts of the world I am still really curious about are in NE Europe (Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and in South America (want to see more from Argentina, as well as Chile and Uruguay). And I would not refuse a trip to Namibia, but that's rather because its perfect conditions for astronomical observations.
Quote from: Usrin on February 06, 2022, 09:23:52 PM
And I would not refuse a trip to Namibia, but that's rather because its perfect conditions for astronomical observations.
If you go to Namibia, be sure to contact JTK and KHR first. They grew up there (as you may already know).
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on February 06, 2022, 10:55:20 PM
Quote from: Usrin on February 06, 2022, 09:23:52 PM
And I would not refuse a trip to Namibia, but that's rather because its perfect conditions for astronomical observations.
If you go to Namibia, be sure to contact JTK and KHR first. They grew up there (as you may already know).
THAT I did not know, or have completely forgotten! :o
You guys travel quite a lot.
I don't travel often, most holidays i spent in my own country or a close neighbor. But i have done a few long distance trips.
In 1988 from the Netherlands to USA (Huston, TX and stayed somewhere in Louisiana).
in 1996 form the Netherlands to Colombia (first Bogota then a little town called Yopal and a trip to Cartagena.)
Last long trip was in 2008 from the Netherlands to China. (don't want to specify, never going back)
Quote from: Usrin on August 02, 2019, 01:18:47 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 02, 2019, 12:48:04 PM
Present state of my coin collection:
I'm keeping three coins (Argentinian 1 peso, Omani 50 baisa and 25 baisa) for your collection.
Still keeping them, now together with 1 Saudi riyal and 2x25 halalas (old and new version).
Quote from: Usrin on February 07, 2022, 02:14:48 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on February 06, 2022, 10:55:20 PM
Quote from: Usrin on February 06, 2022, 09:23:52 PM
And I would not refuse a trip to Namibia, but that's rather because its perfect conditions for astronomical observations.
If you go to Namibia, be sure to contact JTK and KHR first. They grew up there (as you may already know).
THAT I did not know, or have completely forgotten! :o
Usrin, how could that happen? ;D KHR and me will be travelling to NAM this summer again. Finally after 5 years (stallin Corona!).
Quote from: Usrin on April 01, 2022, 10:12:41 AM
Quote from: Usrin on August 02, 2019, 01:18:47 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 02, 2019, 12:48:04 PM
Present state of my coin collection:
I'm keeping three coins (Argentinian 1 peso, Omani 50 baisa and 25 baisa) for your collection.
Still keeping them, now together with 1 Saudi riyal and 2x25 halalas (old and new version).
Oh, thanks. Now would be time to meet once when there is no fear of COVID. It is a better coin collection when the coins are at hand instead of lying in a Norwegian wallet/drawer etc.
Interesting facts:
- I closed the "Live beside Stunts" section by mistake, I could not see the new posts in this section in the past weeks.
- I also wasn't aware of JTK and KHR having grown up in Namibia.
- I almost met Usrin in October last year, I missed the Omani and Argentinian coins just because of fear of COVID (emergence of suspicious symptoms).
I travelled less in the past 2-3 years.
Reasons:
- COVID (fear of the disease, non-suitable Sputnik vaccine, lack of an EU certificate of recovering from COVID because there was no PCR test conducted, only a rapid test)
- mechanical state of our previous car
- my old boss died, no more trips to USA (the visited company has also gone bankrupt since then, reason: COVID) and to Transylvania since then (now we rather write articles instead of attending conferences)
- my currect boss did not let me go on a holiday last year (I could take most of my holidays only in December)
Most of these problems are solved. I still don't take the booster vaccine, but there are no travel restrictions in many target areas: Slovakia, Slovenia, Transylvania. We bought a newer car last autumn. My boss admitted that it was a mistake that he did not let me go on holiday.
But in the meantime:
- I got older
- a war has broken out in a neighbouring country
- we want to buy a house, even the first steps take a lot of time.
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 06, 2022, 04:10:08 PMthere are no travel restrictions in many target areas: Slovakia, Slovenia, Transylvania, Argentina.
Nice! You'll be welcome!
BTW if you give me an address I could send you a set of coins from here :)
Quote from: JTK on April 04, 2022, 11:15:08 AM
Quote from: Usrin on February 07, 2022, 02:14:48 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on February 06, 2022, 10:55:20 PM
Quote from: Usrin on February 06, 2022, 09:23:52 PM
And I would not refuse a trip to Namibia, but that's rather because its perfect conditions for astronomical observations.
If you go to Namibia, be sure to contact JTK and KHR first. They grew up there (as you may already know).
THAT I did not know, or have completely forgotten! :o
Usrin, how could that happen? ;D KHR and me will be travelling to NAM this summer again. Finally after 5 years (stallin Corona!).
Good question. :)
I am planning a trip to the S hemisphere in May/June 2023, if the world is not going down the drain. (That is already dry season around latitude 20-30°, nights are long, and more interesting parts of the sky are visible than in July/August.) The destination will depend on my actual workload and budget. If I get enough money and at least 3 weeks free, I would travel to ARG and combine astronomy with hiking, sightseeing and maybe ghost hunting, erm, meeting local pipsqueaks. ;) I think it is not worth travelling there for a shorter time... missed a lot in 2019, when I had only 6 days. So with less time and money, I would rather spend 1-2 weeks on an one of the 'astrofarms' in NAM, rent a telescope and focus entirely on observing the southern sky. (KHR & JTK: sorry, but it seems easier to skip other attractions in NAM than in South America!)
Anyway, I would definitely travel south in 2023. There are too many unknowns in my own life and in the situation of the world for keeping such dreams for the further future.
Just think about a Stunts meeting Buenos Aires 2023: Usrin, Cas, Gutix, Chulk, Duplode, ZdnBurns, Leo, sebastianali302, Heretic, AMG and me. I added Brazilian guys because it is quiet cheap for them to come.
Quote from: alanrotoi on April 06, 2022, 05:31:11 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 06, 2022, 04:10:08 PMthere are no travel restrictions in many target areas: Slovakia, Slovenia, Transylvania, Argentina.
Nice! You'll be welcome!
BTW if you give me an address I could send you a set of coins from here :)
Well, thanks.
IMO the value of my coins set depends on the number of countries they originate from. Since I have an Argentinian peso promised to me by Usrin, I don't think it would be necessary to pay a pile of money for the postal fee of sending some coins from Argentina to Hungary. My wife (Kahdra here) works for the Hungarian Post Service, and we know about cases when money doesn't manage to arrive at the addressee's...
Now as corona laws getting less strict, it is available for me to access most of the bordering countries. Austria would need a third vaccine. Ukraine is a no-go-zone during the war. Serbia: 2 Sputnik vaccines are enough. Croatia has lifted all border-related COVID measures recently.
To enter Argentina, I would need to travel by plane. I would also need flight transfer. I would have to meet the COVID rules of each country I enter. However, I have a dream, which is sometimes nearer, sometimes farther from me: to obtain my PhD degree. I decided - and promised to my wife - to travel to an exotic destination if i succeed. If everything goes well, I think about a.) South America (Tierra del Fuego, Pampas, Andes are preferred, Argentina and/or Chile, but any other place would make me happy) b.) New Zealand (/Australia). To see the Southern sky, the Southern Cross (Crux). To see the other half of the Earth. To meet different cultures. To see areas way too distant but similar (moderate climate, Spanish language spoken).
Hey, do count on me if we organise an international gathering somewhere in Argentina. Buenos Aires surely would be the easiest point to get everybody to join, although not at all good for astronomy... but that surely can be solved with ease. There must be some good dark place that's not too far. If you want really dry air for good quality astro-photography, the Patagonia is best. The problem there is it's expensive, but it's worth it.
I am starting to consider also a visit to Europe within the next two years, could be less. It all depends on how accessible or not are the different countries over there with the CoViD situation and how that evolves. I would be considered non-vaccinated, since I have two doses of the Russian vaccine, which is recognised in very few countries and now, even less. Better not mention it in Migration, ha, ha. But well, I could get a negative PCR and if there's a chance to get vaccinated with something recognised in Europe, I can see about how to do that, either here or abroad.
Regarding astronomy again, another thing to note, if you're willing to travel to watch the skies, is that in 2024, there will be a long total solar eclipse in a very conveniently dry region of México: the city of Torreón. I'm already planning for it.
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 08, 2022, 11:08:19 PM
Quote from: alanrotoi on April 06, 2022, 05:31:11 PM
IMO the value of my coins set depends on the number of countries they originate from. Since I have an Argentinian peso promised to me by Usrin, I don't think it would be necessary to pay a pile of money for the postal fee of sending some coins from Argentina to Hungary. My wife (Kahdra here) works for the Hungarian Post Service, and we know about cases when money doesn't manage to arrive at the addressee's...
I work frecuently with the Postal Office and send letters mostly to Europe and never had a problem. I don't remember sending to Hungary but registered letters must arrive. To send a registered letter (with a tracking number) to Hungary costs $6,4 for 20g of weight and $10 for 150g max weight. It's up to you. Also I could give the coins to Usrin next year if he comes :)
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 08, 2022, 11:08:19 PM
To enter Argentina, I would need to travel by plane. I would also need flight transfer. I would have to meet the COVID rules of each country I enter.
Quote from: Cas on April 09, 2022, 01:14:16 AM
I would be considered non-vaccinated, since I have two doses of the Russian vaccine, which is recognised in very few countries and now, even less.
Many countries don't care about it anymore. Norway raised all COVID-related restrictions already in February, meaning that travellers can enter the country without any vaccine pass and face masks are forgotten. It is the same for the UK. Neither the Netherlands (where AMS is a typical transfer airport to the Americas) require vaccination for EU citizens, although wearing a face mask is still compulsory on flights to/from there.
@Alan Rotoi
As I mentioned, 1 coin from a country is well enough for me. At least it is much more valuable for me to get a coin from a new country than to get the coin set of a country from which I already have a coin (I consider Usrin's peso to be already mine). My goal is to increase the number of countries where I have at least one coin from.
The Most Wanted Coins for me are the ones which existed in the EU before they changed to Euro. Of course I have some of them, but I really miss for example the Finnish markka, the Portuguese escudo and the Slovenian tolar (other missing ones from this group: Latvian lat, Lithuanian litas, Estonian kroon, Maltese lira, Cypriot pound, Luxembourg franc, Irish pound). I don't have coins from Canada, but from there, my real dream would be this 5 dollar banknote: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/new-banknote-1.5795421 A 500 JPY coin would be also interesting since it is rare to see such a high value coin (I know, 5 CHF has a higher value).
@Usrin
Yes, I know. But two of my usual destination countries still insist on their rules. With two Sputnik V vaccines, I still can't enter Austria and Italy. I don't visit Germany too often, but I still can't go there either.
(Recently lifted all measures: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia; 2 Sputnik V is eligible: Serbia - these make me a bit happier.)
Sounds like travelling is getting a lot more flexible than I expected :)
I also do collect coins, but my idea is to have a coin and/or note of each country where either I have been (in which case, I have to have received the coin or note through normal use of the currency) or I have made a friend from (in which case, the friend should personally give me the note or coin from his/her country, usually as an exchange from something from mine). I have coins and notes from many countries following this rule, including New Zealand, Chile, Perú, Venezuela, Colombia, Canada, México, India, Israel, UK, Korea and Japan... I think I'm forgetting some. I also do have one Euro that was given to my by a German friend. Of course, it's a German Euro. I have other Euro coins, but that one is the only one that follows that rule.
Quote from: Cas on April 11, 2022, 06:39:15 PM
Sounds like travelling is getting a lot more flexible than I expected :)
I also do collect coins, but my idea is to have a coin and/or note of each country where either I have been.
If I stick to that rule my collection would be kinda sad :D Only Uruguay, Spain and France. If we add country air space I could add Brazil, Morocco, Mauritania and Western Sahara... but that's cheating :D
Quote from: alanrotoi on April 11, 2022, 08:03:18 PM
Quote from: Cas on April 11, 2022, 06:39:15 PM
Sounds like travelling is getting a lot more flexible than I expected :)
I also do collect coins, but my idea is to have a coin and/or note of each country where either I have been.
If I stick to that rule my collection would be kinda sad :D Only Uruguay, Spain and France. If we add country air space I could add Brazil, Morocco, Mauritania and Western Sahara... but that's cheating :D
That is the disadvantage of living in such a huge country. I live just 20 km away from the Slovakian border. Hungary is bordered by 7 countries, landlocked, just 93.000 sq. km2s.
Somewhat the same regarding coin collection vs. the unity of the European Union. I do not make a difference between Euro coins originating from different countries. I do not collect Euro coins. I pay with them if I go/ride/drive/fly/travel abroad.
(However, I remember a cashier guy in Slovakia who stared at the Euro banknote he was given by me (originating from Cyprus/Portugal I guess... I guess it was somewhat suspicious to him, being unfamiliar...)
Btw, the country list of my coin collection is listed above, it hasn't changed recently. Argentinian peso, Omani rial change coins and Saudi Arabian riyal are partly mine: promised to me, though, never seen.
I haven't visited all the countries I mentioned. As I said, part of my rule is that friends from those countries exchange coins with me. I have only been to Perú, Chile (which I forgot to mention with the coins, but I do have), Venezuela and New Zealand. I also landed in Ecuador, but didn't leave the plane and I overflew Colombia.
Yes, the Euro has played against the numismatic world. That's the sad part. And I also feel like it's not as much as a collectible as other currencies, even though it's rarely seen here, because it's so traded. But that German Euro I have is a souvenir from a German friend. I don't mix it with other Euro coins.
Old Argentine coins were really good looking too. We have had several currencies. The first one I remember, known popularly as "peso ley", had good coins and the next one (the "peso argentino"), which I saw for most of my childhood, also did include very nice ones. After that, came the "austral", whose notes and coins were really cheap looking. It's the shortest lived currency we've had. Then arrived the first version of the currency we have today, that's just called "peso". Those coins were good quality and the note design was good as well. Now the coins are long gone because their denomination would be worth less than nothing. There are newer coins that look much cheaper (and ARE much cheaper). New notes were issued because of the loss of value and because of political issues, which turned our note set into a potpourri. We have three different variants of the 50 and 100 peso notes!
Coin collection topic: I found a 1/2 Swiss franc coin today on the bus. I haven't had such a coin before. :D Not a new country where I have a coin from, but an important coin in my collection.
A number about me:
1
The number of CV's I had to send to find a new job this time around.
It's a refreshing change from most other times I looked for a job, let me leave it at that.
Only 1? That's great haha. Congrats!
Yes! Huge congratulations! In my life, I have never been able to find a job sending CVs. I do have got jobs in the past for which I have been asked to send a CV when the application process was already underway, but from scratch, it has never worked to me. I've send hundreds and got nothing XD The job I have now, I got it because I was referred by a friend of mine. So it's really great that you got it on the first shot! :)
Quote from: Usrin on February 06, 2022, 09:23:52 PM
The plans of my boss for business trips in 2022 include Saudi Arabia (probability: 90%) and the USA (70%).
The plans have been realized, so it's time to update my statistics.
Countries where I spent at least a night (sleeping on a bus/train does not count), with the number of nights:
Hungary: ~11000
Norway: ~3600
Germany: ~35
Slovakia: 22 (+countless day trips --> more time than in FRA/KSA/ROM)
France: 24
Saudi Arabia: 24
Romania: 23
Sweden: 13
Greece: 13
Italy: 11
Poland: 11
United Kingdom: 11 (of which England: 8, Scotland: 3)
Denmark: ~10
Czech Republic: ~10
Austria: 9
United States: 9
Netherlands: 8
Israel: 8
Oman: 8
Slovenia: 8
Albania: 7
Spain: 7
Portugal: 6
Argentina: 5
Belgium: 3
Country I visited for a day trip:
Croatia
Country I 'visited' only for transit:
Latvia (transfer between flights, not leaving the airport)
Countries I have only flown over:
Bahrain
Belarus
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Cyprus
(Greenland)
Iceland
Iran
Iraq
Kuwait
Lithuania
Morocco
Qatar
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
Uruguay
Quote from: Usrin on May 23, 2022, 02:49:50 PM
Quote from: Usrin on February 06, 2022, 09:23:52 PM
The plans of my boss for business trips in 2022 include Saudi Arabia (probability: 90%) and the USA (70%).
The plans have been realized, so it's time to update my statistics.
My personal coordinate records also need an update after travelling much further West than ever before.
North: 68° 48' 12" N, 16° 32' 55" E - Harstad, NOR, 2014
South: 34° 48' 57" S, 58° 32' 31" W - Buenos Aires Ezeiza airport, ARG, 2019
West: 37° 53' 49" N,
122° 31' 31" W - Mill Valley, USA, 2022
East: 22° 45' 06" N, 59° 19' 44" E - near Qualhat, OMN, 2017
Altitude: ~2940 m - Mt Etna, ITA, 2014
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 02, 2019, 07:17:52 PM
Quote from: Usrin on August 02, 2019, 01:18:47 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 02, 2019, 12:48:04 PM
Present state of my coin collection:
I'm keeping three coins (Argentinian 1 peso, Omani 50 baisa and 25 baisa) for your collection.
Oh! A peso? Thanks! Can't wait to feel it in my hands!
Sometimes I also forget about the baisas.
(Then 42 currencies of countries instead of 40.)
Omain, Argentinian and Saudi Arabian coins have arrived to my collection. Half a Cypriot pound was also added to it. I also have some new coins from Jordan and Israel.
In the meantime, I've noticed that I have Slovenian and Russian coins in my collection, too. I've identified my oldest coin (from 1800), it is a 1 Austrian kreuzer coin.
Six years later (https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?msg=71917), I move the south record of a few degrees. Still no southern hemisphere though :(
- North: Knivskjellodden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knivskjellodden), Norway: 71° 11' North
- East: Narita Airport, Japan - 140° 23' East
- South:
Nara, Japan - 34° 41' North Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur - 28° 2' North - West: Keflavik Airport, Iceland - 22° 37' West
Oh... I'll provide my own cardinal records ;D
* North - Maracaibo, Venezuela: 10°38′N 71°38′W
* East - Taupo, New Zealand: 38.6875°S 176.0694°E
* South - Punta Tombo, Argentina: 44°02′28″S 65°12′36″W
* West - Guayaquil, Ecuador: 02°11′24″S 79°53′15″W
The East and West extremes assume that 180 degreest standard latitude is where East and West end and meet, which is arbitrary, but pretty official. They also take into account only extremes I experienced landed. Otherwise, my East and West extremes are both 180 degrees (flying over the Pacific).
OK, I don't travel a lot, but I have been places...
North: Malmö, Sweden: 55°60N, 13°00W
East: Beijing, China: 39°90N, 116°36W
South: Bogotá, Colombia: 4°70N, -74°12W
West: Houston, Texas, USA: 29°76N, -95°35W
Well, I have already broken my old North mark, since I'm now in Paris... and will soon break it again when I visit the Netherlands and Germany. By the way, I'd like to find a place where I can watch the Northern night sky. It's often cloudy over here and the city lights don't let me see much of the stars.
Welcome to this side of the pond Cas, have a nice holiday!
A new number about me: 2.
The number of pipsqueaks I met in real life today. Bringing my lifetime total up to 2.
Quote from: Cas on November 10, 2022, 11:21:07 PMWell, I have already broken my old North mark, since I'm now in Paris... and will soon break it again when I visit the Netherlands and Germany. By the way, I'd like to find a place where I can watch the Northern night sky. It's often cloudy over here and the city lights don't let me see much of the stars.
Hacer un dibujo en mi propia manolibrar la consiencia de toda moralTirar una vaca del decimo pisoy si hay luna llena irse a caminarUna ostra chilena, un beso en Pariscortarse el pelo y cambiar la narizSi Charly escribiese la constitucionsi nunca quisiera a quien nunca me quisoSer dos y ser diez, todavia soy yosi la venganza borrase el dolorSer seco, recto, ausente, amoralsi no me acordase del terror que te diTodo eso me haria feliztonterias me harian felizPero nada me hara tan feliz como dos margaritas
Quote from: Shoegazing Leo on November 16, 2022, 01:26:27 AMQuote from: Cas on November 10, 2022, 11:21:07 PMWell, I have already broken my old North mark, since I'm now in Paris... and will soon break it again when I visit the Netherlands and Germany. By the way, I'd like to find a place where I can watch the Northern night sky. It's often cloudy over here and the city lights don't let me see much of the stars.
Make a drawing on my own hand
free the conscience of all morality
Throw a cow from the tenth floor
and if there is a full moon, go for a walk
A Chilean oyster, a kiss in Paris
cut hair and change nose
If Charly wrote the constitution
if I never loved someone who never loved me
Be two and be ten, it's still me
if revenge erased the pain
Being dry, straight, absent, amoral
If I didn't remember the terror that I gave you
all that would make me happy
nonsense would make me happy
But nothing will make me as happy as two daisies
Nice, but difficult to follow.. 8)
Quote from: CTG on November 18, 2022, 12:29:33 AMBöbszlee, Akoss Poo, Usrin, Lupuszka, Kahdra, Zak McKracken, Umberto Ácsó, Bonzai Joe, Dinmor, JTK, KHR, Lise...
Keeping aside family pipsqueaks (Manowar, Eddie Brother, La Popis) I met Paleke, Goyo, Gutix and Lukas. I thought the list was larger.
Quote from: alanrotoi on November 18, 2022, 12:58:59 AMQuote from: CTG on November 18, 2022, 12:29:33 AMBöbszlee, Akoss Poo, Usrin, Lupuszka, Kahdra, Zak McKracken, Umberto Ácsó, Bonzai Joe, Dinmor, JTK, KHR, Lise...
Keeping aside family pipsqueaks (Manowar, Eddie Brother, La Popis) I met Paleke, Goyo, Gutix and Lukas. I thought the list was larger.
Nobody :(. Stunts meeting 2023?
Quote from: Argammon on November 19, 2022, 10:46:31 AMQuote from: alanrotoi on November 18, 2022, 12:58:59 AMQuote from: CTG on November 18, 2022, 12:29:33 AMBöbszlee, Akoss Poo, Usrin, Lupuszka, Kahdra, Zak McKracken, Umberto Ácsó, Bonzai Joe, Dinmor, JTK, KHR, Lise...
Keeping aside family pipsqueaks (Manowar, Eddie Brother, La Popis) I met Paleke, Goyo, Gutix and Lukas. I thought the list was larger.
Nobody :(. Stunts meeting 2023?
Yes please:..
Let's organize one properly this time.
Amsterdam is a easy to reach location through Schiphol.
Is Berlin also good to reach? Or other cities?
Someday during the summer probably, or is an out of high season Saturday a better choice to save money?
Maybe we should make a topic with a poll for it..
Just thinking out loud..
Quote from: Daniel3D on November 19, 2022, 10:54:38 AMQuote from: Argammon on November 19, 2022, 10:46:31 AMQuote from: alanrotoi on November 18, 2022, 12:58:59 AMQuote from: CTG on November 18, 2022, 12:29:33 AMBöbszlee, Akoss Poo, Usrin, Lupuszka, Kahdra, Zak McKracken, Umberto Ácsó, Bonzai Joe, Dinmor, JTK, KHR, Lise...
Keeping aside family pipsqueaks (Manowar, Eddie Brother, La Popis) I met Paleke, Goyo, Gutix and Lukas. I thought the list was larger.
Nobody :(. Stunts meeting 2023?
Yes please:..
Let's organize one properly this time.
Amsterdam is a easy to reach location through Schiphol.
Is Berlin also good to reach? Or other cities?
Someday during the summer probably, or is an out of high season Saturday a better choice to save money?
Maybe we should make a topic with a poll for it..
Just thinking out loud..
A separate topic is a good idea. Let's find out who is interested. :-)
Quote from: alanrotoi on November 18, 2022, 12:58:59 AMQuote from: CTG on November 18, 2022, 12:29:33 AMBöbszlee, Akoss Poo, Usrin, Lupuszka, Kahdra, Zak McKracken, Umberto Ácsó, Bonzai Joe, Dinmor, JTK, KHR, Lise...
Keeping aside family pipsqueaks (Manowar, Eddie Brother, La Popis) I met Paleke, Goyo, Gutix and Lukas. I thought the list was larger.
Drivers I have known before becoming a Stunts driver:
Family: Lupuszka (I made her a Stunts driver).
Former classmates: CTG, Usrin.
Drivers I met during Stunts meetings:
2003: Zak McKracken (and dunno who of him, friends, girlfriend, relatives... some of them participated in the competition)
2004: KHR, JTK, Bonzai Joe, Dinmor
2005: Aignur, Krys Toff, Diesel Joe
2006: Lised
Other drivers:
-Szabee, a friend from the University, I made him a Stunts driver for one race.
-Böbszlee, around 2014-15.
Other interesting fact: I heard Gutix playing HammerFall's Dreamland's intro guitar riffs online.
Oh well keeping aside former friends I only met Gutix and Paleke thanks to Stunts. ;D
Quote from: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 22, 2022, 06:33:58 PMOther interesting fact: I heard Gutix playing HammerFall's Dreamland's intro guitar riffs online.
Ooh that's cool!
I forgot Kahdra, my wife... I also made her a Stunts driver.
I was a Stunts pipsqueak before meeting any other. A friend of mine brought me Stunts when I had just got my first computer back in 1993. He himself wasn't very interested in the game. He liked it, but liked others much more. He hadn't even tried to make a working track. He thought the game had a bug that prevented one from creating valid tracks only because he had tried once to make a track and it didn't occur to him that it had to be a closed circuit.
First time I entered a tournament, it was WSC. I entered with my brother. Some time later, I met Paleke personally. And now, recently, I've met Daniel3D and Overdrijf.
Leo's post is a well known song here. It actually belongs to the Brazilian band Os Paralamas do Succeso. They have been especially successful in Argentina in the 90s. Very good band! :)
Quote from: Cas on December 10, 2022, 04:36:40 PMLeo's post is a well known song here. It actually belongs to the Brazilian band Os Paralamas do Succeso. They have been especially successful in Argentina in the 90s. Very good band! :)
I put the spanish language version, not the original in portuguese
The band is related in Brazil with the 80s.
This is the original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts_7BYubYws
But their best video, in my opinion is for a version in portuguese of a argentine Fito Paez' song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeewHmUyt6g
Yes, Os Paralamas released many songs in Spanish. I read they've been more successful over here than anywhere else. I can tell from my own memories that they were indeed playing everywhere you'd go at that time. That's a very good video. Fito has also released several of his songs in Portuguese. I miss those times because that was the last period in which the most popular music that played in Argentina was also good music. After that, people started to prefer bad music and if you wanted good music, you have to search for it.