BS: What is indoor camping?

Subject: What is indoor camping?
From: GUEST,Gill
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 06:15 PM

Call me slow or studid if you wish, but I keep seeing references to 'indoor camping' in various threads.

Can someone tell me what it means?

Thank you

Gill

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 06:21 PM

I can tell you what gutter camping is.... but then we raised two sailors.

Was it indoor camping when I had a MudGather here? IS that how our place differs from a bed and breakfast?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 06:30 PM

I was indoor camping for a day and a half when the ice storm knocked out our power...

Thank gods we live in a place with a gas stove and water heater, and a fireplace...

.-)

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Jeri
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 06:31 PM

I think it just means people bring a sleeping bag and claim a bit of floor space.

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 06:35 PM

Crashing on the floor, and being able to avail yourself of facilities such as running water and flush toilets, and maybe a kitchen.

It does not in my experience imply campfires in the corridors.

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 06:40 PM

Try a Google search on "Kenneth Williams", or "Danny La Rue" ....

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 06:45 PM

I think Jeri and McGrath had it right. You get the advantages of being indoors (loos, weatherproof, etc), but probably less privacy than outdoor camping. Probably OK for people who went to boarding school.

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 06:59 PM

At least if someone is snoring in the same room you can throw a shoe at them. If they are snoring in the next tent (or quarrelling) there is not much you can do.

And if needs be it's a lot easier to move your sleeping bag to another room in the middle of the night than to shift your tent.

Boarding school is a great preparation for all kinds of vicissitudes, not just indoor camping. Prison, being held hostage, shipwreck...Or of course running up against a malevolent wizard, if it was the right boarding school.

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 07:03 PM

A lot of museums, zoos, and the like have programs where a group spends the night within the facility. Here, both the Center for Science and Industry and the Columbus Zoo are very popular with scout and school groups. The zoo incorporates a part of their Education Center building for "Indoor Camping" and COSI has a "convertible" lecture hall. The Ohio Decorative Arts Center also has a weekend program for young artists where they "indoor camp."

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 08:02 PM

Definitely no fires in the hallways at our house.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Tone d' F
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 08:30 PM

I do several re-enactment shows a year and usually have to opt for a brick tent (I need access to mains electric at night)

but theres nothing like a large room full of 60 hairy drunk snoring vikings to put you off indoor camping

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Michael S
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 09:10 PM

For my wife, it's a night in a Hilton that hasn't been remodeled.

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Michael S
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 09:10 PM

For my wife, it's a night in a Hilton that hasn't been remodeled.

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 04 Feb 02 - 11:11 PM

Grown-up slumber party.

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: JeZeBeL
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 12:41 AM

Camping indoors...hence the name indoor camping.. what more can I say?

Jez

camping indoors means having all luxuries including en suite bathroom!!

catsPHiddle

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 01:43 AM

But it's not really indoor camping unless you put a big sheet over the dining room table and set your sleeping bag up inside there, then play your flashlight over the sides of the sheet, shining it through to the walls and ceiling, making funny shadow animal shapes with a free hand, whispering silly jokes and scary stories until someone yells at you to turn out the light, pipe down, and go to sleep!

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: alanww
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 06:31 AM

It's what us UK morrismen do after we meet together for "a day of dance". In practice, some of us get absolutely rat-arsed (ie after drinking, dancing, playing and singing all day and into the night).
We then go back to our base, which is often in a school or village hall, and fall over (hopefully onto our own camp bed and into our own sleeping bag). Then we f*rt, belch and get up at regular intervals to get rid of some beer - all with the aim of communing with our friends(!?), ie keeping them awake all night!
Then, too early in the morning(!) there is the traditional English breakfast of greasy fried sausages, bacon, eggs, black pudding, (curried?) baked beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, fried bread and, if you are lucky, chipped potatoes - all washed down with some more beer!
Magnificent! It's what made our nation what it is today!

"Come fill up your glasses and let us be merry ...!"
Alan

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 06:53 AM

I recall MC Fat turning up with a tent and asking the organiser which part of the Gym floor he should hammer the tent pegs into!
Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 06:55 AM

You'd probably have a more restful and civilised time with the vikings than the morris men.

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 07:00 AM

It's domitory sleeping where you have to bring your own bed. Most events that have it, work on theprinciple that everyone's going to be too drunk to care about who else they're sharing the room with ! Come to Stony Stratford and experience it in action.

Personally, I'll be in my caravan - especially if Kevin McGrath is wandering around all night moving his sleeping bag to different rooms.

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Ferret
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 03:37 PM

Tone d' F Hark at the pot calling the kettle black, you drink more, snore louder & fart more than any one I know.

Most dome tent can be put up indoors with out pegs, thus indoor camping.

All the best ferret

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: oombanjo
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 04:22 PM

Hmmm Indoor camping,I did it once, went on my own! came back with loads of friends?? had to shave of all my hair and us some kind of ointment to get rid of them.

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Gareth
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 06:56 PM

Don't worry Butties, I'll be bringing me old fathers Davey Lanp to Stoney Stratford - when you see a blue cap over the flame thats the time to get out fast

I'd bring the Canary, but that would be inhumane tratment.

Gareth

Oh the firman's records are missing,
The records of 42 days,
The Colliery owners, they had them destroyed,
For to cover thier Criminal ways!

Emmm! Gresford in the 30's , Enron now !

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: GUEST,Mr Red emptying his web record
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 07:22 PM

Imagine if you will - long, loud, monotone, in the low register but warm and dry. Light sleepers need not apply.

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: GUEST,Joerg
Date: 05 Feb 02 - 08:28 PM

Nice, Gill.

"Indoor Camping" was exactly the expression I once used to describe what I was doing having moved to a flat which I had no furniture to put into.

My original language is german and I was speaking german then. I did NOT translate "Indoor Camping" into german!

Funny to see that english speaking people are inventing the same expression for their own language. Still more funny to see what I might have missed or "missed" when I practised "Indoor Camping".

LOL

Joerg

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 06 Feb 02 - 06:48 AM

Linda objects to me farting in the caravan, so I'll nip across to the sleeping rooms when I can't hold it back any longer! - Just to help you preserve the atmosphere in there - so to speak.

Mind you in wider context of the atmosphere, it'll probably knock a new hole in the ozone layer !

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 06 Feb 02 - 10:37 AM

It's funny the way that the same subjects always seem to crop up on the "Cat" at the same time. For instance this seems rather appropriate.

So who's bringing the NEUTRADOL ?

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 06:33 AM

That's a real contradictio in adjecto - either you are living in camp or under a roof. But it is practised as living in straitened circumstances (water from the well, hearth fired with wood, sleeping in bags or under blankets on the floor, on tables, on straw).
Nevertheless it can be done also luxuriously: It is said when a Shah of Persia visited Imperial Berlin, the guards and valets slept on the floor, they slaughtered rams in the Hotel rooms and roasted the mutton on the floors. When he left, the parole of the day was the name of the Bavarian town "Schweinfurt" = Pig is gone.

Wilfried

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: gnu
Date: 07 Feb 02 - 07:03 AM

Ok... now the real meaning. "Indoor camping" is code for a night of passion. It is derived from the activity of raising a tent in the bedsheets with the penis.

Subject: RE: BS: What is indoor camping?
From: 53
Date: 08 Feb 02 - 06:55 AM

LIving in a house with no heat, and electricity, and among other things no phone.