The obligatory Introduction thread

Panic! · 25 Jan 2016, 2:21 pm

I'll paste in this from another intro thread I read.

Echo's personal interrogation checklist;
1. How old are you? I'm old
2. How many places have you explored? Lots. Lots and lots and lots. Been doing this for over 30 years now both in Australia and overseas. .
3. Have you tried/are you interested in drains or just abandoned buildings? Yes and Yes
4. Do you do any kind of photography while exploring for instagram, flickr or just a personal collection? Yes, no no and yes. I have no web site and I'm too old for instagram
5. Do you/have you ever done any graffiti? No
6. Oh and what do you mean by urbex politics? All that crap about people not exploring with someone because they did that or someone said this about them or they won't follow such and such's rules and all that rubbish. I was in it for me. Not the popularity contests or pissing rights.

I'm old. I used to do this stuff back in the 70s. I don't really do urban exploration any more. I more or less gave it up. I still do photography of abandoned buildings, but strictly those I can access legally. I don't explore in groups. I explore and photograph alone. I don't do illegal stuff. I don't explore drains, I used to, but not any more. I don't explore with others because of the crap that goes along with that. I'm here for amusement and to look at the pretty pictures and to regale you young uns with stories of "back in the day when I was young" in Grandpa Simpson fashion. Plus I'm here to rain on your parade when you proudly say stuff like "Oh I explored Anzac for the first time today" by saying annoying stuff like "Oh yeah I remember the 50th time I explored that back in the 80s after they put the roof on the chamber when it was still connected to The Falls drain." Or when you say "I explored the outside of that cool tower in Bangkok' I say "Did you get in via the side entrance or the one right in front b y the restaurant where the staff go into whinge mode despite the massive hole you can just walk through from their cafe? Did you check out the abandoned fish mall too? It is a five minute walk from Kho-san Road by the canal. Easy access from the side. Or did you check out the massive abandoned railway works in Bangkok?"
Then when you get uppity and start sprouting the holy grails of urban exploration like "Have you done the
Paris Catacombs - Yes.
Odessa Catacombs - Yes (but just a tour)
Chernobyal - Pripyat - Yes.
Gunkanjima - Yes Before they started doing tours to it.
G-cans - Yes (a tour again)
Missile silos - Yes
Fatapur Siri - Yes
Agdam - Yes
The Aral Sea - Yes
Cane Hill - Yes
Botanic Gardens Station - Yes
East St Louis - Yes
Bucharest forts - Yes
Ryugyong Hotel - Yes
Fukajima - No

I was in Japan before that happened.
Gates of Hell - Yes
Anzac Drain - Yes (so many times)
Drednaught - Before it was locked up.
Herk's Pillars - Yes
..... Bunker in Sydney - Yes apart from Bankstown and Richmond

Yeah. I'm OLD. I've probably done most of what you have done and then some. But I'm also a loner and anti-social so I don't play well with others which is why I don't normally blow my trumpet and why none of you have heard of me and none of you will probably explore with me. I probably don't have the patience to explore with young adults and they probably couldn't put up with me being such a grump.

I have a dry sense of humor.

I'm here to be an armchair explorer and look at your pictures really. No more exploring for me. I'm too old for that s***.

dodger · 25 Jan 2016, 2:34 pm

Awesome! Great intro thread. Thanks for the write-up and welcome! Would love to hear more of your stores!

Echo · 25 Jan 2016, 4:08 pm

Gosh you must've been going full necro on the forums to find my "interrogation", PS that blue hurts my eyes.
Welcome!

Voodooz · 25 Jan 2016, 6:50 pm

Welcome to the forums!

Panic! · 25 Jan 2016, 6:55 pm

Thanks for the welcome. You guys know this is all publicly viewable yeah?

Echo · 25 Jan 2016, 7:18 pm

Oldfart wrote:Thanks for the welcome. You guys know this is all publicly viewable yeah?

Yep that's why we generally avoid mentioning certain things like location details etc.

Panic! · 25 Jan 2016, 7:37 pm

Here's an old far question. How do I quote text like that?

Vicinity · 25 Jan 2016, 8:06 pm

Oldfart wrote:Here's an old far question. How do I quote text like that?

On each post next to the plus/minus arrows on the right theres three dots, click that then click reply with quote

Aydun · 25 Jan 2016, 8:38 pm

I explored a drain called Anzac for the first time a few days ago. It's a pretty cool drain down in Melbourne you may have heard of. Lots of brick and bluestone.

Panic! · 25 Jan 2016, 9:16 pm

Aydun wrote:I explored a drain called Anzac for the first time a few days ago. It's a pretty cool drain down in Melbourne you may have heard of. Lots of brick and bluestone.

Yeah, I may have heard of it.
Lots of ribs across the ceiling to bash your head on too up past the chamber unless you want to take the right side tunnel and break your back stooping. When you get to the split you can walk for over a mile in that round red brick tunnel with just two exits if I recall it right. It ends with a wall and a couple of those balloon shaped tunnels that are just barely big enough to walk in. It runs parallel to the railway for a long way. The bluestone goes south, up a couple of low falls into a stoopy capped canal. There used to be an easy exit into a car park along that one, or maybe it was still before the split. It was barred up a long time ago. The bluestone tunnel had a couple of exits south of the railway line in a quiet street.
When I was a kid lots of it still was open to the sky up past the pillars. The proper tunnel was the one along from the car park and upstream. I used to put my bike in it and ride up from the Yarra. Those were the days. Then we moved to Sydney. Those were the days when every torch still used D size batteries which lasted all day. Not with your new fangled LED things that last all week.

Midget · 28 Jan 2016, 11:42 am

Welcome, Oldfart! Hahahahahahhaa. Great intro btw.

Pussinboots · 28 Jan 2016, 4:00 pm

Oldfart wrote:Here's an old far question. How do I quote text like that?

Hello.