Why do you do this for fun?

[PeteHall]

Last night, I was tempted by the prospects of diving at a local site, where the South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group have recently entered a flooded drainage adit after 15 years work at the site. It was utterly miserable and I turned back after 85m, swearing never to return.

Here's a flavour of the approach. Conditions deteriorated...

Needless to say, by half way down the first pint afterwards, we were making plans for a return.

As my wife asked me the first time I took her caving: Why do you do this for fun?

 

[pwhole]

Because nobody would pay you to do that

 

[shotlighter]

Because nobody would pay you to do that

If we were doing it for a job, we'd all be on strike for better conditions!

 

[afraidofthedank]

Because I like climbing, mountaineering, and canyoning. Since caving is a combination of the best parts of those things, it’s essentially an exercise in efficiency.

Honestly I don’t know. Someone once said it’s like being on the moon - it’s a totally different environment. I’m sure a lot of people can relate.

 

[LadyMud]

"Someone once said it’s like being on the moon"
Neil Armstrong, perhaps?

 

[JasonC]

It's the camaraderie with others who also suffer from an addiction to needless discomfort.
Probably best not to over-analyse, lest it reveal terrible personality defects we all suffer from...

 

[TheBitterEnd]

personality defects we all suffer from

Form which we all suffer ... surely
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BTW What personality defects? 🤣

 

[JonP]

This thread is brilliant!

 

[Ed]

It beats doing the housework

 

[Cantclimbtom]

"Someone once said it’s like being on the moon"
Neil Armstrong, perhaps?

Half the people reading this probably think that's a facetious comment, the other half may be familiar with some of his his caving exploits

 

[LadyMud]

Glad someone "got it"

And apparently the European Space Agency train their astronauts in caves Wiki link

 

[samh]

Our unofficial club motto is "because sometimes it's not shit"

 

[Tangent_tracker]

Fun? Who said anything about fun? It's all an elaborate excuse to go to the pub!

 

[Martin Wright]

Reminds me of a slogan once used on CDG hoodies: “Our dreams are other people’s nightmares”

 

[JasonC]

Form which we all suffer ... surely
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BTW What personality defects? 🤣

Or indeed From which we all suffer ... (Yay, I win the pedants' cup!!* )

(*pedant's?)

 

[mikem]

Or indeed From which we all suffer ... (Yay, I win the pedants' cup!!* )

(*pedant's?)

Depends if there are one or more...

It's simply taking you out of worrying about modern life (often issues that aren't important to your survival).

 

[KristianBrook]

In the answer that the head of the serial killing cannibal family gave during that episode of Torchwood when they ask why they did it.

"Because it makes me happy!"

 

[alanw]

the serial killing cannibal family gave during that episode of Torchwood

Filmed at the SWCC headquarters.