I would like to point out that the image of the cowboy and wild west being the hot and dry southern states isn’t that accurate.
The wild west was also Oregon country, now Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska.
In the latter four, even now, if you go too far into the wild unprepared they won’t find you.
Exactly, there’s a whole bunch of “winter” cowboys in Montana and Wyoming, lol
Into the wild
I see what you did there
They’re not called the goodlands.
It’s just called wilderness, looks beautiful, arguably more deadly.
Parks in AZ on the border of Phoenix(for example) don’t have notices that cars left in the lot will have immediate search and rescue operations started to find them. Parks on the northern edge of Vancouver do.
cars left in the lot will have immediate search and rescue
Why do they have a lot, if parking there is considered an emergency?
Android deleted the word overnight. Specifically at dusk.
You’re supposed to bring your car with you portage style. It’s all part of leaving no trace.
props for RDR2 for outright beginning with cowboys in hip-deep snow
The reverse of this is camels: they fitst evolved their adaptions to survive the cold, not the desert.
That isn’t the reverse, it’s the same deal - adaptations to one place turn out to be beneficial in another. Also, the desert IS cold at night, no?
Arctic deserts are also a thing (e.g. Iceland). The similarities tell the whole story:
- Poor access to liquid water
- Need to insulate body from temperature extremes, wind
- Food sources are sporadically available at best
- Need to minimize contact with ground or insulate feet
This is not to suggest that polar bears are similarly adapted to the Sahara. Rather, it’s not a huge shift, but it’s still a change.
in a similar vein rainforests do not have to be tropical, there are several temperate rainforests in europe of which the southwestern norwegian coast is apparently one
I’ve found cowboy boots to be very slippery on snow or ice. This person’s credibility is sinking fast…
You must not have enough points in style or cool.
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If you step in mud, wouldn’t your boot slide off?
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Fair.
That’s some letterkenny shit rt
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And the leather soles get mushy…and the salt used to melt the ice absolutely shreds the leather just above the stitching when it dries out. Western boots suck in the snow, and it’s a quick way to ruin them. Even rubber-soled ones like some of Ariat’s don’t last, but they’re better on wet surfaces.
It’s kind of wild how tons of people in Alberta wear them considering the climate
If they put hiking boot soles on them they could be OK. I suppose you could add “spikes” yourself for winter. Like these: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=shoe+spikes+winter&iax=images&ia=images
Like a greentext…just made up BS. Really, the “cowboy” was the only one dressed appropriately for weather?
And according to this person being dressed up for the cold is wearing clothes that are designed to be worn in warm weather. Dumb.
Cowboy gear was outdoor working gear, this is completely believable if the guy was in actual work clothes.
Y’all just city af.
A cowboy hat, banana, a duster, and boots is how i understood the description which is warm weather garb.
You’re just too city to understand that.
Bro never heard about long johns and thinks dusters are exclusively warm weather gear 💀
(Also the description specifically mentions a poncho, not a duster, but ponchos are also useful for cold weather)
What makes it dumb is that the clothing described wouldn’t have been what kept them warm and unfazed, that would be the layers underneath the made up cowboy’s attire.
What makes it silly is that cowboys exist across the very snowy north and have since cowboys have existed anywhere.
Not American but doesn’t central America get cold as fuck at night? I would assume that’s what cowboys dressed for since you can always remove clothes but you can’t exactly create them from thin air at night.
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I use caps for face protection from rain.
I would very much like to breed this person with Cunk to see what kind of child we end up with.
The cowboy or the poster?
First one, then t’other.
Unexpected Futurama.
Cowboys are… prepared to exist outside - whatever could they have been thinking!? :-P
Seriously, each of those elements was intelligently designed for the purpose that cowboys had for them. I use many of those same elements myself, while people prepared only to sprint from car to indoors have a whole other thing going on.
And I’m sure I would have laughed at that cowboy had I seen him while I was wearing actual winter clothes. People’s brain just freeze come winter time and they become too dumb to dress properly.
That really needed some punctuation. A whole lot of it.
I’ve come to adopt a lack of punctuation at times to emphasize a certain mental state, one where cohesion and structure impede the tone.
It really does evoke a sort of manic energy
Was half expecting pepe silvia to be involved somehow 🤣
bro got high af after getting home from BIOL 130
The culture that king is from hasn’t evolved a system with punctuation yet
kids these days i tell yah hwat
Just imagine the JPEG artifacts are commas and periods.
