Officially on ice.
Well there she goes. Surf forecasting website Magic Seaweed is reporting that Portugal’s National Health Ministry is enforcing a ban on surfing Nazaré beginning today, November 4th, enforced by the harbor captain with “failure to comply” incurring “a criminal offense punished by law.”
You certainly recall the recent “monster” swell which had much fighting and ski jumping and bad behavior. More than 30,000 spectators packed the cliffs to watch the punching and hair pulling and no-no business, which alarmed authorities. Oh, not the naughty water play but all those looky loos.
Europe, like the rest of the world, is experiencing a second or third wave of the dreaded Coronavirus pandemic and having many people together is not generally smiled on so there she goes.
But were you planning an autumn trip to The House that Garrett Built? Maybe a little poke around the lineup like famous newsman Anderson Cooper?
Ice those, for now.
More as the story develops.
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Should link em to beachgrit
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
Hé is stuck to that board like glue !
Glue foot was the nickname of Todd Martin, eighties So-Cal surfer. Forgot about him.
Some rare blokes just never fall off ….
We lost another glue foot legend ( though unknown ) from Cronulla , Shaun Smurf Smith who sadly passed away recently …. In all the years I saw him surf , he never fell off once , ever .
So many talents that never went on tour. Kevin Reed was a surfer from up here that had so much talent but just didn’t want to do the contest thing. That was before Curren, and there was nobody representing the state.
I laughed at that.
Is your wife questioning the bulletproof vest at the dinner table?
the good thing about japan is there are no psycho muzzies trying to behead people
So no shortage of hospital beds, still 300% death increase?
Asking society politely works in a polite society. Murica though?
How you handling your new celebrity commentator headliner act?
We are the world, we are the children, we are the ones who make a brighter day, just you and me!!!
Spam can really ruin your figure
I didn’t realize he was pregnant recently.
It didn’t show.
…greasy haired testosterone tainted macho tears…
He’s still the best by miles
Who is Anderson Cooper ?
If you need to ask that question, are you sure you’re up to it ?
Perhaps a pool is more suitable…
a couple of birds getting in a fight in the line up at a burger joint. just another Saturday night after closing time.
Funny how , when you luck out , and get a Ronnie Coote before closing time , you don’t dream about the pizza , burger or KEBAB that got away ….
Shared sacrifice? Prevent spread due to travel? Perceived fairness? Easy solution? It is a valid question, we live in rural France and infections here are quite low. In metropolitan areas very high. Our village is closed completely even the little grocery, the cafe/tabac.
As you say 4 weeks not so bad so hope for better days.
I could imagine some shit playing out like that. As an outsider I wasn’t privy to everything going on. I was more referring to class structure, what is expected of you, who is senior in each social interaction and a few more comical things. For example, when you go to a Japanese Hot Spring it is natural for me to use the tiny towel they give you to cover my dick, but in Japan if you do that you look like you are childish, instead you have to put the towel on your head or over your shoulder and stride to the bath like you own the joint. Another time, a western friend and I had been surfing and camping along Irago for a few days and finally decided we needed some decent food so traveled east along the beach road and went to get dinner at a restaurant we found so we wandered in and the place smelt delicious and the portion sizes looked huge plus the whole place was full of cool looking Japanese people sitting on tatami mats at low tables, when a waitress saw us she just turned us on our heels and sent us straight back out the door, I still have no idea what we did wrong – we ended up eating in front of the local convenience store again. I think the biggest indicator that people think different was this huge vending machine near my apartment where you could buy a few different types of whole slabs of beer (24 cans) it operated 24 hours a day and was maybe 10 bucks more than what you’d pay in the shop, you would press the button and the slab would drop onto a conveyor belt and travel through the machine (you could see through little windows) and drop into a massive slot located under the selection buttons – anyway I was like, kids must go crazy on this thing and people were like, no they don’t, they are not allowed to.
You shoulda given them a lecture on racial prejudice,
I wish I was there to see you Gettin bounced cause of your round eye
Might not have got bounced if we had a tough guy like you there.
Yes , it’s strange how when governments treat people as adults or responsible that they may act responsibly ? I lived next to an inner city park in Kiel, Nth Germany , where one was allowed to drink alcohol and BBQ …. Even full of students , I never saw or heard sirens howling or the riot squad trying to break up over zealous party people who quietly packed up their byo bbqs , put the ashes in the bins allocated , and took the empties home with them to claim the deposit ….
My neighbours there would complain to the building manager every time I had a bbq on my balcony. They never got used to it.
Are we not allowed to drink in parks here? I think I’ve avoided fines and cautions and riot squads by pure luck.
Correct, travelling is the issue.