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Are hammocks becoming popular?

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Shower_Boy
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I just got a Winner parachute double hammock and I'm in love. I got mine for pretty cheap, do you guys think these hammocks will become popular over the summer?
Apr 26 2017 5:29PM
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bait
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Your cool in my mind.
Apr 26 2017 5:32PM
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brotherdad
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Hammocks were all the rage during my senior year of high school. I still bring my double with me everywhere.
Apr 26 2017 5:33PM
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DayMan
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They've gotten way more popular at my school over the last 2 years I've been here. I used to be one of the few that would hang it up on trees around campus but now the good spots are filled with hammocks every day
Apr 26 2017 5:45PM
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saskskier
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I bring my ENO hammock anytime there is even a remote chance I'll be outside. It doesn't take up any space and sets up in like a minute and beats sitting on the ground or in a chair.
Apr 26 2017 6:06PM
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snowpocalypse
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When were they not popular. Are you talking about "trendy" with your group of friends? Hell if I know. I've had my travel hammock for years and it lives in my truck. Have one for the back yard and two more in the camper. Ya never know when it will be hammock season.
Apr 26 2017 7:20PM
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theabortionator
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Did hammocks ever become unpopular?
Apr 26 2017 7:29PM
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Swandog7
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jakelewiskiHammocks were all the rage during my senior year of high school. I still bring my double with me everywhere.


Pretty much this. Ive hung up my hammocks outside during lunch and in my astro class and like 30 kids in my grade bought them the next week. Stupid how trendy people are. Half of them don't even know how to set them up properly
Apr 26 2017 7:49PM
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JAHpow
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I won a hammock from a Christmas white elephant game with the relatives. Stoked to try it out this summer!
Apr 26 2017 8:16PM
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Deepskier
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Hammocks are the shit, I use mine like once a week in the summer.
Apr 26 2017 8:44PM
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Lonely
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Hammocking has become the new Starbucks in my area.

If someone's hammocking they'll put it on their snap story with something stupid like"crazy outdoor lifestyle"
Apr 26 2017 11:24PM
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dadi
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I can't remember a time they weren't popular
Apr 26 2017 11:45PM
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jjdsteeze
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I got one last summer and always have it with me.

Also, Hammock camping is super fun.
Apr 27 2017 8:42AM
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coolflash8
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ive seen more hammocks this spring than i ever have before... but i dont think theyre cool or anything
Apr 27 2017 10:45AM
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sky_steezy
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They are pretty popular in WA, they've been popular too.
Apr 27 2017 11:16AM
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Dddsz
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For some reason they definitely are becoming more popular right now. I got the ENO doublerest with suspension straps for one dollar with cash back from my REI credit card. So many of my friends are picking them up as well.
Apr 27 2017 1:58PM
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TOAST.
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Nature is trending
Apr 28 2017 5:24PM
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freestyler540
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I never was able to fall asleep in a hammock...
Apr 29 2017 8:19PM
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.lencon
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Hammock sex is weird.
Apr 29 2017 10:02PM
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chacha33
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There are people on campus at my school that hammock in a graveyard. Not sure how I would feel about a 19 year old political science major writing about how America is destined to be a socialist country literally over my dead body.

That being said I love mine and use it whenever I can. They're great especially if you have friends that have them too and you can go on lil day hammock trips and what not
Apr 30 2017 12:17AM
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50Kal
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chacha33There are people on campus at my school that hammock in a graveyard. Not sure how I would feel about a 19 year old political science major writing about how America is destined to be a socialist country literally over my dead body.


Like stringing the hammock up on grave stones/over the graves or using the trees off to the side in the graveyard?
Apr 30 2017 12:39AM
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chacha33
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50KalLike stringing the hammock up on grave stones/over the graves or using the trees off to the side in the graveyard?


They string them on trees suspended over a couple headstones on the corner of the graveyard. Its really no big deal and no one cares but it just irks me a little
Apr 30 2017 1:10AM
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49566738265
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Kind of afraid to ask, but how'd you come up with shower boy? Am I the only one noticing this? I need answers.
Apr 30 2017 6:20AM
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50Kal
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chacha33They string them on trees suspended over a couple headstones on the corner of the graveyard. Its really no big deal and no one cares but it just irks me a little


If I had a family member in that graveyard I'd probably wonder wtf they are doing.
But I guess as long as they are respectful it doesn't hurt anyone on a physical level.

Or maybe they hanging out with a dead relative.
Apr 30 2017 8:22AM
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Shower_Boy
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Dustin.Kind of afraid to ask, but how'd you come up with shower boy? Am I the only one noticing this? I need answers.


It's from a party my friend threw. The cops showed up and everyone ran down into the basement to hide but I knew they would check there so I went upstairs into my friends room and then they came upstairs so I hid in the bathroom, so I was forced to sit in the shower with the curtain pulled halfway until the cops left
Apr 30 2017 12:13PM
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ItsyaboiHUCK
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I've been seeing videos of hammock hot tubs now so pretty sure hammocks are all the rage
Apr 30 2017 12:15PM
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Chubz.
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This thread inspired me to buy a hammock, thanks shower boy!
Apr 30 2017 12:27PM
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jca
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I always have a little nylon hammock in my car and have a Hennessy Hammock for sub alpine hiking/camping. Hammocks are the shit.
Apr 30 2017 2:54PM
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Brule.
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Within the past two weeks, I've seen so many people suspending hammocks across campus at my school. They're everywhere from the woods outside of my dorm to right by the main pond on campus.

I've been also extremely tempted to buy one.
Apr 30 2017 3:43PM
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No.Quarter
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freestyler540I never was able to fall asleep in a hammock...


I'm the opposite. I get so little sleep if I'm camping on my sleeping pad but sleep like a baby in a hammock. However my sleeping pad is one of those shitty 1" foam ones.

i have an eno singlenest that was on sale at REI labeled as a double, so I think I might invest in something wider with a mosquito net and a fly this summer.
Apr 30 2017 8:49PM
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foolmetwice
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My freshman yr in hs circa 2012 mocking took off in mpls. I think we started the trend actually /passive claim. Anyways they ended up hiring security guards at the REI in bloomington for a while because kids would pull heists on like 100 Enos a day. Lol there was even a big community meeting in the park building near my house because all the neighborhood hoodlums would just take them straight out of ppls yards and the pta mommas were not having it. Personally I can't sleep in them (brought my hennessy hammock on my bike trip to maine last summer and was by far the shittiest part of the trip) but theres nothing better in the summer than heading over to the creek with some buddies, climbing up some trees, and hanging 40 feet over the creek
Apr 30 2017 11:33PM
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iced
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They were always cool and popular . If popular means clueless cunts buying them, than they are still cool and popular.
May 1 2017 6:32PM
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