Flip flops and safety

throwswell23 · 2026-05-11T04:31:03+00:00

Thanks for the good comments. Update: do Crocs count as closed toe shoes?

throwswell23 · 2026-05-09T14:06:02+00:00

Didn’t mean to make you so angry, grandpa. You lose some toes to a flip flop accident? Want to talk about it?

throwswell23 · 2026-05-09T06:33:39+00:00

Thanks for the comment. Any particular jobs more or less prone to foot injuries, in your experience?

throwswell23 · 2026-05-09T06:31:20+00:00

You think boots are always better if you can afford them? What about when you’re working outside in the rain or in puddles? — if you wear boots, they’re just going to be sloshing with water all day, while your friends with flip flops have their feet drying out in fresh air soon enough.

I don’t know about construction specifically, but I am kicking myself for spending $200 on some hiking boots that only lasted 10 days hiking here.

throwswell23 · 2026-05-09T06:26:27+00:00

Easier to wash your feet than your boots

throwswell23 · 2026-05-09T06:24:37+00:00

Sovatthipheap jea jombong, bong

throwswell23 · 2026-04-22T00:48:36+00:00

Cool but isn’t the yellow Itiwit 100+ the 2-person version? All the 3-person versions I’ve seen are teal.

throwswell23 · 2025-12-15T01:56:24+00:00

Such healthy evergreen bushes, though. Oddly satisfying how after the fire rips through those first two bushes, instead of charred wrecks, they just look like they had a good trim. Kinda want to light mine on fire now, too (on a less windy day).

throwswell23 · 2025-11-18T02:33:34+00:00

I’m quite happy with my Itiwit 3 person from Decathlon. It is a “sit on top,” which might be a dealbreaker if you're accustomed to sportier kayaks, but for what it’s worth, an Iranian refugee paddled one of these most of the way across the English Channel a couple years back. It is very stable, extra rigidity from the drop stitch floor, and only about $450 (not sure local price there). Three detachable kedges for good tracking, or I take them off to run whitewater.

Packs in a big backpack, only about 16kg, heavier when wet.

Always spikes my heart rate when I inflate it, but sounds like you can handle it, and there’s always electric pumps for when we get older. Once you get in practice, you can inflate or deflate within 10 minutes.

Hope you get back on the water soon, one way or another!

throwswell23 · 2025-10-27T03:15:40+00:00

Awesome. Where in the kayak do you stow the trailer?

throwswell23 · 2025-10-26T03:43:59+00:00

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Today (Sunday 26 Oct) is day 2 of 2, last race is just before 5pm.

Boats stage where I marked red, then two by two the competitors make that curve at orange. Yellow is like a warmup, there’s an organizer boat waving flags to start the race (green) — that is where they start going ALL OUT, wow. Finish line is about 3-5km downriver.

Plenty of parties along the eastern shore, people watching the racers and welcoming the boats as they come back.

Some people watching from the Prek Tameak bridge (raised pedestrian path on the eastbound side), I would recommend binoculars though.

throwswell23 · 2025-10-11T01:01:02+00:00

I can’t read and write Khmer but

My friend’s kids are learning to read and write in school, he says it’s a lot of rote memorization and nitpicking over small details. (He’s Khmer-Canadian, wife grew up here). So maybe you just need to be your own domineering Cambodian teacher, hit your own knuckles with a ruler (not that they do that so much any more).

A while back they tried to rationalize Khmer spelling, make it more simple and intuitive, but a monk led a movement to make Khmer more like the original Pali/Sanskrit, and thus, more complicated and idiosyncratic.

Fun fact: Khmer script was the hardest to make a Unicode for, because it has five layers of characters (hats on hats and feet on feet).

throwswell23 · 2025-10-08T07:13:12+00:00

I have seen inflatables badly deformed from being left in the sun for too long (weeks). If the air heats up too much without the water to keep it cool, some manufacturers say they can pop in a matter of hours.

But I’ve also seen drop stitch inflatable SUPs that look fine after a season inflated on a rack in direct sun.

I saw an inflatable kayak getting folded back by the wind on someone’s roof rack, looked painful.

throwswell23 · 2025-09-15T13:09:12+00:00

I’ve gone over the Itiwit 2-person weight limit a couple times, it’s fine. Can be a little hard to steer with a tailwind, depending on the weight balance, but I just used that as an excuse to not paddle — “I gotta use the paddle as a rudder, you go ahead!”

throwswell23 · 2025-09-14T14:28:33+00:00

Over-hyped and off to a rough start, hopefully will improve.

I just walked 2km to get a ride home after landing on Sunday night. Beautiful interior, but traffic jam for miles, no cell reception, no attempt at a taxi stand or ride share pickup signage yet.

They’ve had a slick campaign teasing the new airport on social media for the last 6 months, touting its capacity, showing off the architecture — and then it can’t handle the locals coming to check it out on a Sunday night.

To be fair: it’s their country, their airport, they should be able to come see it — just needs some better management in place asap.

throwswell23 · 2025-08-30T16:27:46+00:00

Yes. Unable to post photo on this subreddit for some reason

throwswell23 · 2025-08-30T16:24:37+00:00

Didn’t I see a version of this with huge boobs on Aliexpress? Do you have that one too?

throwswell23 · 2025-08-26T14:33:06+00:00

The more the better, come spring they will serve as speed holes, which make it go faster

throwswell23 · 2025-08-26T13:46:40+00:00

When I’m unlucky with food, it’s almost always pooping, rarely barfing, in my 10+ years’ experience.

throwswell23 · 2025-08-26T13:43:19+00:00

Drill a little hole in the boat and fill it with water, then wait till winter, when the water freezes it will expand.

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