Almost certain they were playing it up and this is satire, sorry to spoil everyone’s fun. https://www.instagram.com/jaayfilms They started again on September 30 this year and are now in Missouri. If these content creators are good at one thing it’s creating a compelling narrative and this guy did it by getting himself called illiterate.
I feel like a longboard would be better for this.
Does he have learning disabilities? How does someone with so much motivation not learn to read
Idunno anything about this guy, but for some folks they just weren’t taught early enough. You can learn to read at any age, but no amount of motivation can match an early education
It is easy to have motivation to skateboard across america when you don’t have enough education to understand what doing that means.
“According to the known laws of physics, bumble bees should not be able to fly”
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Laws of aviation. And it’s true, because planes do not flap their wings.
Most likely functionally illiterate and not 100% “I can’t read,” but I’ve overestimated instagrammers before
Most people are illiterate. Literacy is a skill with levels and most people don’t actually ever reach the level required to be a fully functional person.
This meme is a great example. Most people don’t actually reach Ogre’s level of literacy. Yeah, it’s played for laughs in the fact that Ogre is smarter than the average human, but Ogre is also completely correct about the level of literacy we should expect of people, in a perfect world.
Illiterate refers to both being able to read basic words all the way up to reading comprehenson. Equally possible he simply cannot understand what he reads and is anti-intellectual as that seems to be on the rise in the US.
I met a guy like that in the 90’s except he was on a lot of LSD and was making his way around the world. IDK if that was true but my buddy picked him up one night and we had a party with him and he cut his dreads off and burned them so a witch wouldn’t get them. Good times!
Who cut whose dreads off?
The traveling dude cut his dreads with my buddies help
Can confirm I live in ZA WARUDO!
That voter is gonna learn some stuff.
I was not surprised by the presence of a giant cross necklace.
He can’t read, so that makes sense.
Orogeny gonna get ya
Lol, what a country
Micro cosmology is a problem a majority of Americans live with. If they can’t see it from their front porch it don’t exist. That played a major factor in the current shitshow preloading in d.c.
“reloading”
Preloading
Lol
Here’s another one for you: ‘played a major factor in’. Not strictly correct grammatically. A better phrase would’ve been, “played a major role in”.
If one prefers to keep “factor” instead of ‘played", than there is always the option, "was a major factor’
One change of clothes for a 2-week trip… now that’s a man’s man!
I mean it’s not extremely far off compared to Ultralight hiking, you can still be hygienic (like often washing clothes), of course though you’re not winning parfume contests along the way… It’s a tradeoff to make compared to having a lot of uncomfortable weight to carry around.
Does he carry a Texas sized bottle of French cologne?
I don’t want to be his room mate.
Cologne is in Germany, not France you silly goose!
French cologne, my ass! He wears WAAAAAAY to much Axe Body Spray like a patriotic American bro who doesn’t understand geography should.
Axe Body Spray. Guaranteed.
I mean, also because he’s apparently not aware of the largest mountain range in North America.
Gonna have huge calves.
How does he use IG?
Assuming its not a parody.
You’d be surprised how little IG users can read.
Using a screen reader
You’d be surprised how functional the illiterate can be.
You’d be functional how surprised can be the illiterate.
Functional be you’d illiterate can surprised the be how.
You’d be surprised how functional the illiterate can be.
Yeah, just look at Trump. Functional illiteracy is a real thing in the US.
All 7 words he knows? It’s called THE WEAVE!..or something.
When I first moved to Japan, I had to use lots of websites that used untranslatable images (not text, like png or whatever and google lens was not a thing). I got help a few times and memorized what clicking on an area did more than even what the image was (which would change sometimes). This is how I got by with ATMs and various websites for quite a while. It works until something changes. Today, screen readers, google lens, and other things exist to help as well.
Sounds like just learning to read would be a better use of your time then. I mean if you already speak the language it should be fairly trivial, right?
How many languages can you speak?
Laughs in Kanji
笑
Im sorry, i don’t know Spanish.
Nice try. Still getting deported.
I literally started with “When I first moved to Japan”.
To answer your question, though, learning to read Kanji is not trivial especially when each one can have a number of different pronunciations or appear in compounds where the meaning can be quite different.
You do realise that in Japan they don’t use Roman letters?! Sounds are one thing, a pictorial based writing system quite another! Just as in English, the same sounding word can mean several things, so the same spelt word can mean several things in Asian languages!
Which day is he realizing the Rockies exist?
If he ever decides to try to find a way around the Rockies this will become even more interesting
Apparently, Chad Caruso set the Guinness world record as the first person to skateboard across America in 2023, from Venice Beach to Virginia Beach. It took him 57 days to cover 3,162 miles, adventure adventure of 55 miles a day.
That’s actually not nearly as long as I would’ve expected. Pretty impressive.
Bit over 2 weeks but doable
how did he skate up and over the Rockies?
He kick flipped real hard
He kicked the mountains and then flipped them off, they felt so disrespected they moved north and waited until he had passed them.
Rob Thomson skated across the US starting in 2006. Also from Switzerland to China.
I have a photo from that trip handing up poster size in my house. A random waterfall panorama.
adventure adventure!
I don’t think he knows about second adventure.
Always need more adventure
The best kind of adventure
Is this not the hatchet wielding hitchhiker guy?
Kai? He is in jail for murder I think.
for anyone surprised I’ll provide exhibit A