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A death poll is always morbid and when you consider the post in this thread very disturbing.
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What rolls down a hill making GBS threads itself at 100mph? Mount Everest climbers.
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Apr 25, 2015 16:59
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ZombieLenin posted:Yeah, everyone knows death is tragic; however, if you cannot get that one of the ways human beings deal with the human condition and the absurdity of our confrontation of death is humor, there is something wrong with you. Humor, and picking apart the decisions people make that lead to their death are ways we deal with collective trauma. This is why books about climbing disasters are so popular, or television shows about disasters, or the loving Titanic. I don't think many of the people who were posting cared about the climbers at all except for the fact that they might die while climbing and get a sick sort of enjoyment of of it.
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Apr 25, 2015 16:59
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Ignore drilldo. He just makes this thread depressing when it should be filled with jokes and laughter.
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Apr 25, 2015 17:10
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The people who died for real like that today had families and probably suffered a great deal during it.
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Apr 25, 2015 17:11
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those fortunate were crushed and the rest are probably still dying of exposure, actually
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Apr 25, 2015 17:13
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moments before: 
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Apr 25, 2015 17:14
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I bet they deserve it for being rich white people who wanted to climb up Everest.
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Apr 25, 2015 17:15
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Remember folks, there is an ignore feature for just this occasion. I wouldn't even know what he was posting if you guys didn't keep quoting and replying to him.
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Apr 25, 2015 17:15
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Blitter posted:
The entire earthquake was a plan hatched by Annapurna to lull climbers into a false sense of security.
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Apr 25, 2015 17:15
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drilldo squirt posted:The people who died for real like that today had families and probably suffered a great deal during it. Second only to the suffering you're inflicting here. 
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Apr 25, 2015 17:16
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How loving great would it be if this happened during that Far Cry 4 promotion and some goober was killed while playing on a gaming laptop and chugging the Dew?
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Apr 25, 2015 17:17
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Pvt Dancer posted:moments before:
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Apr 25, 2015 17:17
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Roughly how many people were on the mountain at the time? I think it might take a few days for the scale of this disaster to be realised once they count up how many are missing.
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Apr 25, 2015 17:18
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Pvt Dancer posted:moments before: I see the thread is back on its proper course. It's like the last three pages were our trek down through the remains of the Icefall route.
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Apr 25, 2015 17:18
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Beastie posted:How loving great would it be if this happened during that Far Cry 4 promotion and some goober was killed while playing on a gaming laptop and chugging the Dew? Moments before, he dies in the game... 2spooky
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Apr 25, 2015 17:19
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Beastie posted:How loving great would it be if this happened during that Far Cry 4 promotion and some goober was killed while playing on a gaming laptop and chugging the Dew? Yeah, posts like this make that death poll super creepy.
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Apr 25, 2015 17:20
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drilldo squirt posted:The people who died for real like that today had families and probably suffered a great deal during it. You're right, someone could be upset by this thread. Shut it down, there must be no mention of anything ever that could be offensive in any medium or location
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Apr 25, 2015 17:23
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Ah, this forum. Good.
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Apr 25, 2015 17:23
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Looking for a good charity for Nepal, none of them seem to be high profile enough to make it on charity navigator, but it seems like the America Nepal Medical Foundation could be legit, thoughts? Unknowable Hole fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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Apr 25, 2015 17:24
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Ars Arcanum posted:]Now I feel like a dick for participating in the death pool. Same here. There's not much funny about all those deaths regardless of whether they are poor sherpas, or rich whatevers. I live in earthquake country and if the big one hits in the right place, we'd be in serious poo poo 
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Apr 25, 2015 17:24
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Beep Street posted:Roughly how many people were on the mountain at the time? I think it might take a few days for the scale of this disaster to be realised once they count up how many are missing. I think there's usually a thousand or so hanging around during the prime climbing season, but most are down at base camp.
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Beep Street posted:Roughly how many people were on the mountain at the time? I think it might take a few days for the scale of this disaster to be realised once they count up how many are missing. quote:About 700 climbers are in the Solukhumbu region that includes Everest and about 300 of them are believed to be at base camp. http://news.sky.com/story/1472054/everest-climber-warns-more-to-die-without-help
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Beep Street posted:Roughly how many people were on the mountain at the time? I think it might take a few days for the scale of this disaster to be realised once they count up how many are missing. Not going to be clear for a while unfortunately. The base camps usually know how many people from their expeditions are up, but with base camp in disarray this isn't going to be reliable. With avalanches, climbers can be carried a ways away. We may not know a final toll for days or weeks, and the possibility exists for lost people to come in slowly over time. I'm assuming radio communications are back up at base camp but then it's dependent on the radios on the mountain both working and having operators. I'm not sure how much progress had been made. Presumably all four camps had been established? I think we've only heard from two camps so far?
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captainoblivious posted:Looking for a good charity for Nepal, none of them seem to be high profile enough to make it on charity navigator, but it seems like the America Nepal Medical Foundation could be legit, thoughts? Mercy Corps are good peeps.
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captainoblivious posted:Looking for a good charity for Nepal, none of them seem to be high profile enough to make it on charity navigator, but it seems like the America Nepal Medical Foundation could be legit, thoughts? Most of them would be affiliated with monasteries and so on. If you'd like I can go through the short list of monasteries and relief organizations I know and see who is taking specifically for this?
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This thread is getting crushed by an avalanche of bad posts.  Everest Death Poll 2015: Nobody's guess was high enough and it's still April. Fermented Tinal fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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Apr 25, 2015 17:27
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http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11648#.VTu__1wmbww Global Giving has a good rating and seems to have a newly created Nepal page. So maybe this one, http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/nepal-earthquake-relief-fund/ if all of you horrible monsters seem to think this one is legit, maybe we can contact a moderator for GBS and get it pinned?
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Stoat posted:You're right, someone could be upset by this thread. Shut it down, there must be no mention of anything ever that could be offensive in any medium or location don't quote him dum dum
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Apr 25, 2015 17:29
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Fermented Tinal posted:Everest Death Poll 2015: Nobody's guess was high enough and it's still April. legit should be the new thread title as of about 24 hours ago
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Fermented Tinal posted:This thread is getting crushed by an avalanche of bad posts. I'm disturbed you consider this funny.
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Apr 25, 2015 17:31
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captainoblivious posted:http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11648#.VTu__1wmbww Global Giving has a good rating and seems to have a newly created Nepal page. Or you could go to my kickstarter. I'm going to open a relief hotdog stand at camp one.
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Apr 25, 2015 17:32
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drilldo squirt posted:I'm disturbed you consider this funny. I'm disturbed you think concern trolling is still funny.
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Apr 25, 2015 17:32
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One day, if I become a rich white person, I am going to stay home and definitely not climb a mountain, because I don't want goons berating me or potentially mocking my death. I'll just stay in and be a rich white guy at home, for the approval of GBS.
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Apr 25, 2015 17:34
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i just like mountain sports they are fun but it's sad when people die doing them
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Apr 25, 2015 17:35
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For a half second I saw the "Every Day I'm Tumblin'" thread and I thought the Everest thread had been renamed
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smoobles posted:One day, if I become a rich white person, I am going to stay home and definitely not climb a mountain, because I don't want goons berating me or potentially mocking my death. I'll just stay in and be a rich white guy at home, for the approval of GBS. I will climb that mountain for you, smoobles.
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