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This thread makes me want to buy a VW because I like things everyone else hates.
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VW became a poo poo company when it stopped making dirt cheap, dead-simple cars with equally dead-simple air cooled engines like the Beetle. Being able to quick-change a belt while the engine's running has got to be GWM somehow 
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May 30, 2016 03:48
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Moneyball posted:This thread makes me want to buy a VW because I like things everyone else hates. I want a Yugo or Gremlin, myself. Content: I went over to my friend's house last week. He constantly complains about his lack of funds, despite being DINK with his girlfriend. (Lower class jobs, but still full time employment for both of them.) I found out how he pulled this off, as he showed me his latest purchases of that week; ten $60-80 PS4 games. Apparently, he automatically buys all the new PS4 releases that make it to Australia. He told me he doesn't even play most of them more than once.
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May 30, 2016 04:12
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Moneyball posted:This thread makes me want to buy a VW because I like things everyone else hates.
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May 30, 2016 04:13
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Sic Semper Goon posted:I want a Yugo or Gremlin, myself.
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May 30, 2016 04:50
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Any job title that's not a 3 letter acronym.
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May 30, 2016 04:54
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Any time I see VW in this thread my brain reads it at BWM. Seems accurate.
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May 30, 2016 04:58
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 AI IS LEAKING Someone please do the needful and plug it with a horse carcass, tia
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May 30, 2016 05:25
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Zo posted:Any job title that's not a 3 letter acronym.
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May 30, 2016 05:28
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Cross post from Everest thread. Spending $25k to climb mount Everest: BWM. Spending another $25k to bring your wife along, then abandoning her to die at the summit: GWM, as compared to typical divorce costs. Yeah this really just happened.
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May 30, 2016 05:31
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Zo posted:Cross post from Everest thread.  Link?
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May 30, 2016 05:33
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Was that the militant vegan woman?
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May 30, 2016 05:33
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Zo posted:Cross post from Everest thread. with a little more nuance than forums poster zo likes to provide quote:Her mother, Maritha Strydom, said she was glad the couple had been together in Dr Strydom's final moments. You always seem angry, Zo. Why don't you get a massage or quit your job or something? in before "why don't you go gently caress yourself???!!?" 
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May 30, 2016 05:37
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IllegallySober posted:
That would definitely be the disingenuous clickbait synopsis of what dying in one of the most remote and inhospitable points on the face of the Earth entails
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May 30, 2016 05:40
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Oh well obviously if you leave out the part where he abandons her, then of course it'll seem like he didn't abandon herquote:The Melbourne university lecturer died as she attempted to descend the mountain after being stricken with altitude sickness. Oh no your wife is literally exhausted to the point of not being able to move in a place called "the death zone". Hey honey just chill for a bit while I scratch this off my bucket list haha chill get it!
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May 30, 2016 05:52
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For what it's worth, there is effectively no saving someone who falls incapacitated on Everest at the very highest altitudes. If you stop to try to save them you are virtually guaranteeing your own death. We're talking literally carrying them when your body is already barely carrying itself. It's tacitly known and agreed upon for Everest (and similar) that there are some situations where attempting to save your partner just means that you both die, and that you should save yourself in those situations. It's hosed up but it's just the reality of mountaineering at such extreme altitudes.
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May 30, 2016 06:04
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Beat me to it. The death zone is called that for a reason, you cannot do anything for anyone else at that altitude.
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May 30, 2016 06:07
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Guinness posted:For what it's worth, there is effectively no saving someone who falls incapacitated on Everest at the very highest altitudes. If you stop to try to save them you are virtually guaranteeing your own death. We're talking literally carrying them when your body is already barely carrying itself. It's tacitly known and agreed upon for Everest (and similar) that there are some situations where attempting to save your partner just means that you both die, and that you should save yourself in those situations. That's what makes those story so hosed up. She was still capable of descending, as evidenced by her attempt to descend after her husband returned. If they turned around right away who knows what would have been the result. But no, hubby has to summit, so she gets to sit an extra however long in the death zone.
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May 30, 2016 06:09
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Zo posted:That's what makes those story so hosed up. She was still capable of descending, as evidenced by her attempt to descend after her husband returned. If they turned around right away who knows what would have been the result. But no, hubby has to summit, so she gets to sit an extra however long in the death zone. Ok yeah that is hosed up.
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May 30, 2016 06:14
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Nitrox posted:Was that the militant vegan woman? http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-death-of-the-vegan-climber-was-a-tragedy-but-her-diet-was-irrelevant-a7046191.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...or-frostbitten/ quote:Maria Strydom set out to climb seven summits in seven countries with her husband Robert Gropel, in an attempt to ‘prove that vegans can do anything and more’. Acknowledging the outdated stereotypes surrounding vegan diets (you know the ones), Maria’s journey was an attempt to dispel these, and show how healthy you can be on a vegan diet. This commendable motivation has resulted in a cruel media backlash. I wonder why she's being mocked by the media. Keep forgetting this is not the schadenfreude thread
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May 30, 2016 06:33
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Suspicious Lump posted:What's a lower class job? He's a baker, and she's a assistant manager at a fast food place. So, not office jobs in the city, basically.
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May 30, 2016 06:42
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Call me uptight, but I'm not comfortable calling people "Bad With Money" based on actions that result in their death, even if they are superstars in the lulzy GBS Mt. Everest dead people fanfic thread
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May 30, 2016 08:30
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But if they have a positive savings rate, death is BWM.
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May 30, 2016 14:35
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Zo posted:That's what makes those story so hosed up. She was still capable of descending, as evidenced by her attempt to descend after her husband returned. If they turned around right away who knows what would have been the result. But no, hubby has to summit, so she gets to sit an extra however long in the death zone. Hypoxia can really gently caress up judgement. It's very possible in the thin air, this seemed like a better idea to the couple than it seems from the outside; she very likely did not properly perceive she was as close to death as she was. EDIT: I can't find it now but, check out footage of pilots having their judgement texted in hypoxia. It's really terrifying how even people trained for survival situations lose it all when receiving low amounts of oxygen - they can just unwind, become giddy and euphoric and, try to take their oxygen masks off, etc. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 14:46 on May 30, 2016 |
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May 30, 2016 14:41
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Nitrox posted:
The media is pretty roundly lionizing her. It's goons that are mocking her.
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May 30, 2016 14:44
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Suspicious Lump posted:Long distance relationship straight into living together... ok not bad. Debit to move, ok ok, reasonable you have a fulltime job and you're taking one extra work. So far we have a couple recommendations for Dave Ramsey's course (which is $100?), a suggestion to consider a half lease with the horse (which seems to be renting it out to another person), and some suggestions to shop at second-hand stores. She's already doing a half-lease. Also two people who responded identified with her struggle because they have to plan and pay for a wedding.
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May 30, 2016 15:09
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Is it BWM if they had life insurance policies that they'd paid only so much into by that point?
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May 30, 2016 15:24
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necrobobsledder posted:Is it BWM if they had life insurance policies that they'd paid only so much into by that point? Well, yeah it would definitely be BWM because life insurance probably wouldn't pay out on death by extreme mountainclimbing
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May 30, 2016 15:28
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pr0zac posted:The media is pretty roundly lionizing her. It's goons that are mocking her. I guess that depends on which articles you read.
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May 30, 2016 15:43
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I'm sure this will become BWM at some point: Horse Discrimination. quote:Would it be legal for a stable to only allow Christians to board their horses there?
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May 30, 2016 17:47
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Well, yeah it would definitely be BWM because life insurance probably wouldn't pay out on death by extreme mountainclimbing I thought after keeping your policy for two years you can pretty much do whatever you want.
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May 30, 2016 18:58
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potatoducks posted:I thought after keeping your policy for two years you can pretty much do whatever you want. I believe a lot of policies exclude "extreme" activities or ones where you should expect death. Everest is pretty much the definition of expecting death.
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May 30, 2016 19:08
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Ban all private car ownership. EDIT: wait no the car derail ended already sorry! Shame Boy fucked around with this message at 19:41 on May 30, 2016 |
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May 30, 2016 19:36
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StrangersInTheNight posted:Hypoxia can really gently caress up judgement. It's very possible in the thin air, this seemed like a better idea to the couple than it seems from the outside; she very likely did not properly perceive she was as close to death as she was. Aren't you supposed to make the sherpas bring cans of oxygen specifically so that doesn't happen though?
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May 30, 2016 19:41
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Aren't you supposed to make the sherpas bring cans of oxygen specifically so that doesn't happen though? Sorry about perpetuating derail, but what would stop someone to suck on oxygen during the entire climb? Or at least when things aren't looking so hot?
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May 30, 2016 20:16
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Zero One posted:I'm sure this will become BWM at some point: Horse Discrimination. You would imagine that christians knew a loving thing or two about the value of letting others use your stable!
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May 30, 2016 20:38
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Mostly because it's far too heavy to carry enough to breathe with it the whole way.
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May 30, 2016 20:38
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H110Hawk posted:I believe a lot of policies exclude "extreme" activities or ones where you should expect death. Everest is pretty much the definition of expecting death. Even after the 2 year contestability period? My policy doesn't say anything like that. I had to do some extra work because I'm a scuba diver, but it doesn't have restrictions on new activities. I'm pretty sure I could die on Everest tomorrow and they'd still pay out. For sure I could blow my brains out tomorrow and they'd still pay out.
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May 30, 2016 20:59
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potatoducks posted:Even after the 2 year contestability period? My policy doesn't say anything like that. I had to do some extra work because I'm a scuba diver, but it doesn't have restrictions on new activities. I'm pretty sure I could die on Everest tomorrow and they'd still pay out. For sure I could blow my brains out tomorrow and they'd still pay out. No they don't say that. You can commit suicide and get the payout if it's after some exclusion period.
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Nitrox posted:Sorry about perpetuating derail, but what would stop someone to suck on oxygen during the entire climb? Or at least when things aren't looking so hot? Nothing. I only paid attention to the Everest thread a few years back and some 14 year old was huffing oxygen the entire way and still died. I highly recommend checking out the Everest thread since it's just a nonstop shitshow of people's pride being the ultimate reason of why they died. I understand that it's super grim, but you can check out some real good examples of bad decision making.
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