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I'd choose to die on the hill that muerte left his broken Wal-Mart cart on during his aborted trans-American trek, so my spirit could haunt the spot of the failure
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Admiralty Flag posted:I'd choose to die on the hill that muerte left his broken Wal-Mart cart on during his aborted trans-American trek, so my spirit could haunt the spot of the failure “A nice place to walk your dog!”
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Phy posted:Yeah, I assumed he got brought down from Kilimanjaro because it's a whole lot lower and it's a hike down with no climbing. Possibly they could have helicoptered him down as well, or walked him down partway and choppered the rest. None of the articles I found said anything one way or another. Helicopters can fly at speed at that altitude but you wouldn't want to do any hovering or landing over 10,000 feet.
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Leviathan Song posted:Helicopters can fly at speed at that altitude but you wouldn't want to do any hovering or landing over 10,000 feet. https://i.imgur.com/AtNCCH5.mp4
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Phy posted:I can definitely see the appeal here, and the nice thing about being dead is you don't have to feel ashamed at making someone haul your dead rear end all the way down the tallest mountain in Africa Doesn't even crack my top 5, to be honest
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Call Your Grandma posted:Doesn't even crack my top 5, to be honest Ccol, thx.
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Call Your Grandma posted:Doesn't even crack my top 5, to be honest
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I had a mentor who taught me how to golf. I understand it’s not a popular sport on the forums and I can’t really afford to play it anymore more but as a kid I loved it. He was a medic veteran of ww2 and hated the things he saw. He taught me a lot about poo poo and man he died smiling on the tee of a par three, club on the ground, golf ball in the hole a hole in one, smile on his face. I think we’d all like to go out like that or like the dude from the thread, doing what we love.
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waffleman posted:Dude crosses Atlantic 3 times in kayak, leaves behind children, dies at 70+ by going to sleep on top of mountain he just climbed. "nah I can think of like 6 better ways to die" the joke was i can think of like 6 better things about dying so thanks for making me explain a joke buddy i hope you go climb a mountain irl
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:I had a mentor who taught me how to golf. I understand it’s not a popular sport on the forums and I can’t really afford to play it anymore more but as a kid I loved it. He was a medic veteran of ww2 and hated the things he saw. He taught me a lot about poo poo and man he died smiling on the tee of a par three, club on the ground, golf ball in the hole a hole in one, smile on his face. I think we’d all like to go out like that or like the dude from the thread, doing what we love. On the throne after a massive dump seems reasonably achievable.
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Two madmen just skied down Half Dome. Successfully. I can only salute.quote:“If you fall to your left or right, you’re definitely dead,” said JT Holmes, a professional freeskier from Reno who is a friend of one of the skiers. “If you fall down the middle, you have a small chance of not falling to your death — but it’s a maybe.”
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I dunno what the deal is but this season of Alone with 2 people per team sucks poo poo. It's just completely off. It's like they're more guarded with their thoughts with another person around instead of just the camera. Or maybe the contestants are just bad. It didn't help at all that so many of them didn't even make it to camp. What a loving terrible idea having one partner hike to the other. Also I gotta assume barring some catastrophe that the married couple wins easy. Not being away from the spouse removes an enormous part of the "being away from family" thing. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Feb 27, 2021 |
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PostNouveau posted:I dunno what the deal is but this season of Alone with 2 people per team sucks poo poo. It's just completely off. It's like they're more guarded with their thoughts with another person around instead of just the camera. Or maybe the contestants are just bad. It didn't help at all that so many of them didn't even make it to camp. What a loving terrible idea having one partner hike to the other. I just watched half of the first one and holy poo poo people are legitimately breaking down lol. So yeah being alone seems like a key part of the concept. I don't know what I expected, but poo poo's legit and the conditions are pretty horrific. I, as someone who never sleeps without a solid roof over my head, of course thought "how hard could it be? I've been to the PNW, it's pretty nice there". But gently caress, imagine getting dropped into the middle of a dense forest with no edible plants, or animals to hunt, and it's raining and/or freezing every day. Oh and there are bears. On the upside, the cougar situation sounds awesome. One of the guy said something like "imagine you wake up in the middle of the night, and there's a cougar standing right outside your shelter". drat right I'm imagining this all the time  E: First time watching US network TV, all the pharma ads are pretty 
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The pairs season is four, and it is bad.
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I didn't mind the hiking bit no one was eliminated because of hiking but yeah towards the end it was just people being incredibly miserable together and sitting around waiting to give up which sucks.
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PostNouveau posted:I dunno what the deal is but this season of Alone with 2 people per team sucks poo poo. It's just completely off. It's like they're more guarded with their thoughts with another person around instead of just the camera. Or maybe the contestants are just bad. It didn't help at all that so many of them didn't even make it to camp. What a loving terrible idea having one partner hike to the other. Married couples are the least likely to ever win because of all the calories they waste porkin on the dirt floor of their cabin
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bird with big dick posted:Married couples are the least likely to ever win because of all the calories they waste porkin on the dirt floor of their cabin I thought for a second I was in another thread where a goon mentioned he almost got onto a reality show competition with his partner, and got confused.
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bird with big dick posted:Married couples are the least likely to ever win because of all the calories they waste porkin on the dirt floor of their cabin I'd fail for similar reasons as soon as I got my hands on some animal grease.
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Oh the married couple just mentioned they have kids. While I still think they have enormous advantages over the other teams (brothers at each other's throats and father/son team where the father is old as gently caress), them leaving their kids without parents for an undetermined amount of time adds a big issue for them.
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I wonder what the producers would do if they came for the med check and to pick up the memory cards and they look and it’s just 40 hours of footage of me jerkin it into the fire pit like would they kick me off or tell me to quit or air it censored with “Vigorous masturbation can burn 1200 calories an hour this may prove costly if Bird is unable to secure a reliable source of protein.” Would it be sexual harassment? Indecent exposure? Could I be prosecuted?
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Well that season blew rear end Glad to see a bunch of the people they brought back for Season 5, although the ones who tapped because they got sad it's like "Yeah, why do you think it's gonna go any different?" I like you a lot Sam, Nicole, and Britt, but you're still gonna get bummed as gently caress about being away from your kids just like last time. Whoa, fuckin' freak injury right off the bat that suuuuuuuuucks PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Feb 28, 2021 |
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Anne Whateley posted:It looks like the kids were 14 and 12, so at least old enough to understand what was going on. I don't remember if they said what they did with the kids, maybe a grandparent came to stay with them or the kids went to stay with friends? Honey how can we get rid of our horrible teenagers without getting child protective services on our rear end
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That Death Valley Germans article was a great read but I never saw the ending of an anti inyo county hissy fit coming. I eagerly await the algorithmically cast Netflix adaptation starring inexpensive Jon Hamm as the German dad and luke and Owen Wilson as the RMRC searchers directed by whoever made the hottest music video of the last two years.
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Seeing people on Alone sharpening their knife with a bit of smooth river or ocean rock made me think “this seems as or more likely to dullen their knife unless they really know what they’re doing” so I decided to try it on one of my mother’s kitchen knives. I have a sharpness testing system that measure how much pressure (in grams) it takes to cut through a wire test media. Lower is better of course, with around 400 being a pretty serviceable edge though nothing to brag about (the best I’ve gotten an edge to is about 140). Butter knife is around 2000-2500. DE razor blade is around 75. My mother’s Wusthof chefs knife measured between 850 and 970 when I started. After about 20 minutes of fiddling with a bit of basalt ocean rock I grabbed, it scored between 1150 and 1500. I need to find some river rock to try it though I think, something harder and smoother than basalt. But it did kinda confirm my hypothesis, if you don’t know what you’re doing don’t try to sharpen your knife on a smooth rock you found in the yard. Going from ~900 to ~1300 is pretty bad and is easily enough to make your knifing significantly less pleasant. 
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bird with big dick posted:Seeing people on Alone sharpening their knife with a bit of smooth river or ocean rock made me think “this seems as or more likely to dullen their knife unless they really know what they’re doing” so I decided to try it on one of my mother’s kitchen knives. That's loving cool as hell and I love that you tested a survival game trope to find that it's bullshit.
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I once had to sharpen a pocket knife on a rock before cutting my knee open to pull some cactus spines out. It does work but you need a piece of siltstone or fine grain sedimentary rock. Basically something that looks like a sharpening stone because that's what they originally were (I think, probably).
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bird with big dick posted:I wonder what the producers would do if they came for the med check and to pick up the memory cards and they look and it’s just 40 hours of footage of me jerkin it into the fire pit like would they kick me off or tell me to quit or air it censored with “Vigorous masturbation can burn 1200 calories an hour this may prove costly if Bird is unable to secure a reliable source of protein.” Would it be sexual harassment? Indecent exposure? Could I be prosecuted? Send me some sample footage for review plz
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Random rocks aren’t perfect, but if the contestant has been abusing the blade and has decent sharpening technique, it may well be an improvement. I’d take a rock over one of those pull-through dealios, but even those things can improve very dull blades. A proper sharpening stone is on the list of items a person can elect to bring on Alone. I think it’s a trap and I don’t recall anyone falling for it. If you can’t think of anything better to bring, bring another bladed tool or a saw. Better to have a nice large knife to process that moose than have to do the job with a multitool.
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Platystemon posted:If you can’t think of anything better to bring, bring another bladed tool 
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Outrail posted:I once had to sharpen a pocket knife on a rock before cutting my knee open to pull some cactus spines out. It does work but you need a piece of siltstone or fine grain sedimentary rock. Basically something that looks like a sharpening stone because that's what they originally were (I think, probably). From my research you want something hard and fine grained like chert or flint. Natural Japanese water stones are apparently fine quartz suspended in a clay matrix which is basically what some synthetic sharpening stones are. Siltstone would definitely be fine grained enough but may be real slow or not work due to being too soft. Not 100% sure. I think my rock was the right shape (ie it was flat enough) but too soft so the edge dug in a bit rather than being abraded across the top. I will find a better rock and try again.
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It's entirely possible I just blunted the edge before carving up my leg, but it was pretty blunt before, so. 
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bird with big dick posted:Seeing people on Alone sharpening their knife with a bit of smooth river or ocean rock made me think “this seems as or more likely to dullen their knife unless they really know what they’re doing” so I decided to try it on one of my mother’s kitchen knives.  Can you also test sharpening it on the bottom of a mug? That's another lifehack I've heard, through less applicable to Alone unless someone is stupid enough to take a ceramic mug as one of their items.. Btw, where did you get the measurement system? I've been meaning to test my sharpening method but my favorite aliexpress and ebay have nothing somehow.
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