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Smash it Smash hit: Dec 30, 2009; prettay, prettay

Thanks a lot teddy :rolleyes:

# ? Mar 29, 2017 02:54

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 05:15

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

Blue Train posted:

The converted bus where McCandless lived and died has since become a well-known destination for hikers. Known as "The Magic Bus", the 1946�International Harvester�was abandoned by road workers in 1961 on the Stampede Trail where it remains today.

McCandless was an rear end in a top hat idiot. Yeah

# ? Mar 29, 2017 02:55

Machai: Feb 21, 2013

My new DJ name is MC Candles

# ? Mar 29, 2017 03:20

whoflungpoop: Sep 9, 2004; With you and the constellations

us vs also us posted:

*into the wild guy voice* Oh my god these potato seeds are so good! Sheila come over here you have to try these seeds!!! (sheila is a squirrel)

# ? Mar 29, 2017 03:25

scuba school sucks: Aug 30, 2012; The brilliance of my posting illuminates the forums like a jar of shining gold when all around is dark

I feel like for the mentally ill guy who wants to do this, it helps if you're the kind of mentally ill where you stock up on survival gear. Go through like a month-long phase where you're a hoarder but all you hoard is copies of the boy scout manual. And maps. Just like an entire spare room of your house full of maps.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 03:42

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

scuba school sucks posted:

I feel like for the mentally ill guy who wants to do this, it helps if you're the kind of mentally ill where you stock up on survival gear. Go through like a month-long phase where you're a hoarder but all you hoard is copies of the boy scout manual. And maps. Just like an entire spare room of your house full of maps.

I would respect McCandles more if he had a boy scout manual when he died alone in that bus

# ? Mar 29, 2017 03:47

sketch_nimrod: Apr 1, 2010

iirc the bus was dragged in for some reason, and there used to be three of them can you imagine

# ? Mar 29, 2017 03:51

Sophy Wackles: Dec 17, 2000; > access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.

He would have been fine if he had been more tactical.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 04:00

MeatwadIsGod: Sep 30, 2004; Foretold by Gyromancy

I can never think about this guy without also thinking about that idiot goon who had a manic episode, quit his job, and wanted to do a death-march from California, through Texas, and down to Florida in summer. He took everything in a stroller and lasted maybe 2-3 days before giving up. He was fortunately in a national park at the time. There were pages and pages of people who were experts who did outdoorsy stuff for a living telling him "don't do this, dumbass, or you'll die" but it didn't matter. Even if this McCandless guy had people around him trying to dissuade him from doing something so dangerous and ill-conceived, he probably would have been so convinced of his own purpose that he would have gone off and died anyway.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 04:46

Warbadger: Jun 17, 2006

Pawn 17 posted:

He would have been fine if he had been more tactical.

Maybe. Non-perishable food is a handy thing to have on a long camping trip even if you don't intend to eat it. So are compact communication gadgets, signaling stuff, etc. Even bringing a more powerful rifle along may have saved his dumb rear end if he used it to signal for help.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 04:54

Fog Tripper: Mar 3, 2008; by Smythe

Jeremiah Johnson he wasn't. However he didnt have a old trapper guy to help him out either.

I am somewhat comfortable in my abilties in the wild and my gear. That said I would never loving hike into Alaska with a .22 and rice.

Wasnt the movie just a backdrop for bad eddie vetter songs?

# ? Mar 29, 2017 05:19

Putty: Mar 21, 2013; HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS

everyone should watch the werner herzog documentary about the Grizzly Man who was an idiot who got eaten by grizzly bears on purpose

# ? Mar 29, 2017 05:27

scuba school sucks: Aug 30, 2012; The brilliance of my posting illuminates the forums like a jar of shining gold when all around is dark

Dude's all having an emotional breakdown about a dead bee. Talking to a fox and you can tell the fox is like "what in the actual gently caress is wrong with this guy".

# ? Mar 29, 2017 05:50

whoflungpoop: Sep 9, 2004; With you and the constellations

MeatwadIsGod posted:

I can never think about this guy without also thinking about that idiot goon who had a manic episode, quit his job, and wanted to do a death-march from California, through Texas, and down to Florida in summer. He took everything in a stroller and lasted maybe 2-3 days before giving up. He was fortunately in a national park at the time. There were pages and pages of people who were experts who did outdoorsy stuff for a living telling him "don't do this, dumbass, or you'll die" but it didn't matter. Even if this McCandless guy had people around him trying to dissuade him from doing something so dangerous and ill-conceived, he probably would have been so convinced of his own purpose that he would have gone off and died anyway.

lol that guy only made it 28 miles in three days, like he literally
barely made it to the other side of the city he started in

# ? Mar 29, 2017 05:49

whoflungpoop: Sep 9, 2004; With you and the constellations

then the wheel on his dopey bitchcart broke followed immedately by the connection between the last two neurons in his retarded head

# ? Mar 29, 2017 05:52

Pitdragon: Jan 20, 2004; Just another lurker

i should have been given the opportunities mccandless squandered! HE HAD EVERYTHING AND HE THREW IT ALL AWAAAAAY!!!

# ? Mar 29, 2017 05:59

Dean of Swing: Feb 22, 2012

whoflungpoop posted:

then the wheel on his dopey bitchcart broke followed immedately by the connection between the last two neurons in his retarded head

Is that thread goldmined? God I bet that was fun time.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 06:26

blugu64: Jul 17, 2006; Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

While I find it hard to hate someone for saying "yep, nope not doing that" I also can't find sympathy for someone who isn't prepared.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 12:15

wernox: Mar 26, 2001; I gave up my OG title for this.

sketch_nimrod posted:

iirc the bus was dragged in for some reason, and there used to be three of them can you imagine

It was some sort of hunting camp I think, there was a woodburning stove in there and cots.

Probably smelled like dead guy for awhile.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 12:52

Drunk & Ugly: Feb 10, 2003; GIMME GIMME GIMME, DON'T ASK WHAT FOR

Oscar Wild posted:

The movie is a turgid affair, and I'd rather

haha turd gid

# ? Mar 29, 2017 13:40

Nocheez: Sep 5, 2000; Can you spare a little cheddar?; Nap Ghost

Pitdragon posted:

i should have been given the opportunities mccandless squandered! HE HAD EVERYTHING AND HE THREW IT ALL AWAAAAAY!!!

Just because you're born into a wealthy family doesn't mean they won't be abusive shitheads who break you emotionally.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 13:49

Drunk & Ugly: Feb 10, 2003; GIMME GIMME GIMME, DON'T ASK WHAT FOR

the into the wild guy is like the male version of those girls you meet who call themselves "free spirits"

except instead of banging a bunch of guys and living an "adventurous" life of hostelling and dancing or something he tried to pull a kerouac by walking into a forest and starving

# ? Mar 29, 2017 13:54

rezatahs: Jun 9, 2001; by Smythe

it takes real skill to starve in alaska

# ? Mar 29, 2017 14:01

nomadologique: Mar 9, 2011; DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO

so many people bamboozled exactly how this young person wanted them to be bamboozled, believing it's about the external wilderness, and not some terror and darkness in the soul of humankind.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 14:07

unpacked robinhood: Feb 18, 2013; by Fluffdaddy

That's a lot of strong opinions about a guy who walked into the woods to die, not even pretending to make a statement, killing no one but himself in the process.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 14:20

Pimpcasso: Mar 13, 2002; VOLS BITCH

Putty posted:

everyone should watch the werner herzog documentary about the Grizzly Man who was an idiot who got eaten by grizzly bears on purpose

he got his gf munched on too

# ? Mar 29, 2017 14:20

chaosbreather: Dec 9, 2001; Wry and wise,
but also very sexual.

protip for people wanting to find themselves:

you only exist, really, when you are communicating with other people, in contrast to them.

finding yourself by being a woods hobo is like trying to diagnose your engine by throwing your keys away :iiaca:

# ? Mar 29, 2017 14:20

blugu64: Jul 17, 2006; Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

Nah, it's about a kid who didn't realize what he had until he was starving in the woods in Alaska.

Geez imagine thinking about how you blew your shot at a decent life and are going to die alone in the woods. He'd be like 50 now.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 14:21

Drunk & Ugly: Feb 10, 2003; GIMME GIMME GIMME, DON'T ASK WHAT FOR

Blue Train posted:

Hard to argue with that tbh

oh yeh?
well
jon krakwhore sounds like a lying bitch.

trying to romanticize something up in here to get osme booty like an old uni professor gettin some 20 yr old strange

quote:

"When Jon did his first book tour and came to Fairbanks, I met with him ... and told him I left a bunch of books at the bus the January before McCandless walked in," Benowitz told ADN. "He seemed far more interested in female company than the truth."

# ? Mar 29, 2017 14:26

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

This dude did it for a couple years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss

Maybe he should have been this prepared.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 14:31

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

my bat mitzvah ROCKED posted:

he got his gf munched on too

He was a rear end in a top hat for putting his girlfriend in danger.

http://www.yellowstone-bearman.com/Tim_Treadwell.html

# ? Mar 29, 2017 15:42

Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

lol if you can only define your existence in the context of other people

# ? Mar 29, 2017 15:49

a new study bible!: Feb 2, 2009; BIG DICK NICK
A Philadelphia Legend
Fly Eagles Fly

nigga crab pollock posted:

the poison berries he ate were actually seeds from the wild potato plant which up until like 3 years ago were considered edible but some biochemist guy read his journal and figured out that the seeds were actually highly toxic with an alkaloid that prevents your body from metabolizing other proteins if you don't cook them

Yeah and isn't the reason that they were previously thought to be edible because they are only poison for some parts of the year, but at other times they are fine?

# ? Mar 29, 2017 15:53

OXBALLS DOT COM: Sep 11, 2005; by FactsAreUseless; Young Orc

Moridin920 posted:

lol if you can only define your existence in the context of other people

Lol if you think you are self-sufficient

# ? Mar 29, 2017 15:53

Rutibex: Sep 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

chaosbreather posted:

protip for people wanting to find themselves:

you only exist, really, when you are communicating with other people, in contrast to them.

hermit protip: develop multiple personalities

# ? Mar 29, 2017 15:56

fishing with the fam: Feb 29, 2008; Durr

a new study bible! posted:

Yeah and isn't the reason that they were previously thought to be edible because they are only poison for some parts of the year, but at other times they are fine?

Nature is not just cruel and uncaring, but also a deceptive dick about it. Thanks nature.

# ? Mar 29, 2017 16:07

Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

OXBALLS DOT COM posted:

Lol if you think you are self-sufficient

i'm not but I don't even know if you are all real why should I conform to your dumbo expectations

if you can't live in a cabin in the woods solo for a few months lol at you that's all I'm sayin

# ? Mar 29, 2017 16:08