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I'm surprised this thread isn't talking about this tech bro who is suing his Everest guide for canceling the climb once they were in base camp due to hazards on the route: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/seattle-mountaineering-guide-legal-battle-tech-ceo-wants-refund-failed-everest-climb/ quote:Of Madison’s 13 Everest expeditions, 10 have reached the summit. He failed in the spring of 2014 when an ice avalanche killed 16 Sherpas in the mountain’s Khumbu Icefall. The following year, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal, killing 9,000 people, including 22 at Everest Base Camp. Madison’s third miss came last October, on the trip with Bookman, when a towering serac, or tower of ice, was hanging over the climbing route and he called off the expedition. gohuskies fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Yeah, the dummy didn't get trip insurance, he's a multimillionaire, he's doing because he's butthurt. Leave him in a crevasse.
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Oct 13, 2020 19:29
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Jesus christ the well of pointless vindictiveness from the rich just never runs dry does it?
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Oct 13, 2020 19:53
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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If you live in a world where nothing is ever denied to you because you can just pay to make it happen, having something denied to you(for reasons out of anyone's control - not that you, theoretical rich person, care about that) must feel like the most grievous insult possible. The solution is to use your money to punish whoever you think is insulting you.quote:“I don’t mind if they think I’m some titan of industry, but they act like I own the entirety of the company,” Bookman said. “He wants a narrative that I’m trying to pick on this mountain guide who’s earning a humble living, and that’s not accurate. It strikes me as odd because this business is based on taking people who have jobs and professions, other than mountaineering, into extreme environments. So I don’t know why you’d want to insult your clientele.”
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I can just hear that “other than mountaineering” thrown in with slightly too much of a pause
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If litter wasn't such a problem I'd suggest taking him back up the mountain then punting him off the top. So I'd make do with a good old fashioned guillotine.
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Take all the rich assholes of the world, chopper them up to the summit and then leave them there to die. That would make the mountain so holy to me.
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PittTheElder posted:Jesus christ the well of pointless vindictiveness from the rich just never runs dry does it? No really this is a good thing, because when this entitled poo poo loses his case and stamps his little feets in rage, every mountaineering company will have TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT YOU CAN DIE ON THIS MOUNTAIN ITS YOUR LIFE YOU MORON in bold capitals on the contract and force them to sign it off in triplicate before they let them set foot on a plane and everyone, from the mountain to the guides will be happier and safer. Perhaps slightly poorer, but safer.
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ewe2 posted:No really this is a good thing, because when this entitled poo poo loses his case and stamps his little feets in rage, every mountaineering company will have TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT YOU CAN DIE ON THIS MOUNTAIN ITS YOUR LIFE YOU MORON in bold capitals on the contract and force them to sign it off in triplicate before they let them set foot on a plane and everyone, from the mountain to the guides will be happier and safer. Perhaps slightly poorer, but safer. That Canadian woman had guides telling her 'you're in danger, you need to turn around, you're going to die, get going like right now' and she still refused to leave and dithered about on the peak for half an hour taking photos. Her last words were something like 'please don't leave me here to die'. So yeah clients shouldn't have any decision making authority once they hit basecamp. Unless they have '
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Outrail posted:That Canadian woman had guides telling her 'you're in danger, you need to turn around, you're going to die, get going like right now' and she still refused to leave and dithered about on the peak for half an hour taking photos. Her last words were something like 'please don't leave me here to die'. So yeah clients shouldn't have any decision making authority once they hit basecamp. Just call it a core charge like they do with car parts; if you don't bring back your body you don't get your deposit back
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Hey folks, while I don't disagree with your sentiments of the tech guy suing the guide company for mother nature giving him the finger, let's try to curb the outright blood lust and stay quasi on topic. It might be a little off-putting for someone coming into this thread for the first time
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I'm pretty sure those firms already have contracts that say their guides can call off an expedition at any time. That was part of that reality show about an expedition company; the head guy was constantly evaluating if the climb was even going to happen or not and he could deny individuals if they weren't acclimating well or were fuckups in general.
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PostNouveau posted:I'm pretty sure those firms already have contracts that say their guides can call off an expedition at any time. That was part of that reality show about an expedition company; the head guy was constantly evaluating if the climb was even going to happen or not and he could deny individuals if they weren't acclimating well or were fuckups in general. Yup. The story says that not only was that clause in the contract, the contract also recommended buying trip insurance, which the CEO didn't.
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Verman posted:Hey folks, while I don't disagree with your sentiments of the tech guy suing the guide company for mother nature giving him the finger, let's try to curb the outright blood lust and stay quasi on topic. It might be a little off-putting for someone coming into this thread for the first time the whole point of this thread is to mock rich idiots who do nothing but exploit locals and die
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i say swears online posted:the whole point of this thread is to mock rich idiots who do nothing but exploit locals and die
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The “credit card declined” meme but for Sherpas.
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i say swears online posted:the whole point of this thread is to mock rich idiots who do nothing but exploit locals and die Mocking idiots who die due to their own stupidity and privilege is fine. Being pissed that they exploit the locals and endanger them with their stupidity is good. Openly calling for the guillotine not so much. Basically, schadenfreude good, bloodlust bad.
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Nah, guillotine the rich.
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The whole “how dare you wish death upon ghouls whose lifestyles of excess are fueled by grinding normal people into dust?” bullshit will become increasingly risible as more people die from pandemic, pandemic-induced bankruptcy, and police brutality all with enthusiastic state approval so long as market performance sates the capital class. But sure, let’s cry huge tears for the vampires. Seems good and reasonable. Definitely don’t keep a mental inventory of conveniently nearby lampposts at all times.
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Loucks posted:The whole “how dare you wish death upon ghouls whose lifestyles of excess are fueled by grinding normal people into dust?” bullshit will become increasingly risible as more people die from pandemic, pandemic-induced bankruptcy, and police brutality all with enthusiastic state approval so long as market performance sates the capital class. you are ridiculous and childish
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Yeah, boo, down with this type of thing! I come to the Dunning-Kruger's graveyard for my sensible, grown up chat, something something comedy forums...
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Eh, works for me. This thread got tossed to the rsf when it first got made. After chatting with HGB, he's been missing it in GBS (and I feel its overall tone fits better there) but doesn't want to have me just move this over, so whoever wants to, make a new OP in GBS and once thats done, I'll punt this version into the graveyard. Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Oct 31, 2020 |
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Move it to CSPAM
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Elmnt80 posted:Eh, works for me. This thread got tossed to the rsf when it first got made. After chatting with HGB, he's been missing it in GBS (and I feel its overall tone fits better there) but doesn't want to have me just move this over, so whoever wants to, make a new OP in GBS and once thats done, I'll punt this version into the graveyard. I had no idea it was here, managed to bookmark it somehow. Yeah, definitely GBS foder
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Wolfy posted:Move it to CSPAM That might work. It usually gets quickly poo poo up in GBS.
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Wolfy posted:Move it to CSPAM This is the solution
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Move it to Business, finance and careers
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PostNouveau posted:That might work. It usually gets quickly poo poo up in GBS. This thread came up in the GBS OSHA thread and a GBS mod said they'd be willing to deal with the shitposters if it went back to GBS. HugeGrossBurrito posted:I would be happy to have it back in GBS if someone makes a good op, that thread had great book and movie recommendations. HugeGrossBurrito posted:No issues probing for threadshitting.
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Just want to second the thread had some amazing book recommendations. "Buried in the Sky" talked about the climbers during the 08 K2 tragedy, focusing on the Sherpa guides (which most of the media ignored).
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cspam seems like a good fit for the threads mentality of eating the rich
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Minrad posted:cspam seems like a good fit for the threads mentality of eating the rich Can't eat the rich if they are frozen solid.
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yaffle posted:Can't eat the rich if they are frozen solid. Just preserving them for later.
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yaffle posted:Can't eat the rich if they are frozen solid. not with that attitude
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3762301 Old thread for reference, to GBS it goes!
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Adios old Everest Thread location, may your corpse strewn mass be a warning to us all.
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welcome back to GBS my old friend
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does anyone have a good write-up or article about the canadian woman and what happened to her? I remember hopping into whatever thread it was when they started talking about her, and everyone laughing at her photoshopping herself into everest and literally doing no training for the mountain whatsoever, and then, woops, she died, but I wasn't really following the whole saga and I'd find it interesting. thanks also I finished reading into thin air not too long ago and while it was a good and interesting book I had a weird feeling about it, like, the way krakauer assigned motivations to people and tried to sort of make characters out of them with playing around with the blame. it's been too long for me to bring up specifics tho
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My eye doctor has her summit listed on her webpage. She owns though so not sure if I mind it. I asked her about it and she said there was a line at the top. I was like drat, I wouldn't get on four planes and climb 20 miles or whatever to have the same experience that I can have holding my breath at costco.
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