knox_harrington posted:

It isn't inherently a joke, the problem is with a sector of society that can only conceptualise things by quantifying them. Techbro assholes don't want to climb Everest, they just want to say they've been to the biggest number.

Achmed Jones posted:

y'all are being weird. it's not about "i could afford to" it's cause going to the highest/deepest/whatever is, itself, cool. you don't have to make up dumb sociopathic reasons, "i wanted to do a cool thing and didn't care who or what was damaged for me to accomplish it" is messed up enough

Nice Tuckpointing! posted:

Conversely most of the guys who went to the moon were not rich, being government employees and all that. I think Alan Shepherd owned a beer distributorship and did OK. And I sure as hell hope Jim Lovell made some scratch from the movie deal. But, for the most part, they were not rolling in dough. When I mention this to people, I often get, "Naw, they're doing alright." Upper middle class? Sure. But it's like we equate these great achievements with being loaded.

redshirt posted:

This is gonna be a thing soon enough.

kalleth posted:

is tingler the author or is it the feeling of incipient frostbite

enquiring minds want to know

Nice Tuckpointing! posted:

I went and met a bunch of them a while back where they were sitting at booths, signing autographs, for a fee (minimum $150 for those who went to the moon; shuttle folks were a better bargain). And it threw me off for the whole event. Surely Michael Collins and Charlie Duke are doing just fine, right? But we just assume they live in mansions and get big speaking fees because they did those great adventures. The rich adventurers, and aspirational adventurers, are chasing that glory from the opposite end, and that feeds our perception of the wealth of the original adventurers.

Or maybe the astronauts are just anomalies. Because the rich adventurer has been a thing since ancient times.

Cojawfee posted:

I'm a billionaire so I pay people to climb everest for me.

Chief McHeath posted:

if you die on everest does your ghost oonly get to haunt everest or can it like… catch a wind current and drift somewhere else and haunt there? not really sure the alpine rules in this area…

BigBadSteve posted:

This but the scale model of Everest and a Ken or Barbie doll representing Facebook Aunt

Leperflesh posted:

Tangental, but a while ago a few folks made charitable donations and I got this endearingly low-key email today from one of them, APA Sherpa Foundation:

https://mailchi.mp/apasherpa/apa-sherpa-foundation-updates?e=e365177120

Laterite posted:

smoobles posted:

My downtown has plenty of poop

Anne Whateley posted:

Yes, that exact thing is a major feature of Piraha culture. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%E3_people That wasn’t known before the mission because no outsider really spoke the language before he did.

It’s a really interesting mindset, part of their general lack of focus on the past and the future. Definitely recommend the guy’s memoir, Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes.

While the whole missionary thing didn’t work out so great, I wouldn’t say his life was wasted. He’s done a ton of work on very rare languages, documenting them, developing orthographies, becoming the first outside speaker of Piraha, etc. He’s very famous in linguistics circles, is a college professor, and has an enjoyable feud with Chomsky
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Everett

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Actually, only 12.4 percent of women have a 28-day cycle! Most women cannot predict the full moon by checking for blood.

Cactus Ghost posted:

the menstrual cycle being "28 days" is a convenient (for early 20th century male physiologists, primarily) average and not anything you should set a clock to

e: d'oh

Cactus Ghost posted:

did homer ever climb everest. that seems like a homer adventure from like season 10-16?

das hipster posted:

Homer climbed the "Murderhorn" in Season 9 Episode 23 - "King of the Hill"

DPM posted:

Some rich motherfuckers had better die on an 8 thousander stat or this thread is doomed

Leperflesh posted:

well today I learned something, thank you

Cactus Ghost posted:

academic monetization strikes again. the menses must flow in perfect harmony

~Coxy posted:

Which joker put this thread into my bookmarks.

Ah, a very intelligent mod put the in-joke as the title of the thread rather than the sub-title.

That seems like a good idea now it's back in GBS!

The Bible posted:

When I first moved to Korea I started eating a lot of Korean food, of course.

For two weeks, I guess my body didn't know how to handle this new cuisine, I didn't poo poo at all.

One day at work, I felt something... move... kind of shift in my abdomen. I didn't know what it was but it was definitely big.

Anyway, that night was basically the South Park scene with Randy on the toilet. I thought I was going to die because it seemed impossible for anything that big to pass.

That's the closest I have to an Everest poop story.

TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:

God Emperor Trump will nuke everest

orange juche posted:

Concerning the thread title, what happens if I don't produce 8.8oz of excrement per day? What happens if I ate a gas station burrito on the way to everest and drop a log the size of an infant? Do I have to purchase additional poop credits to make up for it?

Cactus Ghost posted:

gotta drill the meganuke into the mountain to take it out, like in that movie, what was it