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Title: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 14 November 2013, 11:50:04: http://imgur.com/a/rkRAk (http://imgur.com/a/rkRAk)

it kills people ::)

ps: the link is to some images of dead people who died climbing mt. everest and it is kind of creepy but very surreal at the same time
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: eth0s on Thu, 14 November 2013, 11:53:23: wut? I'm leaving for Nepal tomorrow. Should I rethink going?

FYI: I'm 91 years young, and I have asthma, flat feet and bad breath. Oh, and I lost a leg in WWII. But I believe in the power of positive thinking.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 14 November 2013, 11:54:23: Quote from: eth0s on Thu, 14 November 2013, 11:53:23
wut? I'm leaving for Nepal tomorrow. Should I rethink going?

FYI: I'm 91 years young, and I have asthma, flat feet and bad breath. Oh, and I lost a leg in WWII. But I believe in the power of positive thinking.

NEVER GIVE UP, unless you want to live then just stay on the couch, eat your chips and watch more tv.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Thu, 14 November 2013, 11:57:53: Even for goats?

http://www.trueactivist.com/13-pictures-of-crazy-goats-on-cliffs/

(http://cdn.twentytwowords.com/wp-content/uploads/Goats-in-precarious-positions-03-634x475.jpg)
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: Binge on Thu, 14 November 2013, 12:01:24: If we banned stupidity the world would be quite vacant.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: eth0s on Thu, 14 November 2013, 12:09:52: Quote from: Computer-Lab in Basement on Thu, 14 November 2013, 11:57:53
Even for goats?

http://www.trueactivist.com/13-pictures-of-crazy-goats-on-cliffs/

Show Image
(http://cdn.twentytwowords.com/wp-content/uploads/Goats-in-precarious-positions-03-634x475.jpg)

If those dumb goats can climb Mt. Everest, so can I! [Also, I'm an old, rich Republican, so I'm going to have some poor people carry me up the mountain. But don't worry, I'm not using any of those filthy foreign sherpas. I'm bringing my own 'Murican poor people.]
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 14 November 2013, 12:19:14: Quote from: eth0s on Thu, 14 November 2013, 12:09:52
Quote from: Computer-Lab in Basement on Thu, 14 November 2013, 11:57:53
Even for goats?

http://www.trueactivist.com/13-pictures-of-crazy-goats-on-cliffs/

Show Image
(http://cdn.twentytwowords.com/wp-content/uploads/Goats-in-precarious-positions-03-634x475.jpg)

If those dumb goats can climb Mt. Everest, so can I! [Also, I'm an old, rich Republican, so I'm going to have some poor people carry me up the mountain. But don't worry, I'm not using any of those filthy foreign sherpas. I'm bringing my own 'Murican poor people.]

rednecks or bust
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: Tym on Thu, 14 November 2013, 12:48:46: Well now I'm depressed...

Cheers Spam. :-[
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 14 November 2013, 12:51:57: Quote from: Tym on Thu, 14 November 2013, 12:48:46
Well now I'm depressed...

Cheers Spam. :-[

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This guy wouldn't listen and turned into this

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It will all be ok at the end of the day.

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Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: Malphas on Thu, 14 November 2013, 14:08:39: Morbid but fascinating.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: Michael on Thu, 14 November 2013, 14:11:45: Ban driving cars. It kills people.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Thu, 14 November 2013, 14:12:52: Quote from: Bro Caps on Thu, 14 November 2013, 14:11:45
Ban driving cars. It kills people.

Ban life. Without life, there would be no death.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: tjcaustin on Thu, 14 November 2013, 14:13:21: Ban the word ban, it's weird looking now.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: demik on Thu, 14 November 2013, 14:16:04: Looks like spamray just found out about ol' reddit
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: kolonelkadat on Thu, 14 November 2013, 14:16:49: fwiw its not the climbing that killed them, but that they stopped climbing. They probably should have taken a viagra.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: tjcaustin on Thu, 14 November 2013, 14:17:29: Quote from: demik on Thu, 14 November 2013, 14:16:04
Looks like spamray just found out about ol' reddit

I wonder if spamray is Ben's alter-ego?
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 14 November 2013, 14:53:37: Quote from: demik on Thu, 14 November 2013, 14:16:04
Looks like spamray just found out about ol' reddit

Actually someone shared it to me on FACEBOOK :p

I'm too old to learn how to reddit :-X
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: C5Allroad on Thu, 14 November 2013, 16:09:32: Why ban something like this?
People love what they are doing, or else they wouldn't try to climb the largest mountain in the world. Sure there are risks involved, but there is a risk in every day life. We have the same chance of dying in front of our computers as they have climbing. Smokers, bad drivers, drunk drivers, stupid kids running across the street when there is a lot of traffic. I'm pretty sure that not a lot of people die from mountain climbing, well not as many as car drivers.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: Tym on Thu, 14 November 2013, 16:13:06: I think the joke may have gone over your head :p
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 14 November 2013, 16:15:32: Quote from: HUNTERANGEL121 on Thu, 14 November 2013, 16:09:32
Why ban something like this?
People love what they are doing, or else they wouldn't try to climb the largest mountain in the world. Sure there are risks involved, but there is a risk in every day life. We have the same chance of dying in front of our computers as they have climbing. Smokers, bad drivers, drunk drivers, stupid kids running across the street when there is a lot of traffic. I'm pretty sure that not a lot of people die from mountain climbing, well not as many as car drivers.

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Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: C5Allroad on Thu, 14 November 2013, 16:16:00: I caught it lol. I just sorta got carried away.... I had to think of something in school today that should be banned. That was pretty much my argument. I was still in the english class mode. :)
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Thu, 14 November 2013, 16:47:35: In most cases it's exposure that kills climbers. Instead we need to BAN cold weather to keep Everest climbers safe.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 14 November 2013, 17:10:05: Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Thu, 14 November 2013, 16:47:35
In most cases it's exposure that kills climbers. Instead we need to BAN cold weather to keep Everest climbers safe.

MOAR GLOBAL WARMING!!!!1!11

On another note, why can't they retrieve the bodies? It seems overly morbid to just leave them there for anyone following to find.

And on the subject of mountain goats, I still loathe chickens after being pushed off numerous precipices by them in earlier versions of Minecraft. KILL THE MOUNTAIN CHICKENS!!1!
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: Malphas on Thu, 14 November 2013, 17:21:10: They can't/won't retrieve them because it's a place in the middle of nowhere, and massively expensive and dangerous to climb, let alone carrying a frozen corpse down with you. That said, I believe Sherpas do retrieve bodies/litter to some extent towards the end of the climbing season, but presumably there's only so much they're able to do with limited resources, and being mostly occupied with escorting groups to the summit.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 14 November 2013, 17:24:05: But for something like a body of your loved one - you'd think there would be some sort of arrangement.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: Malphas on Thu, 14 November 2013, 17:30:40: Well you could fund a recovery expedition privately, but it would cost a fortune. Not only that, but even once you got the body off the mountain, trying to get it out of a country like Nepal, back the next of kin, and in half-decent condition would be a logistical nightmare in itself and cost another fortune.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: eth0s on Thu, 14 November 2013, 17:46:08: You people are just jelly that I made it all the way to the top.

I didn't even feel the cold after the first day.

(http://blacklikeyou.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/beck-weathers.jpg)
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: baldgye on Thu, 14 November 2013, 17:50:19: We really need to start work on the Everest escalator so we can then begin work on the space lift (that ofc starts at the summit of Everest).
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 14 November 2013, 17:54:05: That guy nose what's up.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: Tym on Thu, 14 November 2013, 17:55:08: Nose, hue :))
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 14 November 2013, 17:58:24: Everesculator?

Cool!
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Thu, 14 November 2013, 18:09:30: Escalator? Rubbish who wants to stand up for that long? Surely a cable car or something similar which you can sit inside and be heated would be the way to go.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: BucklingSpring on Thu, 14 November 2013, 18:59:24: Ever Rest - what part you guys don't get? :cool:
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 14 November 2013, 19:06:20: Quote from: BucklingSpring on Thu, 14 November 2013, 18:59:24
Ever Rest - what part you guys don't get? :cool:

That is so legit.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: noisyturtle on Thu, 14 November 2013, 19:23:50: All recreational outdoor sports are banned in my book. Best to just play it safe. Safe with pie.
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 14 November 2013, 19:24:57: Quote from: noisyturtle on Thu, 14 November 2013, 19:23:50
All recreational outdoor sports are banned in my book. Best to just play it safe. Safe with pie.

Apple pie!
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 14 November 2013, 19:30:24: Quote from: SpAmRaY on Thu, 14 November 2013, 19:24:57
Quote from: noisyturtle on Thu, 14 November 2013, 19:23:50
All recreational outdoor sports are banned in my book. Best to just play it safe. Safe with pie.

Apple pie!

American pie?
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: baldgye on Thu, 14 November 2013, 19:41:46: Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Thu, 14 November 2013, 18:09:30
Escalator? Rubbish who wants to stand up for that long? Surely a cable car or something similar which you can sit inside and be heated would be the way to go.

think of it as training for the space lift.... WHERE THERE ARE NO SEATS
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: kolonelkadat on Thu, 14 November 2013, 21:33:09: Quote from: rowdy on Thu, 14 November 2013, 17:10:05
On another note, why can't they retrieve the bodies? It seems overly morbid to just leave them there for anyone following to find.

Physically, because the effort required to retrieve the body would probably kill the person trying to retrieve it. Spiritually, Isnt the side of a mountain a much better final resting place for a mountain climbing enthusiast than an urn or a hole out in a field somewhere?
Title: Re: BAN Mountain Climbing
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 15 November 2013, 00:00:58: I am not one for extreme sports either.... maybe if I was 50-60 and thus would only be risking the crummy years left of my life.

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