Yeah, yesterday I saw an article about that, along with a photo showing a huge line of people climbing to the summit.
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
Spike ,'Potential'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - May 23, 2012 7:20:34 am PDT #6333 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Consuela - May 23, 2012 7:24:38 am PDT #6334 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
After 1996, I saw an interview with Alex Lowe, who was one of the premiere mountaineers in the world, and he basically said that it was irresponsible to be a commercial guide above 8,000 meters. The conditions were too unpredictable and hazardous, and anyone climbing should be required to have developed the skills and experience to protect their own lives. You end up with guides risking the lives of their clients and themselves in order to provide "the experience", which is exactly what happened in 1996.
Lowe died some years later, in an avalanche in Nepal.
flea - May 23, 2012 7:27:21 am PDT #6335 of 30001
information libertarian
Yeah, it's kind of amazing that the 1996 season changed nothing. (I was thrown out of a Quickie Mart in 1996 when I picked up the Outside magazine with the article that became Into Thin Air and stood there reading it for, like, 2 hours.)
tommyrot - May 23, 2012 8:02:26 am PDT #6336 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Mom, Dad, I Have Something To Tell You. I'm Black.
Is it harder to be black or to be gay? Wanda Sykes has an opinion on that.
tommyrot - May 23, 2012 8:06:58 am PDT #6337 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, here's that picture of all the climbers on Everest: [link]
DavidS - May 23, 2012 8:11:38 am PDT #6338 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The God of Mischief is a good name for a cocktail.
tommyrot - May 23, 2012 8:13:16 am PDT #6339 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh, and there was a climber who was determined to bring his bicycle to the summit. (He wasn't allowed to.)
§ ita § - May 23, 2012 8:18:33 am PDT #6340 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I actually like to think of Iron Man as somewhere between a tequila sunrise and a dusty nail, and it amuses me highly.
Climbing Everest will probably be a challenge that bests me, but it does look like it's losing its cachet in more ways than one--I mean, the fact that you can "just" pay someone to take you has to start to mean that paying someone to take you doesn't mean as much...but evidently I'm not used to the psychology of buying myself achievements.
I see there's an ad saying "check this website out if you live a 'maybe life'--if you have more than 15 migraine days per month". It both makes me want to cry and smash the television. I recently read some posts on a migraine forum and it was simultaneously many conflicting things, but I now know for sure that I'm petty enough to resent people not named me who are cured of chronic attacks. I'm sure if I knew them, I could be happy, but just as random non-ita !s. I'm bitter as all fuck.
brenda m - May 23, 2012 8:47:00 am PDT #6341 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I'm kind of bitter on your behalf.
sumi - May 23, 2012 8:55:33 am PDT #6342 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!