Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Adder
The main difference I see between Melo and Kermit Washington is the severity of the result. But Washington at least was still in the heat of the moment. Melo's is less severe because no one was seriously injured, but I'm not sure the fact that he is a big pussy makes him less cuplable.

But you are right, at least he will be mocked for life over running away.

I agree that I think he was a pussy. But, his backing up is typical of these kind of "throw a sucker punch into a crowd of people and then back up so you can deal with whoever comes at you one-at-a-time" melees. Shit, no one mocks Alonzo and LJ for their hissy fit, slap fight during the playoffs that one year.

The guy I would least like to tangle with on the floor that night is Nate Robertson.

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
While We Are Bitching About Things...

How is it that the top story for the last 4 days is these missing hikers who wandered up Mount Hood in the winter? There is nothing else going on in the world that is more important than finding them? This is like some twisted corrolary to the Missing White Woman phenomenon. Because of the found SF family story (sorry, Jack), now any missing people in the northwest are national news? How many people go missing on Everest or other mountains per year? Why are Oregon/the federal government expending the resources that they are to find guys who voluntarily went out hiking on a mountain during the winter? Over 60 hikers on the mountain now in bad weather to try to find the remaining two?

Assumption of risk holds no water in the real world today, I guess.

I don't understand this shit either. If you're going to hike somewhere extremely dangerous that requires expensive equipment and the risk of additional life because they may have to send someone out to find your dumb ass, you should have to pay a huge fee to pay rescuers to be available and post a bond that will be drawn should a rescue mission be necessary. If you go without doing this, you should be thrown in jail as soon as your dumb ass is rescued and the accompanying fine should be for double the amount of money it took to rescue you.

And if I ran the news, the most you'd get out of me would be on December 31st and I would say, "568 people lost this year to various risky sporting activity ranging from hiking up a mountain in the middle of nowhere to base jumping, and in sports..."

TM

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I don't understand this shit either. If you're going to hike somewhere extremely dangerous that requires expensive equipment and the risk of additional life because they may have to send someone out to find your dumb ass, you should have to pay a huge fee to pay rescuers to be available and post a bond that will be drawn should a rescue mission be necessary. If you go without doing this, you should be thrown in jail as soon as your dumb ass is rescued and the accompanying fine should be for double the amount of money it took to rescue you.

And if I ran the news, the most you'd get out of me would be on December 31st and I would say, "568 people lost this year to various risky sporting activity ranging from hiking up a mountain in the middle of nowhere to base jumping, and in sports..."

TM

Is this similar to the premise of when Steve Irwin stingray guy died it was like, dude, you are around dangerous animals all day...something is bound to happen.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
And if I ran the news, the most you'd get out of me would be on December 31st and I would say, "568 people lost this year to various risky sporting activity ranging from hiking up a mountain in the middle of nowhere to base jumping, and in sports..."

TM

That is what the news is like on PBS already. Or the BBC. Or the CBC, for the most part.

[Adder]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
That is what the news is like on PBS already. Or the BBC. Or the CBC, for the most part.

You mean after they pledge allegiance to the Soviet Union, right?

[patentparanyc]

Bridget Moynihan's last ditch effort

http://socialitelife.com/2006/12/18/..._last_move.php

I feel bad for her. He is hot tho

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
That is what the news is like on PBS already. Or the BBC. Or the CBC, for the most part.

Are hot, semi-clothed chicks the newscasters? Because I'll bet thurgreed would make that part of the plan. If he ran the news.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Are hot, semi-clothed chicks the newscasters? Because I'll bet thurgreed would make that part of the plan. If he ran the news.

there used to the naked news.

I haven't clicked on it but it seems that it is the original?

NSFW

nsfw:

http://nakednews.com


wiki entry which is diff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_News

[Adder]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
there used to the naked news. is that still so?

From Canada, no less!

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Adder
From Canada, no less!

that is a newscast you can get behind.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by SEC_Chick
Only watched Survivor sporadically since All Stars. This season was good, but I couldn't watch it because I found Yul to be such an idiot (for revealing he had the idol). The others, though, were even bigger idiots for not voting for Yul solely to make him use the idol and level the playing field. I have been yelling that at the TV for weeks. I don't understand why Yul was considered such a Godfather on this one. Ozzie clearly deservied to win.

As for Amazing Race All Stars, I already have my cast wish list: The Cha Cha Chas, Jonathan and Victoria (but they probably won't do it since thay had a kid this year), Blake and Paige, The stupid Harvard Law girls who couldn't read the clue and follow instructions, so many.

Did anyone else catch the Reality Stars Fear Factor when Johnny Fairplay was toying with Jonathan and Victoria and Joe Rogan kicked Jonathan's ass? That was possibly the best 30 seconds in the history of reality tv.

I mostly enjoyed this season of Survivor, and I disagree that it was stupid of Yul to reveal he had the Idol - he had to to get Jonathan to switch again - it was Jonathan who was stupid for following Candace's puppy love crush. That said, it was stupid for them not to force the idol out, particularly the night they voted Adam out. Yul, of all people, would have respected the move. However, nothing would have changed in the end.

I would say that TAR was only OK this year - the most incompetent team should not be allowed to lose three times. Further, I never did figure out which one was Dustin and which one was the other one, I am sick of the final leg being set up to favor the fittest, I am sick of listening to people whine about "we don't like the way they race," and I am sick of watching dysfunctional couples with bad communication skills.

And, All Star shows generally suck, so I do not feel bad that I will miss most of it while traveling Cuba, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay from January 5 to April 4. Same bat blog, same batty blogger.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
While We Are Bitching About Things...

How is it that the top story for the last 4 days is these missing hikers who wandered up Mount Hood in the winter? There is nothing else going on in the world that is more important than finding them? This is like some twisted corrolary to the Missing White Woman phenomenon. Because of the found SF family story (sorry, Jack), now any missing people in the northwest are national news? How many people go missing on Everest or other mountains per year? Why are Oregon/the federal government expending the resources that they are to find guys who voluntarily went out hiking on a mountain during the winter? Over 60 hikers on the mountain now in bad weather to try to find the remaining two?

Assumption of risk holds no water in the real world today, I guess.

I was sucked into the earlier story because those people were just like me. Except in some respects. Whereas missing blond chicks and mountaineers are not just like me (in the sense that they are blond chicks and mountaineers, respectively). So I do not get all rapt when they go missing.

That said, I do not mind taxing people richer than myself to pay for Coast Guard helicopters to search for them. But when blond chicks go missing, there ought to be a way to use the ensuing abuse of the public airwaves to put some cash in the public fisc.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by LessinSF
And, All Star shows generally suck, so I do not feel bad that I will miss most of it while traveling Cuba, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay from January 5 to April 4. Same bat blog, same batty blogger.

That's going to leave you very little time to buy me a drink.

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[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I don't understand this shit either. If you're going to hike somewhere extremely dangerous that requires expensive equipment and the risk of additional life because they may have to send someone out to find your dumb ass, you should have to pay a huge fee to pay rescuers to be available and post a bond that will be drawn should a rescue mission be necessary. If you go without doing this, you should be thrown in jail as soon as your dumb ass is rescued and the accompanying fine should be for double the amount of money it took to rescue you.

And if I ran the news, the most you'd get out of me would be on December 31st and I would say, "568 people lost this year to various risky sporting activity ranging from hiking up a mountain in the middle of nowhere to base jumping, and in sports..."

TM

2.

Back in the day when I was fit enough to ski Tuckerman's, we'd study the weather obsessively and pack up to 80 pounds* worth of gear per person for a relatively easy day hike that required no technical climbing equipment. Everybody would bring a sleeping bag, foul weather gear, goggles, water, and food and withing the group there would be a tent, camp stove, first aid kit, cell phone, fire starters, etc. Any sign of a storm or inclement weather coming and we'd put off the trip for another time.

They've started charging for rescue efforts in the White Mountains.

*OK the 80 pounds included a pony keg for apres-ski on Lunch Rocks. We wanted to make sure we had plenty of fluids with us.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
That's going to leave you very little time to buy me a drink.

Did I lose a bet I don't remember making?

Oh, and here's a link to Ozzy's porn scenes for the ladeez - http://www.hunkvideo.com/cgi-bin/web...pl?read=164391