Reading about the Sherpa work stoppage on Mt. Everest
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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Reading about the Sherpa work stoppage on Mt. Everest
there's a record out there for the first to reach the summit of Mt. Everest without using Sherpa guides.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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a1mamacat
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Re: Reading about the Sherpa work stoppage on Mt. Everest
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:there's a record out there for the first to reach the summit of Mt. Everest without using Sherpa guides.
Yes, it's called an obituary notice
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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Re: Reading about the Sherpa work stoppage on Mt. Everest
What good is a record if you did not have to step over the bodies of those who failed beforea1mamacat wrote:themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:there's a record out there for the first to reach the summit of Mt. Everest without using Sherpa guides.
Yes, it's called an obituary notice
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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Re: Reading about the Sherpa work stoppage on Mt. Everest
Ask George Mallory and Andrew Irvine how they feel about that.themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:What good is a record if you did not have to step over the bodies of those who failed beforea1mamacat wrote:themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:there's a record out there for the first to reach the summit of Mt. Everest without using Sherpa guides.
Yes, it's called an obituary notice
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- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.