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Quote from nutmeg:

Last year, I went to America on a mountain climbing holiday. I had an accident, and fell 30ft. I broke both my legs and was bleeding heavily.

I managed to make it to a road, where I flagged down a car which drove me to the hospital.

I crawled into the waiting room, and two nurses ran over to me.
"Oh my God, are you alright?" one of them shouted.

I said, "I'm absolutely fine, why do you ask?" before passing out.

After waking up in the same spot 6 hours later, I realised there's a time and a place for sarcasm. ...:cool:
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:D Nice one.
 
Quote from acronym:

Yes, indeed they are frightful, the rodents, of Kilimanjaro.

I recall an expedition, to that lonely, windswept, freezing cold, but surprisingly sunny mount, during the Crimean war......all we had to eat, was the cold stench of death.

We had intended to para-sail down the mount, but alas, they hadn't been invented at the time, and this was cause for extraordinary consternation.

Yes, many, many pack goats, camels and associated ungulates paid the ultimate price for our lack of trip planning, on that occasion.
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Kilimanjaro.
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A desolate place. Even the camels whine when you say the name. The sheep tremble and the horses let out an ominous neigh.

Oh yes. I've paid a visit to the mountain of death. Along the path are the mangled skeletons of unidentifiable mammals. The vultures soar overhead as if following your troupe with the utmost certainty that some will not make it. Indeed, my trip cost me 37 camels, 4 sheep, 9 horses and 3 brave men.
 
Quote from drsteph:

Ha. You were lucky to even have the cold stench of death to succor you.

Keep calm and carry on with a stiff upper lip, chap.
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Indeed, when one of my team lost a leg to the extraordinarily rare "Leper" Marmot (leprosium cunni) , so named as to the victims appearance after an attack, and due to the curious axe-shaped wounds it inflicts-an animal so rare, it's never actually been discovered at all, the chips did seem down.

Fortunately , being able to fashion a giant toboggan out of animal skins and using some team members as bulwarks, (they all volunteered, you understand....indeed, some were too frostbitten to reply or object, but it was all for the good of the team, good chaps) my team did get me a knighthood for that feat.

Yes, what with ropes and shoes and things, mountaineering has become a bit namby pamby these days.
Used to be, had to use body heat to melt finger grips in the ice, not to mention the frozen rock........
world's gone soft, methinks.
 
Quote from BSAM:

Any of you ever take your bicycle up on a ski lift, then ride the bike down? It's a fun ride.
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You can't take a bicycle on a skilift, it is not allowed...

I hope you're not using The Random Thread to encourage people to break the law.... Anarchy would surely be next!
 
Quote from Lornz:

You can't take a bicycle on a skilift, it is not allowed...

I hope you're not using The Random Thread to encourage people to break the law.... Anarchy would surely be next!
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(Um...It's not against the law in the USA; trust me.)
 
Quote from BSAM:

Lotta mountain men 'round here.
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I feel so... alive! Yes, I feel great! I feel like shouting I LOVE LIFE on top of a mountain!

But then again, the climb would take ages.

Not to mention the atmospherical complications.

Fuck it, I'll just post it on ET. ...:cool:
 
I'm so bored now... I am procrastinating... I don't want to do what I have to do, but it stresses me out and therefore I cannot do anything else either...

Typing it out, it seems counterproductive and kind of silly. Maybe I should just "man up". Yes, I think that exactly what I am going to do! ...tomorrow...
 
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