News:

PD.com: children are filled with joy, adults are filled with dread and local government is filled with stupid

Main Menu

My nominee for most badass person of 2009

Started by Da6s, December 06, 2009, 11:27:31 AM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

Da6s

December 06, 2009, 11:27:31 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1233384/The-REAL-king-jungle.html

QuoteFormer British Army captain Ed Stafford, 33, is well on the way to becoming the first man in history to walk from the source of the Amazon in the mountains of Peru to its mouth in Brazil. And he's not doing it in the hope of achieving notoriety, nor is he being paid handsomely for his efforts. No, he's doing it out of a sense of adventure - for the sheer derring-do.

QuoteHis satnav is broken and even if he had enough money for guides, he wouldn't be able to get them anyway for this section of his expedition.
The locals are too scared of jaguars
to go into the jungle. The big cats find pickings lean in the dry season and a juicy explorer would be a welcome addition to their diet. Ed is, of course, unarmed. A gun might give protection from the wildlife, but it would guarantee hostility from the people.


We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

Lies

#1
December 06, 2009, 12:55:34 PM Last Edit: December 06, 2009, 01:00:01 PM by Lysergic
My nominee

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/08/23/man-swims-the-entire-length-of-the-amazon-115875-21616720/

QuoteHe's middle-aged, his ample belly bulges over his Speedos...and he thinks drinking two bottles of wine a day keeps him in shape.

Swimmer Martin Strel would be the first to admit he makes the unlikeliest of athletes.

But the 55-year-old hard-drinking Slovenian just happens to be the greatest endurance swimmer in the world... ever.

He claimed the title by conquering the world's most dangerous river – the Amazon – swimming 3,274 miles in 66 days, non-stop.

"It helps to be a little crazy, to do what I do," Martin admits.

"I told myself that I would swim the Amazon or I would die trying.

"I'm a big man, sure, but the Amazon is so much bigger."

The astonishing story of courage and determination is the subject of a new movie, Big River Man, which opens across the UK next month.

The enthralling film sees Martin brave the constant threat of piranhas, crocodiles and the horrifying candiru fish.

QuoteBut even as he tells how his doctor warned him to give up drinking to lessen the risk of heart attack, Martin simply cracks open another bottle of red, washing it down with a whisky and some beer.

"I told the doctor I have to drink, I have to swim – I am Martin!" says the part-time guitar teacher.
- So the New World Order does not actually exist?
- Oh it exists, and how!
Ask the slaves whose labour built the White House;
Ask the slaves of today tied down to sweatshops and brothels to escape hunger;
Ask most women, second class citizens, in a pervasive rape culture;
Ask the non-human creatures who inhabit the planet:
whales, bears, frogs, tuna, bees, slaughtered farm animals;
Ask the natives of the Americas and Australia on whose land
you live today, on whose graves your factories, farms and neighbourhoods stand;
ask any of them this, ask them if the New World Order is true;
they'll tell you plainly: the New World Order... is you!
Print
Go Up Pages1
User actions