No, but I’ve been a jerk about everything else.
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Encourages them to what? Not starve?
Sure, but that’s not really a satisfying answer for the person asking for money or food, is it?
You’d think so, and yet here we are, with people actually lining up to take a picture at the top of the world.
“...there’s plenty of public mockery to go around for entitled white pricks”
I read Into Thin Air 20 years ago and to this day it is still one of the most chilling (both physically and emotionally) books I’ve read. I think you have to possess a bit of insanity to be a serious climber willing to risk the death zone.
It is trophy peakbagging entirely.
Those people these days aren’t there for the adventure. They’re just there for the bragging/showing off rights and for Instagram likes. A lot of the deaths are coming from average people who have never done a serious hike in their lives and only trained for Everest by a few weeks at the gym. Seriously.
Oliver portrayed the once-notable achievement of climbing the most difficult highest mountain in the world
Funnily enough, I just finished reading Sir Hillary’s account of he and his colleagues’ first summit of Everest, “High Adventure”. I was struck by all the things that had to go right, sure, but mostly I was struck by how much that team had to rely on their instincts honed by years of climbing experience. There was one…
I will never stop trying to convince people to watch Legends. It’s wonderful.
His Earth X doppleganger, nice guy Leo Snart, also fit it really well & I would love for him to show up again
I would completely agree with you if I were willing to admit season 1 of Legends ever actually existed.
The scene where Andrew Scott looks into the camera as well to try and figure out who the hell she’s talking to really kinda freaked me out. It was so totally unexpected.
It is also remarkably how casually LGBT friendly Legends of Tomorrow is, Ava and Sara being the show’s most important romantic relationship being treated as a totally normal thing I think is wonderful.
What surprises me the most is that Wentworth Miller as Snart was my favorite thing about season 1 of LoT, but the show doesn’t seem to miss him and perhaps his absence has even given other characters, especially his sidekick Mick Rory, more room to develop and shine.
The second season is so much better and the final scene is one of the best things I have seen on screen in a long time. It still makes me have all the feels. The blocking, dialog, pacing so perfectly devastating.
Fleabag has so much heat on it that sometimes I’d remind myself mid-episode that “Oh yeah, that’s Oscar winner Olivia Coleman just having fun in the background of this show.”