The things a man can do to win a bet. :)
Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice
Submitted 1 day ago by King@blackneon.net to [deleted]
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1984@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
BanMe@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Some men will do anything to avoid getting a job, and we commend them.
Rooty@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Most jobs are a pointless waste of time that are upheld under the threat of starvation and destitution, and I say that as someone fully employed.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I can do you one even better. I am full time employed, I train IT supporters. Which means, that my job is to enable people to waste their time, in order to make you be able to waste yours. Just taking another trip round the wast-o-time-ception merry-go-round: my school employs IT staff as well.
Life is hard, pointless, and full of injustice. But at least in the end you get to die a meaningless death while alone and afraid.
This got dark, remember that you need to pretend to be happy again come Monday morning. Otherwise starvation will get you before the tumor, that you didn’t know you were to going to get 5 years before “retirement”. Here’s a little inspiration “Pretend You’re Happy” by Jay Forman recorded in the luxury of what appears to be a 2000s 3 door citroën saxo m.youtube.com/watch?v=PeCrnbJHJeY
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Most jobs are a pointless waste of time
His journey, on the other hand, is a pointful waste of time.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
For those who just read the headline, his isn’t walking all at once.
He walks as much as he can that year, then either stays in that area for a while or goes to another country.
Each time he restarts from the point he left off at.
He also skipped a few years entirely, after the 2008 financial crisis and during the Covid pandemic.
I suppose if Russia had let him be in the country for more than 3 months at a time, he might have been able to do it all at once.
Sunflier@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Uhm, England is an island, which is surrounded by water. The ice bridge the natives used to migrate to the Americas from Russia during the last ice age is melted, which makes the western continents cut off from the eastern ones by water on all sides. Chile is on the western continents. Last I checked, humans cannot walk on water. So, obvious question here: how is this guy walking from Chile to an island nation in Europe?
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Read the wiki article above, it has links to other articles where it’s sourcing its information.
Link to article documenting his expedition across the frozen Bering Strait.“Karl Bushby reached land after 14 days walking across shifting plates of ice in temperatures reaching -30C.” “The ice was breaking up behind him as he walked across.”
However, it does appear that some of his walking has been replaced by swimming.
“In August 2024, Bushby started the swim across the Caspian Sea from Kazakhstan, planning to finish in Azerbaijan to avoid going through Iran or Russia, as both countries were then too dangerous to enter with a British passport. Bushby was accompanied by co-swimmer Angela Maxwell and two Azerbaijani national swimmers, Anastasiya Boborikna and Abdurrahman Rustamov.[15] Each day, Bushby and company swam in two 3-hour sessions: one in the morning, one in the afternoon and resting and sleeping on support boats each night.[16] The swim covering 179 miles (288 km) was achieved in 31 days with 132 swimming hours.[17][18] From Azerbaijan, Bushby then went to Turkey to cross the Bosphorus Strait into Europe”He’ll probably end up swimming across the English channel.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
Don’t they have tunnels from france to england? Surely maintenance fellers walk those tunnels, so there would be a way.
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 9 hours ago
TIL Scotland and Wales don’t exist
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yw
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
In March 2006, Bushby and French adventurer Dimitri Kieffer crossed the Bering Strait on foot, having to take a roundabout 14-day route across a frozen 150-mile (240 km) section to cross the 58-mile (93 km) wide strait from Alaska to Siberia.[4] They were detained by Russian border troop officers while they were crossing the Russian border near the Chukotkan village of Uelen, for not entering Russia at a correct port of entry.
Huh, I didn’t even think that was possible. Imagine the immigration officers face when they told him how they got there.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s also an incredibly stupid bureaucratic clusterfuck of the magnitude that only customs and border people can achieve. Surely there should be some mechanism wherein you can send a letter or something to the Russian authorities to inform them, “Hey, we’re trying this stupid stunt and here is our plan, let us make our declarations now and we’ll pick up all the paperwork on the way once we get there.” But there probably isn’t, and then you wind up with crap like this.
The tinniest of tin-pot jumped up little dictators are never to actually be found in your nation’s capital. Instead they’re all lined up along its borders acting like these various lines in the sand were laser-etched there by god and aren’t ultimately just arbitrary and, indeed, historically much more fluid than they’d like to pretend.
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mr Bushby, who wants access to a service tunnel separate to that used by the trains, said: “If I have to swim across, I obviously will. But it will be colder than the Caspian.”
I mean, obviously
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
But he would fail his bet by not walking
Thalion@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Apparently swimming is close enough. He swam the Caspian since that was easier than dealing with Iran
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is amazing but I genuinely wonder if he’ll regret doing it once he’s done. Thats a huge chunk of your life to devote to one thing.
Cant deny he’ll be making history though.
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean… Isn’t that how humanity rolls? Historically speaking anyways, 99 out of 100 people live and die close to where they were born, while the oddball goes and does a Leif Erikson for his whole life and then we get Iceland. His psychology compels him to do this.
JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org 23 hours ago
I love Senku’s speech in Doctor Stone where he tells Tsukasa that his plan to hold back humanity’s technology forever was doomed from the start. Because some human beings are insane and will spend their entire lives trying to do something that nobody else thought of. And over enough thousands of years, this process will inevitably result in someone walking on the moon. Science is madness and it’s built in to humanity.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 day ago
He wasn’t going to keep those 27 years anyway, and climbing the career ladder, having a few kids and steadily paying off a mortgage must have somehow not seemed like a compelling alternative
yakko@feddit.uk 1 day ago
He’s already made the Fellowship of the Ring look like lightweights
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 1 day ago
He sits down in his old local pub and catches up with old mates after finally completing his journey. His mate Dave points out that he completely missed Africa. Off he goes again.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Some people want to see the world.
Kalothar@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
He didn’t do this the entire time it seems, a lot of getting banned from going to Russia was a afoot Haha
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Monks devote their lives to one thing. Many craftsmen devote their lives to one thing. Activists, philosophers, doctors, diplomats, bakers. Devoting your life to a specific thing can be enriching.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 day ago
The opposite of a shitpost
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 10 hours ago
Pipi post?
sunstoned@lemmus.org 21 hours ago
And ah-I! would walk five hun-dred miles and ah-I! would walk five hun-dred more. To be! the man that walked five thousand miles! to win that bet for sure. DADADUH
MrSulu@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
I heard that he just wanted to do something quickly before doing the washing up.
Hedup@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Is the bet subject to inflation?
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 day ago
I keep wondering why images aren’t loading and it’s because they’re hosted by Reddit? I blocked them ages ago but why are we using Reddit’s CDN for Lemmy posts’ images?
King@blackneon.net 1 day ago
- My instance does not accept me uploading photos.
- Imgur is blocked in the UK.
That leave me with very few options.
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 1 day ago
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Reddit pays the hosting fee for the image instead of the lemmyverse? IDK beyond that.
Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
What exactly did he bet?
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
His left nut
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Where the fuck do people get the money to live in this completely useless, detached, ego-centric, bullshit fashion?
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 day ago
This but without the unnecessary aggression towards something that hurts nobody.
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The same place artists get it? As long as people enjoy watching what you do and are inspired by it it is worth something.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Generally speaking, artists get money by making and selling art, or more often by having a day job, they earn it, this guy is just trying to win a bet. It’s just masturbatory.
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The world has to be in an utter state for people to voice contempt for a person who’s simply walking around.
howrar@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
He punished a book about the first segment of his journey, and there are people just throwing money at him because they want to see someone do this.
TheBat@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
He punished a book
What was the punishment?
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 1 day ago
He must be getting something amazing from winning the bet to keep at it like this!
FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
That face. I’m wondering how closely he and I are related because that is the face of someone that could be an immediate relative of mine.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Show the picture to your mum and see how she reacts, then you’ll have your answer.
digital_man@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Dunno but he happen to be white. Can’t even imagine a person color doing this ( today ).
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Have you heard of a thing in Australia called walkabout?
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Those don’t go through super racist places like Russia.
ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net 1 day ago
Good, some did it so that i don’t have to
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Just what community do you think this is?! I don’t come here for interesting, quality content and the wikipedia article doesn’t even mention anything about him shitting on a post!
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
the real shitpost are the friends we made along the way
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Albert Watermelon, we are friends?
Yeah. We can be friends.
King@blackneon.net 1 day ago
In all seriousness, most communities feel buggy on my instance(I need to find them manually on my instance) and some moderators on Lemmy seem to get a hit of dopamine when they remove any post or comment on their community.
My answer to all of this is that I just use the shitpost community for everything.
That solution seems super perfect for me.
Decoy321@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Mod here. Please post something against the rules so I can get that dopamine hit. This one is perfectly okay to be here.
pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
I think this is the normal instance behavior of Lemmy instances. It would be too much load for small instances to sync everything in the fediverse. Instead a member of your instance needs to first manually find a community before it starts tracking and makes it automatically available to the other instance members from there on.