Badassery

[Nenga]

Wow that is pretty crazy but still can't beat one guy killing 700+ people after only 1 year in the military. So who is Finland allied with again?

 

Nobody. And I'm not gonna check under your bed tonight, kiddo.

 

There's too much stuff under my bed for anything to live down there. Besides the boogeyman... and maybe Tom Cruise :ohnoes:

[masterben92]

[hide=[cabbage] knife]The Inuit didnt fear the cold; they took advantage of it. During the 1950s the Canadian government forced the Inuit into settlements. A family from Arctic Bay told me this fantastic story of their grandfather who refused to go. The family, fearful for his life, took away all of his tools and all of his implements, thinking that would force him into the settlement. But instead, he just slipped out of an igloo on a cold Arctic night, pulled down his caribou and sealskin trousers, and defecated into his hand. As the feces began to freeze, he shaped it into the form of an implement. And when the blade started to take shape, he put a spray of saliva along the leading edge to sharpen it. Thats when what they call the [cabbage] knife took form. He used it to butcher a dog. Skinned the dog with it. Improvised a sled with the dogs rib cage, and then, using the skin, he harnessed up an adjacent living dog. He put the [cabbage] knife in his belt and disappeared into the night.[/hide]

 

 

 

This was from a TED talk by Wade Davis.

 

 

 

[hide=same talk, more info]To end this evening on a more optimistic note, I want to return to my own country of Canada and emphasize a rather astonishing thing that has happened. Some of you may not know that in April of 1999, Canada gave back to the indigenous peoples, to about 26,000 Inuit, administrative control of a homeland the size of Western Europe. This is a great moment of restitution for our country, because we have not always been kind to the Inuit. Indeed when the Europeans first met the Inuit, they took them to be savages; the Inuit took the Europeans to be gods. Both were wrong, but one did more to honor the human race. What the British in particular could not understand was that there could be no better measure of genius than the ability to exist in a landscape with a technology limited to what you could carve from bones, stone, slate and small bits of wood that floated up like flotsam from the sea, and were considered as precious as gold.

 

 

 

If there is one motif in the history of the Arctic, it is that when the Europeans mimic the ways of the Inuit, they achieved great feats of exploration. But when they failed to do so, they suffered terrible deaths. The Inuit dont fear the cold, they take advantage of it. The runners of their sleds were originally made from three Arctic char fish placed into a row and wrapped in caribou hide, and greased with the stomach contents of the caribou.

 

 

 

I recorded a wonderful story from an elder, when I went narwhal hunting at the tip of Baffin Island. During the 1950s, there was an effort to establish Canadian sovereignty over an archipelago that could have gone to a European country, and we forced the Inuit into settlements. This mans grandfather refused to go, so the family, fearful for his life, took away all of his tools and weapons, thinking that would force him into the settlements. Did it? No. In the middle of an Arctic night, with a blizzard howling outside, the old man stepped outside of the igloo, pulled down his caribou hide trousers and defecated into his hand. As the feces froze, he shaped it in the form of a knife. He sprayed saliva along the edge to give it a sharp edge, and as his [cabbage] knife took form, he butchered a dog with it. He skinned the dog with it, took the skin and made a harness, took the ribcage and made a sled, harnessed up an adjacent dog and disappeared, [cabbage] knife in belt, over the ice flows. Talk about getting by with nothing[/hide]

[i_love_burritos]

Like I mentioned in a previous thread - Schopenhauer.

 

 

 

Bam [bleep]es !

 

 

 

I really don't know why I'm doing this. I'm just bored, I guess.

[baalboy5]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoky_(dog)

 

The dog was cute, was in war, and parachutted.

 

:thumbup:

[whiteguy]

[hide=[cabbage]knife]The Inuit didnt fear the cold; they took advantage of it. During the 1950s the Canadian government forced the Inuit into settlements. A family from Arctic Bay told me this fantastic story of their grandfather who refused to go. The family, fearful for his life, took away all of his tools and all of his implements, thinking that would force him into the settlement. But instead, he just slipped out of an igloo on a cold Arctic night, pulled down his caribou and sealskin trousers, and defecated into his hand. As the feces began to freeze, he shaped it into the form of an implement. And when the blade started to take shape, he put a spray of saliva along the leading edge to sharpen it. Thats when what they call the [cabbage] knife took form. He used it to butcher a dog. Skinned the dog with it. Improvised a sled with the dogs rib cage, and then, using the skin, he harnessed up an adjacent living dog. He put the [cabbage] knife in his belt and disappeared into the night.[/hide]

 

 

 

This was from a TED talk by Wade Davis.

 

 

 

[hide=same talk, more info]To end this evening on a more optimistic note, I want to return to my own country of Canada and emphasize a rather astonishing thing that has happened. Some of you may not know that in April of 1999, Canada gave back to the indigenous peoples, to about 26,000 Inuit, administrative control of a homeland the size of Western Europe. This is a great moment of restitution for our country, because we have not always been kind to the Inuit. Indeed when the Europeans first met the Inuit, they took them to be savages; the Inuit took the Europeans to be gods. Both were wrong, but one did more to honor the human race. What the British in particular could not understand was that there could be no better measure of genius than the ability to exist in a landscape with a technology limited to what you could carve from bones, stone, slate and small bits of wood that floated up like flotsam from the sea, and were considered as precious as gold.

 

 

 

If there is one motif in the history of the Arctic, it is that when the Europeans mimic the ways of the Inuit, they achieved great feats of exploration. But when they failed to do so, they suffered terrible deaths. The Inuit dont fear the cold, they take advantage of it. The runners of their sleds were originally made from three Arctic char fish placed into a row and wrapped in caribou hide, and greased with the stomach contents of the caribou.

 

 

 

I recorded a wonderful story from an elder, when I went narwhal hunting at the tip of Baffin Island. During the 1950s, there was an effort to establish Canadian sovereignty over an archipelago that could have gone to a European country, and we forced the Inuit into settlements. This mans grandfather refused to go, so the family, fearful for his life, took away all of his tools and weapons, thinking that would force him into the settlements. Did it? No. In the middle of an Arctic night, with a blizzard howling outside, the old man stepped outside of the igloo, pulled down his caribou hide trousers and defecated into his hand. As the feces froze, he shaped it in the form of a knife. He sprayed saliva along the edge to give it a sharp edge, and as his [cabbage] knife took form, he butchered a dog with it. He skinned the dog with it, took the skin and made a harness, took the ribcage and made a sled, harnessed up an adjacent dog and disappeared, [cabbage] knife in belt, over the ice flows. Talk about getting by with nothing[/hide]

 

 

 

 

 

:shock:

[i_love_burritos]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoky_(dog)

 

The dog was cute, was in war, and parachutted.

 

:thumbup:

 

 

 

Lulz.

 

 

 

You left a parenthesis out, by the way. Not a bracket - a parenthesis.

[AceBeam]

What an [wagon]. He killed a dog... With a piece of [cabbage]. And then cut it's skin off with a piece of [cabbage]. Someone has issues.

[BlueLancer]

Simo Hayha killed more people than the fictional hero Jack Bauer on television... Not saying I necessarily admire killing, but he did what needed to be done. Despite not being the biggest guy around physically, I think it's harder to find a more "badass" man than him, he wasn't psychotic or unstable either.

 

 

 

He had extremely rational strategies, like mentioned, putting snow in his mouth to prevent breath from revealing his location, freezing the snow around him, killing his attacker even with his jaw missing etc.

[Kiriyama]

Uma Thornmen.

 

(Spell check?)

 

 

 

If you know who she is..Yeah..Lets just leave it at that...

 

This lady? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uma_Thurman

 

 

 

She's just an actress...

 

 

 

EDIT: I AM MISTAKEN! SHE PLAYED IN GATTACA AND PULP FICTION. SHE IS AWESOME BY MY STANDARDS BUT SHE STILL DOESN'T MAKE MOST BADASS.

 

Yes, but the people who have seen Kill Bill would know what I mean.

 

 

 

Seen parts, didn't look very badass.

 

 

 

And AceBeam, it doesn't matter what he did, he did it to survive.

[Barihawk]

http://stanislavpetrovtribute.ytmnd.com/

 

 

 

Stanislav Petrov. Thank him for your existence.

[Kiriyama]

http://stanislavpetrovtribute.ytmnd.com/

 

 

 

Stanislav Petrov. Thank him for your existence.

 

 

 

That seemed like more of a fluke than anything. Not very badass.

[Barihawk]

Really? That man was pushing the button and stood his ground when supervisors and generals from all over the Soviet Union were screaming at him to launch the missiles or be executed. Instead, he kept a cool head and trusted in his feelings and it ended up not blowing up the world.

 

 

 

To stand for what you believe in at the risk of death with people screaming at you is badass in my opinion.

[Kiriyama]

Well, that is true.

 

 

 

However, it was also a 50/50 chance of being their own annihilation, or being a false alarm through a glitch in the system. I think he just got lucky when he made the right call not to launch.

[anonymous1234]

reminds of the guy from WarGames who reasoned that the Soviet Union wouldn't launch all their missiles at once, which would cause the U.S. to do a full retaliation before they died.

[ElkNight]

This has probably already been said but Thích Qu?ng ??c is pretty bad [wagon].

 

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[Kiriyama]

This has probably already been said but Thích Qu?ng ??c is pretty bad [wagon].

 

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Theres the line between badassery and stupidity.

 

 

 

He crossed it into stupidity.

[Riku3220]

I declare we have rules for badassery.

 

 

 

1) Person must live through his badassness

 

2) Person must be close to death (Physically, not with threats)

 

3) No luck or guesses. Badass must know what he's doing and what's going to happen when he does it.

 

4) Person must be badass.

[masterben92]

This has probably already been said but Thích Qu?ng ??c is pretty bad [wagon].

 

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Theres the line between badassery and stupidity.

 

 

 

He crossed it into stupidity.

 

 

 

I wouldn't say so. He did this to protest his governments treatment of Buddhists. The picture spread around the world and I'd say brought much attention to his plight.

[Kiriyama]

Badass isn't injuring yourself in protest.

 

 

 

A badass would stare down the barrel of a gun pointed at you and sticking to what you are there for, without setting or closing your eyes when they pull the trigger.

 

 

 

Setting yourself on fire is just stupid. Its like saying "I disagree with you. I'll kill myself to get my cause attention."

 

 

 

The difference between staring down the barrel of their gun and setting yourself alight? They're to blame in the case of the gun since they pull the trigger.

[scootlaboot]

The genius who performs

musical masterpiece.

 

 

 

And Mick Jagger.

 

 

 

Because it obviously doesn't get old after the fiftieth time someone sees it.

[mmmcannibalism]

Badass isn't injuring yourself in protest.

 

 

 

A badass would stare down the barrel of a gun pointed at you and sticking to what you are there for, without setting or closing your eyes when they pull the trigger.

 

 

 

Setting yourself on fire is just stupid. Its like saying "I disagree with you. I'll kill myself to get my cause attention."

 

 

 

The difference between staring down the barrel of their gun and setting yourself alight? They're to blame in the case of the gun since they pull the trigger.

 

 

 

sitting calmly as you burn to death is in fact badass

[wild_goat_14]

Badass isn't injuring yourself in protest.

 

 

 

A badass would stare down the barrel of a gun pointed at you and sticking to what you are there for, without setting or closing your eyes when they pull the trigger.

 

 

 

Setting yourself on fire is just stupid. Its like saying "I disagree with you. I'll kill myself to get my cause attention."

 

 

 

The difference between staring down the barrel of their gun and setting yourself alight? They're to blame in the case of the gun since they pull the trigger.

 

 

 

sitting calmly as you burn to death is in fact dumb[wagon]

 

 

 

Fix'd.

[i_love_burritos]

I would have turned the missile shooter towards Mexico and said the directional system was bugged.

 

 

 

Nice.

[Kiriyama]

Badass isn't injuring yourself in protest.

 

 

 

A badass would stare down the barrel of a gun pointed at you and sticking to what you are there for, without setting or closing your eyes when they pull the trigger.

 

 

 

Setting yourself on fire is just stupid. Its like saying "I disagree with you. I'll kill myself to get my cause attention."

 

 

 

The difference between staring down the barrel of their gun and setting yourself alight? They're to blame in the case of the gun since they pull the trigger.

 

 

 

sitting calmly as you burn to death is in fact badass

 

 

 

Not since he agreed to be set on fire from the looks of it anyway.

 

 

 

If it was the people he was protesting against, then sitting calmly as he burned to death just to defy them, giving them the reaction they wouldn't expect, then it'd be badass.

[Zierro]

He knew very well what he was doing so I don't see how that makes him a [wagon]. :? Every human has the need for survival embedded into their instinct and allowing something like that to happen without wavering is true badassery. A [wagon] would be someone who lit themselves on fire and then started screaming and tried putting it out.

 

 

 

And no I'm not saying anyone who commits suicide is a badass because they're not doing it for the same cause as him and because they usually try to make it as quick and painless as possible.