Could you do it?

[tharpdevenport]

84 year old guy gets stranded in the desert for five days, filters wiper fluid with a napkin for drinking water to survive. He got a rock and broke open the tank. He can't even walk to safety.

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Something tells me the Justin Beiber(whateverthefuckersnameis -- who gives a fuck), Lada Gaga worshiping, MTV watchers would panic with no cellphone and be dead by day five.


Now this is a heck of an old guy.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Way to go, chief.

 

[Yoda]

Yeah, but braindead bieber-ites would have their GPS freak out on them as they accidentally turned into empty desert. Our technology keeps them alive long enough to breed so that Idiocracy may be achieved.

 

[BolianAuthor]

84 year old guy gets stranded in the desert for five days, filters wiper fluid with a napkin for drinking water to survive. He got a rock and broke open the tank. He can't even walk to safety.

(LINK)

Something tells me the Justin Beiber(whateverthefuckersnameis -- who gives a fuck), Lada Gaga worshiping, MTV watchers would panic with no cellphone and be dead by day five.


Now this is a heck of an old guy.

Paris Hilton would have to eat Tinkerbell or starve.

 

[tharpdevenport]

That's hot.

 

[Kestra]

Why is it so difficult to discuss something like this without insulting elements of pop culture? A person's taste in music has no bearing on his or her ability to filter wiper fluid.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

It's just a twist on the same old "today's kids are too coddled, spoiled, and stupid to survive in the real world" meme. Yawn.

 

[captcalhoun]

Yeah, but braindead bieber-ites would have their GPS freak out on them as they accidentally turned into empty desert. Our technology keeps them alive long enough to breed so that Idiocracy may be achieved.

don't bet on it, i've read plenty of stories of prats following their GPS/nav system and driving into rivers or along impossibly narrow roads and getting stuck.

one guy got a van stuck on a goat track up a mountain in, like, Switzerland or someplace and they ended up having to lift the van down with a frigging helicopter....

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I read about this hero a few days ago. I doubt i could make it. Hell i wouldn't even know what to do. I'd probably be curled up in a fetal position crying.

 

[Canadave]

Yeah, but braindead bieber-ites would have their GPS freak out on them as they accidentally turned into empty desert. Our technology keeps them alive long enough to breed so that Idiocracy may be achieved.

don't bet on it, i've read plenty of stories of prats following their GPS/nav system and driving into rivers or along impossibly narrow roads and getting stuck.

one guy got a van stuck on a goat track up a mountain in, like, Switzerland or someplace and they ended up having to lift the van down with a frigging helicopter....

Yes, people are stupid. They always have been. They always will be. Technology doesn't have a thing to do with it.

Those same people who got hopelessly lost with a GPS device would probably be just as bad with a map (though I do think that map reading is an important ability, myself).

 

[Captain_Nick]

Better wiper fluid than urine, I guess

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Better wiper fluid than urine, I guess

It's not that hard to distill water from urine, either.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Yes, astronauts drink recycled urine.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Better wiper fluid than urine, I guess

It's not that hard to distill water from urine, either.

Yes, astronauts drink recycled urine.

There's nothing simple about the system astronauts use to recycle urine into usable water. Robert was obviously talking about relatively simple methods of retrieving water from urine in the field.

Something tells me the Justin Beiber(whateverthefuckersnameis -- who gives a fuck), Lada Gaga worshiping, MTV watchers would panic with no cellphone and be dead by day five.

You could have just titled the thread "People who don't like what I like are morons" and saved everyone the time, since none of the shit above has anything to do with how capable you are of surviving in those conditions.

In point of fact, most of the people in the age-range you're mocking would be a lot more capable of handling the heat and dehydration than an 84-year-old man is.

But hey, PEOPLE WHO AREN'T ME ARE DUMB!!! Carry on.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Yeah, the system you can use to recycle your own urine is pretty simple, though it takes some time to yield results. A stillsuit would be better.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Something tells me the Justin Beiber(whateverthefuckersnameis -- who gives a fuck), Lada Gaga worshiping, MTV watchers would panic with no cellphone and be dead by day five.

You could have just titled the thread "People who don't like what I like are morons" and saved everyone the time, since none of the shit above has anything to do with how capable you are of surviving in those conditions.

In point of fact, most of the people in the age-range you're mocking would be a lot more capable of handling the heat and dehydration than an 84-year-old man is.

But hey, PEOPLE WHO AREN'T ME ARE DUMB!!! Carry on.

Thank you, Thought Police!

Thank goodness you are here to put down & comment on people randomd thoughts and posts on the interwebs! You've made the interwebs a safer place today.

Why, if you hadn't taken time to single my post out for Thought Policing, teh webs az wee no dem would hav collapssed!!1!

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Thank you, Though Police!

There's no law against saying "though."

Thank goodness you are here to put down & comment on people randomd thoughts and posts on the interwebs!

Is this meant to be ironic? You're putting down people in your OP, and if we're not supposed to comment, what's the point? Oh, and I didn't put you down, I put down your put down.