http://www.vaildaily.com/article/200907 ... 79963/1062
Top 10 dangerous things in the outdoors....
They don't even mention snakes!
I think that male snakes get covered under Item #1.cougarmagic wrote:http://www.vaildaily.com/article/200907 ... 79963/1062
Top 10 dangerous things in the outdoors....
That guy's punctuation, spelling and grammar are atrocious.
Since the article is about things that actually kill people, I'm not surprised snakes don't make the cut. I gather rattle snakes aren't actually responsible for very many human deaths.
Since the article is about things that actually kill people, I'm not surprised snakes don't make the cut. I gather rattle snakes aren't actually responsible for very many human deaths.
Nunc est bibendum
This is meaningless gibberish, isn't it? Is it because there are twice as many hikers on weekends than weekdays during July (i.e. lightning season). Is the data normalized by something like 'number of hikers per day', or does the percentage of hikers getting killed by lightning actual increase as the number of hikers increases? Normalized by number of lightning strikes per day?THREAT NO. 5: LIGHTNING
...Statistically, people are more than twice as likely to be struck dead on a weekend afternoon in July than at any other time
Same thing...are there 8 times more men than women out on the trails?Men are more than eight times as likely to be killed by a strike
Statistics can be so manipulated that without background information they're meaningless.
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Yeah, it's a little goofy. Either there are more men hiking in general (yes), or women don't hike in stormy weather, or lightning prefers men....HikeUp wrote:Same thing...are there 8 times more men than women out on the trails?Men are more than eight times as likely to be killed by a strike
So in their recommendations of how to avoid these dangers, one of them is "be a girl". yay for me! I can now take ridiculous risks, with no fear of consequence!
Hike Up Wrote
Whatever you do, don't tresspass or hijack this thread or a bad picture of you will end up here.
In order to make the list you actually have to have the Y-Chromosome - why else wouldn't you put a picture of yourself on the blog sites? Instead you can just put everyone else's picture that isn't dressed according to your idea of what's supposed to be worn in the wilderness?No mention of dying from being an obnoxious USC fan either.
Whatever you do, don't tresspass or hijack this thread or a bad picture of you will end up here.
The Rabbit of Caerbannog.
ARTHUR: What?
TIM: There he is!
ARTHUR: Where?
TIM: There!
ARTHUR: What, behind the rabbit?
TIM: It is the rabbit!
ARTHUR: You silly sod! You got us all worked up!
TIM: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit. That's the most foul, cruel,
and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on.
ROBIN: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared!
TIM: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide, it's a
killer!
KNIGHT: Get stuffed!
TIM: It'll do you a trick, mate!
KNIGHT: Oh, yeah?
ROBIN: You mangy Scot git!
TIM: I'm warning you!
ROBIN: What's he do, nibble your bum?
TIM: He's got huge, sharp-- he can leap about-- look at the bones!
ARTHUR: Go on, Boris. Chop his head off!
BORIS: Right! Silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew comin' right up!
TIM: Look!
[squeak]
BORIS: Aaaugh!
[chord]
ARTHUR: Jesus Christ!
TIM: I warned you!
ROBIN: I peed again!
TIM: I warned you! But did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all,
didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it? Well,
it's always the same, I always--
ARTHUR: Oh, shut up!
TIM: --But do they listen to me?--
ARTHUR: Right!
TIM: -Oh, no--
KNIGHTS: Charge!
[squeak squeak]
KNIGHTS: Aaaaugh! Aaaugh! etc.
KNIGHTS: Run away! Run away!
