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fede@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Longest walks

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fede@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    Damn, I don’t think that’s mildly interesting at all. That’s a book I want to read

    • SlippiHUD@lemmy.world
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      https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413371.Worldwalk

      The book in question. He was housed by over 400 families while on his walk.

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        Did the families take turns, or did they all walk with him?

        • EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world
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          Their bodies formed the structure which housed him.

          • tetris11@lemmy.world
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            On that sombre note:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairngorm_Plateau_disaster

            It was only on Monday afternoon, when the parents were gathered at the school, that the news came that five of their children were dead. The father explained that the boy who survived was the smallest student in the party; maybe the others (two women leaders, four girls and one boy) had been huddling round him to protect him from the cold

        • SlippiHUD@lemmy.world
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          Simultaneously, it inspired the Mortal Engines movie.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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        Thank you!

  • aviationeast@lemmy.world
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    Welp there you have it. If you want to challenge his conclusion you must walk long and hit more countries than he did.

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      That’s overkill. I only need a mile and his shoes.

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    Wow even the guy that wanted to be the man that fell down at your door only walked 1000 miles. This is pretty hardcore.

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    Despite the horrid things that occur in this world, I do believe that people are fundamentally good and want to do good for the people around them. The people that do evil things were not born that way.

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      Sociopaths exist and they rule the world.

      • felixwhynot@lemmy.world
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        Probably some narcissists too

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    People really will find any excuse to leave ohio

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    I’ve been a bunch of places all over the world and I would agree. The world isn’t terrible.

    All the assholes who live in it however…

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    It would be a white guy in the 1980s. “Yeah the world isn’t that terrible”

    Dudes don’t even have to think twice walking to their car at night.

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      Did you read the post? Seems like he did have to think twice.

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    There were bandits in 1987??

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    Most life-changing discovery: make videos of yourself bumming around the world and total strangers will send you money.

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    How many roads must a man walk down?

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    Daniel Pearl would like a word

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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      Right? Do that now, you’ll get picked up by some extremist group.

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    Bro had no enemies, what a madlad

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    Petition to rename this epic journey as “The Walk For The Ages”.

    I want a book, movie, and an epic ballad with at least a dozen dozen stanzas!

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    How do we define a walk? Because I’ve almost certainly covered that distance in my life, and I’ve even slept outside and fended off bandits, sort of.

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    Walk… Hhard

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