GomiGirl wrote:I would bet my used panties
Wow, playing with big stakes! I presume you are talking about the ones you don't sell in that vending machine in Kabukicho.
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GomiGirl wrote:These people doing stunts like this always say they do this stuff to raise awareness for xyz cause/charity/disease but personally I just think they are showboating and attention seeking for their own narcissistic reasons or to thrill-seek on somebody else's dime. Honestly, I want to know who is footing the bill for this little adventure? I would bet my used panties that it will not be Monsieur Lecomte
Coligny wrote:yeah, they would much better staying at home arguing on the intarweb and complaining aboot the exposition people that actually move their asses can get...
The guy swim across fracking oceans... what else to say...
GomiGirl wrote:The guy could just get into a pool by himself and swim for 8 hours a day for 5 months to satisfy his "passion for swimming" rather than risk his life and the lives of all the others in the entourage and with somebody else footing the bill. All in the name of "cancer awareness". Call it what it is and just say that you want the attention. I would respect him more if he just came out and said this.
GomiGirl wrote:These people doing stunts like this always say they do this stuff to raise awareness for xyz cause/charity/disease but personally I just think they are showboating and attention seeking for their own narcissistic reasons or to thrill-seek on somebody else's dime. Honestly, I want to know who is footing the bill for this little adventure? I would bet my used panties that it will not be Monsieur Lecomte
james wrote:just my opinion but i feel that it's this drive that pushes our boundaries, leads us to explore, took europeans (and other older cultures) to north america, to the heights of everest, the depths of the sea, put people on the moon, probes in space and may one day take us out beyond the current confines of this planet.
GomiGirl wrote:I agree with you. It isn't the fact that he is doing it per se.. [color="Silver"](although it is show boating IMO)[/color] but that he is doing it to raise "awareness for cancer". Call it what it is - "I want to be recognised for something" - and I would respect him more.
MrUltimateGaijin wrote:Did Hillary climb Everest because he wanted to be recognized, or because he was a climber? Why did Scott go the Antarctic?
MrUltimateGaijin wrote:Why did Scott go the Antarctic?
GomiGirl wrote:Let me repeat again - it is not the fact that people do things that haven't been done before so much as the fact they are calling it "awareness for cancer" in order to hide from the fact they want to be the "first" and get the attention.
Hilliary didn't climb Everest so that he could "raise awareness for Dyslexia or Carpel Tunnel Syndrome". If he did it today would he have a live feed via Facebook? Would he have corporate sponsorship to run his basecamp and so all of his gear was designer and matching? Who knows?
Greji wrote:Gomi, I see where you're coming from, but I'm also curious about what this guy is doing, or I should say what he claims to have done. Now I don't know much about long distance swimming to the wild, but this dood claims to have swam the atlantic in 73 days. Two and a half months. That's almost what the first of the ancient sailing ships took. Just a brief look at that figure seems to add up to him maintaining about two miles and hour, 24/7 to do the deed.
I don't know if he hit any motel's, or stopped to graze at a KFC on the way, but some how that just doesn't seem to add up right somewhere......
SHARKS, jellyfish, sunburn and wayward ocean currents are the least of what Ben Lecomte will have to deal when he sets off on a six-month swim from Tokyo to San Francisco this summer.
The epic 8851 kilometre journey will involve eight hours swimming each day and the endurance swimmer said every minute of his time is scheduled.
“The last thing you want to do is not know what you’re going to do with your mind,” he told news.com.au from his home in Dallas, Texas.
“The first hour I relive any event, like a birthday party. The second hour is math exercise like counting or dividing numbers.”
“The third one I try to visualise or imagine a place I never been to like Australia. How would it be there? What would the sun be like? What’s it like when I pass someone in the street? I engage all my sense to disassociate my mind from my body.”
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