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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Bro had no enemies, what a madlad

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Sounds like an average playthrough of STALKER.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 hours ago

People really will find any excuse to leave ohio

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't count a multiple day walk as a single walk.

When you get to sleep, it starts a new walk.

Otherwise I have been having a walk for my entire life.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

I'd argue that if it's conceived of as a journey with a set end point - "I'm going to walk from Vancouver to Toronto", by way of example - you could consider it a single walk. If you're just walking everyday without a set end point in mind, I'd agree with you.

Maybe 'journey by foot' is the better phrase here, idk.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

Well yeah, the world and by extension your life is mostly harmless. It's quite the statistical anomaly when you do get harmed but it's not to say it's impossible.

People do tend to get stuck in that awareness of chance of harm and often over prescribe it to certain parts to keep up the fear. That's probably cause people are also mostly stupidly uninformed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

Absofuckinglutely, imagine being black and walking through rural counties in the US much less other countries. The average person "might" leave you alone but the police absolutely will not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Daniel Pearl would like a word

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Right? Do that now, you’ll get picked up by some extremist group.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 19 hours ago

"I just gotta see this for myself."

[–] [email protected] 55 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Probably just really wanted to escape Ohio.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

On April 14, 1970, during an 11g slingshot maneuver on the remote side of the moon on the Apollo 13 mission, Astronaut Jim Lovell achieved what every other person born in Ohio has always dreamed of:

Getting as far away as humanly possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Michael Collins has him beat though because he got to do it alone in blissful silence, with nobody around to ask him if he's working hard or hardly working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Going to be a lot more of those next year.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Walk... Hhard

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

How many roads must a man walk down?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

SIR, YES SIR.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There were bandits in 1987??

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago

Only three years later some bandits tried to break into a kids house over Christmas.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago

Still are in some parts of the world. Less arrows and swords more guns and machetes

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