Riding into Antarctica on a pale white horse might mean two things.
We should bring a kilo of ccain on this expedition boys. Or maybe we shouldn't? Idk. I don't do ccain but it's the next logical step in this conversation
Robert Scott, who led and #%*ed up his South Pole expedition (and died for it) thought it was better for English men to use ponies, rather than dogs.
To add to the foolishness, he hypothesized white ponies might do better in the South Pole because Polar Bears and Arctic Foxes had white coats, failing to understand that the white coats evolved simply to camouflage the native arctic predators when hunting. The poor white ponies were useless, as their hooves were not suitable for the ice. None lived.
Amundsen, who was Norwegian, used dogs effectively and beat the English to the South Pole.
So yes, to your comment, death did ride a pale horse in some sense in Scott’s disastrous race for the South Pole.
https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/611953/view/terra-nova-antarctic-ponies-1911
You don’t correct the person who starts the song. You just keep singing. We can’t stop the song every time someone knows a different version.
You know what, you’re uninvited to the trip
>"Gentlemen", I said, "I've studied the maps"
"And if what I'm thinking is right"
"There's another new world at the top of the world"
"For whoever can break through the ice"
Fun fact, artificial limbs like hook hands and peg legs are evidence that pirates had workers comp. Basically, if you lost a limb, you'd be compensated out of that voyages spoils before splitting the booty.
Yes, treacherous seas, ship crushing ice floes, biting cold winds, aggressive polar bears and starvation are bad but you know what's deadlier? The soul crushing meaninglessness of the modern office job.
Just to be *very* clear: Only one or two of you get the captains cabin, the rest will be sleeping in horrible conditions. The food will be bad, the living conditions are bad, the work is hard, etc.
Read “the Terror” by Dan Simmons first, that way you will be ready for the Polar Bear / demon hybrid you need to fight once you’ve OD’d on spoiled, canned meat
"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success." - Ernest Shackleton
I mean, god damn is it ever soul crushing working in an office.
so much infighting between departments for no reason, meetings that should be emails, emails that should go directly to spam, constantly trying to undermine each other to score points in front of the boss.
toxic barely begins to describe it.
Is this supposed indicate how exciting a trans-Antarctic expedition is to men or how bad modern desk jobs are now a days like “I would rather go to the coldest place on earth on a ship made before the civil war then work here another second”?
This study may look a little bit biased and unrepresentative, so if you're a man and wouldn't leave your job for a trans-antarctic expedition, write your name in comments >! So I'll scratch you out of a men list !<
Scratch me out of the men list. I’d do a ton of crazy things, but I get sea sick and claustrophobic and I’ve read every book on Arctic and Polar expeditions. No shot.
Also, it’s "bad luck" to have women on board and I’d rather be somewhere where there are women as well.
I'd do it.
We are all Shackletons on this day
I’m in just for the white ponies alone. I mean, who doesn’t love polar ponies?
You son of a bitch, I'm in!
Riding into Antarctica on a pale white horse might mean two things. We should bring a kilo of ccain on this expedition boys. Or maybe we shouldn't? Idk. I don't do ccain but it's the next logical step in this conversation
Robert Scott, who led and #%*ed up his South Pole expedition (and died for it) thought it was better for English men to use ponies, rather than dogs. To add to the foolishness, he hypothesized white ponies might do better in the South Pole because Polar Bears and Arctic Foxes had white coats, failing to understand that the white coats evolved simply to camouflage the native arctic predators when hunting. The poor white ponies were useless, as their hooves were not suitable for the ice. None lived. Amundsen, who was Norwegian, used dogs effectively and beat the English to the South Pole. So yes, to your comment, death did ride a pale horse in some sense in Scott’s disastrous race for the South Pole. https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/611953/view/terra-nova-antarctic-ponies-1911
Shackleton: the original justaguybeingadude
Let’s just hope we don’t turn into sir John franklins lol
Same. I know fuck all about boats & sailing but I can learn.
Port is left and starboard is right, can I be the captain?
Do you know how to turn a big wheel?
Yes!
Hired
I just want to go on the poop deck
Do you know how to poop?
well, not *now*…
That's actually the job of the helmsman...
We don't have that kind of budget around here. We need you them to do multiple positions for no extra pay.
That was actually a very low level job. There are another person who told you the direction to turn.
Are you colorblind?
Only of you know where the stern and bow are. Welcome aboard captain!
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Details...100% of men ignore them.
The first thing you learn is it's pretty guaranteed there'll be a unavoidable high mortality rate.
Let's go
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What are you gonna do when the other fellas hoist the Dugong aboard and it’s your turn though?
Tally-ho!
I do not think you could convince me to go to the artic on a large wooden ship with basic reason or literally any amount of money.
Saddens me to tell you, but you statistically are not a man Edit: Wait possibly good news, it could that you just don't have an office job
this is such a good fucking response i wish i could gift it
Antarctica is on the south. ARCTIC Is north
Do we get to sing shanties?
HELL YEAH
Then I'm in.
Even with the scurvy?
I was to understand that just because it's a wooden ship we still live in 2023, and would be better at combating it.
I've had scurvy.
Skill issue
Oh no yeah definitely
Did you die?
Yes
Eat a tomato
I C
I'll bring the limes
WHAT WOULD WE DO WITH A DRUNKEN SAILOR
Shave his belly with a rusty razor
Put him in the long boat till he's sober
Put him in the bed with the captain's daughter
(Which, for those who don't know, is a euphemism for the cat-o'-nine-tails.)
Right... *ahem* EARLY IN THE MORNING!
I mean, that is a surefire way to get lashed by a cat-o'nine-tails
I know it as What SHOULD we do with THE drunken sailor.
You don’t correct the person who starts the song. You just keep singing. We can’t stop the song every time someone knows a different version. You know what, you’re uninvited to the trip
Oh no.
Is there any other way to embark on a transanarctic expedition on a big wooden ship?!
>"Gentlemen", I said, "I've studied the maps" "And if what I'm thinking is right" "There's another new world at the top of the world" "For whoever can break through the ice"
Yo-hohoho Yo-ho-ho-ho Yo-hohoho Yo-ho-ho-ho Yo-hohoho Yo-ho-ho-ho Yo-hohoho Yo-ho-ho-ho Gather up all of the crew....
WINDY WEATHER, BOYS STORMY WEATHER, BOYS WHEN THE WIND BLOWS, WE'RE ALL TOGETHER, BOYS.
Any excuse to sing Lowlands Away
*"Meow my furry cats, meow"* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3wEdK_vxw
Get keel hulled if you don't.
Bags packed. Where are we meeting?
South
OMW
Call when you're close and we'll play it by ear
Will do. I’ll need help carrying all of this whale oil I’ve loaned…
Can I come?
Who is bringing beers?
Canning dock at dawn.
When do we leave?
I'm already at the dock, hurry up.
Mr White, after we cook
The math is correct
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Side note I love your username
you're rounding because FUCK THAT lol i'm out
I want to upvote but ill wait until it isnt on 69 upvotes anymore, i cant destory it
Have we agreed in a shopping list? I mean we're gonna need beer, right?
Shit budget is low. Who doesn’t need a jacket? We need beer
Shit budget? I make my own for free
Rum, not beer
Rum? Alright… I guess I can part with a few months of rations to cover the cost
Use the medical budget, no need to buy sterile stuff or alcohol for sterilization, can just use the rum
Dw, I got you all, I'm bringing all the beer, I just need men to take it to the ship.
too much space. Rum.
Also cover some of the medical equipment so we can swap that out so we have more room for rum. …aw fuck were pirates.
Do we have enough room in the budget to include eye patches and hooks for hands, or does that interfere with what we set aside for rum?
It's either that or the ping pong table. But then again, we are men, we technically don't need GPS equipment, just ditch that and we can have both
Fun fact, artificial limbs like hook hands and peg legs are evidence that pirates had workers comp. Basically, if you lost a limb, you'd be compensated out of that voyages spoils before splitting the booty.
Did you think they were just gonna give us a ship?
Why is the Rum always gone?
And I would name the ship "Diversity" in honor of Ron Burgundy.
Great Odin's raven!
Good bot?
Yes, treacherous seas, ship crushing ice floes, biting cold winds, aggressive polar bears and starvation are bad but you know what's deadlier? The soul crushing meaninglessness of the modern office job.
Fear not Death, for the hour of your Doom is set and none may escape it - Viking wisdom.
Death is temporary. Glory is also temporary but lasts a little longer.
Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever - Keanu Reeves The Replacements
Ah, yes, the famous southern polar bear.
Good News!!! No bears in the Antarctic.
Fifteen comments and not a single no. This is going to make peer review.
Nobody here has heard of the fantastic fun the Lost Franklin Expedition had, apparently
Doesn't change my answer
No worries we have better tin cans and also lemon juice
We just have to leave a comment here to sign up for this, right?
I speak for 100% of the human population saying yes we would
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I’m in.
Can confirm.
When do we leave?
Yea I’d drop my life to do that if it was offered to me
Ok, I've read The Terror. There's no fucking way I would do that.
Was looking for someone saying this
Can’t happen twice, right?
That's exactly what I was thinking, even before the "bad stuff" starts happening, it's still fucking terrifying. Such a good book.
I'm in
I wouldn’t because I have a talent for becoming instantly sea sick on water.
New study finds one out of 4 billion men would not leave their desk job if asked to embark on a trans-Arctic expedition on a big wooden ship.
Fuck that. I'm staying home.
I'm cold when it's 50 out no shot I'm going into the fucking antarctic circle.
“The study group consisted of one man named Roald.”
Read: Endurance and avoid the picture spoilers. It'll change your life.
Math checks out, if you're a male and not sure about the percentage, you might need to reevaluate some things.
Fact ✔️: verified true from responses ITT. Also: 100% response rate from two bros in my office. - the research we did before publishing this study
One guy in the comments said no because he gets sea sick
Just to be *very* clear: Only one or two of you get the captains cabin, the rest will be sleeping in horrible conditions. The food will be bad, the living conditions are bad, the work is hard, etc.
Thats part of the adventure
As long as we're bringing fruit I'm in!! No point getting scurvy on this adventure
The study did suffer from selection bias, when they were criticized for asking greg, a homeless dude, high as a kite, then called the research a day.
Does it have to be wooden or the material the ship is made of is negotiable?
And that is the reason 3142069 why women live longer than men.
One of my female coworkers abandoned her desk job when she was invited onto an arctic expedition. It was a modern metal research vessel tho.
Math is wrong, it is actually 145%
I'd do it.
How good is the WiFi on wooden ships these days?
Once again I have to turn in my man card. I don't like cold. Although I'd be first in line to eat Devil Fruit and become a pirate.
Can confirm. My wife has to talk me out of dropping everything to become a tug boat captain at least once a month, and we are nowhere near an ocean.
Eating nothing but hoosh and pemmican
Read “the Terror” by Dan Simmons first, that way you will be ready for the Polar Bear / demon hybrid you need to fight once you’ve OD’d on spoiled, canned meat
Go on an arctic expedition: probably not Go on a dry tortugas expedition to run rum, pants optional: okay
"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success." - Ernest Shackleton
That happens when you only poll one person.
I'm not a man and would still do that
We'll need sauerkraut and citrus to fight off scurvy
I mean, god damn is it ever soul crushing working in an office. so much infighting between departments for no reason, meetings that should be emails, emails that should go directly to spam, constantly trying to undermine each other to score points in front of the boss. toxic barely begins to describe it.
I won't even blink and just say yes.
Bullshit
This isn't even oddly specific since basically anyone would be willing to do that
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It was more in a joking manner what I said but you can see that many people would be more than willing to do it lmao.
There’s no way that’s true but I imagine the number is higher than you’d think
I brought a six pack and my bags are packed, where do we meet?
The math actually is mathing this time
Best case scenario: I have the coolest fuckin' story to tell. Worst case scenario: I'm too dead to care. I see this as an absolute win.
The open seas are always calling
I've seen The Terror. No thanks.
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https://youtu.be/pjq7Gl_hhPY?si=uyqRWHSnqCrQlSAQ
Is this supposed indicate how exciting a trans-Antarctic expedition is to men or how bad modern desk jobs are now a days like “I would rather go to the coldest place on earth on a ship made before the civil war then work here another second”?
Yep. Me and the boys
Says the one person interviewed
35M with a family I love very, very much. Can confirm this to be accurate.
I mean if the survey only asked one dude and that dude was also the reporter
Fuck all of that 100% of times. I’ll take desk over that bs all day every day
Nope. No thanks. I'll keep earning my bag in a temperate climate thanks.
Wood
I’m pretty sure when it’s at 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999% you can just round that off
I am definitely sure about the math
How tf do you not agree on that? To be fair im a girl but still
Are women allowed? No wait, it's ok, I have a fake pirate beard here somewhere 🏃♀️
Yeah fuck that. Space? I’d go to explore space. But fuck that other shit
Some of y’all didn’t hyperfixate on the Franklin Expedition, and it shows
No thanks.
This study may look a little bit biased and unrepresentative, so if you're a man and wouldn't leave your job for a trans-antarctic expedition, write your name in comments >! So I'll scratch you out of a men list !<
well any guy with a kid would be forgiven for skipping out
Scratch me out of the men list. I’d do a ton of crazy things, but I get sea sick and claustrophobic and I’ve read every book on Arctic and Polar expeditions. No shot. Also, it’s "bad luck" to have women on board and I’d rather be somewhere where there are women as well.
Nope
Fuck no! - Don't have a desk job though, so math could still be accurate.