Yup... Never mentioned whether 'Toby' didn't complete a whole bunch before his first one. Because I didn't see any record in the public sphere, although I am sure if I searched Strava I would find some. Look, you can take a horse to water, but you can't hold it's head under and hope it doesn't die of thirst...
Perhaps rather than looking exclusively at numbers and hoping they will come true over an extended period, note that Mr Toby did two full Everests a year in advance starting at 12 hours, then 9 hours, both in one month, and then a year later set the record.
There once was a boy name van Zweel, Whose Everest was the real deal, To make vegans famous, Decided to shame us, And showed us his bananas peel. (And no, grammar nazis there's no apostrophe...)
Let me add my 5c: The only thing that anyone can say on this thread is that they have no idea what the truth is. Stretch cannot say anything from a personal sample of one. Others cannot say it is all mental with no experience at all. Let's say what is categorically true: - human gender is a spectrum - environment always has a hidden hand. The sum of everyone's experience contributes not necessarily to their existence but how they react to it. - the percentage of suicide and mental anguish in the trans community is much higher than average. Now both sides will read that and find a way to go berzerk, but it is true. If you attribute causality to the mental anguish and then say it corresponds to the coming out as trans, or whether you say the factual existence of a trans then contributes to mental anguish is an OPINION. Nothing more. And it depends on item 2 above. Which itself requires 1. Argue all you want but atleast think about it properly. This all reminds me of the twats who think they never landed on the moon. When pointed out on the one hand that evidence of our presence is actually there through a telescope they find a way to come up with some other nonsense denial. When pointed out that if they don't like what is there, that the fact that a Russian denial ISN'T there when it would definitely be of the US didn't make it, they come up with some other nonsense. But all it proves in the end is that they cannot think properly and that knowing of the landing itself is of fundamentally no value to them personally. For landing, read a specific person's sexuality.
Most people are pretty good at their passion. Most people are really bad at their work. It is very rare when people get to merge their passion and their work, and be successful. Nothing has changed here. But then I am not a millennial that can be influenced by a photoshopped picture of a vegetable and a hash tag. Kim Kardashian and #beatthemeat just don't inspire.
If you practice for something, you will achieve it. That's exactly what happened here. So well done for a great half-Everest. If a high-jumper hasn't gotten over the bar in training, he is unlikely to break the record in competition. First do an Everest or two, understand the components, and requirements, and then do it. Noone had a fooken clue what Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt were doing in training in the lead-up to their achievements.
Avengers Endgame is great fun (for those of us whose souls have not not beaten and battered into maturity). My namesake and I are starting to resemble each other more and more.
I joined Facebook in about 2006-ish for about 2 weeks because my brother was moving overseas. Even then it irritated the crap out of me, so that have barely used it since other than if I was looking for someone, which was once or twice. Cannot be arsed with any of the rest. My SO works in the digital field so has to use it as part of her 'portfolio-branding-thingamajiggery' and she ends up on the butt-end of the cretins on-line every so often. Overt stupidity and ignorance wrapped up in toxic over-confidence may work as POTUS but it sucks in the real world.
Some of us are steam rollers, some of us 18 wheelers, some are bakkies, some are mopeds and some are bicyclists. Fees should definitely be based on weight, with a discount for ground compacting ability on new trail.
I am waiting for Mamil's usually semi-lucid albeit humorous race report but I think a dodgy, old pump and screw with a rubber hose is the Erotica event, not this one, which is something else entirely. Hopefully, Mamil will clarify.
I actually really enjoyed it, but must agree with Dale, Brie is miscast. But it is not as bad as the Twitter trolls are making it out to be, and neither is it some rampant feminist nonsense. The main thing, I reckon, is how to deal with a character who is l, by all appearances, going to kick Thanos' arse. The cat is really cute, though!
Wouldn't the bigger question be, in a mature society, with proper parenting and education, 'Why does there need to be a law?' (Yes, I know the world at the moment is as mature as a young cheddar)
