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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 8 hours ago

The things a man can do to win a bet. :)

[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Uhm, England is an island, which is surrounded by water. The ice bridge the natives used to migrate to the Americas from Russia during the last ice age is melted, which makes the western continents cut off from the eastern ones by water on all sides. Chile is on the western continents. Last I checked, humans cannot walk on water. So, obvious question here: how is this guy walking from Chile to an island nation in Europe?

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Read the wiki article above, it has links to other articles where it's sourcing its information.
Link to article documenting his expedition across the frozen Bering Strait.

"Karl Bushby reached land after 14 days walking across shifting plates of ice in temperatures reaching -30C." "The ice was breaking up behind him as he walked across."

However, it does appear that some of his walking has been replaced by swimming.
"In August 2024, Bushby started the swim across the Caspian Sea from Kazakhstan, planning to finish in Azerbaijan to avoid going through Iran or Russia, as both countries were then too dangerous to enter with a British passport. Bushby was accompanied by co-swimmer Angela Maxwell and two Azerbaijani national swimmers, Anastasiya Boborikna and Abdurrahman Rustamov.[15] Each day, Bushby and company swam in two 3-hour sessions: one in the morning, one in the afternoon and resting and sleeping on support boats each night.[16] The swim covering 179 miles (288 km) was achieved in 31 days with 132 swimming hours.[17][18] From Azerbaijan, Bushby then went to Turkey to cross the Bosphorus Strait into Europe"

~~He'll probably end up swimming across the English channel.~~

Regarding his trek across the English Channel:

Karl relates in his book that he hopes to walk through one of the service tunnels of the Channel Tunnel Tommfuller (talk) 12:03, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't they have tunnels from france to england? Surely maintenance fellers walk those tunnels, so there would be a way.

edit: ah, found the part in the article talking about that.

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I don't see it in the article, but I found the following in Wikipedia's Talk section:

Karl relates in his book that he hopes to walk through one of the service tunnels of the Channel Tunnel Tommfuller (talk) 12:03, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

[–] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

TIL Scotland and Wales don't exist

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

Ing-Island: as in the Isle Of The Ings.

[–] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Thanks Obama

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 33 points 22 hours ago

For those who just read the headline, his isn’t walking all at once.

He walks as much as he can that year, then either stays in that area for a while or goes to another country.

Each time he restarts from the point he left off at.

He also skipped a few years entirely, after the 2008 financial crisis and during the Covid pandemic.

I suppose if Russia had let him be in the country for more than 3 months at a time, he might have been able to do it all at once.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some men will do anything to avoid getting a job, and we commend them.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 43 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Most jobs are a pointless waste of time that are upheld under the threat of starvation and destitution, and I say that as someone fully employed.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I can do you one even better. I am full time employed, I train IT supporters. Which means, that my job is to enable people to waste their time, in order to make you be able to waste yours. Just taking another trip round the wast-o-time-ception merry-go-round: my school employs IT staff as well.

Life is hard, pointless, and full of injustice. But at least in the end you get to die a meaningless death while alone and afraid.

This got dark, remember that you need to pretend to be happy again come Monday morning. Otherwise starvation will get you before the tumor, that you didn't know you were to going to get 5 years before "retirement". Here's a little inspiration "Pretend You're Happy" by Jay Forman recorded in the luxury of what appears to be a 2000s 3 door citroën saxo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PeCrnbJHJeY

If I didn't have a mortgage, kids, and obligations, then I might just be walking the earth myself.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

Walking the Earth is all I dream about

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Most jobs are a pointless waste of time

His journey, on the other hand, is a pointful waste of time.

[–] syreus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Zoom out a little and realize everything is a waste of time. Now nothing is a waste of time. You are welcome.

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 190 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Just what community do you think this is?! I don’t come here for interesting, quality content and the wikipedia article doesn’t even mention anything about him shitting on a post!

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

the real shitpost are the friends we made along the way

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[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 11 points 22 hours ago

I heard that he just wanted to do something quickly before doing the washing up.

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And ah-I! would walk five hun-dred miles and ah-I! would walk five hun-dred more. To be! the man that walked five thousand miles! to win that bet for sure. DADADUH

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

DADADUMDIDDYDUMDIDDYDUMDIDDYDADADA

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The opposite of a shitpost

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 3 points 15 hours ago
[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Mr Bushby, who wants access to a service tunnel separate to that used by the trains, said: "If I have to swim across, I obviously will. But it will be colder than the Caspian."

I mean, obviously

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In March 2006, Bushby and French adventurer Dimitri Kieffer crossed the Bering Strait on foot, having to take a roundabout 14-day route across a frozen 150-mile (240 km) section to cross the 58-mile (93 km) wide strait from Alaska to Siberia.[4] They were detained by Russian border troop officers while they were crossing the Russian border near the Chukotkan village of Uelen, for not entering Russia at a correct port of entry.

Huh, I didn’t even think that was possible. Imagine the border patrol officers face when they told him how they got there.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It's also an incredibly stupid bureaucratic clusterfuck of the magnitude that only customs and border people can achieve. Surely there should be some mechanism wherein you can send a letter or something to the Russian authorities to inform them, "Hey, we're trying this stupid stunt and here is our plan, let us make our declarations now and we'll pick up all the paperwork on the way once we get there." But there probably isn't, and then you wind up with crap like this.

The tinniest of tin-pot jumped up little dictators are never to actually be found in your nation's capital. Instead they're all lined up along its borders acting like these various lines in the sand were laser-etched there by god and aren't ultimately just arbitrary and, indeed, historically much more fluid than they'd like to pretend.

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[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (7 children)

This is amazing but I genuinely wonder if he'll regret doing it once he's done. Thats a huge chunk of your life to devote to one thing.

Cant deny he'll be making history though.

[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean... Isn't that how humanity rolls? Historically speaking anyways, 99 out of 100 people live and die close to where they were born, while the oddball goes and does a Leif Erikson for his whole life and then we get Iceland. His psychology compels him to do this.

I love Senku's speech in Doctor Stone where he tells Tsukasa that his plan to hold back humanity's technology forever was doomed from the start. Because some human beings are insane and will spend their entire lives trying to do something that nobody else thought of. And over enough thousands of years, this process will inevitably result in someone walking on the moon. Science is madness and it's built in to humanity.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 15 points 1 day ago

He wasn’t going to keep those 27 years anyway, and climbing the career ladder, having a few kids and steadily paying off a mortgage must have somehow not seemed like a compelling alternative

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[–] Hedup@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Is the bet subject to inflation?

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