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Ben

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Tell Me the Ending and I Keel You!
« on: October 30, 2018, 10:53:37 AM »
An Antarctic worker stabs his coworker because the coworker keeps telling him how books he's reading end. In Russia, book ends you!

https://www.foxnews.com/world/antarctic-scientist-stabbed-colleague-on-remote-research-station-because-he-kept-tell-him-the-endings-of-books-report
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Re: Tell Me the Ending and I Keel You!
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2018, 11:18:47 AM »
Quote from: Ben on October 30, 2018, 10:53:37 AM
An Antarctic worker stabs his coworker because the coworker keeps telling him how books he's reading end. In Russia, book ends you!

https://www.foxnews.com/world/antarctic-scientist-stabbed-colleague-on-remote-research-station-because-he-kept-tell-him-the-endings-of-books-report

Let's see, isolated, extreme environment and your only escape is into literature to help keep your sanity.

And your co-worker purposefully is ruining that escape for you.

Since he didn't die, I suppose it isn't Darwin Award worthy, but he sure did all he could to earn one.
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Re: Tell Me the Ending and I Keel You!
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2018, 11:46:30 AM »
Seems reasonable.
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I'm so contrarian that I didn't respond to the thread.

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Re: Tell Me the Ending and I Keel You!
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2018, 01:33:10 PM »
I guess some people can't help being jerks.  Not a good combination in an isolated place like that.
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Re: Tell Me the Ending and I Keel You!
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2018, 08:57:10 PM »
Quote from: makattak on October 30, 2018, 11:18:47 AM
Let's see, isolated, extreme environment and your only escape is into literature to help keep your sanity.

And your co-worker purposefully is ruining that escape for you.

Since he didn't die, I suppose it isn't Darwin Award worthy, but he sure did all he could to earn one.

On my first boat we had a big stack of John D. McDonald books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._MacDonald

On the last West Pac deployment I was on it became a "thing" to swipe the last 4-5 pages out of a book and then ransom them to the reader for geedunk.
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Re: Tell Me the Ending and I Keel You!
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2018, 10:51:41 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on October 30, 2018, 08:57:10 PM
On my first boat we had a big stack of John D. McDonald books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._MacDonald

On the last West Pac deployment I was on it became a "thing" to swipe the last 4-5 pages out of a book and then ransom them to the reader for geedunk.

That there sounds like grounds for stuffing the miscreant into a torpedo tube and hitting the FIRE button.
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