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climber

A small kayak on a very big ocean

May 27, 2007 - 12:18pm PT

Yes AC, I was clueless, too...until about a month ago, when everytime I logged onto AOL, there she was. Or in the check-out lines at the supermarket. Or plastered across billboards.

When a dozen rags are staring you in the face with full-color photos and big bloody red headlines...well, morbid curiosity notwithstanding, you do get a sense that something somewhere is going on...and you'd rather not hear about it. At least I wouldn't.

But I really rather liked the song...

Watusi

Social climber

Joshua Tree, CA

May 27, 2007 - 12:22pm PT

Now that is very funny!!

Karl Baba

Trad climber

Yosemite, Ca

May 27, 2007 - 08:13pm PT

Waking up in a culture where Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith are top celebrities of some sort....

Well, it's like going to work in a mine and seeing dead canaries everywhere.

Jeeesuusss! When Anna Nicole died and the press started talking about her "legacy" I had a terrible acid reflux moment!

Anyone who has a vicarous moment of life based on anything that's happened to Jennifer Anniston or J Lo, they should be FORCED to go climbing and get real!

disclaimer, I'm sure there is lameness in my life as well, and Paris is welcome to drop in and give me a back rub, but JEESSUuss! What's up with our society?

Peace

Karl

John Moosie

climber

May 28, 2007 - 02:04am PT

Locker,

Those photos are sooooo airbrushed.

Including the ones of Paris Hilton.

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

May 28, 2007 - 11:51am PT

Rebel L,
You have created another Borat; chasing his own Pamela.

Exhibit 29 demonstrating that contrary to some often-typed opinions, AC's a plus for ST.

And Locker was doing so well on this theme right until it turned grossout, what's up with that?

climber

A small kayak on a very big ocean

May 28, 2007 - 12:17pm PT

Ah Chiloe...the Voice of Reason. Where've you been? You've been missed.

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

May 28, 2007 - 12:34pm PT

I flew home last night tired, after not having much fun. More happily there seems to be a climbing plan on for tomorrow.

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

May 28, 2007 - 12:42pm PT

Ah well, carry on. This thread seems a most appropriate place to post photos of Paris Hilton.

screelover

Mountain climber

Canuckistan

May 28, 2007 - 02:31pm PT

Hummm.

Paris Hilton is a cultural icon.

Nicole Smith is newsworthy.

Most of the population is obese.

And G.W. Bush is your President.

Strange Country.

Tahoe climber

Trad climber

a dark-green forester out west

May 28, 2007 - 04:07pm PT

No, that ain't Paris......

That's Paint!!!

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

May 28, 2007 - 07:47pm PT

Damn, the Jardine thread, Ed's Arrowhead TR and now this. Supertopo's got entertainment value today.

rlf

Trad climber

Josh, CA

May 28, 2007 - 09:24pm PT

I do not think that I could, or would, come up with the words to express my disdain for the likes of her, or the rest of the Hollywood maggots who run loose. Furthermore, what makes me stop and really wonder is, why are people so caught up in this sh#t?

These people really are not all the entertaining. There are so many ways to go out and find things to do, like play chess for instance. Read books, hike in the hills if that pleases you, but this total hero worship stuff is for the birds.

rlf

Trad climber

Josh, CA

May 28, 2007 - 09:47pm PT

Uh..... yeah..... My guess is that she has other "talents", so to speak. But, they would not be suitable for SuperTopo "consumption".

Which reminds me, wasn't consumption something that would lead people to end up looking like her?

Skinny and emaciated?

rlf

Trad climber

Josh, CA

May 28, 2007 - 10:31pm PT

This pretty much sums up the likes of her....
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Consumption is an old name for tuberculosis (TB) that describes how the illness wastes away or consumes its victims. TB is "an ancient enemy" that has plagued humankind for more than five thousand years. The Greeks called it phthisis, and Hippocrates advised his medical students against treating it, because it was almost always deadly, and a dead patient was bad for business.

Caused by a highly contagious bacterial infection, TB is blamed for 20% of the deaths in 17th-century London and 30% of those in 19th-century Paris (as depicted in Moulin Rouge). In those days, the disease proved deadly for about 80% of its victims. It's estimated that TB has killed over 1 billion people in the last two centuries.

In the past, patients were usually sent to a sanatorium, where a healthy climate (fresh air) and good nutrition were believed to combat the infection. Later, pneumothorax was used, a treatment that collapses the lung then allows it to heal. In the 1940s, advances in science led to the development of several drugs that proved effective against TB. The incidence of the disease began to drop, and it was believed that TB would be extinct by 2010.

Unfortunately, TB is far from being a disease of the past. An effective course of drug therapy lasts 6-8 months, and many patients discontinue the antibiotics before completing the whole regimen. To make matters worse, the TB strain continues to mutate and evolve, becoming more and more drug-resistant. And poverty and the AIDS epidemic, which weakens the immune system making it ripe for attack, have also helped lead to a resurgence of the disease. Every year, about 8 million people contract TB and 3 million die from it.