Comments on: Another Conundrum http://smokeythemagnificent.com/2009/06/29/another-conundrum-2/ Failing the Turing Test since 1986 Sat, 19 May 2012 11:33:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: smokering http://smokeythemagnificent.com/2009/06/29/another-conundrum-2/#comment-315 smokering Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:43:15 +0000 http://smokeythemagnificent.com/?p=354#comment-315 I dunno. Some guy once jumped off the carpark above Village 7, and years afterwards the cinema staff were all talking about it. I dunno. Some guy once jumped off the carpark above Village 7, and years afterwards the cinema staff were all talking about it.

]]> By: Kovac http://smokeythemagnificent.com/2009/06/29/another-conundrum-2/#comment-311 Kovac Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:54:17 +0000 http://smokeythemagnificent.com/?p=354#comment-311 I’m pretty sure that I would be considerate enough to tell people at least my general destination before heading out into the wild so at least they would have a general idea of what happened to me. And I’m not dreadfully concerned about what happens to my corpse. Being raised as a zombie would be an exception to that I suppose. Pumas shouldn’t be a problem as long as my choice of 100 miles from civilization is somewhere on the arctic shelf, I’m not a big fan of jungles with the masses of insects so it wouldn’t be my likely destination. If I’m lucky my body might be found frozen in ice thousands of years in the future. If I’m VERY lucky they might be able to revive me :D I think you are overstating the interest teenage girls would have in my death. If I was to die in the bathroom of a school perhaps, but if it was any other public toilet I doubt most people would hear of it, let alone discuss it. A state of undress is possible, but not assured as you said nothing about how one would die or how long it would take. I’m pretty sure that I would be considerate enough to tell people at least my general destination before heading out into the wild so at least they would have a general idea of what happened to me. And I’m not dreadfully concerned about what happens to my corpse.
Being raised as a zombie would be an exception to that I suppose.

Pumas shouldn’t be a problem as long as my choice of 100 miles from civilization is somewhere on the arctic shelf, I’m not a big fan of jungles with the masses of insects so it wouldn’t be my likely destination. If I’m lucky my body might be found frozen in ice thousands of years in the future.
If I’m VERY lucky they might be able to revive me :D

I think you are overstating the interest teenage girls would have in my death. If I was to die in the bathroom of a school perhaps, but if it was any other public toilet I doubt most people would hear of it, let alone discuss it.

A state of undress is possible, but not assured as you said nothing about how one would die or how long it would take.

]]> By: smokering http://smokeythemagnificent.com/2009/06/29/another-conundrum-2/#comment-309 smokering Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:06:32 +0000 http://smokeythemagnificent.com/?p=354#comment-309 Well, the thing is, dying 100 miles from civilization might mean no-one found you for weeks, until you had been partially eaten by pumas and they had to identify you by your dental records and your family had spent thousands putting up posters of your face in the subway. But dying in a public throom, however plush, would mean you were known forever as the guy who died in the public throom. Teenage girls would whisper for months about it, pointing out which cubicle you died in and daring each other to go in (well, or teenage boys, depending on whether or not it was a gendered bathroom, which incidentally is a hotly political topic, gendered bathrooms, but I digress). And of course, the chances are high that when you were eventually removed from said throom by grossed-out EMTs, you would be in a <em>state of undress</em>. On the other hand, you'd be in good company with Elvis. And your death would likely not involve frostbite or gangrene, which is a real possibility in the 100-miles-from-civilization scenario. Well, the thing is, dying 100 miles from civilization might mean no-one found you for weeks, until you had been partially eaten by pumas and they had to identify you by your dental records and your family had spent thousands putting up posters of your face in the subway. But dying in a public throom, however plush, would mean you were known forever as the guy who died in the public throom. Teenage girls would whisper for months about it, pointing out which cubicle you died in and daring each other to go in (well, or teenage boys, depending on whether or not it was a gendered bathroom, which incidentally is a hotly political topic, gendered bathrooms, but I digress). And of course, the chances are high that when you were eventually removed from said throom by grossed-out EMTs, you would be in a state of undress.

On the other hand, you’d be in good company with Elvis. And your death would likely not involve frostbite or gangrene, which is a real possibility in the 100-miles-from-civilization scenario.

]]> By: Kovac http://smokeythemagnificent.com/2009/06/29/another-conundrum-2/#comment-308 Kovac Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:58:17 +0000 http://smokeythemagnificent.com/?p=354#comment-308 Given that you have provided so few details regarding the circumstances of how we are to die or what environment we will be in, I can't see an advantage of one over the other. There isn’t any particular benefit to dying in a public bathroom over miles from civilization in regard to the comfort you receive since you are going to be alone in either circumstance. Your 100 miles from civilization could be in a wonderful sunny glen or it could be a nasty bog, while the public toilet could be a well kept bathroom with towels and plenty of clean water to cool your face with as you die, or instead it could be a urine soaked broken down thing. However I suspect that this will be a swift death as if I was dying of anything not immediate I would likely pull myself out of the public restroom before departing the world. Given that you have provided so few details regarding the circumstances of how we are to die or what environment we will be in, I can’t see an advantage of one over the other. There isn’t any particular benefit to dying in a public bathroom over miles from civilization in regard to the comfort you receive since you are going to be alone in either circumstance.

Your 100 miles from civilization could be in a wonderful sunny glen or it could be a nasty bog, while the public toilet could be a well kept bathroom with towels and plenty of clean water to cool your face with as you die, or instead it could be a urine soaked broken down thing.

However I suspect that this will be a swift death as if I was dying of anything not immediate I would likely pull myself out of the public restroom before departing the world.

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