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American killed by tribe in India

Frank Bullitt

Sounds like a nasty enough way to go.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46286215

Local media have reported that Chau may have wanted to meet the tribe to preach Christianity to them.

I hope this isn't true, would be pretty tragic if that was why he was going to the island.

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Richard Hillman

These xenophobic and racist islanders need to be educated on diversity and acceptance. It will be interesting to see what their views are on equality, consent and LBGTQIA+ issues?

Wibbs

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

If there is only around 150 of them they must be very inbred by now, I'm not saying that trying to be smart or anything but you would think it would mean they have health problems when they are all so closely related.

It depends on how many were the original number of settlers G. If there were 20 relatively unrelated folks they'd likely be fine. They may have strong taboos about having kids with closer relatives going by generational memory to reinforce it. They may from time to time sought out partners from neighbouring islands. At least in the past. Plus they may well have people with regular health problems but they're never seen on the beaches on those rare occasions visitors pass by. We just don't know. They're not even sure how many of there are.

It may not be enough to cause their extinction anyway. A recent study that looked into skeletons and genes of stone age peoples in Europe showed a much larger than background(and expected) range of genetic deformities. Suggesting that such groups were much more inbred than peoples today*. Ditto for the previous Neandertals who appear to have been very local in genetic profiles. Makes sense as Stone Age people were rare in the landscape and initially anyway tribes were small. One estimate has the Neandertals at their peak numbering less than 40,000 people spread across all of Europe and into west Asia. That's a GAA match at Croke park. And yet all those Stone Age people led to us modern Europeans.

Look at ancient Egyptian royal houses where they were marrying off brother and sister to preserve the godly bloodline. Yep they had a fair few banjo players in the mix, Tutankhamun was a chinless buck toothed cripple who married his sister and lost two kids in pregnancy likely because of genetic damage, but it seems even when it was that close it took a few generations for the really bad stuff to come out.

*Similar has been found in wild wolves. Although they're far healthier and suffer from far fewer genetic conditions than domestic dogs, they can be quite inbred and narrow of gene.

Ipso

Isn't it only an issue if a dodgy gene raises its head, then as you're limited to your partners your offspring has double the chance of getting the dodgy gene, unless you're a Targaryen.

ARNOLD J RIMMER

Veronica Cold Frame wrote: »

How did the photographer not die :eek:

JJayoo

He should have sent them a few Instagram DMs first

lalababa

Wibbs wrote: »

Wut nonsense is this? They have made it abundantly clear for many decades they want to be left alone. The government of the region respects that wish and makes it illegal to contact them. Once or twice they have been friendly to passing fishermen so long as they didn't step onto their land. Moron goes to convert them into a culture nor religion they want to have anything to do with, a moron that could kill them with a sneeze and they kill him. Sounds like a pretty good basis for self defence to me.

Sarcasm dudette???

Feisar

VanGogh18 wrote: »

These folk want to be left alone...so it's downright bad manners not to respect their wishes.

you have to be fooking joking me
my god the left are an embarrassment of hypocrites

I'd be fairly right wing however we are looking at a fairly special case here. These people are literally fresh from the cave. It's as if the Iceman was walking the planet today.

Effects

Feisar wrote: »

Can you give me a bit more info (or what to google), I've never heard of this.

Roger Hassenforder

"The AFP news agency quoted a source as saying that Chau had tried and failed to reach the island on 14 November. But then he tried again two days later.

"He was attacked by arrows but he continued walking."

I missed the part where it says "he ran the fcuk away"

This scene springs to mind. Natives telling someone else to feck off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EbiyiKswA8

Feisar

Effects wrote: »

Wibbs

lalababa wrote: »

Sarcasm dudette???

The lowest form of wit?

VanGogh18 wrote: »

WOW WHAT SIDE WILL THE LEFTIES TAKE
THE COLONIAL INVADIN GRINGO
OR THE BASED SAVAGE ISLANDERS

I'd say it's less "Left/Right" VG than that old European cultural strong hankering for the naked innocent noble savage living in paradise before the fall. European culture is positively stuffed with that. As politically diverse a pair as Hitler and Marx had a thing for it. It's a very long standing meme going back to the classical world(within Europe the sunlit south around the Mediterranean was a local variety, of simple peasants and lives of cricket song bliss). Now it didn't stop some Europeans destroying such cultures when they found them, indeed often from a sense of disappointment when they found out the fantasy didn't match reality. Somewhere like Tahiti filled this fantasy for centuries. As recently as the late 19th century the artist Paul Gauguin fecked off to Tahiti to find his "paradise" only to find the moth eaten sordid colony, underaged prostitutes and the clap. And some great art. As you do. Then again when your mate Vinnie cuts off his earlobe by way of apology back in France, you figure fecking off to Tahiti a good plan...

Either way European culture has been somewhat protective of the "Noble Savage", or at least the idea of them. And I would say that much of that is in evidence here in this event. A microcosm of the European dichotomy and contradiction of admiring the "Nobel Savage" and at the same time seeking to convert him to our world. Arrows sorted the latter out.

bazz26

This story reminds me of when Father Dougal was warned not to press that red button:

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Laws of natural selection have taken hold.

pjohnson

Jesus there really are some special folks in AH. All they see is left/right regardless. Probably think "da left" causes the rain.

CinemaGuy45

pjohnson wrote: »

Jesus there really are some special folks in AH. All they see is left/right regardless. Probably think "da left" causes the rain.

The thing I hate about the Liberals and the left is they don't deal in reality and if you don't deal with reality it will deal with you.

This man died of stupidity pure and simple.

pjohnson

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

The thing I hate about the Liberals and the left is they don't deal in reality and if you don't deal with reality it will deal with you.

This man died of stupidity pure and simple.

I didnt know religious preachers were known as liberals.

CinemaGuy45

pjohnson wrote: »

I didnt know religious preachers were known as liberals.

What I meant is like the Liberals and the left these preachers don't deal in reality either.
You know what I meant you don't have to argue every point.

Anyway, what is your take on the whole situation?

pjohnson

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

What I meant is like the Liberals and the left these preachers don't deal in reality either.
You know what I meant you don't have to argue every point.

Anyway, what is your take on the whole situation?

The actual situation is an idiot went to a place where he was likely to be killed and amazingly got killed.

Naturally the AH situation is WHAT ABOUTS THE ISLAM & DA LEFTIES. Its all some can manage and its gas. No matter the topic. Suprised dole & Maggie Cash haven't got a mention.

Haithabu

Ten of Swords wrote: »

A freighter ran aground on the north beach of the island in 1981, the Primrose. The crew requested evacuation because they believed the islanders were going to attack however bad weather meant their primitive canoes couldn't reach the vessel. The crew were evacuated by helicopter.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/08/25/Twenty-eight-sailors-shipwrecked-for-nearly-two-weeks-off-a/1381367560000/

The shipwreck is still there, I wonder what the Islanders thought of it when they got to it eventually.

https://www.google.com/maps/@11.5933068,92.2134359,877m/data=!3m1!1e3

Is that the island ? Looks like that shipwreck is the only attraction now.

CinemaGuy45

pjohnson wrote: »

The actual situation is an idiot went to a place where he was likely to be killed and amazingly got killed.

Naturally the AH situation is WHAT ABOUTS THE ISLAM & DA LEFTIES. Its all some can manage and its gas. No matter the topic. Suprised dole & Maggie Cash haven't got a mention.

Don't think I have ever mentioned Islam in any of my posts.:D

pjohnson

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Don't think I have ever mentioned Islam in any of my posts.:D

No but you've been rambling about lefties instead. The other special lads been yammering about islam and his idol Brievik.

fullstop

smelly sock wrote: »

The island should be bombed. Wiped out. Evil people.

I've seen some stupid posts, but this is up there with the best of them :rolleyes:

archer22

Somebody mentioned further back that those Islanders were original out of of Africa people...this was also thought for a long time about the Negrito the original pre Malay inhabitants of the Philippines because of their black skin and African type hair.

However surprisingly, recent genetic tests showed them to to be more closely related to the Mongoloid people of east Asia.

Their dark skin and frizzy hair appears to have been nothing more than an evolutionary adaptation to living thousands of years in a tropical environment.

CinemaGuy45

pjohnson wrote: »

No but you've been rambling about lefties instead. The other special lads been yammering about islam and his idol Brievik.

Trying to tar us all with the one brush?:D

I don't like lefties and liberals they have had their way far too long their nonsense does not work.

You are seeing the lunatic fringe of the right with the pro Brievik posts and thankfully this viewpoint will never hold power.

The Lunatic fringe of the liberal left, on the other hand, has been given the keys to the house and wrecked it.

Don't have any time for these preachers either but he paid for own stupidity not somebody else.

archer22

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

Trying to tar us all with the one brush?:D

I don't like lefties and liberals they have had their way far too long their nonsense does not work.

You are seeing the lunatic fringe of the right with the pro Brievik posts and thankfully this viewpoint will never hold power.

The Lunatic fringe of the liberal left, on the other hand, has been given the keys to the house and wrecked it.

Don't have any time for these preachers either but he paid for own stupidity not somebody else.

The poster VanGogh18 is a troll he appears here fairly regular using new names...Don't know why people are taking him serious :pac:

CrabRevolution

I wonder if he was legitimately that religious or if that was just his cover story. Barring showing them a picture of a cross, I'm not sure how much religious information you could hope to pass on to a people who have no knowledge whatsoever of outside languages. We don't even have any knowledge of theirs.

pjohnson

archer22 wrote: »

The poster VanGogh18 is a troll he appears here fairly regular using new names...Don't know why people are taking him serious :pac:

Aye. Thats obvious. I miss when AH used to have good trolls. Still when trolls are agreeing with the non trolls it says a lot :pac:

TomSweeney

Veronica Cold Frame wrote: »

How did the photographer not die :eek:

long ass telephoto lens

CinemaGuy45

pjohnson wrote: »

Aye. Thats obvious. I miss when AH used to have good trolls. Still when trolls are agreeing with the non trolls it says a lot :pac:

What that boards are starting to let opinions that you don't agree with be posted?

Margret Cash and the whole Cassy thing is a massive issue and if reading opinions you don't agree with upsets you I suggest you need to open your eyes to the world.

I take it you live in a nice area without halting sites or antisocial behaviour from the lifetime dole families?

Expect a strong pushback from the right over the next few years people have had enough.

Junkyard Tom

These people need to get jobs instead of killing people for looking at them.

Skylinehead

CinemaGuy45 wrote: »

What that boards are starting to let opinions that you don't agree with be posted?

Margret Cash and the whole Cassy thing is a massive issue and if reading opinions you don't agree with upsets you I suggest you need to open your eyes to the world.

I take it you live in a nice area without halting sites or antisocial behaviour from the lifetime dole families?

Expect a strong pushback from the right over the next few years people have had enough.

Mod: It's also utterly irrelevant. What the hell is this thread about?