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Every time somebody links that I can't help but keep watching it. By the time I realize what it is, it's too late. I'm sucked in.

R00k wrote:Every time somebody links that I can't help but keep watching it. By the time I realize what it is, it's too late. I'm sucked in.

I can turn it off pretty immediately and always do.

pretty immediately

You're

Fairly immediately? Sorta immediately? Really immediately?

those all sound exactly similar to me.

precisely approximate

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:Uh these are the Yanomami. This is old.

Have you read Redmond O'Hanlon's book where he travels to one of their villages and does weird drugs with them? It's pretty funny

If it's the Yanomamo then they've been thoroughly contacted. There's virtually nobody on the Earth that isn't aware of "society".
They probably even know what a cellphone is.

edit: Also, pointing your weapons at something in a threatening posture and actually thinking you can hurt something 1000 feet in the air are two different things.

In the book i mentioned the Yanomami village people certainly come off as very much cut off from the rest of the planet. To illustrate, they’re absolutely dazzled when shown a mirror. The book is from 1988, but still.

The word Yanomami means simply ‘man’ in their language, it’s not what they call themselves as an ethnic group. It’s just a word we outsiders stole to give a name to the people that live in the villages in a wide ass area of the Amazon, which is incidentally almost impossible to get in and out of. And the Brazillian government has a policy of leaving natives alone… so it’s not just possible that there’s villages there that have never had contact with the outside world, it’s pretty likely. I’m a bit puzzled as to why you’re so incredulous Jackal...

I'm incredulous because I have a degree in Anthropology and have spent a large sum of my adult life studying this stuff. What you've read may be true - I'm not sure what level of contact there was prior to 1988 (although I know for a fact there WAS contact). I'm also aware of how many cultural Anthropologists romanticize their escapades and embellish their ethnographies when visiting these native people.

For example, showing a Yanomami child a mirror may enthrall them but it doesn't mean the "people" don't know what it is. It could simply be the child's first experience. An anthropologist however could go on to use the child's interpretation of what he/she saw and extrapolate it to encompass the entire culture.

Ryoki wrote:

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:Uh these are the Yanomami. This is old.

Have you read Redmond O'Hanlon's book where he travels to one of their villages and does weird drugs with them? It's pretty funny

Yes I have actually. A very enjoyable read.

Jackal wrote:If it's the Yanomamo then they've been thoroughly contacted. There's virtually nobody on the Earth that isn't aware of "society".
They probably even know what a cellphone is.

I didn't know you was this stupid.

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:Yes I have actually. A very enjoyable read.

His book Congo is also funny, the weird bastard ends up adopting a baby gorilla after his search for dinosaurs fails.

the tribe might actually be real, but that's a terrible, terribly written article. Nothing is attributed, it's all just the writer pretending to be in a position to know things. (He doesn't.)

Ryoki wrote:

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:Uh these are the Yanomami. This is old.

Have you read Redmond O'Hanlon's book where he travels to one of their villages and does weird drugs with them? It's pretty funny

looks like he has a few books out, mind getting me the title of that one please?

They showed some of the pictures on Channel 4 News today, but they hardly said anything about them.

feedback wrote:the tribe might actually be real, but that's a terrible, terribly written article. Nothing is attributed, it's all just the writer pretending to be in a position to know things. (He doesn't.)

It's become national news. There's plenty of other better articles out there about this. Search google news, you'll find plenty. Tons better than this Daily Mail bullshit...

xer0s wrote:

Jackal wrote:If it's the Yanomamo then they've been thoroughly contacted. There's virtually nobody on the Earth that isn't aware of "society".
They probably even know what a cellphone is.

I didn't know you was this stupid.

Care to elaborate? I have a basis for what I'm saying, do you? If you do I'd like to hear it.

Well in this article, there is a man by the name of David Hill, a researcher at Survival International, a London-based group that defends the rights of tribal people worldwide. And I think he would disagree with you about there being "virtually nobody on the Earth that isn't aware of society." Let alone that these people know what a fucking cell phone is. So unless you have a title thats more worthy than Mr. Hill's, then fuck off.

Are those Vans?

Nike! And is that a microwave?

Did those two just get out of gitmo?

R00k wrote:

that bitch got bluetooth?