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**** I could walk across Thailand in 25 years. Didnt Forest Gump run across the country in like a year. Hell in a week Lance Armstrong bikes around the country formerly occupied by Germany.

Umm yeah, you know that was a "movie", right?

Eld... Are you a moron... Lets go dump you in Thai land where you don't speak the language of ANYONE and there is no one that speaks your language then call you dumb when you can't find your way around.. calling someone a idiot for being the person they are is retarded. Calling someone a idiot because they post foder like this... that makes sense.

Your name selection is fitting. You have the IQ of a blood filled pussy rag.

so you are telling me that one person stuck in a desperate situation, surrounded by people speaking another language for 25 years would not pick up even the most basic words of said language???

Obviously if you read the article she was well known in the homeless shelter she stayed at. Im pretty damn sure that if she were to pick up the basics of the language and ask for help she would have received it from someone who worked there.

She was in a homeless shelter, like I said it's not the fact that she spoke another language, she spoke a language/dialect that is looked down up even as a begger. I would probaly have suck it up after 2-3 years trying and live that life.

I'm not saying that she's should have given up looking for her family but depending on the circumstances she was stuck in a area where she wasn't accepted for where she came from, it's not like she's in downtown New York. I'm sure she with a wall like that against you eventually you have to give up, or try to build enough will to live as opposed to keep trying and risk your own life.

There's lots of pull yourself up by your own boot straps attitude in this thread.

Edited, Feb 13th 2007 11:43am by MonxDoT

Look at it this way. Let's say the woman could only walk 2mph and could only walk 10 hours a day. That means that she could get 20miles per day. She was only 1200 miles from home, so if she headed due south, she would reach her destination in approx. 2 months. If she walked only 5 hours a day at a slow pace of 1 mph, it would still only take 4 months to get home for a dedicated person. 25 years is stretching it.

I think you guys are missing the point. Let's look at it this way. After 5 years. she may have started to pick up this. now she lived a homeless sheleter lets all relize that this is a country that frowns on homeless there homeless sheleter could have been more like a prision just like in North Korea they try to hide the fact of poverty and she may have been afraid. How would you feel if you spoke a language that NO ONE knew. And if they did you would have prolly found your home. You are alone. Scared your husband has supported you almost your whole life because you were married at 12. You are very scared people around you starve to death. Her main focus im sure was more on surviving in a less the kind country to the homeless. It's not her fault. Just like you would call someone with down syndrom or autism a idiot if they got lost and coulden't find there way home.

Edited, Feb 13th 2007 2:35pm by Ragtime

Your presuming that the person walking has access to money to buy food and water, or the skills and the right environment to hunt and gather along the way. You are also presuming a LOT of navigation skills.

How do we navigate? well, we've been taught to use a compass, so if we know the actual right direction something is in, we can use that. Or we read a map. Given what happened to the woman I'm going to conclude that not only didnt' she know the language, she hadn't recieved any formal education. There are still very large parts of the world where girls and women receive NO education whatsoever.

Therefor handing her a map would be as useful as handing her a piece of unrelated abstract art and expecting her to indicate her home town on that.

She could be highly intelligent, and know a heap about running a house and a small farm, and folk medicine and so forth. But don't you remember geography lessons in school? You had to actually LEARN what the compass directions were, that the squiggly line was the coastline, that these straight lines were roads, and these ones were mountains, this mark meant a lake, and this one a stream, a this one a bus stop, and this one a hospital.

If she's never been taught to read or seen a map in her life, then she wouldn't know over long distances where her town is in relationship to any other town or city. She wouldn't even know the shape of her own country on a world map. On a really long journey by road, it would be impossible for her to know if she's gone generally East, Weast, North or South, if she didn't know the both the starting name of the city she started out from on her second journey, and the name of the city she arrived in, and was able to see and comprehend them on a map, and know that up meant North.

Oh, and you are forgetting that she was brought up in an era and part of the world that hadn't been exposed to western feminism. She's been brought up under "The Three Obediences." First a girl must obey her father. Then the girl will marry the man her father chooses for her, and she must obey her husband. When her husband dies, she must obey her son. Initiative and persistance in getting what she needs and wants is not part of her socialisation.

Edited, Feb 15th 2007 2:11pm by Aripyanfar

You guys keep using the world "Common Sense" like you actually belive people in this world have it.