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He has apparently booked a flight to Fairbanks on 10 February.
Huh?
One of the other members of this forum (I can't remember his name right now, stupid brain) is utterly convinced that he is so ugly that he can never have any success with women unless he settles for a literal meth head or someone so obese that he would be her caregiver more than her boyfriend/husband. He has further convinced himself that the way to solve this is to undertake a somewhat dangerous trek through the Alaskan wilderness ("the hock"), because apparently women will be able to subconsciously sense that he is the kind of man who risked his life and lived to tell the tale. He believes that this is a quality women value, and that this is the best way for him to attain it (other ways are being a soldier and living through war, shit like that).
This dude has had basically everyone (myself included) tell him that he's full of shit, that he has perfectly reasonable prospects with women as it is, that even if he didn't this won't fix them because women don't actually value men risking their lives, etc. He does not ever listen to anyone, but continued to post about his ideas every single week in the wellness Wed threads without a word of our advice getting through to him. He eventually got banned for this, because it was really obnoxious (though he was a good enough poster outside of this single topic, it came up a lot).
Anyways, as I recall dude is planning to do the hock in February, so this is basically @benjaminikuta giving us a "he seems to be really going through with it you guys" sort of update.
I recall it began with "Skookum," but there was a 2nd half of the word.
To rudely psychoanalyze someone online, there's something about his constant coming back to the phrase "Choose where to park the ambulances" (or something of that sort) that strikes me as something in his brain that has him caught in a loop obsessing over the fear of the domestic harm caused by people with low impulse control (more specifically women whose low impulse control have made them sufficiently unattractive as to have to settle for him). I wonder if there's some trauma beyond the anecdotes he told about seeing some shit as a med student.
Tree. It's SkookumTree.
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