literally they’re closing the trail because tourists won’t stop climbing it and a bunch of people have been like “I’m climbing it this year because after this I won’t be able to” like take the hint????
More information is available in the October 2017 article. More things of note:
The climb is in fact being closed in October 2019.
Climbing poses a danger to climbers–as of 2017, there had been “at least 36 known fatalities since the 1950s, and 74 rescues which required medical attention between 2002 and 2009 alone.”
Climbing poses a danger to the longevity of the rock due to erosion.
Climbers seem to have relieved themselves while on the rock, possibly contaminating nearby water sources.
The climb was set to close when less than 20% of visitors took part in it, a goal reached in 2015, but administrative board meetings did not successfully vote to close the climb.
Uluru officially was returned to traditional Anangu owners by the Australian government in 1985, but according to traditional owner Sammy Wilson, “Over the years Anangu have felt a sense of intimidation, as if someone is holding a gun to our heads to keep it open.”
Here’s the full sign:
A June 2018 BBC article interviews traditional owner Pamela Taylor as well as Wilson, who tell some of the sacred stories connected to Uluru (although some stories she doesn’t share, since they are only passed down orally within families). In addition to cultural information, this article discusses some of the struggles of the first inhabitants of Australia to be recognized by the government as the "only Commonwealth country to have never signed a treaty with its first inhabitants.”
At its close, it quotes Tilley, an 11-year-old member of the drumming group Drum Atweme, which performed at the Tjungu cultural festival:
“When I go to the rock and see the paintings in the cave I felt like my great great great grandfather is right beside me[…] We are not allowed to go on the rock or you will be sick because you are stepping on your culture and on your dreaming.”
where do TV shows get this idea that high school is constant drama, nothing even fucking happened to me in high school
I’m now remembering that my school got a slurpee machine and then had to get rid of it two weeks later after someone poured toxic chemicals into it that they stole from the science lab in an attempt to poison the entire cheerleading squad so like, maybe I was just boring
where do TV shows get this idea that high school is emotional drama, it’s all chemical warfare and espionage
How to determine if a kids injury is serious or not
offer them “medicinal chocolate” if they stop crying it’s fine if they carry on crying/refuse the chocolate then it’s serious
From age two apparently^^
Oh wow I never heard this one.
German edition: offer the kid to blow away the pain. If it’s better afterwards it’s okay, if they refuse or still screaming it’s serious
Also a lot healthier than giving your kid chocolate everytime they cry tbh
It’s not everytime they cry it’s only if they get injured and you’re unsure if it’s serious because they are screaming but you can’t tell if they are overreacting or not
For things that are clearly a minor bump we give kisses instead
And before anyone thinks if a kid is screaming it’s not an over reaction
My kid fell off their bike and skinned their knee. Just skinned it that’s all and they went into full on scream/crying hysterical because it was bleeding and they hadn’t had an injury where they bled within their memory
It wasn’t so much the pain as the blood that made them hysterical.
In that case we could see it wasn’t serious but the chocolate helped them calm down and then I got them to tell me about Terraria until they were calm and their wound was dressed
It was absolutely an overreaction to a skinned knee but it was also an understandable one
Kids don’t have experience or pain tolerance we do and sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s something that requires a trip to the hospital or not
yall I fucking bled for this peice of trash pls like it
oh. I thought it was a photo.
Damn it took me 5 minutes to figure out why you wanted people to like a picture of soap. You did such a good job people think you are just posting random pics of soap.
this isn’t the fist time this has happened, I painted lube and everyone was confused that I posted a picture of lube
Imagine being such a good artist that people think you’re just an lolrandom shitposter