This woman’s dating ad is brilliant

Sue Kirk over on Twitter has has her pretend dating ad go viral with nearly 5,000 retweets and likes.

https://twitter.com/SueKirk/status/741281086005776384

The full text goes, “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.”

Taken from an advert Ernest Shackleton ran in the newspaper to try to recruit men for his Endurance expedition:

This was a hellish excursion which Wikipedia describes as:

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–17), also known as the Endurance Expedition, is considered the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived by Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. After the conquest of the South Pole by Roald Amundsen in 1911, this crossing remained, in Shackleton’s words, the “one great main object of Antarctic journeyings”. The expedition failed to accomplish this objective, but became recognised instead as an epic feat of endurance.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Trans-Antarctic_Expedition#Return_to_civilization.2C_and_aftermath

To be fair no one died except the cat Mrs Chippy, who they shot.

Source: Twitter/@SueKirk