I think even at 15 I would have noped my way back down the mountain
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 21 November 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
my hands and feet are sweaty just looking at my photos from that day tbh
― marcos, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
there's a bunch of photos of me at the top of the mountain and im just sitting on the ground bc im too paralyzed to even stand up
― marcos, Monday, 21 November 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
can somebody please take donald j. trump on a walk of a geyser field?
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Monday, 21 November 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
the hairpiece would fetch a good sum on ebay i'm sure
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Monday, 21 November 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
man these pics... shudder. i had labyrinthitis about 11 or 12 years ago and it tends to stick around in some form, i've had a real problem with heights since. i was in the top tier at the nou camp a few years ago and i was paralysed by fear and couldn't enjoy the game, managed to sneak down to an empty low seat at half-time.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 21 November 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
I've always had problems with heights and even working on tower scaffolds and scissor lifts for over a decade never really cured it. Fucking love terra firma, man.
Once I was told not to leave site until I had got a chandelier cable to the apex of a church dome before the painters came in that weekend. it involved going up an illegal tower scaffold built onto the top of a big scaffolding structure with lots jutting steel poles that would skewer you if fell. One of the painters felt sorry for me and said gimme your drill I'll do it. He did an absolute abortion of a job, fucking etch-a-sketch type wiring. I told him thanks but it was fucking dog rough and I'll probably get pumped for this on Monday, but at least I'm alive!He said "wait until it has been painted, you won't notice it". When I returned on monday it still looked fucking pez with a layer of paint and I got a massive fucking and it actually ruined my reputation at that company. But I'm still glad I didn't do it.
― calzino, Monday, 21 November 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Y'all don't click on this now
https://youtu.be/RpXL_QaK17E
― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 November 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
yesss the cigarette
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 November 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
nnnnnnggggaaaaahhhhh
― not all those who chunder are sloshed (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 November 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
that is giving me the serious Fear
― not all those who chunder are sloshed (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 November 2016 22:46 (seven years ago) link
Crazy Russians Tower Climbing Compilation
^^^tom's warning probably applies here too
― mark s, Monday, 21 November 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjvLIvnrTvU
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 21 November 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link
do you ever get the impression that the people who originally lived in these places would be aghast that people are still walking on the eroded staircases instead of patching in better stones?
Just makes me think of Klaus Kinski lurching about while Popol Vuh plays in the background.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 00:16 (seven years ago) link
we need so many more people to die this way soon
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
lol xp
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 02:19 (seven years ago) link
heh, as I mentioned in one of the Popol Vuh threads, I forgot to put Aguirre on my phone so I had to listen to Seligpresung instead as I was climbing up Huayna Picchu. I think I also listened to the first Verve album?
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 07:14 (seven years ago) link
I hiked in Peru when I was 15 too ; )
― velko, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 07:29 (seven years ago) link
Not in the same ballpark as most of these but back when we went to the top of Sigiriya (15 years ago) none of the metalwork or barriers were there - if you look at e.g. 2:30 when he's point in back up the walkway you can see what the 'stairs' were like when we did it to the left of the tourists coming down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0oC-qH64CQ
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 10:32 (seven years ago) link
but natural selection is making them better and better and we're slowly evolving toward a supermule― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin)
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin)
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:09 (seven years ago) link
― velko, Tuesday, November 22, 2016 2:29 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark
; )
― 龜, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:10 (seven years ago) link
MatthewK, thank you for getting my dumb, rather pointless biology joke.
― marzipandemonium (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/6d6fc2252a60cae0bb0c8f6900808f00/tumblr_o05kgpRHcu1rznn4wo1_1280.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
okay lol
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
lol dayo
I get IA about people swimming when there are riptide warnings ffs; stuff like Yellowstone makes me despise humanity.
but on the upside maybe we have now reached the point, evolutionarily speaking, where we are self-culling
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
darwin awards was so 2003
― imago, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 00:05 (seven years ago) link
Mourning in America - Trump Year One: November '16 to
― identity politics rooted in tolkienism (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
is that a hot spring you're trying to get us to click on and fall in
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
Got to be honest, this thread has been curiously calming to me.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 02:01 (seven years ago) link
<3
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 02:03 (seven years ago) link
like a warm bath
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 09:42 (seven years ago) link
^____^
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 10:52 (seven years ago) link
Also prompted me to read about the Dyatlov Pass Incident again, featuring one of my favourite weird things that humans do, namely paradoxical undressing in hypothermia.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 13:43 (seven years ago) link
Thank you. I'd forgotten about that one.
― how's life, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 14:00 (seven years ago) link
When I am experiencing panic or anxiety, the survival stories in this book always calm me down:
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Survival-Who-Lives-Dies/dp/0393326152
Consequently I've read it dozens of times, at least some chapters. I'm not sure why. It's way outside the categories of my normal reading.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
emil.y otm re dyatlov pass
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
http://www.outsideonline.com/1926316/freezing-persons-recollect-snow—first-chill—then-stupor—then-letting-go
At 85 degrees, those freezing to death, in a strange, anguished paroxysm, often rip off their clothes. This phenomenon, known as paradoxical undressing, is common enough that urban hypothermia victims are sometimes initially diagnosed as victims of sexual assault. Though researchers are uncertain of the cause, the most logical explanation is that shortly before loss of consciousness, the constricted blood vessels near the body's surface suddenly dilate and produce a sensation of extreme heat against the skin.All you know is that you're burning. You claw off your shell and pile sweater and fling them away.
All you know is that you're burning. You claw off your shell and pile sweater and fling them away.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
Was reading about Dyatlov Pass recently, after listening to this post-rockish concept album about it: https://open.spotify.com/album/2vYSKNZsE3R7pBbCFZKrOd
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
These students from the Dyatlov Pass incident would probably have been youngish or born during the '37-38 great terror, and then their formative period would have been the Barbarossa years. They were probably thinking no probs when they set off.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
This was great and terrifying, tempered slightly by the fact that I'm clueless about temperatures in Fahrenheit.
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Thursday, 24 November 2016 04:41 (seven years ago) link
32° ... Just take off your clothes no matter what thermometer you're using.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 November 2016 05:48 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 November 2016 06:53 (seven years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4032438/Death-chocolate-Mother-two-dies-falling-vat-molten-confectionery-Russian-sweet-factory.html
― scott seward, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/31/death-yosemite-travel-blogging-couple-perishes-foot-fall-they-may-have-been-taking-pictures-relative-says/
More than 250 people have died worldwide in the last six years while taking selfies, according to a recent study from researchers in India published in the Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
... almost a third of them Indian, strangely enough.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
turns out the guy reappeared but had magical powers
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 March 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link