Being upside-down, C/D?

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Provoked by the fact that I was turned upside-down at the weekend by Mr Steve.n (as mentioned in the band thread). It was much fun and I heartily endorse it (although he now has sore arms).

I never used to go on any upside-downy rides when I was younger as I had a pathological fear of things falling out of my pockets, which later translated itself into a somewhat rational fear of being upside-down in a big fuck-off machine that could feasibly break down or fall apart and kill me.

So... upside-down - how do you like to do it? Drunk? Kinky? Falling off a big cliff? Classic... or dud?

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't been upside-down in a while, but obviously sitting on the couch upside-down so that your feet are on top and you're hanging your head off the seat and everything in the room is upside-down and you imagine that you're walking around on the ceiling and what kinds of ceiling pitfalls and boobytraps you'd have to avoid is classic.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Also classic: looking at someone's face upside-down and imagining the chin is a nose and the mouth is the mouth but upside-down. It's hilarious!!!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Before clicking on this thread, I thought that it would turn out to be inspired by Peter Murphy:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/live/b/bauhaus-05/

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember sitting on my couch upside down as a kid, and imagining that the ceiling was the floor and vice versa. It was like living briefly in a wonderful fantasy world, where there were water stains on the floor and shag carpet on the ceiling.

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― ()ops (()()ps), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, yeah, I used to do a similar thing when I lived at my folks' house and I was on the phone - legs against the wall, just kind of staring upwards... it was good, but I think I often drifted away from the conversations I was having a bit too much, going 'ooh, ceiling'...

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― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.mrsmcelwee.com/coaster/graphics/raptor4.jpg
KClassic.

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Upside-down Bauhaus!

Yes!

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― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

CLASSIC. Bridges. Back-flips off bridges are the way to go.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

so so classic.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

unless being used as torture. but then again, st. paul getting crucified upside down is pretty classic, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Looking at the ceiling as if it was the floor is a good way to get an idea of how much square footage a room has.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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classic - self imposed upside down ceiling as floor imagining light fixtures as "spaceage" tables.

dud - harsh jolting rides that turn you upside down against your will and make your stomach queasy.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i havent been upside-down in a long time! i'm going to do it tonight!

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was little I used to like to stand on my head for 30-40 minutes at a time. I would read and watch tv upside-down. I'm sure I did it to get attention at first, but that doesn't explain why I did it for two years.

And some days "Upside-Down" is my favorite Yo La Tengo song.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice of Pitchfork to use such a flattering picture. It was much cooler than that in person.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't you love just "dropping" by?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like being upside-down. It makes me feel like I'm dying from the rush of too much blood to my head and I get very panicky.

― That's not cocaine! It's Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Irrational, I know.

― That's not cocaine! It's Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.justaplant.com/story/pics/1.jpg

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Even the pictures on this thread totally creep me out! HEAD ON TOP PLZ

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll take head anywhere I can get it! Boo-yah!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/arts/2005/05/10/police372.jpg

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"I hate when that happens"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't you love just "dropping" by?

I wonder if Peter Murphy will drop by Nick Sylvester's (if that's his real name) apt by lowering himself upside down from the ceiling.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/mona/images/mona1.jpg

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

She has hot pants.

― That's not cocaine! It's Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Upside-down

Mary calls from far away
I'm sure there is another
Walks the floor cause she can't settle down
Waiting for the phone to ring

Stuck inside the bedroom
Drinks too much to make the room spin round
When she sits down

No one knows the world is upside-down
Watches how it spins around
No one knows the world is upside-down

Knowing if she'll just admit
One revealing detail
She can't hide her state of mind behind
She sits down

No one knows the world is upside-down
Watches how it spins around
No one knows the world is upside-down

Everybody wants to be the lucky guy
They're just uncertain how to please her
Everybody stops to see the setting sun
They're not just looking for the time

Caring not what people say at other people's parties
Mary finds someone and settles down
She sits down

No one knows the world is upside-down
Watches how it spins around
No one knows the world is upside-down

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I have been upside-down in a glider, a thousand feet in the air or whatever, looking up at the ground and down at the sky.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps we ought to start another crush of shame thread: people by whom we would like to be held upside down.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread reminds me of a product on the Home Shopping Channel - inversion tables. You lie flat on them, click your feet in and use tiny shifts in your body weight to pivot the table up and down like a see-saw.

I want one!

― Rumpy Pumpkin, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, upside down on the couch is so awesome. I'm going to do that right now.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe no one's mentioned the stars in your eyes that result from this.

The first time I got "stars" in my eyes, many Warner Bros. cartoons suddenly made more sense. "So THAT'S what they mean!!"

It happens much more as I've gotten older. Sometimes I just barely need to crane my head over to look at someone and it's like the 4th of July in my eye-field.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

10:01!

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip a hoy hoy (country matters), Thursday, 23 July 2009 09:02 (sixteen years ago)

ah dammit

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip a hoy hoy (country matters), Thursday, 23 July 2009 09:02 (sixteen years ago)

what's wrong with 2:02?

― actually a decent question y'all fucked up with ironic bullshit answer (sarahel), Thursday, 23 July 2009 09:04 (sixteen years ago)

Upside down hourglasses are classic.

― StanM, Thursday, 23 July 2009 09:29 (sixteen years ago)

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:dfPwez1WPiuH9M:http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/fcs_thompson-thatcher/icon.gif

― ledge, Thursday, 23 July 2009 11:17 (sixteen years ago)

david blaine to thread

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Thursday, 23 July 2009 11:42 (sixteen years ago)

oops wrong thread i thought this was the "being upside down except the times of not being upside-down, C/D" thread.

― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Thursday, 23 July 2009 11:42 (sixteen years ago)

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