I had just started seeing a girl, I was excited and in a big rush to go screw her. I jumped out of the shower, barely dried myself off and started running through the house to my bedroom to get dressed. I slipped trying to make a turn at a hallway, landed face first on something and bloodied my nose. Another time, I was in my early 20s. My old high-school baseball coach called back a bunch of his best players, from years passed, to form a team and beat the snot out of his current team. I rolled my ankle in warm ups. It wouldn't have been that bad if I just benched myself and gone home after watching the game. But, I didn't want to miss the opportunity to play one last game. I taped it and played. When I got home an unwrapped it. It swelled up bigger than my calve and I missed a week of work. We did beat the snot out of them.
I think this wins the prize for "dumbest way I almost died." I've done a lot of things in my life that I look back on and shake my head, but at least I can't say I ever thought it was a good idea to MacGuyver a missile out of its tube so I could take a closer look at it. I'm sure that death report would have been an interesting one to explain.
You would be surprised. Military members have come up with ingenious ways to unintentionally unalive themselves. Similar to my experience, see page 10, the article, Munitions Displays: A Necessary Evil? Combat Edge, Air Combat Command's Safety Magazine
I thought I was going open that to see the guy that tried banging a pin into his .50 cal weapon, with a .50 cal cartridge, and blew his hands to bits. Binary edit: only click below if you wish to see gore. Spoiler
So, speaking of self-inflicted wounds, can we talk about how hilariously bad an idea it is for Musk to rename Twitter to "X"? The weird 14 year old drama kid who wore trench coats and collected swords and thought using "X" for everything was so edgy ended up with enough money to bring his edginess to Twitter's entire user base. What a fucking tool. In 10 years, if Twitter X even exists by then, people are still going to be calling them tweets. I saw a comment somewhere that everyone should start referring to tweets as "x-cretions."
Yep, for a while I thought he was making a legit attempt at running the company. At this point I think he is trying to kill it and write it off on his next tax return. The surface level brand value was one of the few strong points. Probably better for humanity this dies. It may have been redeemed if someone took the Chinese government route and just banned everything but videos of children doing calculus.
Just watched this. Fucking scary. Dude was flying to Oshkosh yesterday and his engine stopped. High speed turbine racer, engine blew up and STOPPED within a second... from 30k rpm to nothing in a blink of an eye. Great video.
Welp, Nett killed the whole messageboard with that post. Unless y'all are all in a private thread I can't access. Somebody post some boobs to make sure this is still working.
Here's a fun game stolen from reddit: Google your birthday and Florida Man, see what articles it pulls. https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/...found-wrapped-around-penis-arent-his-30515019
I think there are 5 or 6 of those games where you eventually post all your identity info so we can hack into your back account, Jane Smith from Tacoma, Washington!
Yeah, we played that game six years ago, and I derailed the thread. Anyway, my job servicing machines along my county's drainage ditches brings me into contact with a lot of impromptu, illegal dumping sites. Today I stopped at this one to take a whiz and make a phone call: Spoiler As I walked around in circles talking, I saw a grey bucket, looked inside of it, and found a dead dog: Spoiler Definitely strange.
I'm a big fan of Alton Brown. He does a YouTube streaming series called "QQ" with his wife, where they drink and cook and drink more. It's pretty entertaining. The problem I have is that I may have a drink or 4 while watching, and then I end up buying shit that he uses or talks about on the stream. Tonight's purchases included vodka, vermouth, and pork panko. I already had the caperberries for the martinis.
Because of the bowties? I've trying to think what else it could be. I've been an AB fan boy since 2004-ish and my gaydar never went off.