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grimwerk: Twelve whole hours? I think you want the due consideration thread.
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EBToriginal: I let someone carve their name on my body with a surgical scalpel while I filmed it once? Pretty sure I didn't even get asked about that one.
Was this an audition for SAW or Hostel by chance? Also are you a method actor?
I jumped off a 10m cliff (35 ft) to retrieve a painting I made at South Point on Big Island Hawaii. The strong coastal winds had blown the painting over the ledge down into the ocean. It wasn't an "unusualspur" moment thing though, at first I took a food break and resigned to starting over and make another painting but the lighting situation wasn't good anymore so I aborted the new attempt and decided to get back my first painting. I had never before jumped from such a height because I had no reason to. The painting did take some damage from the salt water but considering it's a watercolor painting and had been floating around in the Pacific Ocean for half an hour, I can't complain.
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awalterj: I jumped off a 10m cliff (35 ft) to retrieve a painting I made at South Point on Big Island Hawaii. The strong coastal winds had blown the painting over the ledge down into the ocean. It wasn't an "unusualspur" moment thing though, at first I took a food break and resigned to starting over and make another painting but the lighting situation wasn't good anymore so I aborted the new attempt and decided to get back my first painting. I had never before jumped from such a height because I had no reason to. The painting did take some damage from the salt water but considering it's a watercolor painting and had been floating around in the Pacific Ocean for half an hour, I can't complain.
That is quite something. My dad does water color as well. But you took a snack break and then jumped after it? Wonder you managed to find it at all let alone in such a good condition.
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EBToriginal: I let someone carve their name on my body with a surgical scalpel while I filmed it once? Pretty sure I didn't even get asked about that one.
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ScotchMonkey: Was this an audition for SAW or Hostel by chance? Also are you a method actor?
BDSM kink videos actually.
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awalterj:
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ScotchMonkey: That is quite something. My dad does water color as well. But you took a snack break and then jumped after it? Wonder you managed to find it at all let alone in such a good condition.
As a kid I was told not to go swimming with a completely empty stomach because you can pass out or something along those lines. Never looked into it scientifically but it's one of those things that you don't want to empirically test yourself.
One of the advantageous properties of paper is that it floats which is great because I suck at diving. Despite the myth that lightweight people sink more easily, I find it very difficult to stay submerged.
The currents are incredibly strong off the coast and it would be entirely suicidal to swim out too far but the ocean directly below the cliffs didn't seem to be much affected so the painting didn't float away at all and I managed to land about 4 meters next to it.
A diver whom I met at the same place said he had seen large tiger sharks in the water at that spot but that they don't bother people. I'm not very nutritional to a shark anyway but decided not to stay in the water for too long regardless as I wanted to hike to another location.

EDIT: Attached a photo someone took while I was commuting from dry land to not dry ocean. As you can see, the painting is floating around close by. Fortunately, there was an old rusty metal ladder that fisherman had installed decades ago. The coast is too rocky to beach a boat so they had to lower their fishing boats from the top of the cliffs.
I'm not quite sure what that yellow rope was for, I'm guessing it's a life line in case someone falls off the cliff and drifts out into the ocean in the direction of Japan or wherever but as I said there is no current right below the cliff so as long as you don't swim out in the open waters it's not a problem.
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Post edited January 24, 2015 by awalterj
Pretty much everything. Played in several punk rock bands. Wrote insane screenplays and tried to break into the movie making business. Did a talk radio show for a few years. Shared some crazy times with punks, skinheads, drug dealers, transvestites, truck drivers, and golf players. Racked up some decent video game scores. Ready to kick back and enjoy some beer and good music. Everything is unusual. Life well lived.
If there is one thing life has going for it, it's how gloriously unpredictable it can.
Although imho the most unusual thing was what I posted before,
I guess for many people here it would be other stuff, like the one time when there was this stunningly beautiful foreign girl which wanted to kiss me and I wanted to know her name instead/before (because in direct contrast to my family and environment I'm quite old fashioned and romantic) which made her all go "wtf", because she probably didn't understand the words,
or when I told the stepbrother of my first ex what I though of his stealing about 10.000€ from her later funds, he used it for drugs, a ps2 and gas. He was a drug dealer and one of his collegues was right beside him as well as she and her parents (including his father/her stepfather who threw me out for being so open although he really liked me).
Or when I told the biological father of the same girl (after his boasting in front of me what he did in his life which was supposed to impress the 17year old me) that all his actions are completely against my codex of honour - he was a high ranking mafia guy who has gotten out of jail after being there for 8 years. He didn't like me after that at all.
But that's just how I roll and not really special for me.

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Emob78: Pretty much everything. Played in several punk rock bands. Wrote insane screenplays and tried to break into the movie making business. Did a talk radio show for a few years. Shared some crazy times with punks, skinheads, drug dealers, transvestites, truck drivers, and golf players. Racked up some decent video game scores. Ready to kick back and enjoy some beer and good music. Everything is unusual. Life well lived.
I don't see anything special here, just what every average conservative has done at some point to say at a later point, that he is crazy too, but then again this may vary between locations.
Post edited January 25, 2015 by Klumpen0815
I figured out the only way to make 200 soldiers standing at attention in complete silence lose composure in an instant: I farted loudly.
Since this is the lowest common denominator for what people find entertaining, everyone laughed and the serious atmosphere was successfully disrupted. Only the commanding senior officer didn't find it funny so I had to step forward and explain myself. I explained that the food was at fault and not me and since they had to feed me, there was nothing that could be done about it.


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Klumpen0815: I guess for many people here it would be other stuff, like the one time when there was this stunningly beatiful foreign young girl which wanted to kiss me and I wanted to know her name instead/before (because in direct contrast to my family and environment I'm quite old fashioned and romantic) which made her all go "wtf", because she probably didn't understand the words,
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If a girl approaches me out of nowhere in public then it's either because she can't find the bus station or she's trying to convert me to Mormonism. The ones who try to convert you to Mormonism carry name plates so you can easily tell which it is going to be. Unlike Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormon missionaries often operate solo.
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awalterj: I figured out the only way to make 200 soldiers standing at attention in complete silence lose composure in an instant: I farted loudly.
Since this is the lowest common denominator for what people find entertaining, everyone laughed and the serious atmosphere was successfully disrupted. Only the commanding senior officer didn't find it funny so I had to step forward and explain myself. I explained that the food was at fault and not me and since they had to feed me, there was nothing that could be done about it.
Nothing diffuses tension like a good fart. Reminds that were all human.