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Inspired by this postredshirt posted:One of the coolest things I've ever done, that no one saw and will likely not believe me, was to leap back off this rock just in front of this explosive wave of heat washing over everything. It still singed me - my shirt, my hat, the tip of my nose - but gosh, I don't know how bad it would have been if I didn't. The tree directly behind me lit on fire, well up the tree, and there were little fires all around. I figured everyone has some sort of awesome/terrifying thing they've gone through that you wished someone had caught on camera. Mine was riding my bike home at something like 2am. Got caught in the seam between the asphalt and concrete, where road meets sidewalk. Ended up getting launched off said bike, but somehow managed to get out of my toe cages, do a perfect combat roll, and stand back up, completely unharmed, while my bike kept rolling down the street. While baffled at what just had happened my bike and I were totally fine.
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Just remembered another, people were there, but before the days of ubiquitous cameras to document. We were "sledding" in the I'm in my early twenties and drunk style. Just whatever we could find and bomb the hill. I had found an old snowboard, sans gear, and started doing some runs. Went face first on one, and saw that I was headed for a curb around the light post. At the very last second before curbing my own face, I slapped my hands down and somehow managed to flip up and over. Felt pretty cool, despite no one seeing it.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:redshirt can, and absolutely will, fill this thread yup. rename thr threrad redshirt that didn't happen
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i've been living in some family's attic for 2 years, they don't know i'm here. i sneak down at night when they're asleep to use the toilet and nibble from the pantry.
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Bad Purchase posted:i've been living in some family's attic for 2 years, they don't know i'm here. i sneak down at night when they're asleep to use the toilet and nibble from the pantry.
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that time i did whip-its with tony hsieh while he cradled a sloth
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one day, when i pulled into my parking space at my old apartment, i got this strange feeling. i got out of the car, and just sorta stood there for a moment. i looked around, not really sure why i felt so weird at that moment. my eyes wandered to the poorly maintained bushes in front of my parking space, and for some reason i felt the need to look closer at them. was there any good reason to do so? none whatsoever. just an untended bush with trash and dead leaves tangled in it, but i felt like looking closer at it, and somehow noticed a loving 20$ bill caught in the bush. nobody was around, nobody else saw me just awkwardly examining a piece of shrubbery, and somehow pulling money out of it like a god drat video game character. i bought a pizza with the shrub money and it was delicious. Edit: gonna throw in a bonus story from the same apartment, since it was ridiculous but it didn't happen to -me-, and it was definitely seen by someone. my housemate and i were sitting in the living room playing video games, about 4 in the afternoon, when we heard a *BOOM* and the whole apartment shook. we freaked, and ran over to the back porch, which led to the parking lot...to find a car in the middle of the lot engulfed in flames. full on, hollywood style fire roasting the whole thing down to the frame. fire trucks got there a few minutes later to put it out, we had no idea who'se car it was, or why the gently caress it exploded, and we never found out. Aishlinn fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Dec 4, 2024 |
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no pictures of the sloth it seems, but here’s that drat alpaca
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bradzilla posted:yup. rename thr threrad redshirt that didn't happen lol I am such a good writer, I just make this all up. It's crazy!
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c-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate
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TrashMammal posted:that time i did whip-its with tony hsieh while he cradled a sloth Do you remember the name of the sloth?
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redshirt posted:Do you remember the name of the sloth? no, just the alpaca
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TrashMammal posted:no, just the alpaca And??
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Buce posted:c-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate This is the vibe
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his name was marley. he was ok for an alpaca
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Aishlinn posted:my housemate and i were sitting in the living room playing video games, about 4 in the afternoon, when we heard a *BOOM* and the whole apartment shook. we freaked, and ran over to the back porch, which led to the parking lot...to find a car in the middle of the lot engulfed in flames. full on, hollywood style fire roasting the whole thing down to the frame. fire trucks got there a few minutes later to put it out, we had no idea who'se car it was, or why the gently caress it exploded, and we never found out. Years ago when my dad was still alive, it was Veteran’s Day and I asked him if he wanted to do something. He said he wanted to eat at Applebee's because vets ate free. Place was packed and I was waiting outside with my dad and sister for a table inside. Suddenly, this newish Ford Expedition comes barreling fast into the parking lot next door and an entire family of six jumps out and runs away. Thirty seconds later, the thing becomes engulfed in flames just like you described it. Hollywood-style, with glass blowing out and tires exploding from the intense heat. It took the firefighters who showed up several minutes to extinguish the fire. I guess Ford Expeditions catching on fire was a thing at the time, because my sister told me that one of her students (sis was a school counselor at the time) lost everything in a house fire caused by a new Expedition parked in their garage.
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TrashMammal posted:that time i did whip-its with tony hsieh while he cradled a sloth can confirm
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One time I saw a magpie fly in a loop outside the window of the school cafeteria and no one else saw it and they didn't believe me.
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I see the beauty in butterflies and magic in clouds, but I think when a lot of people look at that poo poo they just see turds.
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When I was little there was a field of Milo behind my house in the fall. I was watching a hawk fly around and it did a backflip, flew straight down and kind of punched a jack rabbit that was standing by the fence. It then flew back up and lazily flew away. The rabbit just looked around like "WTF was that?!"
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I was at the old family Camp (now, very sadly, gone) with the new Step Family, and new Step Mom asked me to tell my Father, who was mowing the lawn, that lunch was ready. I go out to do so, he can't hear me, turned away, I repeat my news and the lawnmower chunks and I feel this WHIIIP go by the left side of my head.... I'm like, THE gently caress? And put my hand to my ear, and find blood. THE gently caress? My father finally sees me and stops the lawnmower and comes over and I'm like, what the hell just happened? I am bleeding, but it's just a small cut on my ear. Directly behind me is a hole in the screen door of the porch. And then we find this sharp, good sized sharp rock embedded in the screen on the far side of the porch. The rock must have travelled 30-40 feet at high speed to end up there. And of course, the fact it just missed my face. We all chuckled and had lunch. But for all the remaining years I visited, I'd see the patched up hole in the screen and remember, it was literally a matter of a centimeter or so for a drastically different story...
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There was a hermit who lived out of coast redwoods hollowed out by fires. He was in Hendy Woods near wine country in California and he would sneak onto the locals farms and kitchens for years. People kinda knew he was around but no one really cared about ramdom thefts until wealthy developers got interested in the region. A lady who hated the idea of the woods being torn out bought up a bunch of property and would occupy it with her own doings, keeping prospectors away and whatnot by acting crazy or being annoying with trespassing laws etc, so they would just move on. The hermit and her became fast friends and she specifically cultured his legend and kept him safe so they both could keep the woods safe. No one knew this until she fessed up iirc but it's a brilliant idea. Just make the place really bothersome to develop and people just move on. You can visit his old trees and see her property line just kinda surrounding this ancient grove. 5/5 lore for a Campground.
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A farm staple is pigeons. They are always there, and they don't give a gently caress about anything. One day I was by myself walking around with my little .22 revolver and I saw a pigeon take off from the silo and fly behind it. Typically, they will just fly around the silo a couple of times then just come back from where they took off from. When it came back into sight from flying behind the silo, I did a 'quick draw' like action and shot in the general direction of the bird. The general direction ended up being the exact position of the bird and I shot it dead right out of the air with a .22. I literally looked around to see if anyone saw that. No one saw that. Sorry pigeon, I never thought I'd hit you, but you were a dirty, flying rat after all.
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Stoner Sloth posted:can confirm drat homie been awhile
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It's a little nothing half second moment but the closest I ever came to dying was when I was a retarded teenager blasting down a hill, no helmet, on a bike on the sidewalk listening to rage against the machine on my creative nomad jukebox 3. Was up to easy 40kmph and a car was backing out that I didn't see. I didn't even touch the car, I just breezed by, but I swear it must have been a loving millimeter of clearance. Just continued on with my day but in prob like half of the multiverse i died there.
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I went to Halloween Horror Nights in 2006 with a work buddy and we were next in line to get onto the Jaws ride. In the group ahead of us, there was one guy who was so drunk, he could barely stand. He got on the boat and I saw his wallet had fallen out of his pocket. I picked it up and it had around 2k in hundreds stuffed in there. I signalled for the operator to hold the boat and ducked under the partition. He was starting to panic about his wallet just as I walked up to him. I handed him the wallet and he thumbed through it, absolutely gob smacked that I hadn't taken anything. He began to weep. I got back in line and my buddy, who had not been paying any attention, said, "where'd you go?" I said "the guy ahead of us dropped something" and we went about our night.
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SonOfGhostDad posted:I went to Halloween Horror Nights in 2006 with a work buddy and we were next in line to get onto the Jaws ride. In the group ahead of us, there was one guy who was so drunk, he could barely stand. He got on the boat and I saw his wallet had fallen out of his pocket. I picked it up and it had around 2k in hundreds stuffed in there. I signalled for the operator to hold the boat and ducked under the partition. He was starting to panic about his wallet just as I walked up to him. I handed him the wallet and he thumbed through it, absolutely gob smacked that I hadn't taken anything. He began to weep. I got back in line and my buddy, who had not been paying any attention, said, "where'd you go?" I said "the guy ahead of us dropped something" and we went about our night. My man.
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At the time, I didn't hesitate, but if the same thing happened now, I genuinely don't know if I'd give it all back
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One time I was riding the 6 train in NYC late-ish at night, and was in a car with about five other people, and I was the only person sitting on the side of the car facing the platform at the Astor Place stop. As we began to pull out of the station I looked up to see a young woman on the platform finish completely undressing, and of course looked around hoping to do that "can you believe this poo poo" shared glance only to find that they were all completely unaware of what was going on behind their backs. This was right by Cooper Union so I've always assumed she was doing some kind of art project but it was New York so who knows.
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i solved the Riemann Hypothesis but i lost the hooters napkin i wrote it on
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I was a hit at all the parties I went to and made lots of friends
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Bad Purchase posted:where was redshirt at 6:40 am est this morning? MEANWHILE IN MY MOUNTAIN REDOUBT....
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I thought this thread was going to be about, like, dinosaurs with funny looking dicks
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Crashed into a low wall on my bike at full speed, flipped over the handlebars and landed in a Spider-Man pose completely unharmed. The front wheel was buckled, but my spine was not.
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I threw a tiny bit of meat to a kookaburra on my tv antenna and it landed right in its beak. This is like a 10-15m throw. I don't mean it caught it. I don't think it even knew where the food came from. It was just chilling up there and suddenly there's food in its mouth.
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Necrothatcher posted:Crashed into a low wall on my bike at full speed, flipped over the handlebars and landed in a Spider-Man pose completely unharmed. The front wheel was buckled, but my spine was not. tried to hope a very sturdy log at speed and didnt quote make it. double ejected out of my bindings and did a full front flip. didnt stick the landing though.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I threw a tiny bit of meat to a kookaburra on my tv antenna and it landed right in its beak. This is like a 10-15m throw. I don't mean it caught it. I don't think it even knew where the food came from. It was just chilling up there and suddenly there's food in its mouth. This made me laugh out loud  A somewhat different vibe from a lot of these stories, but recently I went out for a hike in the woods on a lovely, sunny autumn day. I saw a load of shimmering flashes in the light and eventually realised they were babby spiders heading out into the world like in Charlotte's Web. It was really cool and weird to watch little spiders flying around on what looked like beautiful streaks of glitter.
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I played a whole game of street fighter 2, all the way to beating the final boss, without losing a round.
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