I’ll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis”.
Just finished… it made me think of this topic.
Killed myself successfully and lived to tell the tale
And yet you didn’t tell the tale! Are you ok? Do you feel comfortable talking about it?
I got brain rot so I forgot
I’ve seen all our known planets with my own eyes, including Pluto. Not many can say that.
Also, while leaning against a rail one morning; groggy, motionless, and unsuspecting, I once had a wild songbird land on my finger. When I felt the grip of strong tiny claws, I screamed and hurled it back into the sky.
I believe that still technically makes me a Disney princess.
Not all at the same time:
- Broken both ankles at once
- Bitten by a snake, twice (two different snakes)
- In (temporary) remission from myeloma, an incurable blood cancer
That’s quite a resume. You’re hired for…something.
Hired as chief survivor. Top notch being alive. Continuing to breathe beyond all expectations.
This is a lame burn, and a crappy post. If you don’t like the movie why not just say that instead of a half-assed attempt to be witty? What didn’t you like about it?
I have no idea what this means. But for what it’s worth, I thought it was an interesting question that brought a couple neat replies.
Oh com’on, really? You’re coming to FFC’s rescue? That’s nice. Look, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to pick on the poor fella, with his own movie studio and all, I know he’s got it rough. I liked a lot of his other stuff, if that helps.
It’s a real post, and watching that movie was:
- a real thing I did that not many other people did, and
- I don’t think anyone will think is cool or will make them jealous.
Perfect example of the kind of thing I meant. If you don’t have one, don’t post. I thought I’d hear some funny things people had to say, and maybe some interesting ones as well.
I’m jealous you managed to finish it in a single sitting. I’m still not done, started and stopped three times so far.
I place is squarely in the “It insists upon itself.” category of movies.
I didn’t say that! I took a one-day intermission.
I attended a 1-on-1 meeting that a billionaire scheduled with me but that they themselves did not attend.
Hmmm, for something that very few other people on lemmy have?
no spoiler
Made a post on lemmy and remembered to answer my own question in a reply rather than the post.
really joking here, folks
:::Asked out my crush. :P
For the general world?
I tried to talk someone out of suicide and failed. Can’t think of something less cool or envy-inducing.
I once fell out of the attic of an abandoned house because an owl scared the living crap out of me - it was huge and it made itself look even larger, must’ve been the largest bird I’d seen IRL by that age. Does that count?
Broken neck and back. Don’t recommend.
★☆☆☆☆Eech, very sorry for you. Story?
Fought two SUV’s on a bicycle and sent both to the crusher. I’m the only survivor.
Was this you
Your valiant sacrifice will be remembered, comrade o7
Nope. I did it with just speed
If it doesn’t bother you, could you say what happened? This sounds really interesting!
Fought two SUVs*
pedantic anti community’ist
Cool? Definitely not, or at least I don’t think so. And I very seriously doubt anyone would be jealous.
I used to go up in the mountains by myself. Bare minimum supplies, like a knife, the clothes on my back, and an emergency pack for “in case shit”, that if I had to touch, the trip was over. I also went armed because shit can happen.
Now, I did this for years, and it was very rare for anything bad to happen at all, and the worst stuff wasn’t life threatening except once. I’d run across bears, a few crazy people, maybe twist an ankle or some such.
But that one time.
So, there’s a feral dog problem. They’ve interbred with what’s called the eastern coyote, which itself is supposedly a mix of coyote, wolf, and a little dog.
The eastern coyote is rarely a problem. Small family groups, avoid people. If you see them at all, it’s unusual.
But when they mix with dogs, and those dogs are feral, the packs get bigger and they tend to not be scared of humans.
Well, I was cooking a fish I caught during one summer when the weather had been dry, and small animal populations were low.
The smell brought a pack in. Enough of them that they tried to circle me in and come at me after the fish I threw to them wasn’t interesting enough.
I had 14 rounds on me, and I needed most of them. The first couple of shots missed because I was fucking terrified. At that point, I’d never taken any training for shooting under pressure, so I was panic breathing and shaking hard.
You’d think the sound of a 45 going off would have scared them off, but it didn’t. I dropped a couple of them, swapped mags and dropped two more before the rest ran off. One of them, I had to finish because I didn’t get a clean shot because it was early in the half a minute it all took.
I hiked my ass back out as soon as I could stop shaking and keep my legs under me. And I did the hike with a nice wet spot because I pissed myself a little.
Went to the ranger station, reported it, did all that crap and went home.
Now, there was also a less dramatic event not maybe ten miles away where I found a body. Suicide, shotgun vs head. That was not fun either; but plenty of people have found dead bodies. Those were the two worst things I ever had happen up there on my own.
It does make for a cool story.
Man, I felt like dinner in the moment.
Being honest though, I sometimes tell the story like an adventure tale, right until the end.
Give details, all the flashes of memory that come with it, hype the story. Then, at the very end, describe the pee dripping down my leg in as much detail.
It’s one of those stories I had to tell for years, because telling it as a story breaks down the horror of it in my head. You tell a story like that enough times, you kinda blur the emotional edges off of it, and it loses power. Nowadays, it’s just another story, luckily.
Played the game Me And My Shadow. It’s an abandonware open source 2D puzzle platformer for windows that apparently was last updated in 2021, with source package last updated 2 years prior according to the last github nightly build release. Repo was archived January of this year. Not really a cool and exciting game at all compared to other open source games like Mindustry or SuperTuxKart or SRB2.
I have been ‘interviewed’ by the Secret Service 2x in my life.
Both times because I was a young dumbass, and both times I am sure they wrote in my official file: ‘harmless dumbass’.
I knew a guy from the US that was also interviewed by some 3 letter agency because his girlfriend was Russian. This was like 20 years ago.
20 years ago 2005 or 20 years ago late 80s early 90s?
XD
Waaaaay back in college (this was over a decade ago), I wrote a 16-page paper making the argument that there were only four continents, not five, six, or seven as various countries proclaim:
The Cliff Notes:
- North America and South America can be still considered a single continent due to the fact that the Panama Canal doesn’t fully bisect the two landmasses. (The Isthmus of Panama is still very much wild rainforest and lakes, and the canal is essentially two points on each side connected by a boat route across multiple of these lakes).
So, #1: America (alt. the Americas)
- Europe and Asia are not actually bisected into two landmasses, and if anything any physical connection is reinforced by the fact that the boundary is the Ural Mountain range.
So, #2: Eurasia
- Prior to the construction of the Suez Canal in 1869, Europe and Africa were indeed the same landmass, connected by the Isthmus of Suez. However, as the Suez Canal is a sea-level canal, it is created by literally cutting the landmasses apart down to relative sea levels.
So, #3: Africa
- Australia…Yeah, I didn’t see any reason why it should lose its status as the world’s biggest island and smallest continent.
So, #4: Australia
- Antarctica I didn’t consider a continent because it’s mostly ice, and if Australia is considered the minimum bound for how big a “continent” should be, then, well, the portion of Antarctica that is actually ground below all that ice is actually a smaller contiguous size than Australia, ergo it cannot count as a continent.
'Course now I’m older and realize that was all bullshit. Lol. Sure it makes sense from a geological standpoint (but even that is bullshit as geologically there are no “continents”, only plates), but a continent is more than its geological structure; it’s geological, political, and economic, all three of these rolled into one.
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Haha i was reading along worried you still believed this.
It looks solid but
Haha, hell no. It was full of faulty logic, hardly waterproof axioms, and clearly biased toward the quasi-geological perspective over political, cultural, and economic perspectives.
So, no. I do not believe this now. Haha.
I once come up with a theory that everyone sees their feet the same size.
Because if they’re large you’re tall and further from them, and if they’re small you’re short and closer.
And that’s why my penis looks so small too right? Right,?
I’ve used a variant of melatonin for my online handle in various spaces, your name threw me off for a second. Was like, I’m pretty damn sure I’m not melatonin here.
I am chronically sleepy, so I use it here and there.
Lol that’s interesting. Kind of a clever way of looking at it. Haha.
I’m only slightly tall and have feet so big I have like one possible choice at any given shoe store.
Thanks for playing, I guess. Sorry.
Do you have big hands as well?
Yep. Finding gloves that fit is also a struggle.
That one is at least considered sexy, though. Nobody’s like OMG man feet. (Unless they think it’s indicative of my penis size, I guess)
I wouldn’t be surprised if some people raise their eyebrows after sneaking a glance at your shoes.
I caught a (wild) rabbit with a bucket.
It was running from a dog and fell into a window well. It got so panicked when I climbed down it almost made it out on it’s own (it was about 8 feet deep). So I set the opening of the bucket against the wall with a small gap, to give it somewhere to hide, then went to the other end of the window well, and it crawled right in when I approached again. Covered it with a towel and lifted it right on out.
I caught a sailcat catfish at night at the beach by hand (no gear). I have also caught some snook, bluegill, blue catfish and bass by hand but it was in a small lake that was drying up and overheating.
I had a question about that. I caught a little catfish with a hook, and that sumbitch gave me a bite that hurt like hell. Teeth like a hacksaw.
Now, how do you shove your arm down a catfish mouth and survive?
It’s pretty simple. Dont put your hands where there’s sharp things. I grabbed the sailcat by its tail. Catfish whiskers also have barbs.
Ah, I guess I misinterested. I thought you were talking about that weird tradition I’ve seen where people catch giant catfish by shoving their arms down the mouth. Apparently that’s called “noodling”.
And looking up noodling most people wear gloves. They get a pretty bad wrist rash from the catfish biting them.
That’s cool but don’t delete. Because it’s cool.
I fell out of an aeroplane with no parachute and lived.
Was sweeping the little Cessna out when i stepped back missed the step and went arse over head into the tarmac.
..............Ow.
I fell out of an aeroplane with no parachute and lived. Imagine if the airplane was actually in mid flight tho!
Well, stepping out in that scenario generally isn’t advised.
Probably would have hurt less haha
