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Whats the riskiest thing you have ever done?

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  • #62
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    All sorts of daftness, but on boring stats wise, probably smoking like a chimney for 20 years.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #63
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Plazaman wrote: »
    Went robbing apples in a orchard as a young fella. Owner came out complete with shotgun and dogs. I got hit with a few pellets, lad with me took a dog bite to the knee (well his leg). The riskest thing about it was staying quiet and not letting it slip you were caught robbing, whether shot or not shot. Going to the hospital or squealing to the parent/guards back then meant you'd be in worser trouble. Ah, the good old days (kids are pussies nowadays).


    Really? yer man would get a six month stretch for that today.

    (and rightly so).


  • #64
    Blitzkrieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,676 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    Did a tour around a Favela in Rio.

    I did that one too - one of the many things I've done while either being either unaware of or willfully ignoring the risks. One of the lads has a picture of me somewhere holding up two huge bags of white powder. Now for all I know it was flour, but the fact that we were basically in a fortress and the amount of lads with guns that were around lead me to believe they were the real deal. The amount of people that are killed every year over that white powder.....

    Summited Kilimanjaro while beginning to feel the effects of altitude sickness - should have took my ass back to base camp. Climbed a 'live' volcano in Ecuador, though tbh, I was probably in more danger stumbling home through gringolandia at 4am half blind on moonshine a few days later. Went on a 'shooting day' in the Ukraine that ended up being just me and a bunch of dodgy looking Russian guys in some woods in the middle of nowhere. Got caught in the middle of a couple of riots in Rio. Took my motorbike up past 160 before realising the tyre was worn right down to the steel belt. Took a trip to the Nordschleife where I repeatedly limited my car and spun it once. Later saw a video where lots of people rolled their car at the same corner at lower speeds and several people died. Spotted two dudes following us home through Prague city centre with huge knives on their belts. We had been planning on walking home but we jumped in a taxi instead.

    I could go on, but most of the examples usually boil down to me being drunk off my ass and/or somewhere I really shouldn't be....


  • #65
    GalwayKiefer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭GalwayKiefer


    I jumped out of a perfectly good plane once, thankfully I remembered a parachute and instructor.


  • #66
    Fiona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭Fiona


    Hardonraging wrote: »
    140 mph on a motorbike ... more fun than in a cage ;)

    In saying that i'd say 140mph in an M3 is cool

    Never been on a bike too afraid of them way to open for me.

    Driving an M5 flat out was fun though. I know they go faster than 220kph but that was enough for me. Quit while your ahead!


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  • #67
    Hardonraging
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Hardonraging


    Fiona wrote: »
    Never been on a bike too afraid of them way to open for me.

    Driving an M5 flat out was fun though. I know they go faster than 220kph but that was enough for me. Quit while your ahead!


    All you have to do is hold on Fi, it's that easy..


  • #68
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,902 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    uch wrote: »
    Tried to ride a burd on a train platform once and a train pulled in before I'd finished, so I did'nt finish, and I've forgotten why I'm saying this ???


    Should of tried harder.


  • #69
    Mr.Crinklewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,037 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    Got on the London underground wearing a rucksack.


  • #70
    Ms.M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭Ms.M


    Risqué rather than risky but way too many people have seen me in the nip due to a penchant for drunken-streaking when I was younger. :o I wasn't even trying to be slutty or show-off, I was just a bit of a hyper loo-la...











    I swear!!!


  • #71
    mauzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    Ms.M wrote: »
    Risqué rather than risky but way too many people have seen me in the nip due to a penchant for drunken-streaking when I was younger. :o I wasn't even trying to be slutty or show-off, I was just a bit of a hyper loo-la...











    I swear!!!

    That's how I got the nickname nips lol


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  • #72
    mitosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭mitosis


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    Take meds once a month that have 1,000 to one chance of giving me an incredible and purple fractal burning dishwasher.

    Huh?


  • #73
    Hardonraging
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Hardonraging


    Ms.M wrote: »
    Risqué rather than risky but way too many people have seen me in the nip due to a penchant for drunken-streaking when I was younger. :o I wasn't even trying to be slutty or show-off, I was just a bit of a hyper loo-la...

    I swear!!!


    Obv you've since given this up tho !!!


  • #74
    LLU
    Closed Accounts Posts: 406 ✭✭LLU


    kfallon wrote: »
    As opposed to where else for a bungee jump? :confused:

    Your point being? :confused:


  • #75
    Ms.M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭Ms.M


    Hardonraging wrote: »
    Obv you've since given this up tho !!!

    I work in an all-boys secondary school.
    And I've got married.

    Kind of had to... :(


  • #76
    MadameGascar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 247 ✭✭MadameGascar


    Took a shortcut home through and got lost in the Bois Du Boulogne in Paris, I'd never read the Da Vinci Code. :P Recieved a few tempting offers, made friends with some Brazilian transsexuals and in the end got rescued by a Kazak who had chickened out of what he was there for. Still amazed that I survived, I think I was nearly murdered several times that night!


  • #77
    Hardonraging
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Hardonraging


    Ms.M wrote: »
    I work in an all-boys secondary school.
    And I've got married.

    Kind of had to... :(


    :confused::confused: one girl in an all boys school .. no study done there


  • #78
    Fiona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭Fiona


    Hardonraging wrote: »
    All you have to do is hold on Fi, it's that easy..

    And scream your head off!


  • #79
    Ms.M
    Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭Ms.M


    Hardonraging wrote: »
    :confused::confused: one girl in an all boys school .. no study done there

    ... As a teacher! :) I think you read "work in" as "went to". Lots of other females but no streakers to the best of my knowledge. Would be frowned upon.


  • #80
    Hardonraging
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Hardonraging


    Fiona wrote: »
    And scream your head off!

    Thats the best bet !!! you'd love it !

    Ms.M wrote: »
    ... As a teacher! :) I think you read "work in" as "went to". Lots of other females but no streakers to the best of my knowledge. Would be frowned upon.


    Unfortunately so it seems..


  • #81
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I built a Jacuzzi. I know it does not sound risky and I only did it because doing it yourself is so unbelievably cheaper than getting people in to do it. I have no education in electrical engineering - did it all from DIY and enthusiast websites and the like. Even fitted in the option to connect MP3 players to it which would pump out music from speakers fitted around the outside rim of it.

    Worked out fine but I can tell you putting my toe in it the first time and expecting to electrocute myself to death felt pretty much like I imagine it must feel just before you do DIY dentistry by tying string around a bad tooth at one end and a door at the other end and you then have to slam the door….

    One year on, no one has been fried or boiled yet. Happy days.


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  • #82
    Fiona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭Fiona


    Hardonraging wrote: »
    Thats the best bet !!! you'd love it .

    Ill have to investigate this further!


  • #83
    Hardonraging
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Hardonraging


    Fiona wrote: »
    Ill have to investigate this further!

    I'd offer to take you out, but i've since sold my bike :( and my BMW also ... ford focus no go fast :mad::mad:


  • #84
    Fiona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭Fiona


    Hardonraging wrote: »
    I'd offer to take you out, but i've since sold my bike :( and my BMW also ... ford focus no go fast :mad::mad:

    Im sorry for your loss :P


  • #85
    staker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭staker


    Hoofball wrote: »
    Assuming your definition of a palace is the same as mine, i.e. 5 cards the same (using wild cards obviously) then you should have actually won that hand. A palace is the highest hand you can have in wild card poker and it beats a royal flush, never mind a straight flush.

    PS. want a game of cards? :)

    He had a natural straight flush- didn't have to use the wild card.
    The odds of a filling a palace are far higher than filling a straight or royal flush no?

    Gave up that shti a long time ago:D


  • #86
    Kev.OC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 808 ✭✭✭Kev.OC


    Y'know sometimes when you go to the beach and you see kids running away from the waves as they come in, then chasing them back out?

    Well myself and the lads did that during a storm, with 15ft+ waves...beside a cliff. Kinda hard to explain the geography of the place, but simply put we were on what I can best describe as a platform. One big wave and we were going into the water. And given the conditions, we wouldn't have been coming out alive.

    Absolutely retarded thing to do, but that being said it was one of the most fun things I've ever done.


  • #87
    mauzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    Hardonraging wrote: »
    I'd offer to take you out, but i've since sold my bike :( and my BMW also ... ford focus no go fast :mad::mad:

    I can think of something else you could give her a quick go on :pac:


  • #88
    Hardonraging
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Hardonraging


    syndeyfife wrote: »
    I can think of something else you could give her a quick go on :pac:


    My swing set's a bit rusty now ..


  • #89
    mauzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭mauzo


    Hardonraging wrote: »
    My swing set's a bit rusty now ..

    I can think of something else you could let her swing from.....


    This can go on all night....


  • #90
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    I once swallowed an apple seed.....:eek:


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  • #91
    Blitzkrieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,676 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    Hardonraging wrote: »
    I'd offer to take you out, but i've since sold my bike

    Given your username and all... what would she hold on to?


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