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Stuff you'd like to do but are too afraid to

Started by viper37, August 12, 2009, 03:11:35 PM

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viper37

For all the pussies, list the stuff you won't do because you're scared, but would still like to do if you could conquer your fear.

On my list:

  • base jumping.  Parachute is ok, I'm not scared.  But jumping off a cliff, no way, I'm freaked.
  • swimming with sharks.  You know, like in Florida or the Bahamas, for 20k$, you get to be in cage where they bait the sharks to get them close to you, that I think I could manage.  But going outside of the cage and swimming with the great white sharks, holding them by their fins, I don't think I could do it.  Call me a pussy, but I just can't do that.  No way I'm going to put my fingers into his nose and have him raise in the air either. 
    In fact, I'm getting nowhere near a shark, any shark, even the little blue ones I think without a cage and a chainmail on me.
  • Sleeping in a cage with venomous snakes.  No way.  I'm sure it's a thrill of a lifetime, but I'm having nightmares just thinking of it.
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DisturbedPervert

QuoteBut going outside of the cage and swimming with the great white sharks, holding them by their fins, I don't think I could do it.  Call me a pussy, but I just can't do that.

You're afraid to swim in the open ocean with 25 foot long mega predators?  :huh:

derspiess

I want to go to an Argentine soccer game.  Technically I guess that doesn't really qualify since I'm not really afraid, but my wife is terrified of the idea.
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The Brain

Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 12, 2009, 03:38:08 PM
I would like to visit a FARC camp and debate with them on the merits of liberal democracy and free markets.

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jimmy olsen

Quote from: viper37 on August 12, 2009, 03:11:35 PM
But going outside of the cage and swimming with the great white sharks, holding them by their fins, I don't think I could do it.  Call me a pussy, but I just can't do that.  No way I'm going to put my fingers into his nose and have him raise in the air either. 

Does anyone do that?
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Josquius

I don't really know...so much of the stuff that is scary is also expensive.
Travelling in India/bits of Africa/Other interesting but poor places I guess would be the big one falling under this
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Josquius

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Quote from: Josephus on August 12, 2009, 04:23:06 PM
Go to Kenya.  ;)
Thats one place I could do with minimum risk and cost actually, the African exchange student I briefly went out with was from there and we split amicably :ph34r:


But in general the idea with these places- too expensive to get there, too cut off from civilization, too dangerous overall and much too dangerous for white people alone.
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Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 12, 2009, 03:42:22 PM
Quote from: The Brain on August 12, 2009, 03:41:00 PM
:huh: You have Martim don't you?
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I would try to reason with you. Failing that, I'd put you up on the list for reeducation. You'd learn to see things right in a decade or so.

Just joking  ;)

In fact, I suspect the next round of bank bailouts and mega stimulus coupled with a huge tax increase will probably do wonders for your perception of the "free market"... which you don't have in the USA, btw - your markets are very influenced by the bank-owned funds, and the banks are in turn heavily subsidized by the taxpayer, to the tune of several trillions a year.

As for me, I have two things I might like to do:

1) Kill the whole government during the next 'State of the Nation' debate.

I'm afraid I'd be shot by the police after I've finished. Besides, they're such a useless bunch that they'd probably be replaced with little difficulty in a couple of days.

2) Become a pirate in Southeast Asia/China Sea. I very often dream about it since I was a kid, but the fact I don't speak the local languages stops me. Also, I would be at a higher risk of being killed, since I'm not a local... though I could turn that to my advantage.  :shifty:

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