I have had far too many incidents like this so all I shall say is that when cycling under low bridges - duck (8 stiches & nothing bleeds like a head wound)
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Originally posted by realityhack View Post
Let's share those grisly and amusing tales of near-oblivion on the roads/paths/wherever. In a car, on a bike or motorbike, or even just changing a lightbulb or climbing a ladder.
Bizarre how time seems to slow down like this.
Time really slooooowed for me just after I did that.Comment
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When I was about 14, I was having an air-rifle shoot out with a school chum. He had the .22 and I had the .177.
I was hiding in a rusty old nissan shelter, shooting through a hole in the corrugated iron. Next thing, I woke up with blood all over my face and a whopping head ache.
He got me right between the eyes. The slug is still lodged by my eye near the bridge of my beak, I let people touch it as a party trick, it's made a fair few chuck up because it feels blooming horrible.
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post..........I let people touch it as a party trick, it's made a fair few chuck up because it feels blooming horrible.Comment
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Originally posted by realityhack View PostLet's share those grisly and amusing tales of near-oblivion on the roads/paths/wherever. In a car, on a bike or motorbike, or even just changing a lightbulb or climbing a ladder.Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?Comment
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Originally posted by BlightyBoy View PostIf that is the case (and I am not disagreeing with you, as my theory is similar), would it not mean that the same "effect" would be experienced during other periods of elevated adrenaline levels?
I am sure that the levels of adrenaline must relate to the way that neurons fire, and thus, as you say, we perceive time as slowing down?
Would the inverse (i.e. time speeding up) be true if the levels of adrenaline were very low? I don't think so. I am bored out of my skull at work today, adrenaline is very low and yet time just seems to be dragging on and on and on and on ....
"Keep them at 24,000"
"No, feet"
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my 18th birthday. Got completely plastered curtosey of my mates putting too many JD's down my throat.
Walking up the high street later on and decided to have a play fight with a few of the chaps.
Me and my mate had our backs to a plate glass shop window with eachother in a headlock
Another mate decided it would be a good idea to run at us and barge us into the window.
Went bum first backwards through the shop window and ended up laying inside the shop!
Looked up to see about 3 metres of glass hanging above my waist...thought that was gonna be the end of me.Comment
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostWhen I was about 14, I was having an air-rifle shoot out with a school chum. He had the .22 and I had the .177.
I was hiding in a rusty old nissan shelter, shooting through a hole in the corrugated iron. Next thing, I woke up with blood all over my face and a whopping head ache.
He got me right between the eyes. The slug is still lodged by my eye near the bridge of my beak, I let people touch it as a party trick, it's made a fair few chuck up because it feels blooming horrible.
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When I was in the military, some pissed up squaddies put their mate in a locker and started to float it around in the static water tank, He kicked and screamed but they thought it was hilarious.
But he was kicking and screaming because the tiny ventilation holes in the back were letting in the water. A locker with a few inches of water in it gets VERY heavy.
Those tanks are 40 ft deep, it took two days to fish him out
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostWhen I was in the military, some pissed up squaddies put their mate in a locker and started to float it around in the static water tank, He kicked and screamed but they thought it was hilarious.
But he was kicking and screaming because the tiny ventilation holes in the back were letting in the water. A locker with a few inches of water in it gets VERY heavy.
Those tanks are 40 ft deep, it took two days to fish him out
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