How close to death have you been?
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blister pus wrote:El Capitano wrote:August 18th, 1988, I died. Seriously...
you didn't have a 'near death experience' did you?
In the middle of an operation, the 1st time my stomach was rebuilt, everything stopped working for a few seconds. For those seconds, I was technically dead. I didn't have a 'near death experience' as such, I didn't float over my body, I didn't see a tunnel with a light at the end. The only sensation I can describe would be a sense of relief.0 -
....and gratitude - for me.'..all the bad cats in the bad hats..'0
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i didn't have very near deah experiances but i nearly drowned once, i could have very nearly died falling off a small cliff on a beach, i got away with a few scratches and cuts. in fact i never broke a bone( i nearly broke my finger), and it's not becasue i'm not daring as i have done many jumps on my bike that i could have fecked up real bad.
also i haven't had any near death experiances and in all fairness i have been alive for only 14 years(8 or 12 to some)0 -
i vote for 8 yrs, isnt it your bed time?0
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ah, sorry to hear that.at least one survivedjrduquemin wrote:Motorcycle crash when I was 19, ran into the side of a taxi pulling out of a sidestreet. Survived with a badly broken leg, unfortunately my brother didn't make it...
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you are jay12 therefore you are 12 years old and shall remain that way till forever0
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it's supposed to be one, two. like one,two,three but someone else had that name. but i guess i can change it whenever i am a year olderblister pus wrote:you are jay12 therefore you are 12 years old and shall remain that way till forever0 -
Except self inflicted "hangovers" the worst I ever felt was in my late teens.
Went to a works darts do, electrical wholesalers, and did drink quite a bit, but not hammered.
Next day, felt really rough, puked in the toilet twice, so Boss sent me home.
Had no cash, so it was a 3 mile walk home, middle of Winter, freezing, pissing it down.
Puked every 1/2 mile. I thought I was bloody dying! Real "Exorcist" stuff, both ends...
Lost 1/2 stone in the first week, Dr diagnosed Gastro...Lost 1.5 stones over a fortnight.
Tosser Boss didn't like me much, got fired week before Xmas.
( Never mind, mate of mine there had been doing a roaring trade in "obtained" electrical items, so I'd saved a fortune for the girlfriends/families Xmas gifts, lol )0 -
well that's just it. you can't. as you are 12 forever. see?jay12 wrote:
it's supposed to be one, two. like one,two,three but someone else had that name. but i guess i can change it whenever i am a year olderblister pus wrote:you are jay12 therefore you are 12 years old and shall remain that way till forever0 -
Tom Hanks in "Big".
Wasn't he 12 as well?0 -
El Capitano wrote:blister pus wrote:El Capitano wrote:August 18th, 1988, I died. Seriously...
you didn't have a 'near death experience' did you?
In the middle of an operation, the 1st time my stomach was rebuilt, everything stopped working for a few seconds. For those seconds, I was technically dead. I didn't have a 'near death experience' as such, I didn't float over my body, I didn't see a tunnel with a light at the end. The only sensation I can describe would be a sense of relief.
interesting, ty. i've been following Dr Sam Parnia's work for a good while, insightful stuff indeed.0 -
Only had 1 which was at the start of this year in the snow
Cycling to work in the snow and a car behind me lost control ... Knocked me off the bike and pushed me into the path of an oncoming car. To show how close i was to being nothing but a pancake the wheel arch of the other car clipped and removed the peak on my helmet.
:shock: Was dragged off the road by the driver of the car and physically couldnt move ... Excuse the pun but i was literally scared stiff !0 -
Oh yeah got another one - riding home from a street ride, riding along a car flies past and pulls left into another street in front of me, his back end hits the front wheel and I go over the bars land on my back, I just see under his car as his back wheel skims my helmet.
Saw him again speeding across town, turns out he was a drunk driver in a stolen car :roll: :x0 -
I did a whole rather exposed, route "via ferrata" up the Les deux alpes when i was younger and had a few "moments" on the way up - when I got to the top I found that the knot tied into the harness was basically just undone - If i'd flalen I'd have been found at the bottom of the valley - something was well wrong with that bit of rope!!We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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ddraver wrote:I did a whole rather exposed, route "via ferrata" up the Les deux alpes when i was younger and had a few "moments" on the way up - when I got to the top I found that the knot tied into the harness was basically just undone - If i'd flalen I'd have been found at the bottom of the valley - something was well wrong with that bit of rope!!
id wager that the thing wrong with that rope was that it wasnt tied around a lime and shoved up anyones obvious.0 -
Try Crib Coch...
No wires/ropes there. 1,000ft vertical drop both sides.
Saw a fat teenage bird "glued" to a rock in fear.
Had to get a chopper up to get her off.
Nearly needed a "Jolly Green Giant" she was so fat, stoopid tourist families...
Jeans, trainers, tee shirts, jumper FFS.0 -
Splottboy wrote:Try Crib Coch...
No wires/ropes there. 1,000ft vertical drop both sides.
Saw a fat teenage bird "glued" to a rock in fear.
Had to get a chopper up to get her off.
Nearly needed a "Jolly Green Giant" she was so fat, stoopid tourist families...
Jeans, trainers, tee shirts, jumper FFS.
Erm, I ran up Crib Coch, twice in the same day, in trainers, shorts and sleeveless top. Granted, I was carrying a first aid kit & survival blanket. (Microsoft Challenge around 2005/2006 ish. It's a pretty awesome trail.0 -
Sooooo...are you a fat, ugly teenage girl from Manchester???
If so, last time I saw you, you were being winched into a Sea King, LOL !0 -
6 to 12 inches from death/brain damage. The other week when some kn08 Jockey decided to lob a concrete bollard of a 60 ft bridge at my head on the track below while I was shifting the other crap they'd thrown on the line, it missed me by no more than a foot.0
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1. 5 days in a coma after crashing my motorcycle while racing.
2. Lightning strike about 20 feet away while walking around a work site.
3. Some idiot pressing the "start" button while I was aligning a pump pulley.
4. Shot at during live fire training by idiot who forgot to safe his weapon.
5. Booby trap that went off when I walked away to get some tools.
6. Head on collision with a car. I wasn't wearing my seat belt and I admit full fault on this one.
7. Waiting for a connecting flight that never landed, (MH 653).
8. Near miss with a BMW that resulted in heated words and a drawn sidearm.
One more close call and I'll have used up my quota.0 -
Done 3 tours of Iraq which have included
Made far too many trips down 'route Irish' in Bagdad - the most heavily dangerous road in the world at the time
Whilst on a RAF Puma helicopter there was a loud 'dink' followed by flairs being set off and the loady flapping like fuck and looking out at the rear of the aircraft. Found out later that a 7.62 round had gone through the tail and missed a vital bit of equipment by less than an inch.
been mortared more times that i can count but one day shat us up when a rocket exploded about 6 feet from the ammunition ISO container in our compound. That would have been a big bang.
A US missile that went a bit wrong during the first day of the was went a bit wrong and landed close enough to us to feel the change in air pressure as the 'wave hit us' in the Kuwait desert.
Several other smaller incidents.+ 1001 posts reset by the cruel cruel moderators!
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IcarusGreen wrote:A US missile that went a bit wrong during the first day of the was went a bit wrong and landed close enough to us to feel the change in air pressure as the 'wave hit us' in the Kuwait desert.
MLRS by any chance that went straight up and then came back down nearly on it's own postion?0 -
Don't know, they never told us what it was from, just that it was American. Although thinking about it, we were in a US compound at the time.+ 1001 posts reset by the cruel cruel moderators!
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Crib Goch is a namby-pamby walk. There are more exposed routes in the UK that are still walks but death or serious injury awaits the slightest mistake.
Without being all sanctimonious, there is nothing like danger 24/7 for improving your concentration. I got to over 7000 m on Annapurna II and when there is nothing or no-one that is gonna come and save you, you give the situation your full attention.0 -
Loads of them. But eventually the wife got bored of my screaming and whimpering, so now I do most of the driving…….
I was run over by a drunk driver when I was about 4, reversed into me, pretty sure I was actually under the back of the car.
Came close to falling 30-40ft out of racking a couple of times in my old warehousing days, if the fork lift truck was busy, you just climbed up and got what you needed."I ride to eat"0 -
I tried to ski an off-piste couloir in the Three Valleys that I really should not have tried at the time - but until then hadn't lost my youthful illusion of immortality. Lost a ski near the top; tried to stop myself with the other ski but that one came off as well. Then tried digging ski boots in to slow down, but was not much use on a 45 degree hard pack slope - didn't work. Picked up a fair bit of speed, missed the rocks either side of the exit to the couloir, lauched over the top of the big boulder in the middle of the exit (which had enough snow cover where I passed to avoid me hitting something very hard). As I made a mental note to check my binding settings I thought - I'm toast - as was blinded by snow spray and couldn't what I was headed for below.
Eventually I slid/bounced all the way down to the piste several hundred yards below with nothing more than a few choice bruises and a pair of well mangled sun glasses. The two blokes nearby who'd stopped to watch my fall saw me pick myself up, dust off the covering of snow and said (Monty Python's Life of Brian style) "You lucky ba***rd!"
Can't really compete with anyone who's seen active duty with the armed forces..."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Had a gun to my head in prague. That wasn't very amusing. Was more angry than scared by that though.
More recently, I had to climb out of Chatel Bike Park, over the mountain to Lindarettes in the worst alpine storm for years, with lightening consistently striking within 50-100 feet of us.
Holding on to a big metal downhill bike in the middle of a ski slope during a thunderstorm is possibly the scariest thing I've ever done. I genuinely thought that myself or Dave were going to buy our tickets.0 -
Crib Goch is easy. If that's the nearest you've been to death, you need to get out a little!0
