High speed Motorbike crash. Ran wide, hit the grass, bike went down and I slid on tarmac for what felt like an eternity almost happening in slow motion. Got up and legged it to the ditch instinctively to avoid getting ran over, hands felt like they were on fire from the friction. Started shaking uncontrollably for about 20 minutes. Gear did it's job. Had full armoured leathers, armoured gloves and helmet and boots. I thought I was going to die by hitting the trees and concrete fence posts but managed to get chucked straight down the road instead. That **** me up for a few days. Weeks later I rebuilt it and took it for a thrash to get it out of my system, then sold it at the end of that summer.
Scariest thing you have ever done ?
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Thankfully my ability to duck was better than his aim. The bar had a balcony over it so a low ceiling and he hit the low ceiling instead of getting it all the way over the bar. Rained fire all over the front of the bar and made a proper mess of the place. Im just glad he missed!
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The scariest is deffinately skydiving, thepart just before you jump out the plane. On the dive itself once the shoot pops it is not scary any longer, just exciting.
Second would be a really really bad mushroom trip in Amsterdam, I thought iwas never going to recover, put me off shrooms for a few years!
Second would be a really really bad mushroom trip in Amsterdam, I thought iwas never going to recover, put me off shrooms for a few years!
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Getting woken up one morning with the police coming through my door.
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Ski-ing, on a lift (I had the broken cart which jams every now and then, thanks you french twunts!!) so off I go going past the barrier, panicking. I was in a very awkward angle so when the guy finally stopped the lift I kind of...slid out. Next thing I know I have half a leg and arm hanging over this HUGE cliff and a broken and dislocated wrist/arm on the other side along with ski's on my feet. Needless to say it was a sobering sight when I looked down, and even worse trying to balance myself to get up on compacted ice.
And THEN after having to endure some french anus shouting at me with me returning not so favourable words (I don't think he could speak any English, luckily) I had to ski down from the top of this cliff to the bottom where the hospital is because they wouldn't let me jump on the (many) snow mobiles heading down.
Oh how I love France. Actually the doctor gave me a packet of about 32 painkillers and just said take as many as you want. I took 2 and the nurse tipped the box into my hand and made me take about 12...I thought it was odd but she was bloody fit so wasn't going to question her.
And THEN after having to endure some french anus shouting at me with me returning not so favourable words (I don't think he could speak any English, luckily) I had to ski down from the top of this cliff to the bottom where the hospital is because they wouldn't let me jump on the (many) snow mobiles heading down.
Oh how I love France. Actually the doctor gave me a packet of about 32 painkillers and just said take as many as you want. I took 2 and the nurse tipped the box into my hand and made me take about 12...I thought it was odd but she was bloody fit so wasn't going to question her.
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[FnG]magnolia;16746686 said:Is this a euphemism for sodomy?
Lol, I'm not sure which would be worse, but no.
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Nothing that is meant to be scary before doing it but;
Crashing my first car with a 180 deg spin and 360 deg roll. Felt fun at the time like a fairground ride. No one else involved luckily and was also lucky I had the presence of mind to keep my arm in the car as the window was open.
Picking up the first set of 'naughty' photos taken with my first uni girlfriend. This was back in the days before digital cameras and so it was via snappy snaps or the like. I swear some pics never made it back
. Seriously considered building my own darkroom after that 
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HIV test as part of a post Uni checkup. Had no real belief it would be positive but one of my ex's I later found out was known as the town bicycle.
Making a car go sideways. Going around the A406 by Angel Rd station before the road works were completed. There was an S bend in the road coming up to the station going East. Just after this the road dips quite deeply and goes under the railway line. I just beat the lights before the S bend and lighting was faily bad for the S bend. Just before reaching it the lights from a car coming up from the dip under the tracks hit the windscreen at just the right (wrong for me) angle and the windshield went opaque. Hit the high curb on the corner of the bend and the car skipped sideways one lane. Again, luckily, as I had just beaten the lights there was no one around me.
Getting stuck in a tiny fiat (2 door) on a railway track with a drunk driver at the wheel after a night out in the Czech Republic countryside. I was not driving for a change but was stuck in the back with no door to climb out off and a train was coming . Luckily the girl driving finally managed to get it in gear and off the tracks just before the train arrived.
Realising that I was not going to make it the last couple of feet over the top of the free climb wall I was working on in the Mile End Climbing centre and having to push off the wall and fall to the crashmats below for the first time.
Finding the path myself and my afore mentioned ex were following over a hill in the lake district did not quite match what I expected from the map. With us being more or less at the top of a hill and it starting to get dark. This was also at the beginning of our relationship and so the need to impress was high. We made it down just as it started to rain.
The worst recent one was at Koh Samui (Thailand), playing in the surf. The time of year meant there were waves of 8->10ft breaking on the beach (beach floor to wave top). I was playing in the sea and trying to catch the waves so they would take me back to the beach (sea was at waist to chest level until a wave hit), problem was that with them being that high, I either got to them in time or they ended up crashing down on me forcing me under water as they rolled over. One time I got hit in a bad position, somersaulted underwater, finally managed to push up from the sand and just got my head above the water coughing and spluttering making sure I didn't have another wave just about to come crashing down again. Lost my very nice perscription glasses
and stopped playing with the waves for a while. Had to go around squinting from the sun for the next few days . On the upside, went to a number of opticians to get a replacement set of glasses and of course chose the one with the most attractive optometrist. She was so hot, had I not been married with my wife and kids there, she would have been at the top of my todo list . My wife not being an idiot realised this and kept joking to the kids that daddy is going to see his new girlfriend much to my embarrassment . Learnt to give the sea a greater respect that day.
Strangely considering the responses here about peoples wives giving birth, for me I found it quite calm and had no concerns. Pregency was good, the hospitals here are as good if not better than in the UK and I had total trust in the people. Luckily the trust never needed to be tested.
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Crashing my first car with a 180 deg spin and 360 deg roll. Felt fun at the time like a fairground ride. No one else involved luckily and was also lucky I had the presence of mind to keep my arm in the car as the window was open.
Picking up the first set of 'naughty' photos taken with my first uni girlfriend. This was back in the days before digital cameras and so it was via snappy snaps or the like. I swear some pics never made it back
. Seriously considered building my own darkroom after that .HIV test as part of a post Uni checkup. Had no real belief it would be positive but one of my ex's I later found out was known as the town bicycle
.Making a car go sideways. Going around the A406 by Angel Rd station before the road works were completed. There was an S bend in the road coming up to the station going East. Just after this the road dips quite deeply and goes under the railway line. I just beat the lights before the S bend and lighting was faily bad for the S bend. Just before reaching it the lights from a car coming up from the dip under the tracks hit the windscreen at just the right (wrong for me) angle and the windshield went opaque. Hit the high curb on the corner of the bend and the car skipped sideways one lane. Again, luckily, as I had just beaten the lights there was no one around me.
Getting stuck in a tiny fiat (2 door) on a railway track with a drunk driver at the wheel after a night out in the Czech Republic countryside. I was not driving for a change
but was stuck in the back with no door to climb out off and a train was coming . Luckily the girl driving finally managed to get it in gear and off the tracks just before the train arrived.Realising that I was not going to make it the last couple of feet over the top of the free climb wall I was working on in the Mile End Climbing centre and having to push off the wall and fall to the crashmats below for the first time.
Finding the path myself and my afore mentioned ex were following over a hill in the lake district did not quite match what I expected from the map. With us being more or less at the top of a hill and it starting to get dark. This was also at the beginning of our relationship and so the need to impress was high
. We made it down just as it started to rain.The worst recent one was at Koh Samui (Thailand), playing in the surf. The time of year meant there were waves of 8->10ft breaking on the beach (beach floor to wave top). I was playing in the sea and trying to catch the waves so they would take me back to the beach (sea was at waist to chest level until a wave hit), problem was that with them being that high, I either got to them in time or they ended up crashing down on me forcing me under water as they rolled over. One time I got hit in a bad position, somersaulted underwater, finally managed to push up from the sand and just got my head above the water coughing and spluttering making sure I didn't have another wave just about to come crashing down again. Lost my very nice perscription glasses
and stopped playing with the waves for a while. Had to go around squinting from the sun for the next few days . On the upside, went to a number of opticians to get a replacement set of glasses and of course chose the one with the most attractive optometrist. She was so hot, had I not been married with my wife and kids there, she would have been at the top of my todo list . My wife not being an idiot realised this and kept joking to the kids that daddy is going to see his new girlfriend much to my embarrassment . Learnt to give the sea a greater respect that day.Strangely considering the responses here about peoples wives giving birth, for me I found it quite calm and had no concerns. Pregency was good, the hospitals here are as good if not better than in the UK and I had total trust in the people. Luckily the trust never needed to be tested.
RB
weed?
A stupid idea because the weed in Switzerland is extremely cheap and very high quality and not really illegal to posses or purchases. My flatmate had a big cannabis plant growing next to the chilis on our terrace.
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salvia. first time doing it, did it on my own (bad idea) and i also took way too much.. stupid looking back on it.
i forgot everything, who i was, where i was - what my name was. i have never been so scared in my life.
i forgot everything, who i was, where i was - what my name was. i have never been so scared in my life.
Dunno if it's the scariest thing, probably would be if it went bad, I was going down a hill on the road in winter, I almost hit 50mph, and I could feel my wheels starting to slip on black ice, lukilly, I never fell off.
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Car crash I suppose, it wasn't really that scary as I didn't anticipate it at all, but I remember spinning around with airbags coming out and glass flying everywhere and then sitting in the middle of the junction waiting for a lorry to hit me.
I tend to avoid scary situations, not because I get scared, I will go on any rollercoaster but they are 99.999% safe, anything that is actually dangerous I am scared off.
Wasn't too happy when I was stopped for having no car insurance as I had only just passed. Turned out to be a computer error but the cop was a ****.
I tend to avoid scary situations, not because I get scared, I will go on any rollercoaster but they are 99.999% safe, anything that is actually dangerous I am scared off.
Wasn't too happy when I was stopped for having no car insurance as I had only just passed. Turned out to be a computer error but the cop was a ****.
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Couple of things, probably more adrenaline rush than scary:
Falling down a sheet of ice on a mountain, near vertical slope. (yeah that was actually very scary).
First time I shot live rounds with my rifle.
First time I went to Afghanistan.
Standing out of a sunroof travelling at over 60mph and nearly having a head on collision with another car. I slid out the sunroof and down the bonnet. Young, drunk, stupid. BLLODY FUN THOUGH!
First time I saw someone die.
Falling down a sheet of ice on a mountain, near vertical slope. (yeah that was actually very scary).
First time I shot live rounds with my rifle.
First time I went to Afghanistan.
Standing out of a sunroof travelling at over 60mph and nearly having a head on collision with another car. I slid out the sunroof and down the bonnet. Young, drunk, stupid. BLLODY FUN THOUGH!
First time I saw someone die.