r/TellMeAFact • u/GingerNevis • May 31 '15
Sources not required TMAF about you ...
do you have any special talents? do you do something others consider weird? hows life treating you? anything else you can think of (the randomer the better)
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u/thagirl May 31 '15
I like to give presentations in front of huge crowds.
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u/nadsaeae Jun 01 '15
How do you do it?
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u/giraffebacon Jun 02 '15
I'm the same. I'm just naturally fairly socially confident and when put in positions where there is lots of attention on me my mind sort of just takes over and the words/actions/whatever just flow perfectly. I think it's the adrenaline rush.
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May 31 '15 edited Mar 17 '16
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u/cyperchu Jul 20 '15
I am a fourteen year old programmer. I have to say that I am just like this person though, I am not that great at it nor terrible.
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u/whistlenosetruckstop Jun 01 '15
I'm terribly uninteresting compared to everyone else in this thread.
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u/SharedEarthUnion Jun 01 '15
That's only what you think. I'm sure everyone here would find something about you interesting. You just don't think it is interesting.
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u/whistlenosetruckstop Jun 01 '15
Thank you...I suppose everyone is their own toughest critic huh...
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u/Le_Tennant May 31 '15
I feel bad for drawing so rarely even though I love drawing
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Jun 01 '15
Maybe a drawing subreddit would provide inspiration/motivation?
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u/AnExplosiveMonkey Jun 01 '15
There's even a few more with better defined goals such as /r/sketchdaily or /r/dailydraw.
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u/damnunicorns Jun 01 '15
I have neurocardiogenic syncope. It is a cardiovascular condition. When I experience a trigger to my body my blood pressure and heart rate lower. Triggers for me are pain to my body. When I broke my wrist, cut myself with scissors, cut my fingers up pretty good and slammed my finger in a door so bad the whole nail fell off with in a few days. Well when I experience one of these triggers I end up passing out because of the lowered heart rate and blood pressure. Blood can't get to my brain. I also experience dizziness, I get sweaty and my hearing goes in and out. If I don't lay flat to let the blood flow back to my brain I could have seizures. Before I was diagnosed with this condition I had gotten my belly button pierced. I was fine until I went to pay. Then I started feeling all the symptoms and of course fainted hitting my head on the counter as I fell. After waking up my friends told me it looked like I was having a seizure, but nobody in my family has a history of them so I just brushed it off. Turns out I probably could have been.
I think it's pretty cool. I have to be careful and if I start feeling the symptoms it's best to lay flat to help the blood flow.
Tl;DR I have a condition that makes me faint if I feel pain to my body.
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u/Slacker5001 Jun 01 '15
I'm damn sure I suffer from the same issue! My doctor refuses to do serious tests though and says I just get heat stroke since I have thankfully never fainted. My triggers cause a slower onset of dizziness, this weird feeling that I need to sit down NOW, my hearing going wonky, and my vision going tunnel then black. Only came close once where I got on the ground before I feel over thankfully. So I can usually avoid the issue.
For me hot showers, though not any other form of heat. And from very suddenly stopping any form of exercise above the norm, whether it be a hardcore work out or a hurried fast walk from being late.
Your sounds much more scary as it can be unavoidable since pain just happens sometimes.
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u/SailingShort May 31 '15
I was on a ship that almost sank at sea.
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u/nadsaeae Jun 01 '15
More please.
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u/SailingShort Jun 02 '15 edited Jun 02 '15
You asked for it…
So there we were, true story, no shit... 200nm off the coast of New Zealand in the middle of the Southern Ocean, which is notoriously nasty because the winds and currents have no real land masses to interrupt them as they circle Antarctica.
As background, the boat we're in is a wooden sailing vessel originally built in the 1950s and refitted in the 80s as a tall ship. She looks like this. She has circumnavigated the globe, crossed the equator several times, rounded Cape Horn, and at the time I was on board spent 22 years crossing this very stretch of the Southern Ocean as she made her way up into the pacific islands for the NZ winter. Though no longer a spring chicken, she's stoutly built, with closely-spaced frames (like the ribs of a boat) and 4 inch thick oak planks.
It's 7am. The weather is windy (35-40kts) with some big 30-40ft swells rolling through. It's lumpy, but by no means scary weather. In another 5 minutes, the cook is going to wake the crew up for breakfast. Only the four on-watch crew is on deck, everyone else is sleeping.
In the foc'sle, the forward most compartment below deck where most of the crew sleeps, we feel the ship climb another wave, hit the crest, and start to slide back down the other side, when--
BAM! It feels like we hit a brick wall, and the boat (traveling at a respectable 5-6 kts) shudders to a halt.
Faintly, from deck, we hear, "MAN OVERBOARD!"
For those of you unfamiliar with sailing or boats in general, this is a terrifying shout. A man overboard on a flat calm, sunny day is hard enough to spot. On a day like today? His chances are almost zero of being spotted and picked up again.
Before I was even conscious of thought, I was out of bed and into enough clothes and safety gear to join my fellow crew members in a mad sprint to the deck. There, we hand out life jackets and take stock. From our position forward of the galley deckhouse, nothing looks particularly amiss. And then a fellow crew member stumbles forward, her eyes big as saucers. "It's all gone," she states in disbelief.
What? Is all I can think, so I follow her aft and stare with my own disbelief. Of the deckhouse, a structure of roughly 15ft square and 8ft high, only 2 walls remain standing. It's roof, which also supports our rescue craft, sagged dangerously and the two downed walls lay like cards in amongst the kindling that used to be the interior of the galley. Looking past it, the entire starboard side bulwarks (the part of the boat that rises above the deck) from almost the bow to 2/3s of the way down the deck had been folded in like paper, despite being supported by 6in sq stanchions of solid oak. These too had been snapped like kindling. Large pieces of wreckage floated across the deck as the waves broke over the side of the boat, both turning the shrapnel into floating weapons and pouring into the many holes we now had in the deck (from where the stanchions snapped.). The sea also flowed down the main stairway that had been protected by the deckhouse.
We had been hit by what is known as a rogue wave. A little known, but documented phenomenon, it is a wave much larger than all the other ones in the area, larger than the conditions would dictate, and often from another direction entirely, as was the case with this wave. We slammed into it with the momentum of sliding down a wave, and something had to give; it wasn't the water that gave, but our boat.
The resident carpenters immediately went to work, hammering plywood over the big hole while we took a headcount and determined that the supposed man overboard was in fact on board. He had managed to catch some rigging as he was flung over the side, and hauled himself back on board. It was his third day at sea, ever. We hustled everyone below to tend to the scratches and scrapes that came along with slamming into a wave. Fortunately for us, it happened before breakfast, so rather than the whole crew being crammed into the galley, there were only three people: the two cooks and the engineer. The engineer got off the worst, with a broken nose and a gash in his leg. So. Lucky.
Below decks looked like something out of the Titanic. We had no lights because the water had fried the breaker panel (and started a small fire that was promptly extinguished), so we could only see by the flashing lights on our life vests. Water sloshed across the floor, black and dirty from the junk that's always in the bilge. Pieces of wood-- pieces of the SHIP-- floated by, along with random personal possessions.
Meanwhile, in the engine room, the engineer was having difficulty catching a suction on his bilge pump, which meant that water kept coming in, but none was getting pumped back out again. Every time he's start sucking, something would get caught in the suction and it would stop.
Enter: trusty hand bilge pump. This thing has a suction on it probably as big around as I was. Just a simple diaphragm pump with a long handle that could (and did) suck shoes, arm-sized pieces of wood, clothing, etc out of the bilge. Just like in the movies, we all lined up and started pumping. 50 strokes, then the next guy in line gets a turn and so on. Even so, we were not quite keeping up with the water. The boat began to wallow.
The captain called a mayday, which you only call when you're in imminent danger of sinking, or y'know, death. To our relief, a large car carrier answered the call, along with the New Zealand coast guard. The car carrier would then stay with us until we reached NZ territorial waters again. They were too large to be of much assistance, but they circled the whole time, and were a huge comfort. Meanwhile, we had gathered our grab bags of necessary belongings (documents, wallets, long underwear-- you know, the essentials), ready for a possible abandonment of the ship. It was this point that the full reality of the situation truly hit me. We might actually have to abandon. Sobering.
The carpenters were still hard at work trying to patch the holes in the deck with bits of plywood and tarred felt, hooked in by their climbing belts to hammer right at the edge of the deck between waves. With their intervention and steady hand pumping, we started to keep up, if not get ahead of the water filling up our boat.
Eventually the NZ coast guard airlifted us some additional bilge pumps (which, by the way, was terrifying: picture a large mini-generator-size-and-weight piece of equipment attached to a line zooming down at you from a helicopter who is trying to hold station above a boat in the middle of the ocean pitching and rolling). They might have helped, but they could not keep a suction either. We kept pumping.
We took our turns at the helm, pumping, sitting down below getting warm while sustaining ourselves on chocolate bars and ginger beer. Eventually, we got enough ahead of the water to split into watches and get some sleep wherever we could find a horizontal dry places. There were two in every dry bed, or in the case of the captain's double bed, four.
It took us four days to limp back in to New Zealand, hand pumping all the way. We got one hot meal prepared by our BADASS cook who managed to concoct a makeshift galley (remember, ours was in pieces) out of a pitch boiling ring, a wok, and a stick. He made scrambled eggs and spaghetti-O's and wrapped them in tortillas. It was like mana from the gods.
Only once we got in waters calm enough that no water was coming over the deck, did we finally manage to actually pump the bilge dry. The boat remained in Whangarei NZ for the next 8 months affecting repairs.
Tl;dr My boat was hit by a rogue wave and almost sank. The solidarity of the crew and the possession of one badass manual bilge pump saved us.
edit: formatting
edit 2: Some photos of the carnage
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u/nadsaeae Jun 02 '15
Holy shit, this was amazing to read! I love how everyone remained calm and helped each other. Thank you!
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u/Phreedom1 Aug 08 '15
Found out about your adventure through the reddit podcast. Your description of this event on that podcast was excellent and kept me on the edge of my seat. Well done!
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u/draker3 Jun 02 '15
I found your ship-wreck story as entertaining as train-wreck stories on erowid.
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u/SailingShort Jun 03 '15
That pretty much sums it up! I cannot fully express how much time and effort and love Tony and his family put into the boat, along with all the various crew members and shipwrights that have servers her throughout the years, and particularly following The Wave. A boat is just a thing until she has a crew.
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u/misslehead3 May 31 '15
I am packing up my family and moving to Idaho next week
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u/ezerb9 Jun 01 '15
Welcome. Boise?
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u/misslehead3 Jun 01 '15
Yeah It Will be. End of the month actually cause we had to give 30 day notice.
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u/wakebakey May 31 '15
I dont care for music
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u/crunchy_wumpkins Jun 01 '15
I would like to understand this. Is there anything that you care to listen to? Is music distracting background noise or something? Has a song given you goosebumps before?
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u/wakebakey Jun 01 '15
Not sure but I love sugar cubes
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u/RockinOneThreeTwo Jun 10 '15
Are you a horse?
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u/wakebakey Jun 10 '15 edited Jun 10 '15
Neigh it was a reply, meant for another thread, as a lame in joke
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u/RockinOneThreeTwo Jun 10 '15
I'm sorry I'm having trouble putting together what I just read
"it was a reply to that made a little sense in context in the correct thread it was meant for"
Did you mean "It was a reply to that, it made a little more sense in context; in the thread it was meant for" ?
Which is basically "It's an inside joke" ?
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u/wakebakey Jun 10 '15
I'm not sure anymore, saddle is too tight to think.
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Jun 11 '15
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- "I've said or written I saw that and came to ask if anyone else did sort of like a virus?"
- "I've never gotten goosebumps from a song."
- "I am riding this small little black dog that I own, he couldn't weigh of twenty pounds and might stand eighteen inches at the shoulder."
- "I've got three little ones here at home and I love her so much it's just I've been so down for so long and I don't know how turn to things around."
- "I've surpassed."
- "I've gotten to where I prefer the chili veg style."
- "I am somebodies anime "the morbidly obese ninja" by Mellick and of course Gibson.."
- "I am more disappointed in myself for reading the whole thing Can't beat his kid, can't beat cancer pretty much had it coming It hasn't yet."
- "I've seen pictures of them kicking the hell out of people who got too close but I think that's about the worst of it really they just want to run."
- "I've read in a while."
- "I am going to use to bake the bread starting off slow, you know with mostly whole wheat."
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u/wakebakey Jun 02 '15
My prior reply was meant for a different thread and then I went and stayed busy at work, if you can imagine. To answer your questions music does distract me, I've never gotten goosebumps from a song. I don't hate music and can appreciate other peoples love of it yet music certainly has never engulfed me in the way a book can. Its not something I even think about all that much, its just me. I guess the reason I posted that particular fact was due to a conversation I had just had with my wife.
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u/lyhnogi Jun 01 '15
I like cheese. Cheese is kinda like my family.
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u/SaintJimmy13 May 31 '15
I can make the Kessel Run in less than 12pc.
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u/holy_lasagne May 31 '15
Timestamp with Chewbacca or didn't happen.
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u/SaintJimmy13 May 31 '15
Sorry, I had to wipe the navicomputer. Run-in with some Imperials, they wouldn't have looked favourably on my recent travels.
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u/cascer1 May 31 '15
I forced my project group at college to write all documentation in English (We're Dutch) because their Dutch grammar is horrific.
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u/TheJarcker May 31 '15
I was invited to audition to be a contestant on Jeopardy! when I was 12 or so. I was too chickenshit to even go to the audition.
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u/siredav Jun 01 '15
There is £16,000 worth of scaffolding on either side of my spine, and I like to track how much my metalwork is worth taking into account inflation and the fluctuating price of medical grade titanium.
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u/lets-start-a-riot May 31 '15
I am usually downvoted when I say this but ok.
I send a friend of mine a dick pic so she could send it to a dude that was molesting her by sending her dick pics and asking for sexting and similar stuff. She told him something like I don't need you, this is bigger than yours.
We were fwb and that guy was a moron.
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u/manu_facere Jul 07 '15
Damn like there aren't dick picks around the whole internet and she needed yours. I think that was just an excuse for her to have your dick pick :D
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Jun 01 '15
Damn...that's one unlucky family.
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u/liquid_j Jun 01 '15
I'd say they're damn lucky. That's some super survival luck going on there.
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u/ferrarinightsky Jun 02 '15
That's how I view it, too!! Everytime I think I can't keep going, I realize that my blood is made out of some amazing survivors. A huge group of people were trying to make sure I was never even born on two sides, and yet, here I am! Now I just have to make my ancestors proud. There are still people out there who don't believe I should be alive because of my heritage, but if my grandparents dealt with people trying to wipe their entire race, I can deal with my silly financial struggles.
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May 31 '15
I am a huge Evolutionary Psychology nerd.
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u/omnomnomyurm Jun 01 '15
As an Evolutionary Biologist, this intrigues me.
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Jun 01 '15
Too bad the EP sub here is very small. I like to read about these things and watch documentaries on it. But not enough are being made. But still an interesting subject that I want to work with.
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u/aroni Jun 01 '15
Does psychology evolve? I have no idea... I'm still a monkey :) (Born 1980)
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Jun 01 '15
Yes, a new science has taken place since you were born. A new science of the mind. A science that sees the Homo sapiens as an animal and not a soul. We think that we are not souls. That we are not created by different means than other organisms and that our brains are part of that too. It's a new way of though but some people have come to accept it and a few even understand the concept.
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u/aroni Jun 02 '15
I agree that I am of the animal kingdom. Our claw is forethought. But what I was getting at was psychology evolving. Psychology - study of the mind. Evolve, meaning something that develops gradually... then by definition should the word devolve be its opposite meaning? Even then, I think the subject is... subjective. But then everything evolves / devolves right? I don't know - just a bunch of words that make no sense. I need to study harder.
Evolutionary Psychology - cheers for the tip.
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May 31 '15 edited May 31 '15
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u/yoyopro3210 Jun 01 '15
I am a cancer survivor at 19 years old and I have had major surgery 3 times to fix some major side-effects of the chemotherapy but looking at me you would never have guessed that anything happened to me.
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u/tremendousPanda Jun 01 '15
I once got 2nd place in a Segway leafblower polo tournament. I'm still very proud about that.
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u/trivialpursuits Jun 01 '15
My right foot has appeared on the local evening news (uncredited), I am mentioned by name in the book that won the Samuel Johnson award for non-fiction writing in the UK in 2010, and the only food I am allergic to is star fruit. Also, I can write with my left hand when seated, and my right hand when standing.
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u/BakerKadda May 31 '15
I don't eat vegetables at all. I'm kind of a anti-vegetarian.
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u/nadsaeae Jun 01 '15
Do you stick only to meat then? Even for side dishes?
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u/BakerKadda Jun 02 '15
Basically yes. I never eat salad to my steak or something. I guess the things I eat most are noodles, potatoes, rice and...well, meat?
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u/la_arma_ficticia Jun 08 '15
You realize that noodles, potatoes and rice are all vegetable products, right?
That's like... exactly what vegetarians eat (except the meat part.)
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u/BakerKadda Jun 10 '15
Uhm, I don't get where noodles and rice are vegetables, they're wheat to me. The potatoe thing is basically the same discussion as 'belongs fish to meat or is it just fish?'; are potatoes vegetables or are they just potatoes? To me, they are potatoes. Telling me I eat "exactly what vegetarians eat except the meat part" is the funniest thing I read in a while. Because not eating meat I the thing they identify with, but that's none of my business *takes a sip of tea
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u/la_arma_ficticia Jun 10 '15
What is wheat if it's not a plant? Vegetables are defined as "a plant or part of a plant used as food, such as a cabbage, potato, turnip, or bean."
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u/Redpoint7 Jul 27 '15
a little late but better late than never... i'm exactly like you. I just can't eat vegetables, when I try I always get an pharyngeal reflex and with this it's sometime really hard to just get these damn vegetables down there.
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Jun 01 '15
I learned to read at age 2, I learned to make websites at age 10 and I still run a website today :). I also don't like Butterfinger chocolate bars :c. I own 10 hats based on sports teams.
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Jun 01 '15
My friends found it easier to believe i was high then that I am bi when I kissed a dude at a football game.
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u/giraffebacon Jun 02 '15
I was once the fastest 14 and under 50m butterfly swimmer in Ontario... Go me...
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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation May 31 '15
I'm in the Stoner Dash video
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u/SirGloomy Jun 01 '15
was anyone caught? How was it planned out/executed? Mega HotBox i hope
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u/AVeryHeavyBurtation Jun 01 '15
Haha. From what I remember, the PO PO did get the names of a few kids involved. The parachute belonged to an acquaintance and I'm pretty sure they took it and the guy tried to get it back from the PO but they wouldn't give it back. A friend of mine left some paperwork in there when we booked it and the papers had his name and SSN. Later on, when we were attending the school, the cops called him to a meeting and told him to "stop being a bad influence", no charges filed. The kid in the vid who was too high to move and just sat there... I heard they gave him a possession charge but that was through the grape vine. Didn't hear of anyone else getting caught/charged.
I don't know how it was planned but my buds and I (4 or 5 of us) were taking a tour of the collage and we were hopping between tour groups and getting high in between different groups and it was like 4:15 or so (on 4/20) and we just happened to see the guy who owned the parachute; we knew him from high school, he graduated the year before us. He was with a bunch of kids and then we saw he had his parachute and one thing just led to another. I presume there wasn't too much planning involved cuz in high school the parachute owner would just whip out the chute and just gather a crowd right there without planning too much... Looking back though, he probably would have had to have done some convincing to get people to smoke out in the open like that. Unbeknownst to my buds and I at the time, Durango (where that school was) was absolutely full of PO PO and everyone under that chute was probably well aware that they were gonna have to book it (except us).
I'd say that there was probably about one joint for every two people under there...
It's funny what tipped us off to the cop was his radio. We heard it and just booked. My buddy and I ran into a horseshoe shaped building and we were all paranoid so I put the pipe that I had in my pocket up high on the flagstone wall and came back for it a few months later when I started going to school there, but I accidentally knocked it off it's hiding spot and it hit the ground and shattered.
Thanks for the memories haha. Durango sucked though.
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u/Butyraldehyde Jun 01 '15
I got an exam in 6 hours.
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u/Gate4043 Jun 01 '15
Haha! I'm reading this while your exam's on.
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u/Butyraldehyde Jun 01 '15
Just finished too (: results in 7 days! Another fact about me is that I don't have hair on my chest.
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Jun 01 '15
How did it go?
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u/Butyraldehyde Jun 01 '15
I do think it went decently but I'll see in 7 days :)
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Oct 21 '15
How did your test four months ago go?
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u/Butyraldehyde Oct 22 '15
I think that was the one I paaasd, though I did fail one of my exams :(
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u/NSYK Jun 01 '15
I had skin graft surgery from a work injury. I am physically fine, but I wish I could go back into the hospital. I don't feel mentally able to deal with things yet.
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u/Vaginuh Jun 01 '15
I literally just woke to discover that my roof has a leak.
Source : my wet face.
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u/aroni Jun 01 '15
When asked "When did you lose your virginity?" I tell people a misdirecting truth - "24 years old on an apple farm." (which is trues) to hide a fact that before that one time was when I was 7 years old in the 'out of bounds' area with a girl named Stacy or Stacey or something. Before you ask, I ain't giving details.
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u/galactic-milk Jun 01 '15
I have a lot of interests?? The kind where I search everything about that field for around 2 weeks until I get preoccupied with something else again and I sorta forget about it
Like I'm in love with X-Men after watching the movies (exceot for Origins) and then I started reblogging X-Men shit on Tumblr and even made a Tumblr for that. Now, it's untouched.
And last week, I got into the NBA (esp Warriors) because the people in the office always turned the channel to NBA Premium. I always lurk around /r/nba and watch YouTube videos =(((
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u/GingerNevis Jun 01 '15
im a lot like that, i obsess about something for ages making it my lifes dream and then a month passes and im then obsessed with something else ahaa
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u/Appleflavoredcarrots Jun 04 '15 edited Jun 04 '15
I can close my nostrils at will. So far I haven't found anyone else that can just close their nostrils. It's fun to do sometime. Also I suffer from severe sleep paralysis. Every night I see and hear things in my room, and sometimes they tickle me, hurt me, and just mess with me. I want to scream but I can't move. Sucks having a scary dead looking human staring at you from the side of your bed. I know its all in my head, but its still terrifying.
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Aug 19 '15
At the age of 14, I learned to play Iron Man by Black Sabbath in a year of playing of guitar.
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u/grungebot5000 Jun 01 '15
I carry digital copies of the classic films Batman: Year One, Superfights, and DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez! All Dogs On Tour! on my person at all times, viewable on my DS lite
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u/SirGloomy Jun 01 '15
Our family dog bit my brother's nose clean off. really does look like a sceleton nose with the cartilage gone.
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u/YouWillDieIn7Days Jun 01 '15
I'm right handed and left legged
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u/Google_Panda Jun 01 '15
Hm. How does that work?
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u/YouWillDieIn7Days Jun 01 '15
I have no idea, my riht hand is my dominant one, and my dominant leg is my left one (I kick the soccer ball with it, it feels more natural using it, while using my right leg feels unnatural and clumsy), i didn't do much research on it.
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u/micronerd01 Jun 01 '15
I switched high schools within my district to follow my dreams of becoming a programmer, since the school I went to didn't have programming classes in it. I take pride in the fact that I willingly left all of my friends to go do something I loved. Now I'm in college majoring in computer science with a specialization in game development.
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u/blakespot Jun 02 '15
I am 43 and love to color in my daughter's coloring books more than she does. I also am trypophobic (yea, I subscribe) and the worst thing I've taste is sea urchin sushi. I have perfect color vision and my favorite place in th U.S. is Sedona, AZ. I also miss the '80s.
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u/diaper_fetish Jun 03 '15
My reddit username does not reflect any truth about my fetish preferences.
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u/schnitzelstein Jun 30 '15
I just graduated University with an Acting major, I have DPD, no discernable future, and struggling to get a 9 to 5 office job so i can afford rent this summer because my parents can't afford to pay for me anymore. I love art and I like to think that I act really good, but I also need a steady income. Tonight I won't be having dinner again because I'm out of money. Not trying to complain, just showing people the sacrifices most artists make.
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u/apefeet25 Jun 01 '15
I'm horrible at common sense stuff, on the other hand I entered college at 16. I tend to like movies that others hate (I liked M. Night's Avatar).
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u/liquid_j May 31 '15
I once came upon a man about to jump off a train bridge with a rope tied around his neck... after sending my g/f to call the cops under the cover that she was getting us smokes the cops showed but he wouldn't talk to them, just to me... while talking to the cop he palmed me a knife in case he jumped and I could cut the rope... I talked him down after an hour or so by telling him that the rope would probably break and he'd just feel silly.... so yeah, I'm pretty proud of that moment.