What is something you've done that you believe very few other people have done? Only one caveat: it can't be interesting, cool, or jealousy-provoking.
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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".
Just finished... it made me think of this topic.
Broken neck and back. Don't recommend.
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This is a lame burn, and a crappy post. If you don't like the movie why not just say that instead of a half-assed attempt to be witty? What didn't you like about it?
Oh com'on, really? You're coming to FFC's rescue? That's nice. Look, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pick on the poor fella, with his own movie studio and all, I know he's got it rough. I liked a lot of his other stuff, if that helps.
It's a real post, and watching that was
- a real thing I did that not many other people did, and
- I don't think anyone will think is cool or will make them jealous.
Perfect example of the kind of thing I meant. If you don't have one, don't post. I thought I'd hear some funny things people had to say, and maybe some interesting ones as well.
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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".
Just finished... it made me think of this topic.
I attended a 1-on-1 meeting that a billionaire scheduled with me but that they themselves did not attend.
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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".
Just finished... it made me think of this topic.
Hmmm, for something that very few other people on lemmy have?
::: spoiler no spoiler
Made a post on lemmy and remembered to answer my own question in a reply rather than the post.
::: spoiler really joking here, folks
:::Asked out my crush.
:::For the general world?
I tried to talk someone out of suicide and failed. Can't think of something less cool or envy-inducing.
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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".
Just finished... it made me think of this topic.
Cool? Definitely not, or at least I don't think so. And I very seriously doubt anyone would be jealous.
I used to go up in the mountains by myself. Bare minimum supplies, like a knife, the clothes on my back, and an emergency pack for "in case shit", that if I had to touch, the trip was over. I also went armed because shit can happen.
Now, I did this for years, and it was very rare for anything bad to happen at all, and the worst stuff wasn't life threatening except once. I'd run across bears, a few crazy people, maybe twist an ankle or some such.
But that one time.
So, there's a feral dog problem. They've interbred with what's called the eastern coyote, which itself is supposedly a mix of coyote, wolf, and a little dog.
The eastern coyote is rarely a problem. Small family groups, avoid people. If you see them at all, it's unusual.
But when they mix with dogs, and those dogs are feral, the packs get bigger and they tend to not be scared of humans.
Well, I was cooking a fish I caught during one summer when the weather had been dry, and small animal populations were low.
The smell brought a pack in. Enough of them that they tried to circle me in and come at me after the fish I threw to them wasn't interesting enough.
I had 14 rounds on me, and I needed most of them. The first couple of shots missed because I was fucking terrified. At that point, I'd never taken any training for shooting under pressure, so I was panic breathing and shaking hard.
You'd think the sound of a 45 going off would have scared them off, but it didn't. I dropped a couple of them, swapped mags and dropped two more before the rest ran off. One of them, I had to finish because I didn't get a clean shot because it was early in the half a minute it all took.
I hiked my ass back out as soon as I could stop shaking and keep my legs under me. And I did the hike with a nice wet spot because I pissed myself a little.
Went to the ranger station, reported it, did all that crap and went home.
Now, there was also a less dramatic event not maybe ten miles away where I found a body. Suicide, shotgun vs head. That was not fun either; but plenty of people have found dead bodies. Those were the two worst things I ever had happen up there on my own.
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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".
Just finished... it made me think of this topic.
Played the game Me And My Shadow. It's an abandonware open source 2D puzzle platformer for windows that apparently was last updated in 2021, with source package last updated 2 years prior according to the last github nightly build release. Repo was archived January of this year. Not really a cool and exciting game at all compared to other open source games like Mindustry or SuperTuxKart or SRB2.
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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".
Just finished... it made me think of this topic.
I once fell out of the attic of an abandoned house because an owl scared the living crap out of me - it was huge and it made itself look even larger, must've been the largest bird I'd seen IRL by that age. Does that count?
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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".
Just finished... it made me think of this topic.
Waaaaay back in college (this was over a decade ago), I wrote a 16-page paper making the argument that there were only four continents, not five, six, or seven as various countries proclaim:
The Cliff Notes:
- North America and South America can be still considered a single continent due to the fact that the Panama Canal doesn't fully bisect the two landmasses. (The Isthmus of Panama is still very much wild rainforest and lakes, and the canal is essentially two points on each side connected by a boat route across multiple of these lakes).
So, #1: America (alt. the Americas)
- Europe and Asia are not actually bisected into two landmasses, and if anything any physical connection is reinforced by the fact that the boundary is the Ural Mountain range.
So, #2: Eurasia
- Prior to the construction of the Suez Canal in 1869, Europe and Africa were indeed the same landmass, connected by the Isthmus of Suez. However, as the Suez Canal is a sea-level canal, it is forced by literally cutting the landmasses apart down to relative sea levels.
So, #3: Africa
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Australia.........Yeah, I didn't see any reason why it should lose its status as the world's biggest island and smallest continent.
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Antarctica I didn't consider a continent because it's mostly ice, and if Australia is considered the minimum bound for how big a "continent" should be, then, well, the portion of Antarctica that is actually ground below all that ice is actually a small contiguous size than Australia, ergo it cannot count as a continent.
'Course now I'm older and realize that was all bullshit. Lol. Sure it makes sense from a geological standpoint (but even that is bullshit as geologically there are no "continents", only plates), but a continent is more than its geological structure; it's geological, political, and economic, all three of these rolled into one.
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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".
Just finished... it made me think of this topic.
I have been 'interviewed' by the Secret Service 2x in my life.
Both times because I was a young dumbass, and both times I am sure they wrote in my official file: 'harmless dumbass'.
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This is a lame burn, and a crappy post. If you don't like the movie why not just say that instead of a half-assed attempt to be witty? What didn't you like about it?
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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".
Just finished... it made me think of this topic.
Killed myself successfully and lived to tell the tale
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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".
Just finished... it made me think of this topic.
Not all at the same time:
- Broken both ankles at once
- Bitten by a snake, twice (two different snakes)
- In (temporary) remission from myeloma, an incurable blood cancer
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Killed myself successfully and lived to tell the tale
And yet you didn’t tell the tale! Are you ok? Do you feel comfortable talking about it?
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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".
Just finished... it made me think of this topic.
I caught a (wild) rabbit with a bucket.
It was running from a dog and fell into a window well. It almost made it out on it's own when I climbed down (it was about 8 feet deep).
So I set the opening of the bucket against the wall with a small gap, to give it somewhere to hide, then went to the other end of the window well, and it crawled right in. Covered it with a towel and lifted it right on out.
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And yet you didn’t tell the tale! Are you ok? Do you feel comfortable talking about it?
I got brain rot so I forgot
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I caught a (wild) rabbit with a bucket.
It was running from a dog and fell into a window well. It almost made it out on it's own when I climbed down (it was about 8 feet deep).
So I set the opening of the bucket against the wall with a small gap, to give it somewhere to hide, then went to the other end of the window well, and it crawled right in. Covered it with a towel and lifted it right on out.
That's cool but don't delete. Because it's cool.
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Waaaaay back in college (this was over a decade ago), I wrote a 16-page paper making the argument that there were only four continents, not five, six, or seven as various countries proclaim:
The Cliff Notes:
- North America and South America can be still considered a single continent due to the fact that the Panama Canal doesn't fully bisect the two landmasses. (The Isthmus of Panama is still very much wild rainforest and lakes, and the canal is essentially two points on each side connected by a boat route across multiple of these lakes).
So, #1: America (alt. the Americas)
- Europe and Asia are not actually bisected into two landmasses, and if anything any physical connection is reinforced by the fact that the boundary is the Ural Mountain range.
So, #2: Eurasia
- Prior to the construction of the Suez Canal in 1869, Europe and Africa were indeed the same landmass, connected by the Isthmus of Suez. However, as the Suez Canal is a sea-level canal, it is forced by literally cutting the landmasses apart down to relative sea levels.
So, #3: Africa
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Australia.........Yeah, I didn't see any reason why it should lose its status as the world's biggest island and smallest continent.
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Antarctica I didn't consider a continent because it's mostly ice, and if Australia is considered the minimum bound for how big a "continent" should be, then, well, the portion of Antarctica that is actually ground below all that ice is actually a small contiguous size than Australia, ergo it cannot count as a continent.
'Course now I'm older and realize that was all bullshit. Lol. Sure it makes sense from a geological standpoint (but even that is bullshit as geologically there are no "continents", only plates), but a continent is more than its geological structure; it's geological, political, and economic, all three of these rolled into one.
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Haha i was reading along worried you still believed this.
It looks solid but
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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".
Just finished... it made me think of this topic.
I fell out of an aeroplane with no parachute and lived.
Was sweeping the little Cessna out when i stepped back missed the step and went arse over head into the tarmac.
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I'll start. I watched every minute of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis".
Just finished... it made me think of this topic.
I failed linear algebra twice and barely passed the third time.
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Not all at the same time:
- Broken both ankles at once
- Bitten by a snake, twice (two different snakes)
- In (temporary) remission from myeloma, an incurable blood cancer
That's quite a resume. You're hired for...something.
