This thread is drowning! Someone throw it a life vest…or at least a hose so it can breath while it finds its way back to the OP.
[Courtney Love tossing golf ball into air]
Wimp.
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sshhh…listen…Banjos!
The Darwin Awards thing has been a pet peeve of mine for a while, and it’s something I personally don’t find funny. I’m not saying “Nobody has the right to make jokes about this because I find it to be in poor taste,” I’m just saying “I find it to be in poor taste.” It rather compounds my irritation that it seems to be a staple of humor around here sometimes.
This was, in fact, the essence of my (sarcastically made) point. It’s ridiculous to speculate about the “worthiness” of anyone’s genes on an individual level. Morally, Chastain86’s genes are no better or worse than yours, mine, Jacques Cousteau’s or Garden Hose SCUBA Man’s. Now, maybe one of us carries a gene that will propagate itself into 100% of the world’s population over the next thousand years. One, there’s no way of knowing which of us it is based on diving mistakes we did or did not make, and two, so the hell what?
searching… Here’s a thread where this has been touched on before.
Ah…
He’s not from Kansas. He’s from Missouri. (Lee’s Summit)
Must. Resist.
Aaahh!
Which makes you a NAZI!
Is the thread dead yet?
I think many of you have cured me forever of my need to poke fun at stupid people. :rolleyes:
No, for real. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Not through lack of trying.
No way man! Poke away, I’ll *always *laugh.
Because a joke’s just a joke, and eugenics/racism/sexism/Taoism/small woolly animals are just eugenics/racism/sexism/Taoism/small woolly animals.
If the PC police are looking to round up suspects, they need to understand that jokers are nothing more than people who have seen incongruities in life and instinctively found them funny.
As Knights of Laughter it is our sacred duty to minister to those who take life too seriously, who must make the smallest grammatical corrections ervery time, and who just plain don’t want to giggle or be thought of as having a sense of humor.
No other animal laughs (with the exception of one lagomorph), animals that do NOT laugh are not humans. I dunno what they are, but they ain’t humans.
Shouldn’t you have underlined “ervery time” instead of italicizing it?
I kinda agre with TellMeI’mNotCrazy that there’s really not enough info to go on here. Everyone who’s jumping to conclusions should change their ‘conclusions’ to ‘a lake with keys at the bottom.’ Then stay there sans hose.
How does one join the Knights of Laughter, anyway?
Secret handshake. Involves a joy buzzer & a rubber chicken…and it’s not what you think.
Count me as another that thinks tying the anchor on is the bad idea. Yeah, in retrospect the hose was stupid, but I had to think about it. But tying yourself to the anchor? Seems pretty obviously a no-no.
I probably wouldn’t have known otherwise myself before I got SCUBA certified (although I might have figured there could be a reason why you don’t see people doing this), but it couldn’t possibly have worked at even a relatively shallow depth; the garden hose trick is physically impossible. The pressure of the air inside your lungs while diving is regulated to be equal to the pressure of the water around you, such that if you held your breath and immediately surfaced your lungs would burst from the sudden expansion of the air to a volume far beyond their capacity. If you were merely breathing air at normal atmosphere, you would be incapable of expanding your lungs. You’d have to be Superman to breathe through a hose to the surface while diving (and then you wouldn’t need it).
People tend to have the illusion of being indestructable, you know, the " I can smoke and drink and drive and talk on my cell phone in my SUV while picking my nose because nothing bad will ever happen to me and shame on you for suggesting otherwise and ruining my fun" attitude that is so common in the world today. The Darwin Awards serve as a funny reminder of how fragile we are. They let you laugh at your own mortality while serving up others as an example of how not to act. They are a public service and entertainment in one package, and I’m all for efficiency in as many things as possible.
Some people here need to lighten up, if you can’t laugh at death, you have no way of getting back at it. It will certainly get its licks in, you might as well get in some of your own.
The guy referenced in the OP wasn’t stupid for the hose, he was only ignorant. However, he wasstupid for the anchor…any non idiot can see that if something did go wrong, having a 20 pound anchor preventing you from comming back up on your own is a bad idea. Without the anchor, he probably would have been able to save himself from himself.
It says that he had an anchor tied to him. That, in itself, is beyond idiocy no matter what other precautions he took. That’s all the information we need right there.
You gotta figure he’s somehow related to the guy that flew over LAX with helium balloons tied to a lawn chair.
And up until recently, they have been fake. Most of the early Darwin Awards were nothing more than urban legends. Apparently, there’s a site out there now that supposedly verifies that the stories they print are true and, well, verifiable. But I’m not super familiar with it, so I don’t know if that’s something to cite as fact.
Either way, though, I found them much funnier when I thought they were true.
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It is? Of course, it’s terrible social policy and against everything that decent people believe in for human rights, but what makes selective breeding of humans any worse science than selective breeding in animal husbandry, which is scientifically sound?
You never heard of exhaling through your nose??? When freediving to 35 feet or less I frequently exhale through my nose, it really isnt that difficult to close the back of your throat to keep from backflushing after an exhale until you hit the surface.
Did you remember to take into account the 1 atmosphere nominal?
And FWIW, standing vertically or swimming horizontally there is no difference in breathing through a snorkel. Done both [open water 1&2, wreck, cave and regulator maintenance qualified=) I prefer shallow water recreational diving. Nothing quite so fun as serving someone dinner and being able to tell them that you gathered the mussels and shot the fish yourself=)]
My favourite phrase in the whole wide world is: “Well what did you moron(s) think was going to happen?”. I don’t get to say it anywhere near enough IRL so addressed to the guy in the story, here it goes:
Ready?
Well what did you moron think was going to happen?
P.S. Great thread, made me smile.