Mine‘s getting so accustomed to cold showers that I a) absolutely do not mind cold water for swimming etc. anymore and b) could not enjoy warm or hot showers anymore. They just weren’t nice at all.
Everything about me is a weird flex
- I invented two novel fire eating tricks, one of which involves my split tongue
- I can scratch the back of my skull through my nose with an icepick. I can also put a running power drill in my nose or feed a silicone tube through and out the mouth
- I often shave with a torch or lighter
That… raises some questions 😅
Can I assume that you’re some kind of performer or is this stuff you’re just doing as a hobby or when bored?
Did you mean „inside of your skull“ or actually the back of your skull? Cause if it’s the latter, I thought there would be some… err… critical components in the way of the icepick?
Was there any reason you tried these things or dis you just go „hmm, how about…?“
Also - this is the most pressing one - is there a video of you with your powerdrill?
Yeah, I’m a sideshow performer (fka a freakshow). This is my fav video of the drill because of the audience reaction
I’d love to see that but I don’t have an Instagarm account—would you happen to have it hosted anywhere else?
I didn’t realize there were fire eating tricks (other than a touch transfer or dragon’s breath), but I only dabbled in it ~20 years ago-- my main focus was with fire staff. What’s the trick that doesn’t involve your tongue?
Vapor tricks have come a very long way over the last 20 years. Look up Joseph Kerr if you wanna see insane shit. I’ve met him before, he’s super friendly.
Fire staff was my first prop :P
I don’t have insta and your account is age restricted so I can’t see it. The Joseph Kerr stuff looks cool though. Also saw some other vids of maintaining fire in the mouth for long durations-- cool stuff.
Wish there was a community near me so I could get back into fire stuff.
I’m double jointed.
I made a full fledged MMORPG, playable up to level 12 with items, quests, bosses…, in full 3D and a victorian setting.
In hindsight I think it was therapy. There was a video about it on daily motion (mindoki).
Nice! I made an almost full recreation of Settlers of Catan in 3D complete with multilayer. But it now sits somewhere on my hard drive due to copyright and platform concerns (I set it aside during the Unity scare). It almost landed me a shitty, low-paying job so there’s that.
Cool!
We should make a club of mental developers 😋
Heey there it is!
Thank you :-)
b) could not enjoy warm or hot showers anymore.
Grew up without hot running water and I can relate. It’s only a problem in some hotels really, where the showers don’t get cold enough.
My weird flex would be being so accustomed to command line that I don’t know how to use well, and get frustrated by, GUI applications.
Someone was probably around for Unix.
Setting environment variables in windows annoys me irrationally.
That is definitely a skill issue
idk, in linux its just adding a line to my bashrc or running a command, but on windows its opening settings, going into a specific page, pressing the advanced button, pressing the next advanced button and then choosing edit system environment variables.
Open Powershell
$env:MyVariable = “HelloWorld”
Done
After a lifetime of allergies, I’m really good at Dracula-sneezing in the least bad direction
Thanks to my allergies I can sneeze with my eyes open, (I don’t close them all the way) I remember people saying that was not possible?
I do this as a power move to intimidate my enemies when the going gets tough.
Dracula-sneezing?
Uh-uh-uh-von to ACHOO!
Sneezing in to your arm (looks like you’re covering your face with a cape like a vampire would).
I go to bed at 9pm everyday, and get 8hrs+ of sleep.
Hello from 2:23 am. I resent you so hard right now.
Fucking superpower right there, straight out of a videogame
With that reduced amount of “me time” (he/she time?) I bet OP wouldn’t understand videogame references /s
Alright tone down the bragging, we get it , you’re “well balanced” or whatever
I need this so much
Me too, but I’m too lazy to go to bed. I rather procrastinate till late night, not wanting the day (and my onyl me time) to end. So i go sleep late and wake up grumpy every single day. Yay!
I have a stomache of steel. Nothing will pass my digestive tract alive or intact. I never had any kind of stomache trouble and I can not puke. I ate every dish in south-east-asia that landet in front of me, even from some dirty streetfood shack in the middle of the burmese jungle. Most of the stuff would have killed the average middle european slob. Not me.
It even goes so far that I cannot use edibles. Which is funny, because all the growmies make fun of me now.
Street food is often the safest anyhow, its the hotels and water you have to worry about
I can not puke
No gag reflex you say? 😇
This is genuinely so cool.
I have a pretty ironclad stomach, but not as strong as yours. I’ve been with my wife for 13 years and she’s witnessed the horror that is me puking twice. And the first time came 4 years ago. My friends say it sounds like I’m “calling the dinosaurs” and it is very traumatic for me.
Edit: I forgot my point. I’m jealous.
The dog-barf…
I used to drive a Ford Flex. I was frequently assured of its weirdness.
Start a limo service in Vegas with a fleet for the novelty.
call it Flex Appeal
bro marketing like ‘Flex on your whole crew!’
I haven’t seen any Star Wars movie.
the original 3 are good (a new hope/empire/return of the jedi) and the rest are bullshit
yeah, that’s what I heard, too.
funny thing is that I haven’t seen any of them, still know everything about it, thanks to 9gag through osmosis.
for a long time, this is why I decided not to watch any of thr movies, as I never would be able to experience it as first time.
but now, since I’m a bit older I know that’s stupid, it’s just some movie so I’ll watch those eventually with gf.
The thing I like about the original Star Wars trilogy is not that they were great stories, but just that they had really, really good pacing. The characters and scenarios were introduced at just the right rate so that when the big action scenes came around you really cared about them, especially in the first one. That’s also where the later films fell down. I don’t consider myself a huge Star Wars fan, but I would say it’s worth appreciating for the art of it even if you already know the stories.
That’s fine, but don’t make it a personality trait.
Watch the first 6 and then stop
I enjoyed 7 when it first released. The visual style in the first 10 minutes was appealing and I figured we were retreading the same notes for nostalgia before going on a different plot with Finn. Nope, just poorly written rehashed story lines with nonsense plot devices. So much potential thrown away.
Huh. That is weird but it shouldn’t be.
I work full home office
2 jobs one office here. WFH squared.
Jelly.
WFH gang rise up
Since 2020 or before it was cool?
I’m trying to think of something I can actually do, but all I can think about are weird coincidences beyond my control:
My parents and my husband’s parents were married on the same day in different parts of the country. His dad also shares my birthday.
My first child was born on the same day as a moderately famous comedian’s first child. Later, when I looked that comedian up, I realised my second child was born on his 50th birthday.
Quite the opposite. I am so used to burn away my migraines, i can last in 60 degrees hot water for a (short) while.
That’s nothing! I can last in 100C water, for a (very short) while
Omg I love trippy ambient electronic. PM me if you want. I have so many suggestions and would love to get some from you too.
I’m second.
After over half a century of action, a lot of it in “extreme sports”, and countless injuries, I have yet to break a bone.
Congrats! Must be all the malk.
Now with vitamin R!
We don’t have any malk, but I can get you some MILK
Good god, I have to rewatch that right now. Thanks, I’m not the only one thinking of that video!
