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You Don't Know How They Do It. 23:33 - Dec 4 with 10794 views

Boston

(things that scare the crap out of ya).

Pot Holing.

No thank you.

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You Don't Know How They Do It. on 21:36 - Dec 5 with 1960 views

queensparker

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 16:28 - Dec 5 by BrianMcCarthy

Having kids.

Genuinely.

I love my nieces, nephews and godchildren. I really do. But the prospect of devoting every second, every thought, every brain cell to raising and keeping kids safe would terrify me.

I don't worry about much, but I think I'd be a wreck if I had a kid. Actually, I know I would.
I'm in awe of the selflessness involved, the poise, the incredible love and generosity.

(and I didn't even mention the noise!)

I dunno Brian. It’s an interesting one.

I thought the same but then I had kids and the transfer of not caring about yourself anymore and caring for them instead I’ve found more peaceful. I was fkin sick of worrying about myself.

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 21:43 - Dec 5 with 1950 views

Boston

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 02:02 - Dec 5 by essextaxiboy
Open water swimming . I like to be able to see the bottom and ideally be able to touch it within 2 seconds . I like the water to be warmed either by blazing sunshine or a machine ..

You're going to need a bigger boat.

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You Don't Know How They Do It. on 21:58 - Dec 5 with 1908 views

BrianMcCarthy

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 21:36 - Dec 5 by queensparker
I dunno Brian. It’s an interesting one. I thought the same but then I had kids and the transfer of not caring about yourself anymore and caring for them instead I’ve found more peaceful. I was fkin sick of worrying about myself.

Good for you, and really delighted for you.
Long life, health and happiness to you and yours, queensparker.

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You Don't Know How They Do It. on 22:32 - Dec 5 with 1876 views

MrSheen

Being a furry. I can’t see any kinky benefit from being covered in polyester velour.

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 22:34 - Dec 5 with 1871 views

Bluce_Ree

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 14:28 - Dec 5 by Antti_Heinola
Pardon?

I said EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 22:55 - Dec 5 with 1820 views

MrSheen

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 21:36 - Dec 5 by queensparker
I dunno Brian. It’s an interesting one. I thought the same but then I had kids and the transfer of not caring about yourself anymore and caring for them instead I’ve found more peaceful. I was fkin sick of worrying about myself.

Plus, you go into it thinking, "There's 8 bilion people in the world, it can't be that difficult", and by the time you know better, there's not much you can do about it.

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 23:01 - Dec 5 with 1814 views

Monkey_Roots

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 16:21 - Dec 5 by Bluce_Ree
You've got to be some sort of f*cking right chief to be doing that mental shit. Caving under water. The fk out of here. But this... That's some real shit.

Watching that, I genuinely had to keep repeating the thought over and over ‘you’re safe, you’re safe’… it really stresses me out. These people are just wired differently.

I don’t know how people become fund managers and pension coordinators or deal shapers…? They earn so much money, and even after they explain what they do, I still don’t know, much less understand how they came to do it in the first place.

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 00:01 - Dec 6 with 1780 views

nix

Politicians: lying for a living. Having to pretend what your party is doing is going to be good for everyone, when you know it's going to be a disaster. Having to defend your colleague when you know he's a squirrelly b*st*rd. Couldn't do it.

Industrial espionnage. I can't even watch tense films. If I was stealing company secrets I'd be wetting myself every day.

Anything to do with heights, can't even watch other people tiptoeing over a tightrope, tall building, even a rope bridge.

The armed forces: being in a tin can under water, flying in a moving target, or being shot at for a living. Ummm no!

I'm just a cowardy custard really.

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 00:11 - Dec 6 with 1770 views

Boston

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 00:01 - Dec 6 by nix

Sorry, can't do custard either.

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You Don't Know How They Do It. on 04:07 - Dec 6 with 1714 views

SydneyRs

Scuba diving. Never ever wanted to do it despite it being seen as an almost compulsory part of backpacking. I did the tandem skydive and bungee jump but you can keep that underwater bollocks.

Once worked with a guy that was into pot holing. He tried to get some of us to try it. He was not successful.

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 06:46 - Dec 6 with 1684 views

FDC

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 04:07 - Dec 6 by SydneyRs
Scuba diving. Never ever wanted to do it despite it being seen as an almost compulsory part of backpacking. I did the tandem skydive and bungee jump but you can keep that underwater bollocks. Once worked with a guy that was into pot holing. He tried to get some of us to try it. He was not successful.

Yeah any activity deep underwater freaks me out.

I went snorkeling in Philippines and saw this shipwrecked gun boat, bit of a tourist attraction because of all the colourful fish that hang out there. But the sight of it made me panic, apparently there's a name for a fear of submerged man made objects, submechanophobia. There's YouTube videos that evoke it, and yeah it does me in.

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 06:50 - Dec 6 with 1683 views

FDC

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 09:09 - Dec 5 by Bluce_Ree

People going to gigs without ear protection.

I've got tinnitus so I'm extra careful and have been for decades. I mean I used to wear ear plugs when I was in a band, so I'm used to it. But even with the strongest ones I can find, gigs can be really loud.

Last gig I saw was the band Quicksand and at one point the bassist was letting his bass feedback and it was so loud that I was wincing and other people are just stood there freeballing that shit without a care in the world. How are they not getting their ears destroyed?

"how are they not getting their ears destroyed"

They probably are, its well modelled in mice that even moderate noise exposure permanently damaged auditory nerve fibres even if the auditory periphery is undamaged, meaning you can "pass" a standard hearing test with a whole lot neural hearing loss.

https://www.jneurosci.org/cont

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 09:32 - Dec 6 with 1620 views

Konk

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 21:01 - Dec 5 by hantssi
Loved rock climbing as a much younger man, but there’s not enough money in the world to tempt me then and especially now to go pot holing. At least with climbing you can sit tight and enjoy the view if you get stuck and wait for mountain rescue (never needed them thank goodness!). Hoping to try this next year; https://honister.com/product/c

Mountain-biking. Everyone round here is into mountain biking, and most of them seem to spend half their time in A&E or telling me about how fuc ked their bodies are. But the main thing for me is the state of them - riding back into Bristol or unloading bikes from cars/vans, completely caked in mud, faces covered in filth. Traipsing that sh it through the house and having to spend ages cleaning their bikes every week. Nutters. Get a road bike.

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You Don't Know How They Do It. on 10:12 - Dec 6 with 1596 views

hamptonhillhoop

In the late eighties I volunteered to take a load of underprivileged kids from the Lissom Grove Estate on an outwards bounds course to South Wales. One day we had to do potholing. I was skinny then but even so the confined spaces really freaked me out. When we got into the middle of the cave the instructor made us turn off our torches and sit in complete darkness for about a minute. I couldn't wait to get out. Never been tempted again.
I did scuba diving on the great barrier reef, and although I enjoyed it, when I jumped off the side of the boat to dive I was convinced a shark was going to jump out and grab me in mid air. There were reef sharks swimming about you and one of the Aussies thought it was funny to pull their tails as they swam past. F***ing idiot.
I've found as I've got older I've become a lot worse around heights. This has coincided with my wife seemingly becoming obsessed with climbing to the top of the highest building in every city we visit now. My fault for telling her

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 10:26 - Dec 6 with 1563 views

BrianMcCarthy

Another one who hated scuba diving. Did it in Bermuda and hated being trussed up in all the gear and hated that you can only move incredibly slowly. Saw sharks and barracuda, which was a small bit freaky, but also a small bit cool, and really didn't like that I swallowed a lungful of water when being pushed in.

But mostly I hated the forced and unfunny adventure sports jokes that the knuckleheads who run trips like this are obliged to crack.

"Ya, mate, if you could pay up front that'd be sick, mate, cos o' the barracudas, chortle, chortle, chortle".

"It may be the Bermuda Triangle, but we've never lost anyone, bro...(pause for dramatic effect) unless you count the three hundred we've lost to sharks, chortle, chortle, chortle".

Fugg me.

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You Don't Know How They Do It. on 13:46 - Dec 6 with 1461 views

hantssi

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 09:32 - Dec 6 by Konk

Agree Konk, a days walking in the mountains/hills taking it all in beats the hell out of the uphill purgatory and the dangerous out of control descent!

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 13:50 - Dec 6 with 1459 views

hantssi

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 23:01 - Dec 5 by Monkey_Roots

Try watching either Free Solo (Alex Honnold) or The Alpinist terrifying!
(Don’t know how to put YouTube links up 🤦‍♂️)

[Post edited 6 Dec 2023 14:10]

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 13:58 - Dec 6 with 1444 views

R_from_afar

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 16:21 - Dec 5 by Bluce_Ree
You've got to be some sort of f*cking right chief to be doing that mental shit. Caving under water. The fk out of here. But this... That's some real shit.

Utterly terrifying and I say that as someone who has done some mountaineering, including being roped up in a team of six, in the Alps. That was bad enough but that stuff you posted is on a different level. Your post reminds me of this madness:

Then there's the story of Andrew McAuley, who attempted to cross from Tasmania to New Zealand, by kayak. Solo. *Warning* It's very sad.

"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 14:14 - Dec 6 with 1407 views

joe90

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 06:46 - Dec 6 by FDC
Yeah any activity deep underwater freaks me out. I went snorkeling in Philippines and saw this shipwrecked gun boat, bit of a tourist attraction because of all the colourful fish that hang out there. But the sight of it made me panic, apparently there's a name for a fear of submerged man made objects, submechanophobia. There's YouTube videos that evoke it, and yeah it does me in.

Would you also find this scary? There's something disorientating and little unsettling about it.

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 14:19 - Dec 6 with 1399 views

R_from_afar

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 13:50 - Dec 6 by hantssi
Try watching either Free Solo (Alex Honnold) or The Alpinist terrifying! (Don’t know how to put YouTube links up 🤦‍♂️) [Post edited 6 Dec 2023 14:10]

Haha, snap, I posted a link to Alex Honnold before I saw your post

Talking of climbing, I just remembered that two blokes I went to school with actually got rim rocked - that is, unable to go up or down - on a ledge in the Peak District. Luckily, the local mountain rescue helped them down.

"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 14:26 - Dec 6 with 1385 views

hantssi

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 14:19 - Dec 6 by R_from_afar
Haha, snap, I posted a link to Alex Honnold before I saw your post Talking of climbing, I just remembered that two blokes I went to school with actually got rim rocked - that is, unable to go up or down - on a ledge in the Peak District. Luckily, the local mountain rescue helped them down.

I’m actually hell bent on climbing again in the next few years.
Multi pitch, fairly easy with a guide obviously as I’ve not climbed for 30 years and the gear hadn’t been out of the loft since then!

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 14:36 - Dec 6 with 1373 views

Northernr

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 14:14 - Dec 6 by joe90
Would you also find this scary? There's something disorientating and little unsettling about it.

Yeh swimming/surfing near big ships, and watching other people do it, does something weird to me. On Miami Beach you've got like families splashing around in the water, and then in the background these monstrous cargo container ships coming into port. I can't describe the feeling, it just doesn't look right, it does a weird thing to me. As does that video ^^

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 14:42 - Dec 6 with 1359 views

CLAREMAN1995

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 10:26 - Dec 6 by BrianMcCarthy

I actually met a deep water diver yesterday who not only held me up for half an hour he terrified the thought of even shallow diving (cant swim so it was always out ).
If you panic and start struggling then race to the surface to rip the gear off you will simply die he claims .The bends he called it and if you cannot get pure oxygen its very bad.
He has a contact in the field who does under water body recovry and I ran out of the building before he got into that story .
I struggle not to drown in the shower so thats my mindset on that underwater activity just pure fcuking madness IMO

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 14:52 - Dec 6 with 1343 views

robith

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 14:37 - Dec 5 by Northernr
Christmas Markets. Oooh let's go to the Christmas Market. How about let's fcking not.

Important distinction - going to a Christmas market in the UK? Get lost

Little weekend to Germany to dress up banging a litre of gluwein and 5 steins as a cultural romantic mini break? Yes please

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 15:00 - Dec 6 with 1336 views

PlanetHonneywood

You Don't Know How They Do It. on 06:46 - Dec 6 by FDC
Yeah any activity deep underwater freaks me out. I went snorkeling in Philippines and saw this shipwrecked gun boat, bit of a tourist attraction because of all the colourful fish that hang out there. But the sight of it made me panic, apparently there's a name for a fear of submerged man made objects, submechanophobia. There's YouTube videos that evoke it, and yeah it does me in.

Mrs PH is into all that scuba stuff, any chance and 'plop' she's over the side. I on the other hand, never learned to swim, so anything beyond a bathtub, just not happening.

When we lived in the Philippines our place was festooned with wet suits, tanks and Lord knows what else, however, if it meant getting the hell outta Manila, I'd accompany her on a trip.

Routine was: wave her and her scuba chums off, then my book and I would find some shade, beckon over a waiter to supply me with cool drinks for the duration of her submersion, and then sit back and relax my ass off. If we stayed somewhere nicer, he'll mudda fcuker, I'd book me a beachside massage as well.

On reflection, while I don't how or why they do it, and I've no intention of finding answers to either question: I 'kin love scuba diving!

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