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DEATH!Datrix said:Close-calls with what?
Oh! How could I have been so stupid!joule said:DEATH!
...Dummy...
Foxtrot said:I had some sort of disease when I was little, my blood didn't clot and if someone just touched me I would bruise...it went away.
Hemophilia?Foxtrot said:I had some sort of disease when I was little, my blood didn't clot and if someone just touched me I would bruise...it went away.
Foxtrot said:I had some sort of disease when I was little, my blood didn't clot and if someone just touched me I would bruise...it went away.
A trip and fall towards funniness.shadow6899 said:huh^??
No, it was an acronym, like ITP or something, I'll look it up. This might be it, but I never had surgery.joule said:Hemophilia?
Yeah. ITP. Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura.Foxtrot said:No, it was an acronym, like ITP or something, I'll look it up.
/me points and laughs at foxxyIt most often develops in women between the ages of 20 and 40
JellyWorld said:Nope, I was almost knocked down while crossing the road once but that's about it.
Could you repeat that and say it again, please?SimonomiS said:...so why say "Nope"? :| That's like when someone I know said "I never smoked except once." I just don't get it. Like when some people say a "dead corpse". A corpse is already dead!!!
Insane said:Could you repeat that and say it again, please?![]()
No no, not ouchvegeta897 said:![]()
A big firework me and my cousins set off somehow fell over and shot literally not more than 2 feet right by us. It was pretty funny though
Doubt we would have died, but if it were to hit us and then explode... Ouch.
Shakermaker said:I've had most of my brushes with death while travelling in South East Asia.
- I was staying in a sort of hippie enclave, miles away from civilisation. Imagine The Beach (the book, not the movie), only a little more commercial. Cannabis was smoked freely and everybody was happy. But then the police came. Backpackers were flying all over the place to hide their stash, but the officers only had eyes for the boss of the resort. A fight ensued, right in front of me, and at a certain point guns were drawn and fired. I heard one bullit actually wizzing along my head. That was pretty scary.
- Also in Thailand I was doing a jungle trek. We went into a cave running all the way through a mountain. I was waiting with a guide for the rest of the group when he suddenly pushed me away from a ridge. I'm glad he did. On that ridge about one or two feet from where I was standing were two cobra's mating. The male cobra didn't like in the least that he was disturbed, so he went upright into the attack position. One bite would have been lethal, esp considering the fact we were about a day's trekking from the nearest hospital.
- I was staying in Khao Lak, Thailand a month before the Tsunami struck. On a cosmic time-schale that's pretty much a brush with death.
I sure hope they got their stashes hidden!Shakermaker said:I've had most of my brushes with death while travelling in South East Asia.
- I was staying in a sort of hippie enclave, miles away from civilisation. Imagine The Beach (the book, not the movie), only a little more commercial. Cannabis was smoked freely and everybody was happy. But then the police came. Backpackers were flying all over the place to hide their stash, but the officers only had eyes for the boss of the resort. A fight ensued, right in front of me, and at a certain point guns were drawn and fired. I heard one bullit actually wizzing along my head. That was pretty scary.
- Also in Thailand I was doing a jungle trek. We went into a cave running all the way through a mountain. I was waiting with a guide for the rest of the group when he suddenly pushed me away from a ridge. I'm glad he did. On that ridge about one or two feet from where I was standing were two cobra's mating. The male cobra didn't like in the least that he was disturbed, so he went upright into the attack position. One bite would have been lethal, esp considering the fact we were about a day's trekking from the nearest hospital.
- I was staying in Khao Lak, Thailand a month before the Tsunami struck. On a cosmic time-schale that's pretty much a brush with death.
SimonomiS said:Heh for Thailand you should add the crazy traffic to a brush with death.![]()
ne0_shiny said:I sure hope they got their stashes hidden!![]()
Crowbar teh stupid drivers. Probably the worst situation was when I went underwater in the swash of a big surfing wave...3) Another car journey. Sweets on the dashboard and a paper falls by the drivers feet. For some reason she decides to pick it up. Car veers into lane of oncoming traffic. My reaction - "Eyes on the road please" all in a calm voice. Another pretty close one.
SimonomiS said:I had a run-in with a ninja once. My God, that was a close one....
SHIPPI said:We used to have a swimming pool when we lived in Portugal. I was around 2/3, playing outside. I wasn't supposed to be out there, I think I must have sneaked away from my parents or something, lol. Anyway, I fell in the pool. Luckily, mum wondered where I was and got dad to look for me. He found me under the water, but I was ok. Might explain why large bodies of water freak me out now![]()