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I'm expecting some child recreating superhero stunts and gerting hurt

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[–] Blackout@kbin.social 93 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I remember going to the first fast n furious at the theater. Ice storm during the movie so everything was covered in ice after, had to chisel around the door just to open it. But that didn't kill the racing spirit in some of them. They got in their cars and tore out of the parking lot. 2 slammed into trees on their way out. Another didn't get far, jackknifed himself on a light pole. I just sat in my car watching it, way better than the movie.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

This is gold

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[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I broke smth in my ring finger bc I punched walls as a kid hoping to break it the way they did in spy kids. We make brick houses here. Was reminded of this after I saw a similar post on lemmy somewhere.

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 34 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I imagine many a European fist has suffered from Hollywood movies being set in the US, where walls are drywall.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You need to know where the wooden studs are first because drywall is only easy to punch between the studs.

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago

Inner walls in Europe may still be drywall, wouldn't recommend checking it out hand-first though

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You just need practice ; I, for one, just considered it a given that you have to gradually raise the strength of your punch at a fscking concrete wall painted over, and then it'll start slowly crumbling in the place you hit, like in those vids about Shaolin monks. Didn't work, but aside from pain, no problems with my fists.

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[–] smallaubergine@kbin.social 59 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Sled down the stairs and out the front door like in Home Alone. My stairs didn't perfectly line up so I hit the edge and went tumbling. luckily at 7 my bones were made of rubber and I only had bruises

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 33 points 11 months ago

The stairs in the movie don't line up either. Always bothered me.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

at 7 my bones were made of rubber

I was just thinking about this. I'm in my 40's and it feels like I now break a rib if I sneeze hard, and I was wondering whether I'm actually "less durable" nowadays than I was when I was younger

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 16 points 11 months ago

You have to consider the square cube law.

Weight scales far quicker than bone strength.

And also kids are 24/7 running around and doing something for their fitness if they are allowed to.

Most adults don't do that.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ever seen what happens to a rubber band that's been sitting unused in a drawer for 5 years? Same thing.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] philpo@feddit.de 9 points 11 months ago

Actually,yes. Kids bones are less rigid/more flexible. (And younger kids don't even have some bones to begin with -patellae-/they aren't fused together yet -skull-)

And of course you have more weight and a longer "lever" to break things.

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[–] flux@lemmyis.fun 50 points 11 months ago (2 children)

When me and my younger brother were little, we were outside playing and digging in the snow with an old claw hammer from the barn. It must have been shortly after watching the classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

I got the bright idea to tell him to stick the claw of the hammer in the snow, then pull it out and lick it, just like Yukon Cornelius does, and maybe we could find gold.

Needless to say, tongue + ice cold metal hammer were quite the match and he was stuck instantly. Being as little as we were he panicked and ripped it off, along with a large thick chunk of tongue skin. Quite a bit of red snow that day...

I remember getting in trouble for that one. My parents definitely thought I tricked him on purpose, but I couldn't have been more than 8 or so and definitely did not. I also remember that hammer sitting outside for the rest of the winter, with a chunk of tongue still frozen to it.

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[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 48 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I can't remember what movie it was, but we took the ball out of an old school computer mouse, the kind that's a solid steel ball covered in rubber. Then we all sat in a circle, and hucked it at each other's nuts. Hurt like a mother, and we each did it at least ten times, iirc, but that may just be me remembering it more extreme than it was, because it was horrid. Lol. We played many, many times during sleep overs and such. I think my balls we bruised for most of my 13th year. Lol.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well hopefully y'all took each other out of the gene pool

[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

One of us has over a dozen kids, another has two, and I'll probably never find out because gay

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[–] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nut Ball. From the jackass movie. Forgot which one

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[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

When I was 3, I put a towel on like a cape and jumped off of some furniture thinking that I could fly. I hit my mouth on the corner of our coffee table and had to get stitches. I got to eat ice cream for a week, though!

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

It was a chest freezer for me. I used my bike to climb up and jumped off. Mum thought I'd broke my nose.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 11 months ago

I took a running leap in a wide open living room, realized I was going to fall, stuck out my hand, and that’s why I’m β€˜double-jointed’ in my right thumb. (That and being hyper mobile. But it didn’t pop out of joint before that.)

[–] Towerofpain11@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think I watched Superman or something rip his shirt open so I did it to my own PJs. I was only five so I could only rip them a little.

[–] ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 11 months ago

I went to school with my Superman pajamas underneath my regular clothes and specifically wore a button up shirt so that I could rip it open and be Superman. If it became necessary, y'know.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My brother, some friends, and I did a martial arts tournament like Mortal Kombat. Needless to say I won.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeaaaah we used to do those in school, wirh my brother and cousins we had wwe tournaments. Got beat up a lot in school and then bullied my cousins (they were older its ok)

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Oh my god, it's SnokenKeekaGuard with a steel chair!"

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[–] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I was in collage when Fight Club came out. Of course a bunch of guys decided to make an underground Fight Club. I never went to one bc I am a women and therefore exculded from Manly Punching Time but, boy, oh boy did I witness the fallout.

It didn't take long for poeple to realize that maybe a computer major shouldn't be fist fighting a ex marine who was here on the GI bill. Or maybe accounting majors shouldn't be trying to punch the six foot tall guy who does construction to afford his textbooks. Poeple had black eyes, knocked out teeth, concussions and face swelling. Turns out it's hard to hide an underground fight ring where you hit each other in the face.

Luckily the Fight club disbanded before admin got involved, and before anybody got really hurt.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was 19 when that movie came out. I'm so glad I never knew about one or I would have definitely gone and probably ended up with some life long scar. Luckily at 19, I was only stupid enough to pierce my nipples, and not take care of them properly, so the only life long scar I got was permanently hard looking nipples (I'm male BTW, so no padded bras to help me hide them.)

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[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Imitating Pauly Shore in Encino Man during freshman year of high school. I was already a conventionally unattractive overweight nerd, so the affectation was not so much the final nail, but one of many in my social coffin.

I got better tho

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[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Not me personally, but back in high school (in the late 20th century lol) a group of kids I went to school with got inspired by Dead Presidents to rob a bunch of banks. They got caught.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I went over a bike ramp when I was about eight or nine years old, pretending that I was bo duke from Dukes of Hazzard. I lost the bike. Instead of my sitting on the bike. I was spread eagle over the bike, the tires were pointing to my right the handlebars were under me. Laws of physics took over. I dropped on that bike really hard. Slightly caved in my chest.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago
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[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Saw a girl on TV cut a big chunk her hair off and give it to her stalker. I wanted to be tough like her, so I cut off a chunk of my hair. Ended up with the Johnny Depp style Willy Wonka haircut. I hated it. I was like 7.

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[–] SecretPancake@feddit.de 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Paid full price for Avatar 2

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Paid money to watch movies made by Zack Snyder and Rob Zombie. Once.

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[–] gunpachi@lemmings.world 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Not a movie, but I remember trying to do kamehameha when I was 8 years old or something after watching Dragon ball Z.

[–] shizomou@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Ya. 8. I totally wasn't doing that in high school.

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[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

I ripped a leaf off a tree and tried to eat it because they made TREE STARS LOOK SO FUCKING GOOD

[–] laxu@sopuli.xyz 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some kids claimed you could run faster if you hold your fingers straight, because that's how T-1000 (Robert Patrick) runs in Terminator 2.

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 12 points 11 months ago

I was just trying to feel the Force and gradually jump from bigger heights. Haven't broken anything, so it was more or less good sport. But taught me wrong things about physical strength etc.

[–] pacoboyd@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nothing overly crazy but I remeber watching the Matrix in the theater for the first time and being sooo pumped up that my buddy and I went whopping and hollaring through the mostly abandoned mall food court (got out super late). Mall security ended up chasing us down in the parking lot because they thought we had stolen something or were vandals. We had to explain we were just high from a great movie lol.

[–] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

Nothing myself, but when I was a kid, I recall reading an article saying kids from Edmonton went into the sewers, trying to find the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Idiots. Everybody knows the TMNT live in the sewers of New-York city.

[–] carnimoss@lemmings.world 10 points 11 months ago

I would jump on the couches pretending I was Scar singing Be Prepared

[–] cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A friend of mine was in San Diego on business where her company put her up in a swanky hotel. I drove down from LA to meet her. I had some bills that were due so I brought them with me, wrote my checks (this was before online bill pay), stamped my envelopes, and asked the front desk to please include them with their outgoing mail.

For those who haven't figured it out, that's what Andy Dufresne did at the bank in Shawshank Redemption.

Lucky for me, they were nice about it and they actually did mail my letters for me, but I still cringe when I think about it today.

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[–] sramder@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Pretty sure movies are at least partially to blame for that first programming class :-)

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[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Watched the Lion King as a five year old and the stampede scene stuck out to me. The next day at daycare I bit the teachers ass in the same way the hyenas tried to bite the Cape Buffalo's tail.

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 7 points 11 months ago

Crack my neck and hands because of a stupid teacher that always did that in a series. Once in, never coming back

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