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The risks
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The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
Below generally safe lmao. It's been 25 years since I went skiing/snowboarding and cycling. I just walk nowadays.
The Sum of Zero
Member
Driving, but sounds like I should try base jumping.
EDIT: Before anyone worries, that was only 20% serious. I'd rather try climbing Everest.
EDIT: Before anyone worries, that was only 20% serious. I'd rather try climbing Everest.
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Skyfox
Member
I've been skydiving more than once! WooohH!
This made me feel much better about my life thanks
I just sent a very risk email earlier this morning but sometimes you need to take action rather than going with the flow (especially if it's circling the drain). Yikes, life is just so nuts.
Bless this forum and all who visit
This made me feel much better about my life thanks
I just sent a very risk email earlier this morning but sometimes you need to take action rather than going with the flow (especially if it's circling the drain). Yikes, life is just so nuts.
Bless this forum and all who visit
ForAcademicPurposes
Member
The minute you bring percentages into it you kill what's good about this. You kill the sport.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
Thanks. I think I'll just go anywhere by plane from now on, then.
(I don't engage in dangerous activities, because it's a surefire way to kick into gear a special kind of anxiety that makes me prone to fuck up the simplest things and make things 10,000x more dangerous)
(I don't engage in dangerous activities, because it's a surefire way to kick into gear a special kind of anxiety that makes me prone to fuck up the simplest things and make things 10,000x more dangerous)
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
It's also true that in modern societies, dangerous sports probably account for the majority of deadly trauma and lifelong injuries, especially in the young.
More and more extreme laws are passed all the time to prevent car accidents and injuries, and then anyone is allowed to engage in a recreational activity where they have a higher chance to kill themselves or make themselves cripples for life.
Majima Everywhere System
Member
If motorcycling is 1% death in the next 1,000 hours, does that mean 1% death in the next 20-40k miles?
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
If we take the numbers at face value, riding at 100mph is no riskier than riding at 20mph, which seems unlikely.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Where's the "Eating fast food more than 2 days a week and dying of a heart attack" statistic?
For real though, this is super interesting. Maybe I'll go skydiving someday, but I'm definitely not base jumping.
For real though, this is super interesting. Maybe I'll go skydiving someday, but I'm definitely not base jumping.
Avid Reading Horse
Member
I keep my cycling to where I'm very unlikely to get run over. I've upped my driving bit to maybe 60 miles a week which is probably still pretty low.
I do sometimes consider getting into general aviation but I mean, a lot of those deaths are pure skill issues and I'm a fucking gamer.
I do sometimes consider getting into general aviation but I mean, a lot of those deaths are pure skill issues and I'm a fucking gamer.
Wildebeest
Member
Driving is the main activity where the risk of killing someone else is equivalent to the risk of you dying. Most others there is a non existent chance of being responsible for someone else's death, or the risk is orders of magnitude lower. But there are some where it is greater, such as recreational shooting. Or similar ratio to driving such as piloting a private aircraft.
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DaciaJC
Gold Member
With the number of permabans over the last month, substantially higher than even base jumping.
GnomeChimpsky
Member
They're counting deaths since 1950, which is retarded lol
Angry_Megalodon
Member
Ultra insanely dangerous activity: using dating apps.
- 80% chances of matching crazies.
- 50% chances of the relationship ending up in a nasty way.
- 30% probability of getting doxxed or publicly exposed on social media
- 20% probability of escalating things to real friends/family.
- 10-15% risk of false accusation of some kind of sexual violence.
- 1% risk of being sentenced.
- 0,1% of suicide.
- 80% chances of matching crazies.
- 50% chances of the relationship ending up in a nasty way.
- 30% probability of getting doxxed or publicly exposed on social media
- 20% probability of escalating things to real friends/family.
- 10-15% risk of false accusation of some kind of sexual violence.
- 1% risk of being sentenced.
- 0,1% of suicide.
Artoris
Gold Member
when I was 17 I did one off free climb down from a mountain top I was super fit then but it did feel like 50 50 probably also the stupidest thing I had ever done
What's your risk profile?
ForAcademicPurposes
Member
- 90% chances of matching with a catfish.
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I've heard the old saw about doctors deriding people on bikes and referring to it as riding a donorcycle but then go off and fly around in their beechcraft which according to those numbers apparently more dangerous.
Jinzo Prime
Member
Dude, how was your trip? Need to plan a trip there one day.
Of course then there's driving where it doesn't take in consideration on the roads, the risk from driving on the highway vs driving back roads. (People think the highway is more dangerous when in fact residential roads are more dangerous.)
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
I had a great time, family had a great time. Everything but the capitol building and White house were open. So we got to do all the Smithsonian's we wanted to and the zoo. 12 miles a day walking.
Air and Space
American History
Zoo
Air and space Annex
Holocaust museum
Bible Museum
Spy Museum
Nighttime monuments tour
Good food
Peoples House
And some other stuff.
Wait until the shutdown is over as all Smithsonians are closed now.
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Portugeezer
Member
I drive and I went skydiving once, and honestly the dingy little plane on my way up was more terrifying than the jump itself.
Seemed held together by duct tape.
Seemed held together by duct tape.
Artoris
Gold Member
was it only you or was it hanging onto someone else
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Portugeezer
Member
Attached to a pro, I think by law a newbie can't skydive on their own (I was in the UK then).
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Did they use duct tape for that too, or something more robust?
calistan
Member
If the unlikely event that there's ever another fatality in F1 they would probably ban drivers from the track and have them operate the cars remotely from the pits.
It's such a risk-averse sport these days, and much the worse for it. I say bring back the possibility of high-speed fiery death! Make them have at least one race per season in a 1950s car.
Admittedly it'd be kind of cool if they had them drive it wearing a VR headset and also had sort of a robotic head in the car that moved in sync to the VR headset movements.
Portugeezer
Member
Got strapped up harder than a BDSM session, groin area underwent serious pressure once the parachute was opened.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
The walkability in some US cities is really awful. You really have to be careful of traffic. I do long walks at least once a week and I am far more apprehensive of getting hit by a turning vehicle than I am of a stray dog or a mugger.
SentientStone
Member
I have skydived twice... enough to never have the urge to do it again.
I do wonder what the risk is of driving an electric moped scooter on the road alongside cars with no helmet in China is though as I do that quite often these days. No one wears helmets here.
I do wonder what the risk is of driving an electric moped scooter on the road alongside cars with no helmet in China is though as I do that quite often these days. No one wears helmets here.
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Motorbike deaths in Asia are a sea of blood every year. Hundreds of thousands of deaths. Wear a helmet.
