Sep
14th
2014
It Is Done · 10:18pm Sep 14th, 2014
Yeah, I did it.
JMac and the Ice Fall of Doom.
A few notes. I had reported that each of the 11 scoops of ice weighed half a pound, I have been corrected. The true measure is closer to four pounds. I did indeed need a second bucket. There was considerably more ice than water, though enough water that I escaped without a concussion.
I allowed myself a cigarette, no one was nice enough to offer me a blindfold.
It was very cold.
Mmm, you are braver then me. I'm not doing the challenge, though I have been challenged by about three people.
You had sunglasses.
Bravo! though how are you so stoic?
Good God, you crazy man
You realize, of course, that now you need to write a story where Quiz gets a bucket of ice dumped over her head. (Given that she hangs out with the Cutie Mark Crusaders, it shouldn't be too hard to arrange a suitable set of circumstances.
)
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That's another bad deed checked off my list: getting an old man in a dunk tank and dunking him. Close enough.
Honestly, I was thinking of getting a bunch of people into the Quizzical group somehow, but then I realized 5lbs of ice was already much. 40lbs of ice is very much, but being spread out into two buckets makes me rethink my restraint. I could've made someone crush themselves under a mini glacier. Not just someone, but an old man and someone's boss. Hmm...
*absent mindedly rips open a package of socks explosively*
I'm sure even Quiz would've let out a very short titter fit to that. More like a small, barely audible hiccup, really.
But yes, JMac, thank you for being one of the oh so few people who accepted my challenge ^.^
Makes dumping a Slurpee on my face worth it.
Hey... Blue Paladin... I know you'll be here... When do we get to see your bukkits? ;3
2455172 Not sunglasses, my prescription photogrades. I was facing the sun. And one person's stoic is another's paralyzed.
2455303 Arrrg! Another story idea!!!!
2455569 I'm only 53!
2455648 Congrats on surviving the ice. I'm actually surprised that your glasses stayed on!
And I think Yamgoth isn't old enough yet to realize that youth is on the inside, and the body just keeps rebelling. Old is a relative term, once you get far enough...
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I've found out personally that you have to pour the ice bucket directly on your face for the highest chance of that happening.
I'm 26 and consider myself a child at heart. Hell, I ain't ever going to act my age. Unless it comes to my job which I take seriously. For the most part. I like to get shit done. You
gotta conform somewhere, but there's some things you can't stop yourself from acting pretty childish.
Perhaps you are right, though. I think the cap I've ever interacted with anybody with this kind of thinking is mid-30's, so perhaps the idea that someone who's older and in their 50's with the whole child at heart mentality flies a bit over my head. The idea that someone that age can't act like a kid kinda crumbles by the fact that JMac is very much into MLP, an example being his Quiz plushie. Body in rebellion, indeed.
I do apologize, 2455648, if you were actually offended. I was funning, eh? Just like... you... might've... been.
*looks at Monty Python video*
Aw godammit.
*sticks tongue out and blows raspberry*
2456385 I hope you know that I wasn't in any way criticizing you. I just thought JMac's response was amusing, and an excellent excuse to throw in some Monty Python.
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i.imgur.com/ELfhFMX.jpg
"Well, of course I'm being childish! There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."
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2456385 2456231 You are never too old to have a happy childhood. Personally, I have always aspired to grow up to be a good kid.
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I think C.S. Lewis put it best:
“To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But then into middle life, or even into early manhood, this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten I read fairy tales in secret, and would have been embarrassed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
—C.S. Lewis
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Still one of my favourite quotes ever
(one of the other being, "I hate quotation. Tell me what you know" by Emerson. The fact it's taken out of context kind of makes it more hilarious. He was most likely talking about quoting the bible)
Alas, I am still working on mine. I don't even have a good bucket.