System Metternich posted:

I haven't got the first idea about military stuff, but are bayonets really 43 inches long? That's like 1,30m, wouldn't it be unwieldy as hell?

Murphy Brownback posted:

I'm guessing he meant to type 43 cm.

Khazar-khum posted:

Bayonet

Jerry Cotton posted:

Raxivace posted:

Isn't that just preventing the truck from being moved for even longer?

Ein cooler Typ posted:

that's like the Stephen King story where the guy traps the other guy in a porta potty and leaves him there to die

Cruel and Unusual posted:

What kind of house doesn't have the kitchen on the ground floor?

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Yesterday I went to dinner to catch up with my buddy from the math department, and he told me this story about how he ran the city marathon in 2 hours, 59 minutes. That’s an amazing time. He was 19th out of thousands.

He was doing pretty well for the first half, but then his ankle started to hurt. He slowed down for a bit, but then this girl he passed before passed him, and he started overthinking whether or not it was awkward to pass the same person multiple times, and, like, what if they small-talked about it? He decided it was better to pass her and stay ahead, so he picked up the pace. A few miles later, he fell in with two dude-bros who started talking to him. Not pleased to find himself in the company of dude-bros, he pulled ahead once again. This continued for a while; every time he got closed to a group of other marathoners, his social anxiety kicked in and he ran faster because he felt nervous being near people.

TL;DR A mathematician ran an record marathon to avoid making small-talk with randos. He introverted his way into qualifying for the Boston marathon.

Khazar-khum posted:

Bayonet

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Their faces paled and then promptly ran as fast as they could down the stairs and out the front door.

kizudarake posted:

For the love of God, Dagneau!
Yes, deepenau, for the love of God!

And he didn't know it, but that was the last time, they would see each other alive again.

GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

Eh, the 10mg pills are pretty close.

Gridlocked posted:

Late post: Can confirm something like this happened (not to me) while I was at Uni. I was studying in one half the common room one night during exam week when some guys from a year below me who I used to play 500 with and knew from High School/parties came in having a laugh about something. I asked what was so funny and they told me about someone in their year level who was known for taking caffeine tablets to keep on going through the crunch period of assessment pieces may have "accidentally" taken 5 Viagra pills when one of the girls gave them to him saying they were some imported caffeine tablets with whatever that poo poo in Red Bull is added and that "each is worth about a can". Apparently he steadily took one every half hour since after class at 4pm (it was about 8 when they came into my part of the room) and was now in the bathroom being very embarrassed since the person he got the pills off told him what they really were after she watched him pop the last one.

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One day my family went to Costco, and while we were loading up the car, I knocked over my mother's soda. She told me to go back in and get her a Diet Coke. I got her a regular. While I was returning from my second trip inside, I saw her start to pull the car away. Cue me running after the car, jumping on the ledge in front of the trunk and grabbing onto the roof rack, all without dropping the soda in one hand. Needless to say, she stopped when she realized I was holding onto the back.

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This troper was a sort expert on the "dodge" part of Dodgeball. Dodging, literally, front, right, and center, he was constantly pulling off Matrixesque maneuvers left and right. The end of nearly every match would accumulate to his teammates demanding he "quit" and be hit so a new game could begin. Adding to the fact that he is overweight and should be an easy target, he proved that whoever wasn't on his side couldn't hit the broad side of barn. He has two notable CMOAs:
A popular game-with-a-game he invented would be to sneak over to the other side of the dodgeball court and pretend to be on the enemy team; conversing with his opponents about the game or the "enemy" team was commonplace. While his team cheered him on and laughed their collective rear end off, he would steal their ball, tag them out, and run back to his side leaving the tagee with a very confused look on their face.
After dodging a cannon inches away from him via a Matrix-move that could only have been more perfect if his spine was flexible, he walked away as cockily as possible. After noticing a shift in the nearby shadows and a teammate yelling, "Look out!", instinct took over and he ducked down, dodging the cannon from the same man from before (who was still mere feet away) without ever seeing it coming.

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This troper has two friends who recalls a CMOA after an anime convention. The two of them were harassed by a few jerks due to their cosplay. As the jerks are driving off, one of the friends picks up a rock and throws it exclaiming "GO GEODUDE!".

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More like a Crowning Moment of Irritation than Awesome, but... this troper's house is unfortunately infested with mice. One such mouse got trapped in his room, and despite all his efforts to kill the little bugger, its still around. One night, as if to mock his pathetic efforts to eradicate it, it somehow climbed on top of his bed and did a little dance on his stuffed tiger collection. Yes, a little mouse bested this troper using a Humiliation Conga.

Wanamingo posted:

I don't know, that doesn't sound true. Viagra's a vasodilator, it works by dropping your blood pressure. Take too many of them and you'll pass out the moment you try and stand up.

Granted, I'm not sure what the normal dose is. Maybe 5 pills isn't too bad?

Gridlocked posted:

I'm just repeating what I got told by the guys; I didn't see it happen personally I was in the next room over behind a heavy door.

Non Serviam posted:

It might have been an exaggeration. I think five Viagra pills probably qualify as dangerous, to the point of being criminal.

dads_work_files posted:

Engineering students are notorious party animals.

YeahTubaMike posted:

https://twitter.com/joanneprada/status/735599136494477313

YeahTubaMike posted:

https://twitter.com/joanneprada/status/735599136494477313

Avenging_Mikon posted:

They are, and it's loving ridiculous. At my old uni they had the most cases of alcohol poisoning per capita.

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funny story, i know a guy that had an unfortunate run in with those things. he was at a rave and used to be heavy into the drug scene. anyways, in the middle of tripping on some e, one of his friends told him to take a new kind of pill, it’s a suppository that will make you trip hardcore, is what he told him. about 1 day later he’s on the toilet and ends up making GBS threads out a huge purple dinosaur….
he quit hard drugs ever since, and now sticks to light alcohol. his words were that “if it’s bad enough to the point that i’m making GBS threads purple dinosaurs, i think it’s time i quit”