*yawn*

I dated that chick...

Once.

Looks like it's going to be a bad hair day...

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Or a bad hike...

http://news.yahoo.com/goliath-encoun...125720953.html

Good grief. :eyebrow:

It probably spins webs out of steel wire. :eek:

Brazilian Wandering spider delivered in Waitrose online shopping
 

http://s1.postimg.org/pwxt80mpb/Braz...r_3077923b.jpg


Daily Telegraph.

Much ado about nothing, really. ;)

:eyebrow:

I still wouldn't want one in my shopping, mind!

[shudder]

Heh, image filename is 'jar_of_nope'.

Nope...absolutely.:bolt:

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I HATE YOU

I feel ya.

No.

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My knees ought to unlock next week sometime...

took a similar picture this summer. It's amazing what you can do when you tilt the camera.
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The sky doesn't lie, though.
How about Times square...

Even tilted that gives me the shakes :p

@Bruce - eww...no way dewd

In that first cliff picture, the distortion isn't a tilt; it's a fisheye. I think it was probably pretty much vertical originally, but the horizon looked tilted because it was curved down as it moved away from center, and that fact was hidden on the right side by the cliff.

I think you're right.

I was wrong. It's called "Thank God Ledge" on Half Dome.

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From above:
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OK, I'll just post this and then stop.

The young smartly dressed male in the photo above must be like lots of young males who don't consider that they can die.
Here he is in a collection of short animated GIFs, climbing the face of Half Dome without any safety ropes.

Safety ropes, when used by a skilled climber, don't do anything and basically just get in the way and slow you down. But you use them for a reason. In a three hour climb, where you get a new new handhold or foothold about 10,000 times, you have 10,000 chances to make a mistake that kills you. You may have mad skillz and great stamina, but the math is going to eventually work against you.

http://s8.postimg.org/dqy5o64cl/nik_wallenda_side.jpg

http://s30.postimg.org/fu44aveox/nik...yscrapers1.jpg

...and on the way back he did it blindfolded!

http://s22.postimg.org/lczhm47dt/nik_wallenda.jpg


Just the thought of this endeavour brings me out in a cold sweat.

I take my hat off to the chap for having the courage to do it, but I still have to ask myself 'why'?

National Post

I think we should start a campaign to change the name to, "Get Down From There You Idiot".


I've a feeling blindfolded doesn't make much difference, they work by feel and balance, and seeing wouldn't help. It's not like somebody is going to leave a Lego on the wire.

I agree with the why, but I suppose it's better than working at walmart.

Bewildering and horrifying in equal measure.

I would rather eat a tarantula (sorry Clod-babies, but they do in Cambodia, ask Mummy never to tell you how people survived the Khemer Rouge).

No more heights please.

Nope nope nope. Give me heights over spiders any day of the week. Even Monday. Funny I'm more afraid of things that probably won't hurt me than things that are obviously dangerous. Well, actually, I won't be crossing anything on a wire, but those glass platform things don't bother me. And spiders chase me, I know they're trying to kill me. They would if they could. I see it in their multiple eyes. *shudders*

I had and worked out of a 52 foot bucket truck. That was plenty for me.

I spent a while trying to figure out exactly where they walked. In Google Earth, Victoria Falls is 1.1 miles long, but they use a Big Shot Pro line launcher to get the line over to the other side, and the Big Shot Pro can only shoot up in the air about 100 feet or so. So I imagine at a 45 degree angle, it can go about 200 feet. That's far short of the 1.1 miles they would need. (I want a Big Shot launcher, by the way.)

So I think they are going across the short way. I think they are crossing around here, which is about 250 feet across and crosses a national border.
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Another one from the heights department.
 

Mashable.

Mailonline Good selection of images.



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http://s16.postimg.org/iqf2cmnc5/towerbridge2_c.jpg

Just a 2 meter Cape Cobra, hanging out on the beach. The pros say when the snake is ready to shed, it itches so they come down to swim.

I wish to put it on record that I do not like snakes in the slightest. I saw plenty dead on the road in the US and the wheels of the car went either side of a live one in deepest Wyoming. Quite near enough for me, thank you very much.

Inspired by Bruce's post, I did a search and came up with an article in the Daily Mail..

Have a look at the video where a woman kicks sand over the creature and lifts it with a stick to put it somewhere 'safer'.

Applications are invited for a Darwin Award.

Awesome!

A follow up from Post #210

http://s2.postimg.org/vwmrytumx/towe...e_3116339b.jpg

Daily Telegraph

GREAT CAESAR'S GHOST!!!!

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"Well, crap. Now I gotta burn the place."

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You kids get off my lawn !


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I thought I was okay with the old biders. Excepting Australian ones of course (#notracistjustcareful). But that clip gave me the proper horrors.

Maybe this will be a video about a spider.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...44&pnref=story

shame I can't make a loop from that one.

Stingray goes out for supper. This gives me the heebeejeebees.


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Aaand just so ya know, "Hey Grav, let's go swimmin!"

No. No, indeed. Hell no.



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I don't even remember what that vid was.

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GAH!

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I think I recognise this one, it's a fine example of its genre.
As far as I remember it's called A Dirty Great Fuckload of Snakes.

it was some white walls with clouds of tiny black spiders moving and merging and dropping from everyfuckingwhere.

Oh, yeah. In some kind of little shed. Man, I was bending my fragile little mind...Thanks.

Now, snakes I don't mind. I don't get the body shudder from a pile of snakes - if they were earthworms, I'd be shuddering.

Good grief...

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Quickly dead with fire kill it. :flamer:

Robugtix

Nose in his phone, steps on a snake and gets bit.

What a maroon. What an ignoranimus. Hahahahhaaa.

The rare, and elusive spice cabinet snake:

I'm surprised the windows in a high rise open.

E. Fucking. Gads.

Mysterious green sea creature captured on video in Taiwan

Here is a youtube version of this vid, but the vid at the link is much better quality.



Someone get a bucket of gas. We're gonna wanna kill this thing with fire.

wtf?!

Likely a Ribbon Worm, check this one out. :thepain3:

EEK!!!