3/23/2005: Ice dunking record
 

http://cellar.org/2005/icerecord.jpg

Russian Karim Diab stood still in the icy Moscow River for one hour,
breaking the previous record of 45 minutes. Scrawled on his forehead
is the Russian word for "peace".

ah, the power of Vodka.

What is the Russian word for "shrinkage"?

he is actually looking down with stunned realization that you actually can freeze your balls off.

And people say Darwin was wrong...

I, for one, stand corrected.

I hope he didn't freeze them off. He'd need them to tell people he holds that record.
"You did what?" "Why?" "Are you nuts?" :eyebrow:

it's a trick. two days before, he began drinking mass quantities of tea. when he got in the water, the hole in the ice was only big enough to squeeze through. He immediately began to pee at that point, thereby warming the water to a tolerable level and melting more of the ice around him. easy, but icky.

Ok, this I gotta see, so to speak.

Where's the cite?

i assume the little ripples are from him shivering...looking forward to more info.

Must be a typo. Shouldn't it read pees?

He *does* sort of have that look you get when you've just finished a really long, satisfying urination.

No, no! When he started, he was standing on top of a solid bolck of ice!

is this the same guy who drank all the liquor so he could pee on the snow, allowing himself to escape from his car?

I like how the water around him has formed a thin layer of ice on top (except for the area immediately near his body, where he's been moving it ever so slightly).

Silly guy should have pulled his beanie down further. He'll get cold ears.

I could have sworn that was the Russian word for "world". ;)

Maybe the fall of Communism wasn't such a good idea for them after all. Before they had all this "freedom" they didn't do this shit, did they? Or is this a remnant of "entertainment from the old regime?" This bit of the river doesn't run near Lubyanka, does it?

I want to know about the shape of the hole in the ice. Is that the ice's way of flipping off the world?

Why? Are you drinking water from there?

Got to be a nice cold Gulag somewhere in Siberia for this guy...

wouldn't you want to be splashing around and stuff?

Haven't you ever been in really cold water jag? The more you move, the more fresh (i.e. cold) water you have touching your skin. If you sit very, very still, you warm up the water around you ever-so-slightly.

Translations
 

мир means both "world" and "peace".

Just because someone asked: морщиться means "shrinking".

Entering cyrillic characters in the forum works just fine as you can see. The Unicode entities needed are described here.

Pssst ... I knew. I was making a moderately obscure joke. Thanks for being the one to get it!

Thanks for the info on entering Cyrillic characters!