Nobody Tumbles like NCSU
- Thread starter jcolucci
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That is just... I don't know. Kinda surprised there weren't dead-falls and snares placed on the hill in random places.
"What brings you here?"
"I thought I would risk walking upright for the rest of my life to roll down this hill and get this wheel of cheese."
I'm rather surprised that any of them went to school, anywhere.
Good that is was not paralyzed? Good that she lacks enough brain cells to see the danger?
She's lucky she's not seeing the inside of a hospital and subsequent physical therapy facility.
I understand the adrenaline you get from bungee jumping and skydiving. But... that's not balancing-out in the risk/reward scale for me. I'm glad it was a woofie fan.
When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say? George Carlin
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Jeremy Paxman
I'm not quite sure that's the best advice. Plenty of people who see the world and have a ball by running out into traffic. That doesn't mean it's a good thing. I guess if you have a great skill like falling down, you need to share it with the world.
gonna have to side with @prlyles on this one. Falling down might not require much skill, but it looks like a hell of a lot fun for people who don't hide in a closet hoping nothing bad happens to them. Live as little. Take a chance. Chase that cheese. All you need to show that it was worthwhile was her reaction to winning. I want more of that, not less.
There'll probably be a parade on Hillsborough St. for her. I might have to check it out.
I do agree to "live a little" but I evaluate risk and reward. Might could understand risking long term health if the winner got a million bucks. But some cheese?
When I live a little I go to the casino and blow $25 on the nickel slots.. not going to drain my account, take out a second mortgage, max the credit cards just to let 50k ride on black.
At 20-something, I would have done it if given the chance. At 40-something, I find it to be inane.
Seems a lot like those people who choose to run with the bulls.
The winning strategy here seems to be if you can tuck into a ball and just roll down.
I think it should be a contest where you run/fall down, eat the wheel of cheese, then run back up.
live a little to me doesn't mean throwing money out the window. I was killing time at a casino in Aruba waiting on some friends and hit a full house on the second hand playing stud poker, instant $750 winner; lights flashing, bells and whistles, all kinds of stuff going on. I got right up and cashed in, haven't even played a hand of poker since and that was twenty years ago.
Live a little means jump out of an airplane or do some scuba diving, chase a wheel of cheese down a hill, that sort of thing. I can actually remember way back when I was much younger, and I enjoyed the rough and tumble sort of thing. It makes you a little giddy sometimes and giddy is good.
I watch that show 'Wipeout' where contestants get knocked around on an obstacle course sort of thing, and I just cackle sometimes and wish I could play.
