I'm willing to do many things to thumb my nose at my fear of falling. Flying in an airplane? check. Downhill skiing? check. Taking the chairlift up so I can go downhill skiing? check. Climbing up on a ladder to clean the cutters? Check. Traversing an apparently bottomless crevasse over a crappy wire catwalk deep in a cave system? Check, and wow, you can be clostrophobic and acrophobic at the same time! Climbing down a freezing open-wire staircase on the shade side of the Three Sisters rock formation in Oz, where a glance down lets you see through the flimsy stairs to see the top of the rainforest canopy so far below you that the gumtree fumes make it look hazy and blue? Check, but I'm never doing it again.
Even if the scenery here were a clevver matte painting and it really is only 4 feet off the ground, I'd never do THIS in a pink fit. If the scenery is for real, those people should be commited, because they're clearly a danger to themselves.
AHHHHH. AHHHH. AHHhhhh. Gasp. Even looking at that photo freaks me the fuck out. I could do it maybe once, but then I'd be, "Get me a helicopter, cause I ain't going back that way."
Signs Your Life Has Gone Drastically Wrong Somewhere, Somehow, #8290: You find yourself reenacting scenes that rightly belong in an Indiana Jones movie.
I really don't like the look of the piton closest to the camera, let alone the condition of the wood bridge. A belay is definitely needed for that traverse.
The chains look pretty solid. I'd do it in a safety harness, if the mountings for them looked solid enough fopr my weight. But double safety line only. Clip in before you clip out.
It looks like that front one has come completely out of the rock, and is just waiting for a breath of air. All the other ones come out horizontal, rather than drooping.
I think the saying is australian. No idea what the etymology is... I've seen the varient "blue fit" as well.
But generally the way it is used is "I wouldn't do %thing in a pink fit!", meaning that the speaker would never do %thing, presumably even during an attack of temporary insanity.
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Date: 2006-07-31 02:29 pm (UTC)Flying in an airplane? check.
Downhill skiing? check.
Taking the chairlift up so I can go downhill skiing? check.
Climbing up on a ladder to clean the cutters? Check.
Traversing an apparently bottomless crevasse over a crappy wire catwalk deep in a cave system? Check, and wow, you can be clostrophobic and acrophobic at the same time!
Climbing down a freezing open-wire staircase on the shade side of the Three Sisters rock formation in Oz, where a glance down lets you see through the flimsy stairs to see the top of the rainforest canopy so far below you that the gumtree fumes make it look hazy and blue? Check, but I'm never doing it again.
Even if the scenery here were a clevver matte painting and it really is only 4 feet off the ground, I'd never do THIS in a pink fit. If the scenery is for real, those people should be commited, because they're clearly a danger to themselves.
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Date: 2006-07-31 02:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-07-31 09:26 pm (UTC)Wow. Race car chicken. Bingee jumping. Sky Diving. And now this???
You white people are crazy :-)
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Date: 2006-08-01 10:24 pm (UTC)But generally the way it is used is "I wouldn't do %thing in a pink fit!", meaning that the speaker would never do %thing, presumably even during an attack of temporary insanity.