I’m expecting some child recreating superhero stunts and gerting hurt

  • Blackout@kbin.social
    951·
    11 months ago

    I remember going to the first fast n furious at the theater. Ice storm during the movie so everything was covered in ice after, had to chisel around the door just to open it. But that didn’t kill the racing spirit in some of them. They got in their cars and tore out of the parking lot. 2 slammed into trees on their way out. Another didn’t get far, jackknifed himself on a light pole. I just sat in my car watching it, way better than the movie.

  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
    731·
    11 months ago

    I broke smth in my ring finger bc I punched walls as a kid hoping to break it the way they did in spy kids. We make brick houses here. Was reminded of this after I saw a similar post on lemmy somewhere.

    • Thavron@lemmy.ca
      34·
      11 months ago

      I imagine many a European fist has suffered from Hollywood movies being set in the US, where walls are drywall.

      • Albbi@lemmy.ca
        18·
        11 months ago

        You need to know where the wooden studs are first because drywall is only easy to punch between the studs.

        • laxu@sopuli.xyzsuomi
          6·
          11 months ago

          Movies are unrealistic because they never show the angry stud finder part of punching walls.

        • Tehhund@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Some of my more intelligent friends were punching holes in drywall. Sure enough one poor guy found the stud and fucked up his wrist so badly he has a metal pin in it now.

      • lad@programming.dev
        10·
        11 months ago

        Inner walls in Europe may still be drywall, wouldn’t recommend checking it out hand-first though

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
        7·
        11 months ago

        You just need practice ; I, for one, just considered it a given that you have to gradually raise the strength of your punch at a fscking concrete wall painted over, and then it’ll start slowly crumbling in the place you hit, like in those vids about Shaolin monks. Didn’t work, but aside from pain, no problems with my fists.

    • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I can’t decide if I’d rather do this, or put a hole in my parent’s wall as a kid. I kind of think the latter would have hurt more.

  • smallaubergine@kbin.social
    60·
    11 months ago

    Sled down the stairs and out the front door like in Home Alone. My stairs didn’t perfectly line up so I hit the edge and went tumbling. luckily at 7 my bones were made of rubber and I only had bruises

    • Albbi@lemmy.ca
      34·
      11 months ago

      The stairs in the movie don’t line up either. Always bothered me.

    • interolivary@beehaw.org
      16·
      11 months ago

      at 7 my bones were made of rubber

      I was just thinking about this. I’m in my 40’s and it feels like I now break a rib if I sneeze hard, and I was wondering whether I’m actually “less durable” nowadays than I was when I was younger

      • Square Singer@feddit.de
        17·
        11 months ago

        You have to consider the square cube law.

        Weight scales far quicker than bone strength.

        And also kids are 24/7 running around and doing something for their fitness if they are allowed to.

        Most adults don’t do that.

      • Chahk@beehaw.org
        12·
        11 months ago

        Ever seen what happens to a rubber band that’s been sitting unused in a drawer for 5 years? Same thing.

      • philpo@feddit.de
        10·
        11 months ago

        Actually,yes. Kids bones are less rigid/more flexible. (And younger kids don’t even have some bones to begin with -patellae-/they aren’t fused together yet -skull-)

        And of course you have more weight and a longer “lever” to break things.

  • flux@lemmyis.funEnglish
    50·
    11 months ago

    When me and my younger brother were little, we were outside playing and digging in the snow with an old claw hammer from the barn. It must have been shortly after watching the classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

    I got the bright idea to tell him to stick the claw of the hammer in the snow, then pull it out and lick it, just like Yukon Cornelius does, and maybe we could find gold.

    Needless to say, tongue + ice cold metal hammer were quite the match and he was stuck instantly. Being as little as we were he panicked and ripped it off, along with a large thick chunk of tongue skin. Quite a bit of red snow that day…

    I remember getting in trouble for that one. My parents definitely thought I tricked him on purpose, but I couldn’t have been more than 8 or so and definitely did not. I also remember that hammer sitting outside for the rest of the winter, with a chunk of tongue still frozen to it.

  • Dharma Curious@startrek.website
    48·
    11 months ago

    I can’t remember what movie it was, but we took the ball out of an old school computer mouse, the kind that’s a solid steel ball covered in rubber. Then we all sat in a circle, and hucked it at each other’s nuts. Hurt like a mother, and we each did it at least ten times, iirc, but that may just be me remembering it more extreme than it was, because it was horrid. Lol. We played many, many times during sleep overs and such. I think my balls we bruised for most of my 13th year. Lol.

  • The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    11 months ago

    When I was 3, I put a towel on like a cape and jumped off of some furniture thinking that I could fly. I hit my mouth on the corner of our coffee table and had to get stitches. I got to eat ice cream for a week, though!

    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      I took a running leap in a wide open living room, realized I was going to fall, stuck out my hand, and that’s why I’m ‘double-jointed’ in my right thumb. (That and being hyper mobile. But it didn’t pop out of joint before that.)

  • baconsanga@lemmy.world
    32·
    11 months ago

    I think I watched Superman or something rip his shirt open so I did it to my own PJs. I was only five so I could only rip them a little.

    • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      11 months ago

      I went to school with my Superman pajamas underneath my regular clothes and specifically wore a button up shirt so that I could rip it open and be Superman. If it became necessary, y’know.

  • FollyDolly@lemmy.world
    281·
    11 months ago

    I was in collage when Fight Club came out. Of course a bunch of guys decided to make an underground Fight Club. I never went to one bc I am a women and therefore exculded from Manly Punching Time but, boy, oh boy did I witness the fallout.

    It didn’t take long for poeple to realize that maybe a computer major shouldn’t be fist fighting a ex marine who was here on the GI bill. Or maybe accounting majors shouldn’t be trying to punch the six foot tall guy who does construction to afford his textbooks. Poeple had black eyes, knocked out teeth, concussions and face swelling. Turns out it’s hard to hide an underground fight ring where you hit each other in the face.

    Luckily the Fight club disbanded before admin got involved, and before anybody got really hurt.

    • hactar42@lemmy.world
      10·
      11 months ago

      I was 19 when that movie came out. I’m so glad I never knew about one or I would have definitely gone and probably ended up with some life long scar. Luckily at 19, I was only stupid enough to pierce my nipples, and not take care of them properly, so the only life long scar I got was permanently hard looking nipples (I’m male BTW, so no padded bras to help me hide them.)

  • KnitWit@lemmy.world
    26·
    11 months ago

    Not me personally, but back in high school (in the late 20th century lol) a group of kids I went to school with got inspired by Dead Presidents to rob a bunch of banks. They got caught.

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
    26·
    11 months ago

    I went over a bike ramp when I was about eight or nine years old, pretending that I was bo duke from Dukes of Hazzard. I lost the bike. Instead of my sitting on the bike. I was spread eagle over the bike, the tires were pointing to my right the handlebars were under me. Laws of physics took over. I dropped on that bike really hard. Slightly caved in my chest.

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
    26·
    11 months ago

    Imitating Pauly Shore in Encino Man during freshman year of high school. I was already a conventionally unattractive overweight nerd, so the affectation was not so much the final nail, but one of many in my social coffin.

    I got better tho

  • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
    24·
    11 months ago

    Saw a girl on TV cut a big chunk her hair off and give it to her stalker. I wanted to be tough like her, so I cut off a chunk of my hair. Ended up with the Johnny Depp style Willy Wonka haircut. I hated it. I was like 7.