Things that are really tall

[Beantown Red]

Irish immigrants in New York? Get out of town!

 

Yea I was just saying, no need to be a smart ass, there was just as many Italian and German immigrants around that time as Irish.

[KinskiRage]

Did one of those slightly wussy base jumps in New Zealand once, pretty memorable feeling stepping off into nothing but air from the tallest structure in the southern hemisphere though. Piece of piss those really, with the line attached. I'd love to do a parachute jump. Those vids of people hanging off towers... that's a bit much.

[BCM]

I only climb houses, flats and similar 'small' structures but you wouldn't get most people doing it. The health and safety element has gone mad - when im on a chimney these days it looks like im about to go mountineering with all the safety ropes and harnesses i have to wear. To be honest i love that side of the job, there's something empowering about being really high and looking down on everyone. I was always really scared of heights as a kid, then i decided to combat it by doing a skydive. Now i work at heights as i job - and i love it. Life works in mysterious ways.

 

I'm the same as you mate. I was scared of heights as a kid,i even baulked at some rollercoasters.

Now im a roofer , have been for about 13 years,and it dosent bother me at all really.

Saying that, i'l be fucked if im climbing that aerial :wow:

[Lee909]

I can stand on high building,look down etc no problem but the feeling on dropping be it on a roller coaster is a nightmare.Even if im playing GTA or the first crackdown game if my character falls from a hieght my eyes close and stomach ends up all over the place.I get the same feeling while on a plane aswell.

I would be a shit superman.

[Uncle_Meat]

It's not heights that bother me as such, it's just that I don't trust my brain and my legs...

 

I get this almost uncontrollable urge to jump, just to see what will happen. I know the answer, fall and go splat but that does not stop my traitorous brain from suggesting it anyway. I can feel the muscles in my legs start to twitch and tense up in antici...

 

 

 

...pation of the leap.

 

Cunting brains. You feed them good quality books, drugs, music and visuals and they go and do this to you.

[Acid]

Its not my stomach that goes when I watch those kind of videos its my balls. Like theyre trying to get back inside me. I kept thinking watching that first video, should he not be a little bit closer to the thing hes climbing? Then when he leant back to have a rest... bloody hell. I couldn't watch all of it.

[stevebaby]

 

Simply awesome. Also interesting to see the Twin Towers still standing.

Phillipe Petit rigged a wire between them and walked it several times before being arrested. The mad fuck.

 

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[ChrisM]

Real-life sky walker Marat Dupri's photos of the world below | Mail Online

 

That fella from the second vid is on the Daily Nazi website today -

 

 

 

 

[ChrisM]

It's not heights that bother me as such, it's just that I don't trust my brain and my legs...

 

I get this almost uncontrollable urge to jump, just to see what will happen. I know the answer, fall and go splat but that does not stop my traitorous brain from suggesting it anyway. I can feel the muscles in my legs start to twitch and tense up in antici...

 

 

 

...pation of the leap.

 

Cunting brains. You feed them good quality books, drugs, music and visuals and they go and do this to you.

 

I get this too, but mainly when I'm driving quite fast, part of my brain says 'why don't you just drive into that wall, to see what happens?'

[Remmie]

[Paulie Dangerously]

Some lad I work with. Must be 6'10 if he's a yard

[aikido]

I'm going to Nevada next month, hiring a Harley and going round monument valley, grand canyon etc. I've been told to avoid the skywalk as people say it is a rip off. You are not allowed to take pictures, have to pay them for their pictures etc. I'd go anyway to have a nose but its way off the beaten track of the usual amazing viewpoints, the west, southwest and south rims (snigger) but its a pure hike and the road isn't suitable for motorbikes.

 

I've been there, before they built the skywalk. It's on the Hualapai Indian reservation, which meant the tour bus had to go through a crazy Joshua Tree park/desert area. So definitely not for bikes.

 

But I will say the viewpoints are absolutely stunning, regardless of what rim you're at. The grand canyon is one of those places that seriously delivers a jaw dropping experience.

[Ginny]

I was getting a serious headache and sweaty palms watching that first video!

[Unrighteous]

Really high stuff freaks me out... 30th floor or so balconies is about when it happens.

[Mendoza]

The new WTC is getting quite tall

 

 

Tallest building in New York already i think.

[Carvalho Diablo]

At the works Christmas meal, one of the managers - a 60 something woman / life long spinster - goes to my mate (who's finishing his Knickerbocker Glory), "That's an impressive erection you've got there Billy..."

 

Without pausing, he fixes her in his stare and says, "I'll tell you what's impressive...I can eat the cherry at the bottom of that glass without a spoon."

 

Boom, fucking beetroot she went. Pissed herself right there. Ha ha.

[General Dryness]

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[Remmie]

[YOUTUBE]dY5G1dNsaho[/YOUTUBE]

 

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I think it was this post on this thread that made me finally decide that I will go to Norway. Will also check out Kjeragbolten:

 

and Trolltunga:

 

[General Dryness]

I think it was this post on this thread that made me finally decide that I will go to Norway.

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Fucking Hell, anyone see that trailer for Channel 4 program "Don't Look Down" this Sunday night ?

 

I'm sat here on the couch and I feel sick, my knees have just quivered. Gonna have to force myself to watch that, what a bunch of fucking lunatics.

[Carvalho Diablo]

And here's the trailer...

 

 

Whoaa ya fucker.

 

This Sunday ch4 at 9pm

[VladimirIlyich]

And here's the trailer...

 

http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYmOsout8lc

 

Whoaa ya fucker.

 

This Sunday ch4 at 9pm

Mentalists.

Its not so great if you are stuck in the five mile tailback when they close those bridges though.

[Barzini]

Top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai

 

 

To get an idea of how high this is:

 

[Alan Sex]

And here's the trailer...

 

 

Whoaa ya fucker.

 

This Sunday ch4 at 9pm

Trailer duly watched. Feeling a bit sick now.

[Remmie]