I am...Da UBERMENSCH!

[HT_Black]

Ubermensch-- n, German. Rougly transalates intp 'super-man'.

The question to go with my title is simple: Have you ever done or withstood something that is widely regarded as the bane of humanity everywhere? And for discussion's sake I must ask why such things (by all means, measures of stupidity) are generally looked upon with awe and respect?

I for one managed to read 'The Eye of Argon' all the way through without laughing or screaming in pain-- and I was laughed out of the room when I told someone (this was evidently not something they themselves wished they could do). I also managed to fit my thread into six lines.

 

[oliveira8]

Reading Eye of Argon all the way through is not a big deal. Reading The Eye of Argon all the way through without laughing/cringe in public is something.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

My 21st birthday:

I had 21 shots in 60 seconds (or thereabouts) while on antibiotics and stayed out till 7am drinking and dancing and eating french fries through my nose (I don't think I had much success with that). I also had to catch a flight at 10am but had to be at the airport earlier as per the rules of international flight check in. I barely succeeded with the whole operation but somehow I managed to drag my ass from check-in to the departure gate without too much of a problem.

It's about the lariest thing I have done apart from spear fishing.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

Well I have two thing that I can think of:

1.Being the tallest and heaviest built in my year in school, I was often part of a "game" (involuntarily, of course) that was called "Bring Down the Titan". It basically involved being piled by every guy in the room at the time and dragged to the floor, then doggy piled in the usual fashion of bored guys everywhere. However, one day, I got fed up. I was piled by 8 people, all of whom were on top of me. So, what I did, was stand up. Yes I pushed myself onto my feet from a completely prone position with 8 fully grown, sporty men on top of me. I'm not sure how many hundred kilos that was, but if we put down the average weight to be about 80kg, that's a moderately impressive feat.

2.After a night of relatively normal drinking I found a bottle of absinthe. And drank 3 full wine glasses of it. I did not lose any memory of the night, feel sick, or even fall over. I was slightly wobbly, but generally okay. It has been decided by consensus that my liver is made of purest adamantium.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

I lifted the front end of a Pontiac Firefly to waist height when i was in 6th grade...(really felt sore and in pain like all hell later, but it got one of the guys who was constantly taunting me about being a weakling to shut the hell up)

also proved some dude i knew wrong by breaking out of some wrestling hold he was sure would kill me if i tried to break out of it because it's an undefeatable technique... proved to him that a reverse position headlock worked better by pinning him till he just gave up... we were practicing so it wasn't a timed match or anything i think he gave up after like 5 minutes... and to give you a clear understanding... I was out of shape and he was quite a bit fitter than me at the time... and weighed like 60lbs more than me... I was runnin on adrenaline!

 

[Goldeneye1989]

This one time i ate lightning and pissed success

 

[iamthehorde]

i forsaw two deaths in the family. i still hope it was a coincidence and that i don´t have any kind of sixth sense.

 

[Idlemessiah]

I read Tolkein's Silmarillion and The Unfinished Tales when I was 15. I really didn't get much of the story but I got +Smartness kudos in school since evreyone else my age at the time had trouble reading Shakespeare =/

 

[Tron900]

I have experience this...back when I was a bit meek, I'd have retracted the removed myself from the conversation/room.

now-a-days, I bring the : "get bent twat-lips! *Crack!*" slap of freedom to do whatever I want.

 

[Raven's Nest]

I watched Twilight twice in 24 hours...

I think the shame is self-explanatory...

 

[CargoHold]

My friend can LICK HER ELBOW.

The very tip of her elbow.

I read the LotR trilogy when I was 11 or 12. And understood 80% of it too, which is decent I think.

 

[Doug]

This one time i ate lightning and pissed success

Pfft.

One day, I ate a blackhole and pissed Hawking radiation.

 

[Goldeneye1989]

This one time i ate lightning and pissed success

Pfft.

One day, I ate a blackhole and pissed Hawking radiation.

Yeah .. Yeah well, one day i ate Wolverine and shat Rust

 

[Mr.Squishy]

I thought you were talking about the badge...

Anyway, I've probably posted a bit more than is humanely possible on this site...

...methinks you haven't seen MaxTheReaper's post count o.o

 

[Cherry Cola]

I watched Twilight twice in 24 hours...

I think the shame is self-explanatory...

Twilight and then after 5 minutes New Moon.

Beat that.

 

[Cherry Cola]

This one time i ate lightning and pissed success

Pfft.

One day, I ate a blackhole and pissed Hawking radiation.

Dats nuthin'

One day I hate a ps2, a camera, some repetitive gameplay and neutral music and colors that would make you insane, then I shat out a Wii

 

[Doug]

This one time i ate lightning and pissed success

Pfft.

One day, I ate a blackhole and pissed Hawking radiation.

Yeah .. Yeah well, one day i ate Wolverine and shat Rust

Well...well...One day I ate a high-fibre breakfast and shat healthy....wait, bugger, Yahtzee already did that one.

 

[Segadroid]

One time I got angry and smashed my right hand straight through 1" of flat glass. It was done with a wide open hand, PLUS I realized I never feld any pain at all untill a day later. And even that wasn't that painful.

EDIT: I forgot another übermensch-situation: Catching a soccerball(I was the keeper) by climbing onto the goal and jumping towards the ball. In less than 2 seconds.
Now don't say that's not impressive.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

I watched Twilight twice in 24 hours...

I think the shame is self-explanatory...

Lightweight.

I watched Spy Kids 3 three times every day for ten days.

 

[grimsprice]

I watched Twilight twice in 24 hours...

I think the shame is self-explanatory...

Twilight and then after 5 minutes New Moon.

Beat that.

Titanic. Three times in one weekend. I hemorrhaged very very badly monday morning.