People who watch airplanes land and take off
For a bit of maybe context, she was a paleontologist…but
Friend of mine from university was always ready to scoop up roadkill into her trunk when she passed it by so that she could render it down to the bones so she would have a skeleton to study/draw.
Was your friend’s last name dahner?
How did she do the rendering?
“Ball peener”
You try to cover your penis with your balls. There is more, but dont ask…
You must have made that up, there’s not even a definition on Urban Dictionary.
Also, is this a hobby or a kink, because it reminds me of kinks like chastity, plapping and such.
If there’s one thing I learned from being a siren enthusiast, it’s that if it exists, there’s a community and hobby formed around it. Neurodivergence is a helluva drug.
Isn’t every man a psiren enthusiast unless they have access to wax?
Extreme Ironing
I would like to learn more
What makes it extreme?
The locations, free falling and such.
Seen photos of it done on the side of a cliff, and the roof of a moving car.
No iron
One time I was at a bonfire and a friend of a friend, looking like he was up all night, said he was up all night watching tornado siren videos on youtube
Watching? Does he like to listen to fireworks too?
Nick Mullen?
Siren enthusiast here, it’s a surprisingly large community that’s really started to blow up these past few years. There are so many models and sounds that there’s always something interesting to find and I find them pleasant to listen to. Sirens are very powerful machines that move a ton of air, and they’re capable of shaking the ground and rumbling your chest when you’re near one. We have an annual Sirencon in Wisconsin every year where we bring our privately owned sirens (usually bought for cheap after they’ve been retired from service) and have a good time firing them up.
I personally enjoy learning the history of the sirens themselves and finding surviving units of rare historical models, especially those from between 1910-1950 when they were still trying to figure out what worked and what didn’t. There was a ton of innovation and cool designs. A lot of people associate sirens with air raids, but their original primary purpose was to replace bells, air horns and whistles at fire departments that needed an audible signal to summon volunteer firefighters to the station upon a fire call. Being electric, the siren didn’t need air pressure or steam which could run out, and couldn’t be confused with church bells.
I tested a military handcranked one once, it sure is a very special thing, the slow buildup, the sound and the wrrrrr vibrations.
Hand crank sirens are pretty fun! I’ve got one from China, an LK-100. It’s especially satisfying hearing the pops at low RPMs.
I met a worm farmer when delivering a package.
I had no idea that was a thing.
You can buy worms for fishing at stores. Someone has to breed them to maintain consistent supply.
This is only the second time I’ve heard about it. The first time, someone was talking about worm composting (vermicomposting), which uses worms to convert organic waste into nutrient-rich compost.
I dunno if it’s really a hobby, but one time I heard about bug collectors. They’re not people who go around catching insects, instead they’re people who go around catching STDs. On purpose.
Wow, I bet they don’t even bother warning their sexual partners about it. I wish I had never learned that.
Actually, from what little I recall about it, I think they do alert their partners about it, or maybe they just stuck with fellow bug collectors.
There’s a few who have a kink of spreading those parasites to unknowing people. Back when the internet was a village I made a wrong turn and can’t un-know this now…
CAKE FARTS
DOES THE CAKE FART OR IS THE FART CAUSED BY CAKE? WHY ARE WE YELLING? FUCK YOU.
I don’t remember the name, but the being hanged by chains attached to your skin thing is really weird
Think it’s just called “suspension”. I know someone who has done it professionally at least once
To learn more, watch the movie The Cell!
True crime gets really really weird especially when you dive into more rare extreme niches.
Example?
The telephone pole appreciation society…
You reminded me of one of my favorite pieces of early-ish internet history that is still up: the Traffic Cone Preservation Society
That I’ve heard of? I’m gonna count that guy who commissioned fanart of women buying way too much Wonderbread and destroying rainforests.
Thinking about that guy, he’s probably having the time of his life with AI image generators.
Tether cars.
Is that the one where they race on circular tracks? Those speeds are absolutely insane, over 200mph. I wonder what the G forces are on those cars.
Yeah those! They sound amazing as well
Anvil firing
You get 2 anvils
Pack some gunpowder between them
Light a fuze
Run
The top one shoots off into the air
And you try not to looney tunes yourself.
That reminds me of a Dave Barry column I read discussing people who would competitively vacuum up gasoline.
Thank you for reminding me about this classic
men really love to explode stuff lol
