Oh lord.....this truly makes me dizzy just looking at it. [img height=20 src="vny!://www.pogo.com/images/chat/sick.gif" width=20 border=0] I couldn't do this even if I was offered a million dollars. Could you ?
[img height=480 alt="STRANGE DANGEROUS JOBS - SKYSCRAPER TOWER MAINTENCE" src="vny!://www.strangebusiness.com/images/content/147918.jpg" width=481 align=center border=0]
Make it 2 million and I'll do it in my thongs.
That looks easy compared to this:
[img style="width: 437px; height: 654px;" src="vny!://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/KVLY-TV_Mast_Tower_Wide.jpg"]
tv tower is north dakota, tallest structure in the world until that skyscraper in Dubai is finished.
Michel wrote:
If Lise do it in her thongs, I'm ready to follow her with my zoom for free.
ROTFL. You're HILARIOUS!(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/8.gif)
not even for 100 million, you are not going to be getting me up their. not while i am still conscious at any rate..
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It takes a great deal of effort for me to sit upstairs at the movies - without beating a retreat 15 minutes after my arrival.
sure - as long as there was no wind i'd be and i could rope up - carbiner to the rings ... ok.
if there was a wind - forget it - not for 100 mill
when i was a kid i was HORRIFIED of heights - now I'm ok - just hate windy days and heights combined.
Not even for all the ill-gotten gains in the world!
All the safety equipment in the world would not help convince me. I swear I get woozy just looking at it. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/konfus/f035.gif" border=0] The skyscrapers below are dwarfed in contrast.
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All the safety equipment in the world would not help convince me. I swear I get woozy just looking at it. [img style="cursor: pointer; font-style: italic;" onclick="url(this.src);" src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/konfus/f035.gif[/img] The skyscrapers below are dwarfed in contrast.
I think that's just snow - not skyscrapers .... (//forums/richedit/smileys/4.gif)
Not SD's pic, silly. That one does not give me the same feeling as the one that I posted.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh.
I think SD's is scarier. \
I don't want to die in north dakota. If I'm going to plummet to my death i want to do it somewhere people have heard of. [a href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard,_North_Dakota" title="Blanchard, North Dakota"]Not Blanchard, North Dakota[/a], halfway between Fargo and [a href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Forks,_North_Dakota" title="Grand Forks, North Dakota"]Grand Forks[/a]
You show any american 12th grader (outside of ND) a map of the world and ask him to point out Blanchard ND, I would bet my mortgage that less than 1% could point it out. come to think of it my money would be pretty safe on the same bet for Fargo or Grand Forks
I don't want to die in north dakota. If I'm going to plummet to my death i want to do it somewhere people have heard of. [A title="Blanchard, North Dakota" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard,_North_Dakota"][FONT color=#000000]Not Blanchard, North Dakota[/FONT][/A], halfway between Fargo and [A title="Grand Forks, North Dakota" href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Forks,_North_Dakota"][FONT color=#000000]Grand Forks[/FONT][/A]
LOL.
We were one step ahead of a tornado, all the way from Billings, Montana to Fargo, ND....at which point, we checked into the hotel and they promptly gave us directions to the Safe Zone, and instructions on what to do when the tornado struck. What ever happened to "welcome".
That's pretty much all I remember about Fargo, North Dakota.
We were one step ahead of a tornado, all the way from Billings, Montana to Fargo, ND....at which point, we checked into the hotel and they promptly gave us directions to the Safe Zone, and instructions on what to do when the tornado struck. What ever happened to "welcome". That's pretty much all I remember about Fargo, North Dakota.
You were probably praying - dear god don't let me die in Fargo - anywhere but Fargo ... nobody can point out Fargo on a map ...
lol....that's why your comment struck me funny !
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lol....that's why your comment struck me funny !
I think about these things ...
once i was on this ridge in Northern BC - and i wasn't sure if i could go on or ... then an eagle soared BELOW me between some jagged peaks ... I stopped for a snack to collect myself - I tried to think of the most positive thing i could - it was nearly 3PM so I thought "If I fall my blood soaked crumpled body will only be on the rocks for a couple of hours before the helicopter comes for me - the animals won't even have time to scavenge me" was the best i could come up with.
Hahahahaaa. Well it's important to look good when you're dead.
I recall visiting a castle in Germany, following the crowd as they walked up a very narrow spiral staircase and not wondering why nobody was coming down it. Finding myself on the roof of the castle, and that the exit was about 20M away (down another spiral staircase) I crawled on my hands and knees to reach it and didn't give a hoot that two dozen or so people were watchinng my antics.
P.C. wrote:
Hahahahaaa. Well it's important to look good when you're dead.
Exactly - and be dead in a cool spot - not ND.
Scary Goph. Was it on the outside of the structure ?
Yes, and my hands have just broken out into a sweat as I relive it.
Oh NO ! This wouldn't work for me either.
*the question is.....did you look good ?
Gopher wrote:
I recall visiting a castle in Germany, following the crowd as they walked up a very narrow spiral staircase and not wondering why nobody was coming down it. Finding myself on the roof of the castle, and that the exit was about 20M away (down another spiral staircase) I crawled on my hands and knees to reach it and didn't give a hoot that two dozen or so people were watchinng my antics.
A man has to do what a man has to do.
Even if it isn't all that manly....
You weren't wearing laderhosen (sp?) at the time were you??
I no longer recall what sort of brown trousers I was wearing.
I'm not going to touch that one. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)
Ah Minerva, you're so very wise.
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[div style="font-style: italic;"]I'm not going to touch that one. (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif) [/div]
you might spray it with your antibacterial windex !!!
[span class="smalltext"]OHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!![/span]
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On an NASTY -O - meter from 1-10 that was an 11
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The Romans built that.
Oh and in North Dakota its really windy.
When I go up in the arch its funny to tell people you're on top of the tallest monument in the world that isn't actually built together, rather just two pices of steel resting on each other. The final wedge piece wasn't bolted on the two sides of the arch. The two sides just fell into each other and created this force that melds together. So basically all that's holding you up is gravity. And the thing sways in the wind.
(//vny!://www.umsl.edu/%7Ewhmc/archscrub3.jpg)
630ft up nobody died building this thing. When it was being built the security was lax and you could at night climb the insides, so I've been told.
[img]vny!://www.hs.fi/kuvat/iso_webkuva/1135222134020.jpeg"]
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Thank you for these new nightmare scenarios, Michel and SD
nightmare scenario stuck on the outside glass elevator riding up waterfront center building ... have u seen that damn thing... damn near fainted and i will never ever do it again... yes i took the damned stairs down.
looking up u see this
[img style="width: 308px; height: 232px;" src="vny!://photos.igougo.com/images/p182553-Vancouver-Harbour_Centre.jpg[/img]
or this
(//vny!://www.findfamilyfun.com/lookout1a.jpg)
from inside the elevator you see this if you are looking out
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me i would prolly see the inside of my eyelids as i lay curled on the floor mewling from the fetal position
view from up top looking down
(//vny!://photos.igougo.com/images/p387617-Vancouver-Harbour_Centre_view.jpg)
(//vny!://www.dudli-werdenberg.ch/vancouver/pictures-vancouver/042.jpg)
Me I am very happy staying here on the ground. thank you
[img]vny!://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/182014_649e8823b5.jpg?v=0"]
this view of Seymour and Hastings is much nicer thank you
Orik wrote:
nightmare scenario stuck on the outside glass elevator riding up waterfront center building ... have u seen that damn thing... damn near fainted and i will never ever do it again... yes i took the damned stairs down.
I think i would prefer to be stuck in a glass eevator than a regular one. I was stuck in an elevator once.
A guy i worked with was trying to scare his wife (also in elevator) by jumping up and down. then it stopped - we were there for an hour or two. No big deal.