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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 5 days ago (3 children)

i have a personal policy of not getting closer to a ledge than my own height, so if i trip and fall over i'll at worst end up with my head over the ledge.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm tall and I have the same policy with railings less than half my height. I could just seesaw right over it

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

Being tall in a country of short people means sooooo many short railings, fucking hell

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I rock climb and work at height. My policy is to stay attached to something as much as possible. And if I can't do that - be very careful and aware of the edge.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

unless your taekwando training kicks in and you automatically roll

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Saw a karate student fall off their bike in front of the class a long time ago, their front wheel hit something or locked up, bike flipped forward, they did a forward roll perfectly and had no idea they did it until the class watching from inside told them.

[–] Univ3rse@lemmynsfw.com 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Sounds fun! Where's this cliff?

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

I'm sure there are lots of places around the world. For one, the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs in southern England tells people not to go near the edge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters%252C_East_Sussex

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean... does that mean there's a chance if I fall I'll get a 6' tall marble monument? That sounds so much easier than being crazy popular or succesful. Or is it just, the first per cliff, so I'd need to find a new less obvious cliff at the same park.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i think it's probably a famous person who died to that cliff, so you still have to start off being famous. also most cliffs have already been discovered and people have died at them, so you need to build a new one and that costs a lot of money, and only then can they build a monument to your stupidity.

[–] TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Only if they haven’t yet procreated.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

They probably have. Which, incidentally, is also Darwinism

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I mean a fence is pretty much closed.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago
[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 5 points 5 days ago

Famous cliff people 🤪

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 5 points 5 days ago

Well that's it then, people want to pose with the marble monument for a picture.

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe you just need to add a reverse psychology sign saying how so many people have fallen and it is a hip things for older couples to go do.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

a hip things for older couples to go do.

Ättestupa mentioned!

Ättestupa Norsemen

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Aww, that's a lonely Valhalla

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84ttestupa

The Swedish linguist Adolf Noreen started questioning the myth at the end of the 19th century,[5] and it is now generally accepted among researchers that the practice of suicide precipices never existed

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Still a funny show though