I had two beers, then got behind the wheel of a one ton metal killing machine.

It's more stupidest than bravest, but we attempted an interior attack on this:

I let a homeless, abuse victim, terminally ill person that I met on the internet (hello dark iron) move in for 6 months.

Started my own business.

Cliff diving.

Going with someone I had just met to a gay BDSM dungeon in DC. I was a little green at the time.

jaylectricity: I had two beers, then got behind the wheel of a one ton metal killing machine.

That's the bravest thing you've ever done? Sheeut. I do that every week.

I've had to give CPR, the Heimlich Maneuver, and deal with people having seizures. It's amazing how your fear can just shut off during an emergency. I wouldn't call those moments brave, but I will say all emotion goes out the window until the crisis is over.

Diogenes: I've had to give CPR, the Heimlich Maneuver, and deal with people having seizures. It's amazing how your fear can just shut off during an emergency. I wouldn't call those moments brave, but I will say all emotion goes out the window until the crisis is over.

but isnt that the definition of brave to some degree? when emotion (FLEE) is ignored in place of intellect (HELP THEM).

namatad: Diogenes: I've had to give CPR, the Heimlich Maneuver, and deal with people having seizures. It's amazing how your fear can just shut off during an emergency. I wouldn't call those moments brave, but I will say all emotion goes out the window until the crisis is over.

but isnt that the definition of brave to some degree? when emotion (FLEE) is ignored in place of intellect (HELP THEM).

I suppose to a degree. But the difference, say, between those and the cliff diving is that I didn't have to convince myself to help them. I spent a loong time debating whether to jump off a cliff, and finally convinced myself that I'd regret it more if I didn't do it.

In the case of giving first aid, CPR, etc. I wasn't afraid for myself. I was afraid for the people I was helping.

It was probably more stupid than brave, but one time I waded out into a rain swollen creek and grabbed a young kid caught up in some branches. About 3/4 of the way out there I knew it was a really bad idea but was already committed. I thought the kid was going to drown me making it back to land even though it was only chest deep. The current damn near got us both though. Probably no farther than 15 feet, the kid was about seven or eight.

Saved a friend from drowning at age 17.

Diogenes: In the case of giving first aid, CPR, etc. I wasn't afraid for myself. I was afraid for the people I was helping.

well after looking at your profile pic, I would be afraid for them too. ;-)

and yah, I find it strange when people talk about bravery, when it is part of their job.
firemen go into burning buildings as part of their job.
while you could argue that their job requires them to be brave in general, the individual acts are yawn, just another day on the job.
A doctor doing a tracheotomy for the 100th time in the ER is not brave.
Me doing a trache on my GF while in the middle of the woods, that would be brave. and yet .... meh.
When you really have no choice, are you brave?

jumping off a cliff for fun? you have a choice. so maybe brave, maybe foolish, but bravery, I think requires having the choice and it being unusual, not something that you do everyday ....

/yes yes, I know, firemen are heroes ... blah blah blah

Oh, here's one I forgot. I was very young. 7 or 8 at most.

My grandmother's dog (sweetest creature ever) fell through the ice in the pond in her back yard. I screamed and screamed and no one could hear me so I layed flat as I could and worked my way out to the crack/hole. Partly pulling and partly letting him use my arms for traction I was able to rescue him.

Probably not the smartest thing in the world to do. But I saved Malcolm.

Lando Lincoln: jaylectricity: I had two beers, then got behind the wheel of a one ton metal killing machine.

That's the bravest thing you've ever done? Sheeut. I do that every week.

I dunno, with all the hysteria that surrounds that activity you'd think walking through a gated community with the trigger of my AK-47 permanently squeezed.

I got into an elevator with a bunch of Farkettes.

*shudder*

/thankfully i tested negative on all counts

Had sex with my best friend's pregnant and married little sister.

gameshowhost: I got into an elevator with a bunch of Farkettes.

*shudder*

/thankfully i tested negative on all counts

I really thought that was going to be a weight limit joke.

Attacked a 7th level Vampire. I was only a 4th level Cleric at the time!!!!

I stood by and watched five people screaming for help in a burning car while another person ran in to try to save them.

Then, I got to save all six of them. Which is way braver than saving just five.

I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom.

I chose to live free.

I married her.

mat catastrophe: I stood by and watched five people screaming for help in a burning car while another person ran in to try to save them.

Then, I got to save all six of them. Which is way braver than saving just five.

YES, ASSHOLES, YOU CAN RUN INTO A BURNING CAR.

I moved to new orleans with no job lined up, no place to live lined up, with about 600 dollars in my pocket

I accepted that I am an alcoholic and I need help (yesterday)

Joining Fark.

Once it became obvious that my marriage was over and despite the fact that we were deeply in debt (we were young and stupid), I told my ex, "There's the door. Don't let it hit you on the way out."

Godscrack: Started my own business.

Ha, I started my business by accident. Now I can't end it because I don't have an exit strategy despite it being profitable and really boring.

Brave? Pulling the rifle out of my ex-wife's hands while she was struggling to chamber a cartridge. I then swung it and shattered the stock on the floor.

My first job ever was teaching riflery at a camp for intellectually handicapped adults when I was 16.

You don't know how fast you can run until you hear a shot go off while standing near a group of intellectually hadicapped adults.

Pulling people over at night, on the highway, alone when i was a cop. Going into a business where the burglar alarm had gone off, and knowing that there was someone in there armed. Facing down a crack head with a handgun and a terminal case of "no brains". Using a PR-24 to disarm a suspect with a rather large knife instead of emptying my 1911 into his x ring. Having a suspect on a car stop tell me that he was armed, and there was no way that i was getting out of there alive, and talking him down when he had the drop on me. Pulling a woman from a car that was on fire, when she was knocked out.

/I could go on..but its time for work.

When I was 7 or 8 something like that, I was with my sister and we heard this strange sound coming from the kitchen. We went to investigate and I saw a finger punching through the screen in order to open the window. Without thinking I shouted "Hey you dummy (might have been dumb-dumb) get out of here!!!"

The would be robber ran off but my sister was amazed that I wasn't intimidated by someone breaking into our house. Our parents weren't home so it was just us. She is 4 years older than I am so really she should have been the proactive one but oh well.

cyber_slacker: My first job ever was teaching riflery at a camp for intellectually handicapped adults when I was 16.

You don't know how fast you can run until you hear a shot go off while standing near a group of intellectually hadicapped adults.

Well armed intellectually handicapped adults.

Tziva: Ever? Dunno.

In the last week, though, I signed up for escrima classes which is kinda terrifying since I've never done anything like this before and it is way outside my comfort zone but I really really really wanted to. Probably the awkwardness will just be compounded when the class is full of Filipino teenager boys and there I am, the out of shape older white lady.

Escrima are a fun and good starting point, relatively little damage to yourself, comparitively.

Now, chucks, on the other hand...*ouch*

Pulled an elderly man out of a burning building.

Shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

I took a beating defending a friend from a psycho ex.

Kyro: Gave a Farker my address.

I have a farkettess address. A rather infamous one at that.

/I try not to lurk outside her windows too often.

Shot my old crippled half blind dog who had gone crazy one day, and was attacking my other dog. Looking down the barrel and seeing those brown eyes look back at me, with love, and trust, then pulling the trigger, ya..that was bad. Not really brave i guess, but needed to be done, more sad.

/fark...don't even wanna think about it. I'm out.

TOTALFARK

/I got better.

Subby's Mom.

LlamaGirl: Pulled the plug on my mom.

I was going to say something, but that shut me down. That is the bravest thing I can imagine.

You have incredible strength.

I continued to play at a craps table even though some asshole said the number seven out loud.

I realized that the driver was not going to slow down and was actually going to keep speeding up.

I jumped, tucked and rolled.

(And lived to tell about it)

pottie: LlamaGirl: Pulled the plug on my mom.

I was going to say something, but that shut me down. That is the bravest thing I can imagine.

You have incredible strength.

Well, to be fair, he was referring to a butt plug, so...

Cooked for my husbands two german Oma's.

Applied to the University of Oxford for grad school. I know that doesn't sound particularly brave, but I didn't apply anywhere else and had no money. There was NO Plan B at all if they hadn't accepted me. I wasn't even going to be able to stay in the country I was living in at the time because my student visa was expiring.

Stopped going to church and made new friends without moving.

I farted in front of my girlfriend.

/oops, wrong thread.

Divorcing my mentally-unstable ex-wife, and building a mostly normal and happy life for myself and my kids.

Got a drunken BJ from my friend's wife in a hot tub.

Wait, did you say brave?

I guess that was just mostly impulsive and stupid.

They're divorced now anyway, so it was already on the downhill run.