What dares/games did you play in your youth to prove machoness

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Back in the day, what dares did you carry-out or what games did you play to show your friends that you were a "man"? I played two.

The first one was played after PT in high school. After swimming we would take turn belting each other on the back with an open hand. The longer it went on, the harder the back slapping got. I remember those red marks well.

The second was played on the rugby field, with a new, hard tennis ball. A bunch of us (10 or more) would gather on the field. The nominated guy was handed the tennis ball and the game was for him to get as many of us tagged as possible. Tagging was done by throwing the ball as hard as possible as the rest of us, who scurried around a limited area. Being hit = being tagged.

You were "Zoned" if you got hit below the belt. That meant you were a man above men if you carried on playing without rolling on the ground clutching yourself.
 
Well i dont really play them sort of games. although im sure 6 major open heart surgeys in my 15 year lifetime might count towords my "manhood"
 
Originally posted by Small_Fryz
Well i dont really play them sort of games. although im sure 6 major open heart surgeys in my 15 year lifetime might count towords my "manhood"
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Serious?

Why?
 
i was born with tricuspid atresia (half a heart) and the doctors have done all sorts of stuff to it (rebuilt it 3 times) and i have a pacemaker although it doesnt seem to work any more as my heart doesnt need it (only if heart goes below 50 does it work) and a few other ops when i was a baby. My last op was just b4 las christmas. It was my most major one, anyway thats basicly a breif about my heart
 
Car surfing. Exhilirating, but amazingly dumb. Luckily I grew up in the backwoods of VT, and the only cops around were asleep after 9 and rarely on the road.

Had snowmobilies as a kid, and that caused us enough trouble.

Also did a lot of Bike riding. Dirt tracks and jumps. Had friends that broke all sorts of bones trying to keep up with me.

PLayed spin the bottle a few times.

I think Small Fryz gets the "I've been to the doctor the most" award of the year. That average to every 3 years you had a major open heart surgery. Wow.

AO
 
Originally posted by Small_Fryz
i was born with tricuspid atresia (half a heart) and the doctors have done all sorts of stuff to it (rebuilt it 3 times) and i have a pacemaker although it doesnt seem to work any more as my heart doesnt need it (only if heart goes below 50 does it work) and a few other ops when i was a baby. My last op was just b4 las christmas. It was my most major one, anyway thats basicly a breif about my heart
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Yea, thats some serious stuff. :(
 
umm...there was this hill near my place that most of my friends were too chicken to take with their bikes. it was tall as hell and was so steep that trying to climb with a bike was almost impossible since sometimes you'd fall backwards. surface was loose sand and gravel so traction was also a problem. I used to climb it all the time with my bike at the end of my ultra-long rides and one day i decided to go down it. went down, no problem, no jerkyness, smoothe sailing all the way and reached a top speed of about 45 mph. Sooooooo, i decided to hit the hill at my full speed of about 35mph...that was ****in insane, i was doing close to around 60 at the bottom of the hill. next day, i tried again, some d*ck decided to be suicidal and tried to jump in front of me at the very last minute. i held both brakes for a good 15 feet of skidding before my front wheel hit something, gained traction and catapulted me off the bike at the 50+mph i was doing at the time. i lost about 1/4 of the flesh on my palm. had fun taking the bandage off @ school to gross my friends out though :D. Aside from that, i've also taken a similar hill with my rollerblades (except this one was concrete - not gravel). I fell once because i wasn't used to the speed that i had hit using my rollerblades...i had to let myself fall in the grass as the only way of slowing down/stopping.

aside from that? the only stupid thing i want to do - like skydiving, that i won't be able to do anytime soon
 
Snowboarding/Skateboarding behind a car, Hill tumbling, Smear the queer. My manly claim to fame is crashing my bike 5 times in one summer; 3 times into a firehydrant, and once into a tree. My knees look like mountain ranges because of this.
 
I was a big fan of Evil Kenevil when I was a kid. My friends and I would build ramps and jump our bikes. One time, and one of the first times (I was about six years old), we decided to build a ramp on a sledding hell at the local park. Our plan was to jump a row of Matchbox cars. I crashed going pretty fast and skidded on my face down the hill. After tha my entire face was one big scab. I still have an irregular indentation in my hairline where a hunk of my forhead was ripped out. I remember I left my bike and just ran the two blocks home. My mom freaked because I was covered with blood. Yeah. The day I became a man.

We also used to "skitch" on the snowy streets by hiding in wait for cars then running after them and grabbing the bumper for a ride, or a "skitch".

We also used to hide behind the big mounds of snow made by the plows and wait for cars and throw snowballs at them. That was such a rush, especially when it was some guy by himself who'd chase you for all over town and refuse to give up.

Ah yes. Good times. *wipes tear*
 
I've led a pretty boring life, and I don't really recall doing anything like that... which has helped keep my body from breaking, since the worst I've done is sprained my pinky while playing basketball. :D
 
gee, does rat-tailing competitions count? What about Burnouts or stupid and crazy stunts on bicycles?
 
Hmm, let's see - first there was that house me and a couple of mates belted up, and if you got chucked in the back of the paddy-wagon by the piglets it proved you were made of the right stuff. ;)

I was 11 at the time. :crazy:
 
On my rollerblades I hung onto the back bumper of an old dodge pickup truck whilke my friend pushed it up to 160km/h, i motioned for him to stop becuase that was quite fast enough.
Never been that scared in my life.
 
getting launched while on my skateboard. tie a rope around a bike and get someone to tow you towards a 5ft quarter pipe. you go so damn high
 
sounds...rather fun there, millencolin! :odd:

We do jumps in my mates car on the backroads near my place! and doing dirt hackies in private property!
 
The only thing I ever did was throw rock at bee hives full of white-faced hornets. The damn things would chase you all over town. Quite a rush cuase the thing would made a cloud so you would ride as fast as you could on your bike until you reached your friends house then hurry and go inside. Then the hornets would go away. Very agressive bees.
 
The drink a bottle of (name spirit here) within five/ ten/ fifteen minutes.

Needless to say, I passed out for a quarter of an hour, but I was only normally drunk afterwards, so it was too bad.

Dumb, though, especially for someone that is meant to be clever like me!
 
I hit a stone wall going down a 16% hill at 40mph on a mountain bike but I had a helmet to protect me. I got knocked unconcious and woke up in a hospital about thirty miles from home.
 
to see how many people you can "punk-out" in a certain time period, without getting your a$$ kicked.

machismo, hahaha, whoo, man i miss razor ramon.
 
When I was doing my A-levels at college. My I.T class used to have quite alot of CAT 5 cable laying around. We used to take it turns to hit eachother on the forearm. The *PAIN*.

That seperated the Pimps from the *****es

One boy called Crampin got hit so hard his trousers fell down.............. work that one out
 
My mate had this old Ford Sierra once, all the tyres were bald and one was flat. We had a contest to see how fast we could reverse it through this gravel backroad. One guy drove into a fence, luckily it was quite flimsy and collapsed on impact. I came very close to driving into a mini metro at speed.

In hindsight, that was a pretty dumb thing to do.
 

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