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SilverMK2 wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:Ah, the thrill would of course be wondering if your missus had packed you a parachute...or a sandwhich.

Or an anvil

I have faith in your ability to detect such an act of subterfuge. Often it is a slight change in weight that is the giveaway.

Emperors Faithful wrote:I have faith in your ability to detect such an act of subterfuge. Often it is a slight change in weight that is the giveaway.

You might not be able to tell if it is a small anvil... or one filled with helium.

Also, when falling you would not be able to feel the weight, so if the bag were thrown out of the plane and you went after it, you would not be able to tell.

This was in my local paper the other day.

Seemed unlucky, from what they described of his helmet.

SilverMK2 wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:I have faith in your ability to detect such an act of subterfuge. Often it is a slight change in weight that is the giveaway.

You might not be able to tell if it is a small anvil... or one filled with helium.

Also, when falling you would not be able to feel the weight, so if the bag were thrown out of the plane and you went after it, you would not be able to tell.

You wouldn't be able to catch the bag before hitting the ground. Terminal speed and all that.

Emperors Faithful wrote:You wouldn't be able to catch the bag before hitting the ground. Terminal speed and all that.

You can alter your streamlining to increase your terminal velocity, while the bag would maintain approximately the same terminal velocity. Also, you may jump out as the bag leaves the plane.

Even at terminal velocity you could judge if the bag had unusually high mass because of its inertia, ie the difficultly to move it about. You could move a lightweight bag around quite easily.

Though by this point, after jumping out of the plane, you'd be hoping the bag contained a parachute and not an anvil mostly on faith and would only have a few moments to consider your predicament should it turn out to not be a parachute.

Apart from the rather morbid OP, I love this thread. Full of laughs!

Me? I'll be honest, I've thought about this a bit in the past...

One of the ways I'd quite like to go is to jump off a huge bridge and land on someone quite important like... David Cameron, killing us both in a huge mess of blood and fun.

Or I'd like to stand atop a train and when it comes to a low tunnel, I'd jump and drop-kick the tunnel, being crushed upon impact but therefore dying drop-kicking a solid wall.

Alternatively I'd be quite happy drowning in a sea of milkshake. Chocolate or Strawberry flavoured of course.
Or... Participating in a human game of Lemmings...

Then there's there's always death during sex or dying fighting for those you love, but they just aren't as imaginative...

I wanna die in the summertime.


If you get that reference award yourself a biscuit.

Manic Street Preachers allows biscuit albatross?

mattyrm wrote:I hope i can die in as awesome a way as this guy.

While LARPing?

Yeah, I can think of a few better deaths: all of them.

lord_blackfang wrote:

mattyrm wrote:I hope i can die in as awesome a way as this guy.

While LARPing?

Yeah, I can think of a few better deaths: all of them.

i don't know... being buried alive with bullet ants would be gak.

OP: die from alcohol poisoning during a real life Monty python sketch.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Can we have less of the religious hatred please?

What on Earth are you talking about? Please point to the religious hatred.

Mattyrm suggested, and I don't even think he was serious, that it might be interesting to not only blow up Islam4uk by suicide attack, but to do so in such a way as to also make it offensive to them. Bearing in mind Islam4uk are a banned terrorist group, recruiters of terrorists, self-confessed opponents to freedom and shunned by the UK Muslim Community, I am not quite sure it really falls upon mattyrm to be all nice and respectful to them. To suggest that matty making jokes about bacon in relation to those who attempt to undermine the entirety of the British way of life is inappropriate really does show a complete lack of perspective.

I think the most epic way to die, would be to goto collage/University. Make your career path be astronomy and become the best at it. Then years later when your the head of some super duper expensive telescope you plot the course of an incoming asteroid, dont tell anyone. Then the day its going to impact, you drive out there with a camera linking it BACK to your office. And then just before it hits, you moon the camera and say something like "I HATE PLANETS!" and then BLAMO!
Or skip the mooning, and instead make some large claim like "GOD HIMSELF CANNOT STOP ME!!!!!!!!!! and then BLAMO!

Imagine seeing that on youtube ya?

Heart Failure after a giant Full English with the works and a huge mug of tea.

The most epic two way to die:

Suicide with a T-shirt cannon (Not sure how one does this, but it's a novel Idea.)


Better way: Run into a crowd of people, shout "Seriously, WHO FARTED?!?!?!", Then blow your brains out. The reactions of the bystanders would be hilarious.

(Credit goes to Nick Swardson, for these hilarious ideas.)

I watched that the other night on Comedy Central. He made me laugh, and I didnt think he would. Go figure.

lord_blackfang wrote:

mattyrm wrote:I hope i can die in as awesome a way as this guy.

While LARPing?

Yeah, I can think of a few better deaths: all of them.

Jousting isn't LARPing.

Being caught dead jousting is cool, as the thread implies.

SilverMK2 wrote:

Death by snu snu!

+1000!

Bob Monkhouse said he hoped he would die like his father had; peacefully in his sleep, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Even at terminal velocity you could judge if the bag had unusually high mass because of its inertia, ie the difficultly to move it about. You could move a lightweight bag around quite easily.

I was hoping no one would think of that

SilverMK2 wrote:

Death by snu snu!

Ulver wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:

mattyrm wrote:I hope i can die in as awesome a way as this guy.

While LARPing?

Yeah, I can think of a few better deaths: all of them.

Who said it was LARPing? Or did the possibility of the guy jousting without pretending to be Sir Lancelot not seem feasible to you?

Even if he was LARPing why would he be Sir Lancelot?

Take a plane into the interior of Alaska with a knife. Travel north, looking for pizzlies, then engage in combat using only whatever you have been able to fashion with your knife and things you picked up. That way you are dying for something worthwhile, holding the pizzly menace back from the borders of civilization.
That or go out on a winter night and see if you can freeze yourself to death in a cool pose, like holding a fist to the sky or something.

Drowning in an occean of iced tea.

Amaya wrote:

whatwhat wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:

mattyrm wrote:I hope i can die in as awesome a way as this guy.

While LARPing?

Yeah, I can think of a few better deaths: all of them.

Who said it was LARPing? Or did the possibility of the guy jousting without pretending to be Sir Lancelot not seem feasible to you?

Even if he was LARPing why would he be Sir Lancelot?

It's just an example.

Sir Lanceinthebrain more like....

I want to die at 90 in bed....shot by a jealous husband!

SlaveToDorkness wrote:I want to die at 90 in bed....shot by a jealous husband!

"You just couldn't please her like I could!"
"O.O You're 90! You're old enough to be my great grandfather!"
"...I AM your great grandfather..."
*BANG!*

Suicide note: "I feel like my life keeps going in circles."

Suicide method: Hang yourself from an operational ceiling fan.