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Jebus.......its like 47 degree there now....wondering if the cold had any numbing effect......

I'd say he was pretty numb to begin with. In Maine, we say a guy that stupid is "number that a pounded thumb".

I've been to art exhibits where nailing my testicles to a plate would have been preferable (or gouging out my eyeballs with a blunt spoon).

This, however, is nuts.

I bet the street cleaners had a ball.


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 Jihadin wrote:
Jebus.......its like 47 degree there now....wondering if the cold had any numbing effect......

It appeared to numb his thinking ability.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
So can he win a Darwin award for this?

No and neither can the Buddhist monks who immolate themselves. a Suicide protest is not 'stupidity', we might think it outside our comfort zones or what we would do ourselves, but its rational choice of trading your life for broadcasting a political opinion far and wide. Buddhist monk burnings are a real embarrassment to government (like China), after all burning yourself to make a point shows that opponents to the government are committed. Same with this guy who allegedly nailed his balls to the pavement, it will be tough to ignore.

Technically one can win a Darwin award and survive if one renders oneself unable to reproduce as it removes you from the genepool by your 'stupidity'. But this isnt 'stupidity' unless the guy didn't know what to expect from nailing his balls and I cant buy that explanation.

The thing that bugs me about the article is that it seems to use 'nailed his testicles' and 'nailed his scrotum' interchangeably, and they aren't interchangable terms.

There is a huge difference between putting nails through your scrotum (something practiced fairly regularly in the extreme s/m areas of bdsm) and between putting nails through the testicles (something only normally practiced with very slender pins).

Both things happen, but the former is much less damaging in the long run than the latter (and even the latter isn't certain to do permanent damage, assuming it's done carefully)

Dutch news reported it as nailed his ball sack.

Relapse wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
Punching the clown is a whole new meaning in Russia....

Can you imagine asking that guy what the capital of Thailand is, followed by the punch line?

You win. Thread is over

 Goliath wrote:
putting nails through the testicles (something only normally practiced with very slender pins).

... it's done carefully)

If such a thing can ever be called normal. Why would you do such a thing?

cadbren wrote:

 Goliath wrote:
putting nails through the testicles (something only normally practiced with very slender pins).

... it's done carefully)

If such a thing can ever be called normal. Why would you do such a thing?

To show you have balls of steel.

EDIT: In a non-sarcastic answer, many cultures have practices that are designed to give pain to the user as a means of proving worth or showing how strong they are or maybe to punish one self. We're largely unexposed in the west as such practices have long been considered 'barbaric.' But many Native American, African, and South East Asian cultures have such practices. Europeans for a time did practice self mortification.

cadbren wrote:

 Goliath wrote:
putting nails through the testicles (something only normally practiced with very slender pins).

... it's done carefully)

If such a thing can ever be called normal. Why would you do such a thing?

To obtain a sense of pleasure.

Some people have some very different fetishes.

 MrDwhitey wrote:
Some people have some very different fetishes.

Indeed. I, for one, get my jollies from perusing YMDC every now and then. OT just doesn't do it for me anymore.

 Orlanth wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
So can he win a Darwin award for this?

No and neither can the Buddhist monks who immolate themselves. a Suicide protest is not 'stupidity', we might think it outside our comfort zones or what we would do ourselves, but its rational choice of trading your life for broadcasting a political opinion far and wide. Buddhist monk burnings are a real embarrassment to government (like China), after all burning yourself to make a point shows that opponents to the government are committed. Same with this guy who allegedly nailed his balls to the pavement, it will be tough to ignore.

I disagree the Kremlin are not going to look at this guy like he is a threat to thim, they are going to look like "Huh, another crazy guy" An effective protest requires many people to show you mean business, not nailing your balls to the freezing pavement

An effective protest requires many people to show you mean business

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

Wrong, Tianeman square was thousands of people, which put fear into the GOVT. they did not role out the tanks for one person.

It does make you wonder what takes more balls. Nailing your nuts to the ground or standing in front of an armored death machine and refusing to move XD

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Wrong, Tianeman square was thousands of people, which put fear into the GOVT. they did not role out the tanks for one person.

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How about rather then making vague abusive statements you come up with an actual argument?

 Goliath wrote:
The thing that bugs me about the article is that it seems to use 'nailed his testicles' and 'nailed his scrotum' interchangeably, and they aren't interchangable terms.

There is a huge difference between putting nails through your scrotum (something practiced fairly regularly in the extreme s/m areas of bdsm) and between putting nails through the testicles (something only normally practiced with very slender pins).

Both things happen, but the former is much less damaging in the long run than the latter (and even the latter isn't certain to do permanent damage, assuming it's done carefully)

I would bow to your knowledge of BDSM practices, but now I am afraid to bow that close to you.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
How about rather then making vague abusive statements you come up with an actual argument?

I believe Avatar's point was that you missed the point. His first point about "Tank Man" was that an "effective protest requires many people to show you mean business, not nailing your balls to the freezing pavement" is false as that single person was more effective at revealing the issue of the Tienanmen protests and the larger issues surrounding those protests than the thousands of people that had been protesting with him.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
How about rather then making vague abusive statements you come up with an actual argument?

The article I linked was the counter argument: a single man made an effective protest. That you chose to ignore that fact in favour of implying that I was saying they deployed tanks against one person (which is hilarious given the fact that had tanks not been there in the first place, the man would not have been where he was, either) led me to believe that it wasn't worth even trying to make an effective argument, since you obviously had no intention of acknowledging anything other than your point in the first place.

 chromedog wrote:
I've been to art exhibits where nailing my testicles to a plate would have been preferable (or gouging out my eyeballs with a blunt spoon).

This, however, is nuts.

I'm guessing you went to (A), a modern Conceptual art exhibition, or (B), an exhibition of Thomas Kinkade's "art". Given the choice, I'd go with A over B any time.

~Tim?

This guy is pretty extreme, but we all know why he is doing it now - must be working.... kinda.

So did he nail an actual ball to the ground? Or just the sack?

I think he has public opinion in the bag.

I just wanted to tack that one on.

"A naked artist, looking at his balls nailed to the Kremlin pavement, is a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference, and fatalism of contemporary Russian society," he wrote in a statement posted to the Grani.ru website.

See I wonder how many passerbys saw him and thought that, or is it more likely they were just thinking "Holy gak that guy nailed his balls to the ground!"

This guy just sounds like he just likes to get naked and hurt himself...reminds me of high school.

He didn't scream though....he needs to scream...just like....WARNING. MUST HAVE INTESTINAL FORTITUDE TO SEE THE VIDEO....also be over the age of 18 or you will have nightmares...for I was 18 when I saw this movie

 asimo77 wrote:

"A naked artist, looking at his balls nailed to the Kremlin pavement, is a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference, and fatalism of contemporary Russian society," he wrote in a statement posted to the Grani.ru website.

See I wonder how many passerbys saw him and thought that, or is it more likely they were just thinking "Holy gak that guy nailed his balls to the ground!"

This guy just sounds like he just likes to get naked and hurt himself...reminds me of high school.

Must've been one heck of a highschool...

~Tim?

 Jihadin wrote:
He didn't scream though....he needs to scream...just like....WARNING. MUST HAVE INTESTINAL FORTITUDE TO SEE THE VIDEO....also be over the age of 18 or you will have nightmares...for I was 18 when I saw this movie

Spoiler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufTqGoGp-xo

Is that it?