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[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We would've gotten along famously lol. We used to treat cartoons like instruction manuals for fun and cool shit, none of it worked like on TV of course, but still lots of (often painful) fun to be had.

Bedsheets do not in fact make an adequate parachute for a second story jump, btw.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bedsheets do not in fact make an adequate parachute for a second story jump, btw.

Learned second hand that umbrellas also don't work well as parachutes. My cousin was the first hand ~~victim~~ experimenter

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Die, Mary Poppins, die! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope it at least had the good manners to do the comical "collapse up / backwards on itself" thing!

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was a table height fall, roughly 1 meter, not enough for that to happen.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Lol eh, that sounds pretty hilarious