Diving, German style

[Dave W]

That's entertainment!



YT description: "Apparently people in Germany are bored and desperate enough for some swim time that they'll dive into frozen water. Because hey, how could that possibly end badly?. ."

[uwe]

Sigh, lack of proper winter equipment has always been an issue with our more daring endeavours.

[OldManC]

My back is gonna hurt for three days just watching that! What the hell? 

[TBird1958]

My back gives me plenty of trouble these days, I cringed watching that!

[the mojo hobo]

I was expecting something involving a Stuka.

[uwe]

So you're fishing for a stamp of approval?  




To give credit where credit's due: Dive bombing is a US military invention. Ernst Udet saw a US Navy demonstration of a lone dive bomber sinking a ship and wanted similar toys for the fledling Luftwaffe.

[clankenstein]

ow.

[Aussie Mark]

I was expecting something involving a Stuka.

Or jumping out of a helium balloon at 38,000 metres.

[Highlander]

To go, boldly... (no split-infinitives here!) certainly sounds like this guy has Teutonic roots...

"Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are." Felix Baumgartner

[Rob]

Sorry don't speak German but that sounded a little like "Hey Y'all hold my beer and watch this!"  to my ears.

[Pilgrim]

It's a measure of how MUCH he was hurting that he laid spread out on his front that long - on solid ice.

Ow.  Simply Ow.

[uwe]

As for all major evils of the world - Coca Cola, contraceptives, botox, bad English spelling and Justin Bieber - Americans are solely to blame for this: Those poor German boys were corrupted by MTV's Jackass and the like.

Generally, we only attempt things where we have a very good likelihood of succeeding, just look at our World War record! 

[Pilgrim]

As for all major evils of the world - Coca Cola, contraceptives, botox, bad English spelling and Justin Bieber - Americans are solely to blame for this: Those poor German boys were corrupted by MTV's Jackass and the like.

Generally, we only attempt things where we have a very good likelihood of succeeding, just look at our World War record! 

Uwe, you may be right.  I blame the Scandahoovians in the upper midwest with their Polar Bear clubs. 

[gweimer]

Generally, we only attempt things where we have a very good likelihood of succeeding, just look at our World War record! 

Yeah, but you seem to have that upper management problem that always seems to botch the whole thing.

[uwe]

True, we have relied on Austrian foreign work force / : - = (   way too much.

Note to self: Don't hire failed painters as head of state. And if they start writing weird books, take them serious and extradite them at once.