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[mustang6172]

Would it be possible to swim in gold coins?  You know, like Scrooge MacDuck?

[Is it cold in here?]

You could experiment. Disks of tungsten would be almost exactly the right weight and almost affordable.

[BeoPuppy]

Didn't Mythbusters ... ?

[dr. nervioso]

....
I wan't to swim in a pool filled with kittens.
Gallons and gallons of kittens

[lepetitfromage]

It's about as cliche as you can get, but I've always really wanted to swim in a pool full of jell-o.

[Lines]

I love me some kittens, but I don't want to swim in them. Too many tiny sharp claws. It'd be like swimming in fuzzy needles.

Would totally lie on the floor and cover myself in kittens though. Warm and cuddly and they'd all fall asleep and then I get all of the cuddles.

[nekowafer]

Sleepy kittens and puppies and ferrets would be the best thing ever.

[PthariensFlame]

I'd like to swim in a non-Newtonian fluid, just for the experience.

[Edith]

I want to swim in a room filled with pecans (still in the shell). They have large bins of them in grocery stores around the holidays, and I love running my arm through them. They feel so nice.

Acorns would probably work, too, as long as the caps were gone.

[The Seldom Killer]

I'd like to swim in a non-Newtonian fluid, just for the experience.

Braniac - Science Abuse did that. Looked like a lot of fun.

[LTK]

Would it be possible to swim in gold coins?  You know, like Scrooge MacDuck?

Water has a density of one kilogram per liter, or cubic decimeter. Assuming that filling one cubic decimeter with gold coins fills about 75% of the space, that gives it a density of 19 kg/dm3*0.75=14.25 kg/dm3, which is still fourteen times denser than water. And that's ignoring the vast increase in friction between the material if you actually tried to swim in it.

For reference, honey has a density of 1.4 kg/dm3, and I'd wager it's already impossible to swim through at that point.

[Gnomes2169]

It's about as cliche as you can get, but I've always really wanted to swim in a pool full of jell-o.

Also not to sound cliche, but you would drown. Large quantities of Jello work much like quicksand, it's just solid enough to not let air in, but not the right mixture of solidity and mass that would allow a non-micheal-phelps human to swim in it. Rather unfortunate, really. 

I would like to swim in a pool of apple cider. Mmmmmm, apples...

[lepetitfromage]

Hmm.....what if it was shallow enough to sit in and mushed up a bit to the point of...chunky? Then I could just kind of flop around in it. Better than nothing?


......Man, I really gotta find other ways to occupy my brain.

[nekowafer]

On a dubiously related note, watching scantily clad ladies wrestle in jello is the best thing ever.

[Gnomes2169]

On a dubiously related note, watching scantily clad ladies wrestle in jello is the best thing ever.

Absolutely agreed.

[BeoPuppy]

I'd amend it to naked. And I'd amend the word 'wrestle' as well. And I don't need the Jell-O. But other than that, yeah.

[Is it cold in here?]

It might be like trying to swim in mercury. http://periodictable.com/Images/MercuryMiner.JPG

[Bluesummers]

I'd like to swim in a non-Newtonian fluid, just for the experience.

Yum yum, cornstarch.

I think swimming in mercury, toxic effects aside, would be really fun. It's so dense that you'd float like a silver duck.

[Patrick]

I wonder what life is like for a person who does not feel awkwardness anywhere near the level I do. I feel awkward over the tiniest little things. It's rare when I feel completely in control, and when I do I always awkwardly second-guess myself the following day. Idunno. Self-assured people are the object of my envy.

[BeoPuppy]

I'd like to smash ewoks in a lake of fart.

[Redball]

I think swimming in mercury, toxic effects aside, would be really fun. It's so dense that you'd float like a silver duck.

You might not have as much control as you'd need unless you're on your back. On your front, you'd need your arms to keep your face above the surface. They'd tend to sink. Could you "paddle" in such a dense medium? Surely someone's thought this through.

[Bluesummers]

Underwriter's Laboratories has nifty tests, like machines that open and close refridgerator doors constantly for years, just to see how long it takes before they fall off. I'm sure they can design a suit for one of their lab techs to wear while doing the backstroke in a pool of mercury.

[Gnomes2169]

I wonder what life is like for a person who does not feel awkwardness anywhere near the level I do. I feel awkward over the tiniest little things. It's rare when I feel completely in control, and when I do I always awkwardly second-guess myself the following day. Idunno. Self-assured people are the object of my envy.

It's really not all it's hyped up to be. You make mistakes much more often than a person who is a bit more cautious/ awkward and some of the people that are more "Attracted" to your confidence you just want to punch in the face... but you can't do that because it's illegal unless you somehow get them to swing first. >.>

[Carl-E]

...which you never will, because they're followers. 

[Patrick]

The chorus of this song seemed relevant for some reason

[Is it cold in here?]

The hard part of swimming in mercury would be to get any part of your body below the surface.

The plant where large [product name deleted] tubes were assembled was a large barn with a hard packed oily dirt floor. Some of these tubes were larger than 55 gallon drums; control rectifiers for pumped storage power plants, etc. There were open 55 gallon drums of mercury around to fill them. One of the tour demos was to see if you were able to completely immerse your arm in a drum of mercury. I remember the feeling of almost being lifted off the ground by the buoyancy of my arm deep in the barrel.

Gold coins would be denser, but (duh) less fluid, so maybe you could "immerse" yourself.

[Bluesummers]

The hard part of swimming in mercury would be to get any part of your body below the surface.

The plant where large [product name deleted] tubes were assembled was a large barn with a hard packed oily dirt floor. Some of these tubes were larger than 55 gallon drums; control rectifiers for pumped storage power plants, etc. There were open 55 gallon drums of mercury around to fill them. One of the tour demos was to see if you were able to completely immerse your arm in a drum of mercury. I remember the feeling of almost being lifted off the ground by the buoyancy of my arm deep in the barrel.

Gold coins would be denser, but (duh) less fluid, so maybe you could "immerse" yourself.

I kind of wonder if it would be a good diving practice medium. Person dives in, shoots out with almost the same kinetic energy...that would probably be bone-crushingly awesome.

Literally.

[Omega Entity]

Assuming your neck doesn't immediately snap with the impact of the entry attempt 

[Bluesummers]

Or worse...blunt force trauma bellyflop.

I'd hate to see that as "Cause" on a death certificate...actually, if I saw that on a death certificate, they'd have to kick me out because I'd never stop laughing. XD

[Welu]

On a dubiously related note, watching scantily clad ladies wrestle in jello is the best thing ever.

I've never got the appeal of this, or wrestling in beans or mud or anything like that. Any time I've seen it, it just makes me want to have a hot shower with lots of shampoo.

[Thrillho]

I've just never understood the 'girls fighting is hot' thing at all. If we're got two girls with low self esteem, just make 'em bang for our amusement, why waste it getting them to fight?

[LTK]

Because fighting is allowed to be shown on tv, outside of specially designated channels. I guess it's seen as less morally objectionable than bangin', which is kind of backwards if you think about it.

[Carl-E]

I've just never understood the 'girls fighting is hot' thing at all. If we're got two girls with low self esteem, just make 'em bang for our amusement, why waste it getting them to fight?

There is just so much wrong with that post, both individually and culturally... 




Keep up the good work! 

[ackblom12]

Also domination via forced submission through wrestling and the like is an entire branch of fetish.

[Thrillho]

I've just never understood the 'girls fighting is hot' thing at all. If we're got two girls with low self esteem, just make 'em bang for our amusement, why waste it getting them to fight?

There is just so much wrong with that post, both individually and culturally... 




Keep up the good work! 

The second sentence was generally meant to be taken as a joke. I thought the objectification was so dumb that that'd be obvious, so I do apologise.

I'm dead serious about not finding girls fighting each other hot, though. I just don't get it.

[jwhouk]

I don't find it amusing, either, since at some point I may (knock wood) have to break up such a fight.

[nekowafer]

I didn't mean a true fight - two of my very attractive friends volunteered for and set up a jello wrestling event at a party. And it was both funny and kind of hot.

Just a straight out fight is not sexy, in my opinion.

[BeoPuppy]

I occasionally train with ladies and I can testify to the fact that a girl who can kick ass is hot.

[idontunderstand]

And I can attest that once you're in a fight with a girl who really can fight, her hotness is the last thing on your mind.

[BeoPuppy]

... well, that too.

But right up to the point where they kick your liver out through your nose ... they're hot.

[Patrick]

I, for one, plan to fistfight exactly zero women.

[Carl-E]

Yeah, I'm not fond of getting beat up, either. 


 

[Redball]

I can recall a tickle fight with my first wife that led to immediate sex.

[BeoPuppy]

And still there are people here who think that they are oversharing.

[Carl-E]

A tickle fight between adults is not a fight.  It's foreplay. 

I thought everyone knew that? 

[nekowafer]

Foreplay for some. For others, not so much. Like those of us that are likely to wet themselves when tickled too much.

I couldn't let you be king of TMI, redball!

[Zingoleb]

I briefly dated a tickle fetishist in Seattle.

I actually kind of miss her. She was good at tickling.

[Papersatan]

Tickling is actually why I think everyone needs a safe word.

Even my most vanilla (female anyway) friends have had a partner tickle them until it was hard to breath while shrieking "stop, stop! OMG I'll kill you. I'm gonna pee myself" and the like.  Yet it is to be understood that it is ok, and they like it overall. 

You don't need to be tied up an beaten or participating in "rape play" to need a way to tell your partner absolutely and immediately that you need the play to stop. 

Hell, the only time I ever used my safeword was when Stephen and I were having perfectly "normal" sex, but I started having an asthma attack.  Getting the safeword out got him off of me immediately so I could go get my inhaler, where as saying "stop" might have made him stop with the sexing to ask what was wrong, but not have cleared me a path to my drugs.

[Redball]

I couldn't let you be king of TMI, redball!

Hmmmmpf! If that's TMI, did the rules suddenly shift?

And Carl, I realized it was foreplay immediately, although it never happened again, in either marriage. Too bad.

[Thrillho]

I've had fighting/wrestling lead to foreplay before. That was weird. And awesome.