I once shot an entire enema bag's worth of wasabi into my rectum. I nearly died, but I'll be damned if I was going to go to the hospital. Then my asshole roommate chickened out on doing the same thing. Who's the pussy now???

Shirley Ujest: Cooked for my husbands two german Oma's.

How did they taste?

/mmmm Omaburgers....

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: pottie: LlamaGirl: Pulled the plug on my mom.

I was going to say something, but that shut me down. That is the bravest thing I can imagine.

You have incredible strength.

Well, to be fair, he was referring to a butt plug, so...

1. that's kind of a douchey thing to say
2. he is a she

got naked in front of a woman who wasn't a mom or a physician

Admitted to myself that my wife would die if I didn't get her to the hospital ASAP.

/she lived.

AtticusFinchEsq: Went to Chicago and put ketchup on a hot dog.

YOU SON OF A-

People rely on me a lot, not sure if anything I do is brave. Is bravery something you can self identify, or does it only count if someone else deems your act brave?

Any of the various fights I've been in, I suppose, particularly the time I managed to mostly fend off four armed assholes assailants with a broken vacuum cleaner.

(All protecting myself from bullies, gay bashers, muggers and home invaders.)

Used a public toilet.

/I'm not poor and stupid so I don't need to be brave.

RumsfeldsReplacement: I once shot an entire enema bag's worth of wasabi into my rectum. I nearly died, but I'll be damned if I was going to go to the hospital. Then my asshole roommate chickened out on doing the same thing. Who's the pussy now???


Buttplay with a roomate?

babymulch: got naked in front of a woman who wasn't a mom or a physician

How is Sister Margaret, anyways?

Chase a black bear. Mind you, it was also the stupidest.

stayed in the room with my father while he died. watched his blood pressure go down to 11/11. i always thought i would be afraid of death and a dead body but its so much different when its someone you love and respect. any foolish ideas about being haunted went out the window. Dad would never do anything to hurt me in life or death.

that was on april 9th. 3 weeks ago yesterday.

My friends & I saved the tiny village of Santa Poco from a band of banditos.


But honestly, I once jumped into a flooded river and pulled a ~4 year old kid out who had gotten too close to the edge. He coughed up a little bit of water and cried a while, but was otherwise OK. I'm a strong swimmer, but that river was MOVING and I needed help getting out once I got close to the bank. I didn't let go of that dumb kid, though.

My jealous redheaded girlfriend's hotter redheaded sister.

I stopped a crackhead who just stabbed a cab driver at three in the morning in a dark car wash/// ..He had a buck knife that was covered in blood and I was in the doorway.. Thank God, I had my baton...

I called off a huge wedding 4 months before because I knew we were not ready to get married. Then I took the initiative to move out on my own on a crappy waitress salary to forge independence. Its either brave or stupid, I haven't decided yet.

Quit a job I hated with no job lined up, not much money in the bank and no family safety net.

Become a parent. :-|

Found a lost hiker in a mountain SAR, and hiked him out after I got severely hypothermic from a plunge into a stream hidden by a snow drift.

I once started a conversation with a Hell's Angels member...
...while both of us were standing at urinals. He didn't speak English so I had to speak to him in French.


Needless to say he was really, really surprised anyone would do that. I welcomed him to my hometown and hoped him a healthy visit.

Got therapy and told the truth about my life. It was gutting, but it's easier/cheaper/less painful than living with with the repercussions of family alcoholism and abuse.

I stared into the abyss.

Used to run into burning buildings as a hobby.

stood up to an armed robber in a store my girlfriend worked at when I could see there were no bullets in his revolver. He left without incident.

/yes, I soiled myself and was shaking so bad my teeth were rattling

I divorced my husband.
/totally worth it.

Belatryx: I called off a huge wedding 4 months before because I knew we were not ready to get married. Then I took the initiative to move out on my own on a crappy waitress salary to forge independence. Its either brave or stupid, I haven't decided yet.

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bah,
when I met you...

Complained at a company meeting that giving our execs a membership in a private club that excluded blacks was unfair to our black employees (to say the least). That wasn't brave, I just thought it was something they hadn't really considered. I thought they would do one of two things: refer it to a "committee" and hope it was forgotten, or actually give up those memberships.

I was wrong. There was a third option, and that was to make my life as miserable as possible so I'd quit. I did after six months of hell.

Still wasn't "brave" since I didn't know of the negative possibilities. But I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

i also went shopping on LSD

It's a toss up:
Serving as a Marine infantryman in a combat zone during a time of war.
Skydiving.
Taking my Suzuki GZ250 Marauder on K-10 during rush hour.
Or ever dating my ex-wife in the first place.
/CSB

I managed to get the web of my hand in between the hammer and firing pin of a revolver someone had just had a squib in as they pulled the trigger again. I don't know how badly we each would have been hurt if I'd failed, but I really wanted to just turn and duck at the time.

Ran up a bench and across a row of wobbly newspaper vending boxes (this was awhile back) and took a flying leap, barely grabbing the end of the string on a balloon that had gotten away from some random adorable little girl.

My first hanging belay 350ft up while rock climbing. I did my first multipitch with a guide in Yosemite. Felt OK on the first few pitches since we had nice little ledges where I could stand to belay while he led the next pitch. When I got to this particular anchor I saw that he was just hanging from a nut and #3 cam. Switched belays and the next 5 minutes until he put his next pro in were terrifying because if those pieces gave we were both dead. I tried not to breath at all during that time since I swore I could see the cam gently shifting, waiting for the noob to do something stupid.

I once pissed on my hand and tasted it.

I doesn't sound that brave until you imagine a superimposed American flag waving in the background while I do it.

Hitchhiked across America.

Brave or stupid? I was in Detroit and I saw two groups of kids fighting. One kid in particular was kind of small and looked like he might be getting permanent damage. I was afraid to stop, but I pulled up real quick, skidded the tires a bit, jumped out of my car and yelled at them:

"Listen up you little arseholes, I am an undercover cop and if you ruin my stakeout I swear to God I am going to arrest every last one of you! I don't have time to write your stupid little arses up, so if you want to stay out of juvie, then you have exactly 10 seconds to get the fark outta here! 10...9....8..."

They all went running in different directions and I ended up giving the littlest one a ride home because he was in too much pain to walk.

I know....stupid...but damn I hate seeing a kid get hurt!

Pulled an injured driver from his burning racecar....

The bravest thing I ever did was to not attempt suicide again.