That feeling you get when you don't quite knock over a bottle or glass full of liquid

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You know, when the glass or bottle wobbles slightly and for a split second your heart surges and then takes a while to settle back down and the drink didn't tip over.

and then for the next few seconds you question whether the drink could still go over even though nothing is touching it and it's completely safe.

and you realise how amazing it is to be alive.

and then you make a thread about it.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

it's adrenalin, no? for me it's the same feeling as when you nearly get hit by a car or nearly drop a baby.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

ah, yes that would explain the rush.

one day i'm going to do this and then after the adrenalin has eased away i'm just going to knock the drink over anyway. and then leave the country.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

It's the same feeling you get when you're 14-0 on Aztec and down to 4HP. LIKE CRACK.

― teh_kit never wins (g-kit), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

same feeling as when you nearly get hit by a car

whats odd is that almost spilling a drink holds the same reaction as something a lot worse as almost getting killed.

xp Ha, if i'm *ever* going to be so skilled as to get 14-0 on Aztec, i'll let you know if its the same thing. ;)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

Or when you knock a sauce bottle off a shelf then miraculously catch it before it smashes. Fuckin awesome.

xpost
kit otm - pure rush

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

whats odd is that almost spilling a drink holds the same reaction as something a lot worse as almost getting killed.

yeah! i guess it's just your body going "oh shit, you might need THIS about now" - and shoving a load of into your system. what always amazes me is the sheer speed of it, like, this (water/car/baby) happens in about a tenth of a second, and *immediately*, before you've even properly registered what's going on, there's this huge chemical RUSH, your heart's beating like fuckery and your skin's all tingly. then it just hangs about your system not really being needed. (though it makes you run quite fast if you do it straight away!)

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

I had two near misses in my car the other week, just far enough apart for me to be coming down from the first rush before the second one kicked in. It really fucked me up, I had to stop the car and do nothing for about ten minutes.

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

Whenever this is about to happen, I automatically LUNGE for it and manage to knock it further over and then everything breaks and I spill beer over my lecturers and then I go home and weep for I am the klutz0r. Yes.

― emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

ah the drunken version. yes its quite different.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

And you once complained just because we drove COMPLETELY SAFELY to Camber and back despite the brakes being fucked.

― I don't know whether to play the trumpet, read a book or be a lesbian. (aldo_cow, Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

xpost The worst thing is that it happens even when I'm not drunk. Bah.

― emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

I was driving completely safely, I can't legislate for other road users being idiots.

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

I CAN'T LEGISLATE FOR MY BRAKES BEING FUCKED.

― I don't know whether to play the trumpet, read a book or be a lesbian. (aldo_cow, Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:05 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, wait, I can.

― I don't know whether to play the trumpet, read a book or be a lesbian. (aldo_cow, Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

my best adrenalin moment came when I stood up from the kitchen table, in the process forgetting about the low-hanging bowl-shaped light fixture right above it (I'm a fairly tall dude), which I bumped into and knocked the bowl-thingie off of. I somehow reacted quickly enough to catch the bowl against my back/shoulder in a way that vaguely recalled Atlas, at the exact moment that my dad was opening up the front door, from which there is an unobstructed view of the kitchen.

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

This is the same feeling, actually, that lingers when a very great pain suddenly stops -- like, hmm...ice being applied to a dying tooth, or a numbing agent being applied to anything, or you find that one lying down position that doesn't aggravate some kind of injury. Which just shows you what persistent pain will do to your body & blood vessels -- it keeps those stress hormones incredibly high and fucks you up.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

I've been in at least two situations where my GF has knocked something into a tumble of impending DOOM and I've totally caught the spiralling item. The feeling this gives you is fucking UNRIVALLED. You just saved someone else's ass, and it feels better than saving your own, quite bizarrely.

It feels somewhat like your brain is made of a superwarm fluffy material, and is trying to implode as softly as possible. At least, that's how I interpret the strange brain tingling sensation that comes with the emotion known as SMUG CUNT.

― teh_kit never wins (g-kit), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

haha

i remember in a pub the barmaid reached over the bar to collect an empty glass but she knoced it forwards, it fell away from her off the bar and (unknowingly to her) landed on a stool. At the same time i'd kind of went to catch it and from her viewpoint it looked like i had the reflexes of a cat and saved the glass from hitting the floor

was a hero for the night, abeit a coniving cheating one.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

omfg ste hax!

― teh_kit never wins (g-kit), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

What about phantom spills? Where you are certain that you hear the pizza slice hitting the floor, or cereal spilled on your sofa, and then you spend 500 hours searching for it...ocd

― Valoss (valoss), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

now that's something i've never experienced. wow

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

i get that loads, i think i feel a crumb land on my knee or a drop on my shoe. NOTHING THERE.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

oh right, yes i've had it for small pieces of food where i thought i might have dropped a pea or a bean or something. NOTHING THERE

although it will probably turn out that its rolled three metres under a sofa only to be discovered some weeks later.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to start rigging up pint glasses on invisible strings so I can recreate Stet's bar glass savior scenario in drinking establishments the world over, to the delight of many a bar wench.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

This thread is giving me giggles to rival the old thread about insects and their heebie jeebie-inducing flights into eyeballs.

― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

nickalicious you have learned the skill of FALLING PINT GLASS FAKERY. Use it for good only, and not for evil.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

The opposite thing happens to me. I'll see the thing start to fall, and I'll feel like I have plenty of time to catch it—time slows down in this cinematic slo-mo way, but I CHOOSE TO LET IT FALL. Then feel perverse, because I had the power and didn't use it.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

I like the related feeling when you're staying in a hotel and you knock a glass over and you go dammit I have to clean that up then you realise you're staying in a hotel so you shrug and go back to watching BET or some other crazy american shit

― badg (badg), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

i just got this feeling again because i thought I'd just deleted someones whole user account on the system.

I didn't tho

― Ste, Thursday, 21 August 2008 13:53 (seventeen years ago)

i had this feeling when i was trying to call someone while driving, and i looked at my phone and it said DELETE ALL CONTACTS? YES/NO

― Jordan, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:29 (seventeen years ago)

I imagine pedestrians and other motorists might have experienced a similar feeling if they'd known what you were doing

― Tom D., Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:33 (seventeen years ago)

similar to the ah part of "ah-choo!"

― ice crӕm, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:33 (seventeen years ago)

So this feeling, would you say that it's the opposite of the feeling you have in the seconds after, say, a car accident, or something has gone terribly wrong and you could have prevented it by one small decision or action? Because I have some experience with that feeling (most w/r/t car accidents), and I would like never to feel it again.

― Laurel, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:36 (seventeen years ago)

we've all done it

― Jordan, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:42 (seventeen years ago)

similar to the ah part of "ah-choo!"

it's a lot more 'sweaty' than that

― Ste, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:49 (seventeen years ago)

I get this feeling a lot while driving. Drivers are fuckin nuts here.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 21 August 2008 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

that sounds painful

― Granny Dainger, Thursday, 21 August 2008 16:27 (seventeen years ago)

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