What's this throwaway thread? WHY ITS THE AWESOME LIST OF AWESOME!

Pretty simple, post something awesome. Rules:

1. Only 1 awesome thing per post.
2. Nothing overly offensive.
3. No posting yourself.
4. No posting Landfish.
5. No posting anything that is obviously not awesome.*
6. Try not to duplicate.
7. No just posting the word awesome.
8. Limit of 2 awesome posts per day per user.

[*ie, GBK's car, Fishstickz etc.]

Item of Awesome #1:

Lou Mother******* Reed.

BASE Jumping goddamn WINGSUITS

This guy got surprise attacked by some pussy shark who ripped off his arm. This guy, though, was so badass he refused to just give up and die. Instead, he beat the shark to death with his undeniably large meat rod, banged the shark's wife, then got a tattoo of the shark on his stump so he could taunt the shark's kids.

Sir Ernest Shackleton. Tried to lead an expedition to be the first group to cross the Antarctic Continent from one side to the other. They completely failed in this (never even made it to the shore of Antarctica) but it's obviously not his failure to achieve his original objectives that makes him awesome, but what he succeeded in doing anyways.

Basically, their ship gets frozen in the ice in the Weddell Sea, and they are forced to spend an Antarctic winter in complete darkness. Come spring, the shifting ice pack crushes and sinks the ship, leaving Shackleton and his men stranded on floating ice with three life boats.

After shooting all the dogs for food (Shackleton realized that they wouldn't survive if they had to feed and care for the dogs) they set out for open water. Pack ice is incredibly dynamic, and just because you find open water doesn't mean it's going to stay open for very long. They basically hauled their life boats over miles of shifting ice to get to the edge where they would find open water that would remain open. At night, sometimes the ice would crack open right under their tents, spilling men into the freezing water.

Eventually, after spending an entire summer on the ice, they reached open water, and began to row towards an island that they new was nearby. After a week of -20 temperatures and basically living in the life boats, they finally reached the island. Miraculously, all three boats, which had become separated, managed to land at the same spot.

Shackleton's party was now safely on land, but no one knew where they were. In order to be rescued, it was necessary for someone to go get help. Shackleton picked 4 others, and sailed across 800 miles of open ocean in what amounted to little more than a glorified life boat, through some of the worst storms the South Atlantic has to offer. He knew that if he missed his intended destination, South Georgia Island, they were screwed, as there was not any other inhabited island in the Atlantic for thousands of miles beyond, and the prevailing currents allowed for only one change to reach South Georgia Island.

Through luck and navigational skill, they reached the island, but the wrong side of it... the whaling station they intended to summon help from was on the far side of the mountain, across tens of miles of unmapped mountains and glaciers. The currents around the island made attempting to sail around the island too dangerous. Shackleton made the crossing with no mountaineering gear, following a route that no one was able to retrace for another 50 years, and then only with proper equipment.

Shackleton and his men walked into the whaling station superintendents office, and the first thing he said to the first person they encountered was "I'm afraid we smell." (He hadn't had a single shower in well over a year by that point.)

A rescue party was put together, and the rest of his men were rescued off of the island where he had left them. And the most amazing part about the whole ordeal? Not a single person died. Shackleton promised his men when things were starting to get bad that would get all of them back a live, and he did it. To him, allowing a single member of his crew to succumb to the horrendous conditions they were faced with was simply not an option. And that's why this picture is awesome.

The National Ignition Facility. 192 lasers precisely aimed at a single tiny pellet of deuterium and tritium; a 500 terawatt pulse of light that compresses and heats it to the point of achieving nuclear fusion. Awesome.

oh Coco

Awesomeness

That's right.

When they're dead they're JUST HOOKERS, Cyril!

"VISIT CREEPYGIFS.COM TO VIEW THIS ANIMATION"

I don't think I will.

oh dammit... it won't display?

Alright I changed the source.

That is totally not cool, what you did there.

That's the most awesome gif that has ever existed.

hahaha. that one's pretty god damned good too.

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This thread is just going downhill

It seriously peaked at Shackleton. This Busey stuff is just stereotypical "Internet Awesome" BS

I don't know. I laughed for a solid five minutes at the gif mb posted.

Wow, this guy must really be your hero. Perhaps some middle school kid will use that short essay you wrote for his English class. A Wikipedia link would have sufficed

Can anything be more awesome than this picture?

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I would give the guy 5 stars myself, but whatever.

I found this on theforce.net in the amatuer artist gallery a while back. I love this pic.

AWESOME HEADLINE

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The Falkirk Wheel is awesome.

Nell Gwyn

Mistress of King Charles II of England - amazingly cheeky.

-She was one of the only royal mistress to actually be liked by the common people. And angry mob overtook her carriage once, thinking she was the King's other mistress, who was French. They started trying to tip the carriage over and calling her a Catholic whore and all sort of other things, until she opens the carriage door and says to them "My dear people, you mistake me. I'm the Protestant whore." The mob actually laughed a waved her off.

-At court, a fight broke out when one of her detractors said she was a whore. Nell broke it up in short order by saying "I am a whore. Find something else to fight about."

-While dining with the King and the French mistress (talk about awkward. needless to say, she and the French mistress weren't friends) the other woman makes a sad attempt at wit by saying "Look! I can make these two pieces of fish into three. There's one, there's two, and one and two make three!" Nell plops one piece on her plate, then takes the other fish a put it on the king's plate before suggesting that the French mistress take the third.

I love Nell Gwyn. She had moxy.

Moxie?

Vroom