My brother once played football (sort of) upside down under ice.
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Yeah. Little kids are a bit like driving at night on ice with oncoming traffic that won’t dip their lights while escaping a volcano.
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Urinating with a mate in the bushes after beersies in a camp ground in Bulgaria back in the 1980’s and being confronted by two policemen shaking machine guns at us whilst shouting in Bulgarian.
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Called my then gf by her sister’s name while in a ‘passionate moment’.
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Shuffled 3ft on my backside…
Well it was the 3 ft separating me from being next to go and jumping out of an aeroplane with a a parachute attached to me.
The rejoinder from the instructor being, when we climbed aboard the plane that due to a curfew being imposed on parachuting, and having waited all day for the wind to drop sufficiently for the jumps to take place, if you get stuck I will push!
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You survived to tell the tale…
Yep - Not as daft as it sounds. Under ice upside down golf/putting is the other one. Never tried it !
Ten years back convinced my then wife that prior to travelling around South America, that we should take a cargo ship from London Tilbury to Buenos Aires, 32 two days at sea via Africa, Brazil and Uruguay.
Rode the first and third highest roads in the world, these were in Leh/Ladakh northern India, this was upon an Enfield Bullet with no front brake and barely function rear brake - we were also twos-up. Then took a battered car from there to Srinigar.
Visited Bethlehem and spent a night in the old city of Hebron only to receive a visit from the IDF early in the morning, being super arsey and pointing their guns at us.
Crossed the road in Ho Chi Minh City, without stopping.
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Have had some fun on an Enfield. I still fancy doing the reverse journey from India to London on one.
While on my motorbike ride, being pulled over by the motorway police who confiscated my passport and then escorted me to a police compound in Qom, Iran for questioning was the most scared I have been. It turns out it was a routine visa check but I had no clue at the time as they could only speak Farsi.
@thebadyogi I’m very envious of this ride you’ve done, I’d love to do that. I am toying with a ride or cycle from the southern most tip of India and heading north, finishing in Leh - it’s more. Of a dream and one for when I retire but I would love to do it.
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Travelling to Galway, Ireland with a friend in the 90’s we inadvertently came across the Féile festival on the long drive from Dublin. We had a tent (I think) and had a good few days.
Friday and especially Sunday were the musical highlights for me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Féile_(music_festival)#Main_Stage festival
On the Sunday (again I think) we enjoyed a few pints of Guinness mid-morning and were caught out by the pubs closing early afternoon. We were a bit bored and bought a pre-cooked whole chicken from a shop. Being a bit inebriated we decided to run down the high street rugby passing the uneaten chicken between us. This culminated in me drop kicking the chicken ahead of us to chase and catch.
Unfortunately it landed on the bonnet of a local Garda police car.
Red faced we apologised to the baffled officers, explained we were Welsh and said we were a bit bored as the pubs had closed unexpectedly, after which we were escorted down the road.
They gave a ‘special knock’ on one of the closed pub doors, ‘my brother runs the pub’ said one of the officers. When the door opened he said ‘there’s a lock-in, please go inside and carry on drinking, you’ll be safer in there and we’ll be safer out here’. They wished us well and off they went.
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I work in the oil industry so have had the pleasure to travel widely to interesting places including ones which are somewhat off the beaten path mainly in West Africa and Asia. There have been some interesting perks when the oil price was high - sadly those days are long gone. It also allowed me to indulge my love of fast cars, track days and racing.
Probably the most adventurous and indeed life changing experience was taking my (young) family on an expatriate assignment to Jakarta. Quite the eye opening experience at work, and just living in such a place was very testing but very very rewarding. Had 5m pythons appear in our compund !!! It also allowed us to travel in Asia, all the usual places, but also including Papua, Borneo (to the orangutan sanctuary in the jungle, via a wooden riverboat), Vietnam overnight train and homestay in the Mekon delta etc. Covid put an end to it sadly.
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I once went into a chemist in a very small town in Italy to buy tampons for my wife. It wasn’t self service, the staff spoke no English whatsoever and my Italian is not what I’d call fluent. That was interesting.
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Climbed the pillars of Glasgow Railway bridge as it crosses the Clyde and walked through the underside structure of it to go for a meal on the other side of the river. Pissed of course…
It was probably about 10:00 at night and a train went overhead as we were crossing. When we jumped down at the other end I distinctly remember a soft spongy landing, such was the thickess of pigeon sh1t that had stuck to the soles of my shoes.
Hitch-hiking from Dundee to Paris for £6 aged 18 and being picked up north of London by a pair who’d just ‘done’ a chemists was another highlight.
Falling off a roof after climbing out of a girl’s lodgings window late one night…
The Alhambra in a wheelchair gave my son enough ammunition for a higher English essay.
What larks.
G
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Deciding to go on a skiing holiday with colleagues, despite having never attempted to ski before. The bruises I came back with…
It didn’t put me off though - the next year was far more successful, and I was the one encouraging all the other beginners down some of the harder slopes 
I went up from Delhi to Srinagar and stayed on the houseboats there with a friend in 1986.
We got to Leh in Ladakh and went trekking and climbing there.
At the time, that Himalayan kingdom was an almost untouched feudal society.
We went on that scary road via Kargil (iirc) in a taxi, the road was collapsing with landslides and blocked failed trucks, etc.
The driver smoked handrolled pungent cigarettes, used his horn a lot, and swerved around on-coming vehicles at the last minute.
A small error by him would have sent us plunging down huge cliffs, as many previous cars and coaches and trucks had done.
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Tried getting something to help a pal’s diarrhoea in Italy when we were on a rugby trip maybe 20 years ago - I was given a box of something, but only realised when we opened it that it was some form of laxative instead.
In fact, thinking about it, the most adventurous thing I’ve ever done is getting into an Italian taxi at the Airport in Rome and being driven to our hotel by a lunatic with several phones in use and steering with his knees. I don’t think as a group of grown men we’ve ever felt so nervous. The lads in the other taxi were almost in tears when they got out of their taxi.
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I think some of us, myself included, are commenting on some of the daftest things we’ve ever done 
Makes we think I’ve never really done anything particularly adventurous to be honest.
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Children and cats (ok, and dogs…)*
Everything else is just “willy waving”
*edit: includes rabbits and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. - see post #44
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How, exactly, do you wave yours 
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