Discussion: Contraction

"Everything contracted so much ..."

lol

But seriously, I'm not familiar with this "Polar Plunge" convention. Is it essentially the 2014 equivalent of a chain letter? Why do people agree to jump into a frozen body of water simply because someone else making the jump instructed them to?

Yes... Except go to Facebook.

Hahaha "you all suck."

Y'all do. You gonna be a man like me?

If by "be a man like me," you mean jump into really cold water because someone else called me out, the answer is no. I think I'm going to see if this works in general. Next time trial, I will "call you out" to do the time trial.

I don't have to do that if you don't do this.

Firstly, I haven't been "called out," and apparently the social contract dictates that you only call out three people. But second, these are all abstract conventions, so you don't really have to run the time trial anyway.

Are you agreeing to run the time trial if I jump into some cold body of water? It is an interesting proposition, but I prefer to avoid jumping into cold water much more than you prefer to avoid a time trial, so it doesn't seem to be in my best interest.

Anyway, keep up the good work.

Thank you Ian. I actually would suggest you dip your legs in, though. As cold as it was, I felt REALLY good when running back. I've done just legs before, but I gotta say going all the way in was actually pretty cool.

I would do the polar lunge, however, I live in Kentucky and its 70+ here :)

See, when I say "Y'all suck," it's people who live in places like that which I'm referring to. Y'all suck.

Hahahaha Y'all is a Kentucky term... so I see where you are going with that :)

You should still jump in.

challenge accepted.

I want video evidence.

Whats the time priod?

24 Hours.

Okay

oooooh exciting

Waiting...