Kill part of an hour with this climb-around-a-table challenge

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/08/kill-part-of-an-hour-with-this.html

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I did something like this when staying in a campground with my climbing partner many years back. The park service had made concrete picnic tables, and there was a 2cm gap in the top that created an (almost good) hand crack. Goal being to traverse lengthwise underneath without touching the ground. Yes, beer was involved.

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Is it wrong that I was kinda rooting for the table?

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I thought the goal of this month was to avoid going to the hospital.

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I prefer Jimmy Blenkinsop’s approach.

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I was waiting for the table to collapse.

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We used to do something very similar in Portland. But it involved chairs and we called it chair wresting. Some chairs were REALLY hard to get through the legs of.

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Best part is that the video is 5 years old.

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Nope. I weigh far too much and have far too many dodgy joints and bones.

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You know that thing about telling someone to not think about elephants, which then causes them to think about elephants non-stop? Well, the table vid is the instant cure for that.

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Hmm, I’m going to play Tropico now.

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We’re gonna need a bigger table.

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I present my own challenge of ‘get up from the floor after kneeling under the desk looking for a cable’.

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I wonder how easy someone like, say, Jackie Chan would make that look by comparison

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So now I am eating, sitting cross-legged on the floor for at least 6 weeks.

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I combined watching this video with listening to tracks from Noah Wall’s “Alloys” album. It made for a cool soundtrack to a tense video. I fully expect Mission Impossible 7 to feature an Ethan Hunt Table Climbing scene.

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To find an antidote for a deadly virus?

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“It was under the table, all along!”

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Has anyone actually sat down and watched paint dry? I may dig out a can and give it a go…

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Coincidentally I just put on a coat of paint, watched to see if it dribbled, thought it was fine, went indoors, came out 5 minutes later – tiny flies trapped in it.

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