GR Cross Award for Bravery

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Cuttooth** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:09 pm

What did that bartender actually think in the end, MCN?

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **SEP** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:10 pm

Cuttooth wrote:What did that bartender actually think in the end, MCN?

I have no idea. I stopped going to that bar.

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Knoyleo** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:10 pm

MCN wrote:So, shall we have a poll? Scariest place to be - Helmand Province or Economy Class?

That's not how phobias work.

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Red Devil** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:10 pm

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Cuttooth** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:11 pm

Knoyleo wrote:
MCN wrote:So, shall we have a poll? Scariest place to be - Helmand Province or Economy Class?

That's not how phobias work.

"You're irrationally scared of small spaces? I've been to war, mate."

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Poncho** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:12 pm

MCN wrote:
All it took was for them to hit me.

Ah, OK: a Vietnam-style flashback to your time in the army.

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **SEP** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:13 pm

Cuttooth wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:
MCN wrote:So, shall we have a poll? Scariest place to be - Helmand Province or Economy Class?

That's not how phobias work.

"You're irrationally scared of small spaces? I've been to war, mate."

I'd say the fear of being shot, and the fear experienced when seeing an RPG explode 20 meters away is pretty damn rational.

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Knoyleo** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:14 pm

MCN wrote:
Cuttooth wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:
MCN wrote:So, shall we have a poll? Scariest place to be - Helmand Province or Economy Class?

That's not how phobias work.

"You're irrationally scared of small spaces? I've been to war, mate."

I'd say the fear of being shot, and the fear experienced when seeing an RPG explode 20 meters away is pretty damn rational.

Nobody was saying the fear of a battle zone was irrational. It's phobias that are irrational. Jesus strawberry float, at least read the posts before you respond to them.

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **SEP** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:15 pm

I fail to see how an irrational fear can be brave, seeing as by definition, you are afraid of something that isn't even real.

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Knoyleo** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:16 pm

The fear is still real.

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Red Devil** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:16 pm

Another thread derailed, MCN. Bravo.

I have MCNaphobia.

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Cuttooth** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:18 pm

MCN wrote:I fail to see how an irrational fear can be brave, seeing as by definition, you are afraid of something that isn't even real.

I think a fear of not surviving eleven hours at 35,000ft is kind of real.

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Trinity** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:20 pm

MCN wrote:I fail to see how an irrational fear can be brave, seeing as by definition, you are afraid of something that isn't even real.

But overcoming the fear is the definition of bravery. Going to Iraq is only brave if there is fear involved.

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **SEP** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:20 pm

Knoyleo wrote::|

The fear is still real.

Right, so someone with, say, triskaidekaphobia, manages to get out of bed on the 13th day of a month. Are they as brave as, say, someone who risks their life on a daily basis for 5 months?

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Shime Waza** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:21 pm

Lucien wrote:Bravery is supposedly the mastery of fear in times when it overcomes you. Though it may not seem like it to you, surviving my ultimate fear and holding together was a big thing to me. I didn't know about my fear until it hit me, and I was young.

This would get my vote.

To cut a very long story short, when I was 11 I jumped into a swimming pool at school because I didn't want anyone to think I couldn't swim (it was a new school that I had joined from a different city) and I ended up almost drowning to death. Two people jumped into to try to save me but I only ended up almost drowning them in my blind panic to survive. I eventually grabbed the big wooden pole (no innuendo you strawberry floating bunch of perves) that the swimming teacher and everyone else was shouting for me to grab. Needless to say I spent the next year in the shallow end wearing those stupid floaty rings. :fp:

I eventually stopped going to the swimming class (I wagged that and R.E. every week) and was terrified of deep water right until I decided to learn how to swim when I was 21. It still ranks as one of my proudest moments having the balls to face my biggest fear and go to swimming lessons as an adult on my own.

I'm quite decent at breast stroke now. 8-)

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Knoyleo** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:24 pm

MCN wrote:
Knoyleo wrote::|

The fear is still real.

Right, so someone with, say, triskaidekaphobia, manages to get out of bed on the 13th day of a month. Are they as brave as, say, someone who risks their life on a daily basis for 5 months?

Provided they are actually triskaidekaphobic, and not just superstitious and claiming to be, then they are brave. I don't see any point in quantifying bravery, or ranking brave acts in terms of which is most deserving of praise, because each act of bravery is more to do with a personal struggle than anything else.

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Poncho** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:26 pm

MCN wrote:
Right, so someone with, say, triskaidekaphobia, manages to get out of bed on the 13th day of a month. Are they as brave as, say, someone who risks their life on a daily basis for 5 months?

Why are you treating this as a competition? Why are you trying to quantify something that is completely and totally personal? You must be an unbelievably insecure person in the real world.

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **SEP** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:29 pm

Poncho wrote:
MCN wrote:
Right, so someone with, say, triskaidekaphobia, manages to get out of bed on the 13th day of a month. Are they as brave as, say, someone who risks their life on a daily basis for 5 months?

Why are you treating this as a competition? Why are you trying to quantify something that is completely and totally personal? You must be an unbelievably insecure person in the real world.

Yeah, pretty much. My self esteem is pretty much zero.

PostRe: GR Cross Award for Bravery by **Henke** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:35 pm

Shime Waza wrote:It still ranks as one of my proudest moments having, balls in my face...

I read it as this.

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